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@cmddx.itch.io

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makes weird horror games check out PROXIMATE https://store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/PROXIMATE/ https://cmddx.itch.io/proximate devlogs and early access content at https://www.patreon.com/cainmaddox [email protected] melbourne. he/him 🏳️‍⚧️

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · Nov 14

first post on bsky, might as well plug my game?

a few days ago i released PROXIMATE, an indie horror game where you explore an abandoned deep sea lab but your only form of navigation is a shitty AI visor built by incompetent techbros

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Save 15% on PROXIMATE on Steam

Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% acc...

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 40m

im boothing at pax for the next three days but would love to try to sneak in drinks in the arvos with out of state peeps! hmu 🤙

cain @cmddx.itch.io · 47m

hell yea parallels

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 1h

was good to meet you!!

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 12h

Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world

NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites

The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers.

Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites

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Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11h

at least i'm an award-winning game developer now

me, homosexual, squatting in a short dress and holding an agda award

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 11h

fourth day of games week and i am so sleepy... pax is going to kill me

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 2d

can't even babe at my own booth

cain @cmddx.itch.io · 2d

annoyed that pax's anti booth babe policies mean that half my usual outfit choices are out...

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 7d

also, very cool of igea to give me 6 free tix to the agdas. but figuring out if i know 5 people who are willing to wear cocktail attire has been a challenge

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 7d

got a bit of an annoying 3pm-7pm thursday timeslot that i need to fill in the city if anyone's keen to pregame parallels w me 🫡

cain @cmddx.itch.io · 7d

migw sched:
- freakon
- crashing the agdas w/ the polycule
- parallels
- showcasing @ pax
- cult of the lamb puppet show?? very confused but keen

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 8d

why does unity, in its divine wisdom, allow you to create color swatches in the editor with no way to access them in scripts? who's to say

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 8d

no matter how long i do this shit for, i still discover new things that make me feel like an idiot. it is the greatest gift

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 8d

and only today i discovered the power of: singleton with serializable color fields. it's so obvious in hindsight.

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 8d

for the past however many years in unity, i've been changing object colors during runtime by doing shit like
image.color = new Color(0.976f, 0.886f, 0.435f)
and constantly being frustrated with stupid floats + needing to preen my codebase for color values whenever i change my game's color palettes,

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 8d

hyped!!!!

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Summerfall Studios 🕯️Malys OUT October 24!🕯️ @summerfallstudios.com · 8d

It's time... the candles are lit... 🕯️

Our exorcism roguelite Malys is coming OUT of Early Access into 1.0 on the 24th of October!

There's so much more to discover, including the FULL story as penned by David Gaider, more demons, more cards, and more content.

The title for Malys in an inky red on a black background, below are the words: V1.0 releasing this October.

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Qualbert.com 🔜 MIGW 🔜 GCAP 🔜 PAX 🔜 Bed @qualbert.com · 9d

Dig into the “less is more” design fuels the fear of PROXIMATE, the disturbing solo dev creation from @cmddx.itch.io.

Piece together a weird, scrappy, queer, horror game rightfully deserving of its spot in the PAX Indie Showcase: www.qualbert.com/pax-aus-2025...

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PAX Aus 2025 Indie Showcase | Interview with Cain Maddox

We spoke to Cain Maddox to find out more about PROXIMATE and how this dread-fuelled narrative horror won a spot at PAX Aus 2025 Indie Showcase.

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 8d

oh god migw is next week? already?

cain @cmddx.itch.io · 12d

banned from the zoo for hollering at the lions...

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acabylon 👻 BOO! 👻 @acabylonbee.bsky.social · 26d

posters joking about charlie kirk were held to a higher standard than the wall street journal this week

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yoshimi red @yoshimired.bsky.social · 26d

KIM KITSURAGI - "What is it, detective? Can you make it out?"

BULLET - "if you read this you are gay lmao"

1. "It, um, doesn't say anything."

2. "Transgender ideology. My old foe."

3. [Espirit de Corps - Medium 10] "I think you should read it for yourself, Kim."

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https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 28d

anyway it's unserious to talk about "political violence" rn because look the fuck around, man. every single day is political violence

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 28d

it's just a grotesque spectacle for violence to be ever-present and normalized, for heads of state to make constant threats of violence, for violence to be the basic motile force of the entire system, and then someone who's not an acceptable target gets shot and it's all "oh we must be respectful"

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cain @cmddx.itch.io · Sep 5

getting way fewer sales than usual on my game today... wonder why...

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