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Nick Suttner

@nsuttner.bsky.social
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He/him Brewing new videogame(s) Host @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social Co-founder @furnimatgames.bsky.social Ex-Director of Publishing @panic.com Ex-PlayStation, 1UP, etc. etc. linktr.ee/nsuttner

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Nathan Bulmer @natemorebikes.bsky.social · 2h
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Frovo @frovo.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
it's called sound maybe you've heard of it
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Day of the Devs @dayofthedevs.org · 21/09/2026
It's that time of year again! Submissions for the Game Awards edition of Day of the Devs are now open! Good luck! www.dayofthedevs.org/submit
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Tim Price @timprice.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You joined "grand vizier chat (secret)" You: dark rumors from aboard You: abroad* fuck Sssnakecharmer: mf said aboard WhispersintheChapel: ahoy matey lol PonderMyOrb changed the group name to "rumors from aboard"
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Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
📣 Applications are now OPEN for the 2027 Experimental Games Showcase at GDC! 📣 You have until October 23rd to send us all the weird, innovative and unique things you are working on. More info and apply here: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
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Experimental Games Showcase
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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
incredibly well-done resident evil teaser from a movie theater
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woke stifler @yelix.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
YOUR FRIEND WHO LIVES IN LOS ANGELES, AT LEAST ONCE A WEEK: Yeah I just saw Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever in 70mm,
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blink-sun8tzu @suntzufuntzu.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
me: [advancing my knight] how much to build a hotel on this square? grim reaper: first, as I explained, that's not how the horse moves
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The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
All Systems Brough - IMBROGLIO We're joined by @nicole.pizza @eddybox.bsky.social @getdizzy.bsky.social to discuss this deck-building genre-defining brough-like, the 9th game in our yearlong coverage of @smestorp.bsky.social's wide-ranging catalogue. secretlives.games/all-systems-...
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The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Imbroglio
We're joined by Nicole He (The Crush House, Kinlo Labs), Eddy Boxerman (Osmos, Karmaka, Broken Rules), and Noah Sasso (Sportsfriends, Iron Galaxy Studios) to discuss Imbroglio, a deck-building, grid-based, genre-defining brough-like. It’s the ninth installment in our yearlong special series exploring the work of Michael Brough: All Systems Brough. Next episode: Cinco Paus Audio edited by Dylan Shumway. Discussed in this episode: Imbroglio https://apps.apple.com/us/app/imbroglio/id969264934  868-BACK (Out now!! Go buy it!!) https://store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/868BACK/  https://finji.itch.io/868-back  Michael Brough’s Website https://www.smestorp.com/  Michael Brough’s Blog https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/ September 9th, 2026 Imbroglio Notes 14 blog post https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2020/06/imbroglio-notes-14-mizzenmast.html  Imbroglio release blog post https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2016/05/imbroglio.html Imbroglio Notes 6 blog post https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2016/08/imbroglio-notes-6-meditation.html Guxt https://www.cavestory.one/pixels-works/guxt.php  Igbo Calendar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Igbo_calendar Everyday Shooter https://store.steampowered.com/app/16300/Everyday_Shooter/  Imbroglio Notes 8 blog post https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2016/08/imbroglio-notes-8-score-o.html Vivafringe Guide to Imbroglio Boardbuilding https://vivafringe.wordpress.com/2017/03/02/a-guide-to-imbroglio-boardbuilding/ Vivafringe Izu Mode blog post  https://vivafringe.wordpress.com/2017/02/21/imbroglios-izu-mode-is-the-way-forward-for-deckbuilding/ Vivafringe Izu Mode YouTube videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLVkyA1oDHBa_PGysiUQ_kGaCorynP21O9 Noah’s Bandcamp https://octopusinc.bandcamp.com/album/also-the-remixes Kinlo Labs (join their waitlist!) https://playkinlo.com/  I’m So Happy You’re Here – I Can’t Meditate! https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJ9ZwePF3_ms&si=jALBpOdXrprPI8Z_ Baba Is You: The Board Game & Party House: The Deckbuilding Game Kickstarter https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bitewinggamesnick/baba-is-you-the-board-game  Imbroglio in-progress blog post https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2016/03/still-working-on-imbroglio-this-is.html Imbroglio Notes 1 blog post https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2016/05/imbroglio-notes-1-inventory-management.htm Imbroglio Notes 3 blog post https://mightyvision.blogspot.com/2016/06/imbroglio-notes-3-monsters.html   https://secretlives.games/  https://discord.gg/tslog https://www.patreon.com/tslog
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sweetie π @sixfeetofcandy.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
i saved thousands on my car insurance by returning to the sea
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Ayla @goobbue.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
just found out Marge's hair in The Simpsons Game is billboarded so her raw model looks like this
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Hard agree
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andy vs. @im-all-id.me · 10/09/2026
Answering all my doctor's questions with "that's a great question"
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Jadzia Axelrod 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @planetx.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The best things you can do are: 1) Divorce your sense of self-worth from your work accomplishments 2) Make certain you have plenty of things in your life that aren't work, preferably that involve interacting with other human beings who like you for more than what you can do for them.
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Messhof @messhof.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Looking for someone to help with a Nidhogg console update. Anyone out there like using Game Maker and console networking?
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daryl "crimetime after primetime" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
GDT's reddit AMA spitting fire www.reddit.com/r/movies/com...
reddit comment: 

