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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

How to be happy as a gamedev. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

That moment when you have enough people on your Plex that you're making advance announcements on seasonal downtime to avoid holiday peak usage I do NOT want to be debugging my Synology NAS on an overnight holiday weekend bc something went wrong when someone tried to watch Muppet Christmas Carol!

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Boo-rad Shankar @bradshankar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Jennifer Hale once told me Canadians need to champion ourselves more. I wholeheartedly agree. Over the past few months, I reached out to dozens of Canadian devs to learn their favourite Canadian games. Their varied responses offer a wonderful spotlight on some of the incredible talent we have here.🍁

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These are must-play Canadian games, according to Canadian devs

As Canadians, we don't champion ourselves enough, so we asked dozens of game developers to do just that.

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IGDA NYC @igdanyc.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A #NYMakesGams LAUNCH! #dollyday

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

My latest game for #DollyDay! Dolly Parton Clicker - a biographical #incrementalgame in tribute to #DollyParton's memory 🎬 A rags to riches story from Appalachia, to Hollywood, to Dollywood ♫ Behind the scenes of "#9to5" "Jolene" "I Will Always Love You" 🦋 In tribute to a feminist, LGBTQ icon

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Article by @beautybot.bsky.social about Dolly Parton fans being gamers is validation that there just might be an audience for a big project I'm launching tomorrow (hint: It's 9/25 (9 to 5)) Fly like a butterfly, my little gamers www.gamespot.com/articles/all...

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All Anyone At Gamescom Can Talk About Is Dolly Parton

Parton had little to do with video games, but that didn't stop Opening Night Live viewers from paying their respects.

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Eddie Murphy meets Dragon (x2?) See alt text for explanation

Scene from Shrek, female dragon looks lovingly at Donkey, played by Eddie Murphy

Scene from Mulan. Mushu, played by Eddie Murphy, saying "[I am a] Dragon! Not lizard. I don't do that TONGUE THING [emphasis added]"

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This has been on my radar for a while now and its finally out! Just bought it

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✧ SkyMagpie ✧ (left my ❤︎ in Undermine) @skymagpie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I was worried if my comic is perhaps too self indulgent, but then I remembered the words of Björk and now I need to make it even more self indulgent 🥰

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sisi jiang @six6jiang.bsky.social · 25/03/2026

hewwoo i finally made a linktree. here is a non-comprehensive list of projects i worked on. i have 7+ years of writing for, designing, and writing about games. i'd appreciate it if folks would keep me in mind for any rpg/anime adjacent/narrative heavy projects ☺️ linktr.ee/six6jiang

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Sisi Jiang | Linktree

Game writer, narrative designer, critic. Formerly of HoYoverse and Kotaku. IGF Excellence in Narrative nominee. Forbes 30u30 Games. A list of stuff I worked on:

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sisi jiang @six6jiang.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

it’s kind of wild how jobless i am rn for - forbes 30u30 recipient (yes ik this is a fake prize but let me have this) - igf narrative nominee - won thousands of prize $$$ - reviewed a lot of games for kotaku - cited in academic papers and works taught in a northwestern syllabus - worked at genshin

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Kotaku @kotaku.com · 14/09/2026

Sources tell Kotaku that several staff have been laid off at IGN amid a fresh round of cuts, including long-time video hosts kotaku.com/sources-ign-layoffs-hit-…

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Sources: IGN Layoffs Hit Multiple Departments And Long-Time Hosts - Kotaku

The top video game site keeps cutting

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Max Scoville @maxscoville.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Welp. Starting in November, I will no longer be employed by IGN. It's been a hell of a ride and I cannot understate how much of an honor and a privilege the last 11+ years have been. This was a dream job, but the best part of IGN is, was, and always will be the people.

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danielleri @danielleri.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Have some BIG NEWS, and it really is wild that today is also the anniversary of the Fanbyte Apocalypse. But my time at Game Developer is done, and hence, my time as a full-time game journalist has come to an end. 20 years in a career sure is something. www.tumblr.com/danielling/8...

After 20+ years of writing professionally about games, including time at Polygon and Idle Thumbs, launching Waypoint, serving as editor in chief of Fanbyte and finally as EIC at Game Developer, my time is done. I'm officially out at Game Developer. Given the state of game journalism, this obviously means leaving the profession, at least as a full-timer.

I'm out, with respect to my colleagues, and a lot of love for the site as it was. We've published work that I'm extremely proud of, particularly our reporting on labor and on how workers are finding things in a miserable, gutting moment in the game industry. I'm proud of the dev-authored features we had for so many years, the resources and knowledge and bits and pieces of know-how that I still use, to this day, in my own game design courses.

What's next? Well, I'm not leaving games. I'll always be making and teaching and writing about games, it just can't be my full time gig anymore. I've actually been doing narrative design on a game since 2022, with a team I really believe in, and I can't wait until I can show that off properly. I am also OPEN TO WORK. Anything involving writing or editing words, editing video, teaching (I've been teaching college since 2009), and hey, I'm an EMT and got my phlebotomy cert a couple years back. I'm versatile!

For full-time employment, I am eventually going to try my hand at medicine. I've served as an EMT here in NYC since 2016, and I've been taking science courses post-bac since January 2025, usually 2 or more at once concurrently with... the full time job, my part time adjunct job, and volunteering on said ambulance. Exhaustion set in years ago, lol, so I've settled into something beyond that at this point. I feel like I've been climbing a mountain, and trying to make many things work at once. I had a pretty good rhythm going, truth be told, despite all the burnout. I'm proud of myself for that.

I'd really like to be a physician assistant one day, or potentially a nurse practitioner. It's a very, very long and hard road to either of those paths, but I'm going to make my way as best as I can.

How do I feel? Again, devastated was years ago. We're pretty far past that at this point. What's happened to journalism in America is... a topic for a very depressing, very well-researched book. I hope someone writes that one day. What happened to game journalism... well, it's more of a niche, but I can say only that reporting honestly on layoff after layoff and corporate malfeasance writ large and executives gambling the whole industry down the drain was tough, but somebody had to do it.

But it's not something one can do without editorial independence.

It's dramatic, but I'm going to mourn this career. Twenty years of my life, at 42, is just about half of my days alive. I put a lot, and I do mean *a lot* of myself into this. I tried at all times to lead with empathy and care for the human beings around me and to be as honest and frankly honorable as possible in my work. I really, really tried to live my values in my work in this career, and the only way I can keep that reputation is the path ahead of me.

So there it is. Expect to see me making games, making art, teaching game design, writing about games from time to time @VeeGeeBees. Expect to hear more about my adventures as an EMT, and hopefully, soon as a PA student, and eventually, as an advanced practitioner. I've kept telling myself, in the darkest and worst days of the last few years, that I'll fly again, somehow. It'll just look very different.

To sign off, and pull an old favorite out of my pocket: be good, and be good at it.

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

In my event organizing days with Unparty and Friendship Garden There was The Eternal Tension between: Monetizing your community and workers vs. Empowering your community and workers And navigating what it took to be a leader to discern those decisions

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Ursula K. Le Guin Bot @leguinbot.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. 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, and very often in our art, the art of words.

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Jenna "the" Yow @jannouna.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Extremely heartbroken to say that I'm one of the affected members. Working at KO_OP for four and a half years has been one of the best things to ever happen to me and I really hope that my teammates can land a pitch that can bring us all back together again.

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Getting ready to launch my latest game and I'd like a few playtesters to test things out! Looking for people who might be interested in - a biographical incremental game about a beloved celebrity - browser games - 20-30 mins of gameplay Feel free to message if yall are interested!

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Imagine instead of spending $300 million on a movie, we as a society started spending $300 million on community organizations

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Weird some days in 2026 feels like "Where did the time go, why isnt life where I wanted it to be by now" And "I can't believed I survived one of the largest worldwide scale disease events this side of 1918, that half our population denies and also believes I don't have a right to exist"

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J. L. Westover @mrlovenstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

YOU DON'T "CONSUME" ART MOTHERFUCKER. YOU EXPERIENCE IT. YOU FEEL IT. YOU ENGAGE WITH IT. YOU WRESTLE WITH IT. YOU LIVE IT. ART ISN'T A LITTLE MORSEL YOU GOBBLE UP.

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/09/2026

Future? No Thanks! IS OUT NOW ON STEAM An open-world comedy adventure about workable utopias, the twilight of patriarchy, revolution, and the horrifying possibility that the younger generations might be right. 💀 Windows + Mac 💀 6+ hours of gameplay 💀 20% off at launch futurenothanks.com

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

interesting... BLS projecting where the economy is going. thinking a lot of friends and family who are hard up right now

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

In the vein of some of my other work (Mr. Rogers fangame, Jim Henson talk) I've been working on another fangame that I hope to release soon! It's a bit of a pattern break and there's parts that are still wholesome chuzzy but other parts that are a bit of pattern break Stay tuned!

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

An unexpected inflation indicator has been how much groceries go for on TLC's Extreme Couponing What's considered a success recently would've been considered a major failure before

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Matt Hawkins (fort90) @fort90.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

TONIGHT! "Broadcasting" from @wonderville.nyc it's FORT90 TV! We'll also watch a laserdisc rip of a super old & obscure anime that has (trust me on this) an INSANELY banging soundtrack; stream starts at 8:00PM EST… www.wonderville.nyc/events/the-f...

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SMD's pension @anothersmd.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Keep hearing about more software engineers wanting to explore other hobbies than programming lately

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Muppet Pictures @muppetpictures.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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Muppet Pictures @muppetpictures.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Is this what they meant by "Reject modernity. Embrace tradition."? Because I like it

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I do not want to download your app. I just want lunch. I do not want to create an account. I just want lunch. I do not want to setup 2FA. I just want lunch. I do not want to 'earn points'. I just want lunch. I do not want to add to my order. I just want lunch. I JUST WANT LUNCH!

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

This is certainly a Video Game. Will Wright once said we'd have a pre Cambrian explosion of video games... I think he was right

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 28/07/2026

we're now at the 'commercial tv economy guy posting about how fucked this industry is' stage of market collapse

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Watch out, Odysseus. Circe's magic is stronger than you think. Press the X button when she starts charging up her pig blast, or you'll be turned into sliced ham!

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Wallace @exalclaw.com · 21/07/2026

Beatdown City Survivors has one of the most fitting licensed soundtracks this year. The game makes listening to NYC's underground rap scene while playing as them just work! My latest on why, as well how it came together based on my chat w/ @shawndoublea.bsky.social: exalclaw.com/beatdown-cit...

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Relationship Building Is Why Killing Huge Roaches As Fatboi Sharif While Listening To ShrapKnel Is Possible

Beatdown City Survivors' soundtrack is an incredible fit for the game's mayhem. A chat with developer Shawn Alexander Allen reveals how years of appreciating NYC underground rap and building relations...

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

AI is every corporation's dream come true! It's obvious! Is the following - product that "may change the world" - sycophantic hypeman - motivational speaker - coach - consultant - destroys the planet - ruins local communities - enables mass layoffs - makes line go up 📈

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

The @itch.io summer sale ends today. You can get both of my commercial games for $5, which is the price of JUST BoJ on Steam. So if you want the biggest bang for your buck, now's the time! essaygames.itch.io/ne9jwnt7tk Sharing and reposting would be a huge help, tyvm!

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Summer Sale 2026 by Essay Games

A bundle by Essay Games, $5.00 for The Last Survey, Bundle of Joy

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Cassie aka Lamia @intersectionscch.blacksky.app · 01/07/2026

People asked what The Intersection & PAX Together Intersection (PTI) programs are. So this is a thread to share what we do & what will not be at #PAXWest 2026 & may not have again. #SaveTheIntersection Email @officialpax.bsky.social paxquestions@reedexpo.com east.paxsite.com/en-us/featur... 🧵 1/16

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PAX Together

PAX Together is a program which celebrates diversity and underrepresented groups both at PAX and in the gaming community at-large. PAX believes that games should be for everyone and made by anyone. Wh...

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🪼 Bluu is HOOCHIE HEISTING 💙 @kyngvee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Rents due, phone bill due, lots and lots of bills. I'd appreciate any assistance at all in at least keeping my phone on ($60) CA: $KyngVee0 Venmo: @/KyngVee Pride month may be over, but never a wrong time to support a Black Trans single parent 💙 thank you!!

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

The PTI is how I got my start exhibiting at conventions. The work Cassie does with the PTI is so important. Please share and listen to everything Cassie has to say here.

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🪼 Bluu is HOOCHIE HEISTING 💙 @kyngvee.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I highly encourage you all to email PAX, hop in their DMs, their comment section, and share your experiences of your times in the Intersection Library and it's PTI programs. This is fucking egregious. I'm asking for my community to email them ASAP paxquestions@reedexpo.com

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Exhibiting at the PTI booth at PAX East has been an invaluable experience, and the organizers did a great job. It's incredibly disheartening to see this program at risk of getting cut from PAX West and Unplugged, as institutions cede ground. Please read, signal boost, and save the intersection.

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melos han-tani (Danchi Days out Oct 29!!) @hantani.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Looking for a memorable adventure game in the Steam summer sale? Check out one of our games which are all on sale! Details in alt texts store.steampowered.com/developer/an...

Even the Ocean - story driven platformer about environmental disasters, with a unique physics shifting platforming mechanic

Anodyne 2 - explore 3d worlds and 2d mindspaces in a story driven adventure about identity and authority

Sephonie - explore an islands surreal cave system with a unique parkour platforming system in this "platformer visual novel" about 3 scientists of taiwanese descent, that also features a uniquely relaxing puzzle system

Anodyne - explore a dreamy surreal mindscape while enjoying puzzle and light action focused dungeons

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Charles/Chuzzy 🔜 At home this Summer @muditaheart.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

May I only ever log into social media long enough to see my homies thriving, and never long enough to see the dark underbelly of internet strangers I'll never meet

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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Absolutely unheard-of concept in western game production They'd fire all this talent, release a solemn statement and then pocket those wages

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Harrison G. Pink @gilespink.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Repost to terrify or arouse a Narrative Designer (depending on how much of a sicko they are).

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