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#solarpunk game dev, queer, musician [ they/she ]
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marmaestro @marmaestro.itch.io · Jan 29
I also do #filmphotography from time to time. Here's the blog where I've posted some of my works!! filmteapot.tumblr.com

You may also see it at my portfolio, marmaestro.github.io/gallery.
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austinwalker.bsky.social
Josh hits it.
I prefer to use my own damn eyes and ears, and they tell me that video games are not a better place thanks to The Game Awards. Careers are not made, prestige is not accrued, horizons are not broadened. I do not fault developers for grasping at any handhold available to them in this rapidly decaying business beset by lecherous consolidation and ravenous profit-seeking, and hope that more than a handful have been able to stay in the business longer thanks to the show’s exposure. But I think The Game Awards stance on the industry is exceedingly clear: Things are fine just the way they are. Everyone knows this isn’t true, but we are feeble in our articulations, rote in our responses to cruelties we protest. It is perturbing that we’ve become accustomed to the Hellscape Preamble, a boilerplate paragraph where socially conscious writers will acknowledge layoffs, industry turmoil, and global conflict, before running down their list of best games of the year. We make for ourselves the world we write, and we can only write the world we imagine. I’m begging you to consider how small our imaginations have gotten, that we will turn away from the capaciousness of our hearts and minds when it comes to video games in the name of a good time. Tune into The Game Awards or not, but consider the kind of person it is made for, and if that aligns with the world you want to lie in.
December 12, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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lurnoise.bsky.social
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Several comic panels, showing different kinds of plants, clouds, a bumblebee...
December 12, 2025 at 6:05 PM
marmaestro.itch.io
I love to see passionate game developers like Murray share what they love and make, we're so lucky to have such little windows into others' creative lives 🥺
patattiemurray.bsky.social Murray Somerwolff @patattiemurray.bsky.social · 5d
I'm sorry but how cute is this 🫣😅😭🥹
Me and Daisy and then @ginaloughlin.com and Daisy, singing the gang vocals on the last song for Wax Heads!!!!!!! 😭😭😭😭♥️♥️♥️
December 11, 2025 at 12:08 PM
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ramiismail.com
Valve HQ:

"AAA game about murdering a lot of Muslims and destroying their homes" "ship it"
"solo game in which you fight the IDF" "ban the savages"
"indie game that criticizes Western power dynamics with a horse metaphor" "unacceptable"
"This review hates Muslims" "ahh smell that thats freedom"
mikerose.bsky.social Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 5d
Valve has now rejected my complaint, confirming that "I don't like muslims" is a valid reason to leave a negative review on a game on Steam

This is where we're at now.
December 11, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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tinyroargames.bsky.social
We just premiered the announcement trailer for Verdant at the @wholesomegames.com Wholesome Snack showcase! 🥳🌱🎮

🦌 Single-player survival in the overgrown ruins of the 80s
🌿 Give and take life with your unique powers
🫀 Listen to your body, not a HUD

#Verdant #indiedev #gamedev
December 9, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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ramiismail.com
At about $60K that's about 128 million graduate team indie games, at $150K about 500,000 small indie games, at $300K about 250,000 mid-size debut indie games, or at around $950K about 110,000 indie games by a team of more experienced devs.

There are a total of 110,000 indie games on Steam.
moreperfectunion.bsky.social More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 10d
Mark Zuckerberg’s gamble on the "Metaverse" has lost his company more than $77 billion.
December 6, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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ibogost.com
The interesting, sophisticated thing about games is not whether they can tell stories as well as books or movies (they can’t) or float shocking themes as well as fine art (honestly, who cares).

It’s the manipulation of systems, the play of contingency, the brokenness of machines.
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 PM
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jonkk.bsky.social
Here’s my Spotify Wrapped 🎵✨
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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alan678.bsky.social
One more for the #BirdOfTheDay theme of #Stripes Hope you all enjoy your day wherever you are in the world. Take care and see you soon. Remember to support each other. Get on the BOTD feed, like a few and repost if you admire the capture. It’s a community. 😊 #birds #photography #EastCoastKin
A small Coal Tit perched on a leafy stem, seen from behind with its head turned slightly left. The bird has a black cap, white cheeks, olive-green upperparts, and soft beige underparts. Its neatly patterned grey wings show bright white wing bars. The background is a smooth, blurred green, making the bird stand out sharply.
December 2, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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waxheadsgame.bsky.social
GUYS! I need your help. If we get to 100 followers by tomorrow my manager said I can leave early for the day.

If a sim game with a cozy-punk narrative about running a struggling record store your thing drop us a follow and a repost 🙏

