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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 23h

Oh my god Rat King real. Praise be to Deadlock.

Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The Sift is not a good name for what appears to be a realm of wonder and beauty... the word conjures up detritus and sand to me. 😅

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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

First proper full day at @stupendiumsoftwork.bsky.social today! Got a lot of work to finish off in the next few weeks, I'm so excited to show y'all what we've been cooking up over the last year.

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Bazzah @bazzah.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

My friend was recently turned into a piece of hardware. Benadryl.

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

why can't Silent Hill simply manifest from my grief a dual pair of uzis or perhaps a flaming sword

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𝕴𝖒𝖕𝖊𝖗𝖆 𝕶𝖜𝖊𝖊𝖓 C0mi55i0ns Open! @redkween.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A very quick and messy doodle of Violet with Marsh and Mellow from @polyarmorygame.bsky.social . I believe they would be lovely friends :3 #OC #fanart #art #doodle

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Bazzah @bazzah.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I remember when Alex was 9 months with Stubie - good times!

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

DoorDash spent $1.4M trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from becoming mayor. This week's historic $131.5M enforcement action against DoorDash for underpaying NYC delivery workers shows why. Yet another reminder that the only thing that can beat organized money is organized people.

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DoorDash Spent $1.4 Million Trying to Stop Mamdani From Becoming Mayor. Now We Know Why.

In a wage-theft settlement, DoorDash now has to pay its workers around 100 times what it spent trying to beat Zohran Mam

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Kane @demikane.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Thinking about TF2's lore and how this single panel from an update page's Easter Egg beats the entirety of Overwatch's writing

A fake ad from an hidden page during TF2's War update which shows an image of Fred Astaire with the texts "TAKE THE LIFE OF FRED ASTAIRE"
"MAKE HIM PAY"
"ONLY $37.53"
The bottom of the ad shows a rocket launcher with the texts "WITH THIS ROCKET LAUNCHER"
"Transfer his fame to you!!!!!"
"PO Box 857, Saratoga NJ"

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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy Birthday, Stubie! One years old today! 🎉 I promise we won't accidentally turn you off again any time soon.

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Stupendium Softworks @stupendiumsoftwork.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It is Stubies birthday today. 🎂 Learn more about our little build engine that could here: stupendiumsoftworks.com/say-hello-to...

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Say Hello To Stubie! – Stupendium Softworks

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The Stupendium @thestupendium.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

A HUGE congratulations to @remedygames.com on today's release of Control Resonant! Control is one of my favourite games of all time and Resonant is an incredible next chapter! We've been cooking up something special for the occasion... Tune in next Friday... #ad

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Crowsa Luxemburg @quendergeer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

lofi beats to study to girl found dead in kowloon walled city

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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 23/09/2026

if you’re a games company that wants to survive it has been proven over and over again you need to do whatever it takes to stay away from being publicly traded. you’ll be turned into wood chips the moment it’s convenient.

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Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 22/09/2026

Remember that Xbox is continuing to profit off of the work of the people they’ve been laying off. It’s theft.

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm so excited by some of the games (particularly indie) coming out at the moment but it's really hard to shake the feeling that the throughline between the games that first made me fall in love with the medium and the new iterations of those games coming out now has been totally severed by capital.

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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

What a terrible day for game development I say again for the tenth time this month.

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Gary J Kings 🎮🎞️ Game Trailer Maker @garyjkings.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

If you care even a little bit about the future of this medium, you'd boycott Xbox and Microsoft. Even before you get to Microsoft's ongoing role in a genocide, they don't deserve your money.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

The old games industry is dying. The new games industry is struggling to be born. Now is the time of absolutely batshit corporate decision-making.

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Kajiru =͟͟͞͞(๑ •̀д•́๑)=͟͟͞͞𖣘 @sdkfz181tiger.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

A cat that uses furniture to defeat yokai...!! =͟͟͞͞(๑ •̀д•́๑)=͟͟͞͞𖣘 #android #pixelart #gamedev #cat

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Mr John Robertson @robbotron.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Quoth the raven, “Macklemore”.

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Stupendium Softworks @stupendiumsoftwork.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All our eyes are upon you...

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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Hit a new game development milestone today: someone has drawn explicit porn of one of our @polyarmorygame.bsky.social characters.

