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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Another Gamescom indie I am dying to play!

Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Played an extremely early version of this a couple years ago and was already having a blast, be sure to check this out if you're at Gamescom!

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meghna jayanth @meghna.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

If you're at #gamescom come play our demo we've been cooking up some really exciting things to show you!!

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Nic McConnell @mcconnell.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Just a reminder that you can preorder @milkman.bsky.social’s upcoming book about Nobuo Uematsu right now! And you should, because it’s going to be great. Out Sept 15! a.co/d/0aaukP7v

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A Shell in the Pit @ashellinthepit.com · 14/08/2026

In Big Walk the environment can affect your voice in many different ways! All of this incredible technical work is thanks to @nicholaszhangaudio.bsky.social, who created entire systems from scratch for occlusion, dynamic reverb, echoes, the radio and megaphone, soundproofing, and lots more. 👂🤓

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surasshu @surasshu.com · 01/08/2026

does anyone have contacts at any music outlets that would like to write about an upcoming release from infloresce records? we're working on something really special and i would love to get it as much attention as possible! it's got a Theme and Message that i want ppl to talk about and think about

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 14/07/2026

Surprise! New video about basic story structure for game trailers, common mistakes to avoid, and some examples of trailers with great storytelling. This one stems from months of working on a day long masterclass I gave recently in France 👀 Shares much appreciated 😊

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The Best Game Trailer Template | Video Game Trailer Academy

YouTube video by Derek Lieu

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

it's socialism or barbarism, and i ain't learning to cut hair

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starling 🦆 @starlingoboe.itch.io · 24/06/2026

you can listen to my music for the @seagshowcase.bsky.social now on bandcamp 🏝🌊🫶 !! for the title track i drew on fond childhood memories of singaporean summers playing ps2 with my cousins, four of us clustered around the tv ☁️ how magical those days were starlingoboe.bandcamp.com/album/a-sea-...

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a sea summer - mini EP, by starling tan

4 track album

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Black Voices in Gaming is where all the best Black developers hang. We had and amazing showcase this year, and we've got an excellent collection of newly released and upcoming games on steam from Next fest. store.steampowered.com/sale/BlackVo...

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Black Voices in Gaming Summer Game Fest Showcase

Spotlighting new games, exciting updates and demos from talented Black creators around the world.

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Zaire @zeestermeester.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

If anyone is looking to hire a Peabody and BAFTA winning senior writer, I am looking for work. I’ve got six years experience in games. Everything from indie to AAA. I am not married to staying in games. I am hoping to relocate to the Bay Area. I am keeping my ears to the ground.

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

managed an extremely minor plumbing task on my own, AMA

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Ramsey رمزي @marskye.com · 05/01/2026

Hey all! Today we've put up a blogpost where I talk about my approach for writing music in All Will Rise. I talk about the influences we are drawing from, the inspiration behind the music and the type of instruments I'm playing with for this cool indie title. Very excited to share the insight!

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paulloz @paulloz.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

Me, and half of my coworkers, have been laid off. I'm now looking for my next position as gameplay or tools programmer (remote, or relocating within Europe). More about me on my website: pauljoannon.com #gamejobs #gamedevjobs

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Back in 2021, I made a big orchestral/choir cover of Hornet's Theme for a Hollow Knight tribute album. Except I never posted my own track, because I thought "SURELY we'll have a Silksong release date this year, I'll post it then!!" 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡 ...So anyway here's "Upon Her Sacred Thread" LOL

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Upon Her Sacred Thread (Hornet - Hollow Knight Orchestral Cover)

give glory to the gendered child, that we may rest eternal upon her sacred thread

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Alex Hughes ( Capell ) @alexhughescapell.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Gotham Writers is currently doing a survey of how writers are using AI and if you’re a writer it’s probably worth filling it out. gothamghostwriters.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?...

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AI and the Writing Profession

Take this survey powered by surveymonkey.com. Create your own surveys for free.

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Me to the Giant Spider that decided to perch up on my bathroom mirror: "....if you just go back to eating bugs I will look past this transgression." Me five minutes later when the giant spider is nowhere to be seen:

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a close up of a young man 's face with a black jacket on .

ALT: a close up of a young man 's face with a black jacket on .

