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joannes @playthroughline.com · 20d

🌐 NEUROCRACY 🌐

An episodic sci-fi hypertext game

✅ Fall into a wiki hole from the future
✅ Solve a murder across article edits
✅ Your investigation affects the outcome [citation needed]

⭐ "Ambitious" - The Guardian
⭐ "Brilliant" - Eurogamer

▶️ Dive in: omnipedia.app
▶️ More info: neurocracy.site

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 3h

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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Elysia Tatsu @elysiatatsu.bsky.social · 12d

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 1d

did someone say “Abel Ferrara’s commentary on King of New York”

youtu.be/WQRzH9BAzks?...

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strawbaby jam @strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social · 1d

always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

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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cmrn knzlmn @ckunzelman.bsky.social · 2d

I have a book on Assassin’s Creed coming out and I would like to be on your podcast / show / stream to promote it!

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giwake @giwake.bsky.social · 1d

todays microgame

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 2d

Dang but your name looks really cool in Cyrillic!

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Ren Wyld @wyld.bsky.social · 2d

Grief/rage today as I reflect on two years of witnessing apartheid Israel's live-streamed brutal genocide of Palestinian people. My thoughts are with the 100000's Israel has murdered, starved, abducted, tortured; and everyone who mourns.
From the river to the sea, free the people, free Palestine

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Dia Lacina @dialacina.com · 2d

When you realize how long it takes for a single tree to become fully mature and how many trees it takes to be productive... This is just one more method of *generational* violence.

Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 2d

Hundreds of olive trees were seen uprooted by Israeli forces in the villages of al-Mughayyir and abu Falah near Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.

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Bertine van Hövell @baroness.bsky.social · 2d

Writing this game was its own lovecraftian nightmare and I'm pretty sure it caused me to develop non-euclidean synapse connections in my brain.

plz buy so I can go and untangle it

At Eve's Wake @ateveswake.bsky.social · 7d

Enjoy #Autumn with this #Lovecraftian #Horror story! Watch the madness and see your family fall like the leaves.

Twist time and decide to save or bring damnation.

⭐️50% off store.steampowered.com/app/1395120/...

#indiedev #IndieGameDev #indiegame #indiegames #indiehorror #Steam #SteamAutumnSale

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · Apr 28

A huge group of people are in a giant hole in the middle of a rolling field. There is a large sign with an arrow pointing to the hole that says "HOLE." Suddenly the group's attention turns to a new hole, complete with a giant sign with an arrow pointing to it that says "NEW HOLE." One person points to the new hole and says "hey look! Someone made a new hole!" The mass clamours out of the old hole and makes a bee-line toward the new hole. It's chaos. One person, now situated in the new hole says "this feels like how the old hole used to feel." Another person nods in agreement.

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 3d

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Signal @signal.org · 5d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

signal.org

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Greg Egan @gregegansf.bsky.social · 7d

In a future where the rich kids are being raised with a digital Cyrano beside them to sweet-talk their way into the best jobs, four friends train together for a battle to prove that other kinds of minds might still have the edge.

My new story “Understudies” in Clarkesworld.

Understudies by Greg Egan

Clarkesworld Science Fiction and Fantasy Magazine and Podcast.

clarkesworldmagazine.com

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Sonia Sulaiman is an Ignyte Award Finalist @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 7d

So, I'm making a video game based on Palestinian folklore. It's called Thursday of the Dead, and you can talk to a Palestinian ghouleh. It will have branching narrative, and art all made by a human (me). I need exactly $100 to launch it on Steam when it's finished.

ko-fi.com/soniasulaiman

Buy SoniaSulaiman a Coffee

Sonia is writing speculative fiction inspired by Palestinian folklore. Leave her a tip to support her work!

ko-fi.com

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beetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 5d

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 5d

<raspy John Mullins voice> This thing has everything but the kitchen sink!

joannes @playthroughline.com · 5d

Scroll down to the Wetware section for a fun time 😎

omnipedia.app/wiki/2049/10...

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 5d

I've TORN me ARSE

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Leigh Alexander @leighalexander.bsky.social · 6d

i truly believe that vanishingly few game developers bother to think at all about the player's experience and what they desire. they are too in love with what they want to make you do and feel

innes mck @innes.bsky.social · 6d

"you have created such a beautiful world, why can't i experience it the way i desire" is the video games problem

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Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 6d

Hey folks! I’m a concept artist with over 10 years of experience looking for my next opportunity! Whether it be full time or freelance, teams big or small, I’d love to help on your project

belgianbooleancg.com

You can also support me with tips to help pay bills

ko-fi.com/belgianboolean

Cheers!

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joannes @playthroughline.com · 6d

There goes your last excuse, time to dive in: omnipedia.app

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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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https://kolektiva.social/@noescape_vg 🏴🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸 @noescapevg.com · 7d

This fucks. This unequivocally fucks. All power to the union, goddamn

IWGB Game Workers Union @gameworkers.co.uk · 7d

🙌The first recognised union for game devs in the UK! 🙌

Workers at ZAUM now have a say on their pay and conditions at work with the support of the @iwgbunion.bsky.social

Work in games in the UK? Join our union today: iwgb.org.uk/en/join/game...

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · 7d

The ZA/UM Workers' Alliance - a new union set up to represent a subset of UK-based employees at the company - discusses how it wants to help staff feel safe and comfortable in their jobs

www.gamesindustry.biz/after-layoff...

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josh boerman @bosh.worstpossible.world · 9d

it’s been clear for a while that the information environment inside the white house is completely predicated on telling a sundowning trump exactly what he wants to hear. if you give him bad news you’re fired; it just happened at the bureau of labor statistics. full on mad king territory here

onion person @junlper.beer · 9d

starting to think that an increasingly senile trump is being shown a different reality by his aides by making ai videos of shit and telling him it’s real news

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