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
. Check out our work here:
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io
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Bitterly Indifferent Studios
https://bitterlyindifferent.itch.io
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Donald Conrad
about 2 hours ago
Well, what I thought would be a quick upgrade turned into a whole task. But I'm happy to announce that the Fishmonger Hut is done and you can download the update now! If you use it in a project let me know. I would love to the places it goes.
#indiedev
#gameasset
#crocotile3D
#blender
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Fishmonger Hut by ConManEd
A new and updated version of a small little Fishing hut on a small island.
https://conmaned.itch.io/fishmonger-hut
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Li Chen
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the dodge
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Maladroithe
1 day ago
I wanna personally congratulate Hunter Biden for not only being nowhere near the Epstein files but for having rock-solid reviews from sex workers for respectfulness and tipping
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Dari/scitydreamer
about 16 hours ago
Today, we're stepping back in the past! We're looking at the new definitive console edition of Jimmy and the Pulsating Mass!
indiehellzone.com/2026/02/04/j...
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Vituperative Erb
1 day ago
āWhy arenāt Dems responding to some random shit Steve Bannon said on a podcastā I donāt know it might be because they are employed
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Ash Parrish
1 day ago
Oh hey. It's me. I'm back. I wanted to talk to all the devs who took the war chest from their popular games (and YouTube careers!) and turned it into a publishing studio to find out what they're doing differently and if its working out for them. Turns out...yeah seems like its going good!
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Tyrillion
2 days ago
Ever play detective in your dreams? Well you can in this upcoming indie game, Everybody's Stranger.
#videogames
#indiegames
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Does every game need a game design document? Probably not. Can they be useful? Absolutely. What should they look like? It depends!
pmjg.blogspot.com/2024/02/game...
#GameWriting
#IndieDev
#GameDevelopment
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Game design documents: Plans come in many forms
General shenanigans clearinghouse and repository of poorly articulated ideas.
https://pmjg.blogspot.com/2024/02/game-design-documents-plans-come-in.html
3 days ago
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Mike Konczal
3 days ago
DoorDash Discourse is entirely wrong. Since the pandemic, percent spending on groceries are up, food away from home is down, and this is especially true for young people. Trends point to food affordability being a real problem. Dig into the CEX with me!
newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/stop-blami...
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Stop Blaming DoorDash for the Affordability Crisis
One DoorDash Discourse to rule them all: Food away from home is down. Groceries are up. This is especially true for young people. Affordability is a real problem.
https://newsletter.mikekonczal.com/p/stop-blaming-doordash-for-the-affordability
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Alexander (TOTAL RELOAD game creator)
3 days ago
Hi Bluesky! Previously, due to social media algorithms, you may have missed news about our first-person
#puzzle
#indiegame
TOTAL RELOAD š® But now you can sign up to our email newsletter š„ There you'll learn about discounts, updates, and new projects. Link in the comments ⤵ļø
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Stay small, make a prototype, and don't skimp on testing:
@pentadact.com
shares advice for indie developers
www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...
#IndieStudio
#GameDevelopment
#IndieGame
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15 Years of Indie Dev In 4 Bits of Advice - a post on Tom Francis' blog
Hello! I'm Tom. I'm a game designer, writer, and programmer on Gunpoint, HeatĀ Signature, and Tactical Breach Wizards. Here's some more info on all the games I've worked on, here are the videos I makeā¦
https://www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-15-years-of-indie-dev-in-4-bits-of-advice/
4 days ago
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Michael
4 days ago
What if there was a website that regularly covered indie computer games outside of Steam, including experimental works and interactive fiction
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William B. Fuckley
5 days ago
This is why I disagree when people say police unions arenāt real unions: they are often extraordinarily effective at securing gains for the workers who are members of them and advancing their interests. Those interests are just often not our interests! We sit on the management side of the table.
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Greetings, colonizer! Your willingness to volunteer for this mission is greatly appreciated. And if you fail, itās easy enough to thaw out another volunteer.
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/project-arcmor
#InteractiveFiction
#IndieGame
#Twine
5 days ago
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Iāve seen people complain about FinSky before, but those people arenāt using the acronym for āmonth over monthā in ways that make me laugh, soā¦
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6 days ago
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Dr Eleanor Janega
9 days ago
Asking chat gpt what the Sunk Cost Fallacy is.
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Jon Bois
9 days ago
americans hate it when they're shown on tv doing something cool
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alyssa mercante
9 days ago
Itās true: you get flagged for writing Epstein in a DM on TikTok
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Wendyās made an RPG showing how
#gamification
can offer engaging stories, challenging puzzles, and connections with engaged player communities. That can be a double-edged sword.
#GamesIndustry
#ContentMarketing
analoggamestudies.org/2021/03/we-d...
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āWe Donāt Cut Cornersā: Wendyās Feast of Legends and the Subversion of Gamified Advertising | Analog Game Studies
Gamified advertisements have been around for decades, from the loyalty punch cards and complicated reward systems1 that turn the act of going shopping into an opportunity to work towards earning aā¦
https://analoggamestudies.org/2021/03/we-dont-cut-corners-wendys-feast-of-legends-and-the-subversion-of-gamified-advertising/
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A game's opening has to do some heavy lifting: Grabbing the audience, setting the stage, and suggesting what lies ahead.
@jon.inkle.co
explains how he meets that challenge by drawing inspiration from radio dramas.
medium.com/@inklestudio...
#GameDev
#NarrativeDesign
#GameWriting
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Opening lines
So? How should we begin?
https://medium.com/@inklestudios/opening-lines-7d4b1a53d03e
11 days ago
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Ash Gwinnell
14 days ago
ANNOUNCING: ⨠Completely free online events to help
#indiedev
s get ready for
#SteamNextFest
! ⨠The festival of the season is just over a month away, and here's what I've got planned for you... š
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NO ONE: ⦠ABSOLUTELY NO ONE: ⦠TRUCK QUEST: What about a mashup of the Theranos fraud and the student loan crisis?
#IndieGame
#Twine
#InteractiveFiction
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/truckquest
12 days ago
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Samantha Nye šæšŖ¬
13 days ago
WE RELEASED A GAME TODAY
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public health guy
14 days ago
tis the season for my favorite southern meme (this is NOT a forecast from this decade)
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ipaintbirbs
14 days ago
i heard we needed more whimsy so iām here to get the job done
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos
14 days ago
Join me this May in a short, fun, and very workshop-y game urbanism course, and discover how to create interactive cities using @inkleStudios' ink narrative scripting language. āļø Find out more here:
www.d6learning.com/course/creat...
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Create An Interactive City In Text Using ink - Online Course
Learn how to use the ink narrative scripting language by inkle, and how to create virtual cities for video games in text. This online course also serves as an introduction to game urbanism and the des...
https://www.d6learning.com/course/create-an-interactive-city-in-text-using-ink
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Disappointed Optimist
14 days ago
Mate. MATE. M A T E.
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He says there are no wind farms in China, but Iām old enough to remember when we were accusing China of stealing our wind turbine technology.
www.justice.gov/archives/opa...
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15 days ago
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Ryan T. Brown š®š©·
15 days ago
DOOM is now playable on a pressure cooker.
(Read more at Retrododo)
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Chequered Ink
16 days ago
We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects! 100% Free for commercial use.
#GameDev
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Backgroundese Fonts for Nonsense Text inĀ Games
We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects.
https://chequered.ink/backgroundese-fonts-for-nonsense-text-in-games/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social
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Daniel Ahmad
16 days ago
A Switch 2 price hike? More games adding UGC tools? Women accounting for over 40% of gamers in Asia & MENA? We've published our 2026 Predictions including major trends to watch. Read more here:
nikopartners.com/niko-partner...
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10 Major Trends to Watch in 2026 ā Niko Partners Predictions - Niko Partners 10 Major Trends to Watch in 2026 ā Niko Partners Predictions
Niko Partners share their predictions for major video games and esports trends in 2026 in Asia and MENA
https://nikopartners.com/niko-partners-2026-predictions/
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There's a difference between designing game worlds & experiencing them.
@thenarrativedept.bsky.social
explains how identifying an environment's values can create worlds from the top down that are consistent from the bottom up.
#GameDev
#NarrativeDesign
www.thenarrativedept.com/blog/worldbu...
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Worldbuilding for (game) writers
You could spend a decade building your game world! When is enough enough? Turns out your world doesn't have to be huge - it just has to make sense.
https://www.thenarrativedept.com/blog/worldbuildingforgamewriters
17 days ago
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Relooted by Nyamakop
21 days ago
It's not just a heist. It's a rescue mission. On 10 February 2026, Relooted arrives at a museum (and store page, we guess) near you.
#indiegame
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"Some of the rooms had walls/ceilings/floors made entirely of hair or skin."
@duckvalentine.bsky.social
looks at the QA processes that are necessary to let players pet the dog.
#GameDev
#Programming
#GameDevelopment
www.ign.com/articles/ban...
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Banana Castles, Frog Island, and Skinballs: Here Are Some of the Wacky Things Devs Do to Test Video Games - IGN
I put out a call on social media and through various PR contacts for QA professionals to share their most ridiculous game testing stories: essentially, whatās the silliest thing theyāve had to do toā¦
https://www.ign.com/articles/banana-castles-frog-island-and-skinballs-here-are-some-of-the-wacky-things-devs-do-to-test-video-games
18 days ago
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Julie š³ļøāā§ļø
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Michael
19 days ago
work on The Gubble Zone has begun
the-gubble-zone.neocities.org
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No employees were harmed while creating this game. We swear, they were like that when we got here.
bitterlyindifferent.itch.io/pushing-loya...
#InteractiveFiction
#Storytelling
#IndieGame
19 days ago
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atticus goldfinch
20 days ago
buddy in minneapolis sent this to the group chat
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Itās kind of bullshit that HSA money canāt be used on veterinary expenses.
21 days ago
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Dennis B. Hooper
3 months ago
I understand why they had to stop him but I donāt agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone
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A narrative designer's job can vary from studio to studio.
@wildwinter.bsky.social
explains that most narrative roles combine a fluid set of job functions, making it useful to maintain a clear understanding of what is expected.
#GameDev
#GameWriting
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Job Functions in Game Narrative
Or: What does that pesky Narrative Designer title actually mean?
https://wildwinter.medium.com/role-functions-in-game-narrative-9d4b4daace3b
24 days ago
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Paul
25 days ago
In a bit of a dev slump at the mo so have started porting my
#pico8
#gridrunner
to
#picotron
. See if I can build on it. Got the basics over in a single session. Uses cellular automata. No idea if the original did but seems likely since it was so fast!
#gamedev
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ā chloe
24 days ago
was a struggle to figure it out but i got this re-scaled back down to 160x144. makes room for smaller enemy sprites (important for scope) plus it just feels right
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Etienne Pouvreau
25 days ago
I haven't been posting much gamedev lately, I should remedy that. Here: have some (not very smooth) 2d zoom. On a rotating... bean. That's it. For now.
#gamedev
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"How long do you think someone would pay a monthly fee to be a target?" A look at the appeal of early online games and the many, many reasons to be unhappy about them.
www.brokentoys.org/the-unbearab...
#GameHistory
#UserExperience
#MMORPG
25 days ago
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Match-3 murder in the desert: Dolan's Cadillac is a PICO-8 game of murder, vengeance, and poorly marked road hazards.
#IndieGame
#Pico8
#Match3
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Dolan's Cadillac by postgoodism, ConManEd
A puzzle game based on "Dolan's Cadillac", a 1985 novella by Stephen King
https://postgoodism.itch.io/dolans-cadillac
26 days ago
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Reconstructionist
27 days ago
forgot that R2 got divorced and became a manosphere influencer
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Michael
27 days ago
Every week I post about new indie games that I think are really cool, often experimental and not on Steam. Maybe you'll discover a new game that you'll love.
virtualmoose.org/2026/01/09/i...
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Tom Francis
28 days ago
I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:
www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...
I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.
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whet moser
27 days ago
so the "blue check" started as a way to signal that you could trust content and then a bunch of self-conscious pick-me journalists decided to destroy that, and now it's a pervert badge. nice job guys
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