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rootvegetableboy.bsky.social
sprout/sam 🌱
@rootvegetableboy.bsky.social
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26 - they/them ⭐️ chiptune popstar & hobbyist game dev 👾
currently creating CHORUS MACHINE, a top-down bullet hell soulslite made with GameMaker 🏰
rootvegetableboy.itch.io
rootvegetableboy.neocities.org
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sprout/sam 🌱 @rootvegetableboy.bsky.social · Dec 1
happy december 1st! it's the two year anniversary of the first-ever chorus machine dev log... and, we're SO CLOSE to the demo release! let's find out exactly how close we are! →

#solodev #indiedev #gamemaker #chorusmachine
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dphrygian.com
I reposted this, and then saw some discourse in the replies, so here's my take: big games absolutely need managers and producers. In fact, as I've grown older, more of my time is spent on being a manager and producer. But I think the underlying sentiment here is: trust the people in the trenches.
ricopin.bsky.social Rico @ricopin.bsky.social · 9h
I know several games made solely by programmers, I know none made only by project managers.
February 1, 2026 at 9:09 PM
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saskrotch.com
stepping in as publicist, if you write something about nullsleep you gotta make 10% of it about me
nullsleep.bsky.social ⊏𝗡⊐ @nullsleep.bsky.social · 10h
If you’ve got a music blog, podcast, do reviews on ig/tiktok, whateverrr, please hmu if you’re interested in covering my new release.

I don’t have a publicist, press team, or content farm – I live and die by word-of-mouth, so any support is hugely meaningful ❤️

nullsleep.bandcamp.com/album/boundary
album cover showing deconstructed smiley face overlaid on top of red rectangle
February 1, 2026 at 9:44 PM
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aerialknight.com
Shout out to all the amazing Black game developers, media, and creatives across every part of making games. I’m rooting for y’all year-round.

Go follow Black folks making games. We’re often ignored, then imitated. Tag some Black devs below and follow the ones you don’t know yet.
February 1, 2026 at 5:12 PM
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nohr.se
Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly
February 1, 2026 at 3:40 PM
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powercool.bsky.social
me at a hardcore show: many boys in this room feel the way about guitars that 75 year old men feel about trains
February 1, 2026 at 12:41 AM
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wendyleftmealone.bsky.social
there's a possibility that as you're reading this i'm on the LIRR for the millionth time.
logo + logotype concept that reads 'metropolitan transportation authority' in geometric sans-serif type. letters mta are contained in a circle outline. navy blue over white background. logo + logotype concept that reads 'metropolitan transportation authority' in geometric sans-serif type. letters mta are contained in a circle outline. white over navy blue background.
January 31, 2026 at 2:48 AM
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donutshoes.bsky.social
My newest album, The Hugur Files, is AI-Free. So you can listen in comfort with the knowledge that it was all human-made! ❤️ donutshoes.bandcamp.com/album/the-hu...
The Hugur Files, by DonutShoes
11 track album
donutshoes.bandcamp.com
January 31, 2026 at 1:41 AM
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guilhernunes.bsky.social
this gibbon loves coffee
painting of a gibbon monkey in a kitchen sitting at the table pouring coffee into a cup
January 28, 2026 at 2:22 AM
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ivysly.com
The best feeling is when you start at the extreme and you realize you have so much more room to go even more extreme
ivysly.com ivy sly @ivysly.com · Apr 12
as an artist you have no ethical reasons to compromise, only circumstancial reasons. I don't think anyone aspires to make something lukewarm? so maybe start with the extreme and go from there
April 12, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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edzitron.com
Currently working on one of my favorite pieces ever: The Hater’s Guide To Oracle. This company is so stupid and Larry Ellison has bet the farm on OpenAI having $300 billion to give it over five years. Larry Ellison is H.R. Geiger’s Jerry Stiller and he’s rigged his company to blow
Did I mention that Oracle took on $56 billion of debt to build data centers specifically for OpenAl? Or that the banks who invested in these deals don't seem to be able to sell off the debt? Let me put it really simply: - Larry Ellison's wealth is almost entirely tied up in Oracle stock. - Oracle's stock is tied to the company "Oracle," which is currently destroying its margins and annihilating its available cash to buy GPUs to serve a customer that cannot afford to pay it. - Oracle has taken on ruinous debt that can only be paid if this customer, that cannot afford it and needs to raise money from an already-depleted venture capital pool, actually pays it. Oracle's stock has already been punished for these debts, and that's before OpenAl fails to pay for its contract. - Oracle now owns part of one of its largest cloud customers - TikTok - that loses billions of dollars a year, and the US entity says, per Bloomberg, that it will "retrain, test and update the content recommendation algorithm on US user data," guaranteeing that they'll fuck up whatever makes it useful, reducing its efficacy for advertisers. Larry Ellison's entire financial future is based on whether OpenAl lives or dies. If it dies, there isn't another entity in the universe that can actually afford (or has interest in) the scale of the compute Oracle is building. We are setting up for a very funny and chaotic situation where Oracle simply runs out of money, and in the process blows up Larry Ellison's fortune. However much influence Ellison might have with the administration, Oracle has burdened itself with debt and $248 billion in data center lease obligations - costs that are inevitable, and are already crushing the life out of the company (and the stock). The only way out is if OpenAl becomes literally the most-successful cash-generating company of all time within the next two years, and that's being generous. This is not a joke. This is not an understatement. Sam Altman holds Larry Ellison's futur…
January 27, 2026 at 1:49 AM
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taylordahlin.com
brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis
January 27, 2026 at 12:22 AM
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perridot.bsky.social
OH!WARE DEMO IS NOW LIVE AS A PART OF THE BOARD GAME FESTIVAL !!! 🔥🔥

