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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 5h

Thanks for hosting! GearHead Caramel is a Roguelike mecha CRPG with procedural narration and a detailed mecha build system. Currently I'm doing a major refactoring of the code and hope to make a new major release later. store.steampowered.com/app/1565090/... #TurnBasedThursday #GameDev #IndieGame

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Mary Dudziak @marydudziak.bsky.social · 6h

Thread.

Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 7h

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 5h

I want to read up on Blender materials/shaders to see if I can get it to do exactly what I need it to do, which is a silly thing to wonder because it's Blender. Of course it can do what I need it to do. I might not be able to get it to do that but the possibility is almost certainly there.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 5h

That is a solid loaf of rat. Also magnificent!

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 5h

Cherry shrimp are so cute. Watching a little guy steal a food pellet from a pleco the size of my forearm, I can understand where the name "Sea Monkeys" came from. Even though brine shrimp are a completely unrelated crustacean.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 5h

You are on fire tonight.

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 5h

No worries. Sometimes the option just spontaneously turns itself off for whatever reason; happened to me the other day.

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🇨🇦 True North Country Comics Podcast @truenorthcomics.bsky.social · 5h

True North Country Comics Podcast presents an overview of Canadian creators at New York Comic Con 2025. Get more insight here truenorthcountrycomics.com/2025/10/09/n...

NYCC 2025: Your guide to Canadian comic book creators

True North Country Comics Podcast presents an overview of Canadian creators at New York Comic Con 2025

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 5h

Alt text: a magnificent white rat with a bit of grey along its back.

R.L. Stine Cold Steve Austin @bolt451.bsky.social · 5h

Would you kindly share this picture of my rat

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 5h

Thanks for hosting! GearHead Caramel is a Roguelike mecha CRPG with procedural narration and a detailed mecha build system. Currently I'm doing a major refactoring of the code and hope to make a new major release later. store.steampowered.com/app/1565090/... #TurnBasedThursday #GameDev #IndieGame

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Skittzo- Blankitt Productions @skittzo.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday

Monsters of Mican is a turn-based first person RPG inspired so much by the classic Might and Magic series that one review says "This sort of game is exactly what I was hoping to find when I googled 'Games like Might and Magic 7'"

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#RPG #Indie

Monsters of Mican on Steam

A whimsical party-based first person turn-based dungeon crawler RPG. Discover the origin of Monsters in Mican as you explore unique handcrafted dungeons, battle hundreds of diverse monsters, learn doz...

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Stratagem Lost | Hybrid Fiction Games @hybridfiction.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! I love the horror vibes of your game!

We're developing a radical tactical RPG with a grungy, powerful presentation! We recently overhauled our Steam demo!

store.steampowered.com/app/3041220/...

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Slaves of Magic @slavesofmagic.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you for hosting #TurnBasedThursday!

Slaves of Magic is a #medieval #fantasy #turnbased #tacticalRPG inspired by XCOM!

We have recently announced our release date with a new trailer:

Slaves of Magic @slavesofmagic.bsky.social · Aug 12

I'm happy to announce the release date for Slaves of Magic, with a new trailer!🥳

Every retweet helps, plus you can wishlist it on Steam in case you are interested:
store.steampowered.com/app/1442610/...

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Quasimorph, 0.9.7 in OBT! @quasimorph.bsky.social · 6h

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday, @mantisgames.bsky.social!

Quasimorph is a #turnbased extraction #roguelike. Unforgiving combat, your own spacecraft, and mysterious dark threat to all life.

Our AI learned some new tricks!

Quasimorph, 0.9.7 in OBT! @quasimorph.bsky.social · 1d

Beta 0.9.7 added new states and abilities for AI.
Now NPCs can use active implants!
Here are spiders with acid and web glands.
#WishlistWednesday #roguelike #turnbased #gamedev

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Mantis Games - Deck of Haunts 🎃 @mantisgames.bsky.social · 6h

In Deck of Haunts you play as a haunted house, feasting on your unexpecting visitors.🏚️

We've just released a #Halloween update with exploding jack-o-lanterns! #TurnBasedThursday

store.steampowered.com/news/app/317...

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Mantis Games - Deck of Haunts 🎃 @mantisgames.bsky.social · 6h

We're officially hosting this weeks #TurnBasedThursday!

🕹️ #indiedev: Reply with your game & don't forget the hashtag
🎮 #players: ❤️Like 💬Comment & 🔄Repost

If you don't, we have a spot reserved for you in our haunted domain 👀🎃!

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 7h

So, some revolting electrician got himself amped to engineer a bank heist to steal all their joules & before you ask watt the problem is he basically opened their volt, was charged with burglary, and ohm my god when you think about the on/off of how he switched things around it makes perfect sense:

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Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 17h

so smol 🥹 #sqrlpix

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Kate Beaton @katebeaton.bsky.social · 1d

I have letter to the editor this week in our local paper.
Our community is, once again, facing a developer who wants to turn public, protected coastal land into a golf course. We've been here before. This time, it's shadier. And God knows it was shady last time. www.invernessoran.ca/top-story/co...

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✪ Jonathan H. Gray: “Professor of Halloweenery” ✪ @jongraywb.bsky.social · 18h

I was just talking about this with my students earlier in the week because we were discussing how needlessly and aggressively competitive other departments here are…

Jim Bliss @jimbliss.bsky.social · 2d

Something that's been going on for a while now. This is Einstein writing in 1949...

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Paragraph from Why Socialism? by Albert Einstein. It reads: "This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future career."

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Joseph Hewitt @gearheadrpg.com · 8h

I was going to ask if there was a section about the original Chaos Gate. I spent so many hours on that one. After coming to Korea in the 90s, I really missed playing minis with friends and Chaos Gate was the next best thing.