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cain
@cmddx.itch.io
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makes weird horror games check out PROXIMATE https://store.steampowered.com/app/2957800/PROXIMATE/ https://cmddx.itch.io/proximate devlogs and early access content at https://www.patreon.com/cainmaddox [email protected] melbourne. he/him 🏳️‍⚧️
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · Nov 14
first post on bsky, might as well plug my game?

a few days ago i released PROXIMATE, an indie horror game where you explore an abandoned deep sea lab but your only form of navigation is a shitty AI visor built by incompetent techbros

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Congratulations, contractor! You've been approved to trial our cutting-edge AI visor. Use it to explore the Neuras lab and recover the staff's research. Your visor is safe, reliable, and up to 99% acc...
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 13h
i could buy, like. TWO whole dragon dildos with that money
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 14h
got a message from the peabody awards saying i should submit proximate and like. a peabody nomination would be kinda cool. but the submission fee is $350 usd??? i'm weighing up how worthwhile that'd be
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innes @innes.bsky.social · 1d
"Nature's Labubu"
Picture of two cupped hands holding a partially opened conker, with the Guardian headline below it: "Nature's Labubu: why are gen z 'unboxing' conkers?"
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Arden Hughes @ardenhughesvo.bsky.social · 1d
Because of this video, I played Proximate, a fantastic horror game with a killer concept (you can’t see anything beyond text your visor displays, accompanied by an accuracy percentage) and some amazing trans representation. Ells and Riot 4ever
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3d
Three indie games, three different takes on a digital nightmare. While Proximate, Without a Dawn, and Dead Letter Dept. differ in their approaches, the takeaway is the same: our very perception of the world has been warped by systems outside our control. youtu.be/0zxQ9YAzy00
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 1d
been working on my debut album for 6 years. it has 52 songs in it and they are all ass
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cécile @haraiva.bsky.social · 1d
'indie game devs' thinking making games is somehow like making movies when really at our level making games is exactly like being in a band
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 1d
honestly i think janet would be perfect for pax. i had soooo many people come to my booth saying they were hyped to be seeing more horror games. also way more queers than i thought there would be!
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Renee O'flynn @scree.bsky.social · 1d
Even though I was tagged on @firkraags.bsky.social post, I'm posting my own just in case people want contact details of the developers at pax. If you are an indie developer who was at Pax Aus and your info is missing, please let me know. I'll fix it.
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PAX AUS 2025
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 1d
i think i've also had generally more positive interactions with players than devs. nothing explicitly queerphobic tho, usually it's just devs telling me what i should have done differently while players are like "wow cool game!"
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 2d
- didn't go to a single "networking" event. maxxing hanging out, networking is my dump stat
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 2d
- hangin out w the GAMERS at pax. i came in feeling cynical about how showcasing such a weird queer game at a place like pax would go, but honestly it was sick and everyone was so lovely. keen to booth again next year
- chilling outside w the other aus indie showcase devs during the evacuation lol
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 2d
phew well that's a wrap for migw. my highlights:
- bought a tank top that i look very good in at freakon
- terrorised some ceos
- had a kickass time at parallels
- met way more cool people than i can name (still very starstruck by @bimbo.phd)
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Lu wilson @todepond.com · 3d
DOGSPINNER
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Dog Spinner
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 2d
the fact that proximate had less than 500 wishlists when it launched has taught me that the wishlist grindset is a clown endevour. not even going to bother thinking about it next time
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 2d
thank you so much for covering proximate! i was showcasing it at pax when i found out and someone took this photo of my live reaction lol
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 3d
Three indie games, three different takes on a digital nightmare. While Proximate, Without a Dawn, and Dead Letter Dept. differ in their approaches, the takeaway is the same: our very perception of the world has been warped by systems outside our control. youtu.be/0zxQ9YAzy00
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 3d
being very normal right now
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d
NEW VIDEO on spooks and indie horror games and computers distorting our understanding of the world, available right now on Nebula! nebula.tv/videos/jacob...
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4d
NEW VIDEO on spooks and indie horror games and computers distorting our understanding of the world, available right now on Nebula! nebula.tv/videos/jacob...
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 5d
we're at pax! come say hi!!!
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 6d
im boothing at pax for the next three days but would love to try to sneak in drinks in the arvos with out of state peeps! hmu 🤙
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 6d
hell yea parallels
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 6d
was good to meet you!!
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The Serfs (youtube.com/theserfstv) @theserfstv.bsky.social · 6d
Losing my mind and what look like video game assets but instead were used to justify war crimes and genocide in the real world
NEW: Since October 2023, the IDF Spokesperson's Unit has released dozens of 3D animations illustrating alleged Hamas, Hezbollah, and Iranian sites The style is unmistakable: satellite zoom-ins, black & white wireframes, and red-textured houses - a new visual language of war.Our analysis of 43 official IDF videos found recycled 3D environments, spatial inaccuracies, and assets lifted from unrelated artists and institutions.We traced over 30 unique assets to Washington-based 3D creator Ian Hubert, who makes bespoke models created for his sci-fi project Dynamo Dream, available to his Patreon subscribers. Models of parking lots, antennas, + pipes were repurposed as Hamas and Iranian military sites @evanhill · 11m Fascinating work here tracing how the IDF recycled 3D assets from a cyberpunk sci-fi art project, the Scottish Maritime Museum and elsewhere to populate its widely-seen models of supposed enemy locations in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran. One of the most infamous, the alleged underground Hamas command center at Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, used to justify an unprecedented assault on the biggest medical center in Gaza, was actually an animation the IDF had used the previous year, saying at the time it was a tunnel beneath a UN school.
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 6d
at least i'm an award-winning game developer now
me, homosexual, squatting in a short dress and holding an agda award
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cain @cmddx.itch.io · 6d
fourth day of games week and i am so sleepy... pax is going to kill me
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