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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 28/09/2026

In a related post to my previous one about the new Silent Hill, this #indiegame set in a depressingly awful housing estate looks like a lot of joyriding fun. I hope they keep the janky OTT car physics.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 27/09/2026

Hey @netflix.com - it’s okay, I don’t need you to ‘deliver even more value for my membership’ and offer 85 new releases next month, as you already have more shows & films than I could watch in my entire lifetime. So there’s no need to increase my ’includes ads’ plan fee by 33%. #enshittification

A partial screenshot of an email from Netflix with the following text:

Thanks for letting us entertain you since 2025. Starting on 27 October, we're updating our prices to bring you even more exciting, new entertainment. Your monthly total will increase from £5.99 to £7.99.

Why are prices changing?

We're updating our prices to deliver even more value for your membership. Expect fresh, can't-miss films, series, live and exclusive content every week to keep you entertained. Next month alone, you can expect more than 85 new releases.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 26/09/2026

I’ve been so down-in-the-dumps of late and grumpy about everything, including this little one’s annoying shenanigans, but having her curl up on me like this at the end of a crappy #caturday makes things not seem so terrible.

A cutely curled up tuxedo cat on a very lucky lap.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 24/09/2026

I've never had any interest in playing any Silent Hill game until I saw this. It looks like where I live. Getting by in a town like this is the real survival horror. #Sheffield #videogames #depression

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 24/09/2026

This is a good visual metaphor for #gamedev using generative AI to code… it gives the illusion of competency and creativity without an understanding of what the hell is going on.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 15/09/2026

See this? I want the opposite of it. I would buy a Switch 2 if they offered it as a screenless brick you plug into a TV. Just a regular game console with a regular gamepad. Charge me £269 instead of £419 and I’ll buy all the games. I’m too old to be squinting at handhelds with fiddly controls.

A retail boxed Nintendo Switch Lite in turquoise.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 06/09/2026

This little shit drew blood yesterday, after I tried to close the blind to block her view of the local cow cat that bullies her for encroaching on it‘s territory. She won’t listen to me when I tell her it was here first and she should just stay out of its way and ignore it. #caturday

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 04/09/2026

Tomb Raider (1996): Lara runs! Lara jumps! Lara climbs! Lara shoots! Lara pisses off dinosaurs! Lara raids tombs! Tomb Raider (2027): Lara doomscrolls recipe websites full of pointless waffle, ads, mailing list popups, erroneous AI summaries, etc etc etc. #gamedev #enshitification #indiegames

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 03/09/2026

I’ve had to make some very difficult choices about my personal life & career this year. I turned to #gamedev again to help with a creative outlet but I just can’t decide what to do. So I’ve been distracting myself with video games, because they are fun & cool & choices really don’t matter… Oh no.

A screenshot from the video game Life Is Strange, with the distressed and distorted face of main character Max Caulfield, and two on-screen buttons, one next to the words SACRIFICE CHLOE and one next the words SACRIFICE ARCADIA BAY

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 01/09/2026

That GIF is a good depiction of me and my mental health after taking voluntary redundancy in July, thinking I might chill out for a month and do a bit of #gamedev

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 29/08/2026

I’m too tired to do it myself, so here is my cat screaming into the abyss on my behalf. #caturday

A black & white tuxedo cat sitting on a windowsill - it is screaming into the abyss, allegedly, but actually seems to be yawning. It’s facing a spikey plant in a colourful pot. The view out the window is of a block of flats opposite, which look closer than they.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 28/08/2026

Same. Going to take up painting again, and do some mentoring and care work, I think. As for my #gamedev hobby… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 24/08/2026

I challenge anyone to watch this documentary entirely constructed of archival footage and not feel any or all of the following things: 1. sick to the stomach with anger 2. a barely controllable need to weep 3. a desire to commit an act of homicidal vengeance on behalf of the planet

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Watch The White House Effect | Netflix Official Site

Warnings about climate change divide George H.W. Bush's White House at a pivotal moment for the planet in this documentary told through archival footage.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 19/08/2026

I‘ve wanted to get on with #gamedev but I haven’t finished my online #ADHD assessment, so I spent 2 hours completing the last & longest of the 12 multi-section online forms… and the site crashed, logged me out, and I lost everything that I wrote. WHY DID IT NOT SAVE AS IT WENT? I HAVE ADHD FFS!!!

