Martijn van Zwieten
@mvavz.bsky.social
🎮 business coach helping videogame founders build better studios
15+ years in games | executive MBA
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15+ years in games | executive MBA
Read The Long Game newsletter: https://www.martijnvanzwieten.com/newsletter
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Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
The NGO’s chief says last month’s ceasefire ‘risks creating a dangerous illusion that life in Gaza is returning to normal’
Amnesty International has said Israel is “still committing genocide” against Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, despite the ceasefire agreed last month.
The fragile, US-brokered truce between Israel and Hamas came into effect on 10 October, after two years of war. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Israel still committing genocide in Gaza, Amnesty International says
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A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research has estimated that in the first two years of the war in Gaza, between 99,997 en 125,915 Palestinians have been killed, with 27% of the dead aged under 15
www.bnr.nl/nieuws/inter...
www.bnr.nl/nieuws/inter...
Dodental Gaza veel hoger dan gedacht: meer dan 100.000 Palestijnen gedood door Israël
Uit nieuw onderzoek van het onafhankelijke Max Planck Instituut voor Demografisch Onderzoek blijkt dat de situatie waarschijnlijk een stuk schrijnender is d...
www.bnr.nl
November 24, 2025 at 6:10 PM
A study by the Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research has estimated that in the first two years of the war in Gaza, between 99,997 en 125,915 Palestinians have been killed, with 27% of the dead aged under 15
www.bnr.nl/nieuws/inter...
www.bnr.nl/nieuws/inter...
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This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
November 23, 2025 at 1:59 AM
This is the funniest piece imaginable in the dull world of the otherwise sickly sycophantic tech review.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
For real. Read it, even if you don’t give a rat’s ass about printers.
It's my 39th birthday today!
I think my lower back tried to highlight the aging process by completely crapping out on me last Thursday.
Good reminder to get my stretches in! 😅🙌
I think my lower back tried to highlight the aging process by completely crapping out on me last Thursday.
Good reminder to get my stretches in! 😅🙌
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
It's my 39th birthday today!
I think my lower back tried to highlight the aging process by completely crapping out on me last Thursday.
Good reminder to get my stretches in! 😅🙌
I think my lower back tried to highlight the aging process by completely crapping out on me last Thursday.
Good reminder to get my stretches in! 😅🙌
This might actually work?
November 18, 2025 at 6:55 AM
This might actually work?
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NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
November 16, 2025 at 11:43 PM
NEW: Epstein survivors release the most powerful PSA I have ever seen.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Make this go viral so every member of the House of Representatives sees it.
Me in public: My headphones:
November 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Me in public: My headphones:
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Everyone excited to buy a Steam Machine.
![Post by christian aka @nopoweradeinusa
woman: you said you had netflix?
me: this is much better
[I open a folder titled “movies” on my computer and the mechanical whirring of an 11 year old SATA hard-drive overwhelms the room entirely]
me: have you seen enter the void?](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:k6kg5ccozcphfcmp4zyx3s64/bafkreifrufej5lrdm2666pw4jkid5u3ej2txw4l7vdfnbn4oabkc7fvktq@jpeg)
November 12, 2025 at 11:46 PM
Everyone excited to buy a Steam Machine.
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i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge
November 12, 2025 at 3:47 AM
i spoke to LOADS of people about this very recently, and the only people using it regularly were the dipshits in charge
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just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
August 12, 2023 at 6:04 PM
just started having recency bias and i love it. easily the best bias
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Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
November 10, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Happy There Is A Circulatory System Walking Through The Kitchen Day to all who celebrate.
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Sat down for a lovely chat with @clert.bsky.social over @eurogamer.bsky.social To talk about my games and how I'd like to keep making and improving them sustainably. To step away from the launch, meme and hype driven madness that has taken root in games.
www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...
www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...
As viral hits like Escape from Duckov and Megabonk change the industry, Falconeer developer Tomas Sala has found another way to survive
What if you didn't have to spin the roulette wheel every time you released a new game, hoping for it to find an audience? What if there was a better way?
www.eurogamer.net
November 9, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Sat down for a lovely chat with @clert.bsky.social over @eurogamer.bsky.social To talk about my games and how I'd like to keep making and improving them sustainably. To step away from the launch, meme and hype driven madness that has taken root in games.
www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...
www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...
This is perfect 👨🍳👌
November 6, 2025 at 6:35 AM
This is perfect 👨🍳👌
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Been catching up with industry legend Richard Bartle this week at an industry event, our last contact being an email conversation some 15 years ago, when he utterly tore apart an academic article I had asked him to review.
We had a good laugh about that one 😂
We had a good laugh about that one 😂
October 31, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Been catching up with industry legend Richard Bartle this week at an industry event, our last contact being an email conversation some 15 years ago, when he utterly tore apart an academic article I had asked him to review.
We had a good laugh about that one 😂
We had a good laugh about that one 😂
Told a taxi driver in Spain that I'm from the Netherlands, and his eyes just light up.
"Netherlands?? Goedemiddag!! ... Godverdomme klootzak!"
😂
"Netherlands?? Goedemiddag!! ... Godverdomme klootzak!"
😂
October 29, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Told a taxi driver in Spain that I'm from the Netherlands, and his eyes just light up.
"Netherlands?? Goedemiddag!! ... Godverdomme klootzak!"
😂
"Netherlands?? Goedemiddag!! ... Godverdomme klootzak!"
😂
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"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy
October 29, 2025 at 10:49 AM
"I have no responsibility for your disappoint" is my new life philosophy
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A few facts I wish more Dutch voters knew:
October 29, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A few facts I wish more Dutch voters knew:
I finally finished my new visual identity and website!
I'm really happy with how everything turned out, and how much of an upgrade this is in terms of both identity and professionalism.
Should be good for at least another 4 years now!
www.martijnvanzwieten.com
I'm really happy with how everything turned out, and how much of an upgrade this is in terms of both identity and professionalism.
Should be good for at least another 4 years now!
www.martijnvanzwieten.com
October 28, 2025 at 10:34 AM
I finally finished my new visual identity and website!
I'm really happy with how everything turned out, and how much of an upgrade this is in terms of both identity and professionalism.
Should be good for at least another 4 years now!
www.martijnvanzwieten.com
I'm really happy with how everything turned out, and how much of an upgrade this is in terms of both identity and professionalism.
Should be good for at least another 4 years now!
www.martijnvanzwieten.com
APWOT is beyond amazing. This has to be some of the best writing on games you can find today, and the design on this is simply fantastic. Clearly a labor of love by all involved.
Well done @cazwis.bsky.social 👏
Well done @cazwis.bsky.social 👏
October 25, 2025 at 8:36 AM
APWOT is beyond amazing. This has to be some of the best writing on games you can find today, and the design on this is simply fantastic. Clearly a labor of love by all involved.
Well done @cazwis.bsky.social 👏
Well done @cazwis.bsky.social 👏
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Like most empires, the tech empire is built using spectacular amounts of work done by unpaid workers, or slaves.
Making money by not paying your workers / suppliers is an old grift, and not as clever as it looks. Certainly not worth admiring anyone who has succeeded using this one weird old trick.
Making money by not paying your workers / suppliers is an old grift, and not as clever as it looks. Certainly not worth admiring anyone who has succeeded using this one weird old trick.
“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”
Garbage’s Shirley Manson Speaks Out Against Music Industry Economics: “This Is An Alarm Call”
Just before they kicked off their current run of dates, the ’90s alt-rock greats Garbage announced that it would be their final North American headline tour. When the band played at Denver’s Mission B...
www.stereogum.com
October 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Like most empires, the tech empire is built using spectacular amounts of work done by unpaid workers, or slaves.
Making money by not paying your workers / suppliers is an old grift, and not as clever as it looks. Certainly not worth admiring anyone who has succeeded using this one weird old trick.
Making money by not paying your workers / suppliers is an old grift, and not as clever as it looks. Certainly not worth admiring anyone who has succeeded using this one weird old trick.
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CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
October 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.
CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1
CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1
Trickle-down economics was always a sham.
Nothing has ever trickled down.