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Game Industry Coffee Chat (GICC) @gameindustrycc.bsky.social · 2d

This week in the Game Industry Coffee Chat: What We Actually Do

Veteran devs will be talking about working in the industry right now. The work that goes into building assets, tools, pipelines, estimates, scheduling, testing - all of it!

Start your day here: discord.gg/gicc

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 3d

The man, the myth, the legend: Mothman

An illustration of a flying Mothman. He is airborne and has a dark body with red webbing in his wings and red antenna. His face is pale with his mouth twisted in an open scream, his eyes are wide and are red. The background is a pale pink

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 10d

Fun fact: One of EA's new owners, Affinity Partners (investment group founded by Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner) has a similar logo to fictional Templar-run evil Assassin's Creed gaming company Abstergo Entertainment

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Women in Games @womeningames.bsky.social · 6d

Checkpoint Festival x Women In Games 2025 is coming to Rome, Nov 13–16, for a Playful Renaissance! 🏛️

A landmark gathering in partnership with GAMM Game Museum exploring games as culture.

Hybrid attendance available, prices from €15. Full program & tickets: bit.ly/WIGcheckpoint

#CheckpointFestival

A poster for Checkpoint: Festival of Interactive Experiences at the GAMM Video Game Museum of Rome, running November 13-16, 2025. The text is stylized with a retro 8-bit aesthetic and includes images of Roman landmarks and arcade cabinets. The event theme is "New Voices, Shared Worlds."

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 6d

The Hippocampus is a mythical creature with the front of a horse and the back half of a fish. They've been portrayed by cultures from the Ancient Greeks to the Picts and beyond

My take here is partly based on a black-figure amphora from the 6th century BCE that currently is displayed in the Louvre

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Cricket @krysiilys.bsky.social · 6d

Forgot how much social media likes sketches lmao

Don't forget I have a patreon discord where I post pretty much all my sketches as I work!

Cricket @krysiilys.bsky.social · 7d

i really like this face i sketched

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Women in Games @womeningames.bsky.social · 7d

The Women in Games newsletter connects you to a global community that advocates, inspires and spotlights the work taking place to make the industry safer, fairer and more diverse.

Get the latest news, activities and events delivered directly to you.

Join now: bit.ly/WIGnewsletter

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Axel حسن Taiari @shevek.bsky.social · 7d

The workers at ZA/UM Studio have unionized.

First recognised games union in the UK, too. May many others follow.

www.gameworkers.co.uk/workers-at-z...

Workers at ZA/UM Announce Landmark Recognition Agreement - IWGB Game Workers

Video game developers at ZA/UM Studio, represented by the IWGB (Independent Workers Union of Great Britain) have today announced their formation of a union at their workplace. After a negotiation proc...

www.gameworkers.co.uk

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ELK64 @elk64.bsky.social · 8d

Cover illustration
(Les chants du chaos - tome 1)

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Women in Games @womeningames.bsky.social · 8d

GAMESCOM ASIA X THAILAND GAME SHOW

When: 16-19 October 2025
Where: Bangkok, Thailand

Featuring business and entertainment areas, this event promises to delight fans and industry members alike.

Use code WIGA10 for 10% off your Conference Delegate ticket!

reg.eventnook.com/event/GCAxTG...

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 8d

You should be boycotting gamepass for BDS anyways but THIRTY American dollars a month?? Jesus

Kotaku @kotakudotcom.bsky.social · 8d

Game Pass Ultimate is getting more games but will now be $30 a month in the service's biggest price hike yet https://kotaku.com/xbox-game-pass-gets-massive-price-hike-yet-amid-big-changes-2000630604

Xbox Game Pass Gets Massive Price Hike Yet Amid Big Changes - Kotaku

Microsoft is overhauling the Xbox gaming subscription again

kotaku.com

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Nooka Dascalu @nookada.bsky.social · 8d

me appreciate math so much more & see how beautiful it is to people who understand it. Watching shows like Foundation & For All Mankind, seeing the characters talk about it makes me want to pick it up & learn it properly!

