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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 40m

There's always escapism! May I recommend a game about museum heists?
www.cnn.com/world/africa...

Video game lets you return African artifacts from Western museums | CNN

In “Relooted,” players plan a heist to reclaim real-life African artifacts held in Western institutions.

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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 48m

Exploration and discovery are an important part of well-designed games that provide things to discover while players explore the environment.

It's a #GameDevelopment approach seen in Fit for a King, which follows an example set by a much older series.

pmjg.blogspot.com/2023/05/game...

Game Exploration Done Well

General shenanigans clearinghouse and repository of poorly articulated ideas.

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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 51m

What would a game inspired by “Stand by Me” look like?

·Action sequences exploring junkyards and crossing bridges?

·Or an interactive narrative on #Pico8, compressed to its absolute limits?

Why not both? And obviously, it’d have leeches.

#IndieGames

postgoodism.itch.io/stand-elsewh...

Stand Elsewhere by postgoodism, ConManEd, Bitterly Indifferent Studios

Oregon Trail-themed interactive fiction based on Stand By Me

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Nicole Marie T @musicvsartstuff.bsky.social · 1h

👋🏻 Hiii my #gamedev peeps! I hope you are all having a good week and Wednesday 😄

Reply to this post to share your #game links! 🕹️

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Enjoy the rest of your week everyone! 💕

#wishlistwednesday #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #gaming

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The Ghost of Will Borger @edgarallanbro.bsky.social · 5h

Every time someone links me to a video essay, I look at the runtime (often obscene), think about how much art I could experience in that time frame, and just do that instead.

You're going to die. Use your time to experience things *for yourself.* YouTube will not enrich your soul. But art does.

lou-ellen @louceph.com · 15h

please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you

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Eric Hamel @erichamel.bsky.social · 14h

That's all eight of our detectives in our #indie #puzzlegame! If you like a good #murdermystery, come join our discord and sign up for the #playtest!

You are invited to a murder!
discord.gg/UEdRat5B3U

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Pema Levy @pemalevy.bsky.social · 15h

A fun byproduct of unitary executive theory—if the president controls everyone under him, he can demand they transfer hundreds of millions in tax dollars into his bank account

The New York Times @nytimes.com · 17h

Breaking News: President Trump wants $230 million from the Justice Department for investigating him, people familiar with the matter say. Any settlement might ultimately be approved by senior department officials who defended him or those in his orbit. nyti.ms/4hmIi5X

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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 15h

I can’t stop thinking about all the hoopla over removing confederate statues and the phony appeals to “heritage.” But this is done without discussion. It was always about displays of dominance.

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Foone @foone.bsky.social · 1d

A venn diagram of three subjects: Horror, Comedy, and Eroticism. The overlap of Horror and Comedy is labeled "Pasta"

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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 1d

I’m sure that the people who were outraged about the removal of confederate statues will be up in arms any minute now…

Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 1d

We all know this was about trying to get blackmail material on Vought, right?

Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 1d

So, per reporting from Zeteo’s Asawin Suebsaeng, in today’s new ‘First Draft’ newsletter, Trump tried to get a newly-divorced Russ Vought, Project 2025 architect & now budget chief, laid at Mar-a-Lago.

The details are, ahem, as crude as you’d expect from Trump.
zeteo.com/p/trump-shit...

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Michael Lobel @mlobelart.bsky.social · Apr 2

I'm just a lowly art historian, but in moments like these I always think back to one early sign of Trump's wanton, pointless destructiveness: his demolition of the priceless & irreplaceable Art Deco relief sculptures on facade of the Bonwit Teller building, which he tore down to build Trump Tower

Relief sculpture of a lithe figure in a dancing-like pose

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Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Apr 4

Keynesianism is like Ozempic in that it's something that works but makes people mad because they want moral hazard to be involved

Regime Accountant, CPA ☠️🎢 @regimecpa.bsky.social · Apr 4

There’s a certain kind of person who thinks Keynesian stimulus is “putting off” a necessary correction and I’m always amazed how many of them there are.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · Apr 3

What if MAGA did the Great Leap Forward?

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Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

The reason even this admin of brain geniuses hasn't pulled the insurrection act lever is they know it's their last card, and if they lose that fight, it gets really bad for them. Potentially it ends the ability of the administration to continue.

Schnorkles O'Bork @schnorkles.bsky.social · 1d

I'm gonna repost that if the Insurrection Act was such a get out of jail free card that let big boy Trump do whatever he wanted whenever he wanted and bing bong so simple and not something that's legally fraught and potentially destabilizing to the point of regime change, they would have done it.

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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 1d

Not all media is racing to move on and forget about the second-largest one-day protest in U.S. history

I hung out at my boisterous No Kings rally in Delco, Pa. and wrote about how the movement got under Trump's skin, the surest sign that it's winning

My column www.inquirer.com/opinion/no-k...

Then they fight you: How the ‘No Kings’ protests are winning America | Will Bunch

A massive turnout of 7 million and a panicked White House showed Saturday why the No Kings protests matter, a lot.

www.inquirer.com

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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 1d

A xenophobic shell game:

“Japan faces a worker shortage as its population ages, and the country has been cautious about expanding immigration.”

Instead, they’ll let foreign workers control robots remotely.

restofworld.org/2025/philipp...

Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines

Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.

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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 2d

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

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Eric Hamel @erichamel.bsky.social · 2d

Calling all #gamers and #mystery lovers! We're looking for testers for our new puzzle #indiegame titled #SecondStab! 🗡 🗡
If you've ever dreamed of saying the words "I've gathered you all here this evening..." then come sign up for our #playtest!
#cozymystery #murdermystery

discord.gg/UEdRat5B3U

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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 2d

Adjacent to conservative arguments defending sexual assault: There are people who believe that if a woman consents, she can’t revoke that consent. Victims “deserve” anything that happens afterward.

George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 2d

#GameJam alert!

It's almost November, and @basecase.bsky.social is organizing the 3rd annual PiCoSteveMo for creating #Pico8 games inspired by Stephen King's work!

#GameDev
itch.io/jam/picostev...

PiCoSteveMo 3

A game jam from 2025-11-01 to 2025-12-01 hosted by BaseCase. PiCoSteveMo is a noncompetitive month-long jam where participants create a PICO-8 game inspired by a Stephen King work. This is the third i...

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Peter M.J. Gross @petermjgross.bsky.social · 2d

Just a couple of weeks left. He skipped out at the start of September, and he did it again at the start of October.

🤞The start of November is just around the corner.🤞

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 2d

Have you filled out the IF Comp survey yet? Please consider completing it.
golmac.org/your-opinion...

Your Opinion Matters to Us - Gold Machine

I know we're all tired of talking about this, but. But!

golmac.org

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Evan Bernick, a finite mode with a smol hooman and a lorg floof @evanbernick.bsky.social · 3d

npr: so, no kings

tyrannosaurus rex: yes

npr: how shall I put this

trex: this interview is over

Virginia Sapiro @vsapiro.bsky.social · 3d

A dinosaur talking with an NPR producer.

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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 4d

I saw some folks thinking that voice acting in games was objectively good, always a positive. "What kind of game doesn't have voice acting in 2025?!" sorta thing

I say that there are positive reasons why one would choose NOT to have VO.

How many design justifications we can come up with?

Join me

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Melanie @macsmail.bsky.social · 3d

Charlottesville #NoKings protest

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