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Freelance scientist, indie paleogamedev 🦕🦣 PhD in paleontology 🔬🦴
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Hi
#PaleoSky
! I wanted to share the new Steam page of my
#indiegame
: Futabasaura! I am an indie solodev and former paleontologist who makes games inspired by fossils and extinct ecosystems. If you're intrigued, follow me and of course whislist the game:
store.steampowered.com/app/4459770/...
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Futabasaura on Steam
A wholesome marine sanctuary sim, where you take care of giant sea reptiles from the dinosaur era. Nurse ichtyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, train them for the wild, then search the Pacific Ocean ...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4459770/Futabasaura/
14 days ago
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Hi! For this
#FossilFriday
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youtube.com/shorts/Z8s6e...
#indiegamedev
#animation
#paleoart
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This is how I animate my (wholesome) marine reptiles! #animation #indiegame #fossilfriday
YouTube video by pleistogames
https://youtube.com/shorts/Z8s6eTHTBYE?feature=share
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Paleontological Society
13 days ago
Dr. Formoso was one of the recipients of the 2026 Norman Newell Early Career Research Grant! Dr. Formoso will investigate why non-avian dinosaurs never evolved into secondarily aquatic forms despite 170 million years of dominance 🌊
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First trailer of my game Futabasaura is out!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UanT...
#WishlistWednesday
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Futabasaura • First trailer
YouTube video by pleistogames
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UanTzEysTVs
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Hi
#PaleoSky
! I wanted to share the new Steam page of my
#indiegame
: Futabasaura! I am an indie solodev and former paleontologist who makes games inspired by fossils and extinct ecosystems. If you're intrigued, follow me and of course whislist the game:
store.steampowered.com/app/4459770/...
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Futabasaura on Steam
A wholesome marine sanctuary sim, where you take care of giant sea reptiles from the dinosaur era. Nurse ichtyosaurs, plesiosaurs and mosasaurs, train them for the wild, then search the Pacific Ocean ...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4459770/Futabasaura/
14 days ago
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www.youtube.com/shorts/cSJSp...
A cute little plesiosaur (Dolichorhynchops) animated in Spine. What are your thoughts on it?
#plesiosaur
#paleoart
#indiegamedev
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YouTube
Share your videos with friends, family, and the world
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/cSJSpdh7Ivg
about 2 months ago
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Dynamognathus
4 months ago
As the
#YearoftheHorse
begins, I will share an overview of my recent journey through reconstructing prehistoric horses. For such an important, beloved, and fascinating lineage, there isn't an abundance of paleoart of them (and very little that diverges from established tropes)🧵.
#paleoart
#sciart
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Palevoprim
7 months ago
C. Grohe, V. Lazzari
@palevoprim.bsky.social
& G. Thiery (
pleistogames.fr
) ont présenté le jeu vidéo "TAPHOS" Dem'UP
@univpoitiers.bsky.social
. Appui scientifique : X. Valentin, G. Garcia, CVCU. Logo : S. Riffaut. Conception : VR Connection 👉
palevoprim.labo.univ-poitiers.fr/2025/12/17/1...
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So proud to have been part of this project (not) 65 million years in the making🐚🦴
#Taphos
is an
#educational
#videogame
about the fossilization process made with VR Connection together with Camille Grohé and Vincent Lazzari from
@palevoprim.bsky.social
and
@univpoitiers.bsky.social
#FossilFriday
add a skeleton here at some point
6 months ago
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Palevoprim
6 months ago
Camille Grohe, Vincent Lazzari (
@palevoprim.bsky.social
) et Thiery Ghislain
@pleistogames.bsky.social
vous présentent la bande-annonce du jeu vidéo Taphos, projet Dem’up de l’
@univpoitiers.bsky.social
une immersion originale entre science et expérience interactive.
@cnrsecologie.bsky.social
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🐊 Major devlog, as I finally closed the gameloop in my game
#SoryuHaven
!
pleistogames.itch.io/soryu-haven/...
For those who don't know me, I am a paleontologist who embarked in an indie solo game dev journey. Follow me if you'd love games with authentic
#paleontology
creatures!
#indiedev
#paleoart
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Playing Patch and Release
Since I started reworking on what was Aquasauria Park, I have been trying to focus the game’s core loop back on the animals. In today’s devlog, I’ll introduce the loop that I’ve been crafting...
https://pleistogames.itch.io/soryu-haven/devlog/1149630/playing-patch-and-release
6 months ago
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Another day, another paleo-devlog! This time, I made a scalable dialog system:
pleistogames.itch.io/aquasauria-p...
