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Sound designer 🎤💥 he/him TimeSplitters - Wardogs Half of @lockinaudio.com 📍Nottingham, UK 🕸️lockinaudio.com 💌will[at]lockinaudio[dot]com

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Jón Kristinsson @jonkk.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
seems like there's a couple of vibecoded painting apps being announced lately.. ..so I just wanted to mention that there's also a new NOT vibecoded painting app being developed, that's awesome already, called @kalapaint.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/kala...
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Dom @domant2.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐑𝐎𝐂𝐂𝐎 𝐓𝐇𝐔𝐆𝐒 OUT NOW - On Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3042790/...
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404 Media @404media.co · 17/09/2026
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
i have been less online for quite a while and mainly posting about Work Things but that is all about to change bcos i miss seeing what folks are up to and chatting about stuff so i am coming back i'm sorry/you're welcome :))
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Nikes | AlexLeeDee @alexleedee.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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I'm Uni :3 @unicouniuni3.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
He fell asleep in my arms with his tongue out, purring
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📣 FOOL KING DEMO IS LIVE 📣 GO GO GO!!! BECOME THE KING!!!!!! 💀👑 been having SO much fun writing dark, medieval-y, dungeon synth-y music for this game and real excited that it's out there in the world now!!
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
heyooo!!! Planted's release date has been announced!! 🎉 super stoked to have contributed a handful of super fun, bouncy tracks to this game, teaming up with the awesome @jameselseymusic.bsky.social (who made the banger track in the trailer 🔥🤘) wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/3448000/...
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Naniel @naniel0.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
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OboeLauren🔜PAXUnplugged @lauren-urban.com · 29/08/2026
I hate AI with every fiber of my being. I'll never use GenAI or knowingly support anyone that uses it. BUT I would rather accidently support something that has AI and be embarrassed for a moment, than falsely assume/accuse something to be AI when it is not and cause harm to a real artist.
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 25/08/2026
there's two weird things about the controls in Jumper that I did for very specific reasons: - ducking is on R instead of down - double jump is on a separate button from regular jump
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Freya Holmér @freya.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
this is what I've been working on lately!! 🐼🎪
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Nic Cresswell. @tw0fish.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
After having a few difficulties moving and aiming in slightly tighter spaces I set about creating a Line of Sight alt mode for the cannon. You sacrifice trajectory control, aiming beyond obstructions and certain ammo types. But in turn gain much more immediacy and simplicity. #UE5 #gamedev #indiedev
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dimetrodone.bsky.social @dimetrodone.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
Geoduck guy
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Charlie Wagner - Wishlist Netherspire! @ccharnul.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Oh also forgot to post the new pole-catching animation 🫢 #gamedev #madewithgodot
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James Wragg @lovelyhellplace.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
𝔉𝔯𝔬𝔪 𝔱𝔥𝔢 𝔪𝔞𝔨𝔢𝔯𝔰 𝔬𝔣 𝔇𝔯𝔢𝔞𝔡 𝔇𝔢𝔩𝔲𝔰𝔦𝔬𝔫... 𝕰𝖓𝖙𝖗𝖔𝖕𝖞 is OUT NOW in Early Access!!! ⚔️Tactical Combat! 💀Soulslike Mechanics! 💬Narrative Conundrums! 🌎3D World Map! fr, the team have poured their hearts and souls into this one & I'm so proud of what we've achieved❤️ store.steampowered.com/app/3940340/...
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Tiani Pixel @tianipixel.bsky.social · 17/10/2024
Hello new followers! I'm Tiani Pixel, 3D/2D artist, game dev and coder Me and @ironfairy.bsky.social previously made UNSIGHTED, and now we're working on ABYSS X ZERO, a 3D Metroidvania inspired by Mega Man Legends, Zelda Wind Waker and more! Wishlist to support us! (link 👇) #gamedev #indiegame
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Jasper @jasperblasters.bsky.social · 18/08/2026
Day 227: this puzzle seems weird
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sodaraptor ➤ wishlist Hypnagogia 壊れた夢 @sodaraptor.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Tiny teaser for my new upcoming submersible game 💧
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
it's Bandcamp Friday!! this year i've released TWO soundtracks that you can grab on bandcamp and i'm really proud of both of them 😤 and just a quick one to say a huge thank you for all the love on these already, i REALLY appreciate it!! 💖 happy music shopping day!!!!! ginaloughlin.bandcamp.com
bright and colourful Mythmatch album art featuring the 3-headed dog Cerebus at a DJ deckWax Heads album art, featuring a sticker-style drawing of me behind the front counter with a vinyl player and various desk toys scattered around
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Gareth Davies @spudonkey.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Fool King overview video out now - youtu.be/5ZxMnBV09-Q?...
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Can You Reign as The Fool King? - Game Overview
YouTube video by fireflyworlds
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Gretchen Felker-Martin PRE ORDER CHIMERA 2.16.27 🍉 @scumbelievable.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"I'm entitled to whatever I want whenever I want it for any reason and I don't care what satisfying these urges does to me or the world" well okay dude, seems like there's something deeper going on here, but that's just my take
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Calder Moore @caldermoore.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
Welcome to Magg CIty
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KO_OP: 🪐 Wishlist Young Suns on Steam! @ko-op.com · 29/07/2026
an hono(u)r to be included with a bunch of cool studios who also hate AI! AI sux, support real devs making real games!! 🚫🤖
Screenshot from the Aftermath article featuring us, KO_OP! There's a screenshot from Goodbye Volcano High at the top of Fang, a gray pterosaur, and Reed, a coral velociraptor, sitting side by side while Reed eats a piece of pizza. Text reads: KO_OP; Games: Goodbye Volcano High, GNOG, Young Suns. 

