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Noah Kuhn

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Seattle-based software engineer, indie game dev, and general maker of things. worked on PUNCHERMAN! currently workin' on The Tedium and You (https://store.steampowered.com/app/2373020/The_Tedium_and_You/) https://linktr.ee/noahkuhn

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Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · May 2

please don't leave my hallway

Best Indie Games @clemmygames.bsky.social · Mar 20

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Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · May 17

me when a new creative project idea: oh hell yeah!! yippee!! so cool!!

me when i have 14.2 million in-progress projects all in the initial concepting stage and not on track to cross the finish line ever: this time i'm really gonna do it.

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 8h

you've played too many good games recently. i'm an #indiegamedev who's been cooking up a tiny #indiegame that will give you a much-needed break from enjoyable, high-quality experiences.

FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP HIM!. free on steam. drops in exactly one week.

store.steampowered.com/app/3885050/...

FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP HIM! on Steam

FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP HIM! is a tiny, surreal first-person art "game" about what it's like. your goal is singular and simple: try to help him, however you can... if you can. that's a tall ord...

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Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 20h

i am currently attempting creative projects beyond my skill level yet again. to grow is to suffer and let yourself down every few days for your entire life

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 3d

we should invent a new caste system where the top caste is uber drivers who play jazz music and the bottom caste is billionaires

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 4d

#OctoberWorldbuilders 4
I haven't kept up bc I don't have much developed wrt deserts, but! I do have some desert flora/fauna :)
Enormous scorpions grow to >1m & have hallucinogenic venom.
'Akkaks are barrel cacti w/ a high water retention.
Frizz cacti are chollas that like hanging from high places.

The image listing the prompts for October Worldbuilders, hosted by Kira of the Wind. Today is day 4: desert animals/plants. The rest of the image reads:
WEEK 1: DESERTS
1: name of a desert in your world
2: what's your desert society like?
3: desert town architecture
4: desert animals/plants
5: myth/legend/religion about desert
6: how do they survive?
7: clothes/dance/music from desert society
WEEK 2: SPORTS AND GAMES
8: does your MC play a sport?
9: board games in your book's world?
10: competitive game/sport
11: cooperative game/sport
12: equipment/pieces
13: history/famous figure involved in a sport/game
14: strategy for winning
WEEK 3: INFRASTRUCTURE AND CITIES
15: trade routes
16: fire/police/hospital services
17: where does their food come from?
18: tech: electricity? steam power? mills?
19: sanitation, sewer system, hygiene
20: who developed the infrastructure? government employees? soldiers? private business? are taxes or slaves involved?
21: housing (style? architecture? amenities available in your world?)
WEEK 4: AESTHETICS/VIBES
22: share a moodboard or art
23: aesthetics of a town/city
24: overall vibe of your story/book/wip
25: religious/cultural vibes/influences
26: clothing and accessories
27: what feeling or thoughts do you hope your readers come away with after reading your story?
28: something special about your world
EXTRA DAYS:
29: plans for next month
30: recent character you've created
31: which of your characters would you like to see someone cosplay? (or who would you cosplay yourself?)

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 7d

see i like to imagine it as the "flip the canvas" method of musicmaking but also. maybe i am actually losing my marbles

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 7d

plus i have this weird disease on top of that where i like to hear it backward because i like to pick apart the phonemes backward and get an idea of how the actual lyrics could be said backward. do i need to up my dosage of my meds

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 7d

i have this disease where i work on a song and i'm like "uhh idk this kinda sounds like garbage" then to make myself feel better i'll play it backwards just to see and then it actually sounds complex and interesting and i'm like "wow" is that a thing anyone else gets or am i just insane

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 7d

tbh incredibly based

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 7d

i needed a quick win, i.e. getting a project finished and put on steam -- ideally i'll take the learnings from this project and get back into the tedium and you, which is much more of an actual thing than this little experiment was

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 7d

my #indiegamedev suffering is over -- after two months of dev on my i-promise-it'll-only-take-a-week #indiegame project, i've finally gotten it ready for its release on steam on oct 15. it's free. check it out and wishlist if you want.

store.steampowered.com/app/3885050/...

FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP HIM! on Steam

FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP HIM! is a tiny, surreal first-person art "game" about what it's like. your goal is singular and simple: try to help him, however you can... if you can. that's a tall ord...

store.steampowered.com

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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 8d

I’m opening a movie theater in which I show recently released films that I ripped from the internet but the studios are welcome to opt out if they wish.

The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 9d

Exclusive: OpenAI is planning to release a new version of its Sora video generator, which creates videos featuring copyrighted material unless copyright holders opt out of having their work appear.

OpenAI’s New Sora Video Generator to Require Copyright Holders to Opt Out

Executives at the startup notified talent agencies and studios over the last week.

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 10d

friendly neighborhood #indiegamedev here to say: never make weird games. writing up marketing materials and steam store page descriptions is needlessly difficult. i'm only making normal, marketable games with easy-to-describe gameplay and features from now on. i'll never make a weird game again (/j)

a piece of my game's (draft) steam store page description reading: "only one level, only one objective, only one ending. the game exclusively revolves around helping him. there is nothing else. there's a reason the game's free."

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 11d

One day I'll figure out how to be human and it'll be over for all of you

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 14d

it's hard to get good screenshots (and make a decent trailer) for my weird #indiegamedev project, "FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP HIM!", but I managed to capture one good image encapsulating the whole game here

in a foggy white void, a small house hovers slightly off-kilter over a figure of a praying man laying supine on the floor, casting a large squarish shadow over him. one might assume that the house is about to fall and crush him, but i actually grabbed this screenshot as it was on its way back upward into the void (after having crushed him).

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 15d

you'd really think that the sheer degree to which I *want* to work on my projects would be enough to get me to work on them, and yet...

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vlada yaga 👁 ➤ UVW-CWA @vladadraws.bsky.social · 16d

In all and complete honesty, GDC has not been for *developers* for a long time, and especially not for *workers*.

We need a Game Workers Conference. Unironically.

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 16d

on september 23/24 can we start a rumor that the rapture actually did happen but the only person who got raptured was weird al yankovic. is that a thing we can all collectively pretend happened

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 19d

game where the player gains the ability to rewind time but then the game really doesn't have any use for it like the main character just has a boring service job to do and all it does is make the workday longer for them and they don't live or work in an area where anything interesting happens

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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 20d

This is why everything sucks. It's not trans people. It's not immigrants. You are being robbed blind before your eyes and those same people also own all the tech and media networks to tell you that the cause is not them

@MorePerfectUS
U.S. billionaires reached a record breaking $7.6 trillion in wealth as of September 2025, an increase of $4.7 trillion in the less than eight years.

Most of that wealth hasn’t been taxed and won’t be taxed under our current system — per
@4TaxFairness
.

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 22d

you've played too many good games recently. i'm an #indiegamedev who's been cooking up a small, weird #indiegame that will give you a much-needed break from enjoyable, high-quality experiences.

FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP HIM!. free on steam. soon.

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 23d

It doesn't matter how many imaginary haters I make up in my head. I will get FOR GOD'S SAKE, HELP HIM! across the finish line and put on Steam even if I have to crawl to that point on my hands and knees. Even if my legs give out I will push this damn boulder up the hill and then it will be up there

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · 24d

im like cassandra of greek myth except instead of seeing the future i post bangers on my bluesky that get 0 likes

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Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · Jun 19

I HAVE DEPRESSION!!!

Noah Kuhn @noahkuhn.bsky.social · Aug 30

i don't know how to adapt or push through this, i've tried a bunch of different medications and just. nothing seems to break me out of it. and TT&Y and FE,WL and FGSHH and whatever else all suffer because of it. the universe loves to mock me with ideas that only i could do, but only if i were better