We can't wait to bring Wax Heads to you all in early 2026!
November 27, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
this week indie studio santa ragione announced that it's on the verge of closure after steam blocked the release of its upcoming provocative art game, horses. valve, despite all of its algorithms and purposefully vague policyspeak, is once again telling us exactly where it stands
Steam is a relentlessly well-oiled machine optimized for the purpose of pushing products – games that adhere to well-worn themes, structures, and strictures. It recommends games along genre lines; it tries to algorithmically match you with games similar to what you last played at every turn. It is deeply traditional – conservative, even – in its construction. Sometimes art that seeks to provoke or unsettle gets through, but this is closer to a happy accident than the purpose of Steam’s design. Valve has built a machine that cannot challenge the status quo, where rare human decisions must reinforce that ethos to avoid upsetting the immensely profitable apple cart. This should no longer surprise us; Valve drew its line in the sand years ago. But it’s important to remember where the company and the people running it stand – and to recognize that their decisions reverberate through the industry, deciding what does and does not constitute commercially viable art. Such a lofty position necessarily confers responsibility, but Valve refuses to accept it, and I do not imagine it will change its mind anytime soon. This is not to say the larger game development community should take pressure off Valve, but it’s also time to consider alternatives, to build spaces for and unabashedly by human beings. I know it’s far easier said than done, especially when you’ve still got to put food on the table, but what other choice is there?
November 26, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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aftermath.site
Steam is for products, not art

aftermath.site/valve-steam-...
a screenshot from santa ragione's Horses depicting a nude person in a horse mask unconscious in a wheelbarrow
November 26, 2025 at 11:36 PM
marmaestro.itch.io
I love to talk about birds so much, really, I could go on and on forever
November 27, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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patattiemurray.bsky.social
Make sure to #WishlistWednesday Wax Heads so you can help Mike get out of his "Haze" hole 😅

store.steampowered.com/app/2769240/...
November 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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blissy.bsky.social
Bueno, suelo callarme con el tema de claros vetos en la industria que llevo años sufriendo en medios, eventos, organizaciones y todo tipo de saraos, porque ya sabéis que a las feministas bocazas se les da una lección a través del aislamiento, pero lo que he visto hoy es tan evidente que os lo enseño
November 26, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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parchmenteater.bsky.social
I am working on one of these two games, Goblinmancer! Writing wacky time-traveling death-ridden shenanigans and designing the game's visual elements; it is all about time, death, losing oneself and A WHOLE PACK OF GREEN BASTARDS.
marmaestro.itch.io marmaestro @marmaestro.itch.io · 19d
⭐ hello everyone !!

en @backtobits.bsky.social estamos trabajando en unos proyectos, así que hemos creado una encuesta para conocer mejor nuestro entorno. nos vendría genial que la completárais :))

forms.gle/Gd8RLRLk8Q6E...

#gamedev #indiedev 🐦
November 26, 2025 at 6:23 PM
marmaestro.itch.io
🐦 hello again !!

at @backtobits.bsky.social we're working on a bunch of projects and would love to have your collaboration in this, just fill this form to better know our surroundings :))
(please don't fill it if you already sent the Spanish version)

forms.gle/eF4wiMcxeszN...

#gamedev #indiedev
marmaestro.itch.io marmaestro @marmaestro.itch.io · 19d
⭐ hello everyone !!

en @backtobits.bsky.social estamos trabajando en unos proyectos, así que hemos creado una encuesta para conocer mejor nuestro entorno. nos vendría genial que la completárais :))

forms.gle/Gd8RLRLk8Q6E...

#gamedev #indiedev 🐦
November 26, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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alexgorlando.bsky.social
Gunna pick this one up on itch. $4.99 to support artistic freedom is an extremely low cost.
santaragione.com Santa Ragione @santaragione.com · 20d
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
HORSES cover with a banned from Steam logo
November 26, 2025 at 12:26 PM
marmaestro.itch.io
⭐ hello everyone !!

en @backtobits.bsky.social estamos trabajando en unos proyectos, así que hemos creado una encuesta para conocer mejor nuestro entorno. nos vendría genial que la completárais :))

forms.gle/Gd8RLRLk8Q6E...

#gamedev #indiedev 🐦
November 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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melliedm.bsky.social
Can’t believe we’re living in a time where I agree wholeheartedly with the pope
janus.bsky.social The PS1 startup sound as a lesbian @janus.bsky.social · 28d
Pope Leo XIV understands technology and its relationship to art better any executive or AI-pilled techbro running the conference circuit.
The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable. Defend slowness when it serves a purpose, silence when it speaks and difference when evocative. Beauty is not just a means of escape; it is, above all, an invocation. When cinema is authentic, it does not merely console but challenges. It articulates the questions that dwell within us and sometimes even provokes tears that we did not know we needed to express.
November 21, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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yinzer.bsky.social
Added it to the bottom here
November 21, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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zoewithasword.bsky.social
Jennifer English realizing she's a lesbian and falling in love with one of her mocap directors (Aliona Baranova) over the course of making BG3 and seeing all the queer folks embracing Shadowheart and the impact the game had is genuinely one of the best stories in game production in a long time
oneawkwardgeek.bsky.social 🦝 Sweet rabbit ❄️🎄🏳️‍🌈 @oneawkwardgeek.bsky.social · 24d
Congrats to Jennifer English for winning the Best Lead Performer award at the 2025 #GoldenJoystickAwards!

And her acceptance speech about queer joy was a love letter to @aliona.bsky.social 🥹🌈
November 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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roodypatooti.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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jwaaaap.com
technology that makes people more productive is inherently used to perpetuate capitalism, that’s why I make videogames, technology that makes people less productive
November 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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mackeza.bsky.social
“Don’t gather some of the most brilliant activists in the industry, treat us like crap, and then expect us to do nothing about it.” After the Game Awards cancelled its Future Class programme, @alyssamerc.bsky.social talked to its former honorees

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/n...
“We were effectively props”: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM