I was laid off shortly after The Final Shape, but this death march has been painful to witness even still. Folks don't understand how much exceptional talent combined into a great culture over there (at least, not on the executive level). I loved my time there. I feel for all those affected.

Don’t ban kids using YouTube. Make YouTube behave like a broadcaster. Pay creators. Reinvest in the creative industries. Pay fair tax back into creators’ economies. Follow guidelines on fair usage and copyright. Play fair. It’s bigger than TV now. Make it behave like TV.

Catching up with the Story Rich Showcase and there are so many delicious games coming up! I especially can't wait for Grave Seasons youtu.be/dRVeYxwjuiI?...

Yesterday, my game 'Impermanence' got announced on one of the biggest showcases I could dream of. Today, I tied magpie feathers, pinecones, and pretty rocks on a string and hung it from an awning to celebrate our backyard magpies.

IMPERMANENCE has been revealed. Announced during @futuregamesshow.bsky.social Summer Showcase 2026, our debut teaser takes you into the abandoned Orpheum theatre, where a grieving scientist attempts to reconstruct his son’s spirit through sound. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTjd...

I've been loving seeing @deerandboy.com game. #InTheDrift game also looks very nice.

My very own studio, @badchoicesstudio.bsky.social , is announcing its first game here, together with @duckosaurus.bsky.social 🥰

🦆 We released our in Early Access! Today!👇 store.steampowered.com/app/3676840/... ⭐ Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3676840/... #Gaming #IndieGame #IndieGames #Games #Godot #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #GamingCommunity #earlyaccess youtu.be/d-NBkjMTpGU?...

Haha, Marvel's Tokon really said "we're on after @insomniac.games ? Bet. Let's absolutely annihilate Spider-Man" #stateofplay @playstation.com

I had a blast helping the team at Ducko get to this point! It'd be fantastic if you could support this small Belgian outfit with a purchase 🐥 youtu.be/d-NBkjMTpGU?...

My smartphone case disintegrated after years of use. What's the chance I smash my phone in the coming 72hours?

I expected better from @bsky.app @safety.bsky.app @moderation.bsky.app

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities: felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi... AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

My cyberpunk novel Lonely Nights on High Rooftops is part of the Indie Book Sale! 🖤 If you're into gritty sci-fi, AI, and grief-driven revenge stories — now’s the time $0.99 until April 13 🔗 books2read.com/lonelynights... + indiebook.sale #IndieApril #NarratessIndieSale #BookSky 💙📚🪐 #Cyberpunk

3 more chapters in this manuscript! It's coming to a dramatic close. It's been tough/fun/heartbreaking writing some of the new characters -- as well as some of the old. Can't wait for you all to read it! #amwriting #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #dystopian 💙 📚 🪐

Apparently I do migraines on Friday.

This is screaming Destiny 2 Raid design, and I. AM. HERE. FOR. IT. Gosh, I love all the worldbuilding and lore they're doing for this game.

I just found out that DUST has a short film on @qntm.org 's 'There is no Antimemetics Division'! www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8A... I loved the book, and the short does a great job at setting up the intro. Highly recommended!

It is *fascinating* to me how quickly some people have gone completely from “we all must work in the office! human collaboration is vital and only happens in person!” to “I can replace all these pesky people with chatbots!” Definitely some commentary there about our society and who gets to choose.

5 more chapters to finish this draft for the next book in the universe of Lonely Nights on High Rooftops! In the spirit of transparency, here are some of the summaries I'm working from to create these late chapters. You're welcome. 🪐📚 #amwriting #sciencefiction #cyberpunk #writing

I love how absolutely weird everything in @marathonthegame.bungie.net is. I'm not a fan of extraction shooters generally, but getting to experience the story is making me come back to it.

This looks phenomenal www.youtube.com/watch?v=b24o...

All they needed to do, was make Skate 4. $60, boxed product, full experience. Ship it, and leave it. But they chose to go down the live-service route.

I've been watching, horrified, as Discord alpine skis on the slippiest of slopes. Reluctance to oppress users who share CP, now the Face ID/Age verification, the coming IPO, ... Can anyone, please, recommend an alternative? Trying to build an indie dev studio, I'd rather not waste time on Discord..

