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Joe Baxter-Webb

@indiegameclinic.bsky.social
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Indie Game Clinic on YouTube 〰️ Podcasts: One More Run! + The Game Developers’ Library 〰️ currently writing “Game Design for Indie Devs” while developing “Golem Gourmet” 〰️ (he/him/they/them) 🍽️ store.steampowered.com/app/4209800/…

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angel💀 @sabattons.com · 18h
one of the best decisions you can make as an artist is to stop talking about your artwork from a position of defending it. the artists statement should be a tool of pride, community, and conversation, not an appeal to those who had no interest in (or ability to) understand it in the first place.
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 5h
Never Forget youtu.be/uC1KvW4asks?...
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NUMBERJACKS | The Numbertaker Song
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 5h
Can’t believe they used wave function collapse to invent this
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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.
I will dispose of the first myth as quickly as possible. The “secret” is skill. If you haven’t learned how to do something, the people who have may seem to be magicians, possessors of mysterious secrets. In a fairly simple art, such as making pie crust, there are certain teachable “secrets” of method that lead almost infallibly to good results; but in any complex art, such as housekeeping, piano-playing, clothes-making, or story-writing, there are so many techniques, skills, choices of method, so many variables, so many “secrets,” some teachable and some not, that you can learn them only by methodical, repeated, long-continued practice — in other words, by work.
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Chiitan🌈ちぃたん☆ @chiitan.love · 02/04/2026
You don’t have to be “normal.” You only have to be yourself. One day, a world will arrive where no one is boxed by categories like LGBT🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Until that moment, I’ll keep sending this message into the universe: You are a beautiful, unique miracle.
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 21h
Day 3/4 of the Indie Deckbuilder Gangbang going live in 20 (still accepting new suggestions for title) www.youtube.com/live/b7vny3L...
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IUTK: Deckbuilder Showcase Day 3/4 (Kings Haven / Empire Deck / Siegelock)
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Game UI Database YouTube channel has just reached 400 videos!! Featuring uninterrupted footage of various games, with all of their UI menus and elements featured: www.youtube.com/@gameuidatab... More initiatives are coming soon to the channel, including tutorials!
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princess zandra but kinda chinese @spacehunterm.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026
one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting
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mothcub @mothcub.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
It has been noted.
A bunny tells a group of other bunnies, "many of you are callous".
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shaunt @shaunvids.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i don't know the best time to opine about the possibility of rehabilitation and restorative justice and so on but the worst time is 5 minutes after one of your favs is outed doing something terrible
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mattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 05/10/2026
no....no!!!!!
lowly worm is now driving the trolley problem trolley :(
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
LRT: it would help if every conversation regarding anti-censorship advocacy in the indie and art games space didn’t get immediately and totally dominated by people who want to draw/write paedo and SA stuff.
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PUNKI (PERPETUALLY POST DEBUT) @pun-ki.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You should be asking why Rockstar gets to do this and doesn't run into any issues with payment processors, while the rest of anyone drawing or writing "explicit content" on any platform have so much trouble getting paid
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
The best thing about TikTok and IG is you can use any music in anything you post ..: and I’ve decided that New Rules by Dua Lipa will be the local game dev meetup theme tune indefinitely
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pixelatedboat aka “mr bluesky” @pixelatedboat.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Sad news everyone. Our beloved friend the computer has now become a hated enemy
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The petrol station machine asked for a loyalty card and the Decline option just said “No Loyalty” and for a moment I thought I might have fallen into a Drake song
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 23/06/2026
So if you are ever in the position to have to judge the quality of a generative AI system, always judge it on something you are an expert on. It is the only metric that works.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 23/06/2026
Users will be less forthcoming with feedback. It will set expectations that are hard to shake. It's a mess. The early mockups have to look bad, on purpose! But I only know those things because I have done the work! I have the expertise built over time.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 23/06/2026
However, is that good looking UI helpful for the project and user? Management will think so, yes! But I’m an expert in my field. I know having a very good looking mockup early on is actually detrimental to the tool design process. Because folks will think it’s final.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 23/06/2026
For example, in my case: Tool Design. Can an AI generate a good looking UI in seconds, with all the required buttons available in it? Absolutely. Sadly, I have to report that it can. It may take a few tries, but it's possible, and faster than a human could do it. It is a truth.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 23/06/2026
The same goes for designers, who generate something in Figma and they know it would be terrible to work with. But, then it generates a bunch of code, and it feels absolutely magical to them. How can this software do this all so quickly? Amazing! You just don't know its limitations.
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 23/06/2026
So many times over the last few years I've heard programmers be amazed at how fast AI can generate a design, a GUI, or 2D UI art. But keeps making coding mistakes. Or it's really bad at JavaScript, the language they know, but awesome at C++, a language they don't know. It's Gell-Mann amnesia again
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Robin-Yann Storm @rystorm.com · 23/06/2026
Have you heard of Gell-Mann amnesia? It's when you read a newspaper, and think the articles are interesting, until you read something about your expertise. It's totally inaccurate! How can they get this wrong? Anyway, on to the next article... and they're interesting again. This also applies to AI
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Kim Hu @kim-hu.com · 03/10/2026
I know most of you guys don't go on the other app but the pope posted an anti AI/ pro artists statement yesterday, and the ensuing cope and memes is really funny
Pope Leo XIV
@Pontifex

