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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 10h

wait a second i need a PS5 for the physical version of Romancing SaGa 3: Destinies United? ....hmmmm...... HMMMM.....

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i said october 30th. that was a "trick." now for your "treat" THE CURSE IS NOW OUT ON STEAM ($0.99) store.steampowered.com/app/5001040/...

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The Curse on Steam

"THE CURSE" is a horror mystery visual novel wearing the clothes of an MMORPG.

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MinaSheep - Sealed Fortress out NOW @minasheep.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

MAGIC IS MADE MANIFEST Sealed Fortress, my dungeon-crawling rpg is out now! This has been my biggest project ever, check it out! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/5210640/... itchio: minasheep.itch.io/sealed-fortr...

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Reminder to self: play Sealed Fortress

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Alexia Mohabir 🌸 @woeandgrow.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Another year, another @gdocexpo.com NYC Watch Party! Always love getting to reconnect with the local community in-person. What a powerful reminder of why we do what we do.

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gamedevmap @gamedevmap.com · 05/10/2026

With all the international work we do at #gamedevmap, what's the best nation for us? 🗺️ A do-NATION! As we round out the year, you can really help our nonprofit with financial support. If you have employer matching, your contribution goes even further! 🙏 www.gamedevmap.com/donation_for...

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JJSignal is still! Open!! For work!!! @jjsignal.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Dug up some old character concepts I did for a dead project where I used this episode of Are You Afraid of the Dark as a mood sheet. I was pretty fond of them. This was back in 2017 I think? Almost 10 years ago now hahahaaaaAAAAAAAあああああああああ＠＠＠

Character in a white outfit with blue accents. They have an X shaped visor, helmet crest, and belt buckle, with black hair sticking out of their helmet on both sides to complete an X shape in line with their legs and arms.

A bulky character wearing white with pinkish accents. He has a square visor, with square shoulder pads, belt buckle, glove plates, chest piece, and squared off, dirty blond mohawk and beard.

Character wearing a white outfit with green accents, and a green cloak. They have orange hair with orange boots and an orange belt. They sport a triangle motif with a green triangle visor, cone shaped horns sticking out of their helmet, triangle cloak, belt buckle, knee pads...

Character wearing white with redish accents. They have a circle motif with a bubble shaped white helmet with a big red circle, an orb floating over it with a red band, a circular cloak with a red band, bubbly elbow and knee guards with red circular bands around them, gauntlets with circular patterns, and a belt with circle patterns. Additionally, attached to the helmet are red circular goggles, and underneath are bubbly earphones with red circles on them...

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

It's 2026 and I'm still posting about SaGa games like anyone else knows what I'm talking about 🤗

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm currently playing Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave and it's the first femblem i've ever really played! It's good! Really weird. It also honestly reminds me a lot of some SaGa games but maybe moreso the remakes and the more modern games. Like a high budget SaGa: Scarlet Grace

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I am honestly really excited about Romancing SaGa 3 remake. I think i felt a little iffy about how RS2 was handled because tonally that game feels like it DOESN'T lend itself gracefully to the level of expansion and slow pacing the remake took. But I think RS3 is actually going to BENEFIT from it.

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I managed... somehow... to get the mermaid quest line finished in Romancing Saga 2 remake. Whew. I think my real concern with this game is just how long everything takes. I kind of wish you could run like 4x as fast. I also wish 100% of things could be done in a menu (tavern, training hall, throne)

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I do find the treatment of the Romancing SaGa 2 remake interesting in that it expands the game into a more sorta mainstream feeling grandness but I think that it does kind of suffer a bit from the repetitions taking so long and everything being so slow... I guess these days ppl want long games....

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gamedevmap @gamedevmap.com · 05/08/2026

For #WishlistWednesday, check out Devil's Liminal from @studiointerlude.com! This is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel inspired by Azores folklore and Goethe's Faust. Devil's Liminal is now in Early Access, with a full release coming September 1 on Steam: s.team/a/2271270/

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DEVIL'S LIMINAL on Steam

DEVIL'S LIMINAL is a branching slow-burn horror and yuri romance visual novel. In a life of poverty and violence, Margo Silva has one last summer in Arizona before college. Make choices to maintain a ...

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gamedevmap @gamedevmap.com · 15/08/2026

🇮🇳 Happy Independence Day, India! Nearly 40 new entries with the July data drop are courtesy of @gamedev.in, the country's oldest & largest #gamedev community! Namaste, #GDAI and IGDA India! We look forward to working together! Pictured: MV Rao and PDP-1 with SpaceWar! at IIT Kanpur, early 1970s.

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gamedevmap @gamedevmap.com · 19/08/2026

This week’s #WishlistWednesday is BPM Boy from RetroNinja Games! A physics-based platformer packed with hidden secrets, speed-running leaderboards and a funky original soundtrack. Check it out on Steam and give it a wishlist! 💙 store.steampowered.com/app/2130280/...

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BPM Boy on Steam

BPM Boy is a physics-based platformer, featuring hidden secrets, leaderboards for speed-runners and a funky original soundtrack.

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Last week, EA said their CEO Andrew Wilson made $39 million in cash and stock awards An alternate measurement puts Wilson's take at $77 million These numbers left me no choice but to make a new Very Tall Chart (If you click, you'll be scrolling for a long time) www.gamefile.news/p/ea-pay-ver...

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Game File's new tallest chart ever

EA's CEO did really well this year, so I needed more pixels.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 30/07/2026

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

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gamedevmap @gamedevmap.com · 26/07/2026

Did you know that gamedevmap is a 501(c)3 nonprofit? We are fundraising to continue maintaining our freely accessible online database. If we've ever helped you discover a studio or lifted you up during challenging times, we would deeply appreciate your support 🩵 www.gamedevmap.com/donation_for...

