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they/them -📍Adelaide, South Australia Writing award-winning and critically beloved games since 2012: Eternal Strands, Necrobarista, Hacknet Labyrinths, and many more. https://damonreece.com

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priscilla 👻🚂🎶 SPOOKY EXPRESS @ghoulnoise.com · 4h

If you haven't checked out Spooky Express yet, here's my pitch! 🚂👻

You Get: A chillingly challenging puzzle game with the tone of a cartoon Halloween special 🎃

You Also Get: To support a small international team working sustainably & loving what they do 🥹

store.steampowered.com/app/3352310/...

Save 10% on Spooky Express on Steam

All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet!

store.steampowered.com

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Damon @damonreece.com · 5h

just checked and i'm 55 hours in. good luck

Damon @damonreece.com · 5h

yeah if you're not into fear grinding the postgame really is just... not it

Damon @damonreece.com · 7h

[through tears] not much what's up with youcloud

Damon @damonreece.com · 7h

what's upcloud

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James O’Connor @jickle.net · 18h

Going to toot my own horn for a moment: when I was at the SAFC I worked very hard to establish a games grant program to get funding to local developers, and now it’s finally announced and applications are open www.safilm.com.au/latest-news/...

South Australia’s video game sector levels up with new $100,000 Digital Games Fund grants and the return of SAGE: SA Game Exhibition - SAFC

South Australian video game developers will get a $100,000 opportunity to level-up their businesses with the South Australian Film Corporation’s (SAFC) new Digital Games Fund now open for applications...

www.safilm.com.au

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Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 22h

Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW!

🚂🧟🧛
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.

Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Damon @damonreece.com · 11h

Just heard about this. Woke gone mad??

Damon @damonreece.com · 14h

literal bluesky posting out here

Damon @damonreece.com · 14h

birdsong and sky - wattlebirds, magpies, lorikeets

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Damon @damonreece.com · 15h

in isolation I think it kinda rules

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Damon @damonreece.com · 1d

oh hell yeah

Damon @damonreece.com · 1d

go listen to Imaginal Disk, it has what you seek. maybe

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Damon @damonreece.com · 2d

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Alan Hazelden / Draknek & Friends @draknek.bsky.social · 2d

Spooky Express is OUT NOW on PC and Mobile! 🚂🎃

All the passengers are dying to ride the Spooky Express! Don’t let them miss their stops: they may be monsters, but they still have places to be and people to eat – er, we mean meet!

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🐍Rii 🐍 @lycheesnake.bsky.social · 7d

To see a brighter tomorrow.

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Damon @damonreece.com · 2d

yeah. I hope things start getting better.

Damon @damonreece.com · 2d

straight from the pages of “This Is What Unreal Could Look Like In 2025 👀😳 [LIVE REACTION]”

Damon @damonreece.com · 2d

Rainy evening.

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Daniel Benneworth-Gray @danielgray.com · 2d

Today in image research discoveries: Members of NASA's Lewis Research Center’s Educational Services Office pose with one of the center’s Spacemobile space science demonstration units, 1964.

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 2d

Tapping the sign.

Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · Aug 4

Wow we’re having “games are art” discourse again! Just gonna leave this here.

From my dissertation:

2.1 Lenses, Not Boxes
I wondered whether this section was necessary, but games discourse seems to repeatedly find itself adrift in questions of whether _ counts as a _. We have seen
the question repeatedly: Do games count as art? Do games without goals count as games? Is The Sims a game? Are hypertexts interactive fiction? Are
Twine pieces literature? In fairness to the researchers cited here, all of whom I respect immensely, many of these sources pose or imply the question rhetorically. Still, the necessity of such a framing frustrates me.
"Is _ a _?" is, in my opinion, a fruitless question. The question can never be answered to anyone's satisfaction, and it often serves as either a provocation
to espouse politics or as a cover to institute gatekeeping. Its agenda is usually opaque
to onlookers and bewildering to those trying to advance the field from across disciplines.
We should be thinking in lenses, not boxes.
It is always more interesting to ask "If we think of _ through the lens of _, what do we learn?" We know it is more interesting to ask "What do we learn
by considering Tom Stoppard through the lens of poststructuralism?" than to ask "Is Stoppard's work poststructuralist?" And while some works may be more or less fruitful when examined through different lenses, sometimes the most unlikely pairings of lenses and objects are the most rewarding. Certainly any of the questions above would be much better served by reframing them in this way.

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Damon @damonreece.com · 3d

absolutely banging shit right there

Damon @damonreece.com · 3d

🤝

Damon @damonreece.com · 3d

totally get it. From the outside I think it looks like you guys are in a good place, at this point it's basically out of your hands and you gotta just focus on getting through it on a human level. Been keeping you all in my thoughts!

Damon @damonreece.com · 3d

lol yeah the rates on necro were awful

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