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Jesse // BABA @floorbaba.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Many of you ask, kindly, for recent EPs to be put on Spotify. I want to tell you they are missing on purpose. Jeremy has articulated better than I will here. I recommend watching his video : )

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Do I know any senior audio designers looking for work? Lovely team making a sweet game 👇

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 05/07/2025

Nobody at New York Times genuinely believed "17-Year-Old Ugandan kid with Ugandan Father and Ugandan Grandparents Tells College He Is Ugandan" was newsworthy. You just thought you could use Black people as your anti-Muslim attack dogs.

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Joost Vervoort @joostvervoort.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Listening to @marskye.bsky.social and @nehapolitan.bsky.social's songs on this amazing Composers for Palestine album, so good. Get it! workwithindies.bandcamp.com/album/compos...

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Composers for Palestine, by Various Artists

16 track album

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 21/06/2025

Explain your @ In elementary school, we called our French teacher "Miss Madame (Name)" because we were dumb stupid babies. I liked the mouthfeel of that same redundancy in Japanese, with my name.

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

live photos of my real actual face for the past 24 hours listening to all 171 tracks of the Mario Kart World soundtrack extracted so far

photo of a young befreckled boy making the stank face

photo of a seemingly shirtless man making the stank face

photo of some random young man, eyes closed, making the stank face

split photo of two women making the stank face

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Star Victoria Power | Slide20XX @slide20xx.com · 28/05/2025

The game industry is a bit of a mess right now and it’s hitting all of us, but when things get bad, they’re often toughest on marginalized folk. So. @aiviwave.com and I are launching the Rising Star Patronage Project to support game composers & make great music! www.gofundme.com/f/video-game...

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Donate to Video Game Music for a Cause, organized by Star Victoria Power

The economy is garbage and it feels like we’re all doomed. I know it seems like there… Star Victoria Power needs your support for Video Game Music for a Cause

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

jrpg gamergaters when they inevitably start taking hostages

Screenshot from Season 2, Episode 1 of The Rehearsal by Nathan Fielder. Two airline pilots are in a cockpit. The captain says "We've captured the localizer. Everything's fine."

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

@kylemisko.bsky.social Fantastic job on the Lemurian Phoenix! Me and my friend were vibing out while we were solving the cases 🤘

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ryan yoshikami @quarkimo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

WOW today it’s bandcamp friday *and* Surmount’s 1 year anniversary!!! if you’d like to support me/the game, you can grab my soundtrack down below tyyy 🧗 quarkimo.bandcamp.com/album/surmou...

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Surmount (Original Game Soundtrack), by quarkimo

24 track album

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

🎵 I'm at the wellness farm,🎵 🎶I'm at the gulag cell🎶 📢I'm at the commmbination wellness farm and gulag cell📢

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

is this that toilet thing all the kids are talking about

Screenshot of the track "Ska De Buddy" from the Buddy Daddies Original Soundtrack

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

NEW: A SECOND story was released today of a Venezuelan man disappeared by the Trump admin. Neiyerver Leon is a barber who entered legally seeking asylum in June 2023. ICE arrested him on March 13 and accused him of being in TdA. Days later, he vanished off the face of the earth.

Leon Rengel was briefly held at East Hidalgo Detention Center, a private facility in La Villa, Texas, used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Then — nothing. His alien number, a way to track his whereabouts, vanished two days later from ICE’s online system. He disappeared. ICE agents told Gutierrez her boyfriend had been deported to his home country. But the family has searched in Venezuela, and he isn’t there, she said. “I’ve been to the ICE office. I’ve contacted the FBI. The DEA. Everyone told me the same thing: He was deported,” Gutierrez said. “But where to? He never arrived in Venezuela.” It’s possible that the Trump administration deported Leon Rengel to a mega-prison in El Salvador, where hundreds of other Venezuelans were sent last month — but there is no official record to confirm it.

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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Time to call congress. Tell them if we can't afford the NIH and NEA then we for damn sure can't afford billions for ICE and they better shut the govt the fuck down rather than let this shit pass

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Harris Powell-Smith - HONOR BOUND out now! @hpowellsmith.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

I'm a trans game writer! My most recent text game is Honor Bound about becoming a bodyguard at a wilderness boarding school, returning to an old home, forging (or breaking) friendships and romances, and rebuilding (or trashing) your life and career store.steampowered.com/app/2828270/...

