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EGOGARDEN @josephdev.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

RavenStar is featured in the Birds Of Play Festival! I'll be live with some fellow bird game devs in around an hour (1:00 pm EST) to talk about RavenStar, so tag along and check out some fantastic bird-centric games here: store.steampowered.com/sale/BirdsOf... #indiegame | #birds | #birdsofplay

Flyer that says, "BIRDS Of Play | October 10-16 | A celebration of bird games on Steam! | Taking off with a livestream on Saturday October 10th at 7pm CEST/10am Pacific

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

This, in my experience, is the only way to be stressed Chill or bust

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Been thinking a lot lately and I think this sums it up nicely. Outsourcing these decisions does the work (and yourself) a massive disservice imo and is clearly a move that prioritizes the result/commerce over process, which is probably not how you find your way to resonant or meaningful art.

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Daniel Linssen @managore.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

proudly presenting THRORBS, a small arcade game made for the #pico1k jam about having a little bit, but not too much managore.itch.io/throrbs (web)

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

long long lonnnnnnnnng spagggghetti #fallingblockjam

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Endlessly depressing. After years of working in vacuums, I've only recently restarted sharing work (nothing I'm overly invested in, but still). The fact that I might consider not wanting to do that for something that I think might actually have legs sucks big time.

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Decided that after 8 weekly games (7 video, 1 card) in 9 weeks I'm gonna switch over to a 2-week cadence. I feel very good about that decision too. I can tell I'm starting to drag a bit and burnout ain't no joke.

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

More weekly game trash. Originally started working on a small scale life sim-ish thing, got overwhelmed, and then decided I just wanted to shoot stuff. Feeling very very good about that decision. jonremedios.itch.io/gooey-bullet...

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

There is zero percent sarcasm when I say: You deserve an award for this 👏👏👏 10/10

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Lorraine🍬 @lorandbehold.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

hello, new game!! Snake's Digits 🐍🖐 😤 snake hungry, but snake no like mess. 🧹 snake tidy up. ✌️ snake count snake's digits. 🍽️ snake eat! 😬 ... but snake fragile. made for #pico1k, holds in 1023 bytes!! #pico8 #nerd play now! punkcake.itch.io/snake-digits

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

the numbers don't stop, you do!

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People LOVE to watch number go up, but HATE to watch themselves get old and die

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Another thing that resembles a game on the digital trash heap. Very out of my comfort zone,was a bit of a slog to work on, begging for audio... oh well! Probably should have stuck with my original idea about an alien trying to shower like a human jonremedios.itch.io/cmds

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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A reminder that the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is still open to applicants! The deadline is Sunday 27th September 2026! You can read more about the grant here: grants.draknek.org

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Privacy please on the peep hole is equal parts genius and maniacal

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

The only move now is to: - post purposefully bad fake games - pay click farms to boost engagement - make real games in secret - look at your sunken eyes in the mirror and say "what happened to you" - weep - publish real games for nobody to play

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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 10/09/2026

An important update from KO_OP.

With great sadness and respect, over the next few months KO_OP will be saying goodbye to 13 members of our team. This decision was made to ensure the survival of the studio, and we deeply regret its necessity and the negative impact on our colleagues’ lives.

KO_OP has been making games for nearly a decade and a half, and our project funding has primarily come from publishers and platform partners. The games funding landscape has changed radically over the last few years, and unlike previous project cycles, this time we have been unable to secure funding for new projects while developing our current engagements.

As with all our company's operational decisions, this one was made democratically, and was motivated by the survival of the studio rather than maximizing profits. Our members are regularly updated on our cash flow situation, and were made aware of this upcoming shortfall well in advance. Membership then appointed a group to plan for this eventuality, and ratified their recommendations. Team leads and our elected executives will also be impacted by these reductions. We believe this level of transparency and accountability ought to be a minimum requirement for all organizations.

Young Suns will be reaching new platforms, with new content and features. We're all tremendously proud of it, and hope it will find its audience. Our bylaws ensure that any profits from Young Suns will still be shared with impacted team members. Our goal now is to develop new game concepts and prototypes while continuing to support Young Suns. In the event that we secure funding in the coming months, our intent is to rehire as many of our colleagues as possible.

