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games maker, ludomancer, serial kidder
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Zane @handcrushe.dev · Mar 5
I made a game about gambling in the future. It’s called “HAIL FUCKING MARY”

Go all in here: xenozane.itch.io/hail-fucking...
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new game awards categories: innovation in inaccessibility, games for stasis, content destroyer of the year
November 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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November 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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it’s wild how popular Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 got considering i never even heard about the first 32 games
November 17, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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does anyone know which keywords you’re supposed to put on your resume to not get autofiltered out by AI?
November 16, 2025 at 1:58 AM
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it’s shocking to me how half-baked iOS 26 is. so many glaring bugs in the new liquid glass UI and numerous crashes. incredible that this got out of beta. i feel like apple’s quality control is usually better than this…
November 14, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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brlka.com
🚨🚨🚨 !! NEW GAME !! 🚨🚨🚨

brlka.itch.io/holding-it
brlka.itch.io/holding-it
brlka.itch.io/holding-it

it's a jump king-like
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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casitamono.bsky.social
any local (MASSACHUSETTS) oomfs have c0mms open and can do like rendered scenes.......
November 10, 2025 at 4:03 AM
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ivysly.com
EVIL EGG is OUT NOW and FREE FOREVER on Steam and Itch. infinite twin-stick paradise, no strings attached. it's not your fault you were born a monster.

download on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3651950/...

other links below
#gaming #indiegame #indie
🥚👽👾🍄
October 30, 2025 at 4:02 PM
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been playing the kirby forgotten land dlc. forgot how cool the camera is in this game
October 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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ivysly.com
No License
github.com/uzkbwza/noli...
October 29, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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the allston taco bell (formerly the Great Scott music venue) is so depressing. there used to be something here. now there’s just self order kiosks.
October 29, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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yes, without a doubt
October 26, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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merrittk.com
this essay on the masochism of the Angry Video Game Nerd is still one of my favorite things i've ever written www.otherstrangeness.com/2025/10/26/y...
You Can’t Go Home Again: The Legacy of the Angry Video Game Nerd - Other Strangeness — merritt k
This piece originally appeared in 2018 at ZEAL. Permit me, if you will, to take you back to the past. Way, way back a dozen years ago — before major gaming sites made comedy a key part of their video ...
www.otherstrangeness.com
October 26, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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sylviefluff.bsky.social
sylvie.itch.io/discover-the...
Discover the World by sylvie
Discover this RPG game
sylvie.itch.io
October 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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im.giovanh.com
a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower / GioCities
more like no thoughts to declare
blog.giovanh.com
October 23, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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nobody reads the dialog in games. not even when they read the dialog
October 24, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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every boston indies event i go to fills me with an intense drive to create. michael’s perspective on games and art is inspirational and gives me much to think about
bostonindies.bsky.social Boston Indies @bostonindies.bsky.social · 25d
Thank you Michael Berthaud for an incredible talk!
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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games should cost for the consumer exactly their cost of development in full, divided evenly across every consumer
October 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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October 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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i like an early game lava area
October 23, 2025 at 5:59 AM
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good blogpost about a bad game that gets to some of my problems with “cozy games”

blog.giovanh.com/blog/2025/10...
a wholesome plane has hit the second cozy tower
more like no thoughts to declare
blog.giovanh.com
October 23, 2025 at 5:27 AM
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drewgmackie.bsky.social
I made 27 gifs (from scratch!) of video game characters dying like Mario does to discuss the origin of this peculiar bit of pixel animation. Enjoy!
The Origin of Mario’s Trademark Death Animation — Thrilling Tales of Old Video Games
Super Mario Bros. taught side-scrolling heroes how to kick the bucket… even if Mario stole those moves.
www.thrillingtalesofoldvideogames.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:42 AM
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submitted my game to boston FIG! really hoping to get in the showcase in december
October 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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taloketo.bsky.social
This is awesome. Wish more game devs chronicled their early adventures into the craft. Great stuff @jaytholen.net jaytholen.net/teengamedev/
Being a kid making games in the early 2000s - Jay Tholen
An autobiographical essay by Jay Tholen about being a youngster making games and posting them online!
jaytholen.net
October 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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kalibration.website
I specifically remember playing Banjo-Tooie and finding a hole in the destroyed Gruntilda's Lair level geometry just big enough to fit a Clockwork Kazooie in. I worked up the courage to do it for an hour and as soon as I made it barely an inch in I jumped up and screamed and turned the game off. There was obviously nothing besides some jagged edges and the digital void awaiting me but I hadn't really internalized that games were just a mess of polygons and code held together by sweat, prayers, and parlor tricks; I still believed that any given game cartridge or disc was essentially a portal into another fully-realized world which could only be navigated by the vehicle of its player character. It naturally followed that anything inaccessible to the player must be inaccessible for a reason, most likely for our own good. Surely this forbidden place would be full of demons and horrors and torment. For the rest of my childhood I never dared go near that little crevice in the world geometry again. Over the next nearly two decades this memory began to fade, and as I learned the realities of games and their development it became humorous and quaint. And then I found a parallel world in Noita for the first time and it made me throw up
October 20, 2025 at 5:13 AM