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 09/08/2026

It’s one week since I left my job and I’ve already had one mental breakdown from lack of sleep and an inability to #gamedev, so I’ve decided to give up the following: - alcohol - caffeine - prescription meds - social media - society - food - water - air I might still play #indiegames though.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 01/08/2026

It’s the #caturday after I officially finished my university creative tech job of 21 years, following taking voluntary severance. I have very mixed feelings. Going to spend the summer meditating, touching grass, maybe doing a little #gamedev, and chillin’ with my Emotional/Wrist Support Cat.

POV photo of a computer desk with a tuxedo black cat lying on it, stretched in front of a keyboard. The photographers bare arm is resting across the cat, with fingers on the keys to the left.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 31/07/2026

Thought I’d share a post about generative AI / LLMs by the main chap from one of my fave bands. One of the best pieces I’ve read about using such tools to generate ‘art’, and questioning the world view of tech bro fascists and their creativity-devoid champions who *just don’t get it*.

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What is the point of art? | J. Willgoose, Esq. / Public Service Broadcasting

Dear Listeners, Today, before I head off for a soundcheck for James Borrer's benefit concert, I want to write about something that's been bo

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Jeremy C. Shipp @jeremycshipp.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Generative AI is an attempt by tech bros to own our voices, our experiences, our creativity, our hard work. They want to feed our creative efforts into a machine so that they can profit off of it. AI art is hollow and soulless and without human intention.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 19/07/2026

Send help! Within a month I’ve gone from ”I really getting somewhere with #Defold & Lua” to “I’m totally digging #Unity again & maybe C# isn’t all that bad” to “Maybe #Godot is the way forward after all as GDscript is awesome & I wish I had stuck with it.” #gamedev is hard for my aging #ADHD brain.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 18/07/2026

This makes me so sad, and so angry at the sort of gamers who continually air their grievances in the most unthinking way, no matter how justified their cause. Teeto is awesome, and such #indiegames do not deserve to be the target of this campaign.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 15/07/2026

Teeto just released, and at a great price too, even before the release discount! I’ve been so looking forward to this charming colourful old skool 3D platformer. The demo was great and played well on my Steam Deck, but it deserves the big screen experience. Congratulations to EPG! 🥳🥳🥳

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 12/07/2026

I have a new idea for a low-interaction minimalist 3D space haulage game, sort of a cross between Homeworld, No Man’s Sky, Euro Truck Simulator 2 and a screensaver. I was wondering how to implemented this, and then find out that a few days ago it was announced EVE ONLINE code was being open-sourced.

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CARBON - Eve Online Game Engine Open Sourced!

YouTube video by Gamefromscratch

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 10/07/2026

I don’t know what it says about me that of all the fellow #gamedev stuff I follow, the two #indiegames that I am most looking forward to are a menacing monochrome VHS-pilled shooter set in a brutalist concrete megastructure with impossible geometries and dark shapeshifting entities, and Teeto.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 10/07/2026

What’s interesting to me is that the whole ‘friendslop’ phenomenon is quite possibly spurned on by grown-up former Roblox kids making and playing such fun games in proper engines beyond that horrible janky exploitative platform of end-stage capitalist shite.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 10/07/2026

I’d not heard of this before, & apparently it bombed, but I just watched it on Netflix & really loved it. Not the kid-friendly romp I was expecting, but a combination of gritty family drama, gangland action movie, & mysterious sci-fi thriller reminiscent of one of my fave films, Midnight Special.

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Kin (2018) | Rotten Tomatoes

Discover reviews, ratings, and trailers for Kin (2018) on Rotten Tomatoes. Stay updated with critic and audience scores today!

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 09/07/2026

Do you think it would be a terrible idea to make a clone-like of a successful #indiegames darling based on an amusing pun on its name, with a simplified shorter gameplay loop & progression, totally different aesthetic & setting, but with combat based on wordplay & insults instead of, er, combat?

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 07/07/2026

All the latest game dev news only underlines my certainty that capitalism is cooked, corporations are evil, and billionaires need to be boiled alive.

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Revolution Guillotine

Alt: An animated guillotine

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 02/07/2026

The struggle is real.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 26/06/2026

The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker on GameCube was Peak Graphics That Has Never Been Bettered. That is the hill that I’m dying on.

