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Marion Allard

@marlard.bsky.social
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Indie dev living in Amsterdam, formerly in AAA. Working on Marsozoic, a xeno-paleontology game of excavation & deduction. Posts in ENG/FR. Interests: 💻️ Gamedev ✊️ Feminism, ecology & leftist activism 🎮️ Video games ♟️ Tabletop games 🦎 Reptiles 🐈️ Cats 🍵 Tea

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Flef @flefgraph.bsky.social · 7h
Choqué !
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Indies Together ! @indies2gether.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Sachez que le collectif et les membres de Indies Together sont CONTRE l'IA générative et qu'on ne répondra à AUCUN email de jeux qui contiennent de l'IA générative. On est fier-es de nos membres (cc @nuagedemots.eurosky.social 💅) tout comme on est fier-es d'être anti-IA, en + d'être anti-fachos ✊ 💚
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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Would be the funniest thing I've seen all day if it weren't for the clear AI-gen graphic layout
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it’s ben @yotsuben.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
you know, the voice actor for Biddy Blas has gotta be having the time of their life lmao
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Buy Mass Effect The Board Game! @ithayla.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
tactical breach wizards is one of the funniest games i've ever played, and it has real heart. the tale of a navy seer and his stormwitch friend trying to stop an awful war, tbw is equal parts tactics puzzle and character study + fighting fascism!
all pics are screenshots of tactical breach wizards gameplay
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Corentin Lamy @corentin.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Le Monde s’est entretenu avec une vingtaine de professionnelles de l’e-sport français qui dénoncent les violences masculines qui ont cours dans le milieu : pressions, agressions sexuelles, revenge porn, harcèlement sexuel ou cyberharcèlement sexiste… Une enquête d'@aureliendefer.bsky.social.
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« On est encore au Moyen Age » : dans l’e-sport, les femmes en première ligne des violences sexistes et sexuelles
Un streameur et commentateur réputé de « League of Legends » a été mis en examen en juillet pour viol, selon les informations du « Monde ». Un cas révélateur des violences sexuelles qui n’épargnent pa...
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 07/10/2026
The 'make game' button has arrived and it is everything that anyone without any fantasy, hopes and dreams could've wanted.
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 07/10/2026
"Direct your dream game" says Unity Y'all game direction is many things but I can guarantee you that "genre + setting" is not game direction for anyone who has been a game director even just for 5 minutes Which should tell you enough about who made this, and whether you should trust them with this
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Marion Allard @marlard.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Some research today into how to illustrate the books for Marsozoic. Trying my hand at sketching + watercolor. I'm absolutely over the moon with the in-game result!!
A photo of my desk, covered with newspaper, with watercolor supplies on it - a palette with various mixed colors, some dirty paint water, a brush. On the left, a scrap of paper covered with dabs of watercolor, to test out the hues. In the middle, a WIP watercolored sketch of a frog, nearly finished.Scanned version of the finished watercolored sketch of a frog. It's hopping to the right, leaving a faint shadow on the ground. The frog is colored with a soft mix of green, orange-y and brown watercolors, with some black spots and white highlights.A screenshot of my paleontology game, Marsozoic, with the frog sketch integrated into an in-game book. The screen is split between a workspace on the left that is strewn about with alien fossils, and a table on the right with an open book. The book contains information about animals moving through a series of hops. The frog sketch now illustrates the bottom of the page.
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Jaws Slayer 🎃 @jesawyer.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
Placeholder assets in a game should look obnoxiously temporary, so obvious that no one would mistake it for the final asset. In past games we've used the doge dog (rip) as an icon, hot pink versions of characters, our CEO's head, etc. If you use a temp asset that seems passable, it may stay there.
Andreas and Werner next to a spit with upside down Bambi on itEx Libris page from Pentiment with a smiling line drawing of a person in the middle imageAndreas and pink Gernot stand-in talking to Gernot with a jester hat onAndreas performing the lemon juice candle minigame revealing the words "Guy sux"
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Kybosh @kybosh.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I like seeing the dev of the SNES core on the Pocket actually telling one of these dudes off. Holy shit.
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Experimental MSU-1 streami. #123
nasonliu wants to merge 2 commits into a
agg23 commented yesterday
If it works, that's pretty cool; I didn't think
would ever see this implemented (I also didn't
expect LLMs to exist).
