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joannes @playthroughline.com · 22d

🌐 NEUROCRACY 🌐

An episodic sci-fi hypertext game

✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future
✅ Solve a murder across article edits
✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed]

⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian
⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer

▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app
▶️ More info: neurocracy.site

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Lincoln Michel @thelincoln.bsky.social · 17h

This is not a defense of perpetually feckless Dems, but I bet Dems feel they ran on "Trump is fascist and undermining democracy" and they lost the election and so are giving up that message.

bort @crushbort.bsky.social · 18h

is it not weird that every day there’s a new video of anonymous masked men having the time of their lives beating/shooting/disappearing people and the dem response from the top down is “republicans want to double your health insurance premiums”

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alice @aliceduke.bsky.social · 1d

I have added some prints to my ko-fi page. It took a long time but I've found a good UK based print service to supply UK/Europe folks with bird portraits. Hahnemüle eco paper, 10+ colour giclee prints, if it wasn't my own artwork I'd say they look pretty good!

ko-fi.com/aliceduke/shop

Visit alice duke's Shop!

I've opened a shop. Come take a look!

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 1d

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[Crawl Request] 2042/01/01: Most upvoted Sassback thread of 2041

This crawl request and yesterday’s ADIRA revelations tell me, not without some amusement, that the only correct thing about my post theorizing that Adira is a black hole in your brain… was the title. ...

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fia! @fiashouse.bsky.social · 1d

got no real addition to the indie game press conversation other than that it sucks, and I can't promise to cover anything, but I'm always looking for cool, weird, underground indies to cover on my news shifts at Rock Paper Shotgun!

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Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 2d

Reminder that if you’d like to work with a writer and narrative person who puts in fun things like this even in a game with a non-historical setting- then I’m available for work at the beginning of the new year

Dr Holly Nielsen @hollynielsen.bsky.social · 2d

I love writing for games and getting to slip in little bits of historiography. In one storylet I’ve covered ambiguity in material culture, “truth” and “emotional truth”, and the need to research the everyday alongside the exceptional 🫡

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Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · 1d

Look. I totally get the despair and frustration. But every couple of weeks someone else is asking "where's press coverage for indie games?" and like, have you been under a rock? It's been torn to pieces my dudes! The devastation of games media has been widely talked about!

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Charlie the Half Time Orange @clementinedanger.bsky.social · 2d

work work

Tumblr post:

video games are all about meeting a little elf
outside the city gates that says 'ah... the pernicious
weed!' when you give him a healing herb and then
finding yourself fifteen years later saying "ah... the
pernicious weed!" to yourself in the shower

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 2d

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 14d

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 3d

did someone say “Abel Ferrara’s commentary on King of New York”

youtu.be/WQRzH9BAzks?...

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strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 3d

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 3d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 4d

I have a book on Assassin’s Creed coming out and I would like to be on your podcast / show / stream to promote it!

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 4d

todays microgame

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 4d

Dang but your name looks really cool in Cyrillic!

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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 4d

Grief/rage today as I reflect on two years of witnessing apartheid Israel's live-streamed brutal genocide of Palestinian people. My thoughts are with the 100000's Israel has murdered, starved, abducted, tortured; and everyone who mourns.
From the river to the sea, free the people, free Palestine

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 4d

When you realize how long it takes for a single tree to become fully mature and how many trees it takes to be productive... This is just one more method of *generational* violence.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 5d

Hundreds of olive trees were seen uprooted by Israeli forces in the villages of al-Mughayyir and abu Falah near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 4d

Writing this game was its own lovecraftian nightmare and I'm pretty sure it caused me to develop non-euclidean synapse connections in my brain.

plz buy so I can go and untangle it

At Eve's Wake @ateveswake.bsky.social · 9d

Enjoy #Autumn with this #Lovecraftian #Horror story! Watch the madness and see your family fall like the leaves.

Twist time and decide to save or bring damnation.

⭐️50% off store.steampowered.com/app/1395120/...

#indiedev #IndieGameDev #indiegame #indiegames #indiehorror #Steam #SteamAutumnSale

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 28

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 5d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 7d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 9d

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.

My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

Understudies by Greg Egan

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Sonia Spookyman @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 9d

So, I'm making a video game based on Palestinian folklore. It's called Thursday of the Dead, and you can talk to a Palestinian ghouleh. It will have branching narrative, and art all made by a human (me). I need exactly $100 to launch it on Steam when it's finished.

ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee

Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

ko-fi.com

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 7d

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 7d

<raspy John Mullins voice> This thing has everything but the kitchen sink!

joannes @playthroughline.com · 7d

Scroll down to the Wetware section for a fun time 😎

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