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Renaud Bédard

@renaudbedard.bsky.social
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Programmer at Don't Nod Montréal, littleBits enthusiast, friend of rodents, dad. You may remember me from such games as FEZ and Cooldog Teaches Typing. Old tech ramblings @ theinstructionlimit.com

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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've started a project : making a multi-cart kinda collection of all the game jam games and other small projects I've worked on over the last ... 18 years? It's going to be a long endeavour, if only because a lot of those don't work very well on modern systems. I'm enjoying it though!
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mcc @dryad.technology · 02/09/2026
I'm super excited to announce my favorite VR game in the world, SUPERHYPERCUBE, has been ported to the Playstation®VR2, by… ~me, actually~ (with support from the original developers)! It is currently half off if you owned the PS VR1 version. If anyone you know has a PS VR2, please let them know!
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Superhypercube - Launch Trailer | PS VR2 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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House House @househouse.com · 04/08/2026
🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
Oh hey, I’m at Unreal Fest in Chicago for the next 2 days! Come say hi if we cross paths. ☺️
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
A whole 74 minutes of new @littlescale.bsky.social music just came out! What a treat. little-scale.bandcamp.com/album/clouds...
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cloudshape, by little-scale
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
This Modeselektor song has such a huge @littlescale.bsky.social vibe, I had to check whether it was actually one of his tracks! In any case, love it & anything that reminds of me of little-scale 😌 modeselektor.bandcamp.com/track/tekk-p...
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Tekk Pack, by Modeselektor
from the album Classics Vol. 1 (We tried hard and failed again... enjoy!)
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
That was a reallllllly enjoyable IGF awards ceremony, @karriebear.bsky.social knocked it out of the park. So many interesting games, so many good folks. Warms my heart and rekindles my love for games.
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
Sometimes... I wonder about the state of Burrito Galaxy and Memory of a Broken Dimension. I feel like it's my duty to throw screenshots into the ether and show how neat they looked, when I do.
A screenshot from Burrito Galaxy 65 in 2015A screenshot from xra's Memory of a Broken Dimension around 2014
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gabe cuzzillo @gcuzzillo.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
check out the fifth despelote trailer we made. it’s surprising; youtu.be/_MXKlgMZ3Jc?...
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DESPELOTE: FIFTH TRAILER (now on nintendo switch)
YouTube video by Panic
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
VVV [Trippin’you]’s GIGAMUERTE is likely one of my favorite songs that came out this year, its only problem is that it’s too damn short whereisvvv.bandcamp.com/album/mechar...
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MECHARADIO, by VVV [Trippin'you]
12 track album
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Rebbbbb @mintyreb.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Coming into Montreal for MIGS? Did you know it's also Montreal Games Week? There's whole host of games and developer related events happening throughout the same week! And it's all organized by our vibrant, local community: www.semainedujeuvideodemontreal.com
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Semaine du jeu vidéo de Montréal | MTL Games Week
Semaine du jeu vidéo de Montréal - Montréal Games Week : Un rassemblement d'événements à Montréal pour célébrer les communautés du jeu vidéo. Du 10 au 16 novembre 2025.
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
wow huh… it’s very trippy to listen to @disasterpeace.bsky.social ‘s score for It Follows for the first time. It fits the movie super well but it’s also very familiar, like it’s from an alternate reality
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I just released my first single as Borzoï, within the Merveilles Hallow 2025 mixtape! youtu.be/NmmU1voBVeU?... Recorded in one take on my usual minimalistic littleBits synth setup. 💃
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Hallow(2025)
YouTube video by Devine Lu Linvega
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Very hyped to see Autechre live for the first time tonite, and this warning email already sets the scene for something special
An email sent by the venue where Autechre is performing in Montréal mentioning the fact that the show is performed in complete darkness
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
AlphaPhoenix's latest video on ultra-high-speed recording of light travel is incredible, and you should watch it if you care about quirks of measurement at nano time scales, really good physics vulgarization or just want to see lasers hitting disco balls in slow-mo👏👏 www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Td...
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This is what the speed of light looks like
YouTube video by AlphaPhoenix
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
GOTH-TRAD sounds incredible 🤯 Getting Andy Stott vibes but without the "it's supposed to sound this crunchy" part, everything's so pristine! backtochilltokyo.bandcamp.com/album/psionics
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
Staring at the clock and my bandcamp wishlist, and slapping the counter like Judge Judy (bandcamp friday can’t come soon enough)
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v buckenham @v21.bsky.social · 25/09/2025
Consume Me is out! Get this game, I feel confident in saying, based on the demo, and based on knowing the creators, and based on seeing it develop over the last decade, that it is a masterpiece. store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...
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Save 10% on Consume Me on Steam
did you feel stupid, fat, lazy, and ugly in high school? well i did...but at least i made a life-simulation RPG about it!
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Just got at a local demoscene/tech art meetup event and there’s a bunch of commodores running demos on a table, wow
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
My bandcamp friday selection is all over the place and I love them all 💃
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
Made a very verbose 10 PRINT for Sunflower Basic 1 POKE 1, $0307, $0e1c, $3870, $e0c0 2 POKE 2, $c0e0, $7038, $1c0e, $0703 8 CLS 9 LET X:0,Y:0 10 LET A:R%2+1 11 PRINT #A; 12 LET X:X+1 13 IF X=70 PRINT "" 14 IF X=70 LET X:0,Y:Y+1 15 IF Y>39 END 16 GOTO 10 hundredrabbits.itch.io/sunflower-ba...
The result of running the aforementionned 10 PRINT program, showing the maze-like structure that emerges.
This runs on Sunflower BASIC, a BASIC interpreter built in the Uxn ecosystem.
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 30/08/2025
New Aliceffekt track, this is not a drill 💃 soundcloud.com/neauoire/ali...
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Aliceffekt - Lidou Mora Feriu
Cover image is from Huxley's Island Intro is from Coline Serreau's La Belle Verte
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
Getting Papo y Yo and The Last Guardian vibes from the first moments of @okomotive.ch’s Herdling, it’s very pretty and runs incredibly smooth on PS5 👌 the music’s lovely, too!
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 20/08/2025
The 11 year old, the 8 year old AND myself are positively obsessed with @messhof.bsky.social's Wheel World right now! It's kind of the perfect open world racing game for me 🚲💕 store.steampowered.com/app/1497460/...
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Wheel World on Steam
Dive into Wheel World as Kat, a rider chosen by ancient cycling spirits. Race elite teams, trick out your bike, and perform the long overdue Great Shift ritual to save a universe on the brink! Your bi...
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
It’s bandcamp friday, buy weird music 👏
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
@despelote.game has so much charm, it’s absolutely worth your time. The voice performances have such a unique feel! The visual style is a fresh, cahotic mess, and I dig it. It’s personal, heartfelt, doesn’t overstay its welcome. A+++ would kick various objects around leisurely again. 🫶
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Woooooow, YHWH Nailgun is blowing my mind. I'm not sure I've ever heard anything that sounds like them : yhwhnailgun.bandcamp.com/album/45-pou...
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45 Pounds, by YHWH Nailgun
10 track album
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
A friend introduced me to this 1981 minimal wave gem, which feels like it may as well have been recorded by a bunch of synth nerds last week, and it’s amazing 🔥 crashcourseinscience.bandcamp.com/album/signal...
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Signals From Pier Thirteen, by Crash Course In Science
4 track album
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 12/06/2025
Baby’s first dino completion ✨ (Dig! Dig! Dino! by @dom2d.bsky.social & @fayer.dev is a blast!)
A PlayDate handheld console playing Dig! Dig! Dino!, on a screen showing that all the bones required to scan the Scanvontoraptor have been dug up.
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
A physical game made by my wife’s grandfather… can you balance these 12 nails on a single nail?
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Hope y’all are ready for more tea adventures 😤
Five packages of different tea I received from a japan web store, and a small paper crane that was in the box
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Lost Records: Bloom & Rage Tape 2 is out now on all platforms!! I can understand wanting to go in blind, but the launch trailer is short and pretty awesome, in my biased opinion👌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yD8n...
