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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026

I miss these tabs. These tabs were peak.

Google Chrome from the 2016 material design refresh, when they had more angular tabs still but the kind of kitschy brushed aluminum gradients got stripped out

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Viv @ Home @dizzybreak.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

an occupational hazard we don't talk about enough is that if you get really good at designing video games half of all youtube videos become lethal brain toxin to you

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 02/10/2026

OK while I am mad about UI, everyone is also banned from the "everything is a card" school of design. I was recently faced with this mobile app lookin ass departure board at DFW. Putting everything in rounded boxes within rounded boxes within rounded boxes is making shit completely illegible.

DFW departures board where every flight is on a mobile ass looking card and it's a big unreadable mess

Old school split-flap display laid out like a spreadsheet

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PSX Bunlith 🪄🏳️‍⚧️ E2 OCT 16TH!!!! 🐰🌱 BLM ACAB 🇵🇸 @b0tster.yeag.gay · 01/10/2026

hey this is what i use to make textures for animations and games i work on. check it out. cheap and powerful. def give them support!!

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 16/09/2025

games in general now, not even just aaa games, are way too concerned with the player getting stuck or upset or whatever. why give a shit. The Player is not gonna put the game down as soon as they hit any friction, most of them won't even stop when the game actively makes their life worse

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 01/10/2026

This is why I'm so hardline on this shit. "Oh I'm just going to casually use the product of a corporation that's engaged in an unprecedented assault on the concept of there being such a thing as a society." Eat shit, sincerely.

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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

One of the things to come from GamerGate was the gamification of torturing real, live women...hounding them out of their homes, making them look over their shoulders for years. It was treated as a joke, nbd, the work of a few bad apples--as all terrorism against women is--& that failure leads here.

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Thomas Ha @thomasha.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

i should clarify, when i write people doing bad things, it's because i am bad. they are me. more importantly, when you read about those bad things, they also become you. that's how story works. in fact, you are going to think about murder before this skeet ends. how's that feel, sicko.

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Chet Faliszek @chetsucks.com · 22/09/2026

Reminder this is the chief strategy officer at Xbox...

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 22/09/2026

microsoft have essentially bought up and bulldozed almost an entire american arts industry as a half-hearted distraction from their main project of trying to monopolise and rent-seek global digital infrastructure and military contracts

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Matthew "Queso" Niederberger @queso2469.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Oh jeez I've still been complaining about 4 day cons

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Thew @amazingthew.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

god i love videogames. have you heard about "places"? they are called locations

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 18/09/2026

opinions on showing games at events (mostly a memo to myself for the next time i have to do it)

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @catbus.phd · 17/09/2026

'Bladerunner 2049' (2017) dir: Denis Villeneuve 📽️

real cat watching Disney's 'The Aristocats' on teevee, Dutchess is saying "you look lonely"

close up of cat in bisexual lighting with a bandage on its nose looking forelorn

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Seriously. Even if you are a monster, a person driven to hurt other people, an absolute piece of shit… Even THEN all the data demonstrates that prolonged crunch lowers productivity. Those who cling to it are ignorant, and with the evidence available, actively and intentionally so.

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Matthew "Queso" Niederberger @queso2469.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Yeah man, takeout and energy drinks, THAT'S what's gonna make the kids you're burning through like firewood unable to buy a house. Wonder why they buy so much takeout and energy drinks? MAYBE IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TIME TO COOK AND NEED CAFFEINE TO MAINTAIN YOUR SWEATSHOP.

Screenshot of article: Brammer expresses excitement over the prospect of juniors who have been in the studio for two or three years who are going to "get money to buy a house, or at least a down payment." At the same time, Bulkhead has made redundancies every year for the past six years, laying off about 20 percent of the company.

Following the studio's newfound success, Brammer jokes about having to coach said developers into not spending all their money on "takeaway and energy drinks."

"We have a new responsibility to our younger staff who are making good money, often money they haven’t seen before," he says.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

A hundred times this. Consistently disappointed by how many publishers in indie world can’t actually sell a game. Or rather, provide little value in selling a game that isn’t in the thing itself. (Lots of awesome individuals of course, often with hands tied by process and nonsense)

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

there are no words I'm allowed to say on this website that adequately describe what I think should happen to the "whistleblowers" who got people fired (and in some cases deported) for exercising their legal right to unionise :)

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Joe Tilleli @sorrywrongjoe.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Only Nintendo would have a worldwide premiere for their cafeteria

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

no one is browsing the store page and being like WOW, I HAVE TO USE THE B.R.I.K.X. TOOL TO OPEN DOORS AND GRATES? nobody is reading "play your way" and getting excited. This is not what excites people about games. What excites them is, and always will be, the fantasy. Which is harder to evaluate.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

the problem with games is that a lot of people still try to market it as technology and that only worked when it was new technology. It's mature enough now that "check out this amazing feature" no longer matters. Games-as-tech makes it easier to market a game based on lists of things in said game.

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

It's not just delivery — it's DiGiorno.