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Honor Bound on Steam

Protect an exclusive boarding school and rebuild your life after scandal as a military bodyguard! How far will you go for ambition, duty, and your country?

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.

Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.

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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 14/04/2025

BREAKING: Days before she was detained by ICE, the State Department had determined Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk did NOT engage in antisemitic or terrorist activities. Rubio revoked her visa anyhow. Gift article: wapo.st/4j8d5Uh

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No evidence linking Tufts student to antisemitism or terrorism, State Dept. office found

An internal memo, prepared before Tufts student Rumeysa Ozturk was detained by ICE, raises doubts about the Trump administration’s claims that she supports Hamas.

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

Ohhhhhhhhh I feel so stupid. It's called "Blue Prince" as in "Bloop Rinse,"😩🥴🤦‍♂️

Key art for the hit architectural indie game Blue Prince. (As in, the color and the male royal title)

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Nadhir @nadhirnor.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Hello #PortfolioDay, I'm Nadhir, a freelance illustrator and I would love to work on more fantastical and queer work! open and looking for both personal/commercial commissions & non-comic projects 🌱 nadhirnor.com nadhirnor@hotmail.com (or DM!) instagram.com/snadhir

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Nick Miroff @nickmiroff.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

BREAKING: Trump admin says it mistakenly deported a Maryland father who had *withholding of removal* back to El Salvador on March 15. Govt told court Monday it won't bring Kilmar Abrego Garcia back. "What.The.Fuck..." one govt attorney told me. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc... @theatlantic.com

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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison

The Trump administration says it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.

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Megan Carnes 🎃👻 @magmacranes.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Hey musicians we need to make a big stink about this. I know I’m willing to remove my music from Spotify if they go through with it. If you are too, contact them and tell them so. support.spotify.com/br-en/artist...

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Support - Spotify

Contact Customer Support - Spotify

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Midio @midio.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Cat's out of the bag!! 🤭♥️ We've been working alongside our friends at @chucklefishltd.bsky.social for sometime now on Witchbrook! It's been a huge pleasure to be a part of the project and it's AMAZING we can finally share it publicly! Make sure to visit www.witchbrook.com for more info!

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Witchbrook - First Look Trailer

YouTube video by Chucklefish

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 16/03/2025

I just marked "safe" the last developer out of 39 traveling to GDC from outside of the US. 39 developers from all around the world reached out so I could reach their loved ones & legal support in case they were disappeared at the US border. Many asked me to do the same for their flight home.

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Studio Drydock (Making: Wylde Society) @studiodrydock.com · 14/03/2025

Did you see our new trailer announcing Wylde Society? 👠 We’re so thrilled to have been able to share our next project with you, and can’t thank you enough for the love you’ve shown already! 💖 The best way to stay updated is to join our mailing list! 💌 subscribepage.io/studiodrydoc...

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Ashley Cooper @ashleycooper.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Every GDC is someone's first. After every GDC, we hear about mistreatment, assaults, and other horror stories. Conference vets, share your tips for a #safeGDC! I'll start: do NOT. under ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. take meetings in someone's hotel room.

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surasshu @surasshu.com · 14/02/2025

i just posted the the AI music blocklist for youtube that ive been working on the past month or so! it'll probably get outdated over time but its a start. i def see a LOT less AI music junk (and whats left has like 20 views). i used blocktube, for chrome & firefox github.com/amitbl/block...

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GitHub - amitbl/blocktube: YouTube™ content blocker

YouTube™ content blocker. Contribute to amitbl/blocktube development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

This game project looks very special. It may seem frivolous to ask to back a game, but making games / art in the face of destruction is truly a radical act. @rasheedabueideh.bsky.social has been doing it for a long time. 9 days to raise ~$24K is totally doable. www.launchgood.com/v4/campaign/...

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Dreams on a Pillow - a videogame experience about the 1948 Nakba, based on a true story | LaunchGood

A pseudo-3D stealth adventure game about a land full of people being made into a people without land

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Hassan DuRant @mrhassansan.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

When you highkey suspect your boss of treason and murder but you can't say anything yet:

The following are two lines of dialogue from the video game Wargroove 2:

Lytra: "We've got nothing to worry about. Madam Pistil's with us!"
Tago: "She is present, yes..."

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