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David

@idbrii.bsky.social
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I make games for other people. I don't represent my employer.

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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Taking money out of the province's revenue to reduce the sting of Big Oil's price hikes isn't standing up to them. Do the taxes automatically come back to put pressure on companies to stop gouging? We should blame the companies making big profits, and not the taxes that pay for our infrastructure.
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
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SightlessKombat #Accessibility @sightlesskombat.com · 11/09/2026
If you want to hear more about my experiences with Marvel's Wolverine as a gamer without sight, here's a video that lets you do just that (thanks to the brilliant @laurakbuzz.bsky.social for the opportunity!)
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
@gameonysus.bsky.social @cado.bsky.social I heard on Remap you're going to Japan. Not sure if too late, but I'd recommend the teamLabs art experience! I did the one in Tokyo and climbed up a waterfall, walked in marshmallows, drew a bird and watched it fly, and navigated a mirrored bead maze.
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ℳatt @matttomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I've seen everyone sharing that US Dialect Quiz so I decided to make my own, much crappier, CANADIAN DIALECT QUIZ to guess where in Canada you're from
A flow chart I have created with multiple questions and the answers determine where you're from.

Question 1 is do you call it a hydro bill (which then branches down to ON, QC, BC, MB) or an electric bill (which then branches down to SK, AB, NS, NB, PEI, NL)

Question 2 is do you call it a cabin (BC, MB, AB, SK) cottage (ON and atlantic) camp (northern Ontario) chalet (QC) or bungalow (Cape Breton)

To delineate BC from MB: do you call it dinner or supper

To delineate southern Ontario rural or big city: have you heard of a stag & doe

To delineate SK from AB: do you call a hoodie a bunnyhug

And finally to delineate NL from the other atlantic provinces: whaddayat? (Correct answer: dis is it b'y)
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I have thought of making a script to strip variables and formatting out of our strings and then pump them through a command-libe spellcheck like aspell, but it's never felt high enough priority. Usually they're caught by the team, me, or translators. And I have so many other important things to do!
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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
RE human brains learning to ignore errors: Over the years of Destiny, there are multiple cases of us having to invent new, higher severities of runtime/import errors for our content. We'd accumulated so many benign, ignorable errors that people would filter out those entire error channels
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
I had floppy disks, but they never launched automatically when I stuck them in! I think Windows added that at some point but I only remember it for CDs. If you go far enough back, didn't you make a boot disk for some games so DOS wouldn't consume resources? That would launch it... on startup!
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Daniel Dockery @dandock.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Gargoyles is such a fantastic example of the fact that you don't just have to keep recycling old IP if you want to build an audience. This cartoon emerged feeling so fully-formed and so confident in its storytelling that it remains a strong influence on fantasy animation to this day.
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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 21/08/2026
PSA: A heads up for those (kindly) supporting us with game purchases today: 1. Kiln and Keeper are getting permanent price changes soon! 2. All our games on Steam are getting international price adjustment reviews! 3. It's Psychonauts 2's birthday next week, which means a sale!
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Mat Piscatella @matpiscatella.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Sony is doing a hard transition to digital only for new games in Jan 2028. Nintendo is encouraging digital adoption by having a $10 price gap between the physical and digital editions of some games. We asked console video game players how they thought this would change their purchasing behaviors:
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I've had a lot of success using these git commands I wrote to make working with submodules easier. git-use-branch-if-already-there mostly solves the detached head problem for me (used via git-sub-update), but agree that git should handle it better! github.com/idbrii/git-s...
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GitHub - idbrii/git-submanage: Simple scripts to manage git submodules
Simple scripts to manage git submodules. Contribute to idbrii/git-submanage development by creating an account on GitHub.
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
> Xbox said in June. “Unfortunately, console storage and memory prices have increased by more than 2.5x, and we expect another doubling by the fall of 2027." Woah! Will we see these price hikes every year until something pops?
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
A Short Hike is also quite good. Light hearted child adventure without danger or failure with a well-written end. (Or at least that's how I remember it.)
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
The Sirena Expedition was an adventure that I quite liked. Had a great camera that moved on a spline as you moved in a 2D path through the world (as a dev, I always wanted to build that). PS1 vibes don't do anything for me, but I enjoyed the cosmic horror story played straight but still a bit silly.
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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Game industry hardship fund by Necrosoft Games and 109 others
Game industry hardship fund: 127 items for $10.00
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Messhof @messhof.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Try the demo for Blood Dungeon, our newest game coming later this summer to Steam, PS5, and Xbox X|S! store.steampowered.com/app/4666390/...
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Oops, here's the actual pack link: bsky.app/starter-pack...
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Maybe because you're in a new starter pack that's popping off: clearsky.app/randomascii/... No idea how to tell whether a certain pack is getting a lot of views/follows.
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ClearSky
ClearSky - Bringing information closer to you
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 20/06/2026
60% drop in reviews if people even smell AI on your game - full supports the investors, developers, and publishers that took a hard "no gen-AI" stance, despite grifters' proclamations that they were "going to be left behind".
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Orin Kerr @orinkerr.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
"They Looked Like They Were Getting Rich on Polymarket—but None of It Was Real; The prediction market has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators, according to a Wall Street Journal investigation." www.wsj.com/business/med...
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Here's the full article for those interested. Insanely bleak stuff, I don't think I'll ever be able to look at the Pokemon franchise the same way again dronexl.co/2026/06/09/p...
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Pokémon Go Scans Quietly Trained The Navigation Tech Now Headed Into Military Drones
Pokémon Go players' 30 billion scans trained navigation tech now bound for military drones, via Niantic Spatial's defense partnership with Vantor.
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Klei @kleientertainment.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
The Rotwood Powers-A-Plenty Update is available now! It adds a new "Weapon Power" power type, QOL, and bug fixes. Also, Rotwood is now Steam Deck verified! klei.gg/RotwoodKleiF...
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Here's some gameplay screenshots from Hot Lava and Rotwood so you can see the games in action.
A player slides on a rail in a school filled with lava. There's a green checkpoint floating in the distance.