store.steampowered.com/app/4334030/...
Oh!Ware Demo on Steam
Sow the seeds of victory, forge alliances, and carve your own destiny. A spiritual Mancala roguelike where every marble shapes the board and your fate. Every pit is a choice and every marble, a desper...
store.steampowered.com
January 26, 2026 at 6:11 PM
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ggdg.bsky.social
what if you could kill god and recreate the world. what if you watched the sweetest nicest single dad slowly become sephiroth. what if a printer put a gun to your head. what if "now neither of us will be virgins" were a devastating plot point. what if you read peak........ gigidigi.itch.io/soulsov
Soul of Sovereignty Prelude by ggdg
a tale of deadly kindness and selfish virtue
gigidigi.itch.io
January 23, 2026 at 4:44 PM
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tianipixel.bsky.social
higher quality pics (bsky video compression is so sad 😭)

trying to achieve THAT early ps2 fake bloom look

no real time lighting or shadows here, it's all made by hand via texture, models and vertex color

#lowpoly #gamedev
January 25, 2026 at 1:38 AM
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nora.zone
every time i log on something horrible is happening but also people are trying really hard to help
January 15, 2026 at 2:53 AM
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castpixel.bsky.social
I made a tool that makes retro anime sound effects. Meet AnimeVox!
I made it for a game, but it's free to use.

I'm using the forgotten (but popular in 80s japan) Schroeder reverb algo, and some wobble.

If you find it useful consider supporting me on itch :)

castpixel.itch.io/animevox
the anime sfx-making tool! It's called ANIMEVOX, in big letters up top. Then there's the controls: In vertical pairs: Left: Pitch Rise Rise speed Reverb Room size On the right: Wobble Speed Wobble Amount Tone Brightness Volume Next is a row of keys: Randomize - randomizes the sound parameters UNDO/ REDO - go back to parameters you liked Export Wav - self explanatory, it saves a copy of the latest sound to your hard drive. Then the fun buttons, with cute art styles: IMPACT, sparkle, beam, powerUP, PON, BOOM, slash, woosh Each produces a preset sound, which then goes through the fx chain. Hope you enjoy it!
January 15, 2026 at 4:31 AM
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slugglove.bsky.social
Since Rhell gives the player so much creative freedom, it means there is also a ton of ways to get intentionally softlocked

i discovered this one while recording for a different video :b

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev
January 10, 2026 at 3:30 PM
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nyalruko.bsky.social
If you create something, consider adding lesbians
January 10, 2026 at 1:04 AM
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todopxl.bsky.social
My color palette! Just feel free for use!✨
#pixelart #ドット絵
July 14, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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philtacular.bsky.social
Hey everyone, my SOLO indie game Death Machine comes out in 2 weeks 👀 The art, the jank code, the dumb ideas - all by yours truly.
December 25, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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wendyleftmealone.bsky.social
planning things out for 2026, and looking for more graphic design work! if you have ideas, feel free to reach out!

portfolio:
wendymurphy.online

request form + commercial typefaces:
linktr.ee/wendymurphyonline
screencap of the 'gallery' page in my portfolio website: wendymurphy.online/gallery. black background with various logo projects, poster designs, album artworks, and design mockups. type display featuring my commercial typeface 'mass transit mono' (bold italic variant). yellow and white type showing all of the charactes included in the typeface and over a black background. vinyl mockup for rusty santos' album 'psycho horses' releasing in february 2026. black vinyl sleeve with white typography + black and white photography, over a light grey background. multicolored digital illustration for design room's piece 'sensory overload', using pencil brushes over a black background. assets, characters, and environments from featured games contained in, or in front of white geometry. games featured: • rez infinite (area x) • sound fantasy (feat. otocky) • electroplankton • sayonara wild hearts
January 3, 2026 at 4:02 PM
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donutshoes.bsky.social
It's out! I've just released my new album The Hugur Files, a chiptune concept album about secret government research, psychics who steal energy from the future, and powerful time aliens

There's no Bandcamp Friday this month so feel free to buy it.. RIGHT NOW! donutshoes.bandcamp.com/album/the-hu...
Album art for The Hugur Files by DonutShoes. In a dingy basement somewhere, a glitchy portal appears with an alien hand emerging from it, reaching towards the viewer.
January 1, 2026 at 7:22 PM
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bevsi.bsky.social
but both as a reader/viewer and a creator I don’t want to engage passively with things I looove unlikable characters & morally gray situations & ambiguous symbolism
January 5, 2026 at 5:04 AM
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gbbranstetter.bsky.social
Love this from Guillermo del Toro
“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”
January 5, 2026 at 2:16 AM