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Nonadecimal
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Making social impact games like:
🪐 episodic systemic narrative Jovian Nights
💾 cyberPUNK open world RPG Black Ice
♟️ Forbidden Chess
🌊 cellular automata RTS about feedback loops
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Nonadecimal @nonadecimal.com · Dec 11
Seems like a great day to wishlist some indie games!

Why not start with Black Ice, the "Overwhelmingly Positive" cyberspace looter/shooter RPG where hackers expose corporate corruption and help people get healthcare and organize against the megacorps. store.steampowered.com/app/311800/B...
The Steam storefront description for Black Ice with an "Overwhelmingly Positive" (95%) review score.
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I'm a few years late but we just played Chants of Sennaar end to end. A beautiful puzzler about deciphering the languages of castes trapped in a scifi tower and helping them communicate.

It had great design and UI that made it effortless. store.steampowered.com/app/1931770/...
Chants of Sennaar on Steam
In this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples of the Tower. Observe, listen, and decipher ancient languages in a fascinating universe inspired by ...
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February 1, 2026 at 10:29 PM
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For Liam.
January 30, 2026 at 7:04 AM
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I would like to spend a week communicating only via these flags.
pdfmerchant.bsky.social Old Sam @pdfmerchant.bsky.social · 3d
tag yourself i’m I AM MANOEUVRING WITH DIFFICULTY
January 30, 2026 at 4:12 AM
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Recommending this account labeler from Cornell that makes it easy to spot suspicious accounts and ones that are follow-farming.

bsky.app/profile/stec...
Screenshot of an account labeled for unfollowing 500+ accounts within 24 hours.
January 29, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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Recommending this account labeler from Cornell that makes it easy to spot suspicious accounts and ones that are follow-farming.

bsky.app/profile/stec...
Screenshot of an account labeled for unfollowing 500+ accounts within 24 hours.
January 29, 2026 at 2:03 AM
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Making a game about hackers exposing corporate abuses, I wish it were that easy to reveal wrongdoing and help victims.
404media.co 404 Media @404media.co · 7d
And what is happening inside ICE detention centers? 404 Media also learned that the federal government claimed that the day after it was sued for allegedly abusing detainees at an ICE detention center, a “system crash” deleted nearly two weeks of surveillance footage from inside the facility.
ICE Says Critical Evidence In Abuse Case Was Lost In 'System Crash' a Day After It Was Sued
The government also said "we don't have resources" to retain all footage and that plaintiffs could supply "endless hard drives that we could save things to."
www.404media.co
January 25, 2026 at 5:29 PM
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I'm struggling with it just like everyone else so here, have this colorful bird I saw.
A very yellow bird on a tree branch. I don't know anything about birds.
January 25, 2026 at 5:06 PM
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I heard that for many reps, 10 calls about an issue is considered "a lot". We assume someone else is calling but it turns out none of us are.

If it seems like our representatives aren't representing us, it's because *not enough of us are telling them what we want them to do*

Call your rep today!
January 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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I don't normally do this but stakes are high and there's still a chance to decide which future timeline we're on.

Congress is voting on funding for ICE today. If you're in the US, call your representative this morning and encourage them to vote NO.

www.house.gov/representati...
Find Your Representative | house.gov
www.house.gov
January 22, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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I don't normally do this but stakes are high and there's still a chance to decide which future timeline we're on.

Congress is voting on funding for ICE today. If you're in the US, call your representative this morning and encourage them to vote NO.

www.house.gov/representati...
Find Your Representative | house.gov
www.house.gov
January 22, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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I just saw a job opening for "Head of Storytelling" except it was at a cybersecurity company, not a games company. Apparently training your LLMs to distribute certain narratives is a full department role now. So glad I exited the tech industry when I did.
January 21, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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In 2019, I used this font for a single graffiti in Black Ice lamenting the end of democracy. If only 2019 me knew where we'd be by the time Black Ice was done.
A graffiti message written in a font made from gerrymandered congressional districts reading "Democracy was nice while it lasted." and signed "Jerry Mander".
January 21, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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In 2019, I used this font for a single graffiti in Black Ice lamenting the end of democracy. If only 2019 me knew where we'd be by the time Black Ice was done.
A graffiti message written in a font made from gerrymandered congressional districts reading "Democracy was nice while it lasted." and signed "Jerry Mander".
January 21, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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I just saw a job opening for "Head of Storytelling" except it was at a cybersecurity company, not a games company. Apparently training your LLMs to distribute certain narratives is a full department role now. So glad I exited the tech industry when I did.
January 21, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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In Black Ice, they're finally launching the metaverse in the year 2080, long after Facebook has acquired Google and rebranded a few more times.
A screenshot from the game Black Ice of a corporate billboard depicting a woman's face basking in a flow of blue and purple particles. In gaudy pink text, the ad reads "the metaverse, perfected. Coming soon: quintessence by Quarkus". The Quarkus logo is in alternating cyan, magenta, yellow, and green characters. Next to the billboard, graffiti text reads "Wasn't the metaverse 'coming soon' when we were kids?" and a graffiti reply reads "They were so focused on making it fungible they forgot to make it fun"
January 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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In Black Ice, they're finally launching the metaverse in the year 2080, long after Facebook has acquired Google and rebranded a few more times.
A screenshot from the game Black Ice of a corporate billboard depicting a woman's face basking in a flow of blue and purple particles. In gaudy pink text, the ad reads "the metaverse, perfected. Coming soon: quintessence by Quarkus". The Quarkus logo is in alternating cyan, magenta, yellow, and green characters. Next to the billboard, graffiti text reads "Wasn't the metaverse 'coming soon' when we were kids?" and a graffiti reply reads "They were so focused on making it fungible they forgot to make it fun"
January 18, 2026 at 5:19 PM
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If there's one empirical insight I'd want everyone to understand about American politics, it's this:

America's problems are solved problems. Just not here.

What would change if the US simply matched the average of 31 peer democracies? Not Denmark or Norway. Just the middle of the pack. 🧵
Screenshot of a data visualization titled “The Cost of American Exceptionalism,” subtitled “What would change if the U.S. matched the OECD average?” The page explains that each card shows how outcomes would change if the U.S. matched the average of 31 peer democracies. Below, a section labeled “Economy & Inequality” displays eight cards comparing U.S. figures to OECD averages. Highlights include: +$19K per household per year in redistributed income and +$96K in redistributed wealth if the top 1% matched OECD shares; a 71% lower CEO-to-worker pay ratio (from 354× to 101×); 50 million more workers with union coverage; 26 million more people with health insurance; $2.1 trillion saved annually in healthcare spending; $691 less per person per year in prescription drug costs; and intergenerational economic mobility being twice as high. Each card shows the U.S. value alongside the OECD average.
January 12, 2026 at 9:36 PM
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This is from the Vonnegut museum, and apt as ever.
“Beware of Artists” they mix with all classes of society and are therefore the most dangerous. An actual poster issued by Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s
January 15, 2026 at 2:44 PM
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Who's ready to hit Dracula with a baseball bat?
The demo for Mansion of a Million Monsters! is now live!

➡️ store.steampowered.com/app/3627210/
January 13, 2026 at 10:28 PM
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If you've been hiring or interviewing for game industry jobs in the past year, I'd love to ask you a few questions for a university course I'm teaching. It's multidisciplinary so artists, programmers, designers, narrative, etc.

Especially interested in the interview process and skills tests!
January 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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If you've been hiring or interviewing for game industry jobs in the past year, I'd love to ask you a few questions for a university course I'm teaching. It's multidisciplinary so artists, programmers, designers, narrative, etc.

Especially interested in the interview process and skills tests!
January 11, 2026 at 11:04 PM
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I also really liked Titanium Court and almost didn't notice that I wasn't supposed to tell you about it last year, but now I can, so check this one out! store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/...
Titanium Court on Steam
A surreal strategy game for clowns and criminals.
store.steampowered.com
January 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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I have updated my IGF blogpost for the year to reflect that it's now AP Thomson's Fucking Incredible Game I _AM_ allowed to talk about auratriolo.com/blog/2025/11...
AP Thomson’s Titanium Court One of the most difficult things about trying to describe Titanium Court is the way it defies convention. There are ways in which it is like a match-3. There are ways in which it is like a strategy game. But the end experience is so much more something unique than either of those labels would suggest. And the thing is, it does those things so well that it’s shocking when it bucks them off completely and somehow changes genre just so that it is no longer describable by those terms, and yet – it is still just as compelling. What IS this game? What I can say about it is that it is both relentlessly funny and relentlessly surprising. It is one of the very few games I’ve played for IGF where I had to actively stop myself from playing any more because I wanted to wait until the game was fully released to see it through. I desperately hope this game gets the attention it deserves, because wow, wow, wow, wow, wow. Even the minimalist art style is constantly leveraged to its advantage, and if you need an example of why both it and the writing are compelling I suggest you go read the steam page. That is the game’s writing style. If you like it: wishlist that shit https://store.steampowered.com/app/2364580/Titanium_Court/
January 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
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For as long as I can keep getting funding, I will keep hiring talented and kind people to make great art and stories to inspire people through the dark times. ❤️
belgianboolean.bsky.social Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 25d
I've gotten to work with some really wonderful folks since I started freelancing last year. But I wanna call out @nonadecimal.com! They've been extremely kind and great to work for. I feel super lucky.
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM
nonadecimal.com
For as long as I can keep getting funding, I will keep hiring talented and kind people to make great art and stories to inspire people through the dark times. ❤️
belgianboolean.bsky.social Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 25d
I've gotten to work with some really wonderful folks since I started freelancing last year. But I wanna call out @nonadecimal.com! They've been extremely kind and great to work for. I feel super lucky.
January 7, 2026 at 2:44 AM