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Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · 25/07/2025

I've looked & I could have missed it, maybe its saved in their drafts but @ukieofficial.bsky.social TIGA, BFI, that new video game council. Which UK body representing games is stepping up to publicly speak about the mass censorship of the cultural form they represent? www.polygon.com/news/615910/...

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Adult games are forcing the game industry into a spiritual crisis

Itchio joins Steam in pulling games due to pressure from extreme groups with an ongoing campaign aimed at payment processors

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why would the story not be true? i'm always being true @dcellgames.com · 24/07/2025

credit cards shouldn't tell you what to buy. you're supposed to tell the credit card what to buy. thats the point i think

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Ella "RATTLE ME BONES" M 💀 @ecmsquared.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

It's #PortfolioDay! As my search for gainful employment continues, please check out mine and consider me for your narrative writing needs (the weirder the better) 🤠 📚 Portfolio: www.immersionruined.com 🐱 Baldur's Gate 3 showreel: youtu.be/jfKfc7F9kuY 💾 Dates & Wires showreel: youtu.be/XXmGzAHW1IM

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Ella "RATTLE ME BONES" M 💀 @ecmsquared.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

It's #PortfolioDay! As I'm still searching for gainful employment, please check out my Baldur's Gate 3 showreel (and the portfolio linked therein) and consider me for your narrative writing needs (the weirder the better): www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfKf...

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Kevin VanOrd 🏳️‍🌈 🐻 @fiddlecub.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Kudos to everyone writing sex scenes because they're horny. Do it as often as you like.

Bluesky post: To me it's only pointless when there's no context for why it's happening.

People having sex just because the author got horny? Cringe.

People having sex because of themes in the story that have built up to that moment? Tends to be interesting.

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Lucy Blundell 💜💚 Wishlist Ace & Aro: Heart-to-Heart on Steam! @kinmoku.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

These days, 'indie’ either means solo hobbyist or multimillion dollar companies using the word 'indie' to market themselves, but there are SO many developers in-between: professional, long-term devs who haven't grown into a huge studio – perhaps due to funding or simply because they don't want to.

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GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

The Game Developers Conference released its annual State of Games Industry survey today, which found that one in ten developers were laid off in 2024 Overall, 41% of developers were impacted by layoffs last year compared to 35% in 2023 www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-survey-4...

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GDC Survey: 41% of devs affected by layoffs in 2024

The Game Developers Conference released its annual State of Games Industry survey today, which found that one in ten de…

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Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Back in 2021, PMG reported on the unseen games industry crunch taking place at outsourcing studios in SE Asia. Since then, the companies we looked at have continued to work on some of the biggest games in the world, without any push to improve the conditions of the artists doing that work. (1/7)

The video thumbnail for PMG's original documentary, showing a white, American hand clasping cash in exchange for the labour of a Southeast Asian workforce, represented here as being weighed down by their immense workload.

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 26/12/2024

Part of why Netflix seemingly can't produce anything good or memorable is that "showing people exactly what they want" sucks the life out of artistic creation. No one has their life changed by a movie created in a lab to appeal to their exact marketable demographic.

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Truly the most abrasive thing about The Butterfly Site is that people are obssessed with talking about how Things Are Done Over Here in a way that ignores how the platform is built capaciously, allowing many of the same bad behaviors (and actors) from other sites.

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 15/12/2024

we toured a 3-bedroom duplex yesterday just for fun and it was $1.55M lmaooooooooooooo We were the youngest ones there by at least 20 years “why aren’t the youths having more kids” bro where will we put them?

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Mary Kenney @marykgames.com · 09/12/2024

I recently did a courtesy call with an indie developer. They wanted to talk to me because their game's target audience is ... uh, me. 25-40-year-old women, many of whom are moms. They wanted to know: what did I need to pick up a game? What would bar me from playing? Here are some answers 🧵(1/?):

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Thomas Reiffer @reiffer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Recently I've had an interview for a role that was advertised as remote and turned out it wasn't, and for a role that was listed as on-site and turned out to be completely remote. It's the wild west out there, chat.

