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Failbetter Games | Wishlist Mandrake on Steam! @failbettergames.com · 30/09/2026

We're hiring! We're looking for a Writer and Narrative Designer to join the Fallen London team at a senior or mid level. This position is permanent, remote, and full time, which for us means 35 hours a week. #GamesJobs

Night. The House of Chimes - a tower which you might immediately think of as Big Ben - is adrift in the River Thames. It still seems to be keeping time. In the background, a large, alien building looms over the city of London.

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sage the anagogue @anagogue.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

FUCK IT WE BALL PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING HAS RETURNED TO ITCH DOT IO FOR NOW 140 PAGES OF HORNY EROGURO TTRPG BULLSHIT anagogue.itch.io/praise-the-h...

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PRAISE THE HAWKMOTH KING by Sage The Anagogue

The gonzo dark eroguro TTRPG about teenage zombies killing devils

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 20/09/2026

To celebrate making it through another year, you can pick up my anti-game Bite Down or Let Go for 50% off! Sharing this around would be a pretty sick birthday gift, just saying- gorepunk.itch.io/bite-down-or...

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Bite Down or Let Go by Gorepunk

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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Conlin (wuz) @wuz.quest · 11/08/2026

ope wuz.quest/photochop

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

c o l l e c t i o n

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 29/07/2026

Here in Scotland we had some baby beavers born, which is the first time in 400 years!

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Aimee Cozza Illustration @aimeecozza.com · 28/07/2026

It's here, it's here! 🌟 V2 of Hire Human Artists is now live. We make it easier than ever to find artists who have pledged not to use generative AI in their workflow. HireHumanArtists.com Use the directory to find artists for your project type, that do a certain style, and more! Now with images!

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Find an Artist Who Doesn't Use Generative AI | Hire Human Artists

Looking for an artist for your next project? Our human artist directory is full of over 400 artists who have pledged not to use gen AI.

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Nicholas Kole @nicholaskole.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

enshittification ouroboros

the anti-ai symbol, where ai is depicted as an ouroboros, defecating and devouring it's own feces, while stabbing itself through the heart

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 12/07/2026

Congratulations on the success!! I'll have to check out the shows, always love hearing how people go about making cool stuff!

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 08/07/2026

extremely excited about this

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Delaney King (She/Her/Whomst) @delaneyking.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Behind every "solo dev success story" is usually a partner working 9-5 for years to pay the bills.

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Bea Livesey-Stephens @soupdragonbea.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

one of the best examples of "the mechanics are the message" I've ever seen. truly a new win for bleed games

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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Games about feeling always grab my attention 👀

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 08/07/2026

While this was in playtesting, I had one person tell me "I think I finally know what type 3 fun is"

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 07/07/2026

gorepunk.itch.io/bite-down-or... My latest game is now available - Bite Down or Let Go is a solo anti-game that is designed to make you feel terrible and give up on playing it. 50% off for the first week to celebrate it being out, and there's community copies available too!

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Bite Down or Let Go by Gorepunk

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 03/07/2026

Mentioned a couple of weeks ago about a project I was working on being mostly done. Great news! It's done now. Digital release to follow soon!

Picture of a printed booklet, the front cover is a black and white illustration of a snake eating its own tail with blood pooling downwards. The title is 'bite down or let go' in a handwritten style font, with a subtitle of 'an anti-game about trauma by vale blackwood'.

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 28/06/2026

One day I'll figure out how to market and promote my work, on a very related note would any of my TTRPG making friends here be open to me asking some questions on the topic?

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 25/06/2026

Little surge of new followers today, hello everyone! Where'd you all come from?

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Peejalien @peejalien.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

LAUNCHING TODAY!!! THE KARROT CAN’T SLEEP KICKSTARTER! I’m so proud of this book. www.kickstarter.com/projects/don...

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 19/06/2026

As of today my latest project is now entirely written, just need to do some minor edits here and there to tighten up the wording in a couple spots - and also get two bits of art in there. I'm excited, this is easily the best thing I've made. I'm also nervous because of how much it means to me

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where the oleander grows @nonblnary.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

this is my game, I Don’t Remember When I Started Killing Bugs Again. to play, you log it every time you kill an insect. this is also available as a web app @transwron.gs made with me. people tell me it changed their behavior- they think twice about hurting insects when they remember the rules.

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 10/06/2026

Been really enjoying working on my latest game, a hostile unplayable thing about trauma - it's been cathartic as fuck and I can't wait until it's at a place where I feel comfortable sharing it

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Peejalien @peejalien.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Just put the kickstarter up for the first two issues of Karrot can't sleep. I'll leave this here in an understated way because I will be getting very loud about it soon! www.kickstarter.com/projects/don...

