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Nathalie Lawhead
@alienmelon.bsky.social
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i make experimental games, net-art, and software ~Tetrageddon, Everything is going to be OK, Electric Zine Maker, BlueSuburbia…
🔥 http://tetrageddon.com
🦄 http://unicornycopia.com
🐘 [email protected]
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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · Aug 26
individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto
alienmelon.itch.io/shovelware
"This is an interactive-essay-meets-walking-sim about technocapitalism and the things we lost along the way."
🦴💕✨🐛💥
#GameDev #IndieGame #IndieGames #IndieGameDev #LiminalSpace
Exploring the Windows 3D maze screensaver you find a smiley face lurking from behind the corner. The face is very big. It looks menacing. In a room with monitors piled on a trashcan. There are papers surrounding the dumpster, and bags of trash in the corner. Someone cleared out in a hurry. Entering the classic 3D maze screensaver. There are rats up ahead. You must collect them. Turning a corner to find old CRT monitors piled against the wall. Mice are dangling from the ceiling. The "Start" icon is in the corner.
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alienmelon.bsky.social
i published my most recent talk on altgames and alternative digital culture as a cure to technofascism… to my @itch.io blog too: itch.io/blog/1128562...
thanks for reading 🙏💕
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
Yesterday I gave a talk as part of Ljudmila's Kontrolerji series of events . The day before, a friend had an exhibition opening where him and another artist made an installation (a game-like playable....
itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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kiteline.bsky.social
SOUP ROOMS is a collaborative minimalist art-game featuring over 100 ROOMS created by cool and talented indie devs from around the world.

Admission is free of charge, and you can even make your own ROOMS and SOUP-like games to share with others!

We hope you enjoy your stay.

LINKS BELOW!

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November 29, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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Feed: "The Candybox Blog"
By: alienmelon on Thursday, November 27, 2025
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
Yesterday I gave a talk as part of Ljudmila’s Kontrolerji series of events. The day before, a friend had an exhibition opening where him and another artist made an installation (a game-like playable installation) about mold. It was beautiful to see in person. – Image of me from Ljudmila Before that I was part of IDFA’s DocLab and gave a zine making workshop (along with participating in other parts of the program). – Image of me playing “individualism in the dead internet age” at IDFA Sometimes I feel like I stepped into a totally different world. One where I no...
www.nathalielawhead.com
November 29, 2025 at 6:01 PM
alienmelon.bsky.social
i published my most recent talk on altgames and alternative digital culture as a cure to technofascism… to my @itch.io blog too: itch.io/blog/1128562...
thanks for reading 🙏💕
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
Yesterday I gave a talk as part of Ljudmila's Kontrolerji series of events . The day before, a friend had an exhibition opening where him and another artist made an installation (a game-like playable....
itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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djprotomill.bsky.social
@alienmelon.bsky.social speaks once again and the world brightens with possibilities and quotable insights.

"Individuals matter in this space."
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
Yesterday I gave a talk as part of Ljudmila's Kontrolerji series of events . The day before, a friend had an exhibition opening where him and another artist made an installation (a game-like playable....
itch.io
November 29, 2025 at 1:21 PM
alienmelon.bsky.social
“We need to create something different. We need a different narrative that fuels game creating and digital art… One that is free from this hyper-consumerist ideology that has eaten all of tech and created the groundwork for fascism.”
alienmelon.bsky.social Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 2d
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/alt...
"It seems more pressing than ever to stand up to that type of fascist censorship that is eating digital culture."
#GameDev #IndieGame
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
www.nathalielawhead.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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alienmelon.bsky.social
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/alt...
"It seems more pressing than ever to stand up to that type of fascist censorship that is eating digital culture."
#GameDev #IndieGame
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
www.nathalielawhead.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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chrisdeleon.bsky.social
somebody made a web playable version of a game boy style port of this
November 19, 2025 at 12:29 AM
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heytibo.bsky.social
Reworking on my multimesh tool (based on the naive tool I made a while back)

✅ Draw / Erase instances
✅ Simple grid spatial partitioning

#godotengine #gamedev
November 27, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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jordanmagnuson.bsky.social
Game Poems is coming soon! A free online 'magazine' featuring new short-form videogames in a playable format. Add your email to our Substack to be notified when issue 1 is available online: gamepoems.substack.com/subscribe
November 28, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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datagoblin.bsky.social
if you like my free fonts and have been looking for an excuse to support me, look no further!

bundle includes:
+ monogram: monospace pixel font w/ extensive language support
+ DUNGEON.mode: roguelike-ish textmode font & tileset

small thank you gift included with purchase!

