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Tamara "Tammy" Duplantis 🎶Game Boy sound artist since 2014🎵 👾Digital media educator extraordinaire👾
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Jonaya Kemper
8 days ago
The next game I saw was Generic Dating Simulator. This game hurt me in a great way. Once again really smart writing here. You feel guilty for even playing it, because it really feels like a Dating Sim written by Daria and she's judging you.https://rennykins.itch.io/generic-dating-simulator
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Generic Dating* Simulator by rennie
Pick a seat, shape your story, and see where lunch takes you.
https://rennykins.itch.io/generic-dating-simulator
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Jonaya Kemper
8 days ago
This is a Cosmic Horror/Humor infused dating sim that uses contrasting art styles and fonts to embody each datable character. Smart writing, great music, and holy fuck the character design. Like this moth lady? THIS MOTH LADY.
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Jonaya Kemper
8 days ago
One of the coolest things about teaching is that you get to see students make really cool shit. At Open Studios I got to play a few of our students games that they've worked on this semester, and they were fucking fun. A quick 🧵. First up, A Visit From Venus.
justmicahh.itch.io/a-visit-from...
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A Visit From Venus by JustMicahh
When you get visited by the goddess of love, let's just say your love life won't be so boring anymore.
https://justmicahh.itch.io/a-visit-from-venus
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Studio T12
22 days ago
Log 1....is this on? Hello! We are Studio T12, a small indie game development team out to make creepy, artistic, and narrative-focused games! Playtest demo for "Silent Numbers" is available NOW!
studio-t12.itch.io/silent-numbe...
#indiegame
#indiedev
#visualnovel
#gamedev
#gamedevelopment
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Travis Linden Reid
4 months ago
I'm sooooooo close to being done with this indie game I've been working on since 2019. It's about helping your weird suspicious internet bff solve a boyband mystery
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megan farokhmanesh
5 months ago
Consume Me devs
@qdork.bsky.social
and
@apthomson.bsky.social
say Collective Shout's mission to protect women and girls is doing the opposite. "Their actions here mainly serve to cut off income streams for adult content creators, many of them women.”
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exodrifter
5 months ago
Leaf mentioned in the official itch discord server that the open case they have with Stripe right now is probably the most critical right now. Submit a complaint to Stripe here:
stripe.com/legal/compla...
Need to know what to say? Use this:
bsky.app/profile/void...
#itch
#censorship
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Harper Ferry
7 months ago
Some photos from The Sentient Severed Arm at the UCSC Lighting Studio. Video inbound.
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sarah jeong
8 months ago
ok so!!! something I found really interesting after talking to Korean protesters was... well, it was actually me realizing something about protest in the US: protest is trapped in an unwinnable spiral about "peaceful" versus "violent" protest, and even people who know it's dumb can't break free
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smwhr
8 months ago
And once you've made a script, you can move on making it a 2D game using Binksi
smwhr.itch.io/binksi
Making _a_ Video Game _is_ easier than you think.
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emily baby ❄️🎄
8 months ago
it’s hard to get americans to care about people in prison, but it’s *bad* for trans women inside & a lot of us rn are one wrong interaction away from being entangled with the law, through no fault of our own. if you’re cis & there’s a trans person in your life you care about, you should read this.
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United Videogame Workers-CWA
9 months ago
Today, we are announcing the formation of United Videogame Workers-CWA, an industry-wide union formed by
@codecwa.bsky.social
and
@cwaunion.bsky.social
💪🎮 We're launching at
#GDC2025
this morning to build a video game industry that works for us. We're done playing.
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🍂Evan Balster🍂
9 months ago
An E-bike battery burned my house down on the first day of GDC. Seeking mutual aid from financially stable colleagues.
gofund.me/47306b15
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Harper Ferry
9 months ago
Critical Mass is officially one year old today! 🥳 Take turns drawing cards, adding to a shared map, and asking each other meaningful questions about what it means to keep one another safe in the street when we’ve decided to be dangerous together.
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Critical Mass by nullandvoidgames
a riotous map-drawing game for 1-4 players
https://nullandvoidgames.itch.io/critical-mass
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Carol Mertz
9 months ago
I launched a new project last week! "Play With Your Own Junk" is a collection of free games you can play with stuff you already own. It's my way of making space for anticapitalist art that challenges overconsumption and the carbon impact of large-scale product production.
youtu.be/aMs-FkVK7K4?...
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Introducing "Play With Your Own Junk" - A Collection of Sustainable Party Games
YouTube video by Carol Mertz
https://youtu.be/aMs-FkVK7K4?si=rNxkMllIlCHKFkjW
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Alexandra Chandler
9 months ago
Trans allies- there are way more of you than there are trans people, so we need you to speak out in public comments against State Dept making it impossible for trans people to get or keep accurate passports. The freedom of movement is a fundamental human right. Don’t let the government erode it.
