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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW

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Product Manager at a place to be disclosed later | Founder and board member of Tas Game Makers | Former Freeplay board member | Recovering games journalist | peoplemaking.games/@jasonimms | He/Him

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Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social · 26m
*automation used to be: symbolic decision making (ie old-school AI). People these days just bolt on an LLM to do their testing, but LLMs are not deterministic so you have to check their work. Symbolic is repeatable. 99% of what people are automating with LLMs can be done with a script for pennies.
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Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social · 26m
This is good summary of why AI is bad at QA: paulbrodner.dev/2026/can-ai-... I am a HUGE fan of automated* testing, but we always used to joke that automation can do Quantity Assurance, but for Quality Assurance you need humans. LLMs do not change that, they make it more important if anything.
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Can AI Test Thoroughly? Why the Industry Is Sleepwalking Into a QA Crisis
AI can generate a thousand tests in minutes — and that's exactly why teams are starting to mistake coverage for quality.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Looking up some tax-related information and just stumbled across one of my freelance journalism contracts, it was a full-time contract for six months with one of the major mastheads. $197 per day. Good grief, what a nightmare of a sector.
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Alanah Pearce @alanahpearce.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Are you or have you ever been a narrative designer (as your official job title)? I would like to interview you for a video! Pls reply to this if you’re interested ❤️.
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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
How did we get to the point that big stupid collector's editions don't come with a copy of the fkn game? How did that happen?
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I have no idea whether this specific example is a good or bad thing, but it'd be chill if some Australian politicians could realise that yes, it is actually possible to renationalise things. You can unring that bell.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Who do I know considering going to Megadev this year?
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Ben Britten @benbritten.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Nowadays I would say: National Film and Sound Archive would love that stuff! (for aussie made games at least) I am generally presuming that there are similar archival projects in other countries that would be into this stuff (even the cheap plastic crap, maybe especially the cheap plastic crap!)
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Just filed a complaint with our state's consumer protection group due to Appliances Online's local service provider refusing to honour a warranty. What a frustrating waste of time, not to mention the fine they're about to received, over a genuinely braindead failure of bureaucracy.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
When I was a journalist, you would get inundated with promotional stuff. Sometimes it was amazing, most of the time it was cheap plastic garbage that is awkwardly sized and takes up huge amounts of space. You’re allowed to get rid of unsolicited things you don’t want.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I'm suddenly thinking about The Dark Crystal for some reason
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Microsoft doing something right today
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is valid and true and a real problem with games coverage in modern media. The other thing we're not covering is the hopeful side of these stories - out the other end of a lot of trauma, many creatives will find opportunities to make games out from under Xbox's yoke. All hail more indies.
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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Rewatched the Atari Lynx Story by the Nostalgia Nerd, and so should you. youtu.be/RcjbMCRErz4?...
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The Atari Lynx Story
YouTube video by Nostalgia Nerd
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Those are the same thing and it's called capitalism
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Rewatched The Mandalorian recently in advance of watching the movie, was a fun time. That's a good show. Flowed from that into a rewatch of The Acolyte, I'm still grumpy it didn't get the love it deserved. It's a great series. Andor is #1 by a long shot, but really enjoyed Acolyte.
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Serrels @serrels.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Also! Tix available now (it's free baby) www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/mel...
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Continue? Magazine Launch
Celebrate the launch of a defiant, new magazine at the ACMI Shop during Melbourne International Games Week.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Four years? Them’s rookie numbers.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
What stage of post-fucked capitalism is it when even the WORKER-RUN CO-OPs THAT MAKE GREAT GAMES can’t maintain sustainable funding?
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I'm going to be in town for all of Games Week this year! Largely there under my own steam, aside from attending GCAP for Screen NSW. Happy to talk in person about my main gig tho! Where to find me: - GCAP - The AGDAs - Parallels - PAX - Megadev - And let's face it: Boatbuilders/General Assembly
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Anyone taking the "apocalyptic warnings" from the big three AI firms seriously needs their head examined. This is a pure PR play. The whole "escaping containment" thing was fake marketing, nothing more. These excuses to slow development are an attempt to buy time before the bubble bursts.=
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
to succeed in the game industry you just have to be stronger and more stubborn than those invested in seeing you leave 😎✨
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Part of me is still in Germany 🇩🇪
Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier poured into a tall branded weissbier glass
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Justin Pot @justinpot.com · 10/09/2026
pro tip: tell your boss the AI said you’ll be more efficient at home and see which one of their irrational beliefs wins out
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
STARCRAFT Oh! RETURNS Yes! IN 2030 Oh nvm.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
THEY ARE BREAKING CONTAINMENT
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If Xbox achievements are any metric, fewer than 7% of Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War (release date 2020) players on the platform ever finished the campaign.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
If Xbox achievements are any metric, fewer than 7% of Call of Duty Black Ops Cold War (release date 2020) players on the platform ever finished the campaign.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
out here saying the quiet part out loud
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Aprorpos of nothing but Salman Rushdie would make a great Kojima character name
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Hearts go out to mobile developers realising just how many viewport sizes they're going to have to support just to ship on iPhone Duo
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
aaaaaand I would walk five hundred miles to avoid having to assess my own biases
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This year I will attend Melbourne International Games Week as either a function of one of the two organisations that can justify paying for the value of my time, or at my own cost because DAMMIT: I love this community and making games, and I don't fucking want to stop if I don't existentially must.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
This is one of the most important threads about the current state of the "games industy" as could possibly exist. As predicted by @brkeogh.bsky.social this "industry" is an artistic product of the larger oligarichic/corporate structures that have gripped modern society.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Just ported my phone number back to Vodafone from Telstra and I'm so glad to be done with that hellhole of a company.
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
‘You can’t own a game’ rendered like the old anti piracy ads
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
I bought tickets to @free-play.bsky.social Parallels for the first time in many years, as this will be my first Parallels not sitting on the board. Mixed feelings! But very much looking forward to what the excellent team will put together. I can't wait.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Good grief Lego is expensive.
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Anyone looking for a PAX Australia panel moderator? I love moderating panels, and I haven't done one at PAX in a minute!
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
It seems a lot of people don't know what furloughed means: The staff are on unpaid leave - they still technically work there! A sudden spike of revenue from, say, the release of their game could mean they could be brought back to work. Buy it or don't, but don't use this as an excuse to pirate it!
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
I can't decide whether this makes me want to buy the game at full price more or less
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Jet lag is NO JOKE
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Omg it is SO GOOD TO BE HOME
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Jason Imms 🔜 MIGW @jasonimms.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Being in Cologne for a week has reminded me just how much I like weisbier, danke Köln ❤️
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TM Opera cOdy @codyanskaya.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Meanwhile real consoles are left to suffer
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Edmond Tran @edmondtran.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Checking out the official Gamescom photo assets to see what the normie convention centre photographers found interesting
A bunch of men playing Bon Jovi pinball machines
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
GTA 6 looking awesome, cool merch too gameworkers.square.site/s/order?cs=t...
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Pro Jank Footy @projankfooty.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Broden Kelly says Just Shut Up and Jank 💪 Get a look at our full page PRO JANK FOOTY ad in Continue Magazine (Edition 01) which is out this October and available to buy now on Kickstarter.
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