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Dan Pearce @gamedesigndan.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

getting my head caved in for calling Star Wars Galactic Racer a "road-like"

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 02/10/2026

Ace Combat is so cool I wish planes were real

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Cyan Worlds @cyan.com · 25/09/2026

33 years ago today, the Stranger stepped onto the dock of Myst Island for the first time. We can still hear the water splashing against the pilings.

The dock of Myst Island from the original version of the game. A wooden dock ends at a spiral staircase that leads up to giant gears on a hillside. A ship is sunk in the water on the right, and parts of buildings are visible on the left.

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

This summer has been a long year

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Ryan Hartman @ryanhartman.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Got an awesome painted Blip from Danny at @terrainiacs.bsky.social it's so cool.

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

I’m on the narrative jury this year for the GDCAs! Unfortunately this means I will have to learn to read.

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Kiddo is old enough to play games on her own, so I got her an anbernic GBA SP in her favorite color

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Your session on the Subway app has expired. Please sign back in to Subway sandwiches. We’ve sent a two-factor Subway the sandwich store authentication token to your personal email address. Do not tell anyone your Subway the sandwich store that sells sandwiches security code

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

LinkedIn Notification - The Orb has endorsed your skill: Orb Knowledge

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 15/08/2026

Arise now ye tarnished, ye dead who yet live, the call of long-lost grace speaks to us all. Men! The accursed gender!

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Needed a treat, got the 4K restoration of Excalibur

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

New @official-aias.bsky.social Game Maker's Notebook episode with THE Judy Alice Lee! Incredible insight here from her circuitous journey into the industry and her determination to create: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PF-...

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Actor Judy Alice Lee on Hades II's 12,000+ Lines of Dialogue

YouTube video by Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

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Luke Plunkett @lukeplunkett.com · 08/08/2026

nearly every games media layoff these days isnt someone losing their job, its someone losing their career.

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What If There Are No Opportunities - Aftermath

It's bad out there

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David D. Levine @daviddlevine.com · 02/08/2026

One last visit to Lloyd Center (2)

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Currently in the endgame stage of an eBay bidding war where I no longer care about getting the lot, I just need the other guy to bleed

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David Sims @davidlsims.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

if I ever taught film criticism lesson one would be “you being smarter than the movie is not interesting to anyone”

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Catching up on the newest “video games”

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My favorite part of Unwrapped is when a company spokesperson has to take an interview from within the Product Cathedral

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Our heartfelt anime-themed driving game, Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World, is OUT NOW on PC/Xbox--and we did a singalong to prove it!! 🚶Hit pedestrians with your magic truck ⚔️Pay the soul debt you owe to the buff elf girl living in your head 🚚GO store.steampowered.com/app/3642010/...

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Manda Farough @ GCAP, MIGW, PAX Aus | Causeway Studios @amandafarough.ca · 29/07/2026

An enormous congratulations to each and every developer that worked with me on Strange Scaffold's very first driving game. (I'll tag them throughout the day.) This was one of the most challenging games that I've ever made, but I'm grateful for all of these talented devs for sticking the landing <3

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

Every extant publisher who sold games on CD-ROM in the 90s should have to tithe yearly to Cyan

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Everyone’s asking what Nolan’s next big thing is when his business isn’t even done. He’s obviously gonna follow up with the Telegony which ends with Telemachus and Telegonus reenacting this song over the credits

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Dr. Nic Junius @quakefultales.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Narrative rarely gets to be the high level decision driver outside of very specific kinds of projects and a lot of what narrative ends up doing, especially on larger projects, is unpacking the implications of decisions on emotional engagement

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If someone out there still owns KaZaA, I’ll take my product placement money in EverQuest gold

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 26/06/2026

Wild Bastards (followup, but not sequel to Void Bastards) is a hugely underrated game, IMO. A cartoon space-western roguelite FPS with a ton of very varied playable characters and a great sense of humor. It's very different from its predecessors and people wanted more of the same, but it's good!

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Save 85% on Wild Bastards on Steam

The spiritual successor to the award-winning game Void Bastards, Wild Bastards is a roguelike strategy shooter with heart-pounding FPS action, mod management, and a tactical campaign. Saddle up and le...

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Nessa ✨ @nessathewriter.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

so so SO excited that the Vault Hunter I got to write has been announced!! I can’t wait for folks to play Loveless!!!

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 06/06/2026

Hell Will Scar You. Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists is releasing Fall 2026. 😈 store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

That’s Saros beaten. Absolute feast of a game. Unbelievable visuals and sound unifying the tightest and best-feeling combat I think I’ve ever encountered. Right now it’s my GOTY. If you own a PS5, I really can’t conceive of a reason not to get it.

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

There is nothing any developer can do to avoid right-wing ideologues, no level of acquiescence that will stave them off if they choose to target you, because they will just make shit up wholecloth! They're like CinemaSins looking for any reason to ding that bell; the "sin" is made-up post hoc.

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Amy-Leigh Shaw @diveamydive.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

“This game was targeted for harassment because it involved this person, or that person” No. Any game release that achieves any broad level of attention now will attract reactionary commentators and their harassment, because generating hatred is how they make their money. It’ll never be enough.

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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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Brian Reynolds @thegamechief.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

All the Alpha Centauri dialog was written in a strange fugue while rereading Dune while listening to the soundtrack for Les Miserables :D

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julie muncy @julie.radiantarray.io · 20/03/2026

Hey, my first game, a surreal visual novel set in a near-apocalyptic Texas, is on sale for 25% off. In 2026 it is cheaper than like half a burrito. You should get it, so that I can keep making cool stuff for you.

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Dune 2: Paul's confrontation with the emperor to the sound of waves crashing in the distance, after two film's worth of equating water with life and death. Paul can hear the ocean of death he's about to bring. Dune 3: Trailer opens with Paul feeling the water on his hands.

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Please Stop Talking @pstpodcast.com · 17/03/2026

Gator Raid World Event #comedypodcast #movies

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

simultaneously my most and least egghead academic opinion is that we have actual political treatises at home and we should simply let art be art

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Luca 🖋️ @lucawriting.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Just told the entirety of the Silent Hill 2 plot to my mother, who shook her head and said “he shouldn’t have done that”

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

MARATHON VENDOR: You have no rights. You are a fetid creature, born into agony. Neither the day you were conceived nor the day you are murdered will be remembered. Smash three security cameras on Perimeter and you may be useful a single time before God strikes you down. ME: aye aye captain haha

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Sam Winkler @samwinkler.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Time to update my professional photos

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Lauryn Ash @espressocat.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Last exciting talk of GDC ✨ Writing Video Games in a Polarized World ✍🏼 I’m in the worst spot for photos but will do my best to NOT spoil

Write between the lines - how to write video game stories in a distracted polarized media illiterate world

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Ah we can finally say that @jfg.land and I had the real priviledge of working on narrative preproduction for several years on @marathonthegame.bungie.net ; it has an incredible narrative team, and a very special game that takes its narrative very seriously, in a fresh way that honors its unique past

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Luca 🖋️ @lucawriting.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Just did my debut GDC talk with the wonderful @zoeraecalamar.bsky.social, and wow, it was so neat! We had an incredible turnout, and even answered questions/talked with people for an hour afterwards. Thank you GDC! Here’s to many more of these.

A picture of Zoe and I at our GDC panel, chatting!

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