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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I've been pretty vocal about my issues with the Stop Killing Games campaign but everything there is downstream of terrible industry practises like this.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Excited for a load of new players to experience The Colonists as Wavedash brings it to browsers!

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Distrokid better for volume rather than occasional releases. If it really is just fun I wouldn't bother with streaming platforms, just Bandcamp.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

yeah it's very frustrating and I think we lose a lot socially and economically because of that hostility

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Small business can be a good fit for games - that doesn't have to entail zero growth, zero investment, zero shared equity etc Unfortunately, we have developed systems which are very hostile towards it, to the extent that anything small business-related tends to get elided with Big Business Concerns

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Uh I'm sorry I didn't ask for nuance on my takes - could you ask the chef to make them again? Thanks.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Congrats! Incredible achievement and hope it does really well (it will)

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT RTs HUGELY APPRECIATED 🏌🏌🏼‍♂️🏌🏌️‍♀️⛳🛺 This is *Really Illegal Golf* It's essentially Metal Gear Golf with Friends. Really. - Multiplayer stealth golf - Dodge security, stay alive, and sink that putt - Free multiplayer demo available right now store.steampowered.com/app/4115520/...

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I think I'm doing alright with the various Belfast accents and then a taxi driver started talking to me about EA and I found the conversation very confusing. Eventually became clear he was talking about AI.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

This is the kind of thing that's probably your fault in some way though

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

People who actually know about critical theory - is there a term for nostalgia-bait content which exaggerates distinctive features of the original inspiration? An example might be a "Y2K"-styled modern indie game with crazy volumetric lighting everywhere.

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 14/09/2026

It's TIME! TO! GET! HYPE! Today, I get to proudly unveil Steam Hype, the project I've been working on with the help of @hookshot.media for the past two and a half months. A new PC gaming site which aims to demystify PC gaming, cut through the 100+ daily releases and spotlight indies as much as AAA

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Steam Hype

Steam Hype is your go-to destination for discovering the latest, greatest, and most talked-about games on Steam.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Luckily for everyone, they do take a very long horizon view of stuffl like this - maintaining an ecosystem that actually makes sense for indies is something they actively try to do

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Yeah and there's always going to be an element of that but traditionally there would be some creative / regulatory dialogue on top of that so that you can, for example, cut out some content to get things going. Obviously that doesn't scale to Steam size, so I think we need a *bit* more definition.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I feel two things about this: 1) The Steam team has an almost insurmountable challenge when it comes to dealing with the range of content on the platform 2) Indies in particular really need clearer, simpler content guidelines and a better understanding of what those mean in terms of visibility

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Remember getting to see a presentation from the audio team at my first Develop conference - was always hugely impressed by their work on this

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Simon Byron @byronicman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I'm pleased to report I've still got it. The Royal Writ is out now on Switch, PlayStation 5, Xbox and Game Pass. Really happy more people now have the opportunity to play this brilliant deckbuilder.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Ah that's awesome thank you! Yeah I really need to find time to do some more

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I'm *very* lucky to have been able to write game music in some form for 20-odd years - it's one of the things I'm most happy about in career terms. Thanks to everyone who has given me those opportunities.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

This description could also apply to me lol

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Excited to see everyone queued up for our first public playtest this weekend. Can’t wait to hear your feedback. Doors are now closed. Oh? You didn’t know we were doing a playtest this weekend and didn’t sign up? Hop on our mailing list to be notified of the next one mailchi.mp/bithellgames...

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

My soundtrack for Amberspire by @nictringali.bsky.social (Lunar Division / @bithellgames.bsky.social ) is out now on Bandcamp, and will be everywhere else in a couple of weeks. Sorry for slow! nervoustestpilot.bandcamp.com/album/ambers...

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Amberspire (Original Game Soundtrack), by nervous_testpilot

11 track album

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Cliff Harris (Cliffski) @cliffharris.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

My game 'Production Line: Car Factory Simulation' is one of the games in today's War Child charity bundle. You can see details here: www.fanatical.com/en/bundle/wa... 100% of the proceeds go to War Child. A very very worthy cause. @warchilduk.bsky.social Please RT.

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Support the War Child charity efforts and get Suicide Squad:...

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I need to see if they've ever appeared on screen together now

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Sometimes a perfect concept exists and somebody just posts it out into the universe

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Now..........I think I wrote a blog post about Kim Coates on the mode 7 blog decades ago. I don't remember the gif and that sounds a bit high effort for me. We *did* have two gerbils called Kevin Costner and Kim Coates at one point, so maybe that makes up for it.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

and I'm so happy to find this after many years - his delivery of "cellular phones" youtu.be/KI-_o50fgn0?...

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Lethal Tender (1996) Full Movie

YouTube video by The Movie Man (Rare And Hard To Find Films)

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The Island has always received a huge bonus for casting Kim Coates as the antagonist - I will watch literally any film where that is the case

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

People always talk about Tim Curry "breaking character" but it always came across more to me as "revelling in character". Rest in spaaaace.

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Alexander Sliwinski @sliwinski.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Tim Curry's contribution to movies and roles that end up in the gay cinema pantheon across genres is absurd. For me, Clue is a perfect cast with iconic performances, but without Curry being the emcee of the circus it would not be the movie I could go back to over and over again and still smile.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Was from a post www.penny-arcade.com/news/post/20...

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Hello! I can't hear the thing you mean I'm afraid - sorry that's a bit of a let-down.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One thing that's stuck in my brain forever about this is an ancient Penny Arcade line: "I play games to enter a trance state and experience other lives, he plays them to defeat the designer of the game by proxy."

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Amazing stuff - mega congrats on getting this through to release

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Mcdoogleh - ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!!! @mcdoogleh.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

ROGUE ECLIPSE OFFICIALLY OUT NOW!! 🕹 Tight Flight Controls 💥 Merciless Armadas to Blast Through 👾 Epic Boss Fights to Overcome 🚀 A Roguelike Campaign ☪ An Arabesque Futurism inspired Cosmos Hope ya'll enjoy our launch trailer! bit.ly/4bRLumD 🥳😎🚀💥💥💥 #gaming #indiegames #gamedev

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Game design isn’t about being able to identify problems. Everyone who plays games can identify problems. Game design is about diagnosing player experience, having intent, and executing. I think to a lot of folks outside dev, game criticism (an art in itself) is seen as interchangeable with design.

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I mean...you get a couple of rows of them right? And sometimes they're useful / ok or if not you can just scroll past. I don't think I have the same threat response to them as you!

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Paul Kilduff-Taylor @mode7games.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

99% of my viewing is on my TV, where I don't ever see shorts. My subscription feed is generally showing me stuff I want to watch. There's definitely a load of problems with it as a platform but there's a fair amount of good stuff on there.

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