Peter M.J. Gross
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I'm an editor. I make games. I have terrible opinions.
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Re-doing my introduction post: I'm an editor, and I make games with
@conmaned.bsky.social
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bitterlyindifferent.itch.io
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Bitterly Indifferent Studios
https://bitterlyindifferent.itch.io
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Iron Spike
about 20 hours ago
"This is what Polymarket thinks is gonna happen" is the new "I've decided this reprehensible rich man's opinion now qualifies as headline-worthy news"
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Fun fact(s)! This game is 1. Completely bonkers, and 2. Currently on sale.
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Kevin M. Kruse
4 days ago
It's amazing that Trump could've just done nothing and would've benefited (again) from an improving economy, but he made a big show of Shaking Things Up and here we are.
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erytau
5 days ago
Over the last few days I made a tiny side project. It's an experimental game about artificial selection of silly alien creatures, where you can engineer the target alien through selective breeding. Web-based, free. Play it here:
erytau.itch.io/creatures-fr...
#gamedev
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Ah, SPIEF, renowned for its unerring thought leadership.
www.euractiv.com/interview/cf...
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Sascha Stronach🏳️⚧️, The Sunforge out now
5 days ago
the main reason given as to why people are moving away from e-books back to paper is 'screen fatigue', the idea that people want a break from the digital world, but I would like to propose instead: the publisher can't update your book so it starts playing more ads
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(Waving hello)
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Dan Davies
10 days ago
Apart from anything else, Vanilla Ice has got a max 10 minutes of recognizable material, and that's counting the theme from a ninja turtles movie
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I’m just over here reading normal things, like “The cemetery contains one of the largest and oldest known aggregations of ground nesting bees ever documented.”
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
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A New York cemetery was hiding 5.5 million bees underground
A casual walk through an Ithaca cemetery led to the discovery of a gigantic hidden bee population — roughly 5.5 million ground-nesting bees packed beneath the soil. Scientists believe it may be one of...
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260527023218.htm
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12 days ago
pretty much every single one of the founders except for John Adams were the "candles $3600 someone help me my family is starving" meme, but for brandy and slaves
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Dr Holly Nielsen
12 days ago
We’re so close to “very positive”! Play Amberspire and if you like it- give us a review
s.team/a/3350750
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Plasma Ring
12 days ago
so like lemme weigh in on this as someone who is more financially comfortable than many in my generational cohort: everything I have gained seems precarious and temporary because I know the people with real money will take it all from me the second they get an opportunity and no one will protect me.
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Dmitry Grozoubinski
13 days ago
Unreliable narrator stories are fun until you live through a global-economy tanking war between two sets of relentless liars both trying to influence a stock market full of investors who don't actually care what's true.
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✨circumcision tylenol✨
14 days ago
“steven cheung’s tailor” has to be up there amongst most challenging careers
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Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫🧊🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇻🇪 🇬🇱 🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢✝️🌹
14 days ago
When your community removes a racist statue, do like Charlottesville and melt that fucker down. Because if you just stash it in storage, it becomes what
@artcrimeprof.bsky.social
calls “America’s strategic racism reserve” — ready for redeployment.
www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/s...
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Statue of founding father who enslaved hundreds installed at Freedom Plaza
Caesar Rodney’s statue was taken down in Delaware during protests in the summer of 2020 because of Rodney’s legacy of enslaving hundreds of people.
https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/statue-of-founding-father-who-enslaved-hundreds-installed-at-freedom-plaza/4108212/
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Pictured: The hospital's perspective of me seeking medical attention.
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DevilishGames - Wishlist ✂️ Cutout Village!
16 days ago
Our little game about building a paper town now has a demo on Steam ✂️✨ Want to give it a try?
store.steampowered.com/app/3907910/...
#screenshotsaturday
#indiegames
#cozygames
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Dominic Tarason
19 days ago
Ooh, I somehow missed that Mario's Modules - one of the most creative Mario 64 romhacks ever - got a sequel.
romhacking.com/hack/mario-s...
