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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

yo if you're at @combobreaker.org in chicago this weekend we're testing out new work - DROPSHIP a high-score, high-difficulty arcade cab, from us and MINIGOLIATH. DS-0001. The first of its kind; the first time shown in public; only playable on these specific buttons. drop fast, chicago.

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Glasgow Independent Games Festival @glasgowindiegamesfest.org · 24/04/2026

Final call for game submissions ‼️ Submissions close ONE WEEK TODAY! That’s Friday 1st May, so before then you should send those beautiful games our way ˖ ݁✦. Submission link here :) glasgowindiegamesfest.org/links/ #GIGF26 #indiegames #glasgowgames #glasgowindiegames

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Day of the Devs @dayofthedevs.org · 03/04/2026

Only a few days left to submit your game for Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition! bit.ly/dotd-sgf-2026

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Holy Wow Studios @holywowstudios.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

"Icarus Proudbottom's Typing Party," our two-player typing arcade cabinet, will be in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image (@movingimagenyc.bsky.social) for the next six months! Thanks to the museum for this opportunity and for @wonderville.nyc for making it happen!

A photo of the "Icarus Proudbottom's Typing Party" arcade cabinet in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image.

A photo of the "Icarus Proudbottom's Typing Party" arcade cabinet in the lobby of the Museum of the Moving Image, with the two developers.

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Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · 27/03/2026

Another thing I'm personally excited about at tonights V&A Late is that 2025 No Quarter alumni Jana Romanova will be there with her NQ commission 'The Line is the Game' If you like larps, queues, pushing big red buttons & receipts then this is the game 4 U janaromanova.com/the-line-is-...

people stand around reading receipt print outs next to two yellow and pink flags.

people gather aorund a receipt printer on top of a white podium reading the print outs

silhouettes of many people stood in a big queue

a woman laughts as she holds a receipt print out up high and another person tries to take it from her grasp

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Nick Murray @cassettewitch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

If you happen to be in Bristol this weekend I'll be showing a prototype of a new little game as part of Watershed and Pervasive Media Studio's House Party on Saturday. Continuing my obsession with making tamagotchis a little bit melancholy. @wshed.bsky.social

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Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Check out the line up for ALT GAMES April 18-19 in Sydney!! We have Shuhei Yoshida, Alanah Pearce and Billy Basso as our keynote speakers!!! Come 👍 powerhouse.com.au/program/alt-...

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susie @susepicious.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

I was invited to guest curate a V&A late! Please come along to Player/Performer at V&A South Kensington on 27th March for a night of games and performances. We have karaoke, LARP, drag, card games, videogames, robots and MORE Totally free and no tickets needed www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

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Friday Late: Player/Performer - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A

Friday 27 March 18.30 – 22.00

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Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · 04/02/2026

London & London commutable playful folks… the CAR BOOT CASINO will soon be opening its doors once more! If you’ve a homebrew card or bluffing game you’d be up for showcasing & running a table then drop me a line

oldee timey painting of a spaniel dog in a fancy room. They have playing cards in their paw, a poker visor and a smoking pipe

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 26/01/2026

🚨 INDIE DEVS!! 🚨 @dayofthedevs.org needs upcoming indie games that are amazing, creative, weird, fun and/or spooky to showcase at DAY OF THE DEVS: SAN FRANCISCO EDITION 2026. Is that *your* game? If so, submissions are now open! Get thee to dayofthedevs.org/submit to learn more and submit!

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Submissions | Day of the Devs

Games are selected by a team of industry experts and professionals based on a mysterious algorithm that factors in: What is new and exciting about the…

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Chloe Appleby @chloeappleby.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

ALT: GAMES applications close in one week (midnight 11 Jan) if you want to apply do it now or you’ll forget and be so mad at yourself

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Claire Kwong @clairekwong.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

I'm doing visuals at the @nyugamecenter.bsky.social party at @wonderville.nyc! I'm excited to collab with @wendyleftmealone.bsky.social 7 years after we first worked together. We've both evolved as artists so much, and we're making a unified audiovisual experience together. I will try something new!

