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Wander

@wanderbot.bsky.social
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Actually Human. Indie Game Curator, Artist, & Essayist (He/Him) 🚫No AI wanderbot.carrd.co

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TieTuesday @tietuesday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
screaming "trans rights free Palestine fuck all recruiters tricking the young gambling is a blight and i think we will look back at it the same way we do cigarettes now" at the start of every stream to give everyone an ad-free experience
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Dicevaders @dicevaders.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
DICEVADERS IS OUT NOW! 👽 Roll the dice, build your alien army, and break the game. Play now!: Steam: tinyurl.com/2t3d9p8f Nintendo Switch: tinyurl.com/yrauhn93 Watch the trailer: youtu.be/eZRlAwco398 #dicevaders #roguelike #deckbuilder
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...
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𝔇𝔢𝔢𝔭 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔳𝔢𝔯 - ℑ𝔰𝔢𝔨𝔞𝔦𝔷𝔢 𝔐𝔢, ℭ𝔞𝔭𝔱𝔞𝔦𝔫! @therunepony.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
So this game called "Dverghold" came across my Steam homepage. Interesting retro vibes, apparently collabing with a dungeon synth artist for the OST. The art was kinda tickling my AI-dar though, so I scrolled down to look for any disclaimers.
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Duck AI Slop!! @duckaislop.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
11 bit Studios / Frostpunk 1886 (And The Alters) "Frostpunk 1866 will make use of the technology, Apparently, it won’t be for anything “final”. Used for "speeding up the process". -y www.rockpapershotgun.com/climate-chan... store.steampowered.com/news/app/323...
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"Climate change isn’t about AI itself, it's about progress" - 11 Bit talk Frostpunk: 1886 and questions of scale
Frostpunk: 1886 game director Maciej Sułecki explores the thinking behind the Unreal remake of one of gaming's greatest and most depressing city-builders.
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Qichin | Bard Vtuber @qichin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
The Blood of Dawnwalker is once again teaching game companies that, as long as you make a fun game and market it right by not disclosing that you used AI in development, you can get away with it and people will celebrate the game.
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The Blood of Dawnwalker Devs Use AI, but There’s No AI Assets in the Final Game, and It’s Used To ‘Avoid’ Pressure on Staff
Rebel Wolves' CEO has explained the developer's stance on AI, saying it has been used in early stages of development of The Blood of Dawnwalker to "avoid" putting pressure on staff.
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Kenney @kenney.nl · 14/09/2026
I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better. Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞
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Robert / Zeboyd @zeboydgames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
It's the Steam Party-Based RPG Fest and Cosmic Star Heroine, Cthulhu Saves Christmas, This Way Madness Lies, and our other RPGs are heavily discounted! It's been a rough few weeks so if you could share this, I'd greatly appreciate it. :) store.steampowered.com/search?term=...
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Save 81% on Cosmic Star Heroine on Steam
3 exotic planets to explore. Aliens. Robots. Magic. Forbidden technology. Ruined Worlds. Ghosts. Long-lost secrets. Conspiracies. A galactic threat. And one brave heroine to make things right. Cosmic ...
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Jason Song Quinn (Comms Open) @hulkhoquinn.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
There is something really wrong with the brains of CEOs.
Someone posting a tweet saying “don’t talk with fucking nazis!”, CEO Ikumni Nakamura responding back to”aww, thanks for worrying about me 💛”
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CuteMonster Props @ DragonCon @cutemonster.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A week ago at Dragoncon I met Richard Garriott at a panel about his new Ultima game. Long story short he wants to use AI. He already has for concept art and ChatGPT generated fantasy language. I wrote an account with the hope that this could spread to the right people. Please pass this along.
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DecodeVen @decodeven.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
I need to remind everyone, especially after their presentation today. Level-5 has been very openly using Generative AI in their game development and are proud of it. This includes their newly announced titles such as New World of Steam, Yo-Kai Watch 2 and Curious Village Remake.