A puzzle adventure about collecting code-chips and combining them to create your move-set. With both a regular campaign and a roguelike procedural dungeon.
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Mario's Modules 2 | ROM Hack Release & Download
YouTube video by Rovertronic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwx1vfUz-dY
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I mean, sure, but I’d rather breathe in a bag.
youtu.be/Rxa7lb4Vqd4
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20 days ago
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FROVO
25 days ago
MESSENGER: sire, a peasant named humpty dumpty fell off a wall KING: send all my horses and men to put him back together QUEEN: should we not just send a doctor KING: no send all the horses and men ADVISOR: my liege, the castle will be defenseless KING: all of them i said
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Nathan Alderman
28 days ago
Happy Sandford Liberation Day to all who celebrate. To mark the occasion, here’s my (somewhat embarrassingly earnest) essay on how HOT FUZZ disguises a critique of policing as a series of clever jokes.
docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Claire - Sharkbit - Available to work🦈
28 days ago
Think we need a break from "father figure and child" games to give room to "drunk aunt at a wedding" storylines. Let their stories be heard!
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Woman Drunk Dancing with Toilet Seat
ALT: Woman Drunk Dancing with Toilet Seat
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Relatively Painless Games
29 days ago
Uncle Lee's Cookbook releases in less then 48 hours! We decided to update the demo to include all the new features and bug fixes the full game has, as well as a new prologue episode. Try it on Steam or
itch.io
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store.steampowered.com/app/3777930
apicici.itch.io/uncle-lees-c...
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Uncle Lee’s Cookbook: Five Recipes for Disaster on Steam
Uncle Lee has done it again. It’s up to you to pick up the pieces. Join rebellious teen Ines as she deals with the fallout of her uncle Lee’s experiments/inventions/cooking, in a modern point & cl...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3777930
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Donald Conrad
about 1 month ago
We made this in a text adventure engine. Then
@petermjgross.bsky.social
programmed something into it that shouldn’t function in said text adventure engine. It’s something you should see yourself!
#indiedev
#scifi
#amaze
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Nikita Gill
about 1 month ago
“The Odyssey is a very serious book, Odysseus is a very sympathetic, brilliant character and you should not make fun of it” - someone who has clearly never actually read the Odyssey.
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Andrew Jacobs (he/him)
about 1 month ago
UVa became a hotbed of racist eugenics in the first part of the 20th century thanks to then-president Edwin Alderman, including bringing aboard Bean and others to train future doctors and lawmakers
archive.news.virginia.edu/content/uva-...
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I read something I hated, so now it’s everybody’s problem (I don’t make the rules)
pmjg.blogspot.com/2026/05/alte...
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Alternatively, you could STFU
General shenanigans clearinghouse and repository of poorly articulated ideas.
https://pmjg.blogspot.com/2026/05/alternatively-you-could-stfu.html
about 1 month ago
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Matthew Gertz
about 1 month ago
Some pretty crazy stuff that somehow didn’t make it on the air.
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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
about 1 month ago
As we've said many times - If your house is suddenly full of spiders, it may constitute as a spider sanctuary and you should check with your local spider sanctuary laws.
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Costa Samaras
about 1 month ago
Hold on. We the taxpayers are going to pay companies $900 million, which is more than 6x what we spend on wind power R&D, to NOT build wind power at a time when electricity prices are spiking and we need more clean power?
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“Do what you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life“ …unless, you know, you give a shit about your craft.
about 1 month ago
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How it started/How it's going
about 1 month ago
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Darya
about 1 month ago
Oh god, Horse Armor is within the Ask Historians 20 year rule for historical content 💀
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This wasn’t explicitly written about Pete Hegseth running the DoD, but it’s all I can think about now.
