Peter M.J. Gross
@petermjgross.bsky.social
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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
about 1 month ago
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sylvie
about 8 hours ago
Release!
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Bruno Dias
about 7 hours ago
KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of non-commercial interactive fiction in 8 years, comes out on the 31st. An entry into Ectocomp.
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Tabitha (misinformation hater)
about 5 hours ago
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IF Weekly Roundup, October 25 2025
This week's IF news
https://tabitha-if.neocities.org/wr_10-25-25
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ESWAT: City Under Siege
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Mitch Dyer
1 day ago
If only everyone could have predicted this
www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...
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EA's AI Game Development Tools Are Apparently So Bad That It's Costing More Money To Fix Their Mistakes
A new report suggests that EA's pivot to AI is just causing costly mistakes, and the developers hate it.
https://www.thegamer.com/ea-generative-ai-game-development-prompt-chatbot-bad-mistakes-hallucinations/
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Daniel Bachman
1 day ago
Are you interested in local folklore/history? Want to connect with other researchers outside institutional settings? Consider joining on 10/19 6PM for a virtual reunion of the Virginia Folklore Society. Were hoping to help the society out of its dormancy & would love to hear from anyone out there!
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Virginia Folklore Society Reunion / Interest Meet Up. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Virginia Folklore Society Reunion / Interest Meet Up. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
https://virginia.zoom.us/meeting/register/tCntzxS0RPOhULoc2bNIVw#/registration
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“The fourteen most terrifying words in the English language are ‘I’m from the government and my salary was paid by an anonymous private donor.’” -Ronald Regan, probably
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BeijingPalmer
2 days ago
a fun thing to consider is that China, and probably Russia, almost certainly have the ability to post from the president's Truth Social account. they just know that they only get to use that *once*.
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jamelle
2 days ago
"normies do not care about this thing and so it is no use raising a stink" is imho just an excuse for not doing politics, which is the job of making normies care about something
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Grace E.
2 days ago
Oh, I completely forgot to mention here that I have done some small changes to the games on my Itch (
system6302.itch.io
) earlier in the month! Emphasis on "small," but I figured out a glitch effect that I really like.
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Yell In a War
2 days ago
If you can train an AI agent to apply over and over to ICE with believable looking resumes, it is a moral imperative that you do so
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Alanna Smith
4 months ago
We’re gonna leave the games industry better than we found it 😤 Introducing DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library 🧬 📚 ongoing, always growing, digital archive for all 💸 COMMUNITY-FUNDED and freely accessible 🫡 curated + maintained by DnA Creative (us!)
dnacreative.notion.site/codex
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DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library
DNA CODEX is a free digital GameDev Library built and maintained by DnA Creative - a curated and community supported digital archive for game development resources.
https://dnacreative.notion.site/codex?source=copy_link
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jeff com-BOO-ters
3 days ago
one thing thats kinda crazy to get your head around is not that the musk and thiel masters of the universe are ungrateful for the vast public infrastructure, public funding of research, and robust systems of laws and rules that made their wealth possible. it's that theyre too dumb to understand it
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K. Thor Jensen
3 days ago
1M views on this blatantly false welfare-baiting nonsense. SNAP benefits cap at $984 for a four-person household. The state with the highest TANF benefits is New Hampshire, and that's $950 for a family of four. The greatest trick Republicans ever pulled was demonizing the welfare state.
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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat
3 days ago
have you completed the IF Comp post-competition survey? what a mouthful that is! please complete the IF Comp post-competition survey
forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUS...
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2025 IFComp Post-Competition Survey
Hello! Thanks for taking this survey. It's a bit longer this year as we seek detailed information about future approaches to the UK Online Safety Act and the use of generative artificial intelligence ...
https://forms.gle/uzCX1MUQ8mUSbCvB8
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Jonathan Cohn
3 days ago
Research is clear: millionaire flight due to higher taxes is simply not a thing. Millionaires move *less* than the rest of us and often move from one higher-tax state to another (because of amenities!).
prospect.org/2025/10/23/m...