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Jeff Grubb @grubb.wtf · 10/09/2026
DLSS 5 is just a lighting pass and not an ai hallucin--
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 09/09/2026
they're straight up banning people for hurting the poor widdle feelings of AI boosters. but meanwhile if you're in charge of the site its ok to call people who don't use AI "delusional liars" so that's cool ps: quoted post said the account(s) got unbanned in a reply but they're still gone for me
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Astrea 🌟 OUT NOW ON PC/SWITCH/XBOX/PS!!!!!! @astreagame.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Hey Oracles! 💫 This month Astrea is completing 3 years of existence!! We'd like to thank our amazing community for the amazing support!! To celebrate, we have a little gift! ✨The v1.3.0, a free major content update, available now!!✨ & with 50% discount on Steam✨
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Do you think our car mechanic knows what he’s doing? He keeps crawling on the windows and looking at us strangely.
It’s a praying mantis on a window.
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🎃Yagamimi🎃 @luigiyagami.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
stop admitting defeat to AI. make shit anyway. dont be a pussy. fuck you
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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 04/09/2026
Did everyone forget that Blood of the Dawnwalker used GenAI? Like the developers said directly that they’re using it…
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PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 @patriottakes.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Rockstar Games Collaborated With Pro-Trump Artist for GTA VI, Artist Says The video game will feature custom vehicles from a MAGA artist who appeared on stage at a Trump rally. meidasnews.com/news/rocksta...
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Rockstar Games Collaborated With Pro-Trump Artist for GTA VI, Artist Says
The video game will feature custom vehicles from a MAGA artist who appeared on stage at a Trump rally.
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Dan Johnson will design games for food @coil.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
SEGA wants to reassure you that they're only using genAI to replace concept artists on Crazy Taxi.
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Downgrade a movie: Batman Starts
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Avery Alder, Buried Without Ceremony @lackingceremony.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Do you love any of the games that I have created? Whether it's Monsterhearts, Dream Askew, The Quiet Year, Going For Broke, or a deeper cut, now would be a great time to hit quote-tweet and tell your friends about it! It's been a slow month. 💕✨ store.buriedwithoutceremony.com
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Buried Without Ceremony
My name is Avery Alder, and for the past eighteen years I’ve been designing tabletop roleplaying games. These are games about community, relationships, doubt, queerness, and the collapse of civilizati...
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Anjin Anhut / available for freelance @anjinanhut.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Data on why the games industry has more then enough money to support all the developers it layed off over the last years. ...but just chooses not to. Spotted in @kylethescott.bsky.social latest video, but here from the source: static1.squarespace.com/static/5d8e9... See alts for descriptions. /1
Chart showing: After a dip in customer spending (meaning players paying for games) in 2022, investors jumped ship and there is a steady decline in investor spending since then. Chart shows: However the customer spending not only recovered, but further increased withing less then 3 years.
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D9sinc @d9sinc.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Well, turns out that Twisted Towers (a game on Steam I was looking forward to) is Vibe Coded and doesn't have any mention that AI was used in the making of the game. I know there are going to be some saying that code isn't content, but I mean, code is content steamcommunity.com/app/1575990/...
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No mention of AI-generated content in the game information :: Twisted Tower General Discussions
Hi, Since Thomas Brush explicited that AI is involved heavily in this game (https://youtu.be/yNdRv5LFuQk?si=z443Gu9CJda2ar6d&t=2653) it has to be mentioned in the description of this game, based on St...
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Sam Stubbings @sams.games · 20/08/2026
Can anyone recommend any localisation companies that are indie-budget friendly? (No ai)
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Chris Weisiger @byobattleship.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Climb the tower, kill the boss, and maybe make the world a better place! After three years of hard work, my cyberpunk match-3 roguelike TORMENT HEXUS is now in Early Access! Check it out, and spread the word! store.steampowered.com/app/3238420/...
