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midimyers.com
hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D
January 9, 2026 at 5:04 PM
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snackanimals.bsky.social
December 16, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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tama00001234.bsky.social
森を行く(2022.10)
December 10, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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aurahack.ca
the larian stuff sucks to hear a lot. you have to be a true all-timer loser to think generative AI is useful for concepting ideas or artwork. you let the machine do the fun part you dumbass. it doesnt tell me you think efficiently it tells me youre a fuckass who's given up on being interesting
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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thejenna.bsky.social
Using gen ai for text and asset placeholders is not solving a problem; games have been made for decades with regular placeholders. studios using AI this way are just testing the water to see what more they can get away with - which will inevitably mean laying off skilled workers, to make worse games
December 16, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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vgcartography.bsky.social
DEMON'S SOULS illustrated world map v1 is uploaded 😁 (detail pics in replies) www.deviantart.com/vgcartograph...
December 13, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
around 40 game developers affiliated with @videogameworkers.bsky.social have gathered outside the peacock theater, where the game awards will take place in a few hours, for a “the industry is dead” demonstration
a crowd of devs standing near geoff’s weird promotional obelisk developers in grim reaper outfits, one with a wanted sign featuring take-two ceo strauss zelnick a tombstone-shaped sign that says “RIP future class” a “the industry is dead” pamphlet
December 11, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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even-kei.bsky.social
Angeline Era is out NOW!!! ^.^ here's a breakdown of some elements and techniques I used to create the HUGE visual world of Era. Ultra-dense action and secrets meant a bigger focus than ever on visual clarity and communication! ⚔️🔍

See it in action!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
Cube-based environment art (along with melos’s “auto-cuber” tool) allows for the efficiency and complex secrets-hinting of 2D tilesets combined with the benefits of 3D lighting and atmosphere. Large “EnviroChunks” with flexible triplanar materials quickly establish setting in the background of scenes. Gestural vertex colors quickly and beautifully define characters that pop against the environment and look good small or large onscreen. iNaturalist.org can be an amazing resource for game artists, featuring species id and many public domain community photos of life on Earth! Matcap materials are good for creating shiny or translucent objects while maintaining a simplified/stylized look.
December 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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ccharnul.bsky.social
THE GAME IS OUT, I REPEAT, THE GAME IS OUT

Hopefully I squashed all the bugs, hope everyone enjoys it!

store.steampowered.com/app/2980260/...
Save 25% on Hypogea on Steam
Escape from a mysterious underground megastructure in this short atmospheric 3d-platformer.
store.steampowered.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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stratobox.bsky.social
Hope you’re ready for some relaxing beach fun! Play the new Kero Quest 64 demo.. NOW!!!! 🐸 🏖️ 🐧

store.steampowered.com/app/3411900/...
Kero Quest 64 on Steam
Kero Quest 64 is a Collectathon 3D Platformer inspired by other games in the genre, especially those from the late 90s. You take control of Kero, a blue frog seeking to stop a prince from spreading ev...
store.steampowered.com
November 14, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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gamehistoryorg.bsky.social
There's a little Einhander! See CD 194

archive.gamehistory.org/folder/bab8f...
The ship from Einhander.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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sunsetvisitor.studio
You are a clone named Watcher, and you’ve made a grave mistake.

💠 Surface a 1,000-year-old lie from the cosmic shadows
💠 Discover the forbidden truths about your god
💠 Unravel a tapestry of familial pain, love and revolution

1000xRESIST is out NOW on PlayStation, Xbox, and Game Pass.
November 4, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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tianipixel.bsky.social
it is always so fun working on high areas of the map and fine tuning the beautiful vistas you see from up top :)

- work in progress!

(game is ABYSS X ZERO for those who do not know! an upcoming low-poly 3D metroidvania, developed by me and @ironfairy.bsky.social)

#gamedev #lowpoly #indiegame
October 30, 2025 at 10:51 PM
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nicoleclark.bsky.social
it feels so good to write again, to play games again, after the worst year of my life. i picked a ridiculous game (that i love!) to relearn controller skills with, but taking my time makes it possible
aftermath.site/silksong-hol...
A Condition Took Away The Use Of My Hands. Silksong Helped Me Rehab Them - Aftermath
Last year I woke up with the hands of an alien. Every item I grasped fell to the floor like so many grains of sand; every doorknob became a lock I couldn’t open. It didn’t hurt, but hundreds of dollar...
aftermath.site
September 19, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
I was so fortunate attend the closing performance of Free Shakespeare in the Park's TWELFTH NIGHT on Sunday at the revitalized Delacorte. Sensational theater, freely shared, and a testament to the importance of public arts in NYC.
Zohran backstage with the cast of TWELFTH NIGHT in full costume.
September 16, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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y-lab.bsky.social
I had some leftover rainbow filament left, so here's my daughter's build.
a homemade arcade fightstick shaped like a cat, with rainbow printed sides a homemade arcade fightstick shaped like a cat, with rainbow printed sides
August 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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sunsetvisitor.studio
In case you missed the last sale, 1000xRESIST is 30% off on the US eShop and on Humble for Steam! Our sci-fi game has:

💠 matricide
💠 doomed yuri
💠 aliens
💠 a deadly pandemic
💠 so much generational trauma

Hope you have a great and happy time playing our game! 🫡
August 25, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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duckvalentine.bsky.social
In the four years I've been at IGN I've watched its staff shrink and shrink, all while those who remain are asked to do more and more. I see colleagues skip lunch, stay late day after day, and burn out.