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The Myth That Mamdani Will Cause New York City’s Richest to Leave - The American Prospect
Millionaire tax flight would devastate a future Mamdani administration. If the rich leave, how could anything be financed? But research shows that wealthy individuals move at lower rates than others, ...
https://prospect.org/2025/10/23/myth-that-mamdani-will-cause-new-york-citys-richest-to-leave/
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Donald Conrad
5 days ago
Got a copy of Pico-8? Ever read a Stephen King Book or see a film/tv show based on a Stephen King book?
#PicoSteveMo
is back for round 3! Come join the fun!
itch.io/jam/picostev...
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PiCoSteveMo 3
A game jam from 2025-11-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by BaseCase. PiCoSteveMo is a noncompetitive month-long jam where participants create a PICO-8 game inspired by a Stephen King work. This is the third i...
https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo-3
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David_j_roth
3 days ago
Seeing a lot of people hating from outside the club right now. As if you'd be able to do a better job building the national ballroom/event space that we've needed for hundreds if not in fact thousands of years.
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Anise K. Strong
4 days ago
Note that the female black bear apparently suffering from loneliness visited some other bears, caused no property damage, played with a few toys, and then quietly leaves, praised as a "model ambearsador". And You Wonder Why Women Choose The Bear.
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When people say "embrace AI or get left behind," they mean "Companies are offloading bureaucratic chores onto their customers and calling it 'automation.' You either deal with that or don't get served." (This message was brought to you by automated check-in systems.)
3 days ago
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codeWonderland Development
4 days ago
It's a great day to be a game dev! If you're looking for a fun and challenging boss rush game, check out my game Chicken Flight on the google play store:
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
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Chicken Flight - Apps on Google Play
Shoot eggs to take down your foes!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=land.codewonder.chicken_flight
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Total Lowlife Hat
3 days ago
Me: So apparently there’s something wrong with this German tattoo and I need to change it Tattoo lady: How about something Norse? Me: Yeah I see nothing wrong with that Tattoo lady: Or Imperial Rome Me: I like the way you think
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lacey, infested with bears
4 days ago
making some beef fizz anybody want some
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you 🌚
4 days ago
oh yeah I'm calling the totemkamfp or whatever the fuck it's called the jazz hands skull from now on. I was thinking about calling the the beefy boy roger but jazz hands skull is hilarious
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Exploration and discovery are an important part of well-designed games that provide things to discover while players explore the environment. It's a
#GameDevelopment
approach seen in Fit for a King, which follows an example set by a much older series.
pmjg.blogspot.com/2023/05/game...
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Game Exploration Done Well
General shenanigans clearinghouse and repository of poorly articulated ideas.
https://pmjg.blogspot.com/2023/05/game-exploration-done-well.html
4 days ago
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Nicole Marie T
4 days ago
👋🏻 Hiii my
#gamedev
peeps! I hope you are all having a good week and Wednesday 😄 Reply to this post to share your
#game
links! 🕹️ Like 💜 Comment 🗨️ Repost 🔁 🄰🄳🄳 🄶🄰🄼🄴🅂 🅃🄾 🅆🄸🅂🄷🄻🄸🅂🅃! ✅ Enjoy the rest of your week everyone! 💕
#wishlistwednesday
#indiedev
#gamedev
#indiegame
#gaming
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The Ghost of Will Borger
4 days ago
Every time someone links me to a video essay, I look at the runtime (often obscene), think about how much art I could experience in that time frame, and just do that instead. You're going to die. Use your time to experience things *for yourself.* YouTube will not enrich your soul. But art does.
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Eric Hamel
4 days ago
That's all eight of our detectives in our
#indie
#puzzlegame
! If you like a good
#murdermystery
, come join our discord and sign up for the
#playtest
! You are invited to a murder!
discord.gg/UEdRat5B3U
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Pema Levy
4 days ago
A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account
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Foone
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We all know this was about trying to get blackmail material on Vought, right?
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Michael Lobel
7 months ago
I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower
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Sharon
7 months ago
Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved
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Schnorkles O'Bork
6 days ago
The reason even this admin of brain geniuses hasn't pulled the insurrection act lever is they know it's their last card, and if they lose that fight, it gets really bad for them. Potentially it ends the ability of the administration to continue.
