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Stefano Sanitate ➡️ GDC

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❗️ Gameplay Programmer & Designer ✨ Santa Ragione | HORSES, Saturnalia 🔗 Currently Freelancing! 🔜 GDC 2026

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Broken Arms Games @brokenarmsgames.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Super Happy to announce to the world #BioEden a cozy management journey to bring life back to a world quietly waiting to be healed Wishlist, play the demo and pre-order if you like it: store.steampowered.com/app/3265840/...
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Save 9% on BioEden on Steam
Step into a cozy management journey as a Keeper and bring life back to a world quietly waiting to be healed. Craft the perfect biome for dozens of wonderful animal species and use your ingenuity to re...
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 15/06/2026
Much to celebrate today for HORSES! Over 30k units sold in six months, the Best Experience award at last week's Italian Video Game Awards, and our last update to the game adding support for French, Spanish, German, Russian, Korean, and Japanese. www.horses.wtf
card says "THANK YOU FOR 30k COPIES SOLD"A sample of translations in different languagesHORSES' director holds the award
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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 28/03/2026
Horse Magnifier (@sketbordcat.bsky.social) "game where you magnify horses" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/03/28/h...
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Pierrec @wednesdays-game.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
To celebrate the AI bubble bursting, we are releasing WEDNESDAYS, a game made by humans, for FREE on iOs and Android TODAY. Links + more info below 👇
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"WEDNESDAYS" débarque sur mobile | Jeux Vidéo | ARTE
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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 21/03/2026
The Experimental Games Showcase team goes through over a hundred submissions every year to narrow down the dozen you see onstage at GDC. It’s a HARD choice. If you want to see some of the games we couldn’t fit into the showcase, this reel features a handful of some of our favorite submissions!
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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 19/03/2026
For the Steam Spring Sale you can get Perfect Tides: Station to Station for 20% off. Recent recipient of the 2026 IGF Excellence in Narrative award, and waiting to feed your soul! store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
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Save 20% on Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam
A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 12/03/2026
HORSES won the IGF Nuovo Award. We’re profoundly grateful. To us, this recognition also speaks to a broader idea: that no gatekeeper should decide which games deserve to exist or what counts as art. Thank you to everyone who supported HORSES and helped carry it this far. PS: What a wonderful team!
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Stefano Sanitate ➡️ GDC @stefanosanitate.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I still can’t believe what happened last night. I am so proud to have been part of something so groundbreaking and bold.
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 18/02/2026
If you are in Vancouver this Friday... luma.com/zjgatp6i
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Talha Kaya @taloketo.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
Good morning. We are at 65% www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
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Talha Kaya @taloketo.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
Good morning. Still 49% 😬😬😬😬😬 www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
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dreamfeel @dreamfeel.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Announcing Bog Bodies from Dreamfeel! A "short hike”-alike 3d adventure set in a far future Ireland populated only by radioactive talking cats. Players explore a late 19th c inspired landscape full of strange characters and stories...
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Be a part of the ABIDE KickStarter and help fund one of the most unique games ever conceived! Link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...
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Stefano Sanitate ➡️ GDC @stefanosanitate.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
I just backed ABIDE on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/637... Please do yourself a favor and back beautiful games like Abide. We need more unique and thoughtful experiences!
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ABIDE
A stop motion horror game from the makers of Judero and Mashina.
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Stefano Sanitate ➡️ GDC @stefanosanitate.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Just leaving this here to say that I’ll be at GDC this year. Feel free to ping me if you wanna grab a coffee or something! Plenty of secrets about HORSES I can share with the world! 🐴
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
ABIDE. KickStarter next week!
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 23/12/2025
Three weeks since HORSES launched. Thank you to everyone who played and shared the news! To celebrate we've put together an accolades trailer with some of our favorite quotes www.youtube.com/watch?v=siQW...
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HORSES Accolades Trailer
YouTube video by Santa Ragione
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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 05/12/2025
Assuming there isn’t more to this than we know, it is indeed very embarrassing to see an industry obsessed with being taken seriously as an art form self censor in this way. You need the grit if you want the pearl, dweebs. No amount of trotting out auteur film directors on stage offsets that need
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 12/12/2025
Let’s hope whoever decided to ban HORSES didn’t watch that Divinity trailer last night! 😱
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il Post @ilpost.it · 05/12/2025
Negli ultimi giorni Horses ha raccolto un ampio sostegno online e in molti hanno criticato apertamente le decisioni di Epic Games e Steam, accusandole di aver esercitato una forma di censura ilpost.link/naB69JOhAH
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Il videogioco italiano bandito dai negozi online perché troppo estremo - Il Post
L'apprezzato “Horses” è un'allegoria dei regimi totalitari piena di violenze disturbanti: Epic Games e Steam non hanno voluto distribuirlo
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 04/12/2025
The bans say more about a psychopathic and bigoted USA, perfectly fine with mass murder in ordinary FPS games (and IRL), yet treating nudity and sexuality as taboo no matter how intentionally or elliptically they’re approached.
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 03/12/2025
HORSES is currently the best-selling game on GOG 😱
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Sarah Thwaites @sarahathwaites.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I reviewed Horses for @ign.com! www.ign.com/articles/hor...
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Horses Review - IGN
This unsettling horror game banned from Steam tells a harrowing story you won’t soon forget.
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 02/12/2025
Yesterday, the Epic Games Store decided at the last minute not to distribute the game, after having previously approved a release build. HORSES is otherwise now available on GOG, Itch, and Humble for $4.99. www.horses.wtf
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Robin Bea @robinbombus.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
Horses is a Very Bad Time and I highly recommend it. Here’s me on Valve and Epic deciding that a critique of how the powerful use conservative moralism to oppress others is too morally objectionable for their platforms www.inverse.com/gaming/horse...