From https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ffsCDjI4CuMA wolf/cat-like player uses a toothy ball to attack some floating plant-like Iriss creatures in a swamp. In the background, a large Snortoise spits acid projectiles at the player.
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
It's @kleientertainment.bsky.social's 20th anniversary! Our throwback video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ndt6... I'm so proud of Hot Lava and Rotwood. Amazing seeing people have so much fun with something I made. Check out our big update for Rotwood out today. All of our games are on discount!
Animated sequence depicting Hazard from the game Hot Lava. He's jumping between spinning blades with bubbling lava in the background.Three hunters from the game Rotwood prepare for battle with wooden weapons ready. They wield a cannon, spear, and hammer. One hunter has hands raised to use a spike-summoning skill.
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
I got it and tried to get into it when it was Revolt, but I didn't find many interesting servers to join. I find Discord's endless flow style of chat tough to engage in, so I haven't kept searching.
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
The panicked look of the player character is hilarious!
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Klei @kleientertainment.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Today's update adds a ton of new content. Update Highlights 🎬 Narrative conclusion and cinematics (Surprise!) 💀 Final boss + new unique biome ⚡Three new superfrenzy runs + Bosses 🎨Teffra Mirage system (appearance swapping) AND MORE Info: forums.kleientertainment.com/forums/topic...
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LadiesGamers.com @ladiesgamers.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Rotwood blends brawler-style combat, roguelite progression and co-op monster hunting into a lively action game that’s easy to jump into. @kleientertainment.bsky.social #Rotwood #NintendoSwitch2 wp.me/p70tPw-rQH
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Klei @kleientertainment.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
U.V.S. Nirmana is an engineering puzzle game from @coincidence.games the creators of Kaizen: A Factory Story & the inventors of the "Zach-like" game. U.V.S. Nirmana launches May 4th at $14.99usd + a 10% launch Discount. Wishlist & More info on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2536720/...
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eric stirpē @stirpicus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
4 years ago in the Telltale Games Alumni FB group, Michael Parsons was asking if anyone had advice for helping his 15 year old son Kane achieve his dreams of being a filmmaker. Turned out alright.
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Games are built to allow for characters to be missing: if killed or the player never walked near them. That doesn't mean TV couldn't be built like that too. Is it still linear TV if you fill in a questionnaire before a show and it cuts together different sets of scenes to best entertain the viewer?
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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:
And he said, "If everyone likes it, it means it's mainstream. It means it's conventional. It means it's already pre-digested for people to like it. And I don't want that. I want people to end up liking things they didn't like when they first encountered it, because that's where you really end up loving something."
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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Releasing a new tool today: Blendo Localizer For managing localization text assets. Loads CSV or JSON files. This is a cleaned-up version of what we used during Skin Deep's development. Free Download: blendogames.itch.io/blendo-local... Source code: github.com/blendogames/...
application window that shows a list of localization keys and localization text.application window that shows UTF16 and ASCII codes for each character in a text string.application window that shows a magenta carat at the location of every space variant in a text string.
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Bruce "86 47" Dawson @randomascii.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
I've been seeing a lot more of these Cloudflare "security verification" interstitials lately. I hate them because they slow down my browsing and they smell like bullshit. What's the deal? Are these anti-AI/anti-scraping measures? Do they work? Do websites have to opt-in? Tell me more!
Screenshot of a "security verification" interstitial. It says:
thewaroncars.org
Performing security verification
This website uses a security service to protect against malicious bots. This page... not a bot
Verifying - Cloudflare
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John Welfare @johnbp.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Xbox FY26 Q3 - www.microsoft.com/en-us/Invest... Total Revenue: $5.341B Content & Services: ~$5.120B (estimated) Hardware: ~$221M (estimated) Since I was expecting ~$226M for hardware, my ~400K shipment prediction won't change.
