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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Since we released Threadbare, so many of you have told us the main theme helps you settle and focus, so we've created a "Frays End" seamless one-hour loop. Play ‘Frays End’ and lose yourself in the Weave...for a while. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrKd... #PlayMatters #Threadbare #GameDev

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Threadbare Theme - Frays End - 1 Hour Loop

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

A humbling privilege to witness Robert Steen, father of Ibelin, speak at Games for Change London. If you are unaware of their incredible story, watch the documentary now on Netflix - The Remarkable Life of Ibelin. youtu.be/lM_hkJ0Rl-c?... #PlayMatters #G4CLondon26 #Ibelin

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The Remarkable Life of Ibelin | Official Trailer | Netflix

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Fantastic day in London with @drkowert.bsky.social. Larger than life is an understatement. Such a beautiful heart and soul. Thank you for a fun-filled afternoon, Hero. #PlayMatters

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Dr. Rachel Kowert @drkowert.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Today I got to spend time in a city I adore with a person I adore. A bright light in this dystopian timeline. London + @stephenreidedu.bsky.social + a bit of fun = good for the soul

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

We’re headed to #GDC! Our Games and Learning teams will be at our booth to share all things Threadbare, Learning Programs, and Community. Get ahead of the conversation and play Threadbare here: play.threadbare.game #PlayMatters #Threadbare #GDC2026 #GameDev

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

🧵 Contribute to Threadbare 🧵 Use the Threadbare Pixel Loom to create cute little haberdashery homes from pixel art components, stitched lovingly together. 🪡 Export as a .PNG image and you’re set. 🏠 Create your own: threadbare-pixelloom.lovable.app #PlayMatters #Threadbare #PixelArt #GameDev #AI

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

Loading 2026……100% Happy New Year to all. #PlayMatters

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

A Happy Stitchmas from the StoryWeaver, the denizens of Threadbare, and all of us on the Threadbare team! Have a wonderful holiday. #PlayMatters #Threadbare #ThreadbareGame #GameDev #Godot #GodotEngine

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

Excited to attend and speak at #MaliyoCon today, in #Lagos, #Nigeria. I’ll be presenting with Heather Drolet on #Threadbare for Game Development Education. #PlayMatters #ThreadbareGame #Godot #GodotEngine #GameDev

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thatch?...slate?...tiles?... Wool! Threadbare homes have woollen roofs. Play Threadbare: play.threadbare.game #PlayMatters #Threadbare #ThreadbareGame #Godot #GodotEngine #GameDev #OpenSource #CommunityGameDevelopment

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

Everything in the world of Threadbare is...well...threadbare. Like this tiny house with patchwork roof and a buttoned window. Who lives here? Play Threadbare: play.threadbare.game #PlayMatters #Threadbare #ThreadbareGame #Godot #GodotEngine #GameDev #OpenSource #CommunityGameDevelopment

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

As Creative Director of #Threadbare, when first considering the creative style for the game, I was drawn back to Amiga Classic, #CannonFodder (1993) by Sensible Software. A marvel of pixel art and sound/music, with totally unique gameplay. #PlayMatters #ThreadbareGame #Godot #GameDev #Jops #Jools

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Yuri, a Soviet advisor who developed powerful mind-control technology, established a secret army and attempted global domination. I stopped him…you’re welcome. Turns out he was an actor the whole time. RIP Oda Kier. 1944-2025 #PlayMatters #CommandAndConquer #RedAlert #YurisRevenge #OdaKier

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Contributors from all over the world are creating assets for #Threadbare. Art, sound, music, code, and more. Open-source, community-made video game development. Check out this Moth Monster from one of our learners. Concept to Contribution! #PlayMatters #ThreadbareGame #GameDev #Godot #GodotEngine

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Learning Blender by turning our Threadbare hero - The StoryWeaver - into a 3D model. The hope is to create something that can be 3D printed for event giveaways. #PlaytMatters #Threadbare #ThreadbareGame #3DPrinting #Blender #3DModelling #GameDev #GameDevelopment