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage | LAUNCH TRAILER - Tape 2
YouTube video by DON'T NOD
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
sunday evening thought
an pensive antropomorphized cat reading the morning journal with the text “I should replay SOTN”
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I have a birthday story. At GDC 2012, a charming couple from South Africa who were big fans of FEZ ( @mohustore.bsky.social & @ruby0x1.ca ) gifted me an AMAZING hand-knit scarf, adorned with Gomez and Zuish pixel art. It blew my mind, and quickly became one of my favourite things.
Yours truly wearing Rin's FEZ scarf, back in 2013 during a trip to Japan.
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
I've been obsessed with this flowy, expansive breakbeat banger for the past couple days 💚 prayerproduction.bandcamp.com/track/now-i-...
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Now I Know Paradise, by Prayer
from the album Now I Know Paradise
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/noclip @noclipvideo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
🚨NEW DOC ALERT🕹️ In the third episode of our Dwarf Fortress Series we cover the game's Steam launch. All the work that went into making a commercial version of Dwarf Fortress, and how it changed the lives of its creators forever. WATCH HERE: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX65...
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
@lena.fyi 's soundtrack for EARTHBLADE (which as a game did not materialize) is really worth a listen, there's so much worldbuilding and beauty in there! radicaldreamland.bandcamp.com/album/earthb...
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EARTHBLADE ~ Across the Bounds of Fate, by Lena Raine
9 track album
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
Bandcamp fridays are way too spaced out now, so I just splurged anyway am I excited to dig in 😌
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A highlight of my weekend (and of recent memory) is getting 3 of my recent art acquisions framed and installed on the walls of my home 🥰
A dragon original illustration by Beatrice BlueA space bunnies art print by SeosieA framed print of “Adrift III” by James Jean
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
Kraftwerk’s live visuals are such a unique mix of clean lines, flat shades, minimal animation... a perfect companion to every era of their sound 🫶 (and it sounded amazing)
Kraftwerk performing “The Robots” live in Montréal on 10/03/2025Kraftwerk performing “Musique Non Stop” live in Montréal on 10/03/2025Kraftwerk performing “Autobahn” live in Montréal on 10/03/2025Kraftwerk performing “Musique Non Stop” live in Montréal on 10/03/2025
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
It's surreal (and hilarious) to watch Vinny and Alex from @nextlander.com play through Lost Records: Bloom & Rage <3 www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIz_...
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Vinny and Alex Check Out Lost Records: Bloom & Rage!
YouTube video by Nextlander
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Maya @may.as · 25/02/2025
I just released the Museum of All Things version 1.0!!! You can find it at mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
It's been a wiiiiiild ride, from joining DONTNOD Montréal a bit over 2 years go, to shipping Lost Records: Bloom & Rage's first episode on 3 platforms today. 🎉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=j6zZ...
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Lost Records: Bloom & Rage | LAUNCH TRAILER - Tape 1
YouTube video by DON'T NOD
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
@robotandproud.bsky.social 's new album Bird at Sunrise just came out, and it's perfect Saturday morning music <3 iamrobotandproud.bandcamp.com/album/bird-a...
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Bird at Sunrise, by I Am Robot And Proud
10 track album
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Nina Freeman @ninamarie.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
can't believe lost records: bloom & rage is coming out literally next tuesday... i've been working on this game with dontnod for a long time now (narrative design!), and it's been so awesome. i can't wait for ya'll to meet these girls <3 wishlist and info here! woooooo dont-nod.com/en/games/los...
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Seeing Kroy in an intimate venue was so wonderful ✨
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Happy Oklou album release day for those who celebrate 😌 oklou.bandcamp.com/album/choke-...
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choke enough, by Oklou
13 track album
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Hundred Rabbits released a Playdate version of their beautiful space-bending puzzle game Oquonie 🖤 I have such fond memories of playing the iPhone version, the soundtrack melted my brain into a puddle. hundredrabbits.itch.io/oquonie
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Join me on some tea adventures! ☕️ I ordered tea from Japan and I’m excited about ‘em. Today’s tea : Sannen Bancha, 3-year old roasted green tea, with a bunch of stems. Smells somewhat funky and acidic, but goes does super smooth with a short steeping time, very flavourful.
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Renaud Bédard @renaudbedard.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Slowdive playing Souvlaki classics made me emotional 🫶
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