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Jonathan Brodsky

@jonbrodsky.bsky.social
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miniatures, synthesizers, and labor for videogames blog: notes.jonathanbrodsky.com shop: ko-fi.com/jonathanbrodsky

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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I've been somewhat slammed for the past month. Going to take a drive to watch some high power model rockets this weekend tho (hopefully the weather cooperates)
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Alexei Pepers @apepers.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html
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Roguelike Celebration - Event 2026
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Pam Wishbow @pamwishbow.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
One of the things upsetting me about the Cornell case is what upsets me every unfortunate time it comes up in the news, people keep throwing it at rich white men. It is not just rich white men, do not push it away by distancing it from yourself. It’s your friend, it’s your brother, do not look away
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Zoe TunnHELL ➡️ NYCC @zoewithasword.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Wait I gotta fuckin watch this
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Opened a new shop - this time it a family thing, go check out these cool, super limited edition shirts from my partner: thegoblingroup.com/products/rai...
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Rainbow Sign Shirt
Unique hand made sewn and stenciled t-shirt. Each shirt is unique with a tie-died inset. Using Comfort Colors heavy weight blanks.
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Tom Forsyth @tomforsyth.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...
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DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering - six minutes version
YouTube video by Tom Forsyth
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
having fun with shaders - looking forward to the class I'm assisting with at SFPC starting next week.
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whet moser @whetmoser.com · 18/09/2026
dudes rock www.nytimes.com/2026/09/18/w...
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Can Two Friends Complete a Game No One Has Ever Finished? (Gift Article)
The Campaign for North Africa, a staggeringly complicated World War II board game, has stymied players for decades. Now two guys in England are giving it a serious go.
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I can't be trusted with coffee
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Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Please wishlist the game on steam, if you'd be into a rhythm platformer where you can modify the music
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Rhythm Doggo on Steam
You wanted to play a video game and just got transformed into a dog! Rhythm Doggo is a classic platform adventure where you play as a dog and make music on the way. Can you go back to your human form?
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Going to brick Con today, last year I thought Id make something to contribute to the gbc, but I didn't get around to it.
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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp...
A screenshot of the fake forum page
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Great recs in the comments and the addendum
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
root totally "fixes" risk. I mean, it really just strips a bunch of the bullshit of risk (too many countries), and add a layer of good (each player has different rules). I think they likely did the fixing / refinement round first?
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
my back hurts.
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
new rule: every time someone does a repost, they have to do two posts
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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 09/09/2026
In prep for our Imbroglio episode on TSLOG, I spent a while re-reading all of @smestorp.bsky.social's old blog posts. Legit some of the best, most useful writing ever done about making videogames. Check out this nugget from May 2016, sooo good mightyvision.blogspot.com/2016/05/imbr...
"tools:
- steal ideas from another game and try to fix them
- always make the grid smaller
- save up weird ideas until they naturally fit somewhere
- write down all different ideas and then fit them all into a consistent structure
- simplify the design to avoid work you don't want to do
- abandon your original idea, it was just scaffolding"
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Scott Wills paints a background for the first run of Samurai Jack (2001–2004), created by Genndy Tartakovsky, Cartoon Network Studios
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Ma$on @masonfromtwitter.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This book traces Bugs Bunny’s lineage to Africa, specifically to tricksters Br'er Rabbit and Anansi, as one of many forms of the trickster figure in the African diaspora.
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beQuest Miniatures @bequestminiatures.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
My Space Sharks Kickstarter is now live! Handsculpted out of greenstuff in scale of 28mm. 15 white metal spincasts. Here is the link to the project: www.kickstarter.com/projects/beq... #warhammer #warhammer40k #oldhammer #40k #roguetrader
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zøë wolfe @glitchwolfe.studio · 05/09/2026
Now presenting: THE shot I've been dreaming of glitching ever since I learned you could circuit bend a playstation PS1 bent by gork_online, generously loaned to me for the time being
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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.dev · 05/09/2026
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Viv Schwarz @vivschwarz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
bsky.app/profile/vivs... This deserves to go viral, go get yourself a deck from the corner shop and see for yourself.
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Albasoup @albasoup.itch.io · 29/08/2026
Was walking past this building and through the window saw this backrooms-ass room, so I accidentally took the coolest picture ever due to the window's reflection
A backrooms-ass room with a twilight sky and trees seemingly imposed over it in a dream-like fashion (it's the reflection of the window)
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Brendan Allen @brendanallen.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
new edit: "Fire everyone immediately BEFORE release...." bsky.app/profile/liza...
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Duncan Robson @duncanrobson.com · 28/08/2026
Ugh, I missed that Tippett was shutting down. Tempted to go to this
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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 27/08/2026
RIP to another legend
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actual heathcliff comics @realheathcliffs.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
24 Aug 2026
Grandma Nutmeg raises a flag on a flagpole that reads "UGH" as Heathcliff watches from a window. A mailman and a man watching his job look at the flag, and the mailman says "It's going up earlier than usual today."