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

Excited to be sponsoring and attending #GodotFest this week in Munich, Germany. The air is thick with coding creativity. Threadbare is bringing Godot to educators and learners across the world. #PlayMatters #Threadbare #ThreadbareGame #GameDevelopment #GameDev #Godot #GodotEngine #OpenSource

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

Check out this wheat crop, added recently by one of our learners. Designed, animated, coded, and contributed in Godot as part of our learning programs. Play Threadbare here: play.threadbare.game Contribute here: github.com/endlessm/thr... #PlayMatters #Threadbare #OpenSource #CGM #GameDev

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

We are looking to name the first of our Threadbare wild creatures - Rabbits. Like all things in our haberdashery-themed and storytelling world, our bunnies are made entirely of fabric and whimsy. Vote now... Velveteens = Like 👍 CottonTales = Love ❤️ SpindleHops = Care 🥰 #PlayMatters

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

The world of #Threadbare is awash with colour and texture. A world made entirely of pixel fabric. Fray's End is home to the Eternal Loom, where the entire world is woven into being. Coming Soon #PlayMatters #EndlessLearning #Games #Gaming #GameDev #GameBasedLearning

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Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

🎉LUDOCENE LAUNCHED 🎉 So excited (and nervous) to send our game-finder into the world. Ludocene.com If you want a better way to find amazing games that rewards experts and is in the hands of players, this is our shot. Thank you to the 1000's backers and supporters.This is just the beginning.

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Jesse Makkonen @jessemakkonen.com · 21/07/2025

I self-published Without a Dawn in May. I made zero compromises, and I couldn't be happier how it turned out: store.steampowered.com/app/3145620/... 💛💚 Unfortunately, I've had very little luck with exposure, including the gaming press. 😩 #visualnovel #gamedev #steam

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Back of a residential staircase designed to look like #DonkeyKong! Concord, New Hampshire, US. #PlayMatters

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I fill tiny, hand-made leather books with sketches! #ArtMatters

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Where will the Golden Thread of Imagination…lead you? Threadbare…Coming soon! #PlayMatters #EveryoneBelongs #Threadbare #EndlessAccess

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

In 2014 I ran a custom-made shipping container called the PlayBox, posing as a time travelling Maker Space. Using arts and crafts, old junk, TinkerCad, Minecraft, and 3D Printers, we made 10,000 robots! Public engagement was off the charts. www.playfulanywhere.fun/past-march-o... #PlayMatters

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Past March of the Robots - The Robot Lab — Playful Anywhere

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Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

60 AMAZING EXPERTS ADDED! With your backing, we are cooking up our Ludocene game-finder app. Your support has also helped us find these amazing experts to suggest games. Backers can try today: www.ludocene.com/list-experts Pledge to join the early access: www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

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Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

BIG POST DAY! I've been holding off talking about this. I have a fiction book out next month! "What Was Hidden" It's about Journalism, YouTube, Ultra Running and how (often against the odds) technology can connect us. Please share! Also, DM to join my inner circle of early readers & reviewers.

Fiction book render for What Was Hidden by Andrew Robertson.

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

I'm on the lookout for another Unicorn 🦄 We're hiring a Senior Game Producer to join our 'Games and Learning' Team to support a unique project that merges Game Development with Education. Apply: endlessos.bamboohr.com/careers/22 #Jobs #Hiring #Careers #Games #GameDev #EndlessLearning

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Headed to #SouthAfrica for the Curro Esports Indaba to present: 🎮 Understanding Game Development – The Three C’s of Player to Learner Growth. 🕹️ Game Design 101 – The Building Blocks of Engaging Games. #Curro #Esports #GameBasedLearning #PlayMatters #EndlessLearning

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

The search begins for another Unicorn🦄 This time I'm looking to commission a highly creative, fully animated pixel art asset pack for an RPG video game. Interested? Please reach out. Know someone who would be? Let them know. #PixelArt #Art #Hiring #Commission #Games #Gaming #RPG #PlayMatters

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Andy Robertson @geekdadgamer.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

Sneak peek at the experts we have on board for our game finder "dating app". Supporting the Kickstarter enables us to pay them to curate 100s of pathways to amazing games. We launch Tuesday 18th. Back the project to get access to the prototype when we fund. www.kickstarter.com/projects/lud...

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

#Deathloop in #TinyGlade I recreated Blackreef’s Fristad Rock area in Tiny Glade. #PlayMatters

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 11/02/2025

Deathloop’s Julianna Blake, fragmenting between time and space following a particularly well placed shotgun blast that threw her off the bleak cliffs of Blackreef. No real harm done, she’ll be back again tomorrow to do the same to me! #PlayMatters #Deathloop

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

What does the EU AI Act mean for your school? I suspect this is just the tip of the AI in Education regulation iceberg, worldwide. www.linkedin.com/pulse/heres-... #AI #AIEdu

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Here's what the New EU AI Act Means for Your School

Remember when installing a new digital whiteboard was your biggest tech challenge? Those were simpler times..

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I’m really interested in connecting with game producers (at any level) from underrepresented (women, BIPOC, non-binary, etc) communities. Particularly but not exclusively from the Global South. #PlayMatters

A pixelated, brightly and multi-coloured game controller floating above a waterscape, to a backdrop of a pixel sunrise.

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Front cover of the New York Post in response to Deepseek’s clash with American AI. An anthropomorphic, evil-eyed AI model looks at you over a device stamped with a Chinese flag. “Beware this AI evil! Our AI is good, of course, but this one is out to undermine your freedom…and our profit!” #AI

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

I rarely read my horoscope, but this week, as I attend #BETT2025 in a new role and with a new focus, Metro couldn’t have been closer to the truth! #PlayMatters #Virgo

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Listening to Epic Games’ Walter Somol and Sarah Thomson on their plans to open up the #EpicGames Mobile Store for developers. Huge news for #mobilegaming. @steveisaacs.bsky.social ;) #PlayMatters #PGC25

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Arrived at Pocket Gamer Connects, London - mobile and handheld gaming conference. Sporting my new Limited Edition #Atari bag, of course. #PGC #PGC2025 #PlayMatters

Stephen Reid, VP of Learning at The Endless Foundation stands in front of an illuminated sign that reads Pocket Gamer Connects, London. He is wearing a black hoodie, black leather jacket and red Atari branded bag.

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

#AirportReading. Critical Hits is a hugely insightful and enjoyable series of critical evaluations of games and gaming. The introduction alone is a joy. I highly recommend it. Thanks to @heather-drolet.bsky.social for this gift. #PlayMatters #EveryoneBelongs

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

Headed to #London for the Pocket Gamer Conference #PGC and #BETT. Looking forward to both very much. If you’re attending either, let’s meet 🙂 #PlayMatters #EndlessLearning

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Canvas of Kings @mightofmerchants.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

It's built in 3D space, but the individual textures are hand-drawn with pen and paper. #indiegame #godotengine #gamedev

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Spent some time with this beauty at breakfast in #AbuDhabi. A Mammoth Scollid Wasp. Native to Southern Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East. This one was 4cm in length. They can grow up to 6cm. They feed on nectar, lay their eggs inside beetles, and they sting. #IdleHour #Nature #Wildlife

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

I made a thing to process my childhood trauma and deep love for this movie all at once. #Neverendingstory #PixelArt #Pixels

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Stephen Reid @stephenreidedu.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Loving #HeroQuest (1991) on my #Anbernic #Retro gaming device. #Amiga500 emulator. I still play the original board game too. #PlayMatters

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Rogi @pierogigon.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Today I added moving platforms to my #godot #climbing #indiegame There is a lot of math and trickery that makes the spider feet follow the moving and spinning platforms. #godotengine #gamedev #gamedeveloper #indiedev #godot #solodev

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