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Michael Thomét

@michaelthomet.com
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Speculative mystery writer and game designer who sometimes dips pen and code into horror. His characters are queer because he’s queer, and he’s not sorry about it. Writer website: michaelthomet.com He/Him/Whatever 🏳️‍🌈

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Sam Redfern @psychicsoftware.com · 26/04/2026
Thanks so much to our amazing writers and narrative designers @davetheallthing.bsky.social, @michaelthomet.com, @unfetteredmuse.bsky.social, Damir, @zgpope.bsky.social, Kirsty and Brad. This definitely would not have happened without you all..! :-)
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 12/12/2025
This is very cool, and I feel honored that our game got such a big nod from a very sincere player of these kinds of games!
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Kobold Press @koboldpress.com · 09/10/2025
🎃 The kobolds are back for Scarecase 2025 — this Friday & Saturday (Oct 10–11)!👻 Two days of monster reveals, art battles, cozy game streams, and sneak peeks at future Kobold Press releases. Catch it all live on Twitch & YouTube — and bring your spooky energy. 👉 koboldpress.com/scarecase-2025
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SinC Desert Sleuths @desertsleuths.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
A man seeks refuge from a monsoon only to find himself trapped in a chaotic standoff with strangers and a dead body. "The Microburst" by Michael Thomét, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS! Pick up a copy: www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162 #SinC #AmReading @michaelthomet.com
Desert Sleuths WriteNOW! Conference
Anthology Launch Party and Author Signings
Sept 26, 2025
The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Scottsdale, AZ

A man seeks refuge from a monsoon only to find himself trapped in a chaotic standoff with strangers and a dead body.

"The Microburst" by Michael Thomét, from the Desert Sleuths Anthology, SOWEST: DANGER AWAITS!

Michael Thomét is a speculative mystery writer who enjoys crafting a good puzzle. His characters are queer because he’s queer. His fiction has been featured in Black Cat Weekly, the Crimeucopia series by Murderous Ink Press, and Nightmare Fuel by Cloaked Press. He also writes for games. When not writing, Michael enjoys a good narrative game—especially murder mysteries—both as player and designer.

Order on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0FNS2H162

Register for the Launch Party at https://desertsleuths.com/writenow-2025-launch-party/
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 10/09/2025
Hey, woah, my game The Necromancer's Tale got shortlisted for the 2025 TIGA Awards?! For Narrative and Storytelling?! That's what I did on The Necromancer's Tale! (along with my fellow writers, and everyone who worked on the game of course! ❤️)
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 31/08/2025
Check out 25 dangerous tales in So West: Danger Awaits, an anthology by the Desert Sleuths chapter (@desertsleuths.bsky.social) of Sisters in Crime! I'm in this one 😀 The ebook's available for pre-order on Amazon now (a.co/d/21snd3l), with a physical out 09/19/25! #mystery #writing #anthology
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Desert Sleuths Virtual Conference, 9/19 - 20/2025
Anthology Launch Party with Author Signings 9/19/25
The Poisoned Pen Bookstore, Scottsdale, AZ
A man seeks refuge from a monsoon only to find himself trapped in a chaotic standoff with strangers and a dead body.
from "The Microburst"
Michael Thomét is a speculative mystery writer who enjoys crafting a good puzzle. His characters are queer because he's queer. His fiction has featured in Black Cat Weekly, the Crimeucopia series by Murderous Ink Press, and Nightmare Fuel by Cloaked Press. He also writes for games. When not writing, Michael enjoys a good narrative game—especially murder mysteries—both as player and designer.
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 30/08/2025
Hey, I'm in this, along with 24 other fabulous writers! #mystery #crimefiction #writing #anthology #mysteryfiction #arizona
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 11/08/2025
A great detective gathers five suspects to put a murderer to justice. Except… everyone in the room knows who did it, and there’s a surprise waiting in the detective’s wine. My story “Almondique” is out today in the latest Black Cat Weekly! michaelthomet.com/2025/08/10/a...
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Almondique In Black Cat Weekly
The great detective Corinth Allance has gathered all of his suspects to discuss a murder and put the culprit to justice. Except… everyone in the room knows who did it, and there’s a sur…
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 18/07/2025
For the evening crowd. Also adding some communities for visibility. #gamedev #game #games #release #gothic #historical #fantasy #rpg #lgbt #lgbtq (Last two because I wrote this and couldn't help putting LGBTQ stories into this!)
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 17/07/2025
The Necromancer's Tale is OUT NOW! Play with the dangerous necromantic sciences to get answers about your father's death, and maybe do something about it too. But will that be enough? Check out the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/... (with a special release sale!)
Logo and title for the game The Necromancer's Tale. A brooding man holds arms outstretched in front of a makeshift altar of candles and incense. A woman watches, hands clasped to her mouth in terror. Above them floats a pale ghost of a fatherly figure who looks on expectantly. Magical energies swirl about the crypt where the ritual takes place.
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 30/03/2025
Also reminder, did you know that Rosewater released this week? This highly anticipated point and click game has been fun right out of the station, even if I can't hope to beat Marisol at shooting bottles!
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 30/03/2025
Reminder, also, that my novelette, "Bear and Bird in the Snow" published last November in Crimeucopia, Great Googly Moo! In this story, my serial detectives, Andrew Bear and Zach Bird, travel up the mountains in a snowstorm to investigate threats a client got from the friends she's meeting.
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 30/03/2025
Happy to announce that my crime story “The Microburst” will be published in SoWest: Danger Awaits!, an anthology of crime stories by @desertsleuths.bsky.social. “The Microburst” is a tale of a tense situation, desperate choices, and a need for answers. michaelthomet.com/2025/03/30/t...
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The Microburst In SoWest: Danger Awaits!
My crime story “The Microburst” will be published this September in SoWest: Danger Awaits! This mystery anthology centers on the theme “Danger Awaits!” and the stories are s…
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Christine Beeton @christinebeeton.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Having a color-blind colleague is a good reminder that we need to be more careful when designing figures for scientific publication 🧪 My lab has found this page especially useful for selecting color palettes, used in combination with different symbols: thenode.biologists.com/data-visuali...
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Color blind friendly palettes for data visualizations with categories
A discussion of color blind friendly palettes for labeling unique catergories in data visualization.
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#BluePit - A Storytelling Hype & Pitch Event @bluepit.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Exciting news, #BluePit is opening up to the wider storytelling community! Creators in the #gamedev, #ttrpg, and #comic communities are now welcome to pitch their projects during our first pitch event. With this announcement comes two new cohosts @jadeblack21.bsky.social and @feyearth.bsky.social🧵
#BluePit A STORYTELLING HYPE/PITCH EVENT
What is it?
An event designed to uplift and encourage members of the writing, game development, TTRPG, and comic communities. All works are welcome, regardless of the stage they are in (e.g. Work In Progress, Querying, On Submission, or Published in any form)
When: Jan 13, 2025 12-12 EST
Rules
-Limit 3 posts per work; multiple works allowed.
-Use appropriate tags (see below).
-Be sure to include the correct emoji for your post to end up in the proper feed.
-All images/moodboards must include alt text. Use of AI images is prohibited.
-Likes, reposts, and comments are encouraged.
-This is a Bluesky-only event; no cross-posting
-Pin the #BLUEPIT feeds to easily find and support others.
-Agents, editors, and publishers are welcome to participate.
Emojis:
Comics 💥
Game Dev 🎮
TTRPGS 🎲
Writers 📖
Additional info:
BLUEPIT.CARRD.CO
@BLUEPIT.BSKY.SOCIAL (BlueSky)
@BLUEPIT (Twitter/x)
Hosts:
@voicesofvalhoon (writer)
@ZProspero (writer)
@jadeblack21 (gamedev)
@feyearth (TTRPG)
Status of work
#W (WIP)
#Q (QUERYING)
#OS (ON SUB)
#P (PUBLISHED)
Audience
#PB (Picture Book)
#MG (Middle Grade)
#YA (Young Adult)
#A (Adult)
Genre/System/Representation
#F (Fantasy)
#H (Horror)
#M (Mystery)
#T (Thriller)
#R (Romance)
#Hs (Historical)
#P (Paranormal)
#D (Dark)
#SF (SciFi)
#NF (Non-Fic)
#Me (Memoir)
#C (Crime)
#Po (Poetry)
#LGBT (LGBTQ+)
#WF (Women’s Fiction)
#Dis (disabled creators)
#OV (Own Voices)
#Hu (Humor/comedy)
#d20 (d20 based system)
#d6 (d6 based system)
#d100 (d100 based system)
#Dun (Dungeon Crawl)
#N (Narrative based system)
#I (Indie)
#Tr (Traditionally published/developed)
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Joyce (Wolf) Chng/Ch'ng 🐺 Wolf's Path is a finalist! @jolantru.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
It is said that sff writers also foresee future(s). So, for this possible future, sacrifices have to be made. But such sacrifices. Is it hopepunk? Is it something else? interzone.digital/the-barricade/
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THE BARRICADE // IZ Digital
‘The sea is our home.’ // ‘The Barricade’, a story by Joyce Ch'ng with art by Emma Howitt
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Kloscur @kloscur.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
The Starter packs are still open! Make sure to check them out or ask to join if you are interested in #indiegamedev and want to show your projects! 💜 Pack 1: go.bsky.app/RVCiq18 Pack 2: go.bsky.app/B8sUZ8j Pack 3: go.bsky.app/Dz7R41d #indiegame #gamedev #videogame #bluesky
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 04/01/2025
Good article breaking down C programming to its fundamentals and how to approach leaning. Admittedly, I learned C++ when I was a teen, rather than C (they're different!), but this is a great resource.
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
I'm trying to compile a Scientists* in SFF starter pack (because I want to find more people on this interface). Do you know any? Are you one? Give me names! 🧪 #AcademicSky #WritingCommunity * active in research, any level, any discipline, academia or otherwise. bsky.app/starter-pack...
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Critical Distance | Where’s all the good writing about games? @critdistance.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Friends, it's time once again! Check out our year in videogame blogging post to see what works excited and incited us to think differently about games last year! critical-distance.com/2025/01/01/t...
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This Year in Videogame Blogging: 2024
Welcome back to Critical Distance’s annual roundup of great videogame blogging! We’ve taken one more trip around the Sun in our ongoing mission to highlight and archive some of the best…
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 31/12/2024
Word of the Day is one I keep posting at the end of the year, hoping its time will come. ‘Respair’, from the 16th century, is fresh hope, and a recovery from despair. Here’s to a few drops of respair in 2025.
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Dan Chibnall @bookowl.bsky.social · 01/01/2025
“We live in capitalism, its power seems inescapable — but then, so did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art. Very often in our art, the art of words.” -Ursula K. Le Guin, 2014
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Victoria Strauss @victoriastrauss.com · 30/12/2024
If you're an author who signed with Cengage Learning, this recent court settlement may get you (a little) money www.fox44news.com/business/pre...
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If You Are an Author Who Entered a Publishing Agreement with Cengage Learning, Inc. ("Cengage"), or One of Its Predecessors-in-Interest, You Could Get Money from a Settlement
NEW YORK, Dec. 30, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- A Settlement has been reached with Cengage in a lawsuit known as Bernstein, et al., v. Cengage Learning, Inc., Case No. 19-cv-7541-ALC-SLC, in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. Your rights may be impacted. Plaintiffs allege that Cengage has calculated and paid royalties from sales of MindTap and subscriptions to Cengage Unlimited in breach of contract and in bad faith. Cengage has agreed to settle the case, but has done so with no admission of liability.
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Elias Eells- Bar Cart Bookshelf @eliaseells.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
🌟Quote repost your favorite Starter Pack🌟 It’s the end of the year, so how’s about sharing your fav starter packs for one last hurrah? Here's mine: go.bsky.app/32GAjzH Queer Masculinity in SFFH!
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Damian Barr @damianbarr.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
🌈 📚 🛒 I’m looking for more LGBTQIA+ bookshops to add to my Starter Pack. That’s online shops and ones with doors and windows and walls and things. That’s shops focussed on LGBTQIA+ stories and/or LGBTQIA+ owned. Welcoming suggestions worldwide. Thanks for sharing! go.bsky.app/G321HCf
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Cursed Morsels @cursedmorsels.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Between the All Cops Are B_____, Tech Bro Terrors, and Reviews of Reality TV Shows That Don't Exist issues of the Cursed Morsels zine, our second zine bundle is maybe the most dystopian thing we've published. It's also super fun, and you can get it here: www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/curs...
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Cursed Morsels Zine Bundle (Issues #6 through 10) - Physical | Cursed Morsels Press
Five excellent zines featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry by talented horror and Weird fiction writers.Issue #6 - All Cops Are B____: pieces by Arasibo Campeche and M. Lopes da SilvaIssue #7 - My...
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Skulleigh @skulleigh.com · 26/12/2024
Bessie Stringfield! I totally need an entire PBS series with her as the main character.
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Bessie Stringfield - Wikipedia
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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Why THE THIN MAN is the most relatable Christmas movie: - our female MC buys all her own presents - the MCs are drunk 24/7 - one character really REALLY hates her family - there’s a party and everyone is miserable - our male MC spends a scene shooting the tree - snowstorm
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a man in a suit and tie is holding a cup of coffee in his hand .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is holding a cup of coffee in his hand .
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Pawel Frelik @nomad93.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
PLAYING THE POSTS: POST-ANTHROPOCENE, POSTHUMAN, POST-APOCALYPSE gamescriticism.org/i... #videogame #climate
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VOLUME 6, BONUS ISSUE A: PLAYING THE POSTS: POST-ANTHROPOCENE, POSTHUMAN, POST-APOCALYPSE
(December, 2024) Introduction Bonus issue editors: Lawrence May and Poppy Wilde Beyond Barren Wastelands: The Greening of the Post-apocalypse in Video Games by M. Bianchi Uniting scholarship about …
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Ele Willoughby @minouette.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
Happy birthday to #mathematician & #polymath, Mary Fairfax Somerville (1780-1872). 🧮👩🏼‍🔬🔭🎢🐡🧪 #histsci As a young widow she made a name for herself when she won a silver medal in 1811 from the Military College at Marlow math journal. Wallace suggested she read Laplace & finding she understood it as 🧵
My linocut portrait of Mary Somerville in a dress with lace collar and fur trim, surrounded by math, physics and astronomy diagrams from her publications, in a gradient of turquoise at the bottom to violet at the top.
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 26/12/2024
Excellent narrative game here. Firewatch is a game about isolation. Why we do it and how it affects us. And it's a gorgeous game, both in the visuals and the writing.
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Lewis Packwood @lewispackwood.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
For The Guardian, I picked out Phoenix Springs, Death of the Reprobate and The Crimson Diamond as three of the games you might have missed in 2024. All wonderful! And there are some cracking picks from others writers on this list, too :) www.theguardian.com/games/2024/d...
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The video games you may have missed in 2024
A returning classic, a Love Island send-up and an answer to the age-old question: can you fry eggs atop Mount Everest? The year’s best games that might have passed you by
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MysteryMarple @mysterymarple.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
ICYMI -- Check out the Chat! In addition to this week's blog post with top tips from award-winning author and writing teacher Jane Cleland -- she posted the whole interview on her YouTube channel...which you can check out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fmiq... #protips #writingblog #mystery
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Jane K. Cleland in Discussion with Kathleen Marple Kalb on Mastering Suspense Structure and Plot
YouTube video by Jane Cleland, Author & Teacher
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Elizabeth Newbury @enewb.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Even if you have never made a game before, a game jam is a great entry into game design--and there may be no bigger "game" in town than GGJ. Check it out below! 👇
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Joel Morris @gralefrit.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
If you’re a point-and-click game fan, and enjoying the Ghost Stories For Christmas on the iPlayer at the moment, then this game is a solid recommendation for a creepy festive treat.
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Curtis Clark Paintings @ccpaintings.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Happy Sunday Bluesky art followers! Today’s #ArtAdventCalendar post is a painting I created from a trip out to Palm Springs. “Yucca at Joshua Tree” 11x14 oil on canvas available through gallery details on my website www.curtisclarkpaintings.com @bsky.art @fineartgallery.bsky.social #art
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Christie Time @christietime.com · 11/12/2024
EVENT ON SALE! 💃💐 We are going to be back in Torquay, Devon, discussing all things Agatha and Swinging Sixties on Saturday 12 April as part of a special one-day Spring festival from the International Agatha Christie Festival team! Tickets now on sale and going fast >> www.iacf-uk.org/festival-202...
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International Agatha Christie Festival | Spring Gathering
Celebrate Agatha Christie in the place of her birth on the English Riviera. Step into the area’s outstanding literary and geological heritage with a six-day fringe followed by a four-day literary fest...
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Rowan Coleman @rowancoleman.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
Made a drawing. A night florist in Paris.
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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 21/12/2024
I hate doing that but with the current state of crisis (loved one in hospital + other stuff I won't go into), I'd love to have some income. If looking for last minute Xmas presents, please consider my book? It has space jellyfish and martial arts and sapphic romance us.macmillan.com/books/978125...
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Navigational Entanglements
A "Best of" Pick by Lit Hub | Amazon | New Scientist!Award-winning author of The Red Scholar’s Wake Aliette de Bodard comes for your heart with a compellin...
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The Shirley Jackson Awards @sjacksonawards.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
The Shirley Jackson Awards are on Bluesky! Attention Publishers: we are open for submissions for works published in 2024. airtable.com/applhMf88JAF...
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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
It's the weekend before Xmas! Cozy up to a Canadian mystery adventure! CBR says it's #6 of their "10 Most Underrated Indie Games of the Past Year", and it's currently 20% off on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/... Reviews are super helpful & appreciated! ❤️ Happy Holidays!🎉 #indiegames
Animated gif showing the art development process of The Crimson Diamond holiday card 2020.Screenshot of part of The Crimson Diamond Steam store page, with handwritten 20% off and smiley face and snow and Santa hat.Steam 2024 Winter Sale promo art.
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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
📢 ISO OF DISABLED GAME DEVELOPERS 📢 ♿️🎮 I’m making a disabled game devs starter pack! 🗣️ Neurodivergent &/or physically disabled game devs reply below with games you’ve worked on & what you do 🔁 RTs Appreciated! 🔁 #disabilitysky #disabled #disability #neurodivergent #indiedev #gamedev #a11y
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Michael Thomét @michaelthomet.com · 21/12/2024
One of my favorite adventure games. Excellent quiet, folk horror narrative in this one!
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Dave Gilbert @wadjeteyegames.com · 20/12/2024
Cyberpunk adventure Technobabylon is 60% off on Steam until Jan 2nd. Hit the blue-neon streets of Newton and the mind-bending virtual realms of the Trance to follow the trail of a serial killer known as The Mindjacker! There's nothing like being in Trance... 👇 buff.ly/3ZKwjXI
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A Corgi's Cozy Hike 🔜 PAX East @rescuepetsgame.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
We're ready for spring already! Bring on the warmth and sun please! You can play our demo of A Corgi's Cozy Hike on steam if you want! 🥰 #cozygames #indiedev #gamedev #corgi #doggames #indiegames
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ecohydroloy-wang.bsky.social @ecohydroloy-wang.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
New pub in Earth Future. We showed increasing flooding events are NOT as much as rainfall increase. Why? Plants are helping us. Vegetation Greening Mitigates the Impacts of Increasing Extreme Rainfall on Runoff Events agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/... Led by @dficklin.bsky.social.
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Vegetation Greening Mitigates the Impacts of Increasing Extreme Rainfall on Runoff Events
The number and magnitude of extreme rainfall events are projected to increase throughout the global land surface Projected declines in event-based runoff ratio are found for a majority of the glo...
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School Library Journal @slj.com · 17/12/2024
From a bilingual book about Cuba to a graphic novel poetry collection, these diverse titles are sure to delight a wide range of young readers.
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8 Poetry Books for Dreamers, Animal Lovers, and Mistake-Makers
From a bilingual book about Cuba to a graphic novel poetry collection, these diverse titles are sure to delight a wide range of young readers.
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TetroniMike 🏳️‍🌈 @tetronimike.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Hey y'all do me a huge favor and share Hypnospace's 76% off (!!!) winter sale with your friends, families, and colleagues - the sequel Dreamsettler is quite literally funded directly from sales of Hypnospace, so every dollar spent on HSO goes toward development of DS! Thx <3
Screenshot showing Hypnospace Outlaw on Steam, Itch.io, and GOG, at 76% off.
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Nick Covington @covingtonedu.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
The *most* frequently recurring feedback from kids in student focus groups we've analyzed from grades 2 to 12 is that they want to go outside, go on field-trips, and do more hands-on experiential learning.
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