In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.2016: I will never fight a holy war

2019: Pope Leo I am ready launch me towards the nearest data centersome AI guy saying he makes christian children's books with AI asking the pope if that is ok then and someone posting a meme react with the pope holding a baseball bat saying 'did I stutter'
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Godotmer shirts (and beanie) are now available. Very much love to @cheeseoncheese.bsky.social and @ericsmooth.bsky.social for helping with a few rounds of graphic design tennis. You guys are excellent. 🍩 indie-game-clinic-shop.fourthwall.com/en-gbp
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Watching old Top of the Pops from the 80s and feeling nostalgic for a time where it was widely expected that more than one band member would know or care about the lyrics
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The human skull is a time travel device … and I hope this time it takes us somewhere nice youtu.be/VClE_tFxjgg?...
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THESE BONES
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I think I’m getting better at TikTok text #funkybenders
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The way the Cornell victim is being publicly disbelieved by a lot of journalists, officials, and online posters is also a warning shot to every other victim not to dare to actually pursue a case against your rapist lest you suffer the same fate. It’s a means of protecting the status quo
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
In the legal system and in these mainstream commentary spaces, victims’ post-assault behavior is positioned as evidence of them lying, so that any feminist response to the crisis of sexual assault brought on by these high-profile cases can be deemed hysterical and unnecessary.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Socially and in the legal system, our understanding of responses to sexual violence is purposefully uninformed and therefore limited to only “perfect” victims (who don’t really exist), so that we don’t have to actually combat sexual violence or believe victims or hold perpetrators accountable.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
People are spinning the narrative that the Cornell victim consensually participated in group sex and changed her story later because she faced social ostracism. A lot of this is cherry-picking texts, but in reality a lot of victims initially claim they weren’t abused or raped as a coping mechanism
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Just a reminder that people don’t always realize they were raped in the immediate aftermath. It can take hours, days, months, and even years to realize you were raped, and it doesn’t make it any less true. There are many kinds of responses, including fawning and trying to appease your rapist
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Esper Quinn 💠 @esper.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
it’s not like i have 300k followers or anything, but any woman working in game journalism or an adjacent field, please reply to this with something you worked on recently that you’re proud of and i’ll repost it. feel free to include cash’pp/payp’l/v’nmo links.
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Well this fucking sucks. I saw stuff about it yesterday but wanted to wait until it had escalated above “guy with same name in screenshotted list”. Really blindsided.
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Thanks to everyone who came along to this this morning. It’s always a bit nerve wrecking to talking about project specific plans like this. I’ll put some shorter edited bits up next week.
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Hovering Skull @hoveringskull.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
One problem with AI #gamedev well articulated by @indiegameclinic.bsky.social : “Being able to work faster than your skill level is bad for game design, regardless of whether you have good ideas or not” www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cbo...
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The Hidden Cost of Vibe-Coding Games [Stream Highlight]
YouTube video by Indie Game Clinic
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm going live in just under an hour to talk about progression design for my cooking roguevania Golem Gourmet. Come hang out if that sounds interesting! www.youtube.com/live/Vk1A5IH...
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Live Game Design Workshop: Cooking Roguelite Progression + Balancing
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
This game is really clever, and I insist you play the demo ASAP. Its core mechanic is this really clever system of constructing short responses by picking words you've heard other people say - it's so full of emotional weight and the art is beautiful. It's sad and queer and heartwarming so far.
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I'm quite tired of being sent swagless vibe coded games - particularly when they're strategy/management ones which are ALL flat dull interface. But *occasionally* we get a teachable moment out of it. Here are the best moments from Tuesday's INDIES UNDER THE KNIFE. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cbo...
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The Hidden Cost of Vibe-Coding Games [Stream Highlight]
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tasty little buttbutts
Put them in ur mouf
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cryptic 🦇 pollinator @magicscience.info · 12/12/2024
packet marked with DO NOT THROW AWAY "YOU MUST EAT" MANDATORY CRYSTALS DO NOT THROW AWAY
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User with this avatar just got blocked @avijustgotblocked.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
An account with this avatar was just blocked.
Avatar of an account that was just blocked.
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Please stop telling me how much I look like Lenny Kravitz it’s embarrassing
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
🧚🏼
fairy
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Joe Baxter-Webb @indiegameclinic.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I do not have many strong opinions about superheroes or their associated media but I do think you immediately lose the point of X Men when you merge that world with mainline supes
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