Hello! Did you intend the ending of Pan’s labyrinth to be real or in Ofelia’s mind?

Guillermo Del Toro's reply: 

My interpretation, and it's exclusively mine, is that it's real.

Because there's two things. One is what people call “The Shining Question.” The Shining Question is, Who opens the door for Jack to get out of the fridge? And Ofelia is in an attic with a guard outside her door, and she draws the door with the magic chalk, and she shows up in the labyrinth. So, the only way she could have gone into the labyrinth is the magic chalk. And the flower is real at the end. The flower that blooms in the dead tree. And the reason I think it’s real is because—and this is why I'm in favor of the human factor in art—I think that art does transform the world. You know?

Think about it for a second. One of the goals, with all this movement, is to make you believe that art is vulgar. That art is nothing special, and anybody can do art. That is like me telling you that I'm faster at running than Usain Bolt but I “run” in my motorcycle. Well, that's not the same. That’s not the same at all.

Art is important, and they want you to believe it isn't. It's part of the idea of control. The goal is not to have artificial intelligence. The goal is to foster natural stupidity. The goal is to foster you not looking for answers, and to trust yourself entirely to an engine. Look at the way we are dipping our toes into these things. We are starting to ask the machine, Is this true? For now, there's a correlation between reality and what the answers of the machine are. For now. But soon, we won't even investigate further. We will be told it's true. And if the machine is in the hands of somebody who should not be trusted, then your reality has been completely and utterly fucked. Because your intelligence ends at the question. You don't seek the answer. It's given to you.Q: You recently mentioned that AI creates 'semi-compelling screensavers' and that you'd 'rather die' than use it. As a filmmaker who relies heavily on practical effects and creature design, what do you think is the biggest thing lost when a computer generates an image instead of a human hand?

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The three quarters of the process that gave you the chance to think of the idea that people don't think about without that process. Meaning, AI can get you to the middle really fast, but there's a dialectic with the process that gets you to that top 10%. I'll give you an example with the Pale Man.

We sculpted it as an old man, with a face. And then I said, Let's take out the face. This happened because I saw a photo of a manta ray and the poster for Don Coscarelli’s Phantasm. That combination, which happened at two different times during a week or a month, are not permutations that are chemically part of an equation. They are alchemy. And then I said, Take out the face, and then I said, Let's put the eyes on the hands. This triangulation happens because I spent a month or two months living with the idea of this creature. And it's not linear.

AI is like a super-fast engine that makes semi-sentient permutations of things that are already done. Creation is things that have never been done. Coming to exist.

And the second thing is the loss of the apprenticeship that one has as an artist. You're never a master; you're always an apprentice. This is a kinship I have with, for example, Chris Nolan. When he showed me The Odyssey, there’s a scene when Matt Damon is floating in the stormy ocean and I asked him—because we were talking about practical effects, and how great it is and that we both always use a maquette or a model—and I asked him, How did you do it? He said, “We put him in a storm in the ocean.”

