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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris

@groundedbirdgames.bsky.social
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Working on a point and click adventure game with Mark Watson. Part time Indie Dev, Dad. I like coffee, smiles and kindness. he/him from Aotearoa

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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Every point and click adventure game needs a place to store stuff! #indiedev #gamedev
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
It's weird to live in a time where the Pope keeps making better statements on current affairs than any secular world leader seems able or willing to.
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Not even attempting humility with this one 😆 Made a delicious breakfast this morning. Poached eggs were perfect, homemade hollandaise was thick and velvety, roasted cherry tomatoes were sharp and fresh. Made the family happy. Great start to the weekend!
Close up photo of a breakfast plate with cooked cherr tomatoes, a hash brown and a toasted english muffin, split in half and topped with bacon, poached eggs and hollandaise
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ℝ𝕖𝕓𝕖𝕝𝕓𝕝𝕦𝕖 @rebelb1ue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
If feeding a hungry kid accidentally benefits an "undeserving" kid, I am prepared to live with this devastating outcome.
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👻 Gordon Little 🎃 @gord.games · 01/10/2026
Updated a couple of puzzles with some new 3D models, lighting effects, particles. It's coming together really nice. #gamedev
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👻 Gordon Little 🎃 @gord.games · 30/09/2026
How... mysterious... #gamedev Want to know more? store.steampowered.com/app/5139220/...
a dim room with a table and a strange mechanism by a locked gate.
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 27/09/2026
I often see people say things like "you just like x game because you were a kid and want to feel like that again", but imo some games should make you feel like a kid again. At least, I hope mine does to some degree.
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The Daily Tism @thedailytism.com · 26/09/2026
Friends - we are soft launching our It’s a Superpower?? season 2 Crowdfunder on here before we release it into the wild next week so our most dedicated listeners have a chance to make us look a lil popular first. If you have the means, we can’t overstate how helpful your pledges are.
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It's a Superpower?? Season Two
To fund season 2 of It's a Superpower?? the first audio sitcom by & for autistic people - & pay our amazing team an industry rate
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I've seen this observation a few times now, but they didn't have social media in 1972. If they had, people would have been arguing the fuck out of iced coffee then too. It's not really about the Washington Post. We've just become a civilisation that talks nonsense 24/7 because we can.
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 24/09/2026
I'm constantly baffled by this one. Like, I struggle to believe that people who claim to understand capitalism actually believe this, but they seem to. It absolutely might work if we had the sort of 'mom and pop' small business capitalism people imagine in a non-specific way...
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Good day fellow #unity #gamedev folk. Should we be using addressables? We are making a 3D point and click game, with a scope around the size of maybe Mythwrecked / The Drifter / Foolish Mortals. We are using low-poly modelling, but its got full VO and lots of scenes. Any opinions on the internet?
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
...Yup. A skinned mesh. The parent joint does the overall scaling and wibble and the top and bottom joints do the transition in and out.
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
I've said versions of this before but social media is meant to be fun, WAS fun for some years, and we hit problems when people started to believe it was a viable way of conducting debate.
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Point-and-Click Showcase @pointclickshowcase.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
📣 Announcing the Point-and-Click Showcase 🎉 Together @amanita-design.net and @rustylake.com are hosting a showcase packed with new game trailers, a dedicated Steam sale, and much more to be revealed. 👀 🔗 Apply NOW: forms.gle/z6e1QQFP9xwT... Follow us for future updates! 🖱️
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Mark Watson @watsoncomedian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
You're in a bad situation if you long to make a joke about someone you dislike, rack your brains, can't come up with a thing, and have to delegate it to a robot servant.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
People are judging AI based on the claims the companies selling it have made. Those claims are fraudulent.
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2dchaos - WISHLIST NECHROMIA!!! @2dchaos.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is what a step by step looks like done by actual humans! Messy af, but it gets the job done ^^ #nechromia #gamedev #indiedev
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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
This is what step by step looks like done by actual humans!
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Brett "Solidarity 2026" Banditelli @banditelli.org · 08/08/2026
Sometimes I see something in nature and then spend the next several years waiting for the shot. Sometimes I never get it. Sometimes you see it and a week later you land it: I give you tonight's murder of crows in front of the sunset. 🪶
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Nigel Robertson @easegill.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
In more electoral news, Hamilton City Council voted yesterday to change from STV to FPP. No consultation, some councillors kept in the dark until the motion was put up. Only 6 years since a public consultation when 78% supported STV. Outrageous move by the 9 councillors who voted this through #nzpol
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 07/08/2026
After I ranted to RNZ about ads, @foxmeyer.bsky.social at Newsroom was like, want to rant at me about it too? And I did. More rants! newsroom.co.nz/2026/08/07/c...
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Calls for tighter rules as ‘misleading’ ads stack up
As misleading political ads and 'chart crimes' pile up, experts and politicians want stronger rules to protect voters from deceptive campaign tactics.
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Charles&Herb @magichatgrok.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
English is easy to learn they said
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
we should charge the C-suite with fraud and theft if they take a tax credit meant to keep people employed and then cut staff anyway.
