Ian Badcoe
@ianbadcoe.itch.io
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(they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
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New intro now I am retired... Looking to get into some
#Indie
#GameDev
now I have time. Want to write the games I wanted to write all along:
#Roguelike
#Roguelite
#ProceduralContent
... Also available to help other people with projects/personal development... Commercial or unpaid, drop me a
over 1 year ago
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CW: potential mass death from climate change causes
#ClimateChange
#Death
#SoapBubble
#Poem
#Video
#PoemSetToMusic
#Gigadeaths
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rot0wPRp_9M
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rot0wPRp_9M
1 day ago
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Paul Brookes
7 days ago
thewombwellrainbow.com/2026/06/29/c...
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Call Out For 7 of Your Unpublished Poetry And Prose On Your Neglected Local Water Courses
The Wombwell Rainbow is putting out a call for unpublished poems and short prose on your local neglected water courses. What history, geology, industry has effected these streams, becks and rills a…
http://thewombwellrainbow.com/2026/06/29/call-out-for-7-of-your-unpublished-poetry-and-prose-on-your-neglected-local-water-courses/
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Finally! I'm qualified to open these emails now...
#OverlySpecificMuch
#IAmTheOnlyIanBadcoeYouKnow
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11 days ago
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#Poets
, please consider making a
#Poetry
#Submission
to The Starbeck Orion:
https://open.substack.com/pub/the880/p/contributions?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=33jsyn
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Contributions
How to contribute to The Starbeck Orion
https://open.substack.com/pub/the880/p/contributions?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=33jsyn
12 days ago
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Klaus Hornbæk Petersen
14 days ago
I've got this
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Syreeta
15 days ago
those eyes and mine black two black molars window-paned over a field a prescribed burn chest speaking boneless buzzing mouths fly-wing necks craning for the sun even though the sun’s just another screen
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Jessica Mookherjee
15 days ago
#dianeSeuss
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Ethan Mollick
26 days ago
Science fiction authors in the order you want them to be right about AI: Iain Banks Becky Chambers Martha Wells Douglas Adams Charles Stross (Singularity Sky) Peter Watts Charles Stross (Laundry) Harlan Ellison
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*This* crack in the fabric of reality, dammit!
23 days ago
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#Convergent
#evolution
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about 1 month ago
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Wow! Thank you...
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about 1 month ago
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Nick V // Daikon Games
about 1 month ago
Yes, here they are (there are two, cause that's how many devs want to be proudly anti-AI!)
bsky.app/profile/eter...
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This might be useful, although it is only sporadically active these days:
https://groups.google.com/g/proceduralcontent
My picture, attached, shows a few more grid based transforms I have thought about over the years... [1/5]
about 2 months ago
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I totally agree that people should not be fishing for ducks but they could have proofread the sign a bit before putting it up...
#sign
#ducks
#dusk
#DadJoke
#WellIAmADad
2 months ago
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A Heartbreaking VVitch of Staggering Genius
3 months ago
This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying
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Chaucer Doth Tweet
2 months ago
We are stuck togethir on a tinye beautiful driftinge rocke wyth nobodye outsyde and nobodye cominge to save us. We are the onlye ones heere yn a wild expanse of night and silence. We sholde be lovinge each othir all the tyme. We sholde be greetinge each othir "hey, miracle!" We sholde be daunsinge.
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I so wanted to come, but that's the only day for a month that I am able to schedule all my role play group on the same evening. Have a great reading, though and sorry!
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3 months ago
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So Mayer
3 months ago
AIndulgences.
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SashCitronella
3 months ago
Well this is what happens when you don't pay attention. Thank you
@atriumpoetry.bsky.social
for putting this one out there.
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Happy TDoV. I'm non-binary, and the only reason you can't see me is I'm creeping up behind you...
#TDoV
#Stealth
#Enby
#StealthEnby
#InfiltrationUnitAsAGender
3 months ago
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A
#horror
goes,
#interacting
with
#users
is a bit too close to the knuckle...
3 months ago
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Cultivate
#Synthetic
#Tranquility
, foster a sense of
#Artificial
#Detachment
as you dust your
#Plastic
#Bonsai
using authentic ancient techniques...
3 months ago
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Disregarded on principle. May be sarcastic.
3 months ago
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Ruth Aylett
4 months ago
@asls.org.uk
@byleaveswelive.bsky.social
@scottishbooktrust.bsky.social
@hwucu.bsky.social
#poetry
#books
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Greg Mc Guinness
5 months ago
I will be speaking at
@officialgdc.bsky.social
🙌 Delivered as part
@igda.org
and
@lgbtsig.bsky.social
, I will be speaking on how we can develop supports for queer game developers in the workplace. Open to queer game devs at any point in their career ✨
schedule.gdconf.com/session/deve...
