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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 7h

🚢🚢🚢 GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!! 🚢🚢🚢

Introducing ☀️CRUISE CONTROL☀️, our take on the management tycoon genre

- Deck out your cruise liner fleet
- Entertain and relax your guests with various facilities
- Hire staff, and keep building to meet the demand

WISHLIST NOW: store.steampowered.com/app/3973220/...

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Vipère @troglodette.bsky.social · 23d

Alright let's go through some of the tips I've shared with this project! 🧵👩‍🏫

Vipère @troglodette.bsky.social · 29d

Soooo apparently Project Lepidora is out? ⛲🦋✨

... With all the project files free to download?! And a handbook???

👇👇👇
www.artstation.com/artwork/XJX6x3

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Rihards Valters @rihards3d.bsky.social · 1d

That's awesome! Congrats Des 🥳

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Mike Rose @mikerose.bsky.social · 1d

Tomorrow, we're revealing the first No More Robots developed game

But actually, it's our *third* game. You just didn't hear about the first two.

It turns out that making games is really hard??? Who knew honestly, someone should talk about this really

Hopefully somebody cares! We love it a lot <3

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Riley Neville @riley.sbug.games · 1d

It's fixed! Isopod is now out! Please go buy it! store.steampowered.com/app/2053910/...

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Sos Sosowski @sosowski.bsky.social · 2d

So, @jetbrains.com is adding more and more AI tools to your IDE without telling you. I have zero trust left.

Why can't you just tell me so I can disable this?

The spellchecker plugin, hidden in "Other" uses AI, with zero disclosure. I had to go to the website to see it

bsky.app/profile/soso...

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Johan Toresson @jtoresson.bsky.social · 3d

Ouch but.... Not false. We need people to drop the excel sheets and get in early, get in and take risk instead of just being fucking middlemen. If you're taking revenue % - fucking earn it.

Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

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Mike Bithell @mikebithell.bsky.social · 4d

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 3d

In the same article it says that Microsoft executes believe OpenAI would fail
www.theinformation.com/articles/mic...

After striking the blockbuster deal in 2023, several top Microsoft executives told colleagues around that time that they thought OpenAI’s business would eventually fail, even if its technology was good, according to a former manager who discussed it with them.

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kelsey irene @holographic.pink · 8d

hello it's #portfolioday !!!

always around for 3D generalist work-- my largest body of work is character work, but i've done props and environments in the past, very versatile

get in here early and you get my great personality and jokes for free 🤸‍♀️ there's also more at tinyurl.com/sz2yjpe3 !

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 8d

I can confirm that starting a sale on the sale day as Next Fest was a bad idea.

Anyway, our games are on sale including this fab bundle:
store.steampowered.com/bundle/47778...

Save 56% on Heroines of Solitaire on Steam

store.steampowered.com

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Grayson @wildrumpus.bsky.social · 8d

Hi #portfolioday !

I am a 3D artist who has work on game covers, kids TV, advertising and toys! I love to make cute characters that look real!

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Lazy Eti @lazyeti.bsky.social · 9d

Happy Birthday Paradise Marsh!
To celebrate, the game is 75% off! That's cheap as dirt!

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Rihards Valters @rihards3d.bsky.social · 9d

Getting stuck with 6 tons of wood pellets right into the damn driveway.
Definelty wasn't on my Monday bingo card

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Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 9d

I'm looking at an old 1998 game dev magazine for reasons and came across this ad. The reason I never get excited about new technology is it's just the same promises over and over and over again forever. This could easily just be about a genAI NPC system.

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Jana Reinhardt🧹⚔️Mops & Mobs @ratqueen.bsky.social · 9d

Spooktober has reached the Dungeon! Play our demo before #Halloween and enjoy some hauntingly festive decorations in Mops & Mobs!

🎃Boo! s.team/a/2851050

#madewithgodot #pumpkin #adventure #dungeon #indiedev #gamedev #narrativegame

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Sam @saminton.bsky.social · 11d

Experimenting with some environment puzzle mechanics #screenshotsaturday

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Mike W @gekido.bsky.social · 11d

so Google just added a bunch (more) AI bullshit to Chrome

Go through these steps to disable it:

opus.ing/posts/how-to...

#chrome #aibullshit

How to Remove AI From Your Google Chrome Experience - Opus

Follow these steps to resist the AI-pocalypse in your everyday web browsing.

opus.ing

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James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 11d

Quick 🧵 about false joints in stone arches:

Arches, in one sense, are just an answer to the limits of the material: how to bridge large spans with small stones. And when the spans are small or the stones large then you don’t really need to arch. They become a formal device, an aesthetic scheme.

James Taite @jamestaite.bsky.social · 13d

Benjamin Brown House, Forfar, ON, ca. 1849

yer typical late-Georgian vernacular, distinguished by the mushroom-cap lintels masquerading as semi-elliptical arches, notional voussoirs incised

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ElisaLevin💜🐞👁 @elisalevin.bsky.social · 11d

Hey hey! I've been working on an action platformer for the Gameboy Color that tries to keep the gameplay and polish of a modern bombastic platformer!

This is Wasp Rider, though right now it's only a really small demo.

bsky.app/profile/elis...

ElisaLevin💜🐞👁 @elisalevin.bsky.social · 21d

WASP RIDER: ROYAL DELIVERY - 1/2 DEMO IS NOW RELEASED!

WELCOME to a world of bugs, adventure and mushroom squashing violence! All on the Gameboy Color!

The true, first, small demo of Wasp Rider: Royal Delivery, an action platforming game with 2 levels and the first boss!
youtu.be/RsZ1qCrNrOo

Wasp Rider: Royal Delivery - 1/2 DEMO RELEASE TRAILER

YouTube video by ElisaLevin

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ShawnTheMiller @shawnthemiller.bsky.social · Feb 27

For Omochapon I needed to do a little explaining to help the player out but didn’t want it to be text heavy.

Mostly because of regionalising the text but also for fun as a visual! I love these little instruction sheets! 😍😍

#IndieDev #GameDev #MadeWithUnity

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Keith W. Dickinson @keithwdickinson.bsky.social · 14d

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Natalie Spitzel @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 17d

Reminder that I'm looking for work after being affected by layoffs at Giant Squid. 3D Environment Artist, or 3D Artist/Props; ideally a full time position. If your studio or somewhere you know has an opening, please let me know. Thank you ❤️
Portfolio: nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

Natalie Spitzel

Experienced 3D Environment Artist in the Game Industry Looking for full-time work

nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

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Alastair Low Lowtek Games FLEA!2 out now🔜GAMESIS Spain @alastairlow.bsky.social · 18d

At Blackpool #playexpo where you can try out chew chew mimic on #ngage for the first time :o
#screenshotsaturday #nesdev #indiegame #gamedev #homebrew

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WooOOoodjet Eye @wadjeteyegames.bsky.social · 18d

The entire Blackwell series is 70% off during the Steam Summer sale!

Eight years in the making, the Blackwell series tell the story of medium Rosa Blackwell and her spirit guide Joey Mallone as they help lost and lonely ghosts pass on.

Find them here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/6377/...

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