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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · 2d

#BigHops is in Steam Next Fest!

It's a good hour long taste of our adventure: you'll use your tongue, learn to climb, find veggies you can build paths with, and borrow a stranger's backpack.

store.steampowered.com/app/1221480/...

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Devolver Digital @devolverdigital.com · 6d

SKATE STORY
DECEMBER 8
PS5 | SWITCH 2 | PC
🔥🔥🔥 🛹 🔥🔥🔥
PLAY THE DEMO ON STEAM

store.steampowered.com/app/1263240/...

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 7d

george r r martin's the lord of the elden rings

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 16d

baby steps was amazing

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Ben Diskin @bendiskin.bsky.social · 16d

............. This seems like a good time to remind people about Big Hops! A brand new indie 3D platforming adventure from @luckshotgames.com!

You can wishlist it on Steam and get the free demo here!

store.steampowered.com/app/3735820/...

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 19d

baby steps is a thoughtful meditation on erosion

mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 19d

such a fun website cari.institute/aesthetics

CARI | Aesthetics

cari.institute

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Brady Soglin | Tall Trails out NOW @bradysoglin.bsky.social · 26d

unfortunately, i had to add kernel-level anticheat to Tall Trails... #gamedev #indiegame

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · 27d

#TurnBasedThursday! This week I'll post a link to the itch page in case anyone wants to play in the browser. Thanks @davidcodeandart.bsky.social for hosting : )

A dark roguelike auto battler played on a 3×3 grid. Arrange your units, harness forbidden relics, and complete the ritual 👽

Order Automatica by New Beings

Roguelike Auto Battler

newbeings.itch.io

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DavidCodeAndArt @davidcodeandart.bsky.social · 28d

Proud to officially host #TurnBasedThursday this week! 😊

#gamedev, please share your games in the thread!

Make sure to like 💖 share 🔁 and wishlist ✅ any turn-based gems you come across in the comments!

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Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · 29d

my four-week workshop starts next saturday, and i'd love to get a tenth person to sign up before then!

Anna Anne Anthropy @cyborgurl.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm excited to announce I'm going to be running a four-week remote workshop on creating interactive fiction with #bitsy starting at the end of September! Games created in the workshop will be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York, with whom I'm partnering on this project!

Crafting Interactive Fiction with Bitsy. With Anna Anthropy. September 28 to October 19. 4 weeks online workshop, 150 minutes per session.

What if a work of fiction were more like a space – something readers could wander, struggle against, push at the boundaries of?

Digital games let us weave interactivity, spatiality and friction into storytelling.

In this class, we’ll use Adam Le Doux’s Bitsy – a free browser-based game tool – to create interactive narratives. If you love storytelling and want experiment with new tools to tell new kinds of stories, this class is for you.

Beijing Time:
September 28, October 5, October 12, October 19, Sundays, 9:00 - 11:30 AM

New York Time:
September 27, October 4, October 11, October 18, Saturdays, 9:00 - 11:30 PM

Our 150-minute workshops will consist of guided tutorials, artistic discussions and creative exercises.

Over the course of four meetings, participants will write, develop and revise a work of original interactive fiction.

At the end of the class, outstanding projects will have the opportunity to be featured in an exhibition at Accent Sisters in New York.

Anna Anthropy is a game designer, educator and cyborg. Her work, both digital and tabletop, explores themes of queerness, kink and disability. Her most well-known digital games include dys4ia and Lesbian Spider-Queens of Mars; some of her recent tabletop work includes Coldbloods, The Fool's Journey, and the award-winning Forgotten Palaces. Anna is the author of several books on games and game design, including A Game Design Vocabulary, Rise of the Video Game Zinesters, ZZT, and the Make Your Own Video Games! series from No Starch press. She has shown work in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, and the Museum of the Moving Image in New York. She lives in Chicago with a little black cat named Encyclopedia Frown.

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Game Devs of Color Expo @gdocexpo.com · Sep 9

Get ready for a fantastic showcase of games!

Our annual #GDoCExpo Direct debuts next week, Sept 16 at 1PM PT/4PM ET, so don't forget to hit "Notify Me" on the stream's page! 🙌🏾

With announcements, exclusives, & amazing indies galore, you won't want to miss this💚🩵

gdoc.events/Direct2025

#gamedev

2025 Game Devs of Color Expo Direct
Sep 16 1pm PT / 4pm ET

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 16

what do all my game designers have to say about the tush push?

mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 14

I'm pumped that the new Mario tennis appears to have Cher in it

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 13

today is my 5 year getting married to @hannahkeliza.bsky.social anniversary : ) good shit!

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 12

fun lil' interview with me at my station at PAX : ) thanks @thebrianj.bsky.social !

TheBrianJ @thebrianj.bsky.social · Sep 12

PAX WEST 2025 INTERVIEWS!
Mickey with New Beings tells us about the Occult Auto-Chess game, Order Automatica!
youtu.be/ZqtIkR6LVQQ

@mickeysanchez.bsky.social

Occult Auto-battler! Order Automatica - PAX West 2025 Dev Interviews

YouTube video by TheBrianJ

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Chris Wade @luckshotgames.com · Sep 12

We're almost done with the frog, there's just a lot of BS you have to do to release a game.

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 12

watching an old timey news video where english tourists in italy don't know how to eat spaghetti

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 12

hell yea

A headline that reads, "Australia approves world-first vaccine to save koalas from Chlamydia". Pictured below, a forlorn koala.

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Matthew - CurlyGoblin Dev @curlygoblin.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’m delighted to host the official #TurnBasedThursday this week! 🌞

Don’t venture alone fellow #GameDev / #IndieDev! Reply to this post and add the hashtag to share your turn-based games! ✨

Love turn-based games? Make sure to comment, like and retweet the cool games in this thread. 💬❤️🔁

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 11

order automatica is my strategic auto battler. it was heavily inspired by super auto pets, but i think my love of slice & dice and into the breach has found it's way in there. the strategy layer has been growing in a way i'm very happy with. happy for feedback on the demo! #TurnBasedThursday

Order Automatica on Steam

A dark roguelike auto battler played on a 3×3 grid. Arrange your units, harness forbidden relics, and complete the ritual before your last candle burns out.

store.steampowered.com

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 10

my mom brought me to the mall before school to pick up my pre-ordered dreamcast, house of the dead 2, 2 light guns, and crazy taxi the day it came out. I got dreamcast magazine and I remember reading the article about shenmue 1.

SEGA @sega-west.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy 26 years Dreamcast! 🌀 🎂 🎈

Share some of your most memorable moments with us—we'd love to hear your stories!

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SEGA @sega-west.bsky.social · Sep 9

Happy 26 years Dreamcast! 🌀 🎂 🎈

Share some of your most memorable moments with us—we'd love to hear your stories!

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 7

Green and yellow shiny long fingered hand atop a tree of bananas covered in incense.

Cathy Lu - Banana Tree 2023. An explanation of the art piece hung on the wall.

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mickey sanchez @mickeysanchez.bsky.social · Sep 7

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