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Casey Explosion
about 2 months ago
Hey folks, I've finally gotten around to adding Demonschool to my Steam curator page, a game I had wanted to give a thumbs up to, but desperately wanted to see through to the end before doing so, as I was utterly captivated by it. Especially that soundtrack!
store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
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Demonschool on Steam
Demonschool is a new-style tactics RPG where motion equals action. Defeat big weirdos in between the human and demon worlds as Faye and her misfit companions, while navigating university life on a mys...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/Demonschool/?curator_clanid=28340174
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Crystal Game Works
about 1 month ago
Only 3 more days before you can dive into our Victorian fantasy world where vampires walk alongside humans 🦇 Our next otome game releases on April 29th! Be a vampire or a human, fall for 3 male love interests, and solve a murder mystery 💖 Wishlist:
store.steampowered.com/app/3072470/...
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StrayFawnStudio
about 1 month ago
Dungeon Clawler 1.0 is coming out on April 30th!! Or to be more precise... THIS THURSDAY!! 🎮🐰 Coming to PC, Mobile, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series S|X and Nintendo Switch! 💥
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molly conger
about 1 month ago
this is america. you could find yourself within 100yds of a shooting at any time, in any place. school, the grocery store, a movie theater, a block party, a public park… it happens to regular people every day. but this week we’ll get 50+ weepy op-eds because it happened to the guys who write op-eds
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What?! Gritty wouldn’t have “tried,” he would have GOTTEN THE JOB DONE.
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about 1 month ago
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Trojan War OSINT Account
about 1 month ago
Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.
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But… Skunks?! is a game about stinking on purpose, with sick beats.
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/but-skunks
#Gamesky
#Freegame
#Itch
#Quadplay
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But... Skunks!? by Bitterly Indifferent Studios
Act as a force of entropy, introducing chaos into a controlled environment.
https://bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/but-skunks
about 1 month ago
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Mic Wright
about 2 months ago
NEW | THE CUT’S 'Losing My Friend Over Wegovy' ESSAY IS AN ALL-TIMER EXAMPLE OF BROKEN EDITORIAL ETHICS Editors should a duty of care to writers, no matter how tempting a take might be.
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The Cut's 'Losing My Friend Over Wegovy' essay is an all-timer example of broken editorial ethics
Editors should a duty of care to writers, no matter how tempting a take might be.
https://brokenbottleboy.substack.com/p/the-cuts-losing-my-friend-over-wegovy
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olive consumer
about 2 months ago
one thing i will say about the james beast news is you cannot freely refer to yourself and your peers as "the boys" if your primary care physician is pointing out you should consider scheduling a prostate exam in the next few years
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martin pichlmair
2 months ago
Did you already submit your bird-themed game to our aptly named Steam festival Birds of Play? We need 20-50 wild games to submit the festival and then hopefully are able to go through with it and officially host it on Steam.
tally.so/r/lbWro6
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Birds of Play
Made with Tally, the simplest way to create forms.
https://tally.so/r/lbWro6
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Every piece of a game's environment tells the design team’s story. Four architectural examples from games and real life offer insights for narrative design and environmental storytelling.
www.cindiknapton.com/post/narrati...
#GameSky
#GameDevelopment
#IndieDev
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Narrative Design Embraces Environmental Storytelling
As a narrative designer with a background in architecture and production design I'm often asked "What does narrative design have to do with environmental storytelling?” So much! Every piece of the…
https://www.cindiknapton.com/post/narrative-design-embraces-environmental-storytelling-1
about 2 months ago
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Steam as a rough place to operate: "If you're a studio reading this band as a strategy, don’t ignore the corpses underneath it."
www.deconstructoroffun.com/blog/newzoos...
#GameSky
#IndieDev
#GameDev
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Newzoo's Inflection Point Report: Three Things Worth Arguing About — Deconstructor of Fun
What Newzoo's 2026 PC & Console Report Actually Says
https://www.deconstructoroffun.com/blog/newzoos-inflection-point-report-three-things-worth-arguing-about
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Alex Blechman
about 2 months ago
It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way
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Shelly/Whoobs (they/she)
about 2 months ago
Made this cute smol interactive fiction about being a birb the other day. This is my only suitable for all game.
whoblue.itch.io/you-are-a-birb
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You are a birb by whoblue
Be a bird.
https://whoblue.itch.io/you-are-a-birb
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