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Tamara Duplantis @tambalaya.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Every summer, I make an itch collection of the capstone projects made by my Games & Playable Media students at UC Santa Cruz! Please play some of their wonderful work ✨

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ARTG 171/172 Capstone Games 2026 - Collection by Tambalaya

A collection by Tambalaya

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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 22/03/2026

Do you design or publish board games? Do you want to protect the planet? Earlier this month, the Green Games Guide team updated the website and the Guide to include more info to help you make more eco-friendly games. Please check it out and share! greengamesguide.com

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Home - Green Games Guide

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IndieCade @indiecade.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

The Audio Design Award goes to Fretless: The Wrath of Riffson, by @ritualstudios.bsky.social @iamdovetail.bsky.social Art by Tamara Duplantis!

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

The next game I saw was Generic Dating Simulator. This game hurt me in a great way. Once again really smart writing here. You feel guilty for even playing it, because it really feels like a Dating Sim written by Daria and she's judging you.https://rennykins.itch.io/generic-dating-simulator

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Generic Dating* Simulator by rennie

Pick a seat, shape your story, and see where lunch takes you.

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This is a Cosmic Horror/Humor infused dating sim that uses contrasting art styles and fonts to embody each datable character. Smart writing, great music, and holy fuck the character design. Like this moth lady? THIS MOTH LADY.

A screenshot of a dating sim where a moth woman is welcoming you to her cosmic dating bar.

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Jonaya Kemper @violetriotgames.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

One of the coolest things about teaching is that you get to see students make really cool shit. At Open Studios I got to play a few of our students games that they've worked on this semester, and they were fucking fun. A quick 🧵. First up, A Visit From Venus. justmicahh.itch.io/a-visit-from...

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A Visit From Venus by JustMicahh

When you get visited by the goddess of love, let's just say your love life won't be so boring anymore.

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Studio T12 @studiot12.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Log 1....is this on? Hello! We are Studio T12, a small indie game development team out to make creepy, artistic, and narrative-focused games! Playtest demo for "Silent Numbers" is available NOW! studio-t12.itch.io/silent-numbe... #indiegame #indiedev #visualnovel #gamedev #gamedevelopment

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Travis Linden Reid @outofmanna.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

I'm sooooooo close to being done with this indie game I've been working on since 2019. It's about helping your weird suspicious internet bff solve a boyband mystery

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megan farokhmanesh @megannicolett.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Consume Me devs @qdork.bsky.social and‪ @apthomson.bsky.social say Collective Shout's mission to protect women and girls is doing the opposite. "Their actions here mainly serve to cut off income streams for adult content creators, many of them women.” www.wired.com/story/steam-...

In a joint email statement to WIRED, Consume Me developers Jenny Jiao Hsia and AP Thomson say that although they expect their game will be reinstated, it is “completely unacceptable that payment processors are conducting censorship-by-fiat and systematically locking adult content creators out of platforms like Itch where they can be fairly compensated for their work.” Hsia and Thomson say that doing so at the behest of groups like Collective Shout “should raise many alarm bells, especially since the position of these right-wing groups is often that ANY LGBTQ+ content is ‘adult’ by default.”

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exodrifter @exodrifter.space · 25/07/2025

Leaf mentioned in the official itch discord server that the open case they have with Stripe right now is probably the most critical right now. Submit a complaint to Stripe here: stripe.com/legal/compla... Need to know what to say? Use this: bsky.app/profile/void... #itch #censorship

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Stripe Complaints

We're here to address your complaints about Stripe's products or services. Please provide details about the issue you've encountered and we'll work toward a resolution. Thanks for helping us make Stri...

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Harper Ferry @harperferry.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Some photos from The Sentient Severed Arm at the UCSC Lighting Studio. Video inbound.

The camera is pointed down at a messy table with a human arm poking through a hole in the tabletop. The arm is surrounded by random-seeming objects: a white board and marker, a slide whistle, rope, a plastic bone, flowers)

Me (Harper ferry) hiding under the table before the game began, with the hole in the table visible over my shoulder

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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people who know it's dumb can't break free

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smwhr @smwhr.net · 06/04/2025

And once you've made a script, you can move on making it a 2D game using Binksi smwhr.itch.io/binksi Making _a_ Video Game _is_ easier than you think.

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binksi by Ju / smwhr, PRINCESS INTERNET CAFé, CrocMiam

bipsi + ink = ♥

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emily blight 🐦‍⬛ @threnody.northsky.social · 03/04/2025

it’s hard to get americans to care about people in prison, but it’s *bad* for trans women inside & a lot of us rn are one wrong interaction away from being entangled with the law, through no fault of our own. if you’re cis & there’s a trans person in your life you care about, you should read this.

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United Videogame Workers-CWA @videogameworkers.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by @codecwa.bsky.social and @cwaunion.bsky.social 💪🎮 We're launching at #GDC2025 this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.

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Evan Balster 🍂 @art.imitates.life · 19/03/2025

An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues. gofund.me/47306b15

A column of fire envelops an RV in a pine forest late at night.

My bedroom and office reduced to ashes. The metal walls and roof are largely destroyed, revealing the forest beyond.

A class C RV gutted by fire. The heat of the fire has killed most of the plant life in a nearby garden.

A segment of an RV's exterior wall. The heat of the fire has melted through the aluminum panels.

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Harper Ferry @harperferry.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

Critical Mass is officially one year old today! 🥳 Take turns drawing cards, adding to a shared map, and asking each other meaningful questions about what it means to keep one another safe in the street when we’ve decided to be dangerous together.

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Critical Mass by nullandvoidgames

a riotous map-drawing game for 1-4 players

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Carol Mertz @carolmertz.itch.io · 12/03/2025

I launched a new project last week! "Play With Your Own Junk" is a collection of free games you can play with stuff you already own. It's my way of making space for anticapitalist art that challenges overconsumption and the carbon impact of large-scale product production. youtu.be/aMs-FkVK7K4?...

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Introducing "Play With Your Own Junk" - A Collection of Sustainable Party Games

YouTube video by Carol Mertz

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Alexandra Chandler @alexandrachandler.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Trans allies- there are way more of you than there are trans people, so we need you to speak out in public comments against State Dept making it impossible for trans people to get or keep accurate passports. The freedom of movement is a fundamental human right. Don’t let the government erode it.

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Tamara Duplantis @tambalaya.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

I’m performing in Los Angeles for this Trans Day of Visibility Fest! If you’re in SoCal, come through!

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TV-MA @tv-ma.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

If you're in LA, come to my Trans Day of Visibility Fest happening March 30th in DTLA. 11 non-binary, trans, & 2 spirit artists performing electronic & experimental pop music. Support weird art! withfriends.co/event/229479...

Flier that is an edit of a past Sylveon GX pokemon card with cute hearts superimposed on. Though the text of pokemon card is gone, the flier is still formatted to look like one.

Text: Trans Day of Visibility Fest

Dependable Son - mars kumari - Xina Xurner - Hollywood Maggot - TV-MA - Blotchouts - Canned Corn - Tambalaya - Princess Pillz - Morher - Destitute Mirror Children.

DJ Radia
Sunday, March 30th - 5pm-late
Coaxial Arts
1815 S Main St, East Los Angeles, Ca
18+
Trans - Non-binary - 2 Spirit - Sounds

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eva khoury @evakhoury.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

🥚🍳 boshi's place is in town with syzygy at GDC! 🥚🍳 We’re partnering with syzygy SF on thursday, march 20th for a night of free-range indie games from the east AND west coast! no GDC pass is required! (only 2.99) 6-11pm | Syzygy SF 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103 Tickets and details ->

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Indexical @anindexof.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Join us Friday, March 14 for "I Seem Agical," a live showcase of some interactive games by game designer, animator, and illustrator Blake Andrews Blake Andrews - I Seem Agical Fri., Mar. 14, 2025 Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm www.indexical.org/events/2025-...

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Blake Andrews - I Seem Agical

<div>I Seem Agical is a showcase/demo of several new interactive games/apps as well as a look into a few new games that may or may not come out. These games may include a gun you can download onto you...

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Akabaka @akabaka.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

For all the Weird Little Narrative Games and VN Devs going to GDC: Do you make visual novels? Do you make weird little narrative games (positive)? Come talk shop and meet other games industry people who also do this! Thur Mar 20 12-2PM in Yerba Buena Please share! lu.ma/4se4oevj

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Emily @2amwakeupcall.com · 28/02/2025

REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless

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Jes & Cin @jesncin.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Fahmi Mohammad was a beloved Indonesian game dev who created Coffee Talk and What Comes After. His final game, Afterlove EP is about learning to live with grief. It was completed by his studio after his passing. It's a slice of life visual novel + rhythm game set in Jakarta.

Stylized portrait of Fahmi. Text to the side says "In loving memory of Fahmi Mohammad Creator of Coffee Talk, What Comes After, and Afterlove EP"

Tweet from @pixelnesia on twitter
"We did it,
@fahmitsu
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We finished your game.
It wasn't easy without you here directing us, telling us that we did a good job, or throwing your usual random jokes to cheer us up...

