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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
”let’s go to the zen place”
Photograph from a lake’s shore, the ground is full of leaves, branches are hanging down close to the water, the surface of the lake is in motion, the world above reflected on it. Ahvenistojärvi, Hämeenlinna, Finland.
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
prompts and hints: sometimes it’s like modern indie games are afraid of being misunderstood. like they over-explain themselves a lot. it would be nice if they also allowed the player to figure things out. if you need to explain it this much maybe the design is too esoteric…
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Every game set in an urban environment needs a vending machine right (ignore the guy sleeping)
A blue vending machine with hand drawn textures in a 3D videogame greybox level.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Looks like i've broken leaning in a surprisingly hilarious way lol #gamedev #immersivesim
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This electrician immersive sim i’ve been making has shifted to be more about delivering packages and it’s taking shape nicely 📦
A 3D character stands between two small textured buildings in a greybox level, an assortment of boxes and food is in the foreground.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
@brookemaggs.bsky.social and myself are leading the Video Games, Society and Story workshop as part Games as Art Festival in Tampere 10.10. See the details and sign up here: m-cult.org/events/works...
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Workshop: Video Games, Society and Story | M-Cult
M-Cult develops and presents art and media culture, with a focus on the social and political dimensions of media and technology. We connect artists and local communities to global concerns through art...
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
soon
A collage of Control Resonant posters spotted in Helsinki, taped to a window in a 4x2 grid.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
*murder most foul bob dylan voice*
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Feels like this musicfication of games has already happened thanks to free engines, copious tutorials and online resources. LLMs underline and feed it sure. If "bridge" becomes trivial naturally more scrutiny is placed on "opera".
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Always such a happy surprise when a game like this pops up from somewhere ✨
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Bounty Trail is OUT NOW! @henrikhermans.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
OUT NOW on Steam! Step into the boots of a wild west bounty hunter, grab your gun, saddle up. The Bounty Trail awaits. store.steampowered.com/app/4126530/...
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Trying something different with my electrician imsim.
Low poly 3D character waving their hand on the corner of a building with a 2D drawn facade.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Found a Finnish lifestyle magazine piece about Alan Wake from 2010 and it has wonderful goofy+charming pictures of the devs posing with Alan Wake.
Remedy writer Sam Lake posing with hands in pockets looking cute as hell while Ilkka Villi in costume as Alan Wake is standing behind him, looking serious and brandishing a flashlight. Image magazine 3/2010. Photo by Juha Törmälä.Remedy Art Director Saku Lehtinen posing with hands in pockets while behind him Ilkka Villi in a motion capture suit is kneeling on a stool aiming a revolver at some unseen target. Image magazine 3/2010. Photo by Juha Törmälä.Then Remedy CEO Matias Myllyrinne is looking serious with this hands behind his back. Ilkka Villi in costume as Alan Wake is in sideprofile infront of him, looking to the right. He has an immaculate posture. Image magazine 3/2010. Photo by Juha Törmälä.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Top 5 Simpsons lines - Oww my ass! - Eat ass bald ass bald eaters! - That's the guy! That's the guy from my dream! - Thanks for bringing me my model of the digestive system. - (Say the line Bart!) My work exists at the intersection of art and technology.
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Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Upcoming games to watch for (1/2): * The Detective's Apprentice, by @darqwerful.bsky.social * Compress(space), by @b-deshidev.bsky.social * LogiGolf, by @guidomeo.bsky.social * Aether-07, by @probob.bsky.social
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
Big Walk is BIG fun! Puts to shame any other friend coop i’ve played.
Screenshot of three colorful players caught inside a rain of as colorful confetti in the 2026 game Big Walk. One of the players is behind sound proof glass while others stand next to a rock and a tree.
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Antti Tiihonen @anttitiihonen.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Reconfigure playtest can now be downloaded freely. For a limited time only before I limit the access again! Join playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/...
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Someday i hope to put into my games something as beautiful and mysterious as the overgrown gardens in my neighbourhood.
An overgrown garden behind an iron gate made out of old cart wheels and decorated with horseshoes. A yellow building stands behind. A dog pooping is just off frame. Hämeenlinna, Finland.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
I liked this, it's well put together, clearly made by someone who knows and loves imsims. Based on the title i was half-expecting some kinda ragebait but i was really pleasantly surprised!
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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 08/07/2026
You COULD adopt a POV that all this happened because the secret of video games leaked. And you might blame "games for change, improve broken reality!!" rhetoric for that... but no. It was the intl. spread of mobile games followed by money idiots mistaking bigger studio = even bigger $ than mobilie
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Went to a ’game exhibition’ thing today and they had Doom there which was broken and unplayable. Sad and hilarious, what a heavy handed accidental metaphor.
The original Doom game from 1993 installed as a wall embedded screen and played with just a keyboard (as intented :-)) in ”Game On” exhibition at Tampere Talo, Tampere, Finland. A pink placard has information about the game as well as playing instructions. There’s an error message on the screen, the game being unplayable.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
”Try to take out all the ’gameplay’ to just have it somehow be pure art, and you've just dug down to whatever your default assumptions of gameplay are. […] These gameplay models provide the structure for the art to happen in.” Yes!! I think gameplay is out of which the art comes out.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Reading this memo, all i can think of is them doing search-and-replace Xbox -> XBOX now that it’s the branding..
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
i love frobbing, unfortunately i cannot unhear it being said like this: youtu.be/G0beVkxu--M?...
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MedSci | System Shock 2
YouTube video by The Playing Field
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Show me a cool physical game
Hand holding a Gameboy Advance version of the Famicon Donkey Kong game.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
June is the perfect time to buy our christmas game, now 50% off on itch! 🎄
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
Emuurom will tickle your metroidbrain, cover you in esoteric Finnish lore, make you question why we need violence in videogames at all. Emuurom is beautiful and you should play it now! 💚
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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 07/05/2026
Emuurom is also very Finnish, in the vein of Noita, Void Stranger, Baba Is You, etc. Whatever they're putting in the water over there is giving indie devs All Of The Ideas.
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Rick Lane @ricklane.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
I'm looking for new subjects for PC Gamer's Weird Weekend column. Are you making a PC game that's odd as heck? Are you part of an unusual gaming community? Does your work intersect with games in a curious way? Is there a gaming-related mystery you'd like explored? Get in touch at rick@ricklane.co.uk
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Johan Hjärpe @johanhjarpe.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Filcher just got its biggest update ever: mid-mission saves are now in. If it felt too hardcore before, now is the time to try it. It’s also 50% off right now. 🤏💎 store.steampowered.com/app/1355650/...
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Save 50% on Filcher on Steam
Filcher is a first-person 2.5D noir stealth game. As Sporey the master thief, break into guarded buildings to steal from the wealthy and corrupt, using only your senses, your wits, and a handful of to...
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Always out there helping Finnish drinking culture conquer the world !!
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Camilla Pentti @campela.bsky.social · 25/04/2026
Building the diorama boxes with the game art from our Gardener game😅🐌
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 23/04/2026
It’s hard to stop playing this game !!
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Io • captkuso @captkuso.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Showed Alien Taxi at @tokyoindies.com tonight. Spreading the word of Dream Disc to anyone who'll listen!
A Dreamcast, monitor, and speakers set up on a table, running my Dream Disc entry Alien Taxi.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Happy to see a game developed in my hometown top the Steam charts. Set in Finland too, doesn't get more local than that! Looks fittingly post apocalyptic, and beautiful on a CRT. @roadtovostok.bsky.social
Top 5 games selling right now on Steam with Road To Vostok being number one.Screenshot form the game Road To Vostok. FPS view of the player character holding an assault rifle, looking into the woods over a set of train tracks. There is an old tractor and a sign stating that the public road ends here.A CRT monitor playing the game Road To Vostok.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I wish big game companies would hire indies to make small & cheap games based on their big IPs. Local example comes to mind: horror coop set in the Oldest House from Remedy's Control. Wow that would own...
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 05/04/2026
Inspired by this post i read the book in one sitting. So captivating was the description of this bygone era. Props to Jordan Mechner for not editing his past self even when at times he comes across v annoying lol, i couldn’t do that.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Fishing minigame this and that but where are all the indie games with phishing minigames in them?
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
post non religious photo you think of as holy
Picture of the Hachioji Eco Town building that houses all the different Off chain stores, eg. Book-Off and Hard-Off.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Praise to Karras... and the builder.
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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
trying to put into words of my increasing kind of alienation from the gradually coalescing Weird Game Aesthetic from Critical Reflex published-games and the Haunted PS1 ilk is it's really increasingly hard to tell if something is actually good or worthwhile or not based on vibes alone.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 15/03/2026
search your camera roll for hell
Screencap from the documentary film ”American Movie” where Mark Borchardt (whose films are the focus of the documentary) comments on his friend Tim Schimmels’ smile with ”Your smilin' face. What the hell you got to say for yourself?”
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Part of Noise Games @partofnoise.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We and these new friends from our next game are all waiting for spring! 🌱 #indiegame #artgame #handdrawn
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
The real enemy of games in the attention war? Sleeping. People spend 1/3 of their life asleep when they should be Gaming.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
Making fake mobile game ads for my match three game and they are turning out too cursed.
Fake in-game ad for a mobile puzzle game about a fur farm. The ad shows a overweight animal farmed for its fur and a text promising a fun and furry puzzle game for the whole family.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Turns out i’m doing GDC too Getting Da Curry
Coco Ichiban curry restaurant chain vegetarian curry plate arranged to look like a funnny face. Boiled egg halves for eyes, deep fried soft boiled egg for a big round nose, spicy and delicious chili and garlic make a cute mouth with teeth. God i love coco ichi…
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Io • captkuso @captkuso.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
🚨 NEW DREAMCAST GAME 🚨 Alien Taxi, my entry to Dream Disc '25, is up now! 👽🚕 captkuso.itch.io/alien-taxi #dreamcast #homebrew #gamedev
The Alien Taxi logo, with a Dreamcast banner on the left side, and a tiled background with alien head iconsA top down view of an alien standing in the road, with a taxi parked below. The words "Get in a vehicle" are shown at the bottom of the screen.A top down view of a taxi driving, with an arrow labelled "131 px" pointing to a large red marker.A car select screen, showing an open wheel race car.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 21/02/2026
Pounding my chest chanting PC PC PC youtu.be/kEpL45fEnQw
Japanese Hard-Off chain shop in Kichijōji specialised in selling PC hardware aka heaven on earth.
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
I read Super Nintendo by @mackeza.bsky.social and that lead me to a mini-rabbithole of other related cool stuff which i'll now share!
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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Going Under used this aesthetic in a wonderfully snarky way aggrocrab.com/Going-Under
Screenshot of the year 2020 roguelike game Going Under by studio Aggro Crab showing the corporate memphis style 3D main character standing inside an open-plan office. Screenshot from: https://img.opencritic.com/game/10207/vvVxICRd.jpg
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