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Will Bunch
6 days ago
Not all media is racing to move on and forget about the second-largest one-day protest in U.S. history I hung out at my boisterous No Kings rally in Delco, Pa. and wrote about how the movement got under Trump's skin, the surest sign that it's winning My column
www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...
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Then they fight you: How the ‘No Kings’ protests are winning America | Will Bunch
A massive turnout of 7 million and a panicked White House showed Saturday why the No Kings protests matter, a lot.
https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-kings-protest-crowd-7-million-20251019.html
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A xenophobic shell game: “Japan faces a worker shortage as its population ages, and the country has been cautious about expanding immigration.” Instead, they’ll let foreign workers control robots remotely.
restofworld.org/2025/philipp...
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Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines
Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.
https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/
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Cat Manning
6 days ago
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
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Eric Hamel
6 days ago
Calling all
#gamers
and
#mystery
lovers! We're looking for testers for our new puzzle
#indiegame
titled
#SecondStab
! 🗡 🗡 If you've ever dreamed of saying the words "I've gathered you all here this evening..." then come sign up for our
#playtest
!
#cozymystery
#murdermystery
discord.gg/UEdRat5B3U
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Adjacent to conservative arguments defending sexual assault: There are people who believe that if a woman consents, she can’t revoke that consent. Victims “deserve” anything that happens afterward.
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#GameJam
alert! It's almost November, and
@basecase.bsky.social
is organizing the 3rd annual PiCoSteveMo for creating
#Pico8
games inspired by Stephen King's work!
#GameDev
itch.io/jam/picostev...
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PiCoSteveMo 3
A game jam from 2025-11-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by BaseCase. PiCoSteveMo is a noncompetitive month-long jam where participants create a PICO-8 game inspired by a Stephen King work. This is the third i...
https://itch.io/jam/picostevemo-3
6 days ago
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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat
6 days ago
Have you filled out the IF Comp survey yet? Please consider completing it.
golmac.org/your-opinion...
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Your Opinion Matters to Us - Gold Machine
I know we're all tired of talking about this, but. But!
https://golmac.org/your-opinion-matters-to-us/
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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a scary floof
7 days ago
npr: so, no kings tyrannosaurus rex: yes npr: how shall I put this trex: this interview is over
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Max Nichols
8 days ago
I saw some folks thinking that voice acting in games was objectively good, always a positive. "What kind of game doesn't have voice acting in 2025?!" sorta thing I say that there are positive reasons why one would choose NOT to have VO. How many design justifications we can come up with? Join me
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Melanie
7 days ago
Charlottesville
#NoKings
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Hudson Hawk unavailable for comment.
apnews.com/article/fran...
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Thieves strike Louvre in brazen jewel heist as the world’s most visited museum shuts
Thieves have pulled off a daring heist at the Louvre, using a basket lift to reach the museum on Sunday morning.
https://apnews.com/article/france-louvre-museum-robbery-a3687f330a43e0aaff68c732c4b2585b
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Jalane Schmidt 📢🚫👑✊🏾🏴🌈🇨🇺🇺🇦🍉YIMBY🏘️🏗️🏢
8 days ago
Two tons of bronze ingots, from melting down Charlottesville’s statue of Robert E. Lee, are now on display in the LA Museum of Modern Art “Monuments” exhibit. The
@jsaahccville.bsky.social
Swords Into Plowshares project will select an artist to use the bronze to create public art for Charlottesville
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Sarah Posner
8 days ago
I never again want to hear House Republicans disparage people they claim are too lazy to work
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mtsw
9 days ago
its funny looking back on all the DC political reporters who attributed Biden's overwhelmingly-negative press coverage in the second half of his term as being punishment for Karine Jean-Pierre's supposed rudeness or incompetence
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If you can’t handle my “JK Simmons as Ford Pines,” you don’t deserve my “JK Simmons as Emil Skoda.”
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Coach Finstock
9 days ago
If you're the first in line at a left turn arrow, you need to pay attention to when it turns green. You control the destiny of everyone behind you. It's a big responsibility, I know, but it's also a way to show your fellow human that you respect their time as much as your own.
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