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Comfie @comfiedev.bsky.social · 5d

Happy to say that Concrete Spaces is taking part in the Finnish Games Week '25 on Steam! The game is on sale at -20%, so you should totally consider grabbing a copy.

store.steampowered.com/app/3580760/.

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Antti Tiihonen @anttitiihonen.bsky.social · Sep 2

🧩 My puzzle-action-adventure game Reconfigure has a Steam page now! 🕹
Wishlists are a HUGE help for tiny devs - thank you!
store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/...

#godotengine #indiegames

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Part of Noise Games @partofnoise.bsky.social · Aug 29

Yesterday together with @helcominfo.bsky.social we pre-launched Baltic Rescue at Helsinki Central Library Oodi as part of the Baltic Sea Day! 🌊🥳 Players from all age groups came to our booth to enjoy the game, and online on itch we were one of the most popular new and free browser games 🤯

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · Aug 25

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Io • captkuso @captkuso.bsky.social · Jul 18

I walked out of a casino at 3am once to find Charles Martinet gently petting one of those guide dog charity donation boxes that's shaped like a dog

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Hire 👍 Til Nomi @thenomi.bsky.social · Jul 14

joining the planet threads!

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · Jul 14

If you see this, post a planet 🪐

Rogue planet from the 2011 Lars von Trier movie Melancholia looming eerily over the horizon.

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Stuffed Wombat @stuffedwomb.at · Jul 8

small games by tiny devs finding huge success by dropping all notions of expression and focusing on dopamine delivery has done some sort of heavy damage to whatever I believed in in the 2010s about game design

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · Jul 3

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Comfie @comfiedev.bsky.social · Jul 1

Concrete Spaces is released! I'm dead. The game is available on Steam, and there's a launch discount on it right now!

Interactive bilingual spoken word -inspired poetry.
s.team/a/3580760.

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Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · Jun 12

In video game simulations, what do we call the opposite of abstraction in processes? Where instead of "crafting two things together" with a button press you must enact processes of grinding, attaching, etc? Or what Bennett does with limbs+muscles, instead of just "push forward to move" abstraction?

Naomi Clark (@metasynthie) 暗悪直美 @halfrobot.com · Jun 12

Had a dream about a hardcore vintage story mod server where players are all just stuck sailing a massive whaling vessel, all people microblock-chiseling voxel bones into voxel scrimshaw, catching voxel blood from blocky manatees to make fishy blood sausage in the galley, peeling voxel potatoes...

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c64 @superbrothers @c64.bsky.social · Jun 6

there are eighty billion videogames out there, and many are marvelous miracles, but I’m struggling to connect as the years go on

just gimme something with two buttons that takes thirty minutes at a time, that is dumb fun but also secretly smart, soulful and surprising, that’s what I’m after

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · Jun 5

btw did you know another burglary VR game just released? The Break-In store.steampowered.com/app/1397390/...

Save 10% on The Break-In on Steam

Steal everything. Even the people. The Break-In lets you take whatever you want, from TVs to fridges to toilets. And all in 1-4 player co-op, VR and non VR. Select your getaway vehicle, anything from ...

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · Jun 5

Any new Thief thing is a win in my book — no matter if it’s THIVRF.

Thief - The Circle @thiefthecircle.bsky.social · Jun 5

New THIEF game coming to VR

www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG3E...

Thief VR: Legacy of Shadow Reveal Trailer [ESRB]

YouTube video by VertigoGames

www.youtube.com

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · May 31

free advice for game developers: try to make the next smash hit video game, such as grand theft auto. if you do, you'll be making more than just a video game – you'll be making millions of dollars

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · May 31

Well isn’t this nice — just when i thought about this movie it’s gonna play in my home cinema.

Japanese language poster for the 2012 film Frances Ha.

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borb 🐌 wishlist EMUUROM @borbware.itch.io · May 29

EMUUROM's demo is featured in the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social from May 29 to June 5 - thank you once again @draknek.bsky.social & friends!!

#indiegame #gamedev

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Io • captkuso @captkuso.bsky.social · May 29

I'm working on a bigger Dreamcast game

It's called black screen

It'll be done in 3 or 4 months maybe, but I'm putting out development snapshots starting now: captkuso.itch.io/black-screen

#dreamcast #homebrew #gamedev #spacegame #raylib

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · May 29

Wholeheartedly agreed. After working solo so (too) much i try to use that understandment to be a better collaborator and appreciate that i don’t have to do everything alone 🥲

tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · May 28

OH NO i forgot
Frances Ha (2012) - Noah Baumbach

This had such an impact on me.

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tatu heinämäki @tatsoni.bsky.social · May 28

M (1931) - Fritz Lang
The Third Man (1949) - Carol Reed
Tokyo Story (1953) - Yasujirô Ozu
Tirez sur le pianiste (1960) - François Truffaut
Bande à part (1964) - Jean-Luc Godard
Betoniyö (2013) - Pirjo Honkasalo

(also cheated and did 6 lol)

Sam Barlow 🔥 @mrsambarlow.bsky.social · May 28

Five favorite black & white movies:
(Or: 5 favorite films from the first half century of cinema! )

Psycho - 1960
À bout de souffle - 1960
Last Year at Marienbad - 1961
The Exterminating Angel - 1962
L'Eclisse - 1962
The Silence - 1963

Damn those early 60s cooked! Also I cheated & had to do 6

C. Robert Cargill @crobertcargill.bsky.social · May 28

Five favorite black & white movies:

Casablanca
Seven Samurai
Hellzapoppin’
Doctor X
Beyond Tomorrow

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · May 20

dragon lady next to me at the second life rave was too close and her wings kept clipping through my player model. I didn't mind but she apologied each and every time it happened. chat was filled with hundreds of variations of "oop sowwie >_<!! xoxo" and "uaah! not again! orz" by the end of the night

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grayson @graysond.bsky.social · May 21

Also for consideration: Japanese business aughts-core

Businessman showing glowing laptop screen

Businessman pointing at viewer, viewer is at a dramatically low angle as if businessman is towering above.

Businessman walking toward a bright light.

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borb 🐌 wishlist EMUUROM @borbware.itch.io · May 20

EMUUROM is featured in Thinky Direct next week, so I wrote a new devlog about it!

borbware.itch.io/emuurom/devl...

EMUUROM in Thinky Direct May 29!

Announcement time! EMUUROM will take part in the first ever THINKY DIRECT , a showcase livestream event of upcoming thinky games, happening next week on May 29, 6PM UK time. This means that during the...

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Prabhav Bhatnagar @probob.bsky.social · May 14

Thank you!! Happy that this is finally out and maybe it inspires fresh ways to think and talk about game feel! You can check it out here: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

#gamedesign #gamesresearch #research #gamefeel #juice

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