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@stevenzwahl.bsky.social
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 04/10/2026
when you play wipeout 2097 vs wipeout 3 you can really feel the difference between 1996 and 1998 aesthetically, in the design, in the music, in the tone. but that time would be probably not even half of a modern wipeout's dev cycle.
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Kevin Maxon @sonofbadru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's 90 seconds of REVOLUTION FANTASY, which I've been working on discreetly for the last few years. It's built on the bones of Tenderfoot Tactics, in Godot. This is a sandbox combat that I'm using to design skills and progression. Expect me to post a lot more about RF from here on out!
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A.Degen Art @adegenart.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
THE EARTH HAS BEEN TRANSFORMED; MANKIND HAS ATTAINED THE ABILITY TO DOUBLE-JUMP PART ONE IN THE NEW FUTURE JUMPERS SERIES FROM thecatamites INTERNATIONAL OBSESSION w/ some art by me and music from @demonshome.bsky.social thecatamites.itch.io/internationa...
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Jacob Potterfield @jpotterfield.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
street preacher, acrylic & 3d reprojection
an angular, neon-colored prismatic form juts onto the sidewalk from the space between two exterior walls
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
spend money on this and let the roiling unlit colors rewrite your creative DNA like it did to me
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scream mask shawty @strida.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
whatever kind of game wolverine is we need to stop making it. no more of those
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Morgan La Kay @morganlak.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I am making progress on my game again which is good because if I finally finish this piece of shit I can move on to any of my other game ideas, all of which will be 1000x easier to produce
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Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Bullet Points Monthly started 10 years ago. To mark a decade of the site, our editors--Yussef Cole, Reid McCarter, Astrid Anne Rose, and Ed Smith--looked at the state of the shooter. We also got nine contributors to do the same. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/08/19/s...
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Reid McCarter @reidmccarter.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I can't believe we've been doing Bullet Points Monthly for a decade, but somehow we have. The site has almost died many times. It continues still through a mix of bullheaded determination and the joy of working with excellent fellow editors and guest writers. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/08/19/s...
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Max58 @max58.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Ico #Ico #TeamIco
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
I'm also not a fan of how words and affixes like "deep", "infra", "cyrpto", the sparkle emojis ✨ and more have all been tainted by these big ol disgusting companies and general tech ickery
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Salem 🏳️‍⚧️ @salem-bitch-trials.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
this absolutely wipes the fuckin floor with any ray tracing DLAA hyper real 100000 blades of grass bs monster hunter wilds is doing, its a massive huge gargantuan fucking shame that making a game like this is genuinely unthinkable for the AAA industry now
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Marina Ayano Kittaka @even-kei.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I kind of think people shouldnt be on social media. Here's the thing it can be cool and hot to be but if you're posting that makes it not cool/hot so what's the point anymore?
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Owen Deery @owendeery.com · 31/07/2026
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
if u think about it..... "the woods" is like the original backrooms. O.o endless permutations of the same forms, hostile to human life, stuff that walks around and wants to kill u... much to consider here 🤔
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Emily @sumac.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
kinda wanna get this embroidered on a hat, edited a stock image and added some text
en edited stock image of a bass with the text "Fish don't think about me at all" added
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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
me: i must practice the dharma also me:
me telling ai man to khs
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Phrakture @phrakture.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
I made a free music creation tool for producers, indie game devs, sound designers and more. Open-source, beginner friendly, does NOT use AI to make assets #GameDev #OpenSource #MusicProduction #FreeTools #IndieDev #AudioDesign #GameAudio #DevTools #SoundDesign #MusicForGames
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
I like how in some programs you can "rename" things and move them between folders and it doesn't take 3 minutes or break the entire project, like Unreal Engine 5 does.
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
we should make a console where putting in the physical media is an arcane ritual. open it up like a flower, write a prayer onto a paper and stick it to the disc, light some incense and close it up. treat these strange digital dream artifacts as something sacred. then you can play mario or whatever.
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
(looking over 1000 nextfest demos and downloading 10 and closing all but one within 10 minutes in disappointment) yeah I still got it
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Pasha – 𝙂𝙍𝙀𝙀𝙉 𝙎𝙐𝙄𝙏𝙎 @toster12d3.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
🥦Game Reveal🥦 GREEN SUITS now has a steam page! A JRPG with drama-based combat system and platforming, where Twin Peaks meets Chainsaw Man! To help the game (and my broke ass 🙏) leave a like on the trailer: youtu.be/gxd_NZXgbHU?... And/or wishlist the game! store.steampowered.com/app/4862570/...
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Green Suits — reveal trailer
YouTube video by Low Polystan
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Reports From Unknown Places @clever-reports.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
We report: there is a warm bit of wind tonight, but in comparison to the daytime temperatures, it feels like a crisp one. We find goosebumps on our arms. All of the outside smells have been stripped down to their earthiest components: hot dust, dry grass, salt.
Digital painting of a dusk landscape: long, dark blue clouds stacked on top of one another, distant mountains in the dark, and in the foreground, tall grass lit yellow from outside of the frame.
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
everybody up in arms about unreal removing blueprints has not spent enough time with blueprints, lmao. the only downside is that they found something even worse to replace them with.
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Sir5000, was at Worlds/XP 😔 @sir.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
we just gotta concentrate every problem into one Omelas Day
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
loving all these jam manifestos about making weird games no one will buy as someone making a weird game no one will buy.
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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...