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Torment Hexus on Steam
Technofascist cyberpunk CEOs must die! Charge spells with the match-3 grid, then cast them on your enemies in turn-based tactical roguelike combat. Climb the tower, kill the boss, and maybe make the w...
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Anna Phylaxis @quatoria.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Wow. I was a huge fan of Brigador when it came out, and really excited for the sequel, until I learned some new information about Jack Monahan, lead dev and cofounder of the studio, Stellar Jockeys. Do with this what you will, I guess.
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From the HobbyDrama community on Reddit: [Game Dev] Gausswerks: When a 2000s indie game dev superstar and modern cult figure is outed as a transphobe and comes back a year later like nothing happened
Explore this post and more from the HobbyDrama community
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Robert / Zeboyd @zeboydgames.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
This sci-fi pixel art JRPG looks really good. Stillsun Ark. store.steampowered.com/app/5047700/...
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Stillsun Ark on Steam
A pixel-art turn-based sci-fi JRPG. Stranded on a tidally locked world where the sun never moves, a shipwrecked crew must survive a planet as wondrous as it is deadly. Bond with alien parasites and sh...
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Zach Bussey 🍁 @zachbussey.tos.gg · 12/08/2026
Twitch now uses your channel to train generative AI by default. You can opt out of some training here: www.twitch.tv/settings/sec...
Training for Generative AI

Allow your channel content to train generative AI content models at Amazon. Turning this off does not opt you out of Twitch and Amazon using your channel content for other purposes described in the Twitch Privacy Notice, including using AI-supported Twitch features that benefit the community by facilitating streamer growth and monetization (such as real-time sponsorship campaign assistance), viewer discovery (such as recommendations), and community safety (such as AutoMod). Learn more
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Stella Sacco @antlervel.vet · 11/08/2026
I didn’t even see this had been announced. I was lead writer on this one! And Saber replaced me with ChatGPT midway through development. All the passenger voices were AI too. Either they changed direction at some point or they’re not disclosing it on Steam
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Rideshare "Stimulator" - Announce Trailer | PS5 Games
YouTube video by PlayStation
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Hannako L 💀 Store Prep @thisishannako.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Friend slop is out, friend soup is in.
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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
in case you were thinking of giving breathedge any of your time, just be aware it's one of the few games I've ever refunded for WILD misogyny
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What if Blue Prince, but it's a TTRPG dungeon crawl?
A TTRPG dungeon made out of modular tiles in the style of Blue Prince.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 06/08/2026
We are halfway to the end of the game industry hardship bundle - this is when most campaigns to experience a slump - let's try to beat the trend! We've already raised $160k to help out of work game devs - I'd love to double that by campaign's end. Please share widely! itch.io/b/3802/game-...
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
What if Blue Prince, but it's a TTRPG dungeon crawl?
A TTRPG dungeon made out of modular tiles in the style of Blue Prince.
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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Extremely excited to say that the first ever No More Robots Humble Bundle is now live! 11 No More Robots games for a tiny price. The last 9 years of my life, bundled. Featuring games from @danthat.bsky.social, @jaytholen.net, @springloaded.bsky.social, @braveatnight.bsky.social, and loads more
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Genuinely: if I never had to see another email for another AI generated game in my inbox, that alone would be life changing. I barely look at my emails anymore because my inbox is so full of garbage that I spend more time clearing it out than I do recording some days.
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Loaded up Hellslave 2 for a video and immediately ran into a beautiful "No AI" symbol right on startup. Absolutely love to see it, and would love to see more developers follow suit. store.steampowered.com/app/3399900/...
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
I know people are tired and overworked, but I feel like oftentimes they’re offloading a creative (and, on some level, rewarding) activity to free up time that they’ll ultimately spend scrolling on their phones—thereby further reducing their brains to mush. it’s a vicious cycle of meaninglessness
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Yooty @yooty.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The conservative solution for the “male loneliness epidemic” and decentering men is to just remove women from public spaces.
