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Nelson / Whittico @whittico.bsky.social · 7m

I‘m helping make a video game called Project Lexa! Even better, you’ll get to play it at EGX!!

Wild to say out loud, but I have been helping @ward-games.com with UX/UI on the new title. Endless shout outs / thanks to @dylanilvento.com for bringing me on

Go check out the game and say hi to Dylan!!

Ward Games @ward-games.com · 22h

We're excited to announce that Project Lexa will be publicly playable for the first time ever later this month at EGX London's Leftfield Collection! Come see us at the show from Friday, October 24th through Sunday, October 26th!

Project Lexa is Going to Be at EGX in London, UK!

Come see Project Lexa as part of EGX's Leftfield Collection, October 24th through 26th!

ward-games.com

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InkyInGreen 🍂 @blackwallmancer.bsky.social · 9d

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist):

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much.

you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

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Ceej 🏳️‍🌈COMMISSIONS OPEN 🏳️‍🌈 @ceejdoesart.bsky.social · 19h

So I may be helping out on a video game or something 😀
Glad I get to share that I'm one of the character animators on the project! @dylanilvento.com thanks for bringing me on!

Ward Games @ward-games.com · 22h

We're excited to announce that Project Lexa will be publicly playable for the first time ever later this month at EGX London's Leftfield Collection! Come see us at the show from Friday, October 24th through Sunday, October 26th!

Project Lexa is Going to Be at EGX in London, UK!

Come see Project Lexa as part of EGX's Leftfield Collection, October 24th through 26th!

ward-games.com

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 20h

Hell yeah! Hope you’re good Seth and hope your surgery goes well!

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 21h

Also want to shout out other amazing folks that have contributed to the project, including @hownottodraw.bsky.social, @hthrflwrs.bsky.social, and @wowjohnwow.bsky.social!

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Chris Lucca @flipluka.com · 21h

Helped out with the music and sounds on this and super stoked it’s heading to EGX! 🤘❤️🤘

Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 22h

We have a world a FIRSTS this month.

It's the FIRST time our game, Project Lexa, will be playable to the public - at EGX!

It's the FIRST time I'll be traveling internationally ever!

It's the FIRST time I'll be trying a Greggs' sausage roll!

Ward Games @ward-games.com · 22h

We're excited to announce that Project Lexa will be publicly playable for the first time ever later this month at EGX London's Leftfield Collection! Come see us at the show from Friday, October 24th through Sunday, October 26th!

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 22h

Thank you Emily!!!!

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 22h

The team's been working super hard on making an awesome and polished build for the show, so huge shout out to @thenazzaro.bsky.social, @flipluka.com, @ceejdoesart.bsky.social, and @whittico.bsky.social for all their hard work these past few weeks as we get ready for EGX!

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 22h

We have a world a FIRSTS this month.

It's the FIRST time our game, Project Lexa, will be playable to the public - at EGX!

It's the FIRST time I'll be traveling internationally ever!

It's the FIRST time I'll be trying a Greggs' sausage roll!

Ward Games @ward-games.com · 22h

We're excited to announce that Project Lexa will be publicly playable for the first time ever later this month at EGX London's Leftfield Collection! Come see us at the show from Friday, October 24th through Sunday, October 26th!

Project Lexa is Going to Be at EGX in London, UK!

Come see Project Lexa as part of EGX's Leftfield Collection, October 24th through 26th!

ward-games.com

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Ward Games @ward-games.com · 22h

We're excited to announce that Project Lexa will be publicly playable for the first time ever later this month at EGX London's Leftfield Collection! Come see us at the show from Friday, October 24th through Sunday, October 26th!

Project Lexa is Going to Be at EGX in London, UK!

Come see Project Lexa as part of EGX's Leftfield Collection, October 24th through 26th!

ward-games.com

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · 1d

NEW: Nearly 100 current and former developers at MindsEye studio Build A Rocket Boy slam Leslie Benzies and the rest of studio leadership for poor management and botched layoffs.

They say crunch was mandated leading up to release only for 250 people to be sacked afterwards.

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 1d

Gesundheit.

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Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 2d

You need numbers. I can't tell you how important YouTube trailer numbers are. I pitch indie coverage basically every day, and the metric for what gets covered and what doesn't is internal numbers for previous coverage and YouTube.

If the audience isn't interested, it doesn’t get spin. That's it.

Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

Obviously, massive MASSIVE thanks to the press who *have* covered us -- the reviews we did get were lovely to read

But like, what exactly do we need to achieve for RPS, Kotaku, Polygon, IGN, Gamespot, etc etc to acknowledge us anymore?

How the heck are smaller teams meant to get the word out?

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 2d

My personal trainer says the same thing to me.

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 2d

Too bad they were just too delicious. 😔

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 3d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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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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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 3d

I like those Popcorners, especially with some hummus.

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 3d

This might be why I’ve never gotten past that opening section. It does feel a bit aimless, and there really isn’t much of a narrative thread to compel me to keep going. I recently regrabbed the game to play on Steam Deck and similarly thought, “is this the game? Do I just drift from biome to biome?”

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 4d

Doesn't look like it can be added to a Flo mask specifically, but thanks for the rec!

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 4d

A goddamn nightmare.

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 4d

Also not going out to eat or anywhere else without my mask while I'm there. ✌️

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 4d

I have an international flight coming up, and with it comes a fun challenge: going gate to gate for 14ish hours without ever taking my brand new Flo mask off.

Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 5d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Julia Doubleday @juliadoubleday.bsky.social · 5d

Nobody has Long COVID, but everybody has brain fog, cognitive decline and memory loss. I talk about the overwhelming scientific evidence that COVID damages the brain, and the overwhelming social unwillingness to acknowledge it in my latest:

www.thegauntlet.news/p/when-will-...

When Will the Lion Concern Himself

Joking memes make light of the uncomfortable reality: everyone's got a little of that post-COVID brain damage these days

www.thegauntlet.news

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Dylan Ilvento @dylanilvento.com · 4d

I was watching a YouTube vid on the history of WoW raiding, like you do, and honestly there was so many clips of this asshole, MAGA hat in the background and all, it was one of the only times I left a comment on a video saying, “yo, this sucks.”

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