Dylan Ilvento
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Game dev working on cool things at @ward-games.com | he/him | [email protected]
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Dylan Ilvento
@dylanilvento.com
· Dec 4
Hey Bluesky! It’s Ward Games, your favorite indie game studio. If you’re following us elsewhere across the ‘Net, you know we’re working on a pretty cool game: Project Lexa, a sci-fi mystery where you explore a planet where everything is written in an alien language! ward-games.com/post/what-th...
What the Heck Have We Been Working On?
A surprise update!
ward-games.com
Hello, Bluesky followers! In case you didn’t know, I’m making a game with a cool buncha folks and we just started talking about it on Bluesky. You should follow our studio account and check out the other devs working on it! It’s all in this handy dandy thread below 👇
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What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
![[COVID zine front cover]
[bold, handwritten] What’s Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
[Drawing of a person (me) with a shoulder-length shag haircut, wearing head-strap respirator mask a sweatshirt, carrying a Corsi-Rosenthal box (a DIY air purifier made with a box fan and furnace filters)]
[word balloon] clean the air, basically! By Hazel Newlevant
[COVID zine back cover]
[handwritten text, circled by a chain which is breaking on the bottom]
“Every chain of transmission that is broken is VALUABLE. Every person that doesn’t GET SICK, that doesn’t lose that WEEK OF WORK, that doesn’t become DISABLED or DIE, from the minorest of inconveniences, to the GREATEST of losses: every single one of those things is VALUABLE.” -Becca on DEATH PANEL podcast 2/16/23.
Print and distribute this zine yourself! Download a PDF here. [arrow pointing to the citations QR code]
[drawing of this zine, getting stapled with a long-arm stapler]
[Creative Commons license logo] CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
Citations:
[QR code] newlevant.com/COVIDzine
[bold, handwritten] ALWAYS FREE](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:twccexjsbh6y2tyhysjrhc2v/bafkreicg6f3tsxzbhi6hesaqppsfaaidnee33exrrwoalyxyaihaxxdk3a@jpeg)
January 16, 2026 at 3:17 PM
What's Up With COVID and What We Can Do About It: 2026 Edition
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
I've thoroughly updated this public health propaganda zine! With new information about:
Adjusting mask fit
CO2 monitoring
Improving ventilation for infection control
Read at newlevant.com/COVIDzine or in the thread below 👇
Rewatching hbomberguy’s Tallarico video and the best show don’t tell part of this whole thing is how many random, no-name podcasts that dude did. Just a parade of Discord calls that allowed him to tell strangers how proud his mother was of him.
January 18, 2026 at 3:39 AM
Rewatching hbomberguy’s Tallarico video and the best show don’t tell part of this whole thing is how many random, no-name podcasts that dude did. Just a parade of Discord calls that allowed him to tell strangers how proud his mother was of him.
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Grok is so much worse than you think.
January 17, 2026 at 8:45 AM
Grok is so much worse than you think.
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Save me, fully loaded Chipotle bowl.
January 16, 2026 at 9:06 PM
Save me, fully loaded Chipotle bowl.
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people who hit space twice after a sentence disgust me. what are you doing with your life? time is precious; you don't have the luxury to be following a rule passed down erroneously from a different technological era.
January 16, 2026 at 6:23 PM
people who hit space twice after a sentence disgust me. what are you doing with your life? time is precious; you don't have the luxury to be following a rule passed down erroneously from a different technological era.
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Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
Ash Parrish
www.ashparrish.com
January 16, 2026 at 4:55 PM
Breaks my heart to share this, but today is my last day at The Verge and I am looking for work! I'd really like to stay in video games, preferably in some kind of journalistic capacity but I can do PR/Marketing and maybe even a lil Narrative Design. Please get in touch!
www.ashparrish.com
www.ashparrish.com
Two episodes in, and I already hate this pro-AI doctor in The Pitt.
January 16, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Two episodes in, and I already hate this pro-AI doctor in The Pitt.
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it’s actually not hard to gauge the quality of any given tv show—if the characters involved make correct moral choices, it’s a good show. this is why the sopranos is considered one of the worst shows ever made, and it’s why every year the outstanding drama emmy goes to paw patrol
January 15, 2026 at 2:25 PM
it’s actually not hard to gauge the quality of any given tv show—if the characters involved make correct moral choices, it’s a good show. this is why the sopranos is considered one of the worst shows ever made, and it’s why every year the outstanding drama emmy goes to paw patrol
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One thing I've always been fond of is our windows.
Having contiguous exterior\interior spaces was important to us- but early on we realized interiors needed different ambient light from the exterior to feel properly cozy
Having contiguous exterior\interior spaces was important to us- but early on we realized interiors needed different ambient light from the exterior to feel properly cozy
January 15, 2026 at 2:01 AM
One thing I've always been fond of is our windows.
Having contiguous exterior\interior spaces was important to us- but early on we realized interiors needed different ambient light from the exterior to feel properly cozy
Having contiguous exterior\interior spaces was important to us- but early on we realized interiors needed different ambient light from the exterior to feel properly cozy
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers
January 14, 2026 at 11:21 PM
Post a game you remember playing that nobody else remembers
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Happy #PortfolioDay- I'm Amelia, and we could work together! It's hard to pick a favorite design area so here's a spread
ameliaherman.artstation.com
ameliaherman.artstation.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:03 PM
Happy #PortfolioDay- I'm Amelia, and we could work together! It's hard to pick a favorite design area so here's a spread
ameliaherman.artstation.com
ameliaherman.artstation.com
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rock house liquors, texarkana, arkansas, 1979
January 13, 2026 at 2:36 AM
rock house liquors, texarkana, arkansas, 1979
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Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art"
There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept.