itch.io/s/171023/sup...
November 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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celechii.itch.io
last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')
comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face
November 29, 2025 at 1:48 AM
alienmelon.bsky.social
this entire thread is a must read.
plasmaring.bsky.social Plasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 2d
I wonder what they think of the rest of the content if they believe sending the trailer alone to a "gray-suited centrist dad type" wouldn't garner the same reaction. But it's not a new idea! The past decade has been governed by the idea that there's a normie threshold it's irresponsible to cross.
November 28, 2025 at 4:11 AM
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plasmaring.bsky.social
"an absolute no-no" okay I thought I was using hyperbole in discussing how people talk about this stuff but fuck me. Every time an intentionally disturbing creative decision raises controversy, it's like "wuh oh. :/ I guess they didn't realize how this looks to Normal People. Whoopsie-doodle."
alienmelon.bsky.social Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 3d
i know you’re not supposed to read the conversation in the comments but the conversation is depressing and anti-art in all the typical ways to justify censorship… like there’s so much to unpack here especially with how quickly people paint art as “abuse” when it discusses difficult topics.
November 27, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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tronotized.bsky.social
Fantastic read!
alienmelon.bsky.social Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 2d
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/alt...
"It seems more pressing than ever to stand up to that type of fascist censorship that is eating digital culture."
#GameDev #IndieGame
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
www.nathalielawhead.com
November 27, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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alienmelon.bsky.social
relevant to this & posted just now 👉 www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/alt...
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
www.nathalielawhead.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:49 PM
alienmelon.bsky.social
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/alt...
"It seems more pressing than ever to stand up to that type of fascist censorship that is eating digital culture."
#GameDev #IndieGame
Alternative Games From The Fringes Of Cyberspace (fighting for art and something better in this dystopian digital world)
www.nathalielawhead.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:13 PM
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jenothee.bsky.social
Wishing I wasn't seeing a return of the Nazi party's 'degenerate art' ideology in real time, I tell you.
November 27, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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astralecho.bsky.social
I AM SO FUCKING SICK OF THESE NEO PURITANS INTENT ON DEVALUING THE HARDWORK AND PASSION OF ARTISTS BECAUSE THEY SIMPLY THINK SOMETHING IS "BAD"

AND SO FUCKING WHAT

I AM SO SICK OF THIS DESIRE FOR A WORLD FREE OF "BAD" ART - WHATEVER THE FUCK THAT'S EVEN SUPPOSED TO MEAN

FUCK
November 27, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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alienmelon.bsky.social
art isn’t always going to make you comfortable. it’s treating art in this puritan sense where it has to please you, then it’s just a consumerist product… and we have these storefronts (payment processors too) constantly dictating what counts as art. in hypocritical ways. it’s grim really.
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
alienmelon.bsky.social
i know you’re not supposed to read the conversation in the comments but the conversation is depressing and anti-art in all the typical ways to justify censorship… like there’s so much to unpack here especially with how quickly people paint art as “abuse” when it discusses difficult topics.
comment to the article arguing “It's not really a gray zone. It's skirting fettishised child-abuse, which is an absolute no-no. We don't really know what happened here and likely never will, but for all the posts below saying this is about Valve being evil, it's just as possible that they have an internal blacklist for developers who stray way over the line and into territory that's going to be legally very risky in many countries. I can see how the scene as described would do just that. I suspect what we have here is a case of a bunch of artsy types who, trapped in a bit of a creative bubble, don't actually realise how some of this stuff is going to look to "normal" people. They may do well to hire a gray-suited centrist-dad type to act as a bit of an internal nay-sayer and stop them doing stuff like sending scenes where children ride naked people in horse masks to companies like Valve.” comment arguing “Some people don't understand that it isn't always the artist who gets to define what is and isn't sexual and that some artists are weird.”
November 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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cathroon.itch.io
waow 800 whole people have downloaded what has been called "truly fantastic and incredibly evocative" and "it's not a long experience", perhaps u too should take a gander.......
cathroon.itch.io catherine ⬛ @cathroon.itch.io · Sep 7
EVERYTHING SPIRALS TO A FINAL POINT OF UNIFICATION

THE SACRED ΩMEGA POINT
cathroon.itch.io/omega-point

A MIXTAPE AT THE END OF THE WORLD

[FLASHING IMAGE WARNING]
November 23, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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chickenhat.bsky.social
A demo for my new game, ᴛᴜᴍᴏʀ ɴᴇᴄʀᴏꜱɪꜱ ꜰᴀᴄᴛᴏʀ:// αᴍᴇɴ, is now out on itchio!
chickenhat.itch.io/tumor-necros...

Tear through the decaying earth as a mutant half-worm in this House of the Dead inspired rail shooter!

If you play it please feel free to leave a review.
#horror #indiegame #lowpoly
November 2, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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hantani.bsky.social
Two weeks to Angeline Era releasing! Been nervous about the release but very happy that testers are enjoying searching for levels across its overworlds, as well as the bumpslash combat and story!

store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
November 25, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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ko-op.com
We're excited to announce YOUNG SUNS: a new narrative-rich co-op life sim set on Jupiter. Experience life in an optimistic future full of colorful characters. Play solo or with up to 3 friends. Visit planetoids, ruins, and stations. Craft and decorate. Help society heal.

youtu.be/rVEWbp1FiKg?...
KO_OP Game Reveal & Presentation
YouTube video by KO_OP
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November 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM