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Tom Sennett

@tomsennettgames.com
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Award-winning indie game designer, web developer, and artist from Philadelphia (he/him). RunMan, Deepak Fights Robots, One Million Stars, Hugby, and more tomsennettgames.com

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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 28/09/2026
But playing a great game DOES feel like the dev magically targeted you, perfectly, sight unseen. It is the power of art to make us feel seen and understood and less alone. Nailing difficulty and accessibility is part of that. I also feel most games are way too hard and all games should be easier.
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Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 26/09/2026
Collections of studios owned and run by Black People. I'm sure there are some I missed, so please let me know (please double-check that they are owned by black people), and I will add them. Don't just follow them; check out their games. This list is about equity and ownership. go.bsky.app/4wfgP11
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The agenda is being forced upon us. Even our games aren't safe.
A bright sun in a clear blue sky with bold text below stating, "They made the sun bisexual in GTA 6." The word "bisexual" is in a vibrant pink and blue design. "INFOWARS" is written at the bottom.
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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
She’s gorgeous
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ⓘ chloe @unluckychloe.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
terrain litter
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闪卡 @shanka.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#pico8 之前做的游戏我还是挺喜欢的
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Al Boardman @alboardman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Fibonacci.
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 17/09/2026
This is dumb. He should get on Bluesky. My feed is chock full of people oozing with creativity pushing games in cool new directions. So often The Games Industry feels broken and hopeless but it's only because they are blind to the future and another amazing next wave of game designers
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 12/09/2026
You can use graph paper for designing levels so you can keep everything on a clean, measured grid... or NOT. It's like jazz
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Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional @avs03.com · 10/09/2026
Antivirus Survivors 2003 Professional will be releasing 28th September, like in a couple weeks! New trailer to get a peak of some of the new things coming.
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 08/09/2026
What is all that junk on Link's hat, he looks like he's in Yoshi's Woolly World
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mors @mors.games · 04/09/2026
made a new game you can only shoot to the dead center. don't get hit by your own bullet made for the #pico1k jam in under 1024 bytes mors-games.itch.io/dead-center enjoy
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the corgi from cowboy bebop @realqrampage.fightins.online · 30/08/2026
who needs the tour de France when you have Philadelphia, greatest country in the world
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Tucker Hazell @tuckerhazell.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
UPCOMING GAMES FROM DEV DIVE ALUMNI: Aerial_Knight’s Mr Freezy (Sep 01) store.steampowered.com/app/4756010/... Usual June (Oct 28) store.steampowered.com/app/2702430/... Do Crimes! (2026) store.steampowered.com/app/3674940/... About Fishing (2026) store.steampowered.com/app/3856530/...
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leaf corcoran @leafo.itch.io · 26/08/2026
In the next version of the itch app you can... make your itch games show up in Steam 😅. This has been a long outstanding request that should make it easier to play your itch games without having to change apps on Steam Deck or Big Picture mode
Screenshot of the "Steam Shortcuts" dialog in the itch app
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 26/08/2026
Bruh that new megaman game looks like AI
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 24/08/2026
its ogmo!!
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Robert Ashley @robertashley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
It’s weird that the deepest and most subtle game controller in existence is the pinball flipper button.
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Molleindustria FUTURE? NO THANKS! OUT NOW @molleindustria.org · 20/08/2026
This is cognitive class warfare. Technofascists like Thiel are raising a new, traditionally educated ruling class while shoving addictive apps, thought-terminating AI, and gambling down everyone else’s throats. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/t...
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Silicon Valley Executives Are Tech Fans. Just Not for Their Own Kids. (Gift Article)
At home, moderation and restraint are the rule for tech parents. Boredom is exalted. Maybe they’re onto something.
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 18/08/2026
Always important to stress test your hardware
Baby on the RunMan Turbo control panel
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 12/08/2026
Hugely influential game. All your favorite indie platformer game designers played Seiklus and took something away from it. Way ahead of its time in 2003
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Jake Clover @jakeclover.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
fishing wip
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 12/08/2026
19!? That is way too many. I could manage like 3 or 4 maybe?
