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Leigh Alexander
@leighalexander.bsky.social
Story, games, procgen, bad futurism, spooky AI. Everything is narrative design

devoted homo 🌈 she/her

https://linktr.ee/leighalexander
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Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 9:00 AM
wait until u find out about how the advertising algorithm works
Turns out this was all much ado about nothing and Google isn’t using your Gmail to train AI and if wanna turn all that stuff back on you can get your spam filters back
Looks like the article has been updated to suggest maybe they misread the policy.

I see people complaining that this also disabled their spam filters, though I still see new messages showing up in spam so it's still working fine for me after disabling things.
November 23, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Aye
November 21, 2025 at 11:16 PM
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Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics.
I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 AM
how beautiful... happy birthday....
It's my birthday
Play my game

officialelectric.itch.io/ruin
November 21, 2025 at 9:35 AM
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a world without trans people has never existed and never will
April 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.
November 21, 2025 at 2:13 AM
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You know the bubble is cooked when it can be explained like this.
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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I’m super happy to officially announce our next project, spearheaded by @threeohfour.bsky.social!

“Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God.

Learn more (and wishlist!) over here:

store.steampowered.com/app/3979770
Gilt on Steam
Embark on a quest of redemption across the planet of Gilt to restore a disillusioned priest's faith, a dying God's power, and the waning hope of a people who have forgotten how to believe. A sci-fi fa...
store.steampowered.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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the only good thing about genAI is that it got me to really love seeing bad art, because I know a person put in time and effort, made themselves vulnerable by showing it to others, and is trying to improve. I value that more than anything now
November 20, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Morning.
November 20, 2025 at 4:48 AM
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The Museum of All Things is a) a nearly-infinite virtual museum generated from Wikipedia, and b) very clever indeed.

➡️ mayeclair.itch.io/museum-of-al...
Museum of All Things by Maya Claire
An infinite virtual museum generated from wikipedia
mayeclair.itch.io
November 20, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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new horror story about men, women, animals and appetites

please read and repost

medium.com/@leighalexan...
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 AM
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Neo Cab is the App Store’s Game of the Day today- and the entire first act of our anti-capitalist cyberpunk adventure is now free to try:
apps.apple.com/us/app/neo-c...
November 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
games need to look like this again wheres yall imaginations
November 19, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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I think we lost some work because authors were afraid to show their weirdnesses, rough edges, to ask uncomfortable questions.
We can debate all day about who got cancelled and whether or not they deserved it, but one thing I have noticed is that a lot of queer YA written from ~2019-2022 has a kind of sterile after-school-special vibe where you can just tell they sanitized the fuck out of it to appease the Twitter hivemind
November 18, 2025 at 8:41 PM
I sure do love a thriller where the neighbor is very suspicious
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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"I code so others can dream."

Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ video game pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has sadly passed away after a short, tough fight with aggressive cancer.

Read our obituary to this true industry trailblazer: gaymingmag.com/2025/11/gaym...
Gayming Icon and LGBTQ+ games pioneer, Rebecca Heineman, has died - Gayming Magazine
Rebecca Heineman, a trailblazing figure in the video game industry and a celebrated icon within the LGBTQ+ gaming community, has died.
gaymingmag.com
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
xmas gift recommendation: rook perfumes' faqqua iris. all profits go to gaza charities

rookperfumes.co.uk/products/faq...

rook perfumes is easily my favorite fragrance maker. the scents are so nuanced & vivid you can practically see them. i dont benefit from posting this, just love them
Faqqua Iris Eau de Parfum 30ml | Support Gaza | Rook Perfumes
Honor Palestine with Faqqua Iris. Elegant violet & iris fragrance with all profits supporting Gaza. Beautiful scent, powerful cause. Handmade in London.
rookperfumes.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Rebecca Heineman's last message was for people to look up her departed partner, Jennell Jaquays.

Jaquays was so influent to tabletop RPGs that "Jaquaysing" became a verb for designing complex, non-linear dungeons.

@nickoten.bsky.social wrote a great article on her:
pathikablog.com/2025/04/26/h...
How Jennell Jaquays Evolved Dungeon Design, Part 1: Pre-Jaquays Dungeons
(This is a slightly cleaned up version of my two Bluesky threads on Jennell Jaquays, preserved in a hopefully easier to read format. Thank Amanda P for reminding me that having these things stored …
pathikablog.com
November 18, 2025 at 12:19 AM
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The wildest thing is that gpu based data centers are getting loans on collateral of the gpus they’re buying with the loaned money

No I’m not kidding, this is coreweave. We’re fucked.
WSJ: “.. If the AI market blows up, the blast radius would be wide, hitting not only Wall Street firms, but also pensions, mutual and exchange-traded funds and individual investors, because of how debt is often sliced and resold across the financial landscape.”

@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/finance/inve...
November 18, 2025 at 6:51 AM