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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 3h

studying the ancient texts

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 7h

I never know what tone to take in marketing so please just do me a favour and decide if "Nemesis is a book about how human transcendence is an ideological stance" or "Nemesis is a book about what if Char didn't wear a bra" sounds more appealing to you loveconquersallgames.itch.io/star-sword-n...

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 21h

You're giving up valuable passive income by not renting out that shoe. Buy my book 👉 THE OTHER SHOE DROPS (YOUR MONTHLY BILLS)

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 23h

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 1d

I once ate a Trinidad Moruga Scorpion and this about right

𝔻𝕖𝕖𝕡 𝕋𝕙𝕠𝕥 @thatsgoodweb.bsky.social · 1d

H.R. Giger, Death in a Mousetrap

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michael @modality.bsky.social · Jul 29

AI is two projects. The first is willfully degrading definitions to create a void of meaning (any algorithm is AI). The second is projecting propaganda into that void (AI can replace labor, is sentient).

This creates a space where you can claim "the Pac-Man ghosts are sentient" to sell products.

Bryant Francis @bryantfrancis.me · Jul 29

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 1d

Battle Suit Aces is great

BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 1d

BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW‼️

Adventure through the stars with the found family of the Zephyr and uncover the secrets of the mysterious Relic suits. Play the Battle Chef Brigade team’s new heartfelt, dynamic card-battling narrative RPG NOW on PC, PS5 and Switch!
store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · Sep 12

cohost.org/nic/post/178...

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Marceline Leiman (High Tide, available now!!) @marcelineleiman.bsky.social · 5d

Banished Vault is the grand strategy game to end all grand strategy games.

If you like something so deep that, just when you think you’ve learned to tread water, you discover it’s even deeper, twisted, and denser still—this is your game!

It’s an epic hybridization of boardgame and videogame.

Bithell Games @bithellgames.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Steam Autumn Sale! 🍂

You deserve some new video games, and all of ours are discounted for the next 7 days (with a couple as low as £2.39). Go pick them up for yourself or gift them!

A line-up of Bithell Games' self-published titles, all of which are on sale for Steam's Autumn Sale. Each game's box art has its discount listed beneath it:

Thomas Was Alone - 50% off
Volume - 75% off
Subsurface Circular - 50% off
Quarantine Circular - 50% off
The Solitaire Conspiracy - 50% off
TRON: Catalyst - 66% off
The Banished Vault - 33% off

To the right of the background image sits a robotic Tek, the protagonist in Subsurface Circular.

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 2d

Web and Starship

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 3d

Now this is gaming

a screenshot of a counter wargame with a star map background

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brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.com · 3d

the matter of norfydd, part two www.brendanmcleod.dev/mythic-02/

the matter of norfydd, part two

This week, the knights met a Seer who is also the ruler of a holding, and were deeply unimpressed with him. Rather than heed the Seer's immediate call fo...

www.brendanmcleod.dev

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 4d

this rules shel

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 4d

congratulations!

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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 4d

What a hed. Chicago today:

Illinois State Police assist feds in Broadview protest, Chicago alderperson cuffed at hospital, rapid responders tear gassed in Logan Square • The TRiiBE

A roundup of ICE activity in the Chicagoland area on Oct. 3.

thetriibe.com

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Arc @arc.helltomb.com · 5d

Today is my 1 year transiversary🏳️‍⚧️🖤!! I'm doing plenty of fun stuff to celebrate, but also I wanted to drop the digital release of my zine! Check it out if you like doing gay stuff or just want to support me doing more writing! arcwalker.itch.io/how-to-do-ga...

How to do Gay Shit With Your Friends by Arc

A guide to queer relationship anarchy and being slutty with friends

arcwalker.itch.io

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 5d

happy birthday!

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 5d

> Put trash on couch.
The couch is already occupied.

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 5d

Bruno is more than fair in this post, but I just want to add that yes I am *always* going to be petty about everyone latching onto spurious or insignificant complaints about Cohost, only to wish bluesky had this feature or that set of community guidelines.

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 6d

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way)

azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

Delusions of a Protocol

On vaporware as an ideological product.

azhdarchid.com

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 6d

the bsky admins won't ban jesse singal bc they don't think that being a bigot and/or driving trans people off the site is a ban worthy offense, it's really not more complex than that

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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 6d

ALERT! ALERT! We're in the last days of being able to preorder my book EVERYTHING IS PERMITTED: ON ASSASSIN'S CREED, which is a book about the Assassin's Creed franchise and how games reflect and impact the real world! Click this link and use the code MN93450 for 30% off! z.umn.edu/14943

Everything Is Permitted

An entertaining deep dive into the world, gameplay, and evolution of the hugely successful Assassin’s Creed video game franchiseA hooded figure stands i...

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 6d

hell yeah, congrats

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 6d

Get you a podcast that talks about clowning and John le Carré. Also if anyone has written about the formal similarities between Souls-lore and detective/database games, get at me, I want to chase that thread further.

brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.com · 7d

This month on Paper Labyrinths, nic and I talk with Sophie Abromowitz about writing for games like Hot Streak and Monikers, worldbuilding through system and gesture, and who the George Smiley of Bloodborne is. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

Paper Labyrinths: Sophie Abromowitz on Comedy & Mystery

We talk with Sophie Abromowitz about stage comedy, worldbuilding through systems, FROMSOFT games as detective stories, and the origin of the hot dog.   Follow Sophie on Instagram () and check ...

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nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 6d

you definitely should

nic tringali @nictringali.bsky.social · 6d

Get you a podcast that talks about clowning and John le Carré. Also if anyone has written about the formal similarities between Souls-lore and detective/database games, get at me, I want to chase that thread further.

brendan mordheim @brendanmcleod.com · 7d

This month on Paper Labyrinths, nic and I talk with Sophie Abromowitz about writing for games like Hot Streak and Monikers, worldbuilding through system and gesture, and who the George Smiley of Bloodborne is. sites.libsyn.com/568595/site/...

Paper Labyrinths: Sophie Abromowitz on Comedy & Mystery

We talk with Sophie Abromowitz about stage comedy, worldbuilding through systems, FROMSOFT games as detective stories, and the origin of the hot dog.   Follow Sophie on Instagram () and check ...

sites.libsyn.com

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