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Martijn van Zwieten

@mvavz.bsky.social

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🎮 business coach helping videogame founders build better studios 15+ years in games | executive MBA Read The Long Game newsletter: https://www.martijnvanzwieten.com/newsletter

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Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 21h

20 min AMRAP Burpees, week 12

Regular: 132
Navy seal: 39

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 9d

20 min AMRAP Burpees, week 11

Regular: 120
Navy seal: 42

Made decent progress on regular ones this week by pacing each rep; didn't quite work for the navy seals 😅

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 14d

20 min AMRAP Burpees, week 9

Skipped because of DICE 😬

Week 10:

Regular: 107
Navy seal: 43

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 2d

Somehow we had a successful game launch in 2025: A thread 🧵

We launched Little Rocket Lab this week, and it's been mega for us. Which is amazing, because well, the industry is bad right now!

So I wanna go through the things we did, in the hope that something here can be helpful to someone here

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 5d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 5d

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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Character Design References @characterdesign.bsky.social · 5d

Animation by James Baxter* | Steven Universe (2013 - 2019)

#penciltest #sakuga #genga #2danimation

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Eric Bourdages @eze3d.bsky.social · 5d

Easy to digest for people who haven't been following the topic. Go watch, like & pass it on if you care about creators, the internet, facts & reality.

youtu.be/_zfN9wnPvU0?...

AI Slop Is Killing Our Channel

YouTube video by Kurzgesagt – In a Nutshell

youtu.be

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 6d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 6d

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

The Portland frog backing down an army of jackboots

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B. Dave Walters - Yes, it is I! @bdavewalters.bsky.social · Nov 30

Always repost

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Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 8d

Congrats John, that's a major milestone!

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 9d

20 min AMRAP Burpees, week 11

Regular: 120
Navy seal: 42

Made decent progress on regular ones this week by pacing each rep; didn't quite work for the navy seals 😅

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 14d

20 min AMRAP Burpees, week 9

Skipped because of DICE 😬

Week 10:

Regular: 107
Navy seal: 43

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · Sep 12

20 min AMRAP Burpees, week 8

Regular: 108
Navy seal: 42

Steady progress, and I feel like I can see some small changes in my upper body

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 10d

Weaponized nostalgia 😍

My hand holding a box of the Lego gameboy

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Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 14d

20 min AMRAP Burpees, week 9

Skipped because of DICE 😬

Week 10:

Regular: 107
Navy seal: 43

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · Sep 12

20 min AMRAP Burpees, week 8

Regular: 108
Navy seal: 42

Steady progress, and I feel like I can see some small changes in my upper body

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · Sep 5

20 min AMRAP Burpees, week 7

Regular: 107
Navy seal: 40

Broke 100 regular ones! Aiming for 150 next 😤

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 14d

Geordi La Forge Star Trek meme, top one says data driven, bottom one says data informed

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 16d

This is interesting, I know watermelons as relating to the status of goals or KPIs.

People report them as "on track", or green, but when you look closer ...

Love that the term gets used in other contexts as well!

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Susan Kaye Quinn is Writing Solarpunk 🌞🌱 @susankayequinn.bsky.social · 18d

They've lost the 9yos

JA Westenberg
@Daojoan@mastodon.social

My 9 year old and his classmates have started using “that’s AI” to mean “I don’t believe you.”

Me: we’re having dinosaur meat for dinner

Kiddo: that’s AI
Sep 24, 2025, 07:36 AM

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Prof Mike Yearworth @mikeyearworth.bsky.social · 21d

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits."

www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws

In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

www.computerworld.com

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Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 22d

Seconded

Martijn van Zwieten @mvavz.bsky.social · 23d

I wrote and published an academic paper on this very topic. Looked specifically at Medal of Honor, but mostly applies to CoD too.

dl.digra.org/index.php/dl...

Danger Close: Contesting Ideologies and Contemporary Military Conflict in First Person Shooters | DiGRA Digital Library

dl.digra.org