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BostonFIG @bostonfig.bsky.social · 12d

Hey #gamedev community! Submissions for consideration in the Boston Festival of Indie Games' coveted Figgie Awards are now open through October 13. Submit your digital or tabletop game today!

www.bostonfig.com/festival-202...

#indiegames #indiedev #indiegamedev

BostonFIG 2025 Showcase Contest Submission Guidelines

www.bostonfig.com

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 1d

Submissions are now open for the Boston Festival of Indie Games 2025. If you or someone you know has a tabletop or digital game you've been working on you can submit it to this year's Festival by Oct 13 www.bostonfig.com/.../showcase...
#gamedev #indiedev #bfig @bostonfig.bsky.social

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 4d

Ooh, thanks for the warning. I’ve been wanting to pick that up.

Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 6d

Oh my goodness, that's terrifying.

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🜲 James @jamesskeets.blacksky.app · 12d

Through her creative platform, Saint Heron, Solange has launched The Saint Heron Library, a digital archive dedicated to making rare and out-of-print works by Black authors, poets, and artists accessible to all.

🔗 library.saintheron.com

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Women in Games International (WIGI) @getwigi.com · 15d

We're back for another year of the BIPOC Virtual Career fair! We've teamed up with Sugar Gamers Labs, Black in Gaming Foundation, IGDA Foundation once again to bring you this incredible event on 10 - 11 October. Learn more and RSVP today: https://www.igdafoundation.org/career-fair

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 18d

I need to get up and go pick up a piece of carnival glass I’m getting off of FB Marketplace, but my cat snuggled up next to me so now it’s illegal for me to move. At least I can reach the controller to play Strange Antiquities.

A smug tiger striped cat snuggles up against the side of a woman. Next to the cat is a grey PlayStation 5 controller.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 18d

Disney/ABC have a responsibility to refuse to participate in corruption.

Kimmel must be reinstated. If Disney/ABC agree to this extortion then perhaps creatives + workers should consider collective action to push back. Same w/buying park + cruise tickets if they bow.

People have power. Ask Target

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Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 19d

Folks, you can't report the United States to its manager. There's no superhero coming to save us.

We don't need one giant act of heroism. We need millions of small acts of solidarity. Help one person in your community for nothing in return. Then, do it again. And again.

That's the revolution.

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Rebecca McCarthy - Writing & Narrative Design @rebeccamwrites.bsky.social · 19d

Games Workshop are looking for an Assistant Game Designer ( for the physical game). Feels like a rare assistant-level job in the field! jobs.games-workshop.com/search-and-a...

( I'm not affiliated with GW, just sharing a rare entry-level job)

Assistant Games Developer - Warhammer 40,000 - Games Workshop Jobs

About the Job Games Workshop has an exciting opportunity for you to join our renowned design team as an Assistant Games Developer where you will be key to

jobs.games-workshop.com

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 19d

Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day, me hearties. 🏴‍☠️

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 21d

This is literally my feed, but with pets and mushrooms too.

Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 21d

It really is reaching a point where everything I post is just

- living nightmare
- living nightmare
- cool indie game you should check out
- living nightmare
- cool indie game you should check out
- cool indie game you should check out
- 2010 era status tweet like 'i want a coke'
- living nightmare

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 21d

It's giving Totoro vibes. #mushrooms

A white mushroom with a wide, wart covered cap stands tall over three smaller mushrooms with gradient orange, wart covered caps.

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 21d

👀 What did you get??

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 22d

This is hilarious, lol.

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IGDA @igda.org · 23d

Game Devs of Color Expo kicks off TOMORROW with it's own Indie Games Showcase! Be sure to check it out over on their YouTube channel. We'll be right there in chat with you, starting at 1pm PT / 4pm ET.

👀 https://loom.ly/gyJ7z34

#gdocexpo #gamedev

The GDoCExpo Direct 2025 - Indie Games Showcase

The sixth annual GDoCExpo Direct is packed with new announcements from dozens of amazing games by creators of color. Tune in for exclusive reveals, the lates...

www.youtube.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 23d

We are in a massive Covid surge right now.

No one will tell you this, because they’re still trying to prop up the “Covid is over” narrative.

Every day we learn more about the harmful long term effects of repeat infections.

Get your vaccine (if you can). Wear a respirator. Clean the air.

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 26d

We’re excited to celebrate our upcoming 10th annual Game Devs of Color Expo!

💚Online conference with talks, panels, & interviews with industry experts
💙Networking, live chat, digital booths, meetings, job board
💚GDoCExpo Steam Sale
💙The GDoCExpo Direct
💚In-person local Watch Parties

▶ gdoc.events

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · 23d

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT 📢

Emma Kidwell - Writer

💚 Get a deeper understanding of the games media to #gamedev pipeline, the successes, and the deterioration
💙What new writers and narrative designers should do now to kickstart their career now that the pipeline no longer exists.

#GDoCExpo2025

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 22d

Whoa, this is amazing! Congrats!

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 23d

Congratulations! This looks fantastic!

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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · 29d

So it’s FINALLY HERE! Happy book birthday to us!!

We’re are super grateful to Chris Metzen, James Waugh, and Drew Karpyshyn for their amazing endorsements.

As well as the always delightful Rich Dansky for his kind forward.

Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s here! We wrote a book about game writing and narrative… and it’s finally COMING OUT.

We would love for people to check it out! This is a tome for all levels as we believe that sometimes going back to basics can solve even the most complicated problems.

www.routledge.com/The-Definiti...

The cover to the book “The Definitive Game Narrative Guide” by Brian Kindregan and Diandra Anne Lasrado with a pictures of a writer in front of a typewriter. The typewriter has imaginative figures of warriors fighting, an anime femme with a sword, and two cute cats and a dog floating above it like visualized ideas.

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Diandra @mesaanasedai.bsky.social · Sep 6

It’s here! We wrote a book about game writing and narrative… and it’s finally COMING OUT.

We would love for people to check it out! This is a tome for all levels as we believe that sometimes going back to basics can solve even the most complicated problems.

www.routledge.com/The-Definiti...

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 25d

My contract with Blizzard sadly ends in just two weeks. Come October, I'll be looking for fulltime or contract work as a senior writer or narrative designer. If you need someone who can write sharp characters, poetic prose, and emotional stories, I'm available! www.hazelmonforton.com

dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · Jul 8

It's #portfolioday! I'm presently a senior narrative designer at Blizzard, but before that I was at Bungie and Arkane. I wrote for the Writer's Guild award-nominated Dishonored: Death of the Outsider, and a bunch of critically acclaimed seasons and expansions in Destiny 2.

A scene from the High Heresy cinematic in Destiny 2: Heresy (2025)

A scene from the Safiyah cinematic from Destiny 2: Season of the Haunted (2022)

A scene from the final mission in Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

A cutscene featuring the Outsider from Dishonored: Death of the Outsider (2017)

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Shae Rossi 🧜‍♀️ @shaenanigans.bsky.social · 26d

Hey, can I just go to the timeline where Nintendo announces a new Animal Crossing game, please? I need it for my soul. The world needs it...

Pokemon: Pokopia looks kinda okay, but I need to hang out with my girl Bianca...

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