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JohnLee Cooper

@johnleeerg.bsky.social
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I make videogames: ergman.itch.io contact me at johnleeerg@gmail.com, im probably not gonna use bluesky much unless it blows up

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Live from (a hotel near) the PAX West show floor with a new collection of indie games it's Indiepocalypse #80! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @thewriterwins.bsky.social -Cover by Courtney Løberg (www.courtneyloberg.com) pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-80
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Fights🏳️‍⚧️4🇵🇸Love @hyenagirl64.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The core of trans liberatory struggle is the question of who gets to decide who people are and how they may use their bodies Trans liberatory praxis centers the revolutionary idea that my body, being the foundational of all production, belongs to me That the people’s bodies belong to the people
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Fumel-Kötzentine🔞 @fumelkotzentine.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Video game mod that adds a boner meter to the bottom of the screen, and it rises or falls randomly, with no rhyme or reason
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JohnLee Cooper @johnleeerg.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
my twine game "Four Letters" has been getting hundereds of fake bot views a day according to Itch, but almost no actual engagement or plays. 200 AI data scrapers cant be wrong, play now: ergman.itch.io/four-letters Anyone wanna feel sad? give it a try! One commenter had this to say:
"Wow, that was powerful. I don't know what to say without spoiling it, so I'll just say that it is short enough that anyone wondering if they should play it, should absolutely play it. Very, very well done."
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Biogenesis @biogenesis.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
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Nephenee @nephenee.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Hey, I recently let go from my job so I'm opening up commissions heavy right now. If anyone needs any art/design work done for their upcoming tournaments PLEASE hit me up! Happy to discuss discounts for homies too.
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Trans News Network @transnews.network · 21/08/2026
"If trans people want a boycott of The New York Times, where's the call to do so?" Here is a declaration laying out how the NYT is a key driver of trans genocide, why boycotts work and why anyone who gives a damn about trans lives and rights must boycott The New York Times.
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Boycott The New York Times
For years The New York Times has relentlessly pushed anti-trans propaganda, playing a significant role in the escalating genocide against us. It's far past time for a call to action: anyone who cares ...
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Starbucks Workers United @sbworkersunited.org · 25/08/2026
🚨BREAKING: Our union of over 12,000 baristas are officially calling for a Starbucks boycott. Read this statement penned by Starbucks workers on why a boycott from ALL customers, allies, and organizations is necessary to fight back against corporate greed:
BOYCOTT STARBUCKS is written inside a zig-zaggy speech bubble against crumbled paper. Beside it are the Starbucks Workers United logo and an image of a coffee cup being poured out.We, the 12,000 and growing members of Starbucks Workers United, call on everyone who stands with working people to boycott Starbucks until they finalize a contract with union baristas and stop union-busting.
What we’re fighting for is simple: a minimum $17/hr wage, enough hours to live on, better staffing in our stores, and basic workplace protections. Every year, our living costs rise but our wages don’t keep up – a growing pressure many American workers are feeling as corporate greed accelerates unchecked in our country. 
Starbucks is banking on customers' blind loyalty to the integrity and values this company once stood for in order to keep squeezing them for profits. At a time when working-class people across the country are struggling in a challenging economy, it is no longer possible to be both a Starbucks customer and in support of workers; choosing to spend money at Starbucks is choosing a law breaking corporation over the baristas who make your coffee everyday exactly as you ask for it.
Starbucks has violated U.S. labor law more than any other company in modern history–the NLRB and its judges have found that Starbucks committed hundreds of labor violations and there are currently more than 550 unresolved unfair labor practice charges still pending against the company. Instead of finalizing a fair and reasonable union contract, Starbucks has repeatedly demonstrated a lack of care for the workers who fuel the company’s profits by wasting millions of dollars on AI and technology that doesn’t work, launching countless gimmicky drinks designed to distract from real problems, and inventing pointless policies that do nothing but make our jobs harder. 
This ongoing, irrational behavior by Starbucks and its refusal to settle a fair union contract with workers leaves us with no other choice than to call for a boycott. We know when working people stand up together, we win. 
No Contract? No Coffee.
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JohnLee Cooper @johnleeerg.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
good talk that happens to mention me briefly. Everything is intertextual!!
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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
@johnleeerg.bsky.social hello i need you to watch this Narrascope talk if you haven't, for a very particular reason if this is not a compelling enough pitch i will tell you the reason on request :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=HzR7...
