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Level Designer & Writer • He/Him 🏳️🌈
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Luce✨
5 days ago
✨BOOKS OPENING FOR NEXT MONTH✨ I’ve had some small contracts wrap and am currently looking to fill some gaps for next month and ongoing! If you are after an arty game dev who has done it all or someone who enjoys the admin and associate production tasks, shoot me an email💌💖
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Leah J. Williams
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GenAI isn't a useful placeholder when making video games. It doesn't save time, and it actively stifles the creative process. Here's what local devs think:
@untitledlucegame.bsky.social
@mickey.ghoulish.com.au
@madmacsfuryroad.bsky.social
@theboyofcheese.bsky.social
@tdogextreme.bsky.social
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What local game developers really think about using GenAI artworks as 'placeholders' | ScreenHub: Film, TV, Streaming and Games
Video game development is increasingly under scrutiny, as some developers begin integrating GenAI as 'placeholder' for tone and idea generation.
https://www.screenhub.com.au/news/features/genai-artwork-as-placeholder-game-development-2697122/
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Can't believe my legally distinct fish man warning you about a potential trap got published. Thank you for eternalising him (and great article
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The fish bowl devs were some of the nicest, friendliest people at SXSW 2024. Congratulations on the release!!!
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7 days ago
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Candles. Who's lighting all these candles?
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Guardian Australia
14 days ago
‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive
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‘Succulent Chinese meal’ speech added to Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive
Jack Karlson’s rallying cry of ‘democracy manifest’ added to national collection of sound recordings that hold historical, cultural and aesthetic significance * Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Thirty-five years ago, when Jack Karlson was hauled into a police car outside a Chinese restaurant in Queensland, he couldn’t have known his bombastic speech would be watched by millions around the world, become a meme and now, be preserved for ever in Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive. Karlson’s declaration – “Gentlemen, this is democracy manifest! … What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Chinese meal?” – is one of nine pieces of audio that have been added to the NFSA’s Sounds of Australia collection this year, along with a pedestrian crossing signal and Missy Higgins’ 2004 hit Scar. Continue reading...
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/mar/31/democracy-manifest-succulent-chinese-meal-speech-australia-national-film-sound-archive?CMP=aus_bsky
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Tim Dawson
19 days ago
seeing Sora getting shut down is a good reminder that while genAI boosters will insist the genie can’t go back in the bottle, it does appears possible for the genie to crawl back up Sam Altman’s butthole if the genie ever stops being supplied with infinite money
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David Smith
22 days ago
I don’t know man it just sounds like you’re super bad with money
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I would love to be able to google space information without being signed up for a week of Google News notifications like "STADIUM SIZE ASTEROID might be ON COLLISION COURSE WITH EARTH in 2 million years"
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Acting Out
about 1 month ago
📣 create ABSOLUTE CINEMA in “ACTING OUT”, a game about making movies with your friends! WISHLIST NOW! link below 🎥🎭🏆🎬
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Nicholas McDonnell
about 1 month ago
The Southern Fisheries Penal Colony is looking for new Expatriates! 🦀Crabmeat is Out Now on Steam 🦀
store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/...
❄️Explore, Get big hauls, Defend your ship from attackers 🧪Blend of First Person and Point and Click gameplay 🕑Short 2-3 hour experience
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Amongst many other reasons why both are important, in a lot of places around the world AAA studios sponsor the events Indies use to market their games, connect with devs, and find publishers.
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Tex makes Key Fairy 🏳️⚧️
about 2 months ago
Key Fairy is officially released! Buy it, lest ye be slain!
store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...
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Save 10% on Key Fairy on Steam
A hand-drawn, pacifist, folkloric, bullet-hell. Grapple and dance around monsters to collect their shattered stars, weave your way through twisting paths, encounter strange folk, uncover ancient magic...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/Key_Fairy/
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Kris
about 2 months ago
Remember: When you playtest a game, never take players’ feedback/suggestions at face value. Figure out what emotion is underneath what they’re telling you, and then figure out what in the game is causing that emotion
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nat.
2 months ago
free level design advice for creating an FPS arena that people will call the best multiplayer map ever made for generations.
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ash s. (LOOKING FOR WORK!!)
2 months ago
sorry for being cringe I'm trying to enjoy being alive
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Don’t Stop, Girlypop! - ✩𝓙𝓪𝓷𝓾𝓪𝓻𝔂 29 2026✩
2 months ago
It’s finally time to… Unleash the ✦⁺₊✩GIRL POWER✩⁺₊✦ Don’t Stop, Girlypop! is officially OUT NOW!!!! You better be ready, because this sh❤t is serious 👇
https://bit.ly/45CRvme
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dweedes
2 months ago
it's out now!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3811020/...
#BLASTERMANCER
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jitspoe
3 months ago
Have you ever wondered how time is spent in game development? I've made a handy pie chart to illustrate it.
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Jam Walker
3 months ago
I interviewed Freeplay's co-founder Katharine Neil a couple of years ago about its origins & legacy. There was SO much fascinating stuff that I couldn't publish but I'm still really proud of the piece & feel as if documenting this stuff holds a tiny bit of importance too.