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Otto Ojala @ottoojala.com · 11/08/2026
ottoojala.itch.io/dicehands Dice Hands v0.9 is now playable in your browser on Itch :---)
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 10/08/2026
RunMan Turbo proof of life
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 07/08/2026
You thought I stopped working on RunMan Turbo?? RunMan Turbo will never become a casualty in the carnage that is The Games Industry. RunMan Turbo is manifesting everything good and fun about video games. RunMan Turbo is coming to your town! Soon. To rock your socks off. Indie games forever
Me with the RunMan Turbo arcade setup
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 07/08/2026
You thought I stopped working on RunMan Turbo?? RunMan Turbo will never become a casualty in the carnage that is The Games Industry. RunMan Turbo is manifesting everything good and fun about video games. RunMan Turbo is coming to your town! Soon. To rock your socks off. Indie games forever
Me with the RunMan Turbo arcade setup
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Loogi | LOOKING FOR FORK @wonderloogi.neocities.org · 04/08/2026
Run Man is a Man who Runs @tomsennettgames.com
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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The 500 FINGER FILLET demo is OUT NOW!!! 500 STABS. 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 01/08/2026
Kids today are so spoiled just by being able to switch video games on their TV without getting off the couch. Back in my day you had to walk 10 feet there and back - uphill both ways - and pray you didn't have a scratched disc or a cartridge that needed blowing
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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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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 24/07/2026
PHILEBRONADELPHIA
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BadPiggy @badpiggyproduc1.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Making a game where you fight time itself #GMTK #gamejam #gamedev
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 21/07/2026
When someone asks me what my indie game "design pillars" are
FUN
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Sos "Buy Lazy Kickers" Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Lazy Kickers is a cozy soccer incremental game where you grow balls from plants and shoot goals and also fight zombies and giant monsters and go to space. Over 10 hours of gameplay for only $2.99! Out now! store.steampowered.com/app/4613890/...
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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 13/07/2026
JD Ware Advance (@featurekreep.bsky.social) "WarioWare for politically disturbed" Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/07/13/j...
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 12/07/2026
Soccer is fine. Gimme the Hokra World Cup
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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
new game release: Radiator Forever, a new ongoing re-remastered collection of all my experimental gay games, all in one package!... still free ($0), now on Steam + Steam Deck verified Info + links on my blog (SFW): www.blog.radiator.debacle.us/2026/07/radi...
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Radiator Forever is "Gay As A Service" + its debut July 2026 Update is Rinse And Repeat, Now On Steam
Design notes for Radiator Forever, my new all-in-one collection that will contain all my gay games... Eventually. Now Steam Deck verified!
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finch edmund @finchmund.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
just finished my first readthrough of understanding comics by scott mccloud
an edited screenshot from Seinfeld. the first image is Jerry saying “You’re crying from understanding comics?” the second image below the first is George saying “the limitlessness of art got to me.” with another line of dialogue below that, spoken by Jerry, saying “All right.”
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Harrison Lemke @hplemke.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
i feel like the game Joust should be much more influential than it is. i love pressing X to flap
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of the Devil @ Merch Now Live on Fangamer! @nthcircle.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
SIT FORWARD. of the Devil - Episode 3 is coming this Fall.
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cathode ray tubetop @nightelectricity.com · 24/06/2026
#makeaterriblecomicday2026
crude comic in the style of Kelly from the onion, depicting an uppity indie developer writing a manifesto on itchy.o (latest fad) and proclaiming "heheh, another manifesto posted and not a single person paid me". honest corpoblogs and verified posters look through the window and complain "but opinions are our jobs!", "my mailing list! my patreon subs". the indie developer has a stinkpad laptop on top of a pile of bricks with posters for "2 people talking the game" and an unemployment certificate
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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
tentatively about here? this is 40 meters tall (was 32) with currently two heights at which there can be doors in walls. i may add a third, higher one. i like the shape, and the taller arches are nice because you can see sky earlier during your climb.
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Tucker Hazell @tuckerhazell.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Brand new Dev Dive! I talked to Michael Brough and Tara MacAlister about 868-BACK, and what they went through to get the game released. This is a development story about how passion and creativity can fight through many struggles. @smestorp.bsky.social @finjico.bsky.social youtu.be/EB2iJ4DQx_Y
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How Michael Brough Made 868-Back | Dev Dive
YouTube video by Dev Dive
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the hype @thehyyyype.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
New app: do you want to enable notifications? Me: I don't even want to have this phone
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Tom Sennett @tomsennettgames.com · 20/06/2026
Sorry asset store kiddies, this is what real game dev looks like
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No Escape from the Tyranny of Virtue 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 15/06/2026
I want to see Microsoft itself collapse while the studios it essentially holds at gunpoint are able to get away (relatively) unscathed. I would rather have a games industry with Double Fine, Ninja Theory and Compulsion in it than ever see an Xbox again
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DeusTex @deustex.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Last year I started building a #Pico-8 prototype. Cyberpunk dungeon crawler. ASCII art graphics, bathed in bright terminal colors. You’re a hacker, got caught in a mainframe all Neuromancer style. Gotta fight intrusion countermeasures, escape the system. Might return to this at some point
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RPS | Wishlist Fallosophy on Steam! @fallosophygame.com · 14/06/2026
I turned pinball into Jump King. -Two buttons. -One vertical world shaped by the history of ideas. -No score. -No safety net. Every shot is a choice. Every fall is your fault. It’s called Fallosophy. Would you keep climbing?
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Conrad Benner @streetsdept.bsky.social · 13/06/2026
Have you listened to our Streets Dept Podcast episode with Chelsey Luster yet? Listen and follow the podcast now wherever you get your podcasts! @rowhomeproductions.bsky.social
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