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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Today is the Spring semester capstone showcase for the Game Design program at Hostos Community College. The event "flyer" was made in PICO-8 to capture our focus on process and making things "by hand" even when using digital tools.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Helpful chart compiled by a member of the band best dressed ghost.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

We're destroying lives, accelerating climate catastrophe, and giving fascists new tools to follow these people? (Source: open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...)

Screenshot of texts between Sam Altman and Elon Musk

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 04/12/2025

If we can only have art from people who "aren't in it for the money" that means we can only have art from privileged middle-class dilettantes. Making art being a viable career is responsible for nearly all worthwhile art, and if it's not a viable career any more we will get drastically less of it.

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Junch @junchgaming.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts. Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-... We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment 👇 Please RT.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

How you die does not redeem how you live.

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itch.io @itch.io · 21/08/2025

This bundle supports Game Devs of Color, a nonprofit organization that uplifts and amplifies game creators of color. itch.io/b/3171/game-...

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Clive Thompson @clivethompson.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

behold the "HTML bomb" It's a counterattack for AI companies that persistently scrape and rescrape your web site, even when you tell them not to when a scraper grabs it, it becomes a 10-gig HTML page and 💣 goes the scraper Item #6 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter: buttondown.com/clivethompso...

A Chrome browser error page displays the familiar “Aw, Snap!” message, indicating that something went wrong while loading a webpage. A pixelated frowning file icon with Xs for eyes appears at the top left. Below, the error code reads “Out of Memory,” suggesting the browser ran out of system resources. The page includes a “Reload” button in blue on the bottom right

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Blender Studio @studio.blender.org · 13/07/2025

DOGWALK, Blender Studio’s open project made with @blender.org and @godotengine.org, has been released! Play the game for free on Steam and Itch.io and access production assets, documentation and the source of the game by signing up on studio.blender.org #b3d.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025

Top: Club World Cup Champions 2025 Bottom: World Cup Champions 1938 with Mussolini

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 25/06/2025

Good things are possible. A better world is possible. Don't ever let them tell you otherwise.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

You might need to work for money into your 90s if capitalists continue having their way.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Mark Fisher must be cackling in his grave.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

GDC FoMo (from which I do not suffer)

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

"...to bolster research integrity." Sigh

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Juno Morrow @junomorrow.itch.io · 06/02/2025

Want to learn more about our Game Design program, which was the first public game dev. degree program in NYC? Check out our itch page or this short video about our program. Our other full-time faculty include @marcelodvn.bsky.social & Matthew Balousek. 🎮 hostos.itch.io

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Hostos Game Design Program

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

I went through this exact same life transition last year

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Tanya X. Short @tanyaxshort.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

game designers!!! the day is here! Polaris 2024 reports are released: polarisgamedesign.com/reports/ and my group's is about how and when and why you might want to make your game's characters less obedient to the player's whims: polarisgamedesign.com/2024/enrichi...

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Enriching your Game with Disobedience

Authors: Alicia Fortier, Alexander “Droqen” Clair Tseu Martin, Tanya X. Short, Alexei Pepers, Kaitlin Tremblay, Linsey Murdock 🤔How to Use this Paper This paper is offered as a lens for you to (re)con...

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Godot Engine @godotengine.org · 22/01/2025

Up until now, we held all of our annual GodotCon events in Europe, but after the request of many of you and thanks to help from Boston Game Dev and Godot Users Group, we are finally able to bring the event to the US for the first time. 📣 Join us as a speaker! godotengine.org/article/godo...

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Our first GodotCon in the US - Save the date!

Want to join? Boston 5th - 7th of May. Call for speakers and sponsors open!

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

In one of my worlds, right in my start area, I noticed a *lot* of blood pools everywhere. It flowed from an ancient monstrosity locked in battle with an armadillo for the last 500+ years.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

2024 currently has more known games industry layoffs than 2023+2022 combined. 2024 is roughly 600 layoffs away from doubling 2023. There is still plenty of business days left in the month. I can't emphasize enough how extreme these last few years have been. So far.

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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

very good thread! game design! describing a player experience, a dynamic that helps achieve that, a problem with that dynamic, a solution that can solve that problem. and as a bonus, ties the gameplay system into the real world systemic context. that's game design right there.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

Grateful for the workers who make this day (and many others) possible without proportional pay or recognition.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Huge win from @franzanth.bsky.social creating a Content Scraper Blocklist: bsky.app/profile/cont... It's a blocklist for the kinds of engagement bait accounts that repost stolen content, often with misleading captions.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Optimist: The cup is half full Pessimist: The cup is half empty Democrat: Why pick a side? Can't it be both? We can walk and chew gum at the same time. Why take such a radical stance? You remind me of the far left. Israel has a right to exist. I'm a capitalist.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

AI (generative LLMs) does exactly the same to labor and all while lowering the quality of service and products. We should learn from the loom smashers not the bosses who ordered the looms in the first place. Brian Marchant's work on this in "Blood in the Machine" is excellent.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Loom smashing is a really useful analogy here! The Luddites, who in fact did NOT hate technology, protested the mechanization of their labor by famously smashing looms because it devalued their work and, equally important to them, lowered the quality of the products (they cared about their craft).

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

What kind of experiences are we providing when we do this? Do they enhance people's lives? To answer in the affirmative, we must take for granted that games are inherently positive, that we are justified in designing for any form of engagement. But I'm not sure that's *right.*

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For instance, we value systems that keep players "hooked" and use the word "addictive" as a form of praise. We use point systems, achievements, and other forms of extrinsic rewards to manipulate players' motivation. To keep them "engaged."

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I don't think what Sagan said was particularly new but as a lens for the current moment I find it especially useful. In game design, we often embrace with this same mentality. We privilege what "feels good" to players without critically considering if it's the right thing to do *to them.*

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Of course, this is from an end user perspective. The reasons capitalists are googly-eyed over it are different. They have never cared about what's right anyway. But while most educators do care (as most people do), awareness of the issues makes little difference.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

For instance, it helps explain why supposedly "smart people" are uncritically embracing generative AI. It's an enticing, often "fun" piece of technology. It *feels good* to use it. It doesn't matter if it's actually useful or if it's riddled with serious issues (e.g., its obscene carbon footprint).

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

A Carl Sagan quote from 1995 is going around and this part caught my eye: "[people have become] unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true..." I find it even more useful as a lens for today when replacing "true" with "right."

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This amount of money would be transformational for our community college. We serve thousands of people, from education to basic services like food assistance, daycare, transportation assistance, healthcare, free dental care, cultural events, etc. This society is absurdly rich and absurdly broken.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I'm so tired of these conversations... So tired of seeing how much money these bullshit startups are getting just for having LLM in their business plan when we can't get basic supplies in our classrooms. It's laughable and frankly, embarrassing to argue for AI so strongly when the basics aren't met.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Are you a teacher? I am and so is my wife. In public education. You know what would help us? Smaller class sizes, more and better support for students with disabilities, supplies we don't have to buy ourselves, classrooms with proper cooling or heating, less bureaucratic clutter, etc. NOT more tech.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

There's no evidence for this claim at this point besides "Sam Altman said so."

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

No need to raise property taxes. There are many other ways to reallocate money from the billionaire class to the rest of us. This is the richest country in the history of mankind. We can have so much more and yet we're just punting on humans for unproven grifts...

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

There would easily be enough teachers if they were paid as well as AI engineers and if the economy valued K-12 as much as it does silicon valley grifts.

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Marcelo D. Viana Neto @marcelodvn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

Making (good) games is so fucking hard. Why do we do this again???

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