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Two-Headed Boy @two-headedboy.itch.io · 17/09/2026

Indiepocalypse is such an important part of the independent games community. Very few people are paying Actual Cash to support people making weird shit, but Andrew does just that!

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ PRGE @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The Indiepocalypse Pledge Drive is onto the next goal of 4 digits. ($1,000) Helping by spreading the word is just as important as pledging! I'm playing the long game here and more eyes on Indiepocalypse means more eyes on past and future contributors. pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalyp...

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Nico Ailani @thewriterwins.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

This little game was so much fun to work on! Thanks so much to @pizzapranks.bsky.social for the opportunity and for Indiepocalypse ❤️

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Andrew | BUY INDIEPOCALYPSE ➡️ PRGE @pizzapranks.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Live from (a hotel near) the PAX West show floor with a new collection of indie games it's Indiepocalypse #80! -10 curated games for $15! -Zine! -Newly commissioned game by @thewriterwins.bsky.social -Cover by Courtney Løberg (www.courtneyloberg.com) pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-80

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Nicholas O / Essay Games @essaygames.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Nice to see @vinemossgames.bsky.social features on Warp Door!

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NightSkye27 🏳️‍⚧️ @nightskye27.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Sony: We're taking away digital movies you bought. No refunds. We're not making physical PlayStation games anymore. We're killing digital games on PS3 and Vita. ...why should I get a PS6 when it comes out then? If you want an expensive digital only gaming device, get a PC!

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Frank Cifaldi @frankcifaldi.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

As the director of a historical video game preservation institution, and someone who has dedicated his entire adult life to this cause, this is accurate. We have attempted to work with the industry's trade organization to find a legal path forward, but they refuse to offer a meaningful alternative.

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𝓢𝓽𝓮𝓿𝓮𝓷🤘🎸💙 @redfives.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

New PlayStation marketing just dropped

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NateMing on Elm Street @nateming.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

this feels so long ago

PS4 promo video

"this is how you share your games on PS4"
(one man hands another a video game)
"thanks"

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Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 29/06/2026

Hey the recording from this panel about labor organizing in games is now online! We had a stellar lineup of speakers (@nathangrayson.bsky.social, @suduwana.bsky.social, JD Calvelli, Lore Feichter & Goran Svorcan-Merola) all talking about their experiences- Check it out! youtu.be/ySNEtBVjuZM?...

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BOSS FIGHT - Labor Organizing in the Gaming Industry

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 28/06/2026

This is amazing precisely because this billion-dollar mistake rests on a misunderstanding (and probably related hype) of what LLMs can do relative to their training data. I guess every industry will just keep finding out what is NOT in the training data? But there are shortcuts to find out.

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Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 26/06/2026

Termination without cause in Japan is complex and workers have a lot of rights and protections we don't in the US. If Japan had employment laws as weak as ours, Nintendo would undoubtedly lay off workers just the same. It's not management's benevolence or farsightedness, it's labor law.

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Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 26/06/2026

I'm catching up on Narrascope talks, and wow @thewriterwins.bsky.social's talk is just awesome- it's about markov chains and his typing incremental game, but then uses that work as context for a surprisingly incisive take on LLMs. Really excellent presentation- www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlJt...

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NarraScope 2026: Markov Chains, “AI”, and the Bad Future

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Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

As storage and RAM prices skyrocket and make powerful PCs and consoles feel increasingly out of reach, there's only one real option: Everyone go back to 2D

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 25/06/2026

This is the wrong question. Some people will always lead more visible lives (for various reasons) and some less. Alternative questions: "Which approaches to visibility lead to more durable understanding and acceptance? And which to more brittle, easily abandoned lip service and reversible policy?"

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Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 30/05/2026

Warp Door is utterly indispensable, one of the very few places that showcases interesting and exciting new experimental games, student work and jam games. Consider supporting them if you can!

