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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19h

new laurels added!

(this is the dutch premier of the project 😌)

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 5d

just spotted that cyberpunk does doom-style sprites for distant cars and characters... amazing

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Mike Cook @mtrc.bsky.social · 19h

Friends if you work at a creative tech/games/etc company in and around London, and you'd be willing to hire some internship/placement students for 2-3 months over summer, please let me know! I have incredibly smart and engaged undergrads looking for summer opportunities.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19h

“individualism in the dead internet age” is in the IDFA DocLab selection!
festival.idfa.nl/en/film/0307...
“IDFA DocLab: Off the Internet explores the paradox of our time: the growing desire to disconnect, the impossibility of ever truly logging off, and the inherent privilege of stepping offline.”

individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto (2025) | IDFA Festival

Do you remember the good old days when the internet had just begun—dialing up your connection to the charming zzzzz-screee-brrr of your modem, and then updating your MySpace page? The early inte...

festival.idfa.nl

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 15h

good i’m glad they found a sustainable solution to the crises

Hard Drive @hard-drive.net · 15h

Sam Altman has said any workers who are displaced by OpenAI will be given free transportation to the nearest culling facility where they will be summarily slaughtered and converted into a nutritious paste meant to be consumed by busy tech executives who don’t have time for regular meals.

Sam Altman explains Open AIs vision for a world where no one goes hungry because all the displaced workers will be converted into essential nutrients for other tech executives.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 17h

aaah that’s awesome!
congratulations!! 🥳🎉✨

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19h

this is probably how word of mouth folktales started. basic job trials & tribulations that over time became more and more exaggerated until they became cautionary horror 😆

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19h

new laurels added!

(this is the dutch premier of the project 😌)

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 19h

“individualism in the dead internet age” is in the IDFA DocLab selection!
festival.idfa.nl/en/film/0307...
“IDFA DocLab: Off the Internet explores the paradox of our time: the growing desire to disconnect, the impossibility of ever truly logging off, and the inherent privilege of stepping offline.”

individualism in the dead-internet age: an anti-big tech asset flip shovelware r̶a̶n̶t̶ manifesto (2025) | IDFA Festival

Do you remember the good old days when the internet had just begun—dialing up your connection to the charming zzzzz-screee-brrr of your modem, and then updating your MySpace page? The early inte...

festival.idfa.nl

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 20h

omg 🥲 someday i hope someone makes a book of compiled short IT stories and publishes it as horror because i think it would be a huge hit. it would appeal to people that don’t know and are horrified, but be cathartic and relatable to people in that field.

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Gordon Little @gord.games · 21h

It's called a horror story but could just be called "any Tuesday" because nothing in here is surprising or shocking when you've been in IT and had to deal with vendors*.

*not all vendors. Just some. They know who they are.

Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 23h

😱 a horror story based on real events 💀
The Email They Shouldn't Have Read
it-notes.dragas.net/2025/10/08/t...
“Because when a company that claims to “support open source” behaves like that, we all lose.
…And that’s the real horror of the story - not the software, but what people do with it.”

The Email They Shouldn't Have Read

A real-world horror story about contracts, control, and the dark side of managed open source.

it-notes.dragas.net

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 20h

omg 😂🥲

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 22h

thank you! that would be helpful. i have a rough outline of what i want to show, with the aim of guiding everyone to building something, also games to play as "homework"...
but having something to compare this all to would help.
thank you!!

Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 23h

😱 a horror story based on real events 💀
The Email They Shouldn't Have Read
it-notes.dragas.net/2025/10/08/t...
“Because when a company that claims to “support open source” behaves like that, we all lose.
…And that’s the real horror of the story - not the software, but what people do with it.”

The Email They Shouldn't Have Read

A real-world horror story about contracts, control, and the dark side of managed open source.

it-notes.dragas.net

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ncnvrgnt @inconvergent.net · 1d

the alternative office of geometry will be open at normal angles tomorrow.

(always observe safety procedures)

unedited rendering. an inverse u shape constructed from rectangular black blocks. some blocks are made of white, cyan or magenta glass. light streams in from left and right. reflective base

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RPG in a Box (Bring Your Ideas to Life!) @rpginabox.bsky.social · 1d

I'm getting old... I turned 43 today! 👴 Want to get me a birthday gift? Tell someone about RPG in a Box today! It's the quickest and easiest way to help it grow and improve, and enables me to add cool new features so everyone can make their dream game! ❤️🕹

#rpginabox #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 1d

By changing only a single byte in the code of Mario Paint, the music composer will not stop at the end of the song and instead continue to play the entire contents of the console's memory as music.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 1d

soon i’ll also be starting teaching game design for a semester at a university here. i’m both excited and worried about doing a good job. i never officially taught before so now i’ll finally experience how that’s like 😌

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 1d

yay it looks like tomorrow i’ll be able to announce some amazing news i’ve been sitting on for a while 🥳🍀✨
🤞🤞🤞

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 1d

this last one is a really interesting example. highlights how other mediums have similar concerns with balancing how story is told.
i do agree, it largely depends, especially on the type of game.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 1d

with pattern i mean like the established mode of playing it, the habbit of existing in it, just all that familiarity... then you'd let it break and get strange again with that surrounding infinity... imo.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 1d

yes, it's really interesting! imo out of bounds is also about familiarity becoming unfamiliar (like how RDR2's has animals that just stare and don't run away, the way it "breaks" while still functioning)... so you'd have to establish the game's "pattern" first before breaking it apart into infinity.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 1d

this idea is poetry 😭🥲
how beautiful that would be!
out of bounds exploration is everything special about video games.

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Nathalie Lawhead @alienmelon.bsky.social · 1d

allowing exploration is always more compelling than when a player feels guided.

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Adam Hartling @xenosns.bsky.social · 2d

Happy soon birthday!

I'm terrible at picking favs, but I do have this itch list of recommended creepy games that don't have big jump scares, I've been adding to it for years.

itch.io/c/392849/cre...

Creepy Games With No Jump Scares - Collection by XenosNS

A collection by XenosNS

itch.io

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