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Pixelles @pixellesmtl.bsky.social · 5d

Lend your expertise to our Make Games program! We're looking for mentors (remote) and lecturers (Montréal):

🔹 1 Godot programmer
🔸 1 GameMaker programmer (urgent)
🔹 1 Pixel Art lecturer for Oct 10th
🔸 1 UI/UX lecturer for Oct 15th

Honorarium provided. More info: docs.google.com/forms/u/1/d/...

Devenez mentor Pixelles // Become a Pixelles mentor

****[EN FRANÇAIS PLUS BAS]**** Thank you so much for signing up as a mentor. Sharing your experience and offering your support is an invaluable part of our program. Mentors are expected to check-in wi...

docs.google.com

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · 7d

New name, new logo, same old nonsense ✌️

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Kayla 💛 @kobcritic.bsky.social · 13d

the sacred text 😔

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Day of the Devs @dayofthedevs.org · 26d

Day of the Devs: The Game Awards Digital Showcase RETURNS for 2025!

Join us after @thegameawards.com for a first look at the future of indie games. ✨✨✨

Working on something awesome? Submissions are now OPEN! Learn more & submit your game here:

dayofthedevs.org/submit/

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Olivia Just Wants Tech To Be Fun Again @kingdomfantasy6.bsky.social · 26d

Let's see...Modern privacy tips...

-Don't upload things to the cloud if you can avoid it.
-Offline programs are best
-Tor is in fact your friend
-As is vagueness.
-Obsidian, libreoffice, or other offline text editors should be used over either microsoft's or google's systems.

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Arvy @arvy.bsky.social · 28d

I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne:

hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length

A graph titled Scope of video games according to Hushcrasher Classification System. The Y axis shows Game Size (from 10 MB to 100GB), the X axis shows Credits count (sourced from Mobygames).

The clustered dots on the graph represent 4 distinct scale categories of games - Kei, Midi, AA, AAA. The larger correlation between the size and the credits means larger category of a game.

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St1ka @st1ka.bsky.social · Sep 3

If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · Aug 29

Made by an amazing team out of Winnipeg! Can't wait for this one ☺️

STRANGE BREW - Wishlist on Steam @strangebrewthegame.bsky.social · Aug 18

Run Away!
#indiegame #coffeeholic

Wishlist now on Steam ➫ s.team/a/3499670

Run From Zombies 🧟
Drink Coffee ☕
Be A Duck Mascot 🦆

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · Aug 18

I couldn't begin to count how many ten thousand hours I have passed at this point in my life. The work is the point. The art is the work.

alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · Aug 17

just saw someone sincerely arguing that they need AI bc they don't have "natural" artistic talent and idk how to make you understand that nobody comes by this shit naturally. it's just...work. it's being bad at it for a really, really, really long time. it's intention, pursued over time! wtf!!!

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Nate Federman @natefederman.bsky.social · Aug 16

A few years into my TV writing career, I was struggling! But one simple piece of advice changed the entire trajectory of my career. So I wanted to do a #Scriptsky #Screenwriting thread about that advice and the ways in which CREATIVITY CAN FLOURISH (and also how it wanes).

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⚔️🎀 𝔉𝔦𝔞𝔡𝔥 🎀⚔️ @fiadh.bsky.social · Aug 12

a bunny holding a spiked morning star by lily seika jones
text: we must remain whimsical to survive the horrors of this world

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Jen @ladyjenpool.bsky.social · Aug 12

Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:

Our funding depends on usage.

So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · Aug 4

This 👀👀

Bess Hamilton @besshamilton.bsky.social · Aug 4

No one is keeping you from making art except yourself. GenAI isn't art. It has no soul. But you have a soul. Don't be afraid to have fun, to suck a little or a lot, to be frustrated, to be proud, to experiment, to grow. Be brave. Make something. 1/2

Kurt Vonnegut quote with photo of Kurt in the bottom right corner. He's wearing heavy framed glasses. He has a mustache, curly hair and somewhat melancholy expression. "Go into the arts. I'm not kidding. The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or how badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · Aug 3

Lol that's amazing 😂

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · Jul 31

Just escaping the heat temporarily 🫠

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Jul 27

ICYMI the DNA Codex project is basically:

💪🏾 putting our skills to use for the whole industry
🦾 adding a tip jar to work we already enjoy doing for others
😤 wow search engines suck (AI) so we're the librarians now
📚 PRESERVE! KNOWLEDGE!
💸 watch what we can do with $5

Learn more in my pinned thread!

Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Jun 20

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

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.

dnacreative.notion.site

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🦇🩸Hexavier🩸🦇 @xavierck.com · Sep 16

Here are 543 images (1.5GB) of items at the Philadelphia Museum of Art arms and armor exhibit

You're free to use them for anything, even commercially. I tried to focus on details not usually represented in available reference material

drive.google.com/file/d/1NRzg...

Here's a small sampling:

A closeup view of an ornate cuirass and tasset, showing heart-shaped designs along the edges of the metal panels.

An extremely ornate ceremonial halberd head showing etched and blackened designs with various plants, mythical creatures, and heraldic designs.

A closeup of the shoulder intersection of the cuirass, pauldron, and bevor of a piece of 1500s field armor. Some ornate etching of the crucifixion is visible in the lower right corner on the cuirass.

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · Jul 23

👀👀 very excited to share this game with the world soon!

Obsidian @obsidian.net · Jul 21

Soon. #Grounded2

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · Jul 23

Same rules apply for artists - label, organize and *comment* as much as you can!

This even occasionally includes me making a blank paint layer in my substance files labeled "NOTE: ....."

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · Jul 23

I have saved my own ass, on multiple occasions, with code comments like...

//Hey Alex. Remember this critical bit of information you've probably forgotten by now. YOU'RE WELCOME!!!

Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · Jul 23

The reason you might want your code to be understandable and commented even if only you are working on it is the future you in 1 year or 10 years might need to modify/reuse it. Also if you ever need to hand it to a porter you want them to understand it.

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The Shiflett Brothers @shiflettbros.bsky.social · Jul 19

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · Jul 11

hpc.anatomy4sculptors.com

Anatomy for Sculptors - always my go-to reference

But a peek at this particularly excellent tool - human proportions calculator *chefs kiss* to putting straightforward, clear guidelines in an easy to use and access format.

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Motheaten Wizard🔞 @motheatenwizard.bsky.social · Jul 6

I know folks say it all the time but I earnestly, sincerely stand behind: make weird art.

which includes the macabre, the uncomfortable, the bizarre, the cathartic, the erotic.

and engage with weird art too, please.

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Tom Voros @tom.voros.ca · Jul 1

Happy Canada Day! 🇨🇦🎆🍁

Check out the Canadian Game Sale on #Steam featuring Pinball Spire and 300+ other awesome games by Canadian devs!

➡️ store.steampowered.com/curator/4554...

#gamedev #indiegames #canada

Promotional image for the Canadian Game Sale featuring a cute cartoon beaver and red maple leaves. "300+ Games by Devs from Coast to Coast. July 1st to July 8th. Proudly Canadian."

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BJ Colangelo @bjcolangelo.bsky.social · Jun 30

I'm no longer shocked when the truths come out but my heart still breaks every time. Queer youth are attacked at every turn and they can’t even have the respite of feeling seen by a movie, all so regressive bigots don’t have to feel discomfort for two hours.
www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie...

Inside ‘Elio’s’ “Catastrophic” Path: America Ferrera’s Exit, Director Change and Erasure of Queer Themes

Creatives at Pixar who saw the original director's previous cut of 'Elio' tell THR about the movie's challenging production process: "'Elio' just [became] about totally nothing."

www.hollywoodreporter.com

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Four Eyed Rabbit Art @foureyedrabbitart.bsky.social · Jul 1

Thank god. The insanity of even putting this forward. What a waste of time, money and effort (par for the course these days but still.)

Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · Jul 1

Folks! The ban against states regulating AI is DEAD! It’s was voted 99-1!

This victory belongs to us all! Unfettered GenAi is an issue for us all, and groups from all walks of life came together to demand we regulate! Your calls and action made the difference! So thank you everyone! We did this!