In the coming days we will be sharing a list of impacted workers in the hopes of helping them find new work. We thank you for your support.

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I've been learning this with guitar playing lately, trying to push through my speed ceiling years has only lead to stagnation/injury. Turns out that focusing on playing relaxed (which necessarily means you have to start slow and gradually speed up) has been THE thing

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

"When I was a child, I lived by grass. When you see grass cut, you want to count it right? That's the kind of game I wanted to make."

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

You want us to tally grass cuts manually???

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Been making weekly games lately (see: digital trash) to get myself out of a rut in my personal work. Just finished my first #Godot game and I'm impressed! Still have a lot to learn, but not waiting 50 years to compile is a huge win in my books. jonremedios.itch.io/sleepy-janitor

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

sweepy sleepy (what am I doing with my life)

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

And yet I get audibly booed whenever I show up to a party with my hand rolled wheatgrass

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

hey, keep your eyes off my sister city buddy

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Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

I worked with the irrepressible @jonremedios.bsky.social @tylermakesgames.bsky.social @rainysector.bsky.social @bravemule.bsky.social to write a paper on why permadeath (and other forms of loss in games) appeals, and what we lose when we try to paper over it with metaprogression. Check it out!

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

The new reports from @polarisgamedesign.com went up today! I had the pleasure of attending this year and got to work with some pretty nifty people on a pretty nifty paper about loss and pain in video games. Fun stuff! polarisgamedesign.com/2025/embraci...

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Embracing Player Pain: Designing for Permanent Loss

Loss and death are important, some would say essential, parts of the human experience. It's something that we all must, in time, come to accept in our lives. Why is it so hard to accept in our games?

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Guess you better move it back to Jan

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Depending on how young they are, ScratchJr is available on iPad. It's pretty rudimentary and unfortunately Scratch isn't iPad compatible (as far as I know)

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

And yet, not a single one where you can play as an anthropomorphic manhole cover who needs to flip in time to make unsuspecting professionals fall straight into the sewer

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Osama Dorias @osamadorias.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

It's my absolute pleasure to present to you our labor of love: Poly Fighter! We are HeartLoop Games! ♥

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

Ah yes, we all must make a choice between: pathetic coward, horrible monster, or oblivious buffoon.

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

I swear they get lower/louder every year 2 years ago my partner had a procedure done and was told to go home, rest, and try to reduce stress as much as possible 1 hour later: cue an endless stream of WHOOSHES so loud they set off every ding dang car alarm and practically caved our chests in

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I'm being silly, but this feel like it belongs on some sort of joker/fool spectrum The states might appear similar to some, but the internal motivation feels quite different. Too bad Getting Over It guy isn't wearing a clown costume.

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

maybe some of are hopelessly adrift in a sea of despair while they watch the thing that once pumped passionate blood through their bodies transform into an even worse money machine than it already was I DUNNO JUST RIFFIN HERE

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

But how else are people supposed to figure out what to name their babies?

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

This is (in fact) why we get along so well. Everything I write (design related or otherwise) is littered with these ding dang curvy lines

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

My partner and I did the same (for fertility/baby reasons) and have found the exact same thing -- it's wild how big of a deal it seemed to us before and how little it mattered after

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

This is extremely extremely cool and exciting! Looking forward to getting my hands on this and seeing it out in the wild

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

I'm clearly tired, but I found that so frigging funny I nearly spit my coffee all over my keyboard

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 07/05/2025

Well hoo boy, that sure is nice thing to hear! Right back atcha Tony

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Important context! I think the allure of this mythological Clair Obscur team is in response to how publicly dysfunctional the game industry has been (i.e. layoffs) It's nice to imagine that great games can exist outside of a broken model, but trading one lie for another ain't helping anyone.

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Congratulations Dom! That's so exciting!!!

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

That's interesting! I'm not sure that I feel like a thing needs to be done in order to know what it is (but that's totally project dependant). The non-dev activity feeling like a distraction from the "real work" rather than an extension of it totally rings true though

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

What does being in touch with the process mean to you? I'm not sure why having a complete thing vs an in-progress thing would affect how in touch you are with making a trailer etc. Clearly it's a meaningful distinction to you though, so it doesn't really matter if I understand or not!

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Jon Remedios @jonremedios.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Makes sense! Excited to see what you come up with

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