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Wobbly "Cheap Date" Python @wobblypython.northsky.social · 30/07/2026
*sigh*
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Nathan Grayson @nathangrayson.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
debuting as part of @aftermath.site's hater week, here's my list of (so far) over 50 video game studios that are rejecting generative AI, each with their rationale for doing so
D-CELL Games
Games: Unbeatable

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“Even if I’m just looking at this in the cold mercenary MBA freak way—the ‘I want to generate income as much as possible’ way—you can’t make a thing people want to buy if the thing you want to buy is the same thing everyone else has. And that’s what you fucking get with AI models. It’s definitionally part of how they work. 

So all using [AI] will do is make you compete worse. You have to do laps on a hamster wheel to arrive at the opposite conclusion. Because the only way to actually make money on this shit besides a pump-and-dump is to be the guy selling the shovels. And even the shovels are starting to rust.

Even the stuff that sounds good or looks good for a given value of ‘good’ (i.e. it convincingly looks at a glance like it wasn’t generated with a machine, it’s ‘professional’) is only capable of spitting out inputs that existed before. You can feel it in the ‘choices’ it makes, because it doesn’t make choices; it chooses a value with a weight given by a model patched from every work at once on fast forward. The nutritional value of AI work is approximately identical to watching a 2000s horror movie trailer compilation at 4X speed while second-screening Maury transcriptions. It might be fun to look at, but it will kill you on the inside."
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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · 29/07/2026
We're taking a trip to hell, but some of us won't make it back... Gather your party and join us when Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists by @radiofreelunch.bsky.social releases on September 8th 😈 store.steampowered.com/app/3794210/...
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Worcanna - Audio Attack Spider @worcanna.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Every game - EVERY. GAME. And i will say this for people that do not listen - EVERY-SINGLE-GAME Level-5 has announced has GenAI. They have said. They have shown it off proudly. They have actually made VIDEOS saying it. They did a SPEECH about it. Do not support level-5 ever again. They are dead.
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Damn these look stunning. Dread Delusion was one of my favorite games of 2024, so that physical special edition is calling to me...
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
A tale in two parts, told far too often for my tastes. I know they probably think nothing of the ethical, legal, and environmental concerns, so my reaction might seem mean... but at the same time I've put up "DON'T SEND ME AI GAMES" in as many places as possible and they just keep sending them.
A Steam AI disclosure.A snippet from Gmail that pops up after blocking someone. "Move to spam" is about to be clicked.
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Wander @wanderbot.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Whew, at long last I'm done with my Appx. N Jam submission! astratherium.itch.io/the-still-of... I've been GM'ing for years, but never put the time & effort into packaging an adventure into an actual zine until now, and wow, it was way more work than I thought it would be!
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The Still of Touchstone Station - A Mothership Trifold Adventure by Astratherium
A Mothership Trifold Adventure for the Appendix N 2026 Game Jam
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Reynaldo @naldodrinan.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I have seen a couple posts on trpgs to play that aren't D&D (for obvious reasons) and I'm always hesitant to chime in. There is always the chance something you liked in your favorite game isn't the same in ours, for example. But hey, if you want to give BREAK!! a look I'd be happy for that!
4 adventurers from the BREAK!! RPG and a feline companion walk around a scenic path! They are definitely going somewhere.
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Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 25/07/2026
We have literally just gone on image flip and made like 7 of these because we A) need money B) want you to have 1200 fonts for commercial use for just $19 ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack
The car veering off the highway meme. The left road is AI GENERATED TEXT, the right road is 1200 COOL-ASS FONTS, the car is veering right and has the caption: YOU, I HOPE.
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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 23/07/2026
Just to be perfectly clear with what I mean here: If you make D&D “stuff” (stat blocks, adventures, actual plays) you are actively advancing the interest of billionaires to push AI generated bullshit in the TTRPG space. I strongly ask that you stop doing that
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