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Game development is sometimes spending far too long trying to decide 'should the item image show for 0.8 seconds, or 1.2 seconds? Should it fade in? Slowly disappear into the corner? #indiedev #gamedev
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Char Of AotearoaNZ @kiwichar.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
If we lose this election again, it will be definitively Chippy’s tone deaf fault. #nzpol #NZ #TaxTheRich #WealthTax
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Paul_BarlowNZ @paulbarlownz.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Can’t decide if my favourite thing today is the TPU deleting this post and the results because they lost their own poll or seeing the right wing councillors around the country bitching about amalgamation plans that no one wants to play with them over from the government THEY told people to vote for.
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Bit of fog around on my drive to work this morning! #nz #hamilton #paeroa
Photo taken from inside a car. Shows a short stretch of road disappearing into fog. Faint outline of trees can be seen  on the right, and powerlines disappear into the fog on the right
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
This is how most doors work isn't it? #indiedev #gamedev
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Dr Paris Buttfield-Addison 🔜 MIGW26 @hey.paris · 26/07/2026
Being anti-trans really just says so much about someone's character that it's not worth the time once you know, honestly.
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Who knew a simple book could offer so many challenges! Now you can examine the book, open the book and close the book but, if you return the book to the shelf without closing it, the game closes it for you! Made this into a reusable system now that I can apply to other objects #indiedev #gamedev
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
A book on a shelf? can I look at it? Of course! Can I open it and does it have a useful code inside? Double of course! Having fun playing around some options for various potential mechanics in the game #indiedev #gamedev
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beckydubs 🇳🇿 @beckydubs.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
How cool is this 🤩 #KiaKahaTeReoMāori
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Māori word ‘kaitiakitanga’ named world’s most beautiful by language app
A Māori word describing the responsibility to care for the natural world has been named the world’s most beautiful word by language-learning platform Babbel.
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Made an "inspect item" motor task, which lets penguins inspect any held item by selecting actual points on its surface and rotating the hand to get a better view. #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Much like getting a door to open and close, I think having a PIN pad to unlock something is a pivotal moment in a point-and-click games development! Made a few tweaks to make it look a little more phone-like #gamedev #indiedev
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Much like getting a door to open and close, I think having a PIN pad to unlock something is a pivotal moment in a point-and-click games development! #gamedev #indiedev
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Claire Lacey (they/them) @poetactics.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
...the new AI Skinny ad is so sinister I think I'm going to find a new broadband provider. "I sold Skinny my face so they can make AI clones to shill for them" is dark af.
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Tiny Glade 🏰🌿 @pouncelight.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
It's been 84 years, but we're cooking again! For y'all who wanted to build rustic villages, here's a sneak peek of upcoming wooden walls 👀
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Dylan Reeve @dylanreeve.com · 12/07/2026
They are SO prolific now. And immediately recognisable. To me, they just scream "ignore this!"
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Jesse Hawken @jessehawken.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Bringing one of the best tweets of all time over to Bluesky in honour of the Three Lions QF victory
TODAY IS GONNA BE THE DAY THAT THEY'RE GONNA THROW IT BACK TO YOU-
BUY NOW! HUMMUS AND A
WOW!! 
EXTRA LARGE FALAFEL MEAL FOR 2!!!
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oldmanofthefire @oldmanofthefire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 10/07/2026
Proud to announce you can now pre-order the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Video Courses. Practical, focused 101 video courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - €40 (excl. VAT) per course, with bulk & group discounts! courses.ramiismail.com
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Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail
Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Still trying to use up some lemons from our tree, so I made a lemon meringue pie this time. Filling was delicious, the meringue was average. Used 5 lemons...approx 100 more to use 😆
Lemon meringue pie with a large slice out of it showing the pastry base, a thick layer of lemon pie filling and a thick layer of meringueLemon meringue pie with a large slice out of it showing the pastry base, a thick layer of lemon pie filling and a thick layer of meringue
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Getting a lot of eyeballs at the moment, so, if you’ve also announced an indie game recently, reply here and show off your wares with a trailer. If you’re reading this later, go checkout these games and get them wishlisted (you know, just like you’ve already wishlisted Vampirium: 1997)
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Our lemon tree has a lot of lemons, so I decided to try making my first ever baked lemon cheesecake. Turned out delicious! Unfortunately it only used about 1% of the lemons from the tree though 😆
Photo of a baked lemon cheesecake with a large slice missing showing the biscuit base, a fudgy cheesecake texture to the cake and a thin layer of lemon curd spread across the top
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Devs only do this work out of passion, and players only want to buy games made with evidence of developer passion. If your only passion is money and the stock market, get out of games and go sell oil or beer or cars or some other boring shit. GTFO. We don't want you.
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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 03/07/2026
"You join a meeting with a coworker. Your coworker has enabled an AI tool to automatically take notes and summarize the meeting. They do not ask for consent to turn it on. The tool mischaracterizes what you discuss." ky.fyi/posts/ai-bur...
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Do I belong in tech anymore?
On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal.
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Adam Konig | Play Mischief on steam! 🐀 @konig.games · 01/07/2026
My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes
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Grounded Bird Games aka Chris @groundedbirdgames.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
One of those challenging few days in #indiedev - managed to do 'something' that broke 'most things', and it took a few evenings to figure it out. It ended up being as simple as accidentally moving a folder in my hierarchy. Time to strengthen my backup routine! Fixed now so onward ho! #gamedev
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Pamela Howard @fannyslam.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Look at my customers 🧋🚶 They randomly generate an appearance and drink order 🤩 #BobaristaSimulator #Godot #IndieDev
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