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Thomas Reiffer @reiffer.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

The one thing this whole debacle has reassured me of is my technical ability. I used to buy into the whole "if you're not pushing keys in an IDE you're not being productive" thing; but hearing very experienced devs talk about how their day-to-day looks a lot like mine has done WONDERS for my mental.

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Raj Patel @rajio.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

2024 currently has more known games industry layoffs than 2023+2022 combined. 2024 is roughly 600 layoffs away from doubling 2023. There is still plenty of business days left in the month. I can't emphasize enough how extreme these last few years have been. So far.

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Clayton @explorersdesign.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

I wrote down five awesome gifts you can get for your favorite tabletop game designers. Check it out. www.explorersdesign.com/2024-gift-gu...

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2024 Gifts for RPG Designers

Here are 5 gifts you can get for your favorite designers. No gold necessary.

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M.A. Zavala 💖💜💙 @megzavala.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

The western world is 100% run by the advertisement industry. Children will know more about every company's products before their own cultural history. Companies have replaced the gods, and profit is the religion

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Thomas Reiffer @reiffer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Hullo everyone - I'm on the hunt for my next opportunity. I'm an experienced generalist/technical designer, and I've worked for Supermassive Games and Larian Studios. If anyone has any leads, feel free to send them my way. In the meantime - peep the portfolio: www.thomasreiffer.com

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Thomas Reiffer - Experienced Game Designer

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Thomas Reiffer @reiffer.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Keeping a job listing up even when you're not hiring just to "see what candidates are out there" feels like it should be illegal.

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Thomas Reiffer @reiffer.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

#ttrpg Time for another plug for my sci-fi TTRPG: The Markov Eclipse reiffer.itch.io/the-markov-e... 4-player RPG thriller about the cost of ambition, losing your faith, and shooting a thousand bullets in a single turn:

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The Markov Eclipse - Early Access P&P by Reiffer

What will you do, when the fire is gone and the ashes are cold?

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Thomas Reiffer - Experienced Game Designer

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Thomas Reiffer @reiffer.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Has anyone on here implemented full-3D pathfinding? Like, for creatures that can hover or fly. That kind of thing. I've got my own solution I'm working on, but now I'm interested in how other people have tackled this.

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The Markov Eclipse - Early Access P&P by Reiffer

What will you do, when the fire is gone and the ashes are cold?

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Jörg Tittel @newjorg.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

We are experiencing the videogame industry’s equivalent of the 1960’s collapse of the Hollywood studio system (and it’s only just begun). It’s time for a whole new approach. Us indies are far better equipped to lead the future of games. www.ign.com/articles/the...

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The Blockbuster Games Bubble Has Burst - IGN

The AAA games industry bubble has burst, and a smaller-scale, more creative approach may be the only way for it to survive.

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M.A. Zavala 💖💜💙 @megzavala.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

this is me just being a curmudgeon at this point, but if riot insists to go into a genAI route, they might as well drop the act with their rigorous interview process. No one should have to go through a screening and six interviews just to be hired to clean up AI messes

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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

Why is it so hard to code Chess AI?

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Paul Scott Canavan @paulscottcanavan.com · 31/10/2024

✨ PALE TIDES IS LIVE ON KICKSTARTER! ✨ 🔸A brand new folk horror & witchcraft TTRPG. 🔸Become Hexen. War witches. 🔸Hunt monsters. 🔸Fight back against the Church. 🔸An original game system that uses dice & tarot. Get 10% off for the next 24 hours! www.kickstarter.com/projects/pal... #PaleTides

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PALE TIDES: A Game of Folk Horror and Witchcraft

A new horror roleplaying game by Paul Scott Canavan. A pale moon rises. Forgotten horrors stir. Gather your coven and prepare to hunt.

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Thomas Reiffer @reiffer.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Twitter has attempted to lure me back by telling me that Ironmouse and Asmongold posted recently, and for all the data that algorithm has on me it does not know me at ALL.

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Thomas Reiffer @reiffer.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

What's up bsky! I'm Thomas, and I'm a Quest/Narrative/Systems Designer. #GameDev I've worked on Baldur's Gate 3, The Dark Pictures, and recently a sci-fi TTRPG: reiffer.itch.io/the-markov-eclipse I'm also a fiend for fashion, Magic: The Gathering and martial arts. Pleased to meetcha 👋

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