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Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social · 06/11/2025

The OCTOPAD OPEN begins today! If you're in New York, come try out the Hexadecipad, a 16-player controller for the NES that turns classic head-to-head games like Tetris, Tecmo Bowl, and TMNT: Tournament Fighters into team-vs-team tournaments! The goal? Form teams to compete at NO QUARTER on 11/22!

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Patrick LeMieux @alt254.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025! To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6 @boshis.place 11/7 @wonderville.nyc 11/8

A grey, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at NYU Game Center. When: Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5:30PM-7:00PM. Where: Room 233 at 370 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/playtest-thursdays"

A red, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Boshi's Place. When: Friday, Nov. 7 from 7:00PM-11:00PM. Where: 1002 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211. @boshisplace https://boshis.place"

A blue, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Wonderville. When: Saturday, Nov. 8 from 3:00PM-8:00PM. Where: 1186 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11221. https://wonderville.nyc"

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Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · 28/10/2025

The line up for No Quarter 2025 is finally live alongside tickets & a shiny new visual identify. This year's event will debut new playful commissions from the superlative... Jana Romanova 🟡 @nicole.pizza + @okremiok.bsky.social 🟡 @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social 🟡 Julián Cordero

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Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social · 25/10/2025

🚨 Hey, everyone! We are extending our submission deadline until Oct 31! 🚨 So there is week more to send games for consideration for the 2026 session of the Experimental Games Showcase. Submission form and more info in our new website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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Experimental Games Showcase

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

yo, thanks to everyone who checked out the @pvkkgame.bsky.social custom hardware setup in San Diego ✌️💜 hope you liked it!

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

the @pvkkgame.bsky.social full hardware set up is live at TwitchCon 🙏 you can check it out in person at #TwitchConSanDiego for the next couple of days ✨

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MAGFest Indie Arcade @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

AND WE'RE LIVE! Our alt ctrl game jam is happening RIGHT NOW at itch.io/jam/flip-out and on the @arcadecommons.org discord! And any good game jam ofc has a theme to get the creativity flowing and ours this year is....

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

the @pvkkgame.bsky.social full hardware set up is live at TwitchCon 🙏 you can check it out in person at #TwitchConSanDiego for the next couple of days ✨

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Team Lazerbeam @teamlazerbeam.bsky.social · 13/10/2025

🇿🇦Anyone here from Cape Town and into indie games or alternative controllers? Well then you need to be at the new Super Friendship Arcade! Pop up arcade with: 🐱 Homemade indie game! 🐸 Weird alt controllers! 🐶 Awesome people! 🐯 Loads of high fives! 18 Oct at Makers Massive - home of CT Game Dev!

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 25/09/2025

Oh wow, PVKK went all out.

A giant turquoise steel battalion-like setup of switches and knobs to play the game pvkk

Same from a different angle. 3 people can stand in front of it.

Another angle showing readouts and switches

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

we'll be out at Tokyo Game Show this week with Mother Ultimate, showing the incredible @pvkkgame.bsky.social controller, as well as new hardware for our friends at @cr-games.bsky.social if you want to talk about the weird/cool space where custom digital and physical things overlap, hit us up 💜

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Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social · 23/09/2025

Applications to be included in the 2026 Experimental Games Showcase at GDC are now OPEN through October 24, 2025! Please send us the weird shit you're working on! Learn more and apply on our NEW website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com

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Experimental Games Showcase

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Playtopia Festival @playtopia.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

Phase one tickets end in 8 days! 🎟✨ Get yours now: tickets.airdosh.co.za/event/free_l...