I also reworked the user interface, I made it a little more... bio-engineery? The character portraits are still from the old jam version, though.
#atmospheric
#Godot
#gamedev
#indiedev
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7 months ago
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🦕 Time for a new paleo-devlog! This time, I implemented a time controller, I put ichtyosaurs into the bay, made a peak-like health-hunger-disease-wound-bar, and added buttons to feed the ichtyosaurs🐬
pleistogames.itch.io/aquasauria-p...
#paleontology
#gamedev
#indiedev
#indiegame
#newfeature
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7 months ago
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Two months ago I took part to the
#DINOJAM
. The theme was ‘Underwater’, so I developed a marine reptile tycoon game. The result was… underwhelming 😅 So when I learnt about the
#ContinueYourGame
jam, I decided to give it another go. Read the first devlog here:
pleistogames.itch.io/aquasauria-p...
7 months ago
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Hibernian Workshop
7 months ago
📢Celestial Haven DLC is now available for $2.99 !📢 All revenue will be donated to Animal Charity to take care of abused animals, create shelters for stray cats and more! Learn more ➡️
store.steampowered.com/news/app/128...
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La Poule Noire
7 months ago
We've got something to tell you: NEW GAME! Poke
@arteinteractive.bsky.social
<3
#indiegame
#gamedev
#arte
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Charmouth Heritage Coast Centre
9 months ago
It's complete! Enzo the ichthyosaur is now fully on display in the Centre after being discovered just a year ago. A whole lot of work went into this one by Chris and Alex Moore, and Nic Reast and it looks fantastic!
#FossilFriday
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A little late for the
#EuropeanHeritageDays
but still: Plesiosaurs are among the most iconic mesozoic marine reptiles of Europe. The first plesiosaur was discovered in 1821 by Mary Anning - a talented fossil huntress and major contributor to paleontology.
#paleontology
#paleoart
#DINOJAM
9 months ago
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Steve Brusatte
10 months ago
As we're all taught, you can (usually) only directly date the age of a rock if it cooled from lava. But here, scientists have dated dinosaur eggs, using uranium-lead ratios in the calcite. Hugely exciting, maybe groundbreaking. My take
@science.org
www.science.org/content/arti...
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Scientists directly date dino eggshells for the first time
The new findings narrow age estimates for the clutch of eggs—and may help identify which species laid them
https://www.science.org/content/article/scientists-directly-date-dino-eggshells-first-time
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M U S K
about 1 year ago
France's decision to return the skulls of King Toera and two warriors to Madagascar is a significant step toward rectifying colonial injustices. Honoring the dignity of those wronged by colonialism is essential for healing and justice.
#Restitution
#Justice
#HumanRights
#France
#ForeignPolicy
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France to return human remains to Madagascar in first action under new law
The skulls of King Toera and two warriors were held at Paris's Natural History Museum since 1899
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/08/france-to-return-human-remains-to-madagascar-in-first-action-under-new-law
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Africa View Facts
10 months ago
France has returned the skull of King Toera, a Sakalava king killed by French troops in 1897 during the Ambiky massacre in Madagascar 🇲🇬, along with the skulls of two of his warriors.
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What’s better for
#MondayMotivation
than a giant flying snack? 🍫 🪰 Meganeuropsis was a
#Griffinfly
, a group of giant
#ExtinctInsect
from the Permian epoch. Meet them, and other delicious friends, in
pleistogames.itch.io/cisuralian-c...
#paleontology
#indiedev
#paleoart
#entomology
10 months ago
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Somehow, the flappy-bird moves of Diplocaulus in
pleistogames.itch.io/cisuralian-c...
are based on real science! Back in 1980, Cruickshank and Skews used a replica and a wind tunnel to show that tilting the head up while facing the current would propulse it upwards ⤴️
#paleontology
#gamedev
#indiedev
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Cisuralian Cruise is a free spooky arcade game where you play as a young Diplocaulus, swimming your way through the dangers of the Early Permian. The last update is live at
pleistogames.itch.io/cisuralian-c...
, and my Dimetrodon is starving to meet you!