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Nooka Dascalu @nookada.bsky.social · 8d

I would love to do that, I miss being in class. I’m fortunate enough to have a sister with a PhD in math & a passion for teaching, so hopefully she’ll be able to help me with it since I’ve forgotten everything beyond long division & simple algebra. I’ve been on a great sci-fi kick lately that’s made

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Nooka Dascalu @nookada.bsky.social · 8d

Nice, good to know Khan Academy is still free online 🤍 I’ll look up the MIT course & start figuring out what I need to brush up on!

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Michelle Flamm @kaieta.bsky.social · 8d

Continued reminder I'm looking for full-time employment! The contract I'm on is very unstable so I'm looking actively!

Michelle Flamm @kaieta.bsky.social · Jun 30

Starting this up again! Hi I'm Michelle Flamm Im a Senior Systems Designer and worked on Dragon Age, Elder Scrolls, Weird West and so much more! Currently I'm looking for work, please feel free to DM me leads etc!

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Nooka Dascalu @nookada.bsky.social · 8d

I love this! How are you finding these classes? I’d love to learn calculus & other advanced math but I’m not really sure where to start

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Adrian Sandoval @adriansandoval.net · Oct 19

Hi! I'm Adrian Sandoval, a game designer currently working on Little Nemo & the Nightmare Fiends, a 2D action-adventure game based on the Little Nemo comic strip from the early 1900s. Consider wishlisting on Steam, please and thank you! store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/...

Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends cover art

Our original character, Peony, aiming a bomb toward some mosquitos in the mushroom forest.

Nemo standing next to a Bazoo, a sort of giraffe/zebra hybrid with its neck tied in knots. It is idly eating something.

A screenshot from Little Nemo & the Nightmare Fiends; Flip the Clown is standing in the foreground with a landscape shot of Jack Frost's Ice Palace in the back.

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Geneviève Routhier @genrouthier.bsky.social · 8d

Maybe it’s a bit soon to wish failure on the future games that thousands of people are currently working hard on right now.

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The Marriage Braggart @bombsfall.bsky.social · Jan 16

"Selling Out Is Bad" is a valuable concept and despite all the baggage and bullshit and elitism it could contain it's actually really good to reinforce the ideal that having integrity when it matters, especially when it hurts, is what good/cool people do. Should be adapted instead of jettisoned.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Arseny Kapoulkine @zeux.io · 8d

New blog post! In "Billions of triangles in minutes" we'll walk through hierarchical cluster level of detail generation of, well, billions of triangles in minutes. Reposts welcome!

zeux.io/2025/09/30/b...

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Nooka Dascalu @nookada.bsky.social · 8d

I loved this game—it was thought provoking, meditative, and gave me a fun fact that I get to mention every time someone mentions pig farms (that pigs are very efficient opportunistic carnivores). Get it any time but especially now that it’s on sale!

doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 9d

Hey, everyone! Adios is on sale today for just $10! That's right: it's cheaper than Arby's and will make you cry in a completely different way!

Get it while it's hot!

store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/...

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BLEEPPBLEEPP ☆ @bleeppbleepp.bsky.social · 9d

If you're wanting to support indigenous creators today, a place i look at often is a website called: ᐋᓃᓐ aaniin.
It's an online marketplace that hosts a variety of artists' works!
(They even had a popup store recently in Toronto!)

www.aaniin.shop?srsltid=AfmB...

Home

Canada's favourite Indigenous retailer aaniin retail inc. houses dozens of Indigenous brands and businesses. Selling apparel, jewelry, accessories, and more (home goods, beauty, decor) based in Toront...

www.aaniin.shop

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Wendy Xu @wendyxu.bsky.social · 9d

a spider can fly on a current of air

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · Jan 8

What they don’t understand is that the assertion that modern cinematic games are fundamentally striving to be movies instead of games doesn’t say that they’re *bad* but that they aren’t hitting the same mark as games which are actually designed just to be games

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Samantha Mash @samanthamash.bsky.social · 10d

Yesterday was my last day tabling for the Summer season. I will be back, but for now I will take a much needed break🧡

I just want to thank everyone who came by and remind folks you can always shop stickers and mini prints online right here even when tabling season is over samanthamash.etsy.com

Photo of the Samantha Mash Illustration booth's sticker section. Stickers are displayed in the bright sunlight on a marigold toned display

Photo of the Samantha Mash Illustration mini print rack. Morning sunlight hits the display with a selection of six mini prints in view on a tan table

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