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joel a clark

@joelaclark.bsky.social
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- solo indie @ JCGM 🎮 bsky.app/profile/jcgm-games.bsky.social - working on new project 🌿 - available freelance 💻 - Kansas City📍 - Blaseball (2020) ⚾️🩸 - 5 cats 🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛ - he/him 👽 joelaclark.com

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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
thinking about posting
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Rebekah Valentine @duckvalentine.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I spent seven hours yesterday trying to chase down a guy going by the name of John Bigwalk, Big Walk's own mischievous, merry wanderer who has a "golden radio voice" and is making community-led public lobbies a lot more interesting.
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
happy cat day
a black and white cat, stretched out long, tummy up
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
watching dragon ball
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
book read in April: - Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel - Wheel of Time books 1-3 - Robert Jordan - Hyperion - Dan Simmons
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
reached a new level of cat dad absurdity today
a cat, standing outside in a driveway, with a red harness and leash
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
is your pitching staff good? or are you just facing the Kansas City Royals?
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Molly Knight @mollyknight.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
These Royals uniforms are the greatest city connects in history.
Bobby Witt JrMaikel Garcia hits a homerMaikel Garcia celebrates after homeringSal Perez high fives Maikel Garcia after homering
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
so… moon’s not haunted?
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
if a guy catches the ball before it goes over the home run fence, but then himself falls over the fence, i think that’s still gotta be a home run. a home run +1, if anything
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
i like doing the work
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
show don't tell? no. neither show nor tell. just dance!
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 30/03/2026
always trust your subcouscous
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Sweetest Beatrice🏳️‍⚧️ @sweetestbeatrice.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
Badly photoshopped Pippin in one breakfast after another
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
no, buddy, do not say “the sacks are packed.” please just say the bases are loaded like everyone else
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
baseball begin tonight!
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
if tolkien were truly the “father of fantasy,” fantasy novels would have a dumb little song on every other page
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
i make games, yes, but being a cat bed is my true calling
a sleepy gray cat curled up asleep on the OP’s chest
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
hell yeah venezuela
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anthony (haunted version) @panecasio.com · 16/03/2026
facade (2005) screenshot with an added “DLSS5 OFF” label graphic facade (2005) screenshot with an added “DLSS5 ON” label graphic 

real world photos of Tom Welling and Anne Hathaway have replaced the game’s characters
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
cataloguing every book in our house into a library spreadsheet. it’s time to find out, once and for all, how many freakin books we have in this house
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
ok look buddy. i know you’re a “Wildlife Technician that specializes in bat removal” but come on. just let me call you Bat Man
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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 15/03/2026
This paragraph resonates with me so so much and speaks to everything I’ve learned (often the hard way) over the last 15 years. bsky.app/profile/ckun...
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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
Meredith saying something I’ve spent a lot of the last couple years thinking about:
A blog post screen cap that reads: 
But GDC took a chunk out of me, too. The expense, the scamminess, the
desperation. I have not quite recovered.
What I've seen makes me want to keep my life small and focused, make work by any means necessary on shoestring budgets and ignore the industry completely. I think for me, for now, that's how it needs to be. It's not like the industry has any answers or knows what is next.
It's not like I see myself in the majority of these quickly-vanishing roles. Maybe my small, focused world is all there ever was.
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
*cat brings dead mouse to our porch* me: please don’t bring dead mice to our porch 🙏 *cat brings dead mouse inside the house* me: please don’t bring dead mice inside, either 🙏 *cat brings live mouse inside* me: ok, that’s worse, plz no mice 🙏 *cat brings live bird inside* me: …
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
body in park, brain in hotel
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
bam make big number. many people mad, but that dumb. big bam number still big big
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
oh no (in a good way)
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
woof. as if my anxiety about going wasn't bad enough...
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
anxious about heading to GDC, honestly. the older I get, the more I want to make games but the less I want to be a part of the industry. I’m excited to see many of you, though, that’s always the saving grace of these things
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
my archetype is Victim of the Murder Mystery
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
(arra) RIV
an except from Ursula K Le Guin’s “Always Coming Home” reading: 

Even when a corn-borer was squashed, a mosquito swatted, a branch broken, a flower picked, the formula was muttered in its ultimately reduced form: arrariv, “my word[s].” Although this one-word formula was spoken as mindlessly as our “bless you” to a sneeze, it was always spoken. The speaking of it maintained and contained the idea of need and fulfillment, demand and response, of relationship and interdependence; and this idea could be brought fully to mind when it was wanted. The stone, as they said, contains the mountain.
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
god damnit McDonald’s. now you’ve started a whole genre of putrid CEO videos
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
currently cranking out the most jank character animations known to mankind. these unholy clusters of keyframes only loosely resemble human motion
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
what’s the biggest small number
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
hey i need a 30 second or so clip of someone valiantly playing the trumpet or similar instrument. must be you playing. must be valiant. does not need to be good. will Venmo you $5 if I like your clip. if you send me an AI clip you must Venmo me $5. thanks in advance!
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 22/02/2026
me: So stupid how the announcers have to explain what every part of the Olympic ceremony symbolizes also me: WTF DOES THIS SHIT MEAN
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
I REALLY enjoyed being offline for a couple years. I’m already feeling the negative effects of being back online. but alas, it’s sorta necessary for someone trying to find funding & eventually market a game
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
it always takes me a week or so after traveling to remember how to cook food for myself
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Fudge and I have worked out this daily arrangement. it’s generally good for both of us — it only comes at the expense of my back
POV of a lap cat curled up on a pillow between the camera and a desk setup.
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
dice was great, had many great conversations about new project (🌿) and the industry as a whole.
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
casinos are so absurd I just ate a $30 meatball sub while Pink Pony Club blasted and some guy smoked a cigar a few feet away
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
drake maye, drake maye not
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
pokemon
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
luge needs a minimap & ghost racers
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 07/02/2026
the Olympic drone shots are cool but the constant drone screeching sounds are not cool
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Sam Gamgee’s father’s name was Ham Gamgee. Ham Gamgee!
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I’ll be showing folks my new project while I’m there, so find me if you’re curious 👀
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joel a clark @joelaclark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
I’ll be heading to DICE next month (a rarity for me). If you’ll be there and want to say hello, lmk!
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