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Chris Plante @plante.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Warp Door is one of the best places on the internet. warpdoor.com/about/

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gg @ggdg.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

"let people enjoy things" is over. we must want things to be good

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A MAZE. @amazefest.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

Congrats to the winner of the Digital Moment Award 🌴🦩: Hanwen Xu & Hatim Benhsain with coalescent || tidal rapture 🏆 This game goes beyond normative depictions of intimacy and doesn't shy away from being meaningfully sensuous, mysterious, complex, and primal. #amaze 2026

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🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

if you think ai automation will result in ubi you have to say why industrial and then computer automation didnt

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 10/05/2026

I saw someone in the Mass Effect discourse say "but if species-ending inhuman space monsters could be read as a xenophobic metaphor, then you could claim all sorts of MYTHOLOGY is fascist" and wow, wow everyone. "so close to getting it" award, could even learn something about fascism and culture

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Nico Ailani @thewriterwins.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

did y'all hear the world is ending haha april fools please

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

I dunno Scott, I think we should do roughly 100 more international pilot studies that prove out the exact same results.

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Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

It is important I get 8,294,400 pixels (4K) at 120 frames a second. Otherwise it just doesn’t feel real. It is ok if half of those pixels are just kinda guesses based on zettabytes of YouTube and pornhub my graphics card watched

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 16/03/2026

LOL get wrecked, contract-breaking CEO. But let this be a lesson to all money weasels

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vibe-free lifestyle and smiling apple purveyor @ellaguro.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

i know i feel pissed sometimes thinking about some the toxic personalities who had much more access to money and who were much more celebrated in the space at the time than people now who are doing an objectively much better job trying to keep stuff afloat to less adulation

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Douglas Wilson @doougle.net · 15/03/2026

This paragraph resonates with me so so much and speaks to everything I’ve learned (often the hard way) over the last 15 years. bsky.app/profile/ckun...

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christine mi @cmi.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

favorite talks at gdc

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

drinking fernet HAS to be good for you, right? no god would make it taste like this otherwise, surely

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Alexander King @literallyaking.com · 06/03/2026

This is really fun! An undeniable part of the magic is knowing that a real living breathing actual human, someone who hopes and dreams just as you do, is somewhere out there writing a funny answer just for you. Huh, wonder if there's a lesson there.

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🌻mei @ ceo of yoohankim @jomeimei.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

A panel from dungeon meshi that changed my life

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · 20/02/2026

To Mike's sage words I'll add what's increasingly clear: Many suits also believe that an experience where anything you ask for magically appears on a screen is a new kind of game. But that's a completely different (and inverted) mode of entertainment, with another audience of unknown size.

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

Thinking about the impact of LLMs on the way I earn a living - writing - and I wonder what the long-term impact will be. On the one hand, LLMs do not seem capable of producing *good* writing, in the sense of original, engaging writing (they can manage clarity, though). But they can do *quantity.*

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🔞YellowJackinit🔞 commissions open @yellowjackinit.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

Not trying to be a dick, but if you showed shuffled gameplay clips from all these action games, I would assume it was all from the same game.

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Nico Ailani @thewriterwins.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Sure you could watch the Superbowl this weekend *OR* you could get a bunch of friends together and do a Wall Street style Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator LAN where you see who can make the most money trading babies

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Emoji Caresser @lizrummy.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

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Weird Fucking Games @wf-games.itch.io · 04/02/2026

Seven Gates, We Deliver by @lawraclark.itch.io: lawraclark.itch.io/seven-gates-...

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Nico Ailani @thewriterwins.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

If there are three things I've learned playing this game tonight it is 1. I am bad at capitalism 2. Capitalism makes me wish bad things upon helpless babies 3. This game unequivocally rules

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Hana @evil-woman.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

This must be how it felt back when grant morrison was putting out doom patrol and animal man at the same time.....

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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

It’s called ‘vs code’ because the code is an enemy you are fighting

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christine mi @cmi.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

someday I will make an incremental game about the sheer absurdity/hubris/folly of our insistence on sustaining modern human life and like, all data centers there

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 06/09/2025

This “solo dev” and “only 3 devs” rhetoric is getting truly dangerously out of hand. Investors see this and think “I only have to pay 3 people” and the result is severely overworked and/or underpaid people and a subpar product. We need to stop treating outsourcers and contractors like ghosts.

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 30/08/2025

mary (Karina Popp) "I tell her I think of her." Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2025/08/29/m...

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