A quote from our founder, Saleem, reads: The why [about not using AI] I think is primarily due to the way [AI has] been developed and shoved down our throats being deeply unethical, but also because it has zero use case for us. We love the collaborative process of pre-production and working together to think of ideas and develop our stories and world.
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
⚔️ Fool King was just announced!! ⚔️ if u love AWESOME ART and DETHRONING YOUR ENEMIES then WISHLIST THIS GAME 😤 plus I've been getting to make some cool medieval-y dungeon synth-y music oh and keep an eye on @lootdonkey.bsky.social for future updates 💀👑 store.steampowered.com/app/4380860/...
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Fool King on Steam
Dethrone the Fool King in this tactical autobattler with asynchronous PvP! Amass your troops, apply powerful upgrades and set your battle formations. Watch your plans come together or fall apart in fr...
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Robin Six @robinsix.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
Some VFX and a weird crystal meteorite for #ScreenshotSaturday Wishlist now! (yes, that's an order) store.steampowered.com/app/4174420/... #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegame #indiedev #madewithgodot #godot #noai #vfx #2d
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Susie Esse @susieesse.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Can I interest you in some #hopecore
An illustration by Susie Esse featuring a tabby cat loaf on a table with a smiling sun above it and the lettering “what if it all works out?”
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Ryan H. @ryan.blacksky.app · 04/05/2026
My preferred AI metaphor is actually Asbestos. - Seemingly magical properties - Developed and experimented with to make endless products - Poisoned countless communities in it's creation - Everything it was used for eventually becomes a toxic hazard to mitigate & it's in the fucking walls now
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
also reminder icymi that @lockinaudio.com exists!! and here's a fancy new sfx reel!! sooo if u wanna chat about game audio things pls do find me and/or @willloughlin.bsky.social 👀
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Lock In Audio @lockinaudio.com · 07/07/2026
hey look!! a shiny new sfx show reel!!💥 with something very Serious and Professional at the end to show how Serious and Professional we are 👀 we have some availability for sound design work later this year so if you like what you hear pls do get in touch!! #GameAudio #IndieDev
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will ⚡ @willloughlin.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
@ginaloughlin.bsky.social and I are teaming up and locking tf in 🤨 We're starting a new business called Lock In Audio doing all things game audio 🎵 🎤💥 💻 if you need music or sound follow us @lockinaudio.com 🪿 give us a honk at team[at]lockinaudio[dot]com or visit our website lockinaudio.com
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Tits McGee @scientits.bsky.social · 28/06/2026
‘Say yes and never do it’ Mel Brooks knew how to deal with the studios
You have some wonderful stories of basically getting away with stuff at the studios.

I’d learned one very simple trick: say yes. Simply say yes. Like Joseph E. Levine, on “The Producers,” said, “The curly-haired guy—he’s funny looking. Fire him.” He wanted me to fire Gene Wilder. And I said, “Yes, he’s gone. I’m firing him.” I never did. But he forgot. After the screening of “Blazing Saddles,” the head of Warner Bros. threw me into the manager’s office, gave me a legal pad and a pencil, and gave me maybe twenty notes. He would have changed “Blazing Saddles” from a daring, funny, crazy picture to a stultified, dull, dusty old Western. He said, “No farting.” I said, “It’s out.”That’s probably the most famous scene in the movie, the campfire scene.

I know. He said, “You can’t punch a horse.” I said, “You’ll never see it again.” I kept saying, “You’re absolutely right. It’s out!” Then, when he left, I crumpled up all his notes, and I tossed it in the wastepaper basket. And John Calley, who was running [production at] Warner Bros. at the time, said, “Good filing.” That was the end of it. You say yes, and you never do it.

That’s great advice for life.