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Interview: The secret identities that birthed Freeplay
We spoke with Katharine Neil in commemoration of Freeplay festival’s 20th anniversary
https://web.archive.org/web/20241104122758/https://www.gameshub.com/news/features/freeplay-interview-2646532/
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This needs to be louder: "Of the 81 arts organisations supported by Creative Enterprises in the 2026-2029 funding round, none are games/interactive arts organisations." Freeplay is hugely important, we have to find a way to keep it alive 🙏
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GamesIndustry.biz
3 months ago
Kinetic Games, the developer behind Phasmophobia, has announced the launch of Kinetic Publishing to "support and champion creativity within the indie space". The publisher will fund two to three indie projects a year up to budgets of £1 million.
www.gamesindustry.biz/phasmophobia...
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Phasmophobia developer launches Kinetic Publishing to "support and champion creativity within the indie space"
Daniel Knight and Asim Tanvir explain their plan to fund two to three indie projects a year up to budgets of £1 million
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/phasmophobia-developer-launches-kinetic-publishing-to-support-and-champion-creativity-within-the-indie-space
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Rbbl
3 months ago
you don't know me
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Hey isn't this that Counterstrike map
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Bruno Dias
4 months ago
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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Suntattoowolf (social wolfer) 💙💛
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HEALTH
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Agnes Forrester
over 1 year ago
It's December! Happy festive season everyone 🎄⛱️🎅☃️ Already wondering what Santa's got this year? Maybe consult my playlist of all the things Santa's Got:
open.spotify.com/playlist/308...
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Wes Fenlon
4 months ago
So very tired, but I couldn't let 2025 end without taking stock of Microsoft's embarrassing treatment of gaming, Windows, and indeed human beings while it chases the AI money train
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Microsoft's year of shame
Can't make a few trillion dollars without ditching game developers, going googoo gaga for AI and supplying tech to the military, I suppose!
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/microsofts-year-of-shame/
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Luce✨
4 months ago
✨ BOOKS OPEN!✨ My clients for this year have wrapped and in 2026 I will be looking for new work! I am a Art Lead with a specialty in anything 2D, who has also done business admin. I'd love to work with kind folks making cool things, if this sounds like you plz shoot me a msg💚
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Frosty Games 🍦
4 months ago
Thank you to all the incredible ANZ-based developers who took part in our first Frosty Mini showcase today, and shared such wonderful announcements! What a beautiful line-up 👏🏼
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Lately I've been in Options Screen UI space and I often think of that thread of intentionally bad volume controls. I think we should rehash this with brave new worse ideas. ie Make the player type the whole name of the monitor they want to switch their game to.
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Jump scared by December 1
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Chris Bratt
5 months ago
Last night's interview with Novara on the Rockstar firings is now up as its own standalone video, if you'd like to watch. Delighted to see the story picked up by the wider media in this way, as surreal as it felt to appear on a show I've been watching for years now.
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Rockstar Games’ MASS Firing Of Unionised Workers
YouTube video by Novara Media
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxuP9VJBz5I
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Aimee Steinberger
5 months ago
Remember your favorite creator possibly might be struggling with imposter syndrome and doubt and this timeline sucks.. so if you find yourself thinking “wow I really relate to this persons work” or that persons work gives you joy, you should probably tell them. It’s a hard time to be a creative.
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My job is create problem and then solve it
5 months ago
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Feeling very lucky to get to see so many genuinely lovely people at MIGW 💗 Another great year with you all!
6 months ago
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Thank you MIGW, the desire to fill even more of my non existent free time with making a tiny indie game intensifies
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The Australian Game Developer Awards (The AGDAs)
6 months ago
The
#AGDAs25
Winner For Game of the Year is... The Drifter by Powerhoof
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Fantastic game, a well deserved win!
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6 months ago
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Likewise I'm at the BGDAs Baldurs Gate, Dressed Appropriately (pyjamas)
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How I look and sound trying to speak to the barista at 7am. Thank you Games Week Launch Party, it was a fun night 😌
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Andy Kelly
6 months ago
The Japanese Mario 64 official strategy guide is an incredible thing. "Can we make little hand-made dioramas of all the levels?" "Sure, why the hell not."
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I think about AF Kuro's vehicle art on a regular basis 🤌🔥
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7 months ago
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Expedition 33 gives me the unique experience of vibing to an upbeat bright pop dance track while getting absolutely beaten to pulp by a mime
7 months ago
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Got my Freakon Ticket 🥹
7 months ago
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New favourite house
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KOJO TANNO
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I'm convinced
Noclip.website
is the best website in the world for Level Designers. I'm not gonna tell you a single thing about it ~ Go, explore, discover, see what secrets you find.
noclip.website#ffx/00e;Shar...
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noclip
A digital museum of video game levels
https://noclip.website/#ffx/00e;ShareData=AJz(_8&hJzT^^m-9yg+C+9@mXQ+M:ZUbJ96UK_SwVkehCUc;XnTt}Ug8=/M7+d
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Dave Lloyd 💾 Powerhoof
8 months ago
Another Drifter Dev Diary! Diving into getting voices into The Drifter. Casting, recording, editing... what I learned and some tools I used or made along the way.
youtu.be/Nopuf0ESnb0
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The Drifter - Dev Diary 18 (Voice Acting)
A deep dive rant about my experience getting Voice Acting into The Drifter, stuff I learned along the way and some of the tools I made and used! - Play The Drifter on Steam -…
https://youtu.be/Nopuf0ESnb0
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