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I dug up my old midiNES and fixed a bunch of midi output issues with audcalc (plus added some new features) - I posted a alpha release of this in the discord: discord.gg/GGtRQCN2E
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Alison Fisk @alisonfisk.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Happy weekend! Here’s an ancient Egyptian bead in the form of a curled-up blue hedgehog! Look at the little face and paws! 🦔💙 Made of faience around 3,600 years ago. National Museum of Scotland 📷 by me #Archaeology
My photo shows an ancient Egyptian hollow blue spherical bead in the form of a hedgehog curled up in a defensive ball displayed on a grey background. It is made of Egyptian faience, a ceramic material with a shiny blue glaze. The hedgehog's snout, ears, paws and tail are shown in relief, and the quills are represented by black dots painted over the surface of the bead. A smll hole for threading runs through the sphere - it can be seen on the right hand side of the bead in my photo. The hedgehog's long ears suggest this is a desert hedgehog. Desert hedgehogs may have symbolized rebirth to the ancient Egyptians because they reappear after hibernating. Dated c.1985 - 1650 BC. On display at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
Huh I thought I had watched crank 2, but I have no memory of this so it seems unlikely
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Matt Round @mattround.com · 20/08/2026
Just remembered the former colleague of a friend, a coder approaching retirement who’d never had any of their code go live. Every corporate software project they’d worked on had dragged on for years then been scrapped or restarted with newer tech, a whole career producing nothing
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
NES, audcalc, a teenage engineering mixer, and a bench power supply.
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I fuckin love dark future. If you are ever in portland you should swing by, it's great (and not just because chuck stocks my minis) www.portlandmercury.com/gaming/portl...
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Portland’s Coolest Game Shop Hides in Black Water’s Record Store - Portland Mercury
Though it sits on a busy stretch of NE Sandy Boulevard, Dark Future can be tricky to find. But I duck through the door of all-ages vegan punk/metal venue Black Water and hook a left into its adjacent ...
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Ooooof
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I've setup a discord for audcalc and my miniatures stuff: discord.gg/GGtRQCN2E hopefully I can track down the audcalc users that want to chat :)
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Join the Goblin Group Discord Server!
Audcalc user group | 1 members
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
I just drove through the central valley and this thread is very topical
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Jason @jrock08.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
One of the things that leaders have learned is that while supporters of change may complain about the lack of change they don't really do anything more than complain, while supporters of the stays quo will make life miserable for leaders.
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𝕵𝖎𝖒𝖒𝖞 𝕸𝖆𝖐𝖊𝖕𝖊𝖆𝖈𝖊 @jimmymakepeace.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I want to do a series of images with extreme sicko compositions. I am SICK of putting things in the middle or on a third (which is just The Posh Middle)
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Mathew Kumar @mathewkumar.com · 17/08/2026
Please share: I'm writing an article and I want to talk to developers who have successfully transitioned out of the games industry to jobs elsewhere. What do you do now? How did you sell yourself? What skills were transferable? All disciplines welcome, my DMs are open.
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Ballpoint Ink drawing of piles of rocks. There are also some ruins of signs and towers mixed in with the rocks.
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
I've had my phone set to "battery saver: standard" for the past few days and it's nuts how long it lasts, with no perceptual change in performance. What the hell is it doing normally?!
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tinybaby @tiny.baby · 16/08/2026
oh your entire industry is crumbling because of externalities outside your control? Have you thought of starting a patreon so that you have to do a bunch of extra work on top of that?
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GamesRadar+ @gamesradarplus.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Echoing Palworld dev, video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts because gamers hate it and it's a copyright landmine: "I think we're going to see lawsuits" www.gamesradar.com/games/echoin...
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Echoing Palworld dev, video game lawyer says all her clients have anti-AI contracts because gamers hate it and it's a copyright landmine: "I think we're going to see lawsuits"
"Don't touch it. It's not worth the legal liability"
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Artifacter @artifacterneo.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
#TTRPG This is one of the best TTRPG technical books I’ve ever read. It made me want to start writing a dungeon straight away, even though I hardly ever run fantasy systems.
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Dungeons & Dilemmas by Jesse Burneko
The Dungeon as a Narrative Framework and Encounters as Moral Puzzles
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
New gronk
A warehouse building with signs reading
Bar s
Sigma
Fud
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Reminder to check out this class I'm helping out with! sfpc.study/sessions/fal... We are going to make cool art with shaders. Applications close Monday, there are scholarships available!
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School for Poetic Computation
The School for Poetic Computation is an experimental school in New York City supporting interdisciplinary study in art, code, hardware and critical theory. It's a place for learning and unlearning.
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Jonathan Brodsky @jonbrodsky.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Toad suck ferry damsite park
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