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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · 1h

emma's stuff is so insanely good. always blown away.

Emma Koch @emmakoch.bsky.social · 3h

some of my stylized 3D rendering attempts from past years

the artists whose reference i used will be listed below 👇

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · 1h

Congrats, you fucking legend. Yewwww! 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · 1h

Fuck yeah, Powerhoof! The GOATs. 🐐

The Australian Game Developer Awards (The AGDAs) @agdas.bsky.social · 18h

The #AGDAs25 Winner For Game of the Year is...

The Drifter by Powerhoof

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · 15h

Thank you, René! This is rad. 👏🏻🙇🏼‍♂️

Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · 19h

wake up babe, new absolutely bonkers indie videogame resource just dropped

René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 20h

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Freeplay @free-play.bsky.social · 2d

Coming to Parallels on Thursday? We have two additions to the line-up to announce!

Building Relationships - @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com (TALK)
Dogpile - @folly.studio (PLAYABLE SHOWCASE)

Building Relationships - "a silly adventure game about a house on a date"

Dogpile - a dog is jumping into a pile of dogs! One of the dogs has cool sunglasses. Hell Yeah.

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Ryan Marino, MD @ryanmarino.bsky.social · 8d

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 9d

⚠️ Chinese researchers have invented bone glue that mimics how oysters stick to surfaces underwater.

The adhesive can reportedly repair orthopedic fractures in 2-3 minutes, even in blood-rich environments, and is bioabsorbable.

interestingengineering.com/science/chin...

China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes

A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.

interestingengineering.com

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darcy w smith @darcywsmith.bsky.social · 8d

OUR NEW GAME!!!

It's so happening right now. Plz plz plz share and wishlist we need all that juicy data.

Also the demo is UP ON STEAM, you can literally play it's very very fun.

Studio Folly — DOGPILE!!! @folly.studio · 8d

Announcing... DOGPILE!!! ✨🦴

Dogpile is a roguelike deckbuilder about merging DOGS. Play dogs, get money, customize your dogs with special traits, refine your deck, PLAY MORE DOGS!

Free demo is live on Steam, WISHLIST NOW!!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3839300/...

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · 9d

Get it, my dude!
💫🚀

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League of Geeks (LoG!) @leagueofgeeks.com · Sep 2

Ten years ago, Armello brought tabletop adventures to life. Now, delve into its lore-rich depths with this gorgeous anniversary hardcover omnibus of tales both old and new! Coming soon to Kickstarter!

tinyurl.com/foundingandf...

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · Sep 2

Grateful for the chance to chat with Nikita about EFT's exceptional success, distinctive design & immense depth. Some brilliant tales in here, including the exact moment his love of Day-Z and EVE Online gave birth to Escape From Tarkov and with it, the creation of the extraction shooter subgenre. 🤘🏼

Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences @official-aias.bsky.social · Sep 1

On the #GameMakersNotebook, @trentkusters.bsky.social chats with #EscapefromTarkov creator, Nikita Buyanov about what inspired Tarkov that led to the extraction shooter genre, maintaining artistic vision with community feedback, when to balance the game's meta, lessons learned after debut, and more!

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Kitfox Games 🦊 @kitfoxgames.com · Aug 14

Only a few hours left to snag some great deals on all our games!

▶ Last day of the Kitfox Festival 2025: store.steampowered.com/developer/ki...

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darcy w smith @darcywsmith.bsky.social · Aug 7

HELLO MIGW FRIENDS

we're preparing something that rhymes with shmeekon and I would love to hear from cool devs that have interesting stories about...

✨humiliation✨

What are your career lowlights, embarassing situs and bad things you've learned and grown from over your career. hmu

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · Aug 14

We can permit one cry, and then, back to work as the people’s champion please.

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Glasgow Smiley @neokefka99.bsky.social · Aug 14

Microsoft literally shut down the guy who made DOOM to pay for AI shit.

Game Development Daily News @gamedevdaily.bsky.social · Jul 6

Romero Games now 'completely closed' following Microsoft cuts, it's claimed

##gamedev##gamedevelopment##indiedev##AI##microsoft

Romero Games now ‘completely closed’ following Microsoft cuts, it’s claimed | VGC

www.videogameschronicle.com

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · Aug 14

And if you’re interested in the specific hows and whys, well do I have news for you… I spoke to Xalavier at length about this exact thing just a year ago.

Enjoy. ❤️

youtu.be/6wkDf5sFapk?...

Working on Sustainable Game Development with Xalavier Nelson Jr. | Game Maker's Notebook Podcast

YouTube video by Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences

youtu.be

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · Aug 14

One of the few roadmaps to success as a sustainable indie game dev studio that will, by design, protect you from many of the challenges traditional pathways no longer do is being practiced, demonstrated, and narrated, for yall live by @writnelson.bsky.social and Strange Scaffold.

Pay attention. 👀📝

Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · Aug 13

The big news of the day is—Strange Scaffold got a front page spot on Steam! It’s our first-ever publisher sale!!

You can get EVERY GAME we’ve ever made for 60 bucks and I did a bunch of work on the gradients and colors to make it all look pretty!!! Ahhh!!!!
store.steampowered.com/sale/strange...

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · Aug 14

Australians have put up with America’s cultural crimes for a long time, but these claims that calling something “cooked” is some Gen-z American invention is an attack on our sovereignty unlike any other.

I grew up hearing geriatric Rotarians call someone cooked.

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · Aug 13

🚨 New pub alert! 🚨

GamesIndustry.biz @gibiz.bsky.social · Aug 13

Berlin-based creative agency, Instinct3, has launched Sidekick Publishing, a new full-service publisher for indie and AA studios.

www.gamesindustry.biz/instinct3-la...

Instinct3 launches Sidekick Publishing, a new full-service publisher

Berlin-based creative agency, Instinct3, has launched Sidekick Publishing, a new full-service publisher for indie and A…

www.gamesindustry.biz

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The Real News Network @therealnews.com · Aug 12

“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”

Auschwitz-survivor Gabor Maté: Gaza genocide 'the worst thing I've seen in my whole life.'

“It's a bit of an obscenity that I'm asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren't we listening t...

therealnews.com

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · Aug 13

*Open LinkedIn*

Third post:

A plasterer attempting to educate a 30+yr legendary game developer as to why his game's launch didn't go well.

A plasterer.

*Close LinkedIn*

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AmericanTruckSongs10 @ethangach.bsky.social · Aug 6

If you've sold your Xbox, canceled Game Pass, or boycotted other parts of Microsoft following the BDS announcement earlier this year or reports like this one please email me at [email protected] or reach out on Discord at ethangach

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians

Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

www.theguardian.com

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Buru and The Old People @buruthegame.bsky.social · Aug 8

We're so excited to quietly announce that our game has received funding from both Screen Australia and Screen NSW.

We're thrilled to have begun production on our short, narrative-driven adventure game rich in Indigenous storytelling, and we can't wait to share more about this story with you soon!

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Derek Yu @mossmouth.bsky.social · Aug 7

🍒 Whoa, what's this?!

UFO 50 is available right now on #NintendoSwitch!

#UFO50 #IndieWorld

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Trent Kusters @trentkusters.bsky.social · Aug 7

I once heard a cybersecurity expert say that no degree of tech-savviness or awareness of scams will 100% prevent you from ever getting scammed.

We are all susceptible to deception, especially so when given the right context and emotional state.

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