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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I've had the privilege of translating this one and I may have actually done it justice. It is good. Utterly charming. Lots of fun. Just trust me on this and treat yourself to this gem.

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Eric @mokkograd.net · 06/09/2026

"Eswahr Eternal" is a fantasy role-playing game about becoming a King. You will travel an empty land, slay Giants, sacrifice your principles for power and then you will rule. For Eternity. Go and wishlist it on Steam, or else: store.steampowered.com/app/5198420/...

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Eswahr Eternal on Steam

Eswahr Eternal wants you to become a King. You will wander across an eternal Kingdom. You will slay the four Giants of the Land. You will sacrifice your Principles for Power. You will take the Throne....

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Ido Yehieli - Stellar Cartography Interactive @tametick.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Looking for brave play tester willing to test Prophet Margin in the following languages: English, French, Germany, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese & Korean! store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/...

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

@mattatddnet.bsky.social hey, random thought, do you know @nova-box.com? Sensing some shared interests there...

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Dancesport Is Life @mattatddnet.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I wrote a thing cause I'm mad at the games industry about how it treats war as a subject. Yet again. www.digitallydownloaded.net/2026/09/gall...

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Gallipoli underscores, yet again, the irresponsibility of the games industry regarding war – Digitally Downloaded

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Game Informer @gameinformer.com · 25/08/2026

We spoke with The Talos Principle III's writers about generative AI: 'It's just a plagiarism machine that makes people lose their jobs'. You can read the interview excerpt right here. gameinformer.com/interview/20...

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

late night post: I wrote a fairly long article quite awhile ago (auratriolo.com/blog/2024/09...) on why you might submit to the Independent Games Festival. Today I present something a bit more specific: Advice on navigating the submissions interface and common pitfalls auratriolo.com/blog/2026/07...

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A quick guide to the Submissions Interface for The Independent Games Festival (IGF) – AURAMBLES

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

The deities of the flea market smiled upon me yesterday. All of this for 8€? What a haul.

Four Patti Smith vinyl records in almost pristine condition.

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Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Here's the official revel trailer for Ithaca, our road-trip RPG about climate resistance. The world is burning. There’s a hostage in your trunk. How far will you go? If you'd like to play this one day, please consider backing the project on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Happy Alruna launch day, everyone. Did some translating for this. It was fun!

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Encountered the unholy trinity in my current translation project: - one character who talks in limericks - one character who talks in haiku - one character who talks like the Beas- tie- BOYS!

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a man with his mouth open and the words beastie boys written on his face

ALT: a man with his mouth open and the words beastie boys written on his face

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Danny Weinbaum @dannyweinbaum.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

I made a spiritual followup to the Eastshade postmortem video (which went a bit viral) in celebration of our big demo day! youtu.be/0D9HnCZdq2k

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My Wife and I Spent All Our Money Making an Indie Game

YouTube video by Eastshade Studios

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Danny Weinbaum @dannyweinbaum.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

OUR NEW GAMEPLAY TRAILER! Check out Songs of Glimmerwick, our witch academy RPG where the magic of the world is music! Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/...

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

All localized text is reviewed by ... the developer? Well I guess that's fine, then. (It's not.)

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 11/03/2026

@rainersigl.bsky.social Hey! 4 Tage Wien im Sommer - was muss ich da unbedingt sehen?

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Indie Arena Booth @indiearenabooth.de · 11/03/2026

It’s finally time! Our submissions for gamescom 2026 are officially open! ✨ We have a bunch of free and discounted showcasing options available for you 👀 Check out our website for all relevant information: home.indiearenabooth.de/submission ⌛ Submissions are open until April 13

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Danny Weinbaum @dannyweinbaum.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

To anybody who happens to play games in French or Spanish (or other heavily gendered languages): How does an NPC typically address gender of player avatar? Like in an RPG where you pick gender, do NPCs use gendered adjectives, or do they sort of weasel around it? And is it strange for players?

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Jonas Kyratzes @jonaskyratzes.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

MIDNIGHT IN BABYLON, the first episode of AZATHOTH BLUES, is now out on all major podcast platforms, including Spotify. A dark journey into paranoia, conspiracy, murder & ritual. How do you fight back in a world that seems increasingly insane?

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Indrapramit Das @indrapramitdas.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

I found the ep in PLURIBUS where Carol--white, American--meets 5 non-white, non-American survivors of the hivemind off-putting, but in a way that made me curious to see where Gilligan was going. Now that I have, I wrote about how empire, privilege, genAI, & resistance converge in the show's subtext:

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Resisting the Hivemind: Pluribus, Generative AI, and Empire - Reactor

While its creator tell us that Pluribus is not about advent of generative AI, it's difficult not to spot the many places where the fledgling tech and extraterrestrial hivemind overlap.

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The Bishop Of Hobb-ins @fishwithlasers.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

we’ve got somewhere to stay after the fucking place flooded again, just a room tho, I’ve just managed to pack the bare minimum and I’m skint beyond words. I am so sorry, this has all gone to shit. Can anyone help with emergency survival funds? www.paypal.com/paypalme/ret... ko-fi.com/robfearon

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Pay Emma Fearon using PayPal.Me

Go to paypal.me/retroremakes and type in the amount. Since it’s PayPal, it's easy and secure. Don’t have a PayPal account? No worries.

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨

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Jen Allaway Writes Games With Big Hearts @allawayj.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

Do I know anyone here who speaks French? I'm looking for an old fashioned, colloquial word or phrase that translates to "troublemakers". Something you'd call a group of schoolgirls that are very clever about pulling pranks. Along the lines of rascals, scamps, misfits, etc. Thank you!

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Words of Magic @wordsofmagic.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

Die or Die, by @aonorte.com is on the front page of @kotaku.com! Let's hope it will help put this fun game in the spotlight. You can currently play the demo on Steam in English, Spanish, German, Traditional and Simplified Chinese, and French. Lots of other great games on that list too!

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Pierrec @wednesdays-game.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Wednesdays is ✨ free ✨ for World Children's Day in order to raise awareness about child sexual abuse. Grab it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2747770/... or Itch: artefrance.itch.io/wednesdays before November 21th 9PM CET!

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Eric @mokkograd.net · 27/10/2025

Virtue's Heaven has finally reached the 10 review threshold and to both celebrate and potentially capitalize on the (marginal and temporary) boost in visibility, I've put the game on sale for this week! store.steampowered.com/app/1929860/...

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Save 15% on Virtue's Heaven on Steam

The world ends tomorrow, your friends are imprisoned and those responsible for both have stolen the future. The time for deliberation is over. It is time to be reckless, irresponsible and beautiful.

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Eric @mokkograd.net · 28/10/2025

Here's the reason why you see so many people beg for reviews on Steam. Virtue's Heaven got past 10 reviews this weekend and suddenly the amount of page views tripled, mostly because the game started to show up in people's discovery queues.

Screenshot from Virtue's Heaven steam page view stat page, showing the daily page views for the past three months. After October 23rd, the graph jumps from around 100-200 views per day to 500-700, most of which coming from people seeing the game in their Steam Discovery Queue.

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David Stark - Zarkonnen @zarkonnen.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Bonescape is an exploration and trading game I've been working on: The discovery of a giant, verdant boneyard spurs on a flood of explorers, hunters, homesteaders, outlaws and merchants - and you. 🦴 zarkonnen.com/bonescape

Colorful mockup of a computer game showing a gigantic skeleton.

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🏳️‍⚧️ Cowboy Kos / KOS39 @himbosuplex.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

GFM update! Recovery has gone almost as perfectly as it could, but unfortunately, I had to re-open the fundraising because between a partial insurance denial and some frankly ridiculous hospital costs, I'm now looking at over $9000 #transsupport #supporttransmen #transhealthcare gofund.me/44e711c83

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Donate to Rhys' Top Surgery Fund, organized by Rhys Pittman

Hi, I'm Rhys (they/he)! I'm 36-year-old non-binary trans man trying to raise money for gender affi… Rhys Pittman needs your support for Rhys' Top Surgery Fund

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

I have played this almost one year ago and I still keep thinking about it. It's very good.