However, this is not something you can PR
here, or anywhere. You sent me a nearly 50k
line diff, unasked for, completely LLM built, and
you somehow expect me to review it. There is
SO MUCH unrelated garbage here. Never
minding all of the docs and Python, you've
somehow touched basically all of the upstream
HDL, which already had MSU1 support, so idk
what in the world you're doing.
This kind of behavior is not acceptable. You are
infringing on the time and brainpower of people
by pushing "your" content that little/no of your
brainpower went into; completely unrequested.
I hope for the sake of all responsible
maintainers that you do not do such a thing
again.
Again, I think it's cool that you and your LLM
supposedly got this to work. It has no place in
my world.
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Marion Allard @marlard.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
New Marsozoic devlog!! In which we lock in to deliver the first early playable build of the game. Fossils examination, X-ray scanner, map system and more! ENG/FR subtitles available :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgs4...
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Marsozoic's first playable build ! Fossils examination, X-rays, Map system and more | Devlog
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 05/10/2026
one thing you learn from making a lot of things is that the nitty gritty details, the millions of tiny invisible decisions, ARE the art. The "higher level ideas" are not nearly as important or interesting
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Spookydoof @doofivirus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
the duality of man
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Awkward Zombie @awkwardzombie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#awkwardzombie #1000: The Big 1000 www.awkwardzombie.com/comic/the-bi...
a snip from the latest AZ
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Pauline Ferrari 🪐 @paulineferrari.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
C'est le premier épisode de mon enquête sur les réseaux masculinistes qui se cachent sous la forme d'associations de défense des droits des hommes et des pères. C'est à lire sur le site des Jours !
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
With Musk tweeting autism supremacy stuff again today, good time to read @juliametraux.bsky.social’s piece on the subject www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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The 4chan-coded ideology behind Elon Musk's war on normies
Musk thinks autism makes him superhuman. Just don't call it that.
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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
elon musk, a man who literally bought twitter to try and brute force manufacture consensus to be liked
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Edd Coates | Game UI Database @eddcoates.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Yet again, the Game UI Database is being scraped to the point that it's getting knocked offline. Even Cloudflare's "I'm under attack" mode isn't working. I just wanted to create a resource for real designers. I'm getting so fucking sick of this.
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I woke up, and want to clarify: Note that none of my arguments were - AI output is ugly/I can always tell - AI can't do my job well - AI looks different from human output These are not sustainable arguments. As AI evolves they will likely erode. That's why I wrote a huge list of DURABLE arguments:
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Above all: YOU CAN DO WITHOUT You do not need to participate. You're not falling behind. It's manufactured FOMO to get you addicted to the products. Your brain will thank you, and you'll be doing a good thing for society, culture, the environment and most likely; your career.
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Product: - AI products are extremely interchangeable; AI product selecting will be almost exclusively done by price point. Leads to a race to the bottom, or alternatively rely on (illegal) industry price fixing. - Local models also have many of the above problems, but are generally cheaper.
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
- Data centers are built where land is cheap and permits are easy to get, which are often areas vulnerable to exploitation, pollution and disruption of nature (ground water level, for example) - The last thing we need right now is an arms race to build power-hungry data centers
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Environmental: - AI requires some of the most power-hungry chips, much more so than most other applications - The mining and production for hardware heavily pollutes, disproportionately affects the global south - High-end servers are not built to last more than a few years before they are scrapped
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
- AI coders report 'atrophy' of their own programming skills - A significant portion of code on the internet by now is AI generated. Given that most AI code sucks and makes common errors, AI models are likely to repeat these errors unless explicitly prompted not to ("model collapse")
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
- AI tools lead to less stable architecture/interfaces, which increases risk of instability/regressions/bugs - AI reduces the cost of low-impact tasks, increasing productivity metrics while lowering overall impact - AI coders are extremely replaceable, which I imagine will affect career prospects
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Programming-specific: - AI products have destroyed the chain of mentorship in companies and open-source projects - AI tools externalize responsibility for code quality: "the model messed up" etc. - Automated code reviews devalue human understanding of the code
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Political reasons: - Allocating scarce resources to benefit the few is unethical and unsustainable - AI infrastructure disproportionately hurts marginalized communities while benefiting the wealthy - AI companies concentrate information, wealth and power
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Creativity/skill: - Effort is part of the process; it leads to better and more meaningful results - Individual experience and expression induces variance in outcome and moves culture and tech forward - Discovery and execution leads to a better understanding than reading a AI's solution ever could
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Jochem Kuijpers 🎃 @jchmoe.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Tech companies simply can't overcome these fundamental reasons NOT to use their AI products Ethics/society: - AI models are largely built on stolen labor - Cognitive health suffers with extended use of AI - AI destroys communities, careers and crafts that drive our culture and society for profit
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Mathilde Larrère @mathildelarrere.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
photo à réutiliser pour le cours sur la non représentativité du Sénat....
