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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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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 16h

Post brought to you by the following albums: evilisland.bandcamp.com/album/terraf... deady.bandcamp.com/album/hunka-... emperorx.bandcamp.com/album/unifie...

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 16h

And now, in 2026, I present to you the other side of that coin, a righteous implement of rebellion and catharsis, one I can't imagine not having in my life in this moment: punk.

A Twitter post I made about ska in early lockdown, right before it blew up again, that says: "I think we've all forgotten about a tool in our arsenal, an upbeat engine of positivity and celebration in these dark times, your old friend: ska."

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 20h

Oh wow thank you!!!!! I'm so glad you're digging it.

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Design Room @designroom.site · 23h

Big new story! The best 8,000 words you'll read on Vib-Ribbon today.

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Vib-Ribbon: An oral history

Almost 27 years later, we round up the team behind NanaOn-Sha's procedurally generated playground to look at the legacy of PlayStation's wireframe rabbit.

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Still wild that we got a 9/10 from EDGE

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Nathan Bulmer @natemorebikes.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Have really been enjoying these posts btw

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Oh snap! Nice, enjoy!! I don’t even have that new cover yet. (Hey @bossfightbooks.com can you hook it up please?) :-)

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

😎😎

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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

SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE

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gamera obscura october edition @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

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 "rupert pumpkin" 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?

GDT:

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…

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

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Aw thanks much Jamie! For this and the many years of support. <3

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I hope you're right too! I also feel like you're basically describing Roblox in that post, so worth thinking about its holistic impact on games culture...

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Fun to get back on the hosting horse with a rad jam like this

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

is that you or Bennett? I'd say that people playing music with their friends doesn't cut into LISTENING to music time at all (or the way that sustains artists), like it will for games. also I think the general quality of games is going to plummet, so I suppose I'll take that bet, to our demise.

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

AI is already eating into the small margin left in music, and that's about to happen on game storefronts too (who have no incentive to give a shit or change, as they never have). so I suppose ultimately I'm agreeing with you. :-)

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

also, on the consumer end there's infinite amazing music, but fewer and fewer people making it are making any money from it, it's purely passion projects. and most indie bands tour at a loss, even. the infinite sea of games (that consumers already have, functionally) is about to become a LOT worse.

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I think that is...probably not true for most people? Maybe compared to music but I think it's still vanishingly few relative to the whole, especially to be sustainable i.e. matter for the purposes of this conversation. But I get your distinction.

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Worth noting that independent music has become commercially fucked because of streaming services and the means of distribution, not because it became easier to make. (Which it did, and so did film.) So yes, we're fucked, but for different reasons!

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)

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Like its existence or takes on the trailer?

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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Apparently You Can See Everything is 174 minutes long. Great news gets even better.

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Patrick @vectorpark.com · 07/09/2026

Cars are famously a great technology to have redesigned civilization around

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Yep between this and History of Concrete I’m pretty much set for movie hype

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.

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thank you so much!!

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Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Thanks for all of the amazing recs!!

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Oooo thank you!! Kiddo is ~1.5 years old

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks so much, this is all excellent!!

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Any of those besides cocktails! Ideally something I can bring a toddler along to, but not critical.

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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...

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)

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Excited to check this one out!

Nick Suttner @nsuttner.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

The End of Oak Street rules, so glad I caught it in a theater