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Gonçalo Marques

@goncasmage.bsky.social
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Doing the 1's and 0's @Funcom. Gameplay Programmer working on Dune Awakening. Melodic noise-maker. 🎮 Hot takes are my own.

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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 30/09/2026
Arrakis has arrived on XBOX and PlayStation, and the reviews are in! Dune: Awakening is bigger and better than ever, and it’s been incredible welcoming so many new faces to the desert. We’re honored by the amazing accolades and support we’ve seen so far: youtu.be/dR-Vc__DDmA
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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 22/09/2026
The Filmic Archive DLC is available for all platforms! Equip iconic outfits, build a formidable Sardaukar base, and complete the look with exclusive decorative pieces, weapons and emotes. Steam: bit.ly/FilmicDLCSteam XBOX: bit.ly/FilmicDLCXBOX PS5: bit.ly/FilmicDLCPS5
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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 09/09/2026
Survival in Arrakis (and on Earth) requires more than just luck. We sat down with survival expert, John Hudson, to break down the real-world skills needed to endure extreme desert conditions like learning how to wear a shemagh and conserving body moisture. 📺 youtu.be/8By1-xpgaZo
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Scrappy Shark @heyitsscrappy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
gotta bring up my favorite episode of the Kardashians
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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 06/08/2026
Dune: Awakening has gone gold! ☀️ The sands of Arrakis will welcome Sleepers on consoles on September 22! ⌛ #DuneAwakening
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Jorge M. Carvalho 🐳 Wishlist Townseek on Steam! 🧭 @jorgegamedev.com · 28/07/2026
Unfortunately, this is widespread. When I graduated, learning this was a common practice at the few companies with hiring power here was one reason I chose the indie route. If you're in a position to do so, push back against these! We're a creative medium, and our personal work should remain ours.
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ana/catarina @anacat.itch.io · 21/07/2026
Unfortunately me and a lot of other programmers have been made redundant. A lot of talented people I've had the pleasure of working with over these past 4 years have been affected as well. If anyone's looking for gameplay programmers, designers, audio, etc. please do reach out to us 🙏🖤
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ana/catarina @anacat.itch.io · 22/05/2026
oh hey the game I've been working on for the last 4 years is finally out 👁️👄👁️
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Constance 💜🖌️ OUT NOW EVERYWHERE! @constancegame.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Our first ever game sold over 80,000 units in less than 6 months. It might not be the typical 1,000,000 units sold in 2 days headline but we are still very proud of what we achieved so far! Thanks to every single one of you who bought Constance, here's to 100k next!💜
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toonholechris @toonholechris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
Home burglar
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DadJokeCinema @dadjokecinema.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Slowroads.io has procedural countryside driving, but I think it doesn't quite capture what's being talked about here. There's a set of mods for Assetto Corsa that give you night street racing in an immaculately detailed Tokyo (the highways, at least), and I've spent so much time just cruising.
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Slow Roads
Endless driving zen
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 27/02/2026
Games should include a menu option like "I haven't played in a while, give me a quick 5 minute refresher on the controls"
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Austin Schaeffer @schaefferaustin.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
will never not be funny that these games are made by the same developer
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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 03/02/2026
Chapter 3 is now out! Continue the epic storyline and push your limits with the revamped endgame progression. 📕New Story Chapter 🗺️New Overland Map Locations ⚡Repeatable Testing Stations ⚙️Augmentations 💪Specializations ➕and so much more
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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 03/02/2026
Raiders of the Broken Lands paid DLC is now available with a substantial suite of cosmetic content inspired by the Smugglers of the Imperium! Included in the Dune: Awakening Season Pass at no additional cost, or available separately! 🗡️ bit.ly/RaidersDLC
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Talia al Ghoul 🏳️‍⚧️ @usili.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Bilbo looking at his phone top

on bottom is ChatGPT

After all, why not? Why shouldn't I keep it?

