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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Updated Game Maker from the 2022 LTS version I was still on to the 2026 LTS and... there were no issues. Not one, which is actually MORE worrisome, lol. But really though, good job to the @gamemaker.io team on their project conversion. It's a pretty big project that was updated too.

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SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! @segasaturnshiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is there any harm in using AI to work on — or entirely create — projects for the Sega Saturn and elsewhere in the retro gaming scene? Yes, PandaMonium says in this opinion column, equating such work to digital asbestos: www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/c... #sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming

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Column: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have skyrocketed…

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Point N' Sheep ⭐ Wishlist Laser Guy @pointnsheep.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Laser Guy is back! An anti-shooter where you play as an anxious game developer🥲 Born in a 48-hour GMTK Game Jam 6 years ago, now being turned into a full game! 🎮 FREE DEMO out now! store.steampowered.com/app/3656610/...

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU

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bitch princess of everything (batty) @batshaped.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

i only have time for important thoughts

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JoCat @ Spokane Ren Faire @jocat.net · 07/09/2026

Shout-out to Travis Knight, who's father is the CEO of Nike (yes THAT Nike, the shoe brand) using his immense inherited wealth to fund stop motion animation at a financial loss purely for the love of the art. Laika Studios my beloved <3

A compilation image of Laika movies: Coraline, Paranorman, The Boxtrolls, Kubo and the Two Strings, Missing Link, and Wildwood

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

A moment of scope creep was happening with a scenario I was making in DT4. I started scripting it, but then DELETED IT and successfully fought against the scope creep demon!

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bitch princess of everything (batty) @batshaped.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

commission for an anonymous genius [Originally posted March 3, 2023]

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Seamus Blackley @seamus.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Astonishing.

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Momodriller @momodriller.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

You can check out more info about the comic (and check out what else is debuting) on the SPX website now! www.smallpressexpo.com/debuts/ (My cover image on there is a slightly older version haha)

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Debuts – Small Press Expo

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A number of great discussions with artists at the #EFNW artist alley reminded me of some really cool emails I got about DT3 in particular. I'd like to mention two of them. The first was how DT3 inspired him and that one person created it. Granted DT3 is a fan/sprite rip game, but I understood.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Finally decided to play through the available chapters of Deltarune. I'd played the first 2 chapters on release when they were standalone. (Or at least Ch 1 was) My original thought was to wait for the full release, but I'm glad I decided against that.

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💙 DYNAMO-DEEPBLUE 💙 @dynamo-deepblue.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Artemis shows off her newest shiny treasure! ✨ 🧵 @thatsfurredup.com #furry #fursuit #sth #fanart #merch

A photograph of a blue gryphon fursuiter with chibi wings and tiger stripes with her back to the viewer, wearing an ita bag shaped like the winged emblems featured on title screens and as collectables from various Sonic the Hedgehog games. She has her paws held up in the air as well.

A photograph of a blue gryphon fursuiter with chibi wings and tiger stripes wearing an ita bag over her shoulder shaped like the winged emblems featured on title screens and as collectables in various Sonic the Hedgehog games. She has one paw on her hip and one paw on the top of the bag, facing the viewer.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

There's an interesting and obvious thing about making a game as difficult as DT4, and that's testing it. I have a rule that I must be able to flawless (no hit) everything before I send anything to the testers. (1/3)

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Kelvira 🎃 @ohhellkell.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

"Trans people will always exist." Cool. "They can't kill us all." Comforting. Yeah, transness will survive, but *I* want to survive, too, y'know? But also, survival and existence aren't enough for me anymore, and they shouldn't be enough for allies either. I want to see my trans friends thrive.

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Steeeve Duffy @stevenduffysstuffy.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Star Fox sometimes reminds me of group projects in school

Fan comic of the Nintendo series StarFox

Panel 1: Peppy Hare gestures to formation diagrams, asking “and we all know what to do when the enemy’s on our tail, right?”

Panel 2: Slippy says “Fly in front of Fox and let him shoot them down!”
Falco says “Fly in front of Fox, and let him shoot ‘em down.”
Peppy says “Fly in front of Fox! Let him shoot them down!”
Fox yells “s-somersault! You somersault!!”

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Now that we're half way through the year, I can talk about my most memorable games of 2025, because that's appropriate. This isn't a top games or GotY thing, but games that stuck with me. Clair Obscur, I mean... if you played it, then you might understand why this one is up there. (1/6)

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Nat Guest @unfortunatalie.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

From the Point of View of a Cat
This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some!
He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs.
Let me out!
I don’t know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime.
He keeps my rooms clean for me.
In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love.
Often at night when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don’t imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood.
But don’t think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices.
Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

Finished up 'People of Note' last night. That gets a big recommend from me. It was cool to see another game by Iridium and it felt like a game from them. I thought it was a turn-based rhythm game, and it kind of is, but it plays out a lot more like a classic jrpg, both in combat and the field.

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dawnfire 🔜 Ponyville Ciderfest @dawnf1re.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

hello #portfolioday !! I have been joyfully making art & fanart for almost 15 years .. I vend at conventions & work freelance and I hope to continue doing so :) 💫

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uosdɯᴉS ɐuɐꓷ 🦄 @danacorn.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Dems haven’t abandoned us yet. Sure seems like they won’t. Meanwhile, like Stacy, I am NOT here for a lecture on how voting is dumb because Dems will abandon me, from people who spend every election arguing that we should let the viciously transphobic party win to make some unrelated “point.”

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@stacycay
"Dems will abandon you"
What if I feel like revolutionaries have abandoned me? My GOP state passed laws against trans people every year; revolutionaries told me elections don't matter. Now we can't get driver's licenses and I'm a political refugee. When is the revolution coming?

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

As more and more stuff is made, I find myself coming to this exact thought.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Had a map with a cursed idea, but the execution of it wasn't feeling right. Decided to leave it for a bit because nothing was really working. Upon returning to the map and looking at it for a bit, I found the way to make it all work. The added benefit of also making it far far more cursed.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Look deep within your soul, and you'll know to your core that what follows is true. The 1993 Super Mario Bros. film is more entertaining than the 2023 animated one.

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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

As a species, we have evolved to seek convenience, yet we are wholly unprepared to deal with the reality of just how much convenience modern technology provides us.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Hello scope creep, my old friend, we meet once more. DT4 development in a nutshell.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

During 2022, I got covid, but it wasn't too bad for me. (Had symptoms for 6 days and only 1 was actually bad) I was still quarantined at home, of course. During that time, there was a rather large level (honestly the largest in the game still) in DT4 that I nearly finished within those 6 days.

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Slaix @slaix223.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

So funny how despite a lot of the individual writing choices in Distorted Travesty 1 aged very poorly, but the overall plot aged like fine fucking wine. Oh the villain of the game, "The Artist", is a guy who wanted to cheaply create AI-generated games based off of stolen game assets? You don't say.

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA. Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.

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Lynda Lopez @lyndab08.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Multiple tester's controllers have had buttons (L1 button specifically) broken while playing the DT4 end-game content. I think the game is right on track to being amazing, then.

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 21/09/2025

Fuck a bluesky blackout, we need a whiteout. Cum everywhere, a week of moderators being unable to escape The Cum.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 10/09/2025

Spread this to people you know. It's important more authors make claims.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 01/04/2025

I don't do the semi-fake April 1st DT4 posts anymore partially because everyone knows that the game is actually real now, but that it also takes time away from dev time to do those, even if they're pretty low effort posts overall.

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ZephyrBurst @zephyrburst.bsky.social · 08/02/2024

Yep, I'm also here too. Mostly have this up to reserve it just in case.

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