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lit_patches @litpatches.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath v1.01: Added some mythical dungeons, materials, and related temple quests

Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Next week I'll be at SLICE in Seattle on September 2nd, a few days before PAX. I'll be hosting some round tables called Ship Your Game! Who knew shipping a game is hard? But talking about it with a small group of gamedev folks might help. Maybe I'll see you there? seattleslice.org

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SLICE 2026: Seattle Loves Indie Creators Expo

A one-day indie game developer conference at McCaw Hall in Seattle on September 2, 2026. Panels, microtalks, roundtables, and networking with indie and AA game studios.

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

We announced a thing today! Super proud of our team for putting together a new take on a different kind of dystopia... the modern office cube farm. With our pals @owlchemylabs.com we've got a Kickstarter for Job Simulator - Human Relations - the first Job Simulator outside of VR!

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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

"Raise your hopeful voice. You have a choice." RIP Glen Hansard www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8mt...

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Glen Hansard, Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly (Official Video)

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Beatdown City Survivors is 25% off for the next week to celebrate 📆One month since release! 💯Very Positive Rating on Steam! 💜The NB coded games fest! You can play the demo and pick it up here: beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Hope everyone enjoys Odyssey this weekend.

Cover of 1996 Macintosh RPG Odyssey The Legend of Nemesis with art by Derek Riggs

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Bernie Yee @tripmaster.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Launch day 🐾 We shipped TWO games today. Stay: Your Forever Pet: adventure with Ember in the Otherlands. Stay: Ember's Desktop Adventures: she lives on your desktop, chasing your cursor. #cozygames #indiegames #gamedev Both on Steam 👇 Made by @windupminds.com store.steampowered.com/app/4385270/...

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Out now? Out now. Genre defining sandbox? Yeah we got that.

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 05/06/2026

The Story-Rich Showcase premieres TOMORROW 📚 Watch our first-ever showcase, featuring outstanding narrative-driven games from some of the best developers across the world 🌎 Tune in tomorrow at 10AM Pacific! 🔴 youtu.be/dRVeYxwjuiI?... 🟣 twitch.tv/fellowtravellergames ⚫ bit.ly/FellowTravel...

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bees 🐝 go play snap & grab k thx @bees.nogoblin.social · 28/04/2026

Snap & Grab hit 95% Positive reviews on Steam today! Thank you so much to all the people leaving nice reviews and enjoying our photo crime adventure! The game is on sale for a few more days if you want to do some cool crimes with just your camera and your crew store.steampowered.com/app/897160/S...

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Save 10% on Snap & Grab on Steam

Do crimes using only your camera and your crew! In Snap & Grab, any photo you take could be the key to cool crime success. Travel to exotic sandbox locations, photograph treasures and reveal threa...

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Our game has received Overwhelmingly Positive reviews on Steam in 3 days!! Thank you so much everyone :-)

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97% of the 510 user reviews for this game are positive.
Overwhelmingly Positive in blue text.

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Please share, many thanks! #indiedev #FakeOS

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

The very good people @fellowtraveller.games have been up to a lot, including prepping for the release of Titanium Court, participating in the Triple-I Initiative, and now it's time for a proper Steam Publisher sale! Come join the cult. store.steampowered.com/app/339830

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Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Two+ years of work by a wonderful dev team and lot of support to get to launch!

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Kim Acuff Steiner @emberdione.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

LET PLAYERS DO THE COOL THING. LET PLAYERS DO THE COOL THING. If I could make every game designer writer that a thousand times until they internalized it, it would be LET PLAYERS DO THE COOL THING.

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

Slides from our Rules of the Game talk at last week's GDC are now up here: paranoidproductions.com/miscwritings... Much thanks to @joelburgess.bsky.social @tduringer.bsky.social Steve Meretzky @writnelson.bsky.social @ashleyruhl.bsky.social Such great speakers, loved all the rules!

Summary slide for what was covered at Rules of the Game 2026, including the rules “Interpret Trust as a Currency”, “Don’t Drown in Innovation”, “Make Your Game Better, Not Just Different”, “Create (Fake) Choices that Matter”, “Let Your Players Do the Cool Thing”

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Donald Harris @tallgamer.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

Hey if you are in town for #SXSW you have to stop by ATX Game Makers Showcase and Arcade. It’s free and we have free food while it last! March 15th starting at 10am FREE REGISTRATION HERE: www.eventbrite.com/e/5th-annual...

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5th Annual ATX Game Makers Showcase and Arcade

The premier event to see Austin's greatest game makers, featuring a mix of local studios and indies. Play games & get free food and drinks!

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

For any game developer or designer type folks out there - do you have any rules-of-thumb that you use in development that you would describe as "counter-intuitive"?

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Back this year at GDC with Rules of the Game - honored to feature @joelburgess.bsky.social @tduringer.bsky.social Steve Meretzky @writnelson.bsky.social & @ashleyruhl.bsky.social ! Come by Wednesday 10:30 to hear some rules you will definitely for sure love and not disagree with at all. Mostly.

Title slide for Rules of the Game 2026 with all the speakers I mentioned in the main text huzzah!

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Dosa Divas Out Now @outerloopgames.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Food flavor themed attacks and weaknesses. Samara attacks with a boosted Spicy Wokarang attack. Hit the right timing on each hit to keep it going for multiple hits. Dosa Divas is a narrative turn-based RPG. Demo is live on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/4316300/...

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daryl "rupert pumpkin" b 🏳️‍⚧️ @hypercubexl.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

bringing the late great man's words back to speak on netflix ted's assertion about watching movies on your phone

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Dr. Stephanie @punkrockscience.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Today’s xkcd made me cry. In a good way. xkcd.com/3172/

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Homeworld: Vast Reaches is out today on Steam! Our new tale set between Homeworld 1 & 2 reimagines the game for VR and we even added a new challenge mode for this release. The classic Mothership really is stunning when it is gigantic next to your head!

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FarBridge @farbridgeco.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Fleet, prepare to engage! Homeworld: Vast Reaches is coming to SteamVR on October 23rd with upgraded visuals & new challenging levels designed with Homeworld players in mind. Try the free demo during Steam Next Fest 🎉 store.steampowered.com/app/2949240/...

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Homeworld: Vast Reaches on Steam

Command a fleet of spaceships in real-time strategic battles as the beloved Homeworld saga comes to VR. Your fleet is at your fingertips to lead to victory in a bold new story and challenging levels.

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Chris Wright @surprisingchris.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Following up the announce of The Hearth and Harbour last month, you'll shortly be able to pre-order a physical release of the team's first game, the Pale Beyond.

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FarBridge @farbridgeco.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

Learn from our Studio Creative Director, Richard Rouse III, and other veteran #gamedevs in the industry how wide-ranging design opinions can be 💭 Watch the popular "Rules of the Game" session from #GDC 2025 available on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTE_bVUeHCQ

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Rules of the Game 2025: Uncommon Techniques from Insightful Designers

YouTube video by Game Developers Conference

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

Fellow Traveller publisher sale on Steam buff.ly/fFDFakq

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Helen Mask 🔜Oddities Expo Denver 🔜Geek Girl Con @hemask.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

I was motivated to finish since I've been watching #alienearth

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

See you tomorrow at #PAXRising Seattle. We've got a dope demo and lots of sour candy.

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Hypersect ⚔️ making Never’s End @hypersect.com · 31/08/2025

DAY 3 of #PAXWest is here! Thanks to everyone who's been stopping by to play the Never's End demo 🖤 Come check it out at Booth 825 🦇 #gamedev #indiegame

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David Lindsey Pittman @dphrygian.com · 20/08/2025

And we're announced! The Killing Stone, a folk horror card-based strategy game from the team at Question (The Magic Circle, The Blackout Club), is coming soon to Steam. This has been one of the most exciting and unusual games I've worked on in my career! store.steampowered.com/app/2781470/...

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The Killing Stone on Steam

Beat the Devil at his own game. The Killing Stone is a deckbuilding card battler wrapped in a 17th century folk horror narrative. Clean the sins of a cursed family by bargaining against a series of de...

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 03/07/2025

When making a game, which medium/platform will suit your story the most? During #LudoNarraCon - @richardrouse.bsky.social‬ Deborah Hendersen, and Jesse Schell discussed how different mediums can alter our experiences of game narratives 🧠 Watch the full discussion below 👇 📺 youtu.be/pXQnO93XAAg

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Eka | Dosa Divas @ekanaut.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Our next game, Dosa Divas. Battle an evil fast food empire in this spicy narrative turn-based RPG. Two sisters and their upgradable spirit-mech cook delicious meals, fight corpos, build up your reputation with local communities, and reconcile with loved ones. youtu.be/jzOKSPSVYwY?...

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Dosa Divas Announcement Trailer

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

Teamwork, that's what does it! by Frank Kelly Freas

Sequence of images showing the journey of an artist nearly tortured to death by their editor.

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Rest in peace to Peter David, who I followed from Peter Parker the Spectacular Spider-Man to Hulk to X Factor to But I Digress... Was just reading his autobiography, which reminded me how much I love his voice.

Cover to a Peter David issue of The Incredible Hulk

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

TMNT: Tactical Takedown, a turn-based, Strange Scaffold take on the iconic universe, is out RIGHT NOW! - 20 evolving levels📍 - Turn-based beat-em-up action ⚔️ - Irresistible soundtrack 🎵 - Kick a mouser off the dang planet 🌎 - Only $17.99 💵 - Please share!! store.steampowered.com/app/3229100/...

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

And so I turn all my tears into a tsunami sea Tumultuous down to the bottom where I know How deep it goes

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New Beverly Cinema @newbeverly.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Irène Jacob in two by Krzysztof Kieślowski! THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE (1991) screens tonight & tomorrow, Monday & Tuesday May 5th & 6th, at 7:30pm paired with THREE COLORS: RED (1994) at 9:40pm.

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

My talk with Deborah Hendersen and Jesse Schell from #LudoNarraCon is now up on YouTube - come hear us talk game story changes between genres or from PC to console to VR/AR to mobile and everywhere else. Thx again @fellowtraveller.games for having us! www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXQn...

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Very Different Tales - How Game Stories Change by Genre & Medium

YouTube video by Fellow Traveller

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Happy to be back at #LudoNarraCon, which starts right now! Our talk "Very Different Tales" is up first - come watch Jesse Schell, Deborah Hendersen & I talk about different ways that game stories work across games/genres/mediums. Thx @fellowtraveller.games for hosting! bit.ly/LNC_Steam

Panel description for Very Different Tales at LudoNarraCon with Jesse Schell, Deborah Hendersen and Richard Rosue III

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 30/04/2025

ICYMI: the #LudoNarraCon 2025 schedule is now available! 🗓️ 📺 Tons of amazing panels, fireside chats, and demo streams across May 1 - 2 🔴 Catch all the content LIVE on the #LudoNarraCon Steam page and the Fellow Traveller YouTube channel. Click the link for more info! 🚶‍♀️ www.ludonarracon.com

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Megan Abbott @meganabbott.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

happy indie bookstore day! I wouldn't be writing books today if it weren't for independent bookstores and I am forever grateful. Now more than ever, in the face of some truly insidious forces, show your favorite indie some love. ❤️

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Gwen Frey @diregoldfish.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

🎉 LAB RAT is out now!! 🎉 - A comedic puzzler that satirizes your favorite games - Over 100 puzzles - At least 10 good belly laughs 👇 Check it out Here 👇 store.steampowered.com/app/1304610/...

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Lab Rat - Official Launch Trailer [4k]

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Richard Rouse III @richardrouse.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Last week at GDC as an intro for our Rules of the Game session I talked about our very first speaker, Laralyn McWilliams. I recommend her "You're Not Broken" talk for anyone going through a hard time while trying to stay creative. Laralyn is so missed. youtu.be/eTWchlLFL-Y?...

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You're Not Broken: Finding Your Creative Way Through Difficult Times

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 21/03/2025

Today’s the day for the first ever Game Trailer Microtalks panel at GDC! It’s at 1:30p in West Hall room 3001 9 talks about a different facet of making game trailers from producing, to capture, to VR, hacking together solutions when devs are too busy to fix bugs, and more!

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Game Trailer Microtalks

21st March, 2025 01:30pm - 02:30pm - The first ever game trailer microtalks panel featuring seasoned professional game trailer makers in ...

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Richard Lemarchand @rich-lem.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I'm not at GDC this year (I'll be back next year!) but don't miss @richardrouse.bsky.social's excellent Rules of the Game session on Thursday, which I was lucky enough to participate in a couple of years ago—look at all these wonderful speakers! schedule.gdconf.com/session/rule...

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Rules of the Game 2025: Uncommon Techniques from Insightful Designers

20th March, 2025 03:30pm - 04:30pm - Every designer knows that game rules are what create gameplay, but figuring out the rules we use ...

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Patrick Curry @patrickmcurry.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I cracked into my secret stash to bring two of the best game controller of all time to GDC for demos. #gdc #gdc2025

Two Xbox 360 wired controllers still in their packaging

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

the most important design rule(s) driving my personal work right now are: - if it is obvious, do not do it - if it is hard or boring to do, do not do it what remains, by definition, are only the easy and non-obvious things. it is hard to describe how fun and rewarding it is to design this way

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