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Day of the Devs @dayofthedevs.org · 15/09/2025

Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Digital Showcase RETURNS for 2025! Join us after @thegameawards.com for a first look at the future of indie games. ✨✨✨ Working on something awesome? Submissions are now OPEN! Learn more & submit your game here: dayofthedevs.org/submit/

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Chris Hanney @hanney.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Legit playing Planetenverteidigungskannonenkomandant with @rystorm.com was a life changing experience. The pitch: “Angry birds but very complicated with a MASSIVE controller” What a marvel of an experience - I’ll be giggling for days

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

(and stoked that it won the IAB Best Booth award, too 🏅✨ @indiearenabooth.de)

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

a cool couple of months helping to support this PVKK design / build by Mother Ultimate, for the wonderful @pvkkgame.bsky.social and @kepler-interactive.bsky.social 💜 thanks to everyone who checked it out at gamescom 🙏 #gamescom2025

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PVKK: We Played it With a Real-Life Cannon Cockpit! | gamescom 2025

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Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

Parallels returns and early bird tickets are available now. Check out freeplay.net.au for tickets and info, with a full lineup and general release tickets coming in September

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Marie Foulston @tigershungry.co.uk · 01/07/2025

1 week until casino doors open. We've a handful of tickets left (& a strict capacity limit). A few folks have asked... "Is it okay if I buy a ticket" And yes, the general rule is that if you can see this post, yes of course you can buy a ticket.

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Nick Murray @cassettewitch.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

I have a little work-in-progress show on next week. It's the culmination of a socially-led residency with ACAVA. Here's a little video where I say a bit about what's on.

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Holly Gramazio @hollygramazio.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Heya! You might have seen that this is going to be the final year for @nowplaythis.bsky.social; there's a little post here about why, and about how glad we are to have stuck around for this long nowplaythis.net/2025/03/20/o...

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On Wrapping up Now Play This

If you're reading this, you've probably already seen that 2025 is going to be the last edition of Now Play This. We’ve had a pretty good run of it, as weird little game festivals go: ten years, eleve...

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

haha, any time! the team are lovely - it was a pleasure dealing with them 💜

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

yo! it's How To Pet Your Cat from Da Chu Interactive ( www.dachu-interactive.com/how-to-pet-y... ) 💜✨

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How to pet your cat — DaChu Interactive

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

nice to be with our friends @dayofthedevs.org, showcasing some amazing alt.ctrl things (mechanical cat butts included) ✨💀💜

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Now Play This @nowplaythis.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Now Play This 2025 has officially landed! Join us at Somerset House on 11 &12 April for two days of play all about Folk Games - the stories we create together! BOOK: www.somersethouse.org.uk/whats-on/now... @somersethouse @londongamesfest

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TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Extra proud to be part of @dayofthedevs.org today! #HowToPetYourCat

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benjo @makeshiftgnome.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Hi! This is my team!! Back Off Me Booty was a lot of fun to work on and we are SO psyched at how many people came by and enjoyed it!!

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Alexa Ray Corriea @alexaray.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

If you’re at Day of the Devs do not skip Attack of the Booty. Thighs still burning 🔥

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Double Fine @doublefine.com · 16/03/2025

Ever play a game using a giant cat butt? We have a variety of alt-control games here at Day of the Devs offering some VERY unique gaming experiences. 🐱🐈🐈🐈🐈‍⬛🐈‍⬛🐱🐱🐱

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We Throw Switches @wethrowswitches.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

nice to be with our friends @dayofthedevs.org, showcasing some amazing alt.ctrl things (mechanical cat butts included) ✨💀💜

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Nick Murray @cassettewitch.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

I'm putting on my first solo exhibition! A mix of interactive installation, game-making and poetry, Return to Dreamphone continues my collaboration with the tributaries of the River Brent and the communities living alongside.

A photo of an old slide viewer. It has a slide in it and it's illuminated so you can see the image on the slide, which is a ghostly construction site seen from across a large lake. There are branches in the foreground as though the viewer is standing in a wood. Alongside this photo is some graphic text giving the details of the exhibition it's part of: Return to Dreamphone, 26th to 30th of March, Barham Park Studios, Wembley.

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