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I’m performing in Los Angeles for this Trans Day of Visibility Fest! If you’re in SoCal, come through!
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TV-MA rated Hallmark Holiday Classic
9 months ago
If you're in LA, come to my Trans Day of Visibility Fest happening March 30th in DTLA. 11 non-binary, trans, & 2 spirit artists performing electronic & experimental pop music. Support weird art!
withfriends.co/event/229479...
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eva khoury
9 months ago
🥚🍳 boshi's place is in town with syzygy at GDC! 🥚🍳 We’re partnering with syzygy SF on thursday, march 20th for a night of free-range indie games from the east AND west coast! no GDC pass is required! (only 2.99) 6-11pm | Syzygy SF 395 S Van Ness Ave, San Francisco, CA 94103 Tickets and details ->
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Indexical
9 months ago
Join us Friday, March 14 for "I Seem Agical," a live showcase of some interactive games by game designer, animator, and illustrator Blake Andrews Blake Andrews - I Seem Agical Fri., Mar. 14, 2025 Doors at 8pm | Show at 8:30pm
www.indexical.org/events/2025-...
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Blake Andrews - I Seem Agical
<div>I Seem Agical is a showcase/demo of several new interactive games/apps as well as a look into a few new games that may or may not come out. These games may include a gun you can download onto you...
https://www.indexical.org/events/2025-03-14-blake-andrews-i-seem-agical
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Akabaka
9 months ago
For all the Weird Little Narrative Games and VN Devs going to GDC: Do you make visual novels? Do you make weird little narrative games (positive)? Come talk shop and meet other games industry people who also do this! Thur Mar 20 12-2PM in Yerba Buena Please share!
lu.ma/4se4oevj
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Ty
9 months ago
PAID GIG - I need someone who can teach a Character Animation I class to college sophomores who has a Bachelors degree and can work either in the Seattle area or remotely in the PST timezone. Pay is between 4 and 5k USD for a 10 week class depending on experience. DM or email me at
[email protected]
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Emily (yuletide)
10 months ago
REMEMBER KIDS when flooding a snitch form, DON’T use obvious troll responses that can be filtered out with a query Use PLAUSIBLE FAKE data that will take TIME and EFFORT to run down. This poisons the entire data pool and makes it useless
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The Verge
10 months ago
South of Midnight’s Southern Gothic folklore world is rooted in authenticity
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South of Midnight’s Southern Gothic folklore world is rooted in authenticity
You ever start bawling five minutes into a game preview?
https://buff.ly/4ibIrID
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Jes & Cin
10 months ago
Fahmi Mohammad was a beloved Indonesian game dev who created Coffee Talk and What Comes After. His final game, Afterlove EP is about learning to live with grief. It was completed by his studio after his passing. It's a slice of life visual novel + rhythm game set in Jakarta.
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Fellow Traveller
10 months ago
Bandmates, we just released Pikselnesia’s dating-meets-rhythm game Afterlove EP on PC, Nintendo Switch, Xbox Series X, and PlayStation 5 🤘 This is a tale of finding oneself, and is the swansong of beloved Mohammad Fahmi, the late creator of Coffee Talk. Trailer 👇
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Erin Reed
10 months ago
Oh my god. They removed "transgender" from the page about Trans woman Sylvia Rivera's page at the National Park service. "Sylvia Rivera began fighting for gay and _____ rights" WOW.
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Allison Chapman (she/they)
10 months ago
‼️ The National Park Service has REMOVED mentions of transgender people being involved with Stonewall. Not only did the remove the world "Transgender" but changed "LGBTQ+" to "LGBQ+". The federal government is attempting to erase us and take away our history. This pride, we riot.
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Terry Cavanagh
10 months ago
Presenting "Terry's Other Games"! A messy little collection of short games I've made over the past 20 years, out now on Steam and Itch! <3 Steam:
store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/...
Itch:
terrycavanagh.itch.io/terrys-other...
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Save 10% on Terry's Other Games on Steam
Hi, I'm Terry Cavanagh! You might remember me from such videogames as Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV. Here are a few other things I've made over the years!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/Terrys_Other_Games/
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I’m playing my Game Boy set at KZSU Stanford’s Day of Noise in a couple minutes!! Please tune in!
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KZSU Stanford
10 months ago
Up next at Day of Noise,
@tambalaya.bsky.social
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Deeply honored to have served on the jury for this year’s IGF Student Game Award! You can find all the wonderful student game nominees in the link below. Please play them! They are all brilliant!
igf.com/article/welc...