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The Legend of Zelda: Link on Outset Island

Alt: The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker’s Link running across a bridge on Outset Island

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 23/06/2026

A good review, but he is a bit hard on the creators and proponents of AI… And by a bit hard, I mean not anywhere near hard enough. Anything short of calling for their heads on spikes, and the forced liberation of their hardware from data centres before burning them down, is weak sauce 😉

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 22/06/2026

This is a pretty cool site. Easily curate a list of 9 #indiegames on Steam that you’d like to see signal-boosted. These are not ‘fave games’ particularly, and are not in any particular order... just good little games old & new that might not be all that well known. 9games.pages.dev/s/j2rqoaoe

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もっと広めたいSteamゲーム9選 / 9 Steam Games I Want to Spread

同時に自分に合ったゲームも見つかる / Find games that suit you, too.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 20/06/2026

I’m too hot & bothered & brainfried to do any more #gamedev work today, either on my Defold game ‘scaffold‘, or some complex Roblox (ew!) stuff I’m trying to suss out for my young friend. So for #ScreenshotSaturday this is from our play yesterday - creating accidental civic art in Flashing Lights.

A screenshot from the Flashing Lights emergency services simulator game, depicting a police officer standing in a tunnel entrance looking up at a vertically oriented police car impossibly mounted on a wall with all its doors open and lights lit, looking like surreal civic installation art.

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Lay @awfukellay.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

I spent more time thinking about whether I should post this or not, rather than thinking what I'm gonna say. Anyway, Hi, you can call me Kellay, I'm 21 from Iraq and I do Pixelart. #pixelart #portfolioday

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 18/06/2026

My scaffold for #indiegames #MadeWithDefold is coming along nicely, lots of progress made in the past 4 days. I will be sharing this with the #Defold #gamedev community, but I really recommend beginners try doing it themselves before even starting to make a game - it's a great learning experience.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 18/06/2026

A screenshot of my #DuckDuckGo browser, detailing 7 days of tracking thwarted. Over 107,000 attempts, of which all but 400 are by one company... #Google really are a cancer on the web, aren’t they? Only bested by AI data-scrapers & endless bots, both of which they also responsible for a good chunk.

As detailed in the post text, a screenshot of DuckDuckGo’s web browser tracking report for the past 7 days.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 17/06/2026

I will never use any AI/LLMs for anything, in #gamedev or beyond. Not for search, not for coding, not for writing, not for generating assets. They are accelerating the #enshittification of everything & causing untold harm to real creative people in so many ways, as well as to the environment.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 16/06/2026

Forza Horizon 6 has 33,333 reviews on Steam? HALF-LIFE 3 CONFIRMED!

An edited screenshot from a part of the Steam homepage interface. Featuring capsule art of the Forza Horizon 6 game, which shows it is marked Very Positive from a total of 33,333 reviews.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 16/06/2026

Closing Double Fine and Ninja Theory would be a crime against humanity.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 13/06/2026

Further to my previous post, heres something I’m doing in #Defold. There’s no actual gameplay, because I’m building a structure for use in future projects. I might share the source for this when done to help other beginners. See alt text for more details. #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 13/06/2026

As a struggling older hobbyist #gamedev I wish there were more complete tutorials and guides that focus on overall structure and flow, rather than the minutia of a specific game mechanic or genre. I want to know the best practices of building the scaffolding that any game could sit within. [1/3]

A colourful photo (or photorealistic CGI) of a smiling bearded Lego building engineer character standing on some Lego scaffolding, with a secondary character at work with a wrench in the background to his right

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 11/06/2026

As a very tired (and soon to be ex-) web developer who rarely uses JavaScript, tries to stick to web & accessibility standards, and avoids third party code libraries, I am sick of the #Enshittification of the modern web. Everything sucks, and I’m adopting the following site as my spirit animal.

motherfuckingwebsite.com

Motherfucking Website

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 09/06/2026

Another lovely video by /noclip... makes me want to do another #gamedev jam at some point. Only done one before, the LÖVE Jam 2022 - it was a trial by fire as I’d not really used that framework or the Lua language before, but I was pleased with what I did and came 23rd out of 64 entrants.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 06/06/2026

A new Fumito Ueda game? Goosebumps and onion eyes. And that was before I watched the trailer. Looks like somewhat of a departure from his previous titles, but I’m still excited - Shadow Of The Colossus is my favourite game, and I’m sure it’ll have a good dose of that title’s melancholic strangeness.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 04/06/2026

With all the recent hype about the #Backrooms movie, maybe I should resurrect my first #Godot 3D project from 2022, when It was cool the first time around. Unfortunately, I decided to wait for Godot 4, was disappointed in that, jumped to Unity, and found myself trapped in tutorial and burnout hell.

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owdoo @owdoo.itch.io · 04/06/2026

I’m almost 58 and a hobbyist gamedev. I’m planning on making games for retired people. Here are some of my ideas: - Garden Shed Simulator 2 - Cozy Chemo Clinic - Get Off My Lawn! - Colonoscopypunk 1977 - Readers Digest 3: Hellbound - Pull The Ladder Up Behind You - Proctologists Playtime (VR)

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