IGN staff are passionate and love their work. But we can't keep letting that be exploited.
ignunion.bsky.social IGN Creators Guild @ignunion.bsky.social · Aug 25
Ziff Davis and IGN routinely decide that work done by our laid off colleagues is not important. But inevitably, that crucial work falls onto those who remain.

Not this time. Not anymore.
FROM NOW UNTIL FEBRUARY 13TH IGN CREATORS GUILD IS GOING TO... DO OUR JOB! OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, IGN MANAGEMENT HAS GOTTEN AWAY WITH LAYING OFF OUR COWORKERS OVER AND OVER. MEANWHILE, MANY OF OUR COLLEAGUES HAVE LEFT THE COMPANY IN NO SMALL PART DUE TO BUYOUTS, OVERWORK, AND FEELING UNSUPPORTED, EACH TIME, THE COMPANY HAS REFUSED TO BACKFILL MANY ESSENTIAL ROLES, CLAIMING WE'RE ON A HIRING FREEZE, IT'S NOT IN THE BUDGET, OR THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO LESS WORK THIS TIME. AS A RESULT, IGNCG MEMBERS HAVE BEEN FORCED TO TAKE ON MORE OF THEIR FORMER COLLEAGUES' WORKLOADS. MANY OF US NOW WORK LONGER HOURS THAN WE USED TO. A LOT OF US RARELY TAKE LUNCH BREAKS. SOME OF US DO NOT TAKE ADEQUATE TIME OFF DUE TO THERE BEING NO ONE TO PICK UP THE SLACK. OTHERS OF US ARE STUCK DOING WORK WE WERE NEVER HIRED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE. UP TO THIS POINT, WE'VE ALL ACCEPTED THIS AS NORMAL, BECAUSE WE CARE DEEPLY ABOUT IGN AND THE WORK WE DO. BUT WITH SO MANY OF US STRUGGLING MORE AND MORE AS EACH NEW WAVE OF OUR COWORKERS ARE DEPRIVED OF A LIVELIHOOD, THIS CYCLE CAN'T CONTINUE. MANAGEMENT IS UNWILLING TO STOP IT, SO IT FALLS TO US. WITH THE LAYOFFS OF EIGHT OF OUR COWORKERS, IGNCG HAS NEGOTIATED A SIX-MONTH RECALL LIST. WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT, FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, IF IGN WANTS TO FILL ANY OF THOSE ELIMINATED ROLES AGAIN, THEY MUST REHIRE OUR LAID-OFF COLLEAGUES. WE WANT THEM TO HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET THEIR JOBS BACK IF THEY WANT THEM, AND IF NOT, WE WANT THOSE ROLES BACKFILLED TO EASE THE BURDEN ON THE REST OF US. SO STARTING TODAY, LENCE MEMBERS ARE COMMITTING TO DO OUR JOBS. NO MORE, NO LESS. WELL SHOW UP TO WORK ON TIME AND LEAVE ON TIME. WE'RE TAKING ALL OF OUR LUNCH TIME, EVERY DAY. IF WE WORK LATE, WE WILL FIRMLY ASK FOR OUR RIGHTFULLY EARNED COMP TIME. AND IF IGN WANTS OUR LAID-OFF COWORKERS' WORK TO GET DONE, THEY'LL HAVE TO REHIRE THEM TO DO IT INSTEAD OF FOISTING IT UPON US. HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT IGNCG IN ALL THIS? SHARE THIS POST, AND TELL IGN MANAGEMENT THAT Y…
August 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
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githyankidanky.bsky.social
imoen
August 24, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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drnmcy.bsky.social
this is my passion project, angel's nest. a folk-horror survival rpg set in an alternative, pre-colonial africa.
angel's nest screenshot showing the player surrounded by towering trees. angel's nest screenshot showing the status and map screen angel's nest screenshot showing the stat improvement menu. angel's nest screenshot showing the player in a towering slum yard
October 20, 2024 at 6:10 AM
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theavclubgames.bsky.social
Nintendo's come far in acknowledging its female player base, as traditional damsels in distress like Pauline, Zelda and Peach are now heroes for young girls. Their older female audience needs games too, though, @midimyers.com writes. www.endlessmode.com/article/nint...
Nintendo Has Unexpectedly Turned Its Damsels in Distress into Icons for Young Girls
Nintendo's successfully turned its damsels in distress into heroes for young girls. It seems smart to start making games for older girls and women, now.
www.endlessmode.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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coolboxart.bsky.social
Crazy Train / MSX / Sony / 1983
July 22, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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crownedsaeraphim.bsky.social
Akaiye in all those details
July 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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sutexii.bsky.social
Chris here, a freelance illustrator and character designer that loves dark fantasy, monsters, and folklore 🍄🌙

Publishing, games, TTRPGs - for any project that needs a funky organic touch, I'm available for work 👁️

🕸️ sutexii.art
✉️ [email protected]

✦ #portfolioday #art
A large mushroom-warped woman stands holding the hand of her sword. Skeletons sit below her, and a broken moon bleeds onto them. Character Design - various monsters based on mushrooms fullbody color commission. A character with white hair wears a cloak secured by a bird pin, blue tunic, and strapped boots. They hold a spear dripping blood into the rainwater at their feet. they appear contemplative as a red droplet falls into their hand. Character lineup - a squad of odd masked mercenaries
July 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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zoea.bsky.social
#2025年自分が選ぶ今年上半期の4枚
June 29, 2025 at 8:32 AM