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NarraScope 2026: The Intertextual Materials of a Narrative Game Poem
YouTube video by Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
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The Real N’zoth 🐙 Blizzcon @therealnzoth.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
REPOST IF YOUR ACCOUNT IS A SAFE PLACE FOR THE TRANS COMMUNITY 🩵🩷🤍
Transgendered flag
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Leon "Used to Be Cat" Richardson @catlinggun.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
peachgardengames.itch.io/commandment Play my anti-carceral puzzle game text adventure. Rate it five stars and lie in the comments about getting the best ending so people think you're a genius.
peachgardengames.itch.io
Commandment by Peach Garden Games
Text-based puzzle game in the house of the law
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 24/07/2026
Five years ago, I ran across a piece of stock footage that defied all conventions. It was beautiful and textured. It was *memorable*. But what can this single video tell us, in context of an entire industry designed to be generic? youtu.be/k3bkCTy9rLk
Jacob's head on one the classic "hide the pain harold" stock images
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mechanical twerk @ruhee.ca · 11/08/2026
I hope as Torontonians we can all unite to prove one very important thing in this mayoral election: Brad Bradford is a total flip-flopping weenie
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 10/08/2026
we’ve got a long way to go and rosh hashanah is only a month away, please help if you’re able or share
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gate @gate.itch.io · 07/08/2026
@jack-crawford.bsky.social's avoidance jam was super fun! there are bunch of really cool games in here (including mine), all free and most playable in the browser: itch.io/jam/jacks-av...
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Submissions to jack's avoidance jam
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Phox in a Box 🔞🏳️‍⚧️ @phox-in-a-box.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
reason.com/2023/12/27/b...
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British teen gets potential life sentence for 'Grand Theft Auto' hack
Rockstar Games told a U.K. court that it spent $5 million to recover from the hack. Is that worth the rest of a teenager's life?
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wren @slimewitch.itch.io · 28/07/2026
bsky caches images weirdly so i'm taking this an excuse to repost my game slimewitch.itch.io/aquamarine
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Aquamarine by slimewitch
clockwork jellyfish
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Brendan Allen @brendanallen.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
One of my all time favorite bitsy games, which manages to actually accomplish an unsettling play experience (hard to do in bitsy!)
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JohnLee Cooper @johnleeerg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
been slacking in the social media department and i will continue to but best believe you will hear about it here when my unreleased stuff releases. in the meantime, check out Blindspot, my recent Narrative game with probably my best writing and game music so far! ergman.itch.io/cosmicbackgr...
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Blindspot by JohnLee Cooper
Doomscrolling is a full time government job.
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JohnLee Cooper @johnleeerg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's time to make a more up to date version of this with some more recent (and some unreleased / still in progress) games! Still open to new freelance stuff, especially if its light on code and heavy on art, level design, or narrative! (i can only hold so many codebases in my brain at once)
a picture of my game "Toward From" which is a grid based snake like screenshot and audioscape generator thingA screenshot of my game Gaze, which is a gothic horror first person puzzle/narrative thinga secret sneak peak of an unreleased thing! a hand reaches out toward some laundry in a strange geometric environmentA sneak peak at an unfinished fps game about cupids. Cupido peers out at the campus of his Alma Mater.
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JohnLee Cooper @johnleeerg.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's time to make a more up to date version of this with some more recent (and some unreleased / still in progress) games! Still open to new freelance stuff, especially if its light on code and heavy on art, level design, or narrative! (i can only hold so many codebases in my brain at once)
a picture of my game "Toward From" which is a grid based snake like screenshot and audioscape generator thingA screenshot of my game Gaze, which is a gothic horror first person puzzle/narrative thinga secret sneak peak of an unreleased thing! a hand reaches out toward some laundry in a strange geometric environmentA sneak peak at an unfinished fps game about cupids. Cupido peers out at the campus of his Alma Mater.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 22/07/2026
Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.
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daniel sieradski @self.agency · 15/07/2026
A new year, a new goal! Help us raise $180,000 before Rosh HaShanah for the Gaza Soup Kitchen, which provides food and medicine to thousands of displaced Palestinians each day.
givebutter.com
High Holy Days 5787 Tzedakah Campaign
By Gaza Soup Kitchen
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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 19/07/2026
"A.i." is a tool pushed by racist, fascist billionaires for racist, fascist purposes.
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Jules Sherred (he/him) @geekyjules.julessherred.com · 15/07/2026
Kid1, who is both an conductor and engineer for CN and has driven trains through SK wildfires himself, just sent me this video from Ontario. When I tell you they arent paid enough!!! vt.tiktok.com/ZSXkuEadE/
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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
so the thing about luddites is they recognized that sometimes technical innovations are used to consolidate power and exercise additional control over labor here's your new mechanical loom! great huh - but too expensive for YOU to own ofc. it'll be owned by some rich dude. BUT you can rent it! wow
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Glendon Mellow @flyingtrilobite.com · 15/07/2026
Billionaires are burning the forests Doug Ford turned the skies yellow Mark Carney is ensuring this continues Vote @ndp.ca if you hate this #cdnpoli #onpoli
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Ahhhhh @nerdjpg.com · 26/06/2026
www.marxists.org/history/erol...
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Constructive Criticism: A Handbook
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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
All of Indiepocalypse (the monthly game anthology highlighting the exciting fringes of independent games) is on sale as part of the itch summer sale! Whether you pick up an issue or use it as a guide to find other developers' work, it's well worth a browse! itch.io/s/191413/ind...