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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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Helena Fitzgerald @hellafitzgerald.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

this is excellent

stigmatizing Rowling’s weaponization of childhood not only requires personal withdrawal for most people, it necessitates something much more difficult: being a giant fucking killjoy. You should tell people discussing the show that you’re not watching it, and why, and you should let yourself openly cringe at your sister-in-law’s Harry Potter tote bag, and you should bring up unprompted that the onslaught of legislation against trans people makes you sad and angry, presuming it does, and you should do this because, not despite, the fact that it will make you look annoying as hell and may make everyone present uncomfortable. (You probably won’t even get the kudos of looking like a cool ally, because you’re still ultimately talking about Harry Potter. Sorry about that.)

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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

there's a pretty simple connection here 1. humans become good at what they practice doing 2. outsourcing to an AI or even other people, means you have stopped doing the thing 3. if you stop doing the thing, you will stop improving, and, long term, get worse at it (cont.)

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Matthew "Queso" Niederberger @queso2469.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Anyone that has ever worked in games can tell you how much a point by point highlight of things that exist is both 1) not effective tutorialization or feature surfacing 2) going to piss off your users No we don't know how to explain that to your boss either.

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Muse Games @musegames.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Our beta playlist begins September 16th! 🎉 Here's what's new: - Cargo King on more maps - Weapon and tool rebalance - New ship: The Serpent - New outfits based on your suggestions Sign up for the playtest on our Steam page now!

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 27/08/2026

man every day some pundit's on here with the latest random thing they think is the problem in the games industry, we're not original enough, not well-read enough, chasing the wrong trends, whatever. pisses me off. it's that there is no fucking money. whatever shit you think you are seeing is THAT

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

people really out there still saying a game is only good if 'your decisions matter' in the year of our lord 2026. shit's wild

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nat. @natclayton.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

something has to be done about the modern mode of games being marketed through feature-length sizzle reels.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

"Indies will save us" No! YOU WILL SAVE INDIES! Go leave a review for that neat indie game you like, share the trailer for an upcoming game you're anticipating, tell your fave developer they did a good job, go tell people about such and such game that's just come out, you can make a difference!

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Muse Games @musegames.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Are you ready for a Second Scrap? Our 2nd tournament begins in 1 hour. Get ready for dogfights, daring escapes, and big explosions in Stars of Icarus! #starsoficarus #tournament #space

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David Shimomura Halloween Edition @unwinnabledavid.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Too many people in this space ultimately only care about their ability to play games. Their entire ideology is based on the premise that games are some right accorded to them. When that's your most core belief, nothing serious can be built on top of it.

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

This was, is, and always will be a brilliantly shit illustration of how stupidly self defeating business people can be. Forgoing the universal positive of a staff self-training on their own time, because of the vague fear that one in a hundred might make some money.

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Muse Games @musegames.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Your next PvP space shooter is here. Check out the Stars of Icarus playtest on Steam! #starsoficarus #space #spacegame

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Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com · 22/07/2026

love how one of the rewards you get for making a successful game is just having a hoard of angry people yell at you for dumb shit online constantly, forever

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Matthew "Queso" Niederberger @queso2469.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Weird accomplishments: I've written for a niche sports rulebook In college my writing professor nominated my paper for a first year writing award. The paper was about how the first year writing class sucked. I'm quoted in print for Game Informer I have a long forgotten rare TF2 medal

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 21/07/2026

The main way in which AI has negatively impacted games industry jobs is not through actual automation of those jobs or even untrue claims about automation. It's by making capital unavailable because it's tied up in AI investments while also destroying the consumer base for video game hardware.

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Matthew "Queso" Niederberger @queso2469.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Many thoughts here. Great grit these teams and players. Such a shame seeing the US trying to dismantle women's sports. Sports are so much more than competition. Gender inclusive and queer sports are the future.

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RedruM @dorsalstream.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Is it good when the sun looks like this

Photo of the NYC skyline under a sky dirtied by the smoke from the California fires, and the sun appears as a perfectly round orange dot.

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Muse Games @musegames.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The Stars of Icarus playtest is LIVE until August 3rd! Join on our Steam page and give Cargo King a try --> store.steampowered.com/app/2278950/... #playtest #spacegame #indiegame

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Bruno Dies @brunodias.dev · 15/07/2026

it's funny how for decades the RIAA would carbomb teenagers for downloading one (1) song yet now these dudes are just allowed to do this shit like it's nothing

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Part 4 of my series about game design aesthetics! In this one I discuss what a personal design aesthetic is, how it comes to be, and how to nurture it. Article five, in a few weeks, will discuss the game design aesthetic of groups: studios, team, cultures. #GameDesign

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A Game Designer’s Aesthetic

In the first article, I discussed game design patterns, and called them the brushstrokes of game design. In the second article I discussed game genres,…

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Part three of my series about game design aesthetics! In this one I talk about the many decisions game designers make every day, and how they make them. Article four will come next week, where I'll finally talk about designers' personal design style—their design asesthetic—directly. #GameDesign

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A Game Designer’s Choices

Let’s talk about making choices. Full-time game designers typically make hundreds of choices every day. Most are tiny, some are more substantial. Most are made…

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Getting a lot of eyeballs at the moment, so, if you’ve also announced an indie game recently, reply here and show off your wares with a trailer. If you’re reading this later, go checkout these games and get them wishlisted (you know, just like you’ve already wishlisted Vampirium: 1997)

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P.A. Bastien @pabastien.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

FOUND IT

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