It is. Don’t fight them. Don’t waste your time struggling with them and trying to make sense to them. They’ll never understand.
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Bradford District Green Party @bradfordgreens.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
🗨 "I think we should be talking about life expectancy, education, health, a whole range of metrics" @zackpolanski.bsky.social on why we need to move beyond GDP growth as the main measure of how well our society is doing.
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Jussi Kemppainen @jkemppainen.com · 26/06/2026
day 608: ! built a fake real-time GI system for my game and it cost almost nothing to run! The warm sunset light wrapping under the car is not baked, not a probe volume, not a reflection capture. here is how it works 🧵 #buildinpublic #indiegamedev #unity3d
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Tibo @heytibo.com · 26/06/2026
After getting some advice from @antoine.fyi, I decided to move the menu intradiegetically, directly into the device. :) I really like the result, and using an Area3D node to capture mouse events in 3D is really simple. #godotengine #gamedev #wildcosmos
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
thank u thank u thank u to everyone who has responded so far!! going to start going through the responses in a couple weeks so pls keep sharing & filling it in 🤑💸🤑💸
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Lur Noise @lurnoise.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
In Other Waters fanart I did a while ago ~*
In Other Waters fanart. It's a color illustration of three crustacean like creatures done in red tones against a dark blue sea. The title of the game is written on big yellow letters along a description of the animal: the Abyssal sailshell.
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Calligram Studio @calligramstudio.com · 07/06/2026
For the Sunday crowd
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
hi! have revamped my Composer Rates survey! if you're a freelance composer based in the UK, pls could you fill in this quick anonymous questionnaire? the goal is to make a community resource to share knowledge & spread awareness of how much music costs 🙌 pls share!! forms.gle/6Uvcjk8cP2ts...
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Freelance Composer Rates [UK] - 2026
Hello! I originally made this survey in 2024, so it's in need of a refresh now that we all charge way more money (.....right??). Also! I am restructuring so that I can more easily collate the data -- ...
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Dr Artyom Trakhanov @vor-bokor.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Some of my wonky icons look so good when framed in @mechabarbarian.bsky.social luxurious UI!
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Brian Phillips @brianphillips.lol · 28/05/2026
Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes
Because the truth is, tech doesn't have an image problem. It doesn't have a message problem. It has an intention problem. What's wrong with the axe murderer who broke into my house is not that he hasn't successfully persuaded me to buy into his narrative. What's wrong is that he's trying to kill me with an axe. Similarly, when you launch a product that's designed to put millions of people out of work, block access to sources of verifiable truth, replace human creativity with slop, and lower the barriers to every sort of atrocity, the problem isn't that you haven't told the public a good story about those things. The problem is that you are trying to do them. (
There are things in the world that are more important than money. The fact that you seem not to believe this, that you seem to think any motive beyond ruthless acquisitiveness is fake, dishonest, or childish, is the heart of your problem. Your attitude is not by any means unique to tech, but the
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blender bitch | making a karate-kid like beat 'em up 💢 @luluuland.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Ok, this is it, I'm going full indie now 😎 Me and my friends at @ragdollfrog.bsky.social are making a Karate Kid-like Beat 'em Up game! We'll be sharing lots of stuff from now own, starting with our protagonist Laura! Here's a little progress on creating her 3D model #BRart #gamedev #indiedev
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🎴squp @squp.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
Deep below the river, long since its closure, the Mint's legacy yet thrives. Featuring music by @chaihigh96.bsky.social and a beautiful rimlight shader by @snakeblock.bsky.social #MEMAMORKIN #gamemaker
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Matt Caulder (They/He) @mattcaulder.com · 22/05/2026
Today would be an amazing day for taking your podcasts & music off of Spotify!
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Spotify Introduces AI-Generated Personal Podcasts
Per the new feature, Spotify will create audio based on prompts such as "Share my daily city updates, and tell me about local concerts from artists I love."
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
thank u to everyone who’s said kind things about the music in wax heads!! 😭it means so much and has really made my week ❤️ here’s how u can listen 👀 bandcamp: ginaloughlin.bandcamp.com/album/wax-he... ampwall: ginaloughlin.ampwall.com/album/wax-he... youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Wax Heads OST, by Gina Loughlin
31 track album
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Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
🚨🚨🚨ANNOUNCEMENT!!!🚨🚨🚨 WAX HEADS IS OUT!!! Our cosy-punk, puzzle narrative record store game is finally out on PC / Switch / PS5 / Xbox This game is our love letter to music, to the way it connects us and a celebration of human made art. We hope you enjoy it ❤️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuAm...
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Wax Heads - Launch Trailer
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gina 🐸 @ginaloughlin.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
bandcamp: ginaloughlin.bandcamp.com/album/wax-he... ampwall: ginaloughlin.ampwall.com/album/wax-he... youtube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
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Wax Heads OST, by Gina Loughlin
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Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Wax Heads releases in 1hr and a half. Bought some records as contextually relevant retail therapy 😅 Can't believe this idea that was very much a dream project, is about to be very much real and experienced by others. Goddamn.
Selfie of myself holding three records for aphex twin - selected ambient works / boards of Canada - the campfire headspace / the breeders - last splash
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Piers 💫 🔜 MIGW @piers.zip · 03/05/2026
made a cool backflip today hopefully it leads to some interesting routing
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MaB - Dash'n'Drops OUT NOW in EARLY ACCESS! @moulinauxbulles.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Decline's Drops is finally coming to Switch & Xbox in just ONE WEEK! This version includes: ⏱️Time Attack 👿Boss Rush Mode 🪞Shoes & Mirrors Update And so much more!
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