Cover of indiepocalypse showing h a person with flowers growing on their brainScreenshot for the game bonitāka's aquarium of medusae showing a person in and underwater subScreenshot for the game what do clouds taste like showing a person carrying a wrapped up bodyScreen shot for who is Johnny sixgun showing a person and owl standing in a ferris wheel
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Data Sparrow @data-sparrow.itch.io · 01/07/2026
If you're an indie dev or any other kind of artist who's distrusftful of digital-only distribution, we invite you to read @princerosalium.bsky.social's zine on the matter. The potential loss of game discs as a concept is grave, but maybe not all is lost in terms of physical media.
priro.itch.io
HOLDING THE BABY: how to make and distribute physical games in the age of digital download dominance by Priro.pro
A guide to making and distributing physical copies of your games!
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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ BostonFIG @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
An important part of any game diet, it's Indiepocalypse #78. -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @gensuta.itch.io -Cover by @artzomb.bsky.social pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-78
cover for indiepocalypse 78 with a bunch of bugs as player charactersscreenshot for Kissing Your Homies Goodnight 2 showing two people looking at each otherscreenshot of indiepocalypse launcher
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Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
Announcement: I'm teaming up with 505 Pulse for my game Rhythm Doggo. If you think you'd like it, please wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/... Also there's a discord where we'll do playtesting discord.gg/3SG2ZxVeb The game's key art was made by @1neila1.bsky.social #gamedev #indiedev
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JohnLee Cooper @johnleeerg.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
I'm selling my game usb-cassettes here on Saturday! (And hopefully some other stuff?) Stop by and hang out, and maybe grab one o theeese babies!
my 3 available game cassettes! Plundercore Market, 3 Stories About The Future, and Trail Mix!
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Ash K @cisash.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
The Indie Game Emporium is back this @torontogamesweek.com Come to the Allan Gardens, Saturday June 13, 4pm - 9pm. Meet, chat and peruse the wares and games of local devs! Then pop by for tea, talk and to play even more upcoming games at the neighboring Tea Party by @kittencupstudio.bsky.social!
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
I will be selling my tapes (including jazzpunk OST), zines, buttons, stickers and some silk-screen postcards stop by and please buy one of each so I can pay some billz
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tally @tallywinkle.itch.io · 10/06/2026
i will be here selling my games in print for the first time ever!! i am so excited! come see all the cool wares 🤩
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Mike Elgan @mikeelgan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
Now you can keep track of how many billions the AI companies are losing on AI. (Red is spending, green is revenue.) isaiprofitable.com
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bilge @bilgetbd.itch.io · 22/05/2026
excited to announce my new game 'walk' 🦶 features 40+ mini games based on everyday moments from daily walks with my partner. gameplay is like warioware on one page without rush or fail inspired by Kalamaja & Vanalinn, The Walking Man (manga), Vibes Quest (onionboots) more info below, thank you!
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WISHLIST SKRUB SQUAD @devonwiersma.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Helloooooo all my games are on sale with varying discounts until the 26th! Please pick them up and leave a review if you do, it helps a lot!!🙏 store.steampowered.com/developer/de...
store.steampowered.com
Steam Developer: Dev's Games
Devon is a solo game developer who makes cool games of a wide variety of genres. I'll make anything from paint-anywhere graffiti games to action-packed bullet hell titles. 😎
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Lauren Donovan Ginsberg @laurenginsberg.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
As Sonja and others have admirably shown, that just isn’t how royal portraits work — at all. Portraits aren't Polaroids. They're complex pieces of public messaging that reflect dynastic priorities & shifting alliances more than familial affinity. Let’s consider the portraiture of Elizabeth I. /2
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borb 🐌 play EMUUROM already @borbware.itch.io · 15/05/2026
EMUUROM arrives... in TEN days!
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/05/2026
Rasheed is literally risking his life for this game. Israelis could decide to capture, torture, or murder him at any point for daring to share the truth of the Nakba or Palestinian culture. He truly believes in games and their power to tell these stories. Please help his courage not be in vain.
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Rasheed Abueideh - Now crowdfunding Dreams on a Pillow 🍉 @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo
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Dreams on a Pillow - Official Gameplay First Look
YouTube video by Rasheed Abueideh
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JohnLee Cooper @johnleeerg.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
its pretty cool i got paid to make essentially a doomed yaoi scifi twine game ergman.itch.io/four-letters
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Four Letters by JohnLee Cooper
Grow Apart From Eachother
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Emily @suika.bsky.social · 10/05/2026
Lately, the area in front of Shinjuku Station's Southeast Gate has started to turn into a semi-permanent protest site against war, racism, Trump, Takaichi, and Netanyahu.
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Israel illegally abducted these people *600 miles* away from Gaza. And Greece is accused of cooperating. If it did at all, the implications are huge. Would pin one NATO member against several others in the region – including Italy, Spain, and Turkey – who are slamming the attack.
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gate @gate.itch.io · 27/04/2026
haven't made minimum wage yet with Derelict Star BUT i have made enough money to lose access to my healthcare so that's a milestone of sorts! store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...
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Derelict Star on Steam
A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict fr...
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dr. thrasher, an american writer in ex(archia)(xile) @thrasherxy.bsky.social · 26/04/2026
While we have your attention about the safety of journalists in harm’s way… Say her name: Amal Khalii. She was killed by US-Israel this week. She is one of 14 Lebanese journalists killed, and among nearly 300 killed in the Middle East since 2024.
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