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IDK what it is, but it's evil and made from spilled beer...
5 months ago
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Longbarrow Press
5 months ago
A symphony in four movements, Steve Ely's 'Eely' explores the themes of power, conflict, biodiversity and eels as they converge and ramify in the Yorkshire fenlands (and beyond). Available as a beautifully produced hardback, with ÂŁ2 off until tomorrow:
longbarrowpress.com/current-publ...
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Well worth a quick application for poets in the UK...
https://bravewords.co.uk/bravado
6 months ago
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Our space probe approaches the planetesimal "Sm-0 Kedet Ector" ...
6 months ago
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#Joy
#Complexity
#Richness
#Rust
#Paint
#Corrosion
#Decay
#Beauty
#Moss
#Nature
#Weathering
As we countdown the last few days of the year, please take a moment to consider how beautiful, rich and detailed the world is. [1/5]
6 months ago
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/rrzag2-save-a-family-from-homelessness
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Donate to Save a LGBT, care experienced family from homelessness, organized by Jack Smith
I’ve set this go fund me up to support a friend who is care experien… Jack Smith needs your support for Save a LGBT, care experienced family from homelessness
https://www.gofundme.com/f/rrzag2-save-a-family-from-homelessness
6 months ago
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#Google
#Maps
has become slightly more awkward to route plan with in the last couple of weeks...
7 months ago
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@hallamlondon.bsky.social
FYI - might be a place we could get more traction with h our work...
7 months ago
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My
#map
from yesterday's
#Masks
#TTRPG
session...
7 months ago
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RE:
https://mas.to/@nomadjen/115686459222046401
I believe i may have met him once...
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nomadj - random word pairs (@
[email protected]
)
Inept aristocrat
https://mas.to/@nomadjen/115686459222046401
7 months ago
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Google maps has a really good grasp of how to get from my drive to my house... Apart from it doesn't know the car *is* on the drive, so there's no need to actually walk to the road before spending 1min driving 6' to get "home"
7 months ago
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#Sarcasm
#blackfriday
#PersonallyIDontBuyAnything
#LilacWednesday
#RedOctober
#InstitutionalMagnoliaThursdayAfternoons
I see, nearly a decade ago, I was already quite sarcastic...
7 months ago
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I see the show asking cells whether joining together into a multicellular organism is working out for them is back...
8 months ago
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"When the corn crake creaks, with the last light if Boron's day, the shadow of the book pile shall fall upon the keyhole."
#LoTR
#Tolkein
#Door
#SecretDoor
#DoorWhatDoor
#WhatPartOfSecretDidYouNotUnderstand
#Photo
8 months ago
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Peter J. King
8 months ago
"Evidence-Based Falls Management".
#poem
#poetry
#skypoets
#blueskypoets
#poetsofbluesky
#poetrycommunity
#writingcommunity
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Hi all! I wrote another book... "All the tales a spy might tell." This time it's a hybrid poetry pamphlet and 1950s SciFi Spy story with cosmic horror overtones... [1/3]
8 months ago
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Planet Plum's orbit (not to scale) is surprisingly circular...
8 months ago
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Not any major thing to report, but I tried changed pain pills and blew my sleep cycle up meaning this the first development I've done for a month... [1/3]
8 months ago
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Emilija L. Ducks
8 months ago
Made song lyrics by Ian. Art by Vukobrat art
ditto.fm/pronouns-ian...
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My friend Emilija released a song they created based on a poem I wrote for TDoV about four years ago. The very appropriately named "Pronouns".
#Song
#Poem
#Trans
#Nonbinary
#Pronouns
#TDoV
#TransDayOfVisibility
#Poet
#Singer
#Songwriter
#Composer
https://ditto.fm/pronouns-ian-badcoe
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Pronouns
Listen to Pronouns
https://ditto.fm/pronouns-ian-badcoe
8 months ago
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Finally, now where did we leave the portal?
8 months ago
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Seem to have grown a pine forest in my coffee cup...
8 months ago
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GearStrike
8 months ago
I might not know many people in the game writing space, but boosting this totally for interests sake!
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https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/798206692858970112/this-cartoon-and-others-are-now-in-the
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YOU'RE ALL JUST JEALOUS OF MY JETPACK
This cartoon and others are now in the art-for-sale section of my website: www.tomgauld.com/art-for-sale
https://myjetpack.tumblr.com/post/798206692858970112/this-cartoon-and-others-are-now-in-the
9 months ago
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