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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 13h

#mutasmagoria Woolbird enclosure. As long as I don't have to consider moving around the 3d environment, Blender modeling and texturing are the most enjoyable parts of the development so far.

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 15h

WE DID IT, $666K RAISED THROW UP THE HORNS, LEGENDS 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘

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Brutal Legend: Eddie Riggs Head Bang

ALT: Brutal Legend: Eddie Riggs Head Bang

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 17h

Deutsche "Fucking Hurensohn" Bahn is increasing the train ticket price again and it wants poor people to stay inside the apartment and die alone

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 17h

This is just Devin Townsend for every single album, but Casualties of Cool was especially amazing because I really didn’t expect him to slay Blues/country rock like this. Still in my top 10 albums of all time. music.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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Casualties of Cool

Album • Devin Towndsend & Ché Aimee Dorval

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 17h

Just like how some of you are saying “I wish this certain artist moved to bluesky instead of staying in xitter”, I wish the indie game dev people I met irl to just move to bluesky instead of linkedin because I can’t stomach that site full of soul-draining vibe

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Jiikae @jiikae.com · 29/09/2026

I find it funny when people talk about how games are this art form that can make you feel emotions, but then you bring up something like wanting more games to have timers & people will say its bad design "because it makes me anxious" So emotions only allowed through story, not gameplay. Got it lol.

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

"Of the Devil episode 3 will come out soon!" Me: "Hurray can't wait for the end of September" "Actually we are aiming for November. It's said in the exact same post" Me: "I made that up in my head that it's the end of September" Guess who got massively disappointed by my own delusion

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

#screenshotsaturday #mutasmagoria Q: So, what's the setting of your main stage? Normal Games: I dunno, here are some lore items with item descriptions. Mutasmagoria: Here's a tour guide book that the protagonist read a long time ago because she thought it would be funny to read it as a local.

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Private playtesting on Mutasmagoria is going on. If I get the “it has a pathologic vibe” feedback few more times, I might actually shill it on r/pathologic and get banned in a second

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Knoebel @knoebel.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

'Counter-Strike' co-creator Minh Le said Gabe Newell got obsessed with mongolian throat singing at Valve HQ that employees started to close their office doors to escape the noise. www.ign.com/articles/cou...

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Robin Ward @eviltrout.com · 25/09/2026

The Incident at Galley House is nominated for a Golden Joystick Award for "Best Indie Game - Self Published". You can vote for us now: www.gamesradar.com/goldenjoysti...

The 44th Annual Golden Joystick Awards (vote now)

The Incident at Galley House

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bug @evillittlebug.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

heavenly algo pull

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The Rabbit 2026 Indie Games Residency - Call closed @therabbitgames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🐰 Meet another team joining The Rabbit 2026! Maddison Baek, solo dev behind Hellfire Railway Interactive, is working on Mutasmagoria 🔮 Narrative puzzle adventure. You’re a vet at an alien zoo. Time is ticking. 🎥 youtube.com/watch?v=1LxFJbydxPc #indiedev #gamedev

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MogsK ΘΔ @mogsk.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Carter's Quest is legit one of the greatest accomplishments to come out of the solo-dev scene and the fact that something so spectacular, as game, as narrative, as experience, might never be completed because of lack of attention is an indictment on the way we talk about and engage with indie games.

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Casey Explosion @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Kept meaning to check this one out when I got the time, but never seem to find the time. Take a look tho, it has a demo.

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Alright I'll bite let's see how woke I can be with MaHo

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Feeling bad today so I killed my chud son without necklaces and ranged weapon on hubris mode

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

One day some big youtuber will randomly spin the roulette, pick up my game, play it and say “hey this one deserves a coverage”, and then make a video about it so that I finally get recognized. That’s why I pray everyday in the morning in front of the suspiciously iron-pineapple-shaped shrine.

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

They didn’t make it into Boolean!?!?!? What!?!?

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

#hellsinker Finally locked in and trying to deal with this hideous monstrosity of a video game, and man, this game is just out of my bodily limit...

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Talk and Play pictures were finally dropped and man, my eyes are about to kill the player nearby lol (I'm pretty sure it's an accidental picture. I wasn't mad at all during my presentation tbh)

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Suddenly, a nationalistic spark struck me in the head, so I created this cursed flag

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

More lore about my old works. In 2017, I tried to make an irony-pilled parody solo deathmetal album, but because of my classic "can't focus on one shit" brain, it didn't go anywhere. Now I'm listening to this again, and I can hear some Bolt Thrower, minus the terrible guitar solo and lyrics lol

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

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moka !! @mokadevs.itch.io · 17/09/2026

This headline is misleading, if you read the article he specifically says that it's being discontinued because as he retires from judging, he's unable to find someone who is able to be a judge, implied because of scheduling & workloads, not because there's no more creative people or no one suitable.

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Once again I’ll consider voting you if you give me a citizenship why are you keep invading my mailbox

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In this concert we support backing track usage wholeheartedly

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The Skinny Scampuss @skinnyscampuss.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

After countless render issues, here is finally the second part of my 100% Walkthrough of Magenta Horizon. youtu.be/zk0bt65zXDo

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Magenta Horizon 100% Walkthrough Act 2 (Wraith)

YouTube video by The Skinny Scampuss

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Going to Hamburg to witness the god (by that I mean Devin Townsend)

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Alright, finished this dogshit game. I hated it. It's also great. Now I want to make a pixelart action game god fucking damn it

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I think ICE should be part of Deutschland ticket deal just sayin

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Onimusha is a big thing right now, and when the iron is hot, let me introduce a hidden gem called Unsouled. Made in 2022, also by a solo dev who is a big Onimusha fan. Basically, it's Hyper Light Drifter meets Onimusha, and it's the coolest shit ever, but people just didn't get it, man...

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

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Maddison Baek @maddisonbaek.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

When I watch the footages of new Wolverine game, all I can think about is: “man the main character should be able to izunadrop the weak enemies and all the enemies should throw off-screen explosions ad nauseam so that the game can be finally good again”

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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...

reddit comment:

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply:

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.

Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

GDT:

The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…

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