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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
the moral rights to our own work is a pretty important concept underpinning lot of people’s livelihoods and our collective creative future that there are devs out there that see no issue with dismantling that because they prefer slop coding to practicing their profession will turn me into the joker
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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
it’s a basic point but any company that believes it has a divine right to steal cannot be allowed to exist letting tech companies fuck over creators because they promise magical ai is a devils deal that leads to your data harvested and sold in return for sycophantic chatbots they will let you rent
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Tim Dawson @ironicaccount.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
genAI discourse drives me nuts “putting aside that the tech needs to steal from every artist with an explicit goal of competing with and devaluing them, I think using it speeds up my programming!” back up, chucklefuck, what was that first bit again?
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Benjamin @benjaminschneider.ch · 01/10/2026
just came across this incredible picture of Terry Pratchett
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Queen's Domain⚔️ - DEMO OUT NOW @queensdomain.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Queen’s Domain has a release date! Our retro-fantasy RPG, inspired by King’s Field and filled with hordes of little freaks, is launching October 30th!!! Everyone say thank you, chicket (and this demo review)
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Marion Allard @marlard.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
La honte que cette photo devrait inspirer dans une démocratie sérieux. Surtout en même temps que les lycéen-nes sont réprimé-es brutalement. Ca fait complètement perdre la boule.
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feeb | yuritober!! @magicmooshka.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
it’s come to my attention that my tumblr post has been crossposted to bluesky, so I’m posting it on my account here #AntiAI #GenAI
recently my friend's comics professor told her that it's acceptable to use gen AI for script-writing but not for art, since a machine can't generate meaningful artistic work. meanwhile, my sister's screenwriting professor said that they can use gen AI for concept art and visualization, but that it won't be able to generate a script that's any good. and at my job, it seems like each department says that AI can be useful in every field except the one that they know best.

It's only ever the jobs we're unfamiliar with that we assume can be replaced with automation. The more attuned we are with certain processes, crafts, and occupations, the more we realize that gen AI will never be able to provide a suitable replacement. The case for its existence relies on our ignorance of the work and skill required to do everything we don't.
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boo! @renzarathustra.bbhood.ca · 29/09/2026
the method to enjoying the medium of gaming is to play something and never look at discussions around it online in your life
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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...
"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will encounter more opportunities in life to change the batteries on a smoke alarm than you will to run into a burning building and no one gives a shit you changed those batteries but it is still very important and why are you waiting on a burning building, know what i’m saying, it’s a metaphor
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
you will be rewarded with: - uncomfortable silence probably - maybe you will lose that friend idk is that such a big deal
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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward
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Tristan Waleckx @tristanwaleckx.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Pour rappel, quand #ComplementDenquete avait révélé le faux compte Twitter de Jordan Bardella, où il enchaînait blagues racistes et hommage au « grand sociologue » (sic) Alain Soral, il avait annoncé déposer une plainte. Deux ans plus tard, celle-ci n’a toujours pas été reçue
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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 29/09/2026
Folks, I'm happy to announce my next game will use up all water, destroy humanity in a global blaze, & lose $8 billion weekly. IPO starts at a 20 gazillion euros valuation based on me counting the amount of zeroes wrong. Upon checking the prototype I realized bigger number is better. Supersentience.
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Fabrice Arfi @fabricearfi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
En réaction aux révélations de Mediapart sur les écrits antisémites de Bardella, Marine Le Pen a déclaré : « Vous ne ferez croire ça à personne ». Il ne s'agit pas de croire (on n'est pas à la messe du pape, là), mais de voir. Personne ne croyait que le ministre du budget était un fraudeur fiscal.
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Renaud Epstein @renaudepstein.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ligne de défense osée des amis de Bardella...
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Pierrec @wednesdays-game.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
En Juin 2025, j'ai passé 15 jours dans une grotte hors du temps, et j'en ai fait un jeu ! Il est jouable en ligne gratuitement sur PC et mobile: pierrec.itch.io/deep-time
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