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Welcome the IGF Juries for the Student, Nuovo, and Visual Art Awards at GDC 2025 | Independent Games Festival
The 2025 Independent Games Festival Awards is coming up in less than two months, and we have the second group of developers who will be judging this year's groundbreaking selections.We're excited to r...
https://igf.com/article/welcome-igf-juries-student-nuovo-and-visual-art-awards-gdc-2025
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Lex McMenamin (they/them)
11 months ago
new
@teenvogue.com
:
@brittneymac15.bsky.social
digs into the details of Trump's exec order on trans youth healthcare. I checked with an
@aclu.org
senior attorney on what trans youth and their families should plan for. in short: no changes RN; stay on top of your healthcare; don't comply in advance.
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Everything We Know About Trump's Executive Order on Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth
From what it says to what it means for you.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/trumps-executive-order-on-gender-affirming-care-for-trans-youth
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Emily K
11 months ago
Do you know why a president would do all the most evil and heinous shit via Executive Order? Because his party can't easily make it law. And if they can't make it law, they can't make it last. Don't let anyone make you feel like this is The End. Do not let them demoralize you. Live to see them die.
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hohoho, Lazzie B!mas! ❄️
11 months ago
I've talked myself hoarse with cis people in my life over the last few months, trying to get them to understand what the consequences are of the puberty blockers thing. I've described it as a Cronenberg situation: You watch yourself change in ways you hate, day by day.
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innes
11 months ago
go and commit a crime instead. supply someone with hormones. add to a surgical fundraiser. think of a way to help that does not involve me personally trying to make you feel better
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innes
11 months ago
i'll be honest the last thing i want as a trans person is random guilt ridden cis folk ive barely maintained contact with reaching out to check on me every time there's shit news
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GDC Festival of Gaming
11 months ago
IGF 2025 Finalists: Best Student Game A Dual Ascent DisplaceMen Growth Spurt: A Meandering Intermission into the Afterhours of a Miscalculation Slot Waste The WereCleaner (
@thewerecleaner.com
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#IGF2025
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despelote ⚽ OUT NOW!
11 months ago
despelote has been nominated for an IGF award in: * Excellence in Audio * Excellence in Narrative * Nuovo Award * The Seumas Mcnally Grand Prize We are floored! 🤯 Thank you to the IGF judges for the honor and congrats to our fellow nominees! Excited for you all to play despelote this year.
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AP Thomson
11 months ago
So, uh, Consume Me, the game I've been working on with
@qdork.bsky.social
and
@frogfungus.bsky.social
and Violet (not on here) is coming out later this year and you can wishlist it starting today:
store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...
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Consume Me on Steam
You are what you eat.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/Consume_Me/
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William B. Fuckley
about 1 year ago
if you're applying to phd programs you should probably LinkedIn stalk the profiles of recent graduates from said program, *including* those that do not have academic jobs, to get an idea of not only what the program's placement is, but also what people who go a different path end up doing.
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EchoLane
about 1 year ago
#screenshotsaturday
#indiegame
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaG4...
Pop bubbles, fight monsters, and keep rocking to the beat in BubbleBeast DigiDungeon, the arcade-style music puzzle game I've been working on for the past year! wishlist below!!
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BubbleBeast DigiDungeon - Official Release Date Trailer
YouTube video by EchoLane
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaG43HXBqWA
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The Indie Informer
almost 2 years ago
This week's podcast is packed!
@writnelson.bsky.social
joins us in the first half to spill secrets. Then, the familiar crew faces off to decide whether GDC or PAX East is the Spring Events Champion. And you get to decide who wins!
the-indie-in-former.com/2024/03/08/t...
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The Indie Council: PAX Versus GDC Showdown
Who will win?
https://the-indie-in-former.com/2024/03/08/the-indie-council-pax-versus-gdc-showdown/
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Emilia
about 2 years ago
In case y’all weren’t already sufficiently excited about Roguelike Celebration (this weekend online, preparty in 20 minutes!) I have set up the silliest streaming setup to get us procedurally generated chiptunes with a new Game Boy piece by
@tambalaya.bsky.social
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sportsdad420
about 2 years ago
I asked my straight friend how much her boyfriend thinks about the Roman Empire and MY DUDE HAS A WHOLE ASS FLAG
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mattie
over 2 years ago
Unity has been shady since the moment it hit the scene js 💅🏽 natural outcome of trying to professionalize DIY culture by signing an entire practice to one platform heralded as the main and often only way to do indie game development. A predictable mess
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(Not really sure what the etiquette for skeet/tweet crossposting is atm, but if I really want my Bluesky migration to stick I think I’ll have to do that for a while lol)
over 2 years ago
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So glad this Unity announcement is happening two weeks before the start of the quarter so that I can demonstrate to my students *exactly* why I keep my design courses medium/engine agnostic
over 2 years ago
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