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ToiVarg @toivarg.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
#PortfolioDay
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Stephan Lewandowsky @lewan.uk · 01/04/2026
AI-driven manipulation comes in three forms, each tested in our research: • Deepfake videos • AI-generated misinformation articles • Personality-targeted political ads We ran multiple preregistered experiments to see if warnings protect people. Spoiler: They largely don't. 2/10
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madebygare @madebygare.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
"What killed me?!!?" Now you'll know! See how we added replays to Corvian Curse in Godot madebygare.com/posts/adding... #corviancurse #godot
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Adding Replays in Godot - Made By Gare
In the game I'm working on, Corvian Curse, death is not uncommon. Sometimes a lot can be happening and your run is suddenly over. If you weren't paying...
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.
Andreas and Werner next to a spit with upside down Bambi on itEx Libris page from Pentiment with a smiling line drawing of a person in the middle imageAndreas and pink Gernot stand-in talking to Gernot with a jester hat onAndreas performing the lemon juice candle minigame revealing the words "Guy sux"
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Anatoly Shashkin💾 @dosnostalgic.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
It is such a shame that cool people (I'm assuming unknowingly) keep showing up for that racist Jesse Petrilla's YouTube channel.
Jesse Petrilla's famous guests on his YouTube channel, such as John Romero, Ron Gilbert, and Dave Grossman, and a few awful things he's done such as putting up an effigy of Bin Laden in front of a mosque, suing to reopen schools during Covid, and putting up a billboard "Sharia Law Threatens America."
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Baller move. Hope your Kickstarter makes up the difference and then some! For any who hasn't seen it: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...
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All Will Rise: a narrative courtroom deck-builder
A game about taking a billionaire to court for the murder of a river.
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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥 www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
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Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft
"We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."
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Janet Ghoulcia @gameonysus.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Ghost of yotei was big on cutting to the point where they would have weekly cuts. Folks would get up and say here is what I cut this week and everyone would clap for them. Jason Connell said it was successful bc people like to be clapped for lol valid af
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Chris Kerr @kerrblimey.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
A look at the WIP trailer for Ghost of Yotei created by Sucker Punch a year before the studio officially unveiled the title in Sept 2024. It was used as a ‘forcing function’ to help the team lock in on a vision.
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Chandana Ekanayake @ekanaut.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Have never seen anything this good or this easy. It’s such a simple contract and they’ve been amazing to work with.
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Outersloth @outersloth.com · 09/03/2026
💰THE OUTERSLOTH CONTRACT 💰 We just released the FULL contract and terms that all our games sign! We hope this challenges the status quo of what you see out there. In a nutshell: 💸 Pre-recoup 50/50 💸 Post-recoup 15/85 💸 Terms after 7 years www.innersloth.com/the-outerslo...
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The Outersloth Contract | Innersloth - Creators of Among Us and The Henry Stickmin Collection!
Hello!
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Not a core utility, but discovering the bit flip in memory sounds like it might be this Firefox post: mas.to/@gabrielesve... Wild how often they were seeing it.
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Gabriele Svelto (@gabrielesvelto@mas.to)
A few years ago I designed a way to detect bit-flips in Firefox crash reports and last year we deployed an actual memory tester that runs on user machines after the browser crashes. Today I was lookin...
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
BREAKING: PlayStation is shutting down Bluepoint Games, the studio responsible for modern remakes of classic games such as Demon's Souls and Shadow of the Colossus, Bloomberg News has learned. A shocking end for a well-respected studio.
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David @idbrii.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
Chapter names working great on episode 127: It's Not a Podcast, It's a Discourse. Thank you!
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