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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 21h

Ahh man losing a pet is always so hard. You’re literally their entire world and their lives are so short but ever present. Congratulations on the award!

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Ah amazing art! Victorian-based (Like Victoria, Australia the place) cause of our funding source, but these victorian dresses are something special.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

It’s helping alex and I lock down our pixel art style and cost out the next phase of our supermarket game. (Properly) Paid gig of course as well to be clear.

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She-wolf of Naarm @jadedsynic.itch.io · 09/10/2026

Hej, anyone remember this? go.bsky.app/FwZqzcz Because we all remember you. We make game narratives. Let us help you make your game shine

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

i’m very interested in what it looks like cause i’m def going to eventually be hiring someone for this and I want to create pathways for them.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Where’s my victorian based pixel artists at? I may have work for you ❤️

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

CMs are a super important part of gamedev! What do you think good support and role development looks like as a CM?

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Wow Wren, that absolutely sucks. Sorry to hear this!

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Oh they know. They’re cats. They expect such adoration.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Getting stuck into day 2 of GCAP. Was great to see a lot of familiar faces yesterday.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

100% - from my experience the industry is encouraging, welcoming and so happy to share knowledge. It’s been a fantastic space to join.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I absolutely agree. I’ve also had a super weird pathway into the game space, and I’m starring to think it’s a very common pattern. Definitely a thru-line with a lot of people is passion and getting into game jams as an entry point.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Daylight savings just before MIGW always feels so sinister. So tired!

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I suspect it’d end up being something like ‘even worse trauma’.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Games week coming on fast. gotta find me some vic based pixel artists and narrative folks this time around.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

There was a book called sales dogs, I like this version dev dogs

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Sometimes I test my free will by going against my nature, like not finishing this puzzle with only 13 pieces to go cause I said I was gonna go to bed at 10:30.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I had an old man moment in an interview when I told a candidate I started out making Flash games and websites - “What’s Flash?” ☠️ 💀 🪦

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I finished that game all the way on ps2 and I would never do it again.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

i hired a guy to teach me how to make interviews much nicer for everyone. onboarding too. it was the best thing i ever did.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I’ve been going around and around on this relationship system in my game and finally settled on a design that I think is working. Been taking me weeks to solve that one though!!

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Man I got a dev branch on this relationship feature that I keep bashing my head against and now i’m scared to merge it back to the trunk cause its so many versions ago and those merges are gonna be craaaaazy. 😭

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

He’s just trying to be relatable. You know the typical experience when you’re standing at the petrol station and you can’t remember which postcode your mansion is in, surely?

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh my god it’s so expensive 😭 my parents just tossed it out, along with all my c64 stuff…

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I want this one the most. I used to have a damn copy of this with the lil brown travel codebook and everything. This is the cover I gave me designer for supernormal supermarket as a reference piece.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Censoring yourself in front of your kids and then it kinda just locks in. I now catch my normal swear works and instead I say wonderful things like “goooosh darn it”, “daaaagnammit”, “faaaar out brussel sprout”, “ahh you son of a… gun”

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Got to feel a new level of old this week when I mentioned how I got my start making Flash websites and the two people in the room asked me “What’s Flash?”

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Played this again recently and it really holds up well.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Oh wow, I’d never seen that before but that’s great. Like carrots I suppose.

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ahh then I’ll have to take a listen, no a BMTH fan at all, but maybe with a collab its ok

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Steve de Niese ➡️ MIGW / GCAP / PAXAUS @stevedeniese.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My listening habits have been bouncing between Metalcore and Hyperpop lately which are totally at odds with each other. Is there a metalcore hyperpop mashup? Would that even work?

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