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Steam And Epic Could Destroy One Of The Best Indie Studios With An Unexplained Game Ban
'Horses' is a subversive, unsettling indie game like nothing you've ever played — but censorship from Steam and Epic Games could destroy its developer.
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Adriaan @adriaan.games · 02/12/2025
HORSES, the bizarre, funny, and thought provoking game from @santaragione.com, is out now! it was essentially banned from Steam and Epic Games Store for being too weird, indicative of just how bizarre and excellent the game is. buy it for $5 on itch or GOG instead: www.horses.wtf
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HORSES The Horror Game
HORSES is an enigmatic first person horror game that blurs the line between reality and the darkest corners of your imagination. Fourteen days, a horse farm, and a few rules to follow.
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
All this banning has made me concerned for the mature content horror game we're making. I'm going to give Horses a shot.
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 02/12/2025
In the age of centralized platforms, you can get a reverse Streisand effect, with ban controversies prompting additional bans out of cowardice or middleman solidarity.
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Chris Tapsell @christapsell.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Here's a fun Friday afternoon article from me! About the chilling effect of censorship in games, the ethical obligations of being a poweful entity in the medium, and how we respond when video games' freedom of expression - from so many directions - is under siege. www.eurogamer.net/however-you-...
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However you frame it, Valve's ham-fisted ban of an indie darling is another blow for free expression in video games, and this will always be a tragedy
Free expression in video games is in the spotlight, and Valve's banning of Horses might be only one instance of many that put that expression at risk.
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Stefano Sanitate ➡️ GDC @stefanosanitate.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Absolutely gutted that this game probably won’t have the chance to reach as many people as possible. Steam gave us no chance to appeal in any way but we pushed through and manage to get it (almost) out of the door.
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 25/11/2025
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
HORSES cover with a banned from Steam logo
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Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social · 02/09/2025
The Games for Palestine charity bundle is out NOW! 🍉🎮 Get 382 games, including Atuel, for donating just $8 (or more) to humanitarian aid for Palestine and Palestinian refugees. Please help to fight against genocide by donating and spreading the word with a RT! 🙏✨
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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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Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
We just released a huge update for ATUEL on itch.io! 🎉🙌✨ Our surrealist documentary game now includes: 🗨️ Localization to 7 new languages! 🎮 Full support for controllers! 💪 Better performance for low-end PCs! This update is also coming to Steam & Google Play on June 30th! matajuegos.itch.io/atuel
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Atuel by Matajuegos, PfQ~, santiagofranz, Yiyo
Traverse a surrealist landscape inspired by the Atuel River in Argentina.
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Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 15/04/2025
Saturnalia is 80% off as part of the Lovecraftian Days! store.steampowered.com/sale/Lovecra...
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Day of the Devs @dayofthedevs.org · 07/04/2025
🚨CALLING ALL INDIE DEVS 🚨 Submissions for Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition 2025 are open til April 11. We are looking for awesome upcoming indie titles from diverse backgrounds to feature in our digital showcase AND at SGF: Play Days. SUBMIT: dayofthedevs.com/submit/
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Pablo F. Quarta 🐍🌺 @pfquarta.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Atuel, our award-winning surrealist documentary game about climate change, is coming to Steam & Google Play later this year! 🙌🎉✨ 🌏 Localized to 7 new languages! 🎮 Full controller support! 💸 All for free! Wishlist it now and help us with a RT!🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/2794330/...
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Atuel on Steam
Atuel is an award-winning surrealist documentary game in which you explore beautiful, dreamlike landscapes inspired by the topography and wildlife of the Atuel River Valley in Argentina.
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Arden Ripley @arden.rip · 11/12/2024
I wrote about my process editing and "localizing" Mediterranea Inferno, the winner of Excellence in Narrative at the 2024 IGFs. Mediterranea's script was written by a non-native English speaker, and working on it was the most rewarding experience of my career to date! blog.arden.rip/editing-and-...
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editing and "localizing" mediterranea inferno
Half-diary, half-postmortem about editing Mediterranea Inferno, a game written in English by a non-native speaker.
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Colorfiction @colorfiction.bsky.social · 23/10/2024
Hey Bluesky! here now :) you might know me for my weird art and horror games.. and if you haven't in for a treat! (theyre all shareware on itch) Anyhoo haii 👋
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Ciro Continisio @ciro.continis.io · 23/10/2024
I was having so much fun with Multiplayer Play Mode that I decided to record a video of the process. It shows how to launch a @coherenceio Simulator + 4 clients. Once the setup is done (it's like 3 minutes), testing the game is a breeze! 💨 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Gyo... #unity3d
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Setup Unity Multiplayer Play Mode for coherence
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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 28/04/2023
Finding all your old Twitter follows here is very fun, like it's Final Fantasy 6 and you have to go around getting your friends back together because the old world got destroyed by a sociopath with bad jokes
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Ciro Continisio @ciro.continis.io · 18/10/2024
Made a starter pack of Italian game developers for fun, but... jesus it was hard to find people. Seems like many of my friends didn't join yet? Message me to be added! go.bsky.app/2ZbFdUK
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Michele Pirovano - making Dotage @dotage.bsky.social · 30/09/2024
Huge news today!!! dotAGE is coming to the Nintendo Switch on the 24th of October, so it will be even harder for you to put it down! :D
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dotAGE for Nintendo Switch - Nintendo Official Site
Buy dotAGE and shop other great Nintendo products online at the official My Nintendo Store.
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