#PaleoSky
#gamedev
,
#indiedev
11 months ago
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Jean-François Cudennec
11 months ago
Wear marks on trilobite fossil found in archaeological context suggest that the Romans may have used it as ornament. Very cool find, and a good excuse to bring back this thread on antique palaeontology !
bsky.app/profile/jfcu...
#PaleoSky
🏺 ⚒️ 🦑
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Update: Postjam version has been deployed! - Cisuralian Cruise
pleistogames.itch.io/cisuralian-c...
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Update: Postjam version 02 has been deployed!
As promised, the new version is up - with a lot of content, including what I planned to include during the GMTK Jam 2025! For the record, the theme of the jam was ‘LOOP’, and I only had A SINGLE D...
https://pleistogames.itch.io/cisuralian-cruise/devlog/1005185/update-postjam-version-02-has-been-deployed
11 months ago
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I did it! Within a single day, I submitted my spooky paleozoic spin on a famous infinite runner to the 2025
#GMTKJam
. You can play it here :
pleistogames.itch.io/cisuralian-c...
There are tons of things I want to add after the voting period ends. Btw you can leave a vote if you liked it!
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Cisuralian Cruise by Ghislain | Pleistogames
A spooky, paleozoic, 3D spin on Flappy Bird.
https://pleistogames.itch.io/cisuralian-cruise
11 months ago
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PolGM
11 months ago
J'ai développé un nouveau jeu d'enquête gratuit ! Ca s'appelle "L'Enquête : l'affaire Dreyfus" Jouable sur ordinateur (ou téléphone), sans pub ni inscription, environ 30 minutes - et je serais ravi d'avoir vos retours ! Pour tester, c'est par ici :
pgmstudio.itch.io/lenquete-aff...
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L'Enquête : l'affaire Dreyfus by Pol Grasland-Mongrain
Reconstituez l'affaire Dreyfus
https://pgmstudio.itch.io/lenquete-affaire-dreyfus
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I am away from home until Sunday... but I've not skipped a single
#GMTKjam
since 2022, so let's make a super small game fitting the theme, featuring extinct species and a reasonable amount of science - all that within 1 actual day!
11 months ago
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Kalika Prasad
11 months ago
Our new paper is out! 1/14 How does an organ rebuild its shape after injury? It's not just about making new cells, but aligning them in the right direction — like bricks shaping a structure. We show that it's all driven by Cell Geometry!
www.cell.com/current-biol...
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Wound repair in plants guided by cell geometry
Mathew et al. show that growth conflicts reshape cells after injury, forming rhomboidal geometries that trigger diagonal divisions. This reorients cell files to restore tapered morphology. A two-step ...
https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(25)00860-7
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PolGM
11 months ago
Corruption, sexe, règlements de compte : que s'est-il vraiment passé à la mairie de Saint-Étienne en 2014 ? Faites l'Enquête :
pgmstudio.itch.io/lenquete-sai...
(poke
@saintetienne-loire.ici.fr
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11 months ago
Tuojiangosaurus and Meioneurites
#paleoart
#SciArt
#art
#artist
#paleontology
#artistonbluesky
#originalart
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Poulet
about 1 year ago
Wordatro! is now available on Steam! 🎉 I'm so excited! This is just the beginning, and more free updates are on the way. The game is available now with a 15% launch discount, so don't miss out! Enjoy the game! 🐔
youtu.be/ZAzhX3839hU
store.steampowered.com/app/3140120/...
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As a kid, and later a paleontologist, I was so thrilled to see actual mummies and early human skulls in France. I wish a game like
#Relooted
by
@nyamakop.co.za
existed at the time. (also don't actually heist human remains, you could damage them and you may jeopardize ongoing restitution efforts)
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 year ago
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Relooted by Nyamakop
about 1 year ago
POV: You heist the Kabwe Skull back
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I just updated my website at
pleistogames.fr
, right in time for the
#GameCamp
. If you're going there and want to talk paleontology, evolution, worldbuilding or creature design, please reach out to me!
about 1 year ago
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Doot 🪲🪷 Wishlist Milki Delivery 🐮🚲
about 1 year ago
Kabuto Park has big beetles but it is also home to many small bugs 🤏🪲
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Mickaël Newton
about 1 year ago
La Bourse JV est en péril et tout le monde s'en fiche. On doit collecter 50K€ de toute urgence, là on touche à peine les 15. Alors que si on devait annoncer la fin du truc, là on aurait plein de relai médiatique. Mais c'est maintenant qu'il faut parler en fait !
www.helloasso.com/associations...
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