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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 12h

*lays off a thousand programmers* Wow, programming is hard!

Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I heard something about it being #PortfolioDay, so here's some environments I made for @pracy.bsky.social 's new release, Nocturne! 10+ years doing art with a specialty in pixel art in indie games, full portfolio in my bio!

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Done for now, finished 6 maps worth of polish! More soon?

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Live with some post-release polish work! Come hang out, come cowork, feel free to ask questions, and otherwise just chill for a few hours! #pixelart #pixel #art #indiegames www.twitch.tv/meirnon

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Nocturne Post-Release Polish Stream | Streaming art.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If you're looking for a #pixelartist with 10+ years making commercial indie games with multiple finished and released games for your project, hit me up! If you know someone who needs a pixel artist, send them my way! Portfolio is in my bio! #indie #indiegames #indiedev #pixel #art #forhire

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 02/10/2026

I'd been waiting to roll credits to fully talk about this game, but it is almost certainly going to be my GOTY. It's SO good. Gorgeous art, gorgeous music, and genuinely one of the most human stories I've ever heard, about brotherly love and what it means to be alive. Absolutely pick Nocturne up.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

then i look online and get mad again but can't poop

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

yeah but then i poop and it gets better

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Nocturne is over 99% positive with the 360 reviews we have at the time of this bloop, with dozens of people writing how much the game has moved them. Go buy it. You won't regret it. I'm not just saying it because I worked on it. It has something meaningful and heartfelt to say.

A picture of the steam capsule showing a 99% positive review rate from users after hundreds of reviews.

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CodereCast @coderecast.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Depois de 13 horas finalmente zerei NOCTURNE, novo jogo da @pracystudios.bsky.social que lançou essa semana e tenho de falar que pra mim até o momento é o melhor jogo que eu joguei em 2026. Com uma trilha incrível e uma história emocionante, eu amei Nocturne e teremos Review na Segunda.

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VermilionCosmos @vermilioncosmos.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Friend is releasing their game today, please give it a look! It's a rhythm-combat RPG, pretty unique in what they are trying here. #Nocturne store.steampowered.com/app/1374860/...

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Nocturne on Steam

The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I am actively considering booting up my 15 year old PC just to transfer CS4 out of its hard drive and use that instead. I unfortunately must suffer through it for work for now. It actually makes discord calls lose packets and Aseprite stutter while it's open because of how bad it lags everything.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I can't emphasize enough how much I despise using photoshop. Beyond it just being a worse app every year with degrading features, it's SO slow. Having it open at all makes every other program on my PC slower. It's gone as soon as it's no longer required for this pipeline step.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Me, a plebian: "How does the Odyssey relate to this" The author, cultured: "Haha, Simpsons reference"

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

Ah, yes, Cuba. Of course. The small island nation they say is too weak to govern itself is somehow strong enough to represent an existential threat to American politics. Remember, folks, one of the core tenets of Ur-Fascism is that the enemy must be both strong and weak.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

They're going to do a thing that they were going to do anyways, and convince people who were already going to be convinced no matter what. Might as well put our efforts into trying to convince the tides to quit reaching for the moon. Would have about as much success.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

It's such a great lightweight engine, a lot of small quirks that make it different from unity like scenes vs prefabs but I really do like it! Also not having to get up and do something while waiting for the editor to launch is an improvement.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

The "Vote Blue No Matter Who" crowd the moment the who isn't them

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

LLMs are an actual real-life cognitohazard The fact that there's machines that can induce psychosis purely by exposing a user to text it generates and which can be proliferated onto any computer should qualify it as a Euclid-class threat

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

My first savage series was quite a journey, and I learned a lot about how to play the game at a high level. Was pushed from playing PLD to DRK because of a failed attempt at a static, stuck with DRK, and cleared it all on PF. I won't subject myself to Ulti PF, so until Evercold!

A screenshot of the user's FFLogs All-Stars rankings for the three Savage raid tiers in dawntrail. The user played the first tier as a Paladin and ranked 5374. They then switched to Dark Knight for the second tier, and ranked 392, and then continued playing Dark Knight and ranked 88 overall, showing continued improvement through playing the game's hardest content.

