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Swofl

@swofl.bsky.social
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making games for you to play when you're all alone. imbecile who only plays games about breaking boxes and collecting fruit. admirer of kind humans, charismatic art and interesting animal facts. swofl.io

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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Do you know how much has to have gone wrong for me to not like the internet
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Basically she has a choice: -implement trans segregation -get yelled at by the telegraph And oppressing an entire minority is a lesser, frivolous cost to her
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Swofl @swofl.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Going back to my roots a little. I'm moving on from this now but it was fun
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Narwhalnut 🦋 Wishlist Insectile! @narwhalnut.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Silly creatures from my indie game about interestingly-shaped bugs
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Michel Ziegler @dasmirts.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Let's meet in the Fleshy reading room
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jessica harvey @jessiscah23.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Roman Sands RE:Build is out. After so many years, you can finally play our labour of love. It's deranged, it goes SO MANY PLACES, it probably shouldn't exist, and I've no idea if you're going to like it or not but that ain't the point. Roman Sands RE:Build. store.steampowered.com/app/2231460/...
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Save 10% on Roman Sands RE:Build on Steam
A service industry adventure with an apocalyptic flavor. A manic genre mashup told across two broken realities. Step through the cracks: find your Exit.
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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I think my blog where I regularly post about indie games on a variety of platforms like itch.io as well as other odd bits is pretty neat and worth adding to your RSS reader virtualmoose.org
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The Virtual Moose
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Figglewatts @figglewatts.materiality.link · 14/09/2026
Lots of talk on the timeline of the joy of getting lost in games and having to figure it all out for yourself Well, folks, do I have a game for you...
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Harlequin Diver @harlequindiver.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I've never had much luck promoting my game on social media, but it would be deeply appreciated if you could share this post, especially if you enjoy weird little experimental and artsy narrative games, that are the same price as a cup of coffee! store.steampowered.com/app/4693460/... #indiegames
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Jack King-Spooner @king-spooner.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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vaporbabe 🍞🛢️ @vaporbabe.filthandbugs.com · 08/09/2026
didn't realize the mind/artist behind this game was on Bsky so go follow @dasmirts.bsky.social for more beautiful nightmarish insanity like this!
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⚔️ Blanksword ⚔️ @blanksword.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Gen-AI and "AI Gaming" are nothing but the spiritual successor of NFTs and Metaverse Gaming, except 10x worse because it's built on the back of plagiarism machines that fry the oceans to produce loveless slop. I'd rather get Blanksword-Opening-Cutscened in the groin than being associated with this.
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Daniel J. Menezes @danjohnston.uk · 05/09/2026
Creating this no-ai indie games starter pack is one of the best things I ever did on BlueSky. Lots of great developers in here, making things with their own hands, some of whom I might not have found otherwise!! go.bsky.app/78u8M6Y
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
this is a really wonderfully matter of fact article which specifically addresses a lot of the popular talking points.
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Blood Machine @bloodmachine.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Fish with legs
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HAHAHA! A CHICKEN WITH SNEAKERS. @chickenhat.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
because the main character of my game is a mostly naked worm-mutant i have figured out a way to allow people to stream the game without breaking the YouTube and Twitch Content Creation Guidelines™
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Z. Bill @zbill.itch.io · 17/08/2026
Never Gonna Stop this Ape on Mars! My snake-tossing cryptic retro adventure, Encroacher: Snakes, is OUT NOW!
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drew shapiro ✦ MUTAGEN Demo out now! @organzola.games · 22/08/2026
The demo for MUTAGEN is out NOW! 👾 Explore a lush, interconnected alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Absorb mutations from your fallen kin to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Find your own solutions, and unearth the planet's many secrets. #gamedev #indiegame
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Jake Clover @jakeclover.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
kayak mode guy adventure
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Eli Wallis @eliwallis.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
We've run out of wallspace, so here are some original paintings for sale. ewart.mmm.page/available
An acrylic painting on canvas laid on concrete, depicting a green cubist sculpture standing over a barren floor. An acrylic painting on canvas laid on concrete, depicting a green stone planter in a dim corner of the Vivec Mage's Guild containing Coda Flowers, Draggle Tail, Luminous Russula, Violet Coprinus, and grass.A 21:9 acrylic painting on canvas laid on concrete, depicting a view of blue mountains on the North Shore from the Port Mann suspension bridge. An acrylic painting on paper laid on concrete, depicting a ruined and overgrown gate next to a small hut.
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Swofl @swofl.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Maybe I can use my webbing to stop it
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Swofl @swofl.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Hello my new followers and everyone else - I'm Swofl, I made truly experimental games long ago and now I am slowly making more between my unrelated day job. I invite you to peruse the classics while you await my greatest works yet
Screenshot from Lasting (2012): A heavily pixelated, green-tinged room is bare but for a table with a lamp, a door ajar and something unidentifiable on the ground.Screenshot from Gallergy (2014): Endless rows of perfectly white pillars taper from the floor to the ceiling, each with a different brightly coloured painting of nothing in particular.Screenshot from Afterglow (2015): You cower behind a table as something occludes a yellowish window peeking through the blackness at the end of a series of brightly coloured but dimly lit rooms.

There are tiny pyramids and plates on the table, and a stairwell leading down to your right.Screenshot from Coward Town (2016): A Game Boy styled game that heavily dithers colours of blood and sand. A figure walks a path between a hut resembling an insect's nest and a forest of trees with twisted and looped trunks that cast long shadows.
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Swofl @swofl.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
The gang are having such a good time out there in the Rusted Root video. Love it for them
Rusted Root having a super time in the South Dakota badlands pretending to sing "Send Me On My Way"
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Swofl @swofl.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
It's an emergency now. Not 2 weeks ago when Polanski called a press conference because it was already happening, not in 2024 when Labour regained power and we knew this was going to happen, not 40 years ago when we were told this was going to happen
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spookyraptor 🎃 ➤ wishlist Hypnagogia 壊れた夢 @sodaraptor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tiny teaser for my new upcoming submersible game 💧
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
the push to separate people from their computers is real streaming has created a vacuum of media ownership. a generation has grown up without tapes, CDs or vinyl, books, physical games many factors have converged to make next-gen consoles and PCs unaffordable we need to target older hardware
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Alpha Chrome Yayo @alphachromeyayo.com · 04/08/2026
the oscilloscope can produce mind-boggling effects 💀
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Z. Bill @zbill.itch.io · 01/08/2026
it's about time I told you.. Encroacher: Snakes, my snake-tossing cryptic retro adventure, releases August 17th!
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Swofl @swofl.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Seasonable
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// this shouldn't really happen? let's try doing nothing
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Frek @freggaman.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Introducing Gormolda's trusted weapon: The Shuriken! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev
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Transparency @transparency.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Jez San, founder of Argonaut, donated 2 million pounds to the conservative party in 2025. He was the biggest individual donor in Q1 of that year. Please, be informed before purchasing anything. You can emulate PS1 games on basically any device these days (even your phone) with ease.
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Chris Person @papapishu.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Blogged it. Happy Hater Week. aftermath.site/war-crime-n6...
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Do Not Buy The War Crime N64
There's so many ways to play the N64. You do not need to support Palmer Luckey's little project.
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A. Marmot 🌱 @aminus.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
Bird for my father.
pixel art of a male Townsend's warbler perched on a small branch and looking up, its legs and feet partially obscured by two oak leaves protruding forward and to the  right. The warbler has bright yellow colorings on its face and breast with a black eye-ear patch and smaller yellow band just beneath the eye within that patch, and stripes of black and gray following just underneath the wing, giving way to white, gray and brown colors below. The wing feathers are dark with light edges and two wing bars. A subtle beam of light crosses behind the bird from the upper right to the lower left, against a light reddish-tan background
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 26/07/2026
Just a little reminder to everyone: Algorithms are useless. It's very hard to find cool stuff without being shown it by someone else. So if you find something cool - a band, a game, a video essay or anything else - share it and tell people about it. And thanks to anyone who does! You're cool!
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Jo Wolfe, PhD @jopabinia.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Unfortunately this seems to me like another example of a real animal, slopped by AI 😡🦑 Check these source images from @mbarinews.bsky.social who actually observed it. No frontal "mouth" (just a fold between arms further down at most), no suckers visible when on the bottom, eyes less forward
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Flapjack octopus • MBARI
The adorable flapjack octopus sits on the seafloor like a flat, fluffy pancake.
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landsharkrawr.bsky.social @landsharkrawr.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
still another day of the fest!
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Ellie @elliesprites.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
Dinosaur game! I'm putting it on hold for now, but I had a lot of fun animating all these guys.
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Ellie @elliesprites.bsky.social · 19/07/2026
Itch has decided not to index my game for some reason, so the only way anyone can find it right now is through bluesky. Would really appreciate it if you could check it out!
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Rikaku @beastmasterrika.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Fuck off. If anything is "millennial", it's those cool transparent colors our iMacs, Gameboys, and Tamagotchis came in. No fucking millennial likes the house flipper grey. Call it a millennial paint job when I can see through the exterior of a car because it's Glacier Purple like my GBA.
An image showing the colorful transparent plastic of various pieces of technology of the 90's and early 2000s, that were easily the popular choice of the millennial age bracket. Some of the tech is an iMac, Nintendo 64, Sega DreMcast, a PlayStation 2, a Gameboy color and Advance, and CD player.
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Nyek London @stupidhoroscope.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
I don't understand hobbyist programmers that use AI Like if you don't enjoy solving problems what the fuck are you even doin here
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Blood Machine @bloodmachine.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Christopher Nolan 's sensibilities of an amalgam of 10 corporate boardroom guys' idea of respectable cinema is cancer on all beauty.
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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 17/07/2026
You know what it's time for? It's time for me to wreck my notifications all day by reminding everyone about these starter packs I made for game devs who don't use generative AI in ANY capacity. There are three: go.bsky.app/6DRdowf go.bsky.app/AS5R4p7 go.bsky.app/7K7JDCJ
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Byron C Clark @byroncclark.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The creator of Roger Rabbit (who is 85 years old by the way) is a good sort Crossposted with @openvibe.social
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I've had to unfriend a few fans lately, all for the same reason. They made ridiculing, unkind, and in some cases outright cruel comments about pictures I posted of young women cosplaying Jessica. 
More than a person, Jessica is a state of mind. To play Jessica, you need self -confidence, a sense of humor, and a Jessican -attitude-. There is no such thing as a Jessica cosplayer being too short, too flat chested, too heavy, too thin, too unattractive, too black, too Asian, or even too male!!! All Jessica, any Jessica, every Jessica is good Jessica. 
I'm not giving any warnings or second chances. A single disparaging comment on a Jessica cosplayer, and I'm throwing you out of the rainbow colored Toontown Tent.
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HK @hkesvani.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Solemnly reversing my England flag back to racist
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GGIBBY @ggibbyggibby.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
Been throwing something small together over the past few weeks, I'll post more about it as the first build wraps up. For now, the gates are still closed. It's a Zoo walking sim where you feed and stare at weird animals :) #gamedev #godot #indiedev
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Swofl @swofl.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
DVD store where I exclusively stock the horizontal slices that have been removed from the 4:3 cuts of widescreen films
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Swofl @swofl.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
I'm drawing instead of coding today. It's fun, freeing and forces me to radically lower my perceived standards in order to make progress. The three F's
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James Shedden @james.sh · 11/07/2026
I submitted my Steam page for review yesterday, while I wait for that to go live hopefully sometime next week here's some screenshots
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