And you're gonna find that 30% of a great image occurs accidentally. You know, either a drop of water hits the lens, or the camera shakes. I remember when in 1993, '94, Jim…
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Loved this www.experimental-history.com/p/i-like-em-...
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I like 'em thick
OR: an apology to my English teachers
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Fun to get back on the hosting horse with a rad jam like this
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Still feel so lucky that we were able to work with Tomi, what a phenomenal jam (as is our entire soundtrack)
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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 07/09/2026
Cars are famously a great technology to have redesigned civilization around
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Yep between this and History of Concrete I’m pretty much set for movie hype
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Anyone want two tickets to see @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social in NYC on September 19th? No cost, I just can't make it anymore.
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Nels Anderson @nelsanderson.zone · 02/09/2026
If you too would like to stop using increasingly shitty software made by bad people who make the world worse, I wrote a guide for how to lessen/end your small team's dependence on US-based tech services: nelsanderson.zone/a-guide-to-d...
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A Guide to Ditching US Tech (for Game Developers)
This post is based on a guide from Paris Marx, host of Tech Won't Save Us, author of one excellent book and upcoming (likely also excellent) book last updated September 2nd, 2026 At this point, it's...
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I'm headed to Amsterdam (first time) and Copenhagen (second time) mid-month with the family. What shouldn't I miss? Any non-obvious recs?
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
casual note that IGF submissions close in a week and a half so if you were thinking of getting a game in this year, time's running short! (It's fine if your build isn't bug-free right now, you can patch it over the course of the competition - esp if you submit via a steam key)
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Excited to check this one out!
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
The End of Oak Street rules, so glad I caught it in a theater
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 27/08/2026
We are here in a booth sponsored by the German government. Here's the PRESIDENT OF GERMANY this morning, posing in front of a game that Steam considers too pornographic for this whole country.
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The Secret Lives of Games @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
We'll be chatting with @messhof.bsky.social about Blood Dungeon tomorrow for a new episode! Send us your burning questions (by noon CST) and we'll pass them along on the show!
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Blood Dungeon rules and I need some competition on PS5
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
yep This is the Thing
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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
sad how if you drive past some trees it turns them into visual slop. same thing for buildings in a neighborhood. you have to slow down and look at individual objects to remove the slop effect
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Tim | Pixel Pea Games @pixelpeagames.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Cozy Marbles, my small marble run building game, is available on Steam NOW! aaah! #newgame #indiegame
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
The Dr. Manhattan time/year meme except it’s about me visiting Austin, TX to see The Impossibles play live
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🫀nenetto [🌳 Deku edition ▿] @nenetto.com · 17/08/2026
By www.jwz.org/blog/2026/08...
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Months ago @harris.zone posted his InKind referral link and that started me on a journey of saving a shit ton of money eating at a bunch of local restaurants I would have anyways. Super good find! It’s a bit like Groupon was but with no friction or awkwardness. app.inkind.com/refer/KC6X57G7
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every day is Halloween! @jennatar.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
"uhh... plenty people throughout the history of humankind have never played Rez" yeah well MAYBE that's the whole problem
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Harris Foster @harris.zone · 15/08/2026
Months ago Nick retweeted me so it’s my duty to retweet him here. I’m still shilling this restaurant app and I’ll be calling on y’all soon to help me pay for my entire wedding reception dinner through InKind referrals.
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Months ago @harris.zone posted his InKind referral link and that started me on a journey of saving a shit ton of money eating at a bunch of local restaurants I would have anyways. Super good find! It’s a bit like Groupon was but with no friction or awkwardness. app.inkind.com/refer/KC6X57G7
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
We're excited to announce that applications are open for the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant 2026 🎉 The grant will award $15,000 to five thinky puzzle game developers from all over the world, and a year's mentorship with genre veterans. Deadline: September 27th More info 👇
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Evil Island record is out, 3/5ths of Blood Brothers if you enjoyed 'em. Not for the faint of ears. evilisland.bandcamp.com/album/terraf...
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Terraform the Afterlife, by Evil Island
13 track album
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futuredadOfTwo🙋🏻‍♂️ @lacroixboi.dadguy.pro · 06/01/2025
practically impossible to order eggs over easy by walkie talkie
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Brady Soglin @bradysoglin.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
i'm hiring a part-time 3D artist to help define the look of a new game! if this sounds like your jam, please apply! :)
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 13/08/2026
Alright y'all, this is it! The final stretch for the game industry hardship fund. We've got $13k to raise in 14 hours to meet the final goal, I think we can do it. itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
I've been giving some feedback on this, and while it's still early, this may just end up being a game-changer for release management (which is terrible on...basically everything except Itch?), ESPECIALLY for indies. And it has good people behind it. Give it a peek!
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Prototype screenshot for one of the new games I'm working on, artfully composed by @cabezotta.bsky.social.
a cool composition of a red, boarded-up door, pulled from a greybox game build
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Amazing! What a lovely surprise this is. I thiiiink Eufloria was the first game I ever signed (back in my earliest PlayStation days), kicking off my journey of convincing bigger companies to give a shit about smaller games.
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mark leidner @markleidner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
watching nba highlights, on youtube, on my phone, no headphones, full volume, at the bar, at the olive garden, in the mall, before 11am, on a sunday, during the offseason, in my hometown, which I have never left,
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
heyyyyy IGF submissions for this year are open! If you're making a cool indie game I would love it if you would submit it! If you're thinking about it but not sure, I outline some reasons why you might (or might not) in detail here auratriolo.com/blog/2024/09...
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Aura’s IGF Submissions Advice – AURAMBLES
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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Reminder that Denshattack! absolutely rules.
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