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

RIP Anthony Stewart Head

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 26/05/2026

I have gotta pick it up sometime, been following it forever and just so happy to see it actually release

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 14/04/2026

If it's the one I'm thinking of, it's not from the Artemis II mission, its a photo taken last year by Ildar Ibatullin with the saturation increases to show the mineral composition of the moon better

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Fabian Blake(he/him)Rose tint my world @glitzydemon.itch.io · 12/04/2026

IT LIVES! (or rather, it doesn't!) who knows what conspiracy lies behind the transcript of this AP that never happened of this game that doesn't exist? Below I'll tag everyone who was definitely not involved as cast / crew, feel free to tell us who you weren't!🤭 pennyblake.itch.io/found-transc...

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FOUND: Transcript in a bottle by PennyBlake

An AP transcript I found in a bottle

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Daniel Pietersen @pietersender.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Very pleased to tell you that I will be appearing in human form as part of the Fiends In The Furrows folk horror film festival panel discussion, here in Edinburgh. I’ll be joined by the illustrious Drs Catherine Lester and Jonny Murray with host Morvern Cunningham. Full programme and tix linked 👇

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 06/04/2026

It was such a delight getting to be a player in this!

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 06/04/2026

an amazing idea*, forgot an entire word there, whoops

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 06/04/2026

That's absolutely amazing idea and I'm entirely in love with it

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 05/03/2026

I'd make the same stuff, I'd just be able to pay people to help out so I can make even more of it - as well as being able to get some artists involved to make art for my games.

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 20/02/2026

(also sorry for the delay, I only just noticed the notification for this!)

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 20/02/2026

Hello! That's absolutely fine with me!! For credit just linking to the original would be fine. I'd also love to see what you made if you'd like to share!

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SprintingOwlDesigns @sprintingowl.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Every time I write a bad ttrpg it removes a bad ttrpg from the drop table and the odds of writing a good ttrpg increases.

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 09/02/2026

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED! There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota! Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

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Tanya Floaker @floaker.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Get this occult action thriller ttRPG for 1-7 people. Perfect if you enjoy playing powerful undead revenants embroiled in breakneck action, interpersonal drama, and occult investigation. Soundtrack by @mollynoise.bsky.social and human-made art by @stregawolf.art. Jump in now for early bird deals!

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Coming soon: The Thunder Perfect Mind

An Occult Action Thriller Tabletop RPG

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

We need MORE walking simulators actually I want to be immersed in pretty, aesthetic worlds more even if I can't do anything

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 27/01/2026

🚨 If you submitted a game to the No ICE In Minnesota charity bundle jam, please approve your submissions here itch.io/b/3484/no-ic... 🚨 All submissions unapproved by Febr 6 will be pruned so the bundle can start on time on Feb 9. Please share for visibility & tell your friends who joined the bundle

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Rascal News @rascal.news · 23/01/2026

Announcing a new podcast: Rascal Reading Club! Join @newmadras.bsky.social as he analyzes RPG texts in an inviting, conversational framework. First up: the Warden's Operations Manual for @mothership.bsky.social.

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We just launched a new podcast

And we yearn for your responses.

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Vale Blackwood @gorepunk.itch.io · 19/01/2026

Your graphic design work here is fucking impeccable and I'm entirely obsessed - if I ever make something that looks half this sick I'm considering myself a hell of a success

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Charlie Rat Bastard Is Writing About Oceans and Storms @feralcharlie.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

Back from page with news: The Vast in the Dark reprint is here!

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Ghoula RPGs @gilarpgs.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Dreaming of WYRM Art by @nightjargames.bsky.social

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Olivia Hill @machineiv.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Okay. I need a boost here. Looking for artists. We're talking about some potential comic book style art and/or concept art for the #iHunt film. We're privately funding development, so budget isn't Hollywood. I want queer and/or nonwhite artists. I want cool styles. Links? Tags? Self-promo?

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Dr. Emily Friedman @ecfriedman.com · 11/01/2026

The "traditional" structure of TTRPGs puts an enormous amount of pressure on the GM to learn/refine & very little on the players. Which is somehow seen as more reasonable than spreading the load of learning/contribution across the whole table. Broader implications about community in there, y'all.

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Jackal @forestfright.art · 09/01/2026

I know that you're empty, I know that you're empty #ffrightart

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Jes the human @jesthehuman.itch.io · 07/01/2026

The No ICE in Minnesota charity bundle submission period is now open: itch.io/jam/no-ice-i... All games, free and paid, TTRPG and browser based-alike are welcome Submissions are open until January 26 & the charity bundle supporting a Minnesota based Immigrants' rights org will go live in February

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