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NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME by ill omens
A Manifesto For Making Games
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Roy Roy @royalty3d.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
cgi castle in a forest
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
sgf every year got me like
outrageously angry guy shooting lasers from his eyes at two cakes saying "I FUCKING hate VIDEOGAMES"
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
would probably post much more if the character count was doubled. I write short dev diary notes to myself a lot, paste them into here, and them simply discard them. I am not editing the raw detritus pulled out of my head. I am not splitting it up. get over yourself.
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Skullboy @betterlegends.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
www.backerkit.com/c/projects/b...
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
how ungodly fucking wise do you have to be to paint trees like this.
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
recently been having trouble copy-pasting the default cube mesh in ue5. gives me "failed with error code 5". yeah man. I haven't updated in over a year and a half. why is this new.
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
"wearing different hats" isn't right. i've been in the level design mines again for weeks. there are other mines. i'm dazed and confused when i need to get out and see the sun (the big picture) and scurry back to a prior mine to keep digging. I am "delving different mines"...
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autumn wright 🍂 @autumn-wright.com · 28/05/2026
pride month viewing
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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus.icculus.org · 16/05/2026
Just trying something. Our Girl Scout cookie season is over, and we still have 85 boxes: 510 dollars worth of cookies. If people PayPal me, I will give these cookies out to nurses, Waffle House employees, and any other good requests y'all have. paypal.me/rcgordon
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Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
"if marathon offers anything to say about the human condition, i don't think it's to be found in the cutthroat attitude players adopt with one another ... yet i feel like i've grown to understand people more by playing it." @goosepimple.moe on Marathon, up now bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/05/20/w...
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MAKAPATAG 👺☭ @makapatag.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
10,000 swords against heaven // 1.8 —pugilist praxis occult xianxia ttrpg. kungfu communists, diamat wizards vs heavenly bourgeoisie > settlement, dungeon, etc. generator > new damage system, survival cosmic horror @ L0 > MICROCOSMIC ORBIT progression > 6 slot FASHION system
EXDEAD KNIVES — TEN THOUSAND SWORDS AGAINST HEAVEN

TRUE DIVINITY LIES_PAST DEATH. WHAT IS_THE ULTIMATE BOURGEOIS LIE? THE_LIE_OF DEATH.
THE PROLETARIAT
AFTERLIFE EXISTS BUT THE BOURGEOISIE STOPS US FROM CREATING IT. DEATH IS DEFEATABLE BUT THE BOURGEOISIE NEED
DEATH.
THEY
CALL
WE ARE THE ONES
THE
EXDEAD
KNIVES
WHO ARE
WILL THE
ADVENTURISM.
BLOODY THEIR
ASSASSINS
AND
WE
CALL
IT
NECESSITY
HANDS
WHEN NO ONE
ELSE WANTS
SPYMASTERS
OF
THE
10,000
DRAGONS
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
gotta thank myself for somehow being wise enough at 16 to download some of the best nils frahm concert recordings off of youtube before they were eventually taken down.
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_D @drnmcy.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
I cant believe ppl be making games in unreal. never again will that engine find me lmao
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Matías Bergara @matiasbergara.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Valkyrie
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The Superculture Review @superculturereview.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
We're starting off a new podcast series on One Piece called Record of East Blue. Join Joshua Calixto, @strida.bsky.social, and @reidmccarter.bsky.social for the first episode, which covers the first volume. the-superculture-review.simplecast.com/episodes/rec...
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Record of East Blue: Romance Dawn | The Superculture Review
In this inaugural episode, Reid, Astrid, and Josh break down the opening volume of One Piece. We give our initial impressions of Luffy and cover: recurring disconnects between fantasy and realism, Oda...
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Kevin Gibson @kevin-gibson.com · 03/05/2026
Inspired by @sebaaltonen.bsky.social's "No Graphics API", I've written a GPU pointer-centric bindless wrapper on Vulkan+Metal. Still in rough shape, but I've written about it here: www.kevin-gibson.com/blog/writing...
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Writing a bindless GPU abstraction layer
Back in December 2025, Sebastian Aaltonen published a blog titled “No Graphics API” - it presented a great history of the evolution of GPU hardware, and gave an opinionated perspective on how we could...
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Accidentally realized those dorky AR glasses are a cool idea when musing that I hate screens and would love to play videogames on a tabletop Holograms would be better but it seems like a cool medium. Imagine playing a version of Disco on a big table in the dark, moving harry around in front of u...
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VII @ventiique.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Downwell, infection under our feet. 🍄‍ #pixelart
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That girl with The Posts @roodypatooti.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
Megafaunadoodle @Jmvftp
*trying to get a gay guy interested in a story I'm telling* So there was also this really beautiful woman, who was really rude
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zaratustra @zaratustra.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
All good songs are about the boys being back in town
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Bullet Points @bpmonthly.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
"The zone is a final bubble of self. It is possibility, and it is inevitability. When you play Marathon, you are in the zone." New this week, @strida.bsky.social on Marathon. bulletpointsmonthly.com/2026/04/22/a...
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
free game design idea: my friend shitposted one day that civilization should have mario party minigames every dozen turns where the winner survives global floods and harsh winters. we designed a paper prototype and it was awesome. earthquakes and plagues and hard winters re-setting the board.
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steven z @stevenzwahl.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I miss Cohost so bad. I write 1-2k character "posts" to myself frequently and just don't put them anywhere. I'm sure blogging and sharing here would be fine but it just isn't the same, it's piping web pages through bluesky as infrastructure. prevents discussion. maybe I gotta get over it.
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