You're using ai for concept art.
There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept.
You're using ai for concept art.
January 12, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Keep hearing devs say that they only use ai for "pre-concept art"
There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept.
You're using ai for concept art.
There is no pre-concept art. There is concept art. That's where the idea starts. With the concept.
You're using ai for concept art.
SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS?!
LEGO Pokemon up for preorder at LEGO Store:
Pikachu and Poké Ball ($199.99) buff.ly/2Mg4cGo
Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise ($649.99) buff.ly/1iEkjZn
Eevee ($59.99) buff.ly/jDfsYCj #ad
purchases include free GWP Kanto Region Badge Collection
Pikachu and Poké Ball ($199.99) buff.ly/2Mg4cGo
Venusaur, Charizard and Blastoise ($649.99) buff.ly/1iEkjZn
Eevee ($59.99) buff.ly/jDfsYCj #ad
purchases include free GWP Kanto Region Badge Collection
January 12, 2026 at 2:10 PM
SIX HUNDRED AND FIFTY UNITED STATES DOLLARS?!
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not that long ago there were new videos every day of cops maiming and beating the shit out of protesters with gleeful abandon, and not only did “defund the police” get written off as extreme, joe biden got elected and proudly gave them even more money. it’ll easily happen again
there’s really no reason to think anyone who supported anything short of abolishing ice the past ten years isn’t going to go straight back to We Just Need Better Training when a dem is in office again. better to make that politically untenable before the campaigns even officially start
January 10, 2026 at 11:07 PM
not that long ago there were new videos every day of cops maiming and beating the shit out of protesters with gleeful abandon, and not only did “defund the police” get written off as extreme, joe biden got elected and proudly gave them even more money. it’ll easily happen again
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I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.
Kind of feel like a lot of politicians, even in Minnesota, are misreading the implications of this moment. I feel like the past three days have been tremendously radicalizing for so many people. I have witnessed it even in my own small communities, it goes beyond just incandescent rage.
January 10, 2026 at 4:13 PM
I don’t think they’re misreading them so much as they are terrified of the implications because it means the status quo has to break. there’s no incrementalism for this. mass radicalization of this scale scares Democrats more than anything Republicans could do and I mean that literally.
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indie dev who's been saving pennies for the last 20 years: i will find a way to pay my talented friends what they're worth
bazillion dollar AAA studio's CEO, staring longingly at the Stealing Machine 3000: i think we're spending too much on our artists' salaries and not enough on my yachts
bazillion dollar AAA studio's CEO, staring longingly at the Stealing Machine 3000: i think we're spending too much on our artists' salaries and not enough on my yachts
January 10, 2026 at 2:38 AM
indie dev who's been saving pennies for the last 20 years: i will find a way to pay my talented friends what they're worth
bazillion dollar AAA studio's CEO, staring longingly at the Stealing Machine 3000: i think we're spending too much on our artists' salaries and not enough on my yachts
bazillion dollar AAA studio's CEO, staring longingly at the Stealing Machine 3000: i think we're spending too much on our artists' salaries and not enough on my yachts
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Perfect Tides: Station to Station has been nominated for two IGF awards:
-Excellence in Narrative
-Seumas McNally Grand Prize
This is such a tremendous honor, and what a nice hurrah as and the team and the playtesters and I race towards the finish line.
Nomination list: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4
-Excellence in Narrative
-Seumas McNally Grand Prize
This is such a tremendous honor, and what a nice hurrah as and the team and the playtesters and I race towards the finish line.
Nomination list: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4
January 9, 2026 at 6:40 PM
Perfect Tides: Station to Station has been nominated for two IGF awards:
-Excellence in Narrative
-Seumas McNally Grand Prize
This is such a tremendous honor, and what a nice hurrah as and the team and the playtesters and I race towards the finish line.
Nomination list: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4
-Excellence in Narrative
-Seumas McNally Grand Prize
This is such a tremendous honor, and what a nice hurrah as and the team and the playtesters and I race towards the finish line.
Nomination list: tinyurl.com/2zzt8sw4
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hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
It's time to board the Mothership.
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
www.youtube.com/shorts/iEw90...
Board the Mothership.
YouTube video by Mothership Media LLC
www.youtube.com
January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
Need a “Weenie Mode” for The Pitt that swaps out all of the surgical scenes with renditions by Muppets or something.
January 9, 2026 at 4:24 PM
Need a “Weenie Mode” for The Pitt that swaps out all of the surgical scenes with renditions by Muppets or something.
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From 30 years of being an adult leftist: there is no amount of polite respectability that will keep centrists from saying you’re being rude to them by existing and no amount of overt Nazi shit from the right that will make centrists agree to even moderate concessions to the left.
I can’t get over all the journalists and centrist pundits who sneered that “Twitter isn’t real life” when it was full of weird leftists but now insist it’s a vital window into the public mood when the entire site is Nazis, illegal porn, bots, and Belarusians calling themselves “Iowa MAGA Farm Guy”
thinking about how long leftists were blamed for making twitter inhospitable for MPs who are refusing point blank to leave now it's full of nazis and child porn
January 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
From 30 years of being an adult leftist: there is no amount of polite respectability that will keep centrists from saying you’re being rude to them by existing and no amount of overt Nazi shit from the right that will make centrists agree to even moderate concessions to the left.