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Bertine van Hövell 🛝 Gamescom @baroness.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I know it's the new hip cost cutting thing but let me tell you as someone who worked on a game that got utterly reviewbombed by Chinese players due to the poor quality of the translation ...don't fucking rely on genAI translations. Thank you.

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Don Schmocker @donschmocker.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

HERDLING releases on August 21 !!🐐🐏

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

I cannot stress this enough: working on @tinybookshopgame.com and adding a tiny part to an already masterful translation was such. a. pleasure. If all translation projects were like that, I'd quit my day job without a second thought. Happy release day, Tiny Book Shop!

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Malindy @yourkyotowife.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

Happy release day to Tiny Book Shop! @someindie.bsky.social and I worked on the German localisation for this, and I've been a huge fan of this project for years. If you need a game about bookshop management, the value of community and a life beyond capitalisn, this is for you

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Nina Kiel @beurkeek.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

Please sign this petition to oppose censorship from payment processors and extremists! It's made and supported by female and gender-marginalised people working in games. Collective Shout does not speak for us. They can't silence us. We will continue to stand up for freedom of expression in games.

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Diese Kampagne braucht deine Unterstützung

Save games from censorship

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I'm working on putting Let's Freeze Some Penguins on the Nintendo Switch. #nintendoswitch

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Niklas Hallin @hallinniklas.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Let's Freeze Some Penguins is localized into a number of different languages, and that work is done by real humans who know what they're doing! Of course it was suggested to me that an AI could do the job, and to that I say: No. It clearly can't. #indiegame #gamedev

Localization: Thomas Faust, Sarah Deville, Lucie Teulieres, Leticia Araujo, Iara Passos, Luke Araujo, Concha Fernandez Alvarez

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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 15/07/2025

Apple is delisting Wheels of Aurelia from the App Store, because it's... "obsolete". Our statement:

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Laura Innocenti @laurainno.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

Hello!👋 I'm Laura, English > Italian translator and game localizer. I've been active in this field since 2011, first in-house at Nintendo and afterwards as a freelancer. Here's some of my work. Hit me up with your projects, I'll be available all summer! #PortfolioDay #TranslatorsInTheCredits

6 images depicting video game titles: Big Helmet Heroes, Manor Lords, Fantasy Life, Slay the Princess, Phantom Spark, Kirby: Triple Deluxe.

6 images depicting video game titles: Farworld Pioneers, Paper Mario: Sticker Star, Rhythm Sprout, Mystery Case Files: Il caso Malgrave, Magic Rampage, the Bookwalker: Thief of Tales.

6 images depicting video game titles: Atlas Fallen, Mini Metro, Beat the Beat: Rhythm Paradise, Darkest Dungeon II, Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Slime 3K.

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 07/07/2025

If you're an indie dev exhibiting at Gamescom and you want a fancy German translation for your demo build to benefit from the fact that most of the audience will be actual Germans … 1. what are you waiting for? 2. get in touch, I'd be happy to help!

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Happy to report that I did some translating for Atuel, which, for the record, was a total pleasure. Go play the game, it is worth experiencing (and won't cost you anything but 30 minutes of your day).

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Noppy @thomasnoppers.com · 23/06/2025

Eyyyy your boy is looking for projects! #commission #art #mecha

An overview of various rates for various types of projects. Mostly mecha stuff.

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

Seems like my brain is broken and I cannot finish that last mission, but: Tactical Breach Wizards. What a gem.

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Thomas Faust @someindie.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Can confirm. Someone complimented my translation of Dicey Dungeons recently and that got me through a really bad week. It's easy and free, folks!

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