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happy (belated 😔) birthday johnny!

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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 21h

Literally one of the best short games I ever played and you can get it for free, and there's also a game I worked on in there (hanged man) that's pretty fun (and a bunch of other cool games)

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

fixed! apologies for that, i have that on by default to avoid annoyance. the post is now qrt-able

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

the first game i worked on extensively, "An Outcry", is on sale at a low 50% off with the Steam autumn sale! it's got those autumn-night colors, takes place in october, and has some jack-o-lantern type birds! (don't worry about the birds.) store.steampowered.com/app/1817470/...

A flurry of silhouetted cars with red taillights, bumper on bumper, streaming down a busy road. On the left of the road is a tall building - a subway station - built by Otto Wagner. On the right, there is an apartment building, and a tiny person in purple. There is text at the top, which reads: "The Vienna city belt."

A rotten, soot-covered political poster for a political party called "AFP", in front of the Austrian flag. The candidate's face is scratched and burnt away. Text at the top reads, decoding the poster: "'We will not be silence!' (Our crimes should go unpunished.)

A man-sized, raven-like being with a black mask and glowing, burning insides, opening its beak and jovially holding up a beer-bottle while smoking a cigarette. A textbox at the bottom of the screen, spoken by this being, reads: "settle down among your kin, have a drink, kid, settle in!"

The courtyard of a Vienna apartment building, covered in grey birds with glowing orange eyes. Most of the screen is bathed in darkness; only a spotlight shines on the person who emerged out into it, a bald person with a bandage around their head and a black censor bar over their eyes. Text at the bottom of the screen reads: "Your curtain may be calling. Breathe, unnamed. Know what you have to do."

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Bryce B @brycebucher.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Fatum Betula on sale btw

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Jamathan @jamathandev.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

It has just occured to me that the TALON TOWERS gameplay showcase was set to unlisted this entire time... So I'm just posting the link again because why not: www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJUO... Whislist TALON TOWERS on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5272510/...

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Ａ．Ｄｅｇｅｎ　Ａｒｔ @adegenart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

THE EARTH HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED; MANKIND HAS ATTAINED THE ABILITY TO DOUBLE-JUMP PART ONE IN THE NEW FUTURE JUMPERS SERIES FROM thecatamites INTERNATIONAL OBSESSION w/ some art by me and music from @demonshome.bsky.social thecatamites.itch.io/internationa...

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BáiYù 🏳️‍⚧️ he/they | TMPJ!!! @baiyu.tofu.rocks · 26/09/2026

⚠️ URGENT, SHARES APPRECIATED ⚠️ A disabled + native T4T couple I'm friends with is getting illegally evicted after months of fighting with bureaucracy. They need help with court costs & new apartment application fees ASAP. $650/$2065 Cashapp: cash.app/$talteal PayPal: www.paypal.me/tallestteal

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

oh my gosh this looks stunning

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The game has some truly special places and people in it - from the most awe-inspiring vistas sketched by mad artists, to the most dismal graveyards to dead dreams pockmarked by traces of horrific violence. a world that builds higher and higher in search for safety, but finds something else.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

lrp i worked on the narrative design / writing for Talon Towers! @jamathandev.bsky.social is a staggeringly cool developer to work with; you write a place and a situation and it becomes real in such a breathtaking way. i'm honored to be collaborating with him and @hyphinett.bsky.social !

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Jamathan @jamathandev.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I'm very excited to reveal my new platforming adventure game TALON TOWERS, that I've been working on in collaboration with @quinnkdev.bsky.social and @hyphinett.bsky.social! Full Gameplay Showcase: youtu.be/nJUOSt1bgyE Wishlist TALON TOWERS on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5272510/...

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

have you tried pitching to Deep Hell?

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choo @choodraws.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

butcher bird 🪶

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

i'll do it for the stories i want to tell, while i can't do it for anything else.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

life is a struggle. living right is difficult, and living into an age you never thought you'd get to is moreso. i need to push through, somehow.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

back to she/her. (even if my brain says i don't deserve it.)

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whistling in the dark @candiedreptile.at.app.wafrn.net · 23/09/2026

death, life... secret third thing #blanksword

morceau's corpse at the foot of the tree, hands clasped over his chest, ceramic skin cracking in many places as black locust saplings sprout from inside

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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Do you remember the Nice Orb from the Demo? The thing that lets you buy permanent upgrades? Now, it's called the Cloud Chamber and here's @casey-the-bird.bsky.social 's concept art for it :] I'll show you what it looks like in-game in the next Kickstarter update! ...if I don't forget...

A beautiful bottle-like structure with "Nuages" written on its door

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

also, it's been fantastic to see a lot more art online inspired by 3dwiscr, and forums in general! first gorgon's garden by @squp.bsky.social and @feverdreamsoft.works , then this cool piece! keep it up, everybody! keep making stunning art!!

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i like how much the small window into the characters on these forums, what they share and what they don't, says about each one of them. a marked lack of pronouns on a specific character can help infer a connection, and the whole thing is definitely startlingly accurate to forum times of yore...

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

lrp: this new piece of unfiction from blackle is excellent hypertext literature. found lots of little secrets, nooks and crannies (in part by doing my usual compulsive web-page saving). i recommend it highly! >:)

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp...

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

some day, my hand-drawings will be as good as my pixel art again. some day.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

trying to draw way more frequently again. woe! it is upon you! Jacques the Fatalist from Blanksword.

A marble statue-esque being, chubby, with the pincers of an earwig on his head sits on a black branch and looks down at an abyss.

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Shannon Strucci @strucci.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

SPEAKING OF TASKMASTER I am paneling at @multiversecon.bsky.social in Peachtree City this October! And one of the panels I'm on is a Taskmaster-style competition! I am unbelievably excited! Got some other cool panels too about horror and video games!

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Bryce B @brycebucher.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

been playing max payne on gba, little nicky on gbc, and donkey kong on gb. Each of them is kinda unexpectedly swagged out in their own way. What a beautiful and surprising world this can be. Follow your dreams. I love you.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

even if you turn your head to try to compute this, you're fucked. now the writing no longer makes sense or is readable. they put one of those bogus intelligence tests into the Game Maker manual and the joke is on us.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Game Maker is a kind of game engine created by very friendly aliens

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tobyfox @tobyfox.undertale.com · 16/09/2026

A friend found one of my business cards from 13 years ago

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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Kitet made tremendous progress with the new Brain-Part-specific sprites in the past month - this is what you'll be looking at when BLANK goes into Battle with the Bookish Termites :]

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O. Kaya | Wishlist HRSPWR @oksoft.itch.io · 14/09/2026

A year+ worth of progress on my racing game! #indiegames #racinggames #indiedev #arcaderacing

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

it's this that made me re-examine the games from the beginning on and realize they've had a lot of derivative stuff to them at a baseline. it's just blended so well and normally realized with such competency that i didn't really realize it. man.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

how are we feeling fellow layton fans im not feeling so great

the image of Professor Layton near-dead on the ground, edited to say: "My injuries were so Level-5, I was genAI for a month. I was lucky to be DEAD"

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

the miasmatic storm is just too loud lately, the rudder too rambunctious in our hands. i love making games, but i no longer love what games are made to be. we need to counter-steer, together.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"games were a promise", a text document on my computer, written tonight. with apologies to efrim menuck, and hopes i didn't rope "my contemporaries" in wrongly.

videogames were a promise.

they were a cultural medium that said, in a hoarse and bitcrushed voice first, then rising in definition, in clarity, with each generation:

"we can tell stories that truly involve you."

you slot this cartridge or this disk in, lock it and load it, and here you are:
adversary to my ones and zeroes.
here you are, an abstracted you on the screen that moves when your thumb will it.
here you are, surrounded by a facsimile of the real or imagined.
here you are, the piece on the board.
here you are, the driving force of meaning.

you, the player.

but games are breaking their promise.

games no longer need a player.

like the stock market, like cryptocurrency, like gambling apps that bet on sports or elections or plagues. they are now a sign without a referrent; they are a plus sign or a minus sign. always online, they are disconnecting from the humane and the human; they sever themselves violently from the human beings that create them, in great bundles of thousands at a time, tens of thousands last year, and that number is finished rising, rising, going up like the line it feeds to its meatgrinder.
their physical manifestations flag and crumble; they sever themselves from the players, too, like a disputed belonging in a divorce. "you will own nothing and be happy"; in owning nothing, you will be an owned object. ownership of things is wealth; ownership of people is dominion, is domination.

stream the newest live service, always online. listen to the latest heinous voice piece of more or less artificial intelligence blather every few seconds, filling the silence, painting over reflection to prevent introspection, or contemplation, or any thought. do nothing, and watch the cutscene as a you-less "you" shatters the skulls of human beings, lovelessly rendered by artists whose trauma was irreplaceable by generative A.I. (the hurt of an intelligence must be real for the later lay-offs to doubly sting).

games are turning into a torture device for anyone willing to hear them out.

the people making games are livestock to be cut.
the people buying games are numbers going up.
the people playing games are rats in boxes.
the people loving games hate games and themselves for hating games.

it's like the promise was written on sand, washed away in the deluge.

and people like me want to be a rock. people like my contemporaries, who heard the siren song of the promise lead them to shore, want to sing upon it to break more people's hearts.

i've spoken to people who only play antediluvian games, now. who play ur, or chess; who play the NES, the SNES, the PSX, something, anything other than the rot-driven, digital asbestos-riddled, untouched by human hands and untouching of human hearts aphasia that is modern video games.
that turn away from the cost of doing business to give business to only the old, or the small.

but people like me are starving on the rocks. there is no boat coming to us, bringing us sustenance. we are dying.

we want to be the change of the tide; but this system doesn't give change to those like us, who sing.
it only takes.

please let our games be good.
please let our games be ours.
please let our games be played.
please let our games be real.
please let our games be loved.

this is a pamphlet towards a radical humanity in game development and fandom.

games are made by humans for humans to play; they are not made of humans for humans to consume.

games are made of code, they are not made of claude.

games are made of art, they are not generated.

games are a promise.

say it again, with meaning, this time.

- Quinn K.

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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Here's Casey's most recent contribution to the project, a very intricate and beautiful piece for the new Gates in the Finite Forest, which are now themed after the 3 main factions present there :]

A big fuckass gate made of mushrooms that look cool as hell

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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Hi everyone, I'm very pleased to announce that we have **2 new team members* on Blanksword! @casey-the-bird.bsky.social is one of our community regulars and a wonderful pixel artist, and @thuswinnie.bsky.social is a fantastic composer (we found out we were fans of each other, so I invited him!)

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

how do you keep on top of the washing-up? (please don't say "i have a dishwasher" 😭)

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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Gen-AI and "AI Gaming" are nothing but the spiritual successor of NFTs and Metaverse Gaming, except 10x worse because it's built on the back of plagiarism machines that fry the oceans to produce loveless slop. I'd rather get Blanksword-Opening-Cutscened in the groin than being associated with this.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

something to be said about the simple joy of drawing too of our characters just standing there, pondering... 😌

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

A Dad joins the fray. Horizon. Dad. do not separate them. #Blanksword

Too statuesque characters standing there, thinking; pondering. one, named Horizon, has large eyes and horns in the style of a bobcut, the other, named Dad, is bespectacled with two glowing, firefly-like horns. Horizon wears a white, short-sleeved dress shirt with a dark-blue tie, dark-blue pants; Dad wears heavy garden boots and one garden glove, alongside an orange, dad-like turtleneck sweater.

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