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

My viewing guide for One Piece 1-228: hey that's alright 229-430: WOW, PEAK TELEVISION 431-1170: skippable :)

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Do people work on NPC/enemy AI now just have to call it something else?

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Gaurav Mathur @gauravcm.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

These Bluesky Lists are a modern realization of my original vision for @gamedevmap.com from the early days of social media: connecting game development organizations to make the world feel a little smaller. 🩵 We're not alone. We can lift each other up. Thanks, Atul Goel, for making this possible.

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JJSignal is still! Open!! For work!!! @jjsignal.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

If you'll notice, the cards are all based on Zener Cards. The symbols are all over the place in ROM: NEURODIVER, including in the backgrounds of the portraits and configuration menus. They were even printed on the promotional cards that @chorusworldwide.bsky.social would hand out at events.

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JJSignal is still! Open!! For work!!! @jjsignal.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Been in games and freelance for ~14 years now. I'm a skilled pixel artist, illustrator, graphic designer, storyboarder, who can also do some animation and simple 3D work. I've got experience in overseeing game projects from beginning to ship. Looking for work! Portfolio..☞ jjsignal.com _:(´ཀ`」 ∠):_

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JJSignal Works

Illustration and visual design. Game development and direction. A portfolio of JJSignal's works.

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Beatdown City Survivors is NOT in the steam sale, it will be on sale next month. But also, it's <$10 and sitting at 100% Very Positive on Steam. ✌🏼

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you pay attention Mike is always haunting the narrative

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JJSignal is still! Open!! For work!!! @jjsignal.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I'm a big fan of eye catches/commercial bumpers, and find them useful outside of TV. This was in the "Would be nice" pile for ROM: NEURODIVER. In my off time I made the animations, and the logic was technically already there, so we slipped them in at the very last minute. I think about them a lot.

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JJSignal is still! Open!! For work!!! @jjsignal.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

This eye catch was technically the first one. The first mockup I did had Lexi and Golden, as I had Golden's laugh in my head for an eye catch since the beginning. Adam Harrington does a great sinister laugh. I wasn't expecting it to bleed into the next scene in-game, but it worked really well.

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

me scheduling my posts: I hope i've gotten to play Deltarune by now

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

I think i've trained myself my whole life to listen to really loud music when i'm working and I don't know that I can stop so shout out to me being deaf by 50 or whatever

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Happy Don't Look At Social Media day to those who practice!!! See u after work

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Personally I think if Unlimited Saga was packaged as a "digital board game adaptation of the RPG genre" and not made to look like "the next big blockbuster title" it probably wouldn't have had as negative a reception in USA as it did (Famitsu gave it a 31/40)

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

🧟Beatdown City Survivors🧟 Eradicate hordes of monsters in this 🗽Immersive 👥survivors roguelite 🌃set in a destructible city OUT NOW! 🛠️fun weapon crafting 🐱large cast of characters 🏗️dynamic environments 🔊pumping soundtrack Play the demo/check it out today! beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

15 minutes to get the launch discount. 100% Very Positive. Raffle coming later today. beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

Thank you Mitski, "Where's my phone?" is a very relatable line

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Ryan Mac 🙃 @rmac.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

I've reported on Musk for around 8 years. I've co-authored a book on him. I don't think folks understand the rate of his wealth accumulation. Shortly after he helped elect Donald Trump in Nov 2024, his net worth was around $350 billion. That net worth has nearly tripled in less than two years.

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

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NO-ONE IS GOING TO BUY YOUR GAME by ill omens

A Manifesto For Making Games

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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Mariska doing a matinee and a 7 pm performance of her one-woman Broadway show and then watching the greatest comeback in Finals history actually looks like the Jordan flu game

Taylor Swift hugging an exhausted Mariska Hargitay

Scottie Pippen holding up Michael Jordan

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Google please stop changing your logos for no reason I have a job I need to work lmao

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 10/06/2026

1/3 of the game industry has lost their job in the last two years. Ubisoft closed two more studios today. Everyone is out of work. To that end I'm starting a new bundle to benefit a layoffs hardship fund. Game devs: please consider submitting your PAID games to the bundle, which will launch in July.

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Game industry hardship fund

A game jam from 2026-06-10 to 2026-06-24 hosted by Necrosoft Games. PREMISE: The game industry has a problem. Too many people are out of work (reports say 33% of the industry lost their jobs in the la...

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Oh yeah!!! I watched The Amazing Digital Circus: The Last Act in theaters and it was a great time!!!

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Did Discord perish for anyone else or am I cursed?

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Max Folkman @maxfolkman.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Script Lock lives!

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Toni @tonitonitonitoni.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

I'm so excited about my many weekend plans after work (Playing Vampire Crawlers)

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BearhAHHH!!t @fussybabybit.ch · 05/06/2026

(growing sense of dread as the waves of games award liveposting start to include "TUPAC?")

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Stellbound: Stellraiser II @antlervel.vet · 01/06/2026

Hello. Job leads have been few and far between this year so far, and job hunting outside my discipline to make ends meet has been fruitless and demoralizing. I have not gotten a paycheck since October. I could use help making rent this month. “Thank you” - Stella PayPal: @StellaSacco Cashapp: $sacc

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Shawn Alexander Allen @shawndoublea.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

🧟Beatdown City Survivors🧟 Eradicate hordes of monsters in this 🗽Immersive 👥survivors roguelite 🌃set in a destructible city RELEASES JUNE 10th! 🛠️fun weapon crafting 🐱large cast of characters 🏗️dynamic environments 🔊pumping soundtrack Play the demo/Wishlist today! beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

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