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suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 02/10/2026

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Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...

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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 · 15/09/2026

Letting go of the chaos system and listening to rats! <3

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Learning about a new campaign was what finally got me interested in the remaster, so actually thank you!

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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

And looking at contemporary indie games this doesn't mean better artistic quality but better target audience optimisation or whatever you would call recognising a trend and cashing in on that while you can.

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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 · 03/09/2026

Really interesting stuff! I work with kids all the time and my take is that they understand video game grammar really well. I'm interested in what showed you otherwise? Totally agree that playing anywhere and with friends/social aspect is important to them.

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I’m thinking (or hoping), the visual aesthetics are copiable but these games don’t work without actually being genuinely weird because that authenticity is what people want.

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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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Henke (Bounty Trail is ON SALE!) @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 · 30/08/2026

What Raphael Colantonio said about those games in that recent interview was really on point.

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Playing i'd imagine visual focusing is different, because you can control the pov yourself, and the bevels could just add nice visual depth! Still like the strict brutalness of the edges, fits the game, bevels are kinda cutesy at times!

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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 · 26/08/2026

The bevels make the image busy for me, so i prefer the cleanness of sharp edges. While playing it might look different!

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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 · 19/08/2026

My fav of ep1 because of the... well thiefness!

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Love the music and little poems up there!

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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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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I can see that now. Game looks dope tho!

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

seeing is not enough, need to play with this corpse

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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 · 30/07/2026

yes :-D but it's been v fun also! glad to have finally checked this one out

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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 · 28/07/2026

Half-Life 2 feels to me quite influential. The engine and mods ofc but also how the game stays out the players way + environmental storytelling of Bioshock (System Shocks, really) is in the core of most walking sims.

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

same, played for 40mins and can't get out of the starting village lmao

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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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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

You could fund so many immersive sims man..

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Mahtavaa, isot onnittelut! 👏✨

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

”With this character's death, the thread of prophecy is severed. Restore a saved game to restore the weave of fate, or persist in the doomed world you have created.”

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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

thanks for posting this, would've totally missed these otherwise!

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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 · 25/06/2026

June is the perfect time to buy our christmas game, now 50% off on itch! 🎄

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