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Sena Bryer @senabryer.com · 17/06/2026

I played Meaningless Random Numbers, Echoes of Mystralia, and Nocturne, and all were really good!

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Would there be a VoD? I'm so glad Lamaty'i liked something I worked on (Nocturne) and IDK where you stream😭

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Been working on this with a great team for the last few years and we're getting close to release! The demo is the full first chapter plus a little extra, and importantly no generative AI used in the production at all! store.steampowered.com/app/1374860/...

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Nocturne on Steam

The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

We've been working on this Rhythm-RPG game with an enby MC! The demo is big, the full first chapter, plus a little extra. Also worth noting with this nextfest in particular, there's no gAI used in our team's artwork, with a strict no-generative-AI policy! store.steampowered.com/app/1374860/...

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Nocturne on Steam

The afterlife is now digital. Discover that eternal life comes with sacrifice in a genre-defying RPG with unique rhythm combat.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

Also here on Nocturne! No gAI used in the art and an explicit no gAI policy!

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

M10S following the second floor tradition of the listed prog point actually being one point ahead of where you're going to be progging. IA2 is to Deep Aerial is to Snaking as Bridges was to Adds was to Desert. I just want my clear man.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Very much so. It's not only antithetical to the creative process itself, but it's contradictory to E33's own message about humanity and art.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

People found gAI poster textures. Sandfall quietly replaced them in a patch shortly afterwards without acknowledging the issue. If this is what slipped by then we can assume that there was a volume of assets made with gAI during development. Game's built on a foundation of garbage and slop.

A screenshot of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, showing one of the main characters standing next to a pole covered in posters and newspaper clippings. The posters and newspaper clipping texture is clearly generated using an AI Image Generator instead of being made by an artist.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025

This is pretty much why I'm so disappointed by seeing Expedition 33 get so many nominations. One placeholder that slipped by means there were many. The game was built with gAI at its foundations, and it doesn't matter how good the final product was, it's compromised at its core.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 14/04/2025

important context about the concentration camps in el salvador:

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

They love to treat politics like a spectator sport. It's entertainment, something to watch, your team wins some and loses some.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'm not saying she should have spent her time talking about how gAI is bad, and you know that's not what I said. It's that "stop exploiting creative labor" rings hollow from a person who is themselves actively exploiting creative labor.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

I'd take her a little more seriously if she didn't use gAI and try to publicize its use positively with Misha. You don't really get to soap-box about an industry being absolute dogshit to its creative talent then do the exact same thing to artists by using the Plagiarism Machine for funzies.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Even if there was anyone who wasn't purged who was capable of mounting an enforcement action without being obstructed, Musk would just be immediately pardoned by Trump and back to snooting around.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

"We won't stand for this" is bold words for a party of people who then immediately sit down.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

He really should finish the job that the tree started tbh.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Right, it's always the people who do the work who bear the brunt of the failure, not the people who made the decisions that caused the failure. Those people will continue on with no repercussions and repeat those failures with the next set of developers. It's the story of our industry.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Two things can be true: 1) The real economics of what was needed from the game did not get met, and 2) The real economics of what was needed from the game are a result of terrible leadership, dismantling Bioware doesn't solve that problem or hold account, and EA should be critiqued for it

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

The budget wouldn't have ballooned if leadership didn't flip-flop on project goals. Expecting the game to recoup the frivolous waste of leadership throwing away years of work is unrealistic. $80-120 for what actually made it to ship should be seen as a success.

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Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Wow. it must feel terrible when someone takes something you made and uses it without permission or payment

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 26/01/2025

Really sad to see only one person masking in a community-oriented space. Everyone should be masking still, especially if you're trying to practice community care.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

You voted for Trump lmao

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Cope and seethe, Tankie Stein is laughing all the way to the bank with her blood money

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Good thing I'm not a liberal, then.

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

"Nooooo you don't understand, Jill Stein profiteering on Israeli arms sales is totally different and based! Her cozying up to hate groups and fascist autocrats is just competent politics! You're the liberal!" Okay tankie lmfao

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Meirnon @meirnon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I don't think tankies have any moral ground to accuse people of fascism or anti-environmentalism when they suck fascist petrostate toes.

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