🩸📚 I wrote a short story called Reaching Out — speculative horror about grief, memory, and crossing a line you can’t uncross. 💙📚🪐 I’ve made it free for readers who want it. #readersky #cyberpunk #indieauthor

Small indie-author win: while setting things up for @pagebound.bsky.social I noticed Lonely Nights on High Rooftops reached 10 ratings on @goodreads.com 🖤 I’ve dropped the price too — so if you’re looking for a gritty cyberpunk revenge story 👀 💙📚🪐 #indieauthor #readersky #cyberpunk

Finishing up documentation for my Game Project, the time has come to dive back into the manuscript I wrote for the follow-up to Lonely Nights. Tackling cycles of violence, budding resistance, and of course, the crippling weight of profits over people. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_T3j...

Pretty sure I've finalized my slides for my first-ever public talk on video games marketing. I'll be presenting it at buff.pxl.be It's a talk designed to transfer my MarComms experience and knowledge I've gained in AAA to Indie game devs.

Genuine question to sate my curiosity; are there gaming equivalents to trends in romantasy? You know, the Fourth Wing kind of stuff. I know about romancing npc's in cyberpunk/baldur's gate type stuff, but I feel like thats backstory and not the "main event", yknow?

With creating a game, I'm finding inspiration in a lot of places. Today I stumbled onto Visual Synths, and I'm mindblown. www.instagram.com/reel/DE2MgRH... Look at this! I love everything about this.

Here's a milion dollar bakery idea in the vein of cro-nuts; Tirami-Choux. A Choux pastry, filled with Tiramisu instead of creme pattisierre or whipped cream. #bakery #justthinkingoutloud #AICouldNever

Flotsam builds some hope at world's end: aftermath.site/flotsam-impres...

My friends @duckosaurus.bsky.social released a new trailer AND a demo today! youtu.be/74DgGGw60to?... Give them a view, try out the demo, and let them know what you think! #indiedev #blueskygaming

At the @belgiangames.be #belgiangameawards as a free agent this year!

Hot dang Foundation season 3 was good!

As an author, I don't make a whole lot of money, but at the same time I need to read a lot of books to stay aware of trends and support my fellow authors. Obviously if I spend all my profits on other people's books, I'm not coming out ahead! So: ways to read lots of indie books for cheap.

I saw someone comment "Privatize the profits, socialize the losses" and my word, what a fantastic title that would be for a @rageagainst.bsky.social song

Just the wrote the end to the "boss fight" chapter of this story/game I've been working, and damn. I tend to put pieces of myself into what I write, but this was an abnormally emotional one for me. I hope I get to share it some day. #indiedev #indieauthor #amwriting

I haven't seen the movie, but I just finished reading #AmericanPsycho for the first time, and.... wtf is this book? Extremely gruesome and graphic murder scenes, mixed with a constant drone of restaurant reservations, and random album reviews? Plot goes nowhere? I'm surprised by all this.

This game I've been working on is releasing TODAY! It's been very fun being a lot closer to the dev process than I am otherwise. Can't wait to see what players get up to! #indiegamedev #indiegame #VR

Love it when comes to snuggle in close like this 🥰

“At first it feels like exploration. Then it feels like entrapment.” — @_robynreadsbooks Today’s the last day to get Reaching Out FREE! 🕯 Get it before it’s gone → natchaistappers.com/short-stories/ (Or get it free anytime by joining my mailing list) #FreeBook #SciFiHorror #BookPromo 🩸📚🪐📚💙

There's a show on Flemish tv @vrtnws.be called "This is not a murder mystery", which is a murder mystery involving Dalì, Magritte, Man, Ernst and more, and it's SO good. Really appreciating the additional docu to the show as well

“Not just sci-fi horror — a story about love and grief.” — @sci_fi_gem Reaching Out is FREE until Nov 3, across all major platforms. 📖 Get it or join my mailing list here: natchaistappers.com/short-stories/ 💙📚🪐📚🩸 #FreeBook #ShortStory #SciFiHorror #IndieAuthor #BookRecommendation #AmReading

Does Spotify have settings, like Pinterest, where you can choose to opt out of AI music? I just got catfished hard, and I can't stand it.

Step sideways into another dimension where time, memory, and grief blur into something far more terrifying. 🎃 Get it free on all platforms → natchaistappers.com/short-stories/ Or sign up for my mailing list to get it 🩸📚🪐 💙📚 #SciFiHorror #ShortStory #FreeBook #IndieAuthor #HalloweenReads

Practically crushed my finger in the door today, so that's the current excuse why my writing is slow. #indieauthor #amwriting #scifihorror

Just trying to invoke some cozy horror vibes from my neck of the woods. #indieauthor

I'm writing a story that I'm turning into a video game, and it's been so fun to do. Seeing early concept arts come back that show you the vision of your words in someone else's mind, reading that the story has brought folks who'll be working on the game to tears... Let's hope we can make this real