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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I've seen games churn for months because people just won't make up their fuckin' minds.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

When I tell you we are COOKING over there 👀

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

if you say "Bloody Mary" three times in a row whilst standing in front of a bartender you will summon three Bloody Marys

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Shannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Had a photoshoot for a secret project

Three photos of me outside looking off into the distance with varying expressions. I'm wearing a white shirt and black jacket

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Kala Paint @kalapaint.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

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Steve Bowler @gameism.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

We were watching the Wolverine Sentinel footage, and... We used to call these "high chair boss battles" because the boss looks like a baby in a high chair and you're on their tray. Now you have to see it, too 😅

screenshot from the new Wolverine game with him battling a giant Sentinel. Wolverine is on a platform that comes up to the sentinel's waist. The sentinel hands can come to rest on the platform.

A mock bad photoshop of Wolverine in the same pose from the trailer shooped into a stock image of a large baby boy sitting in a high chair and crying. Wolverine is standing on the high chair tray in a similar angle and presentation to the previous game trailer screenshot

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

you will never, in your entire life, make as much money as the people who are incapable of coming up with ideas like "Miss Piggy flirts with Ryan Gosling" or "Pedro Pascal tries not to laugh at Fozzy's dumb jokes" make in a year

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CuteMonster Props @ DragonCon @cutemonster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

A week ago at Dragoncon I met Richard Garriott at a panel about his new Ultima game. Long story short he wants to use AI. He already has for concept art and ChatGPT generated fantasy language. I wrote an account with the hope that this could spread to the right people. Please pass this along.

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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Gamepull is down and I don't know what to do with my life.

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Tom Roberts @tpgroberts.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

The UK economy has three major industries: Warhammer, Onlyfans and Little Alex Horne

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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Yesterday Anna messaged me saying they were so excited to get back to working on some @stupendiumsoftwork.bsky.social stuff. The fates saw that hubris and struck it down in an instant.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 08/09/2026

the next generation of game developers don’t need a special grant for 20 geniuses to get some walking around money they need entry level jobs that a) exist and b) keep existing next quarter

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Will Jinkies 🏳️‍⚧️ @willjinkies.com · 08/09/2026

this year, Together We Climb is fundraising for @transaid.cymru ! TAC provides mutual aid to trans people in Wales and actively cultivates opportunities for people in the community to get to know each other. right now, supporting charities like TAC is more important than ever!

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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 07/09/2026

People keep asking us if they should buy Future? No Thanks! or pre-order GTA VI so we made a quick guide:

GTA VI vs Future? No Thanks! comparison chart

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

fucking wild that just because you - lay off everyone who knows how to make games - pull the funding from everyone else - stop selling games - stop making games - increase all prices on existing hardware that suddenly we're in a "crash". ok sure don't they know that AI is gonna fix all of this??

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Shayna Moon (she/they) @themoonis.gay · 03/09/2026

We’re all trying to figure out who did this 🌭

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Pretty sure Brenda Romero said this like 6 months ago. But you know, it's the games industry so a dude repeats what a woman says and suddenly everyone listens.

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Ami - BUY MY BOOK 🏳️‍⚧️📚💙 @amithero.bot · 03/09/2026

hello I am modern aaa game designer. the shareholders told me to make the game longer. I do not wish to make the game longer. they told me to make the game longer or I lose job. I make the player collect 6 potatoes for 5% damage resistance. The shareholders are happy. I've been laid off.

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Jamie D @uk-resistant.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Managed to finally get an evening of #gamedev on #RivalRacer in! Mostly just fixes right now to the handling right now and aside from some minor things, it alredy feels nice. I also put in a new test track with some test textures I did

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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I just can't believe that the corrupt liar party would engage in corruption. And lies no less!

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Alex Oxspring @oxyoxspring.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Remember when I said in that blog post that the big game companies are poisoning the very well that they drink from?

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Hollywood did this exact same thing under the nearly identical studio system after a global pandemic/financial crisis and what happened? Everyone unionized. Game studios when they hear their workers are interested in unionizing under virtually the same industry circumstances:

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BokoYoss | Wishlist Bleu Bayou @bokoyoss.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Confront yourself in Bleu Bayou. #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart

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