But we did it.
And we hope we are making you proud, wherever you are now."

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Fellow Traveller @fellowtraveller.games · 14/02/2025

Bandmates, we just released Pikselnesia’s dating-meets-rhythm game Afterlove EP on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5 🤘 This is a tale of finding oneself, and is the swansong of beloved Mohammad Fahmi, the late creator of Coffee Talk. Trailer 👇

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 13/02/2025

Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.

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Allison Raine Chapman @alli.gay · 13/02/2025

‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.

A national park service webpage about Stonewall.

"Before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, or queer (LGBQ+) person was illegal. The Stonewall Uprising on June 28, 1969 is a milestone in
the quest for LGBQ+ civil rights and provided momentum for a movement."

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Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com · 13/02/2025

Presenting "Terry's Other Games"! A messy little collection of short games I've made over the past 20 years, out now on Steam and Itch! <3 Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/... Itch: terrycavanagh.itch.io/terrys-other...

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Save 10% on Terry's Other Games on Steam

Hi, I'm Terry Cavanagh! You might remember me from such videogames as Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV. Here are a few other things I've made over the years!

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Tamara Duplantis @tambalaya.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I’m playing my Game Boy set at KZSU Stanford’s Day of Noise in a couple minutes!! Please tune in!

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KZSU Stanford @kzsustanford.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Up next at Day of Noise, @tambalaya.bsky.social

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 29/01/2025

new @teenvogue.com: @brittneymac15.bsky.social digs into the details of Trump's exec order on trans youth healthcare. I checked with an @aclu.org senior attorney on what trans youth and their families should plan for. in short: no changes RN; stay on top of your healthcare; don't comply in advance.

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Everything We Know About Trump's Executive Order on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth

From what it says to what it means for you.

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Emily 👉😎👉 PRGE @emkultra64.com · 29/01/2025

Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.

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Lazzie BOO!! 😱 @lazzieb.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

I've talked myself hoarse with cis people in my life over the last few months, trying to get them to understand what the consequences are of the puberty blockers thing. I've described it as a Cronenberg situation: You watch yourself change in ways you hate, day by day.

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

go and commit a crime instead. supply someone with hormones. add to a surgical fundraiser. think of a way to help that does not involve me personally trying to make you feel better

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innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

i'll be honest the last thing i want as a trans person is random guilt ridden cis folk ive barely maintained contact with reaching out to check on me every time there's shit news

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GDC Festival of Gaming @officialgdc.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

IGF 2025 Finalists: Best Student Game A Dual Ascent DisplaceMen Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation Slot Waste The WereCleaner (@thewerecleaner.com) Year Unknown #IGF2025

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despelote ⚽ OUT NOW! @despelote.game · 15/01/2025

despelote has been nominated for an IGF award in: * Excellence in Audio * Excellence in Narrative * Nuovo Award * The Seumas Mcnally Grand Prize We are floored! 🤯 Thank you to the IGF judges for the honor and congrats to our fellow nominees! Excited for you all to play despelote this year.

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AP Thomson @apthomson.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

So, uh, Consume Me, the game I've been working on with @qdork.bsky.social and @frogfungus.bsky.social and Violet (not on here) is coming out later this year and you can wishlist it starting today: store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

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Consume Me on Steam

You are what you eat.

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

if you're applying to phd programs you should probably LinkedIn stalk the profiles of recent graduates from said program, *including* those that do not have academic jobs, to get an idea of not only what the program's placement is, but also what people who go a different path end up doing.

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EchoLane @echolane.bsky.social · 02/11/2024

#screenshotsaturday #indiegame www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaG4... Pop bubbles, fight monsters, and keep rocking to the beat in BubbleBeast DigiDungeon, the arcade-style music puzzle game I've been working on for the past year! wishlist below!!

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BubbleBeast DigiDungeon - Official Release Date Trailer

YouTube video by EchoLane

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The Indie Informer @theindieinformer.bsky.social · 08/03/2024

This week's podcast is packed! @writnelson.bsky.social joins us in the first half to spill secrets. Then, the familiar crew faces off to decide whether GDC or PAX East is the Spring Events Champion. And you get to decide who wins! the-indie-in-former.com/2024/03/08/t...

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The Indie Council: PAX Versus GDC Showdown

Who will win?

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sportsdad420 @cornjoe.bsky.social · 18/09/2023

I asked my straight friend how much her boyfriend thinks about the Roman Empire and MY DUDE HAS A WHOLE ASS FLAG

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