You're absolutely right — you found it, it's been with you a long while, and it's only natural to feel fond of something that's served you so well, especially when someone like Gandalf suddenly seems to want it for himself.
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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 18/12/2025
Our largest update yet includes plenty of improvements, additions, and refinements to look forward to. Here’s a visual overview of what’s coming in the Chapter 3 free update.
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Constance 💜🖌️ OUT NOW EVERYWHERE! @constancegame.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
We are not done just yet!😎 Here's what's to come for Constance in the upcoming months! We hope you are looking forward to it!💜
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Constance 💜🖌️ OUT NOW EVERYWHERE! @constancegame.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
RPS was THE webzine that I read when starting as a game dev. It just feels amazing to read such a lovely review of Constance by them 💜
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Constance 💜🖌️ OUT NOW EVERYWHERE! @constancegame.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
😱 Thank you so much everyone for receiving our dear Constance so well 😊💜 We couldn't be happier with the critical reception! If you have 2 minutes to leave us a review on Steam or Metacritic, that would be amazing. Thank you!!
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Constance 💜🖌️ OUT NOW EVERYWHERE! @constancegame.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
🔥CONSTANCE IS OUT NOW!🔥 We hope you all enjoy and love our game as much as we did creating it 💜
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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 20/11/2025
The Free Trial returns! From November 20-27: 💻 Play for free for 10 hours 🏜️ Explore the entirety of Hagga Basin 📈 Keep your progress if you buy the game 📢 A few comms restrictions apply Upgrade to the full game with a 25% discount until December 1st! Read more: 📰 bit.ly/DAFreeTrial25
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GamesRadar+ @gamesradar.com.web.brid.gy · 14/10/2025
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Better hurry and finish your 100% Silksong playthrough, because I've found another must-play Metroidvania coming next month, and it has one of the best demos in Steam Next Fest
Well, Constance is outstanding
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Constance 💜🖌️ OUT NOW EVERYWHERE! @constancegame.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
One day into #SteamNextFest and we've broken an absolutely incredible milestone... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR 200.000 WISHLISTS!!!💜💜💜
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EIRAS @eirasantunes.com · 28/08/2025
🔥NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT🔥 Employee 925 is a short existential horror game about work, meritocracy, and performance evaluation. COMING OUT 25.9.25 Wishlist on Steam: tinyurl.com/y2urk2f3 Pre-order on itch: tinyurl.com/mssfwx28
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Jehtt @turbojehtt.net · 26/03/2025
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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 15/01/2025
Congratulations to our friends at Astrolabe Interactive on the Early Access launch of @aloft-game.bsky.social! While you're waiting to forge your paths in Arrakis, check out Aloft - a survival game where you can harness the wind and explore the skies. store.steampowered.com/app/1660080/...
key art for the game aloft
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Dune: Awakening @duneawakening.com · 26/11/2024
Hello, Sleepers! 👋 We're bringing the sandy dunes of Arrakis to the blue skies. Follow us to stay up-to-date about our upcoming open world survival MMO set on the most dangerous planet in the universe. Wishlist on Steam and join our Discord! 👉 bit.ly/DA-Steam-Wishlist 👉 discord.gg/DuneAwakening
The official key art for Dune: Awakening, showing three characters in the foreground: one is wearing a stillsuit with a ranged weapon, to his left is a Harkonnen character showing his back and the cape he is wearing. To the right is an Atreides wearing their distinctive armor set and wielding a melee weapon. Behind them are the vast dunes of Arrakis, with a combined arms battle in the background where ground vehicles, ornithopters, and ground troops battle for control of the spice blows. Overlooking it all, a trimouth sandworm emerges from the dunes. In the sky, the two moons of Arrakis against a suitably blue sky. 
Text on the image reads "Survive. Expand. Control". Below is the logo for Dune: Awakening. At the bottom, over a black frame, it says "Coming to PC early 2025".
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David Amador @djlink.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I've duplicated my gamedev tricks thread in a couple different social networks; I thought it was time to just bundle all together in one blog post, easier to check all, and if some site goes down my blog stays! www.david-amador.com...
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Gamedev tricks used by developers
🧵 origin thread In 2018 I started a thread on Twitter (later renamed X 🙄) where I shared some game development tricks devs used to get around get around bugs, software, hardware or time constraints. Over time I added more stuff to that thread, and there’s some cool information there. Since I now replicated that thread on both Mastodon and Bluesky; it got me thinking I should probably put this on my own blog, a single post, which is easier to read, also in case those websites are ever taken down.
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