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Jeff Tanton
@jefftanton.bsky.social
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Indie dev. Former Studio Creative Director at Mediatonic/Epic - Fall Guys, Murder by Numbers, Foul Play. He/Him
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sitcompeople.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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If my organization had no space for the fundamental decency of Robin Ince then I would probably start asking deeply searching questions about the goals of that organization.
robinince.bsky.social Robin Ince @robinince.bsky.social · 2d
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Heavy Rain (2010)
A picture of Diddy Kong Racing with the multilayer error “Lost All Children”
December 7, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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This show left indelible, often traumatic marks on my 5 yr old brain. The best to ever do it (a French-Anime Homeric Space Opera)
thespaceshipper.com The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 9d
Ulysses 31 (TV, 1981-1982).

Jean Chalopin: "We were told that if we wanted to sell something in France, we needed a cultural alibi. We wanted to do science fiction because it was up to date. I'm not sure how Ulysses got into the discussions anymore, but one thing was said: in Homer's time..."
December 6, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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Dreamcast Virtual Memory compatibility confirmed for Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator
writnelson.bsky.social Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 10d
Not this time - we're gonna focus on making the game as good as it can be, then figure out if there's a batshit thing that's the best fit for THIS world post-launch!
ladykalma.bsky.social Lady Kalma @ladykalma.bsky.social · 10d
Kinect support?
December 5, 2025 at 7:18 AM
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flyingrodent.bsky.social
Note how these awful people are getting exactly the exclusions of children that they demanded and *that still isn’t enough for them*: they demand everyone be delighted about it and kiss their arses for being brilliant.
Johann Lamont @JohannLamont• 1d X Girlguiding decision important yet it all makes me sad. The Guides meant so much to me but the announcement is so grudging, so reluctant, so concerned about the impact on boys, I wonder if it can ever again give girls the brilliant, confidence building space in which I thrived. • 93 {7 316 O3.1K I|41K •
December 4, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Spent large portion of my life at small gigs and never miss the opportunity to tell good support bands how fucking great they were. You can just say it and move on, everyone’s happy.
brendelbored.bsky.social Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 11d
I’ve sometimes fallen into the trap of thinking that complementing a creative person for their work is less sophisticated or desired than discussion or debate about it but very often the best thing you can say to them is hell yeah and that doesn’t make you dumb it just makes you nice
December 4, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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About to finally jump the Spotify ship. Anyone on Deezer (or other platform) who can share pros/cons?
December 4, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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Single-handedly ending the Pluribus by kicking off a UX meeting.
December 3, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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I’ve been mainlining The Devils Plan for the past two weeks. Generally amazing and essential viewing if into game design but my GOODNESS season 2 fumbles the dismount hard.
December 1, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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(A portal opens up beside a handsome stallion in a Victorian paddock)

“Beauty… I’m putting a team together.”
December 1, 2025 at 9:19 AM
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marcusjdl.bsky.social
A controversial opinion in the UK: having a standard emails job then sitting in a house you bought for a song and watching it rise exponentially in value due to political choices that have nothing to do with you is not it fact “working very hard to get what you have”
November 29, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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aplante.com
i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
screenshot of a tumblr post from user “wildmansters” The thing that really boils my potatoes about Al in general is that I have been a creative professional for over a decade now and the devil has ALWAYS been in the details. Big and small, I've had single-person businesses rip me to shreds over how their colors turned out on newsprint, and have worked with huge companies with THICK brand guidelines with every detail of their brand identity laid out and enforced with an iron fist. But I guess all of that stuff doesn't matter anymore? Who gives a fuck if this Al generated baby has six fingers, that mom-and-pop shop is still going to use it. That rug from Temu says Happy Thanksgivirg? Oh well haha it's just a silly funny thing now (nevermind that you never would have given a B-grade item from a craft show the same consideration). I don't actually care that the Al Coca-cola ad has a truck that changes size every scene, but I can't help but think about how, if it had been some poor underpaid artist, they would have been laughed out of the building. I don't really know how to put it in a succint way but it just feels all the more obvious how much more grace and flexibility has always been possible but never offered.
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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computerjames.itch.io
tired of games adding unecessary stealth missions for no reason? Well im not!

STEALTH CROSSWORD is out now✨ ComputerJames.itch.io/stealth-cw

🧩6 mins of Stealth Crossword Action!
👑Two endings ('caught' and 'not caught')
💻Play in browser
April 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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misterabk.bsky.social
Weird the way the entire world went mad and only the creator of the IT Crowd was unaffected.
November 28, 2025 at 11:38 AM
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olddog.games
Blades '68! It's all go!

Here are some chapter openers I've been working on.
Two opening illustrations for Blades '68. On the left, "Introduction", with a woman wearing a black outfit and polka dot headscarf, firing a pistol. On the right, "Characters", with two figures standing in foreground. Once is a dark-skinned man wearing a double-breasted jacket, and beside him is a woman wearing a sort of poncho thing (I don't know what it's called). Anyway, it's all very 1960s. Two chapter opener illustrations for Blades '68. On the left is "Crews", with five 1960s figures walking across the frame. On the right is "System Changes", with a man in a suit working at a huge room-sized computer system.
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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apachesmash.bsky.social
Francis was more Mike Shinoda whereas Leo is more Chester
November 24, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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ninfadp.bsky.social
FRIENDS! 💛

My team at @bluebackpack.bsky.social and I just released The Berlin Apartment, the game we’ve worked on for the past 4 years! 😭💛

Give us so much love, wishlist and buy! ✨

store.steampowered.com/app/2280430/...
November 17, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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frayed-symphony.bsky.social
One last #huevember - rainy Kyoto streets #ocsky
A photo of a street in Kyoto with a blue and orange Photoshop hue and cutout filter. There are three characters standing under an umbrella - Meikai who is clinging to Reimi looking up at the rain as she holds her umbrella over Harvey who is checking a restaurant menu next to them on his phone
November 21, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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nelsanderson.zone
Generation Exile Sustainability Edition (i.e. the everything bundle) is 48% off right now as part of the Games from Vancouver Steam event!

store.steampowered.com/bundle/60317...
November 21, 2025 at 7:44 PM
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wittywebhandle.bsky.social
You know the bubble is cooked when it can be explained like this.
The powerstrip-plugged-into-itself-as-a-brain meme is featured but is three interlocking instances. One is labeled Oracle w/ a plug from Nvidia reading $40bn of NVIDIA chip purchases for OpenAI datacenters One is labeled Open AI reading $300bn deal for datacenters with Oracle and $200 bn deal to buy NVIDIA chips One is labeled Nvidia with $200 investment into Open AI and goes into the first one in the sequence, Oracle
November 21, 2025 at 4:18 AM
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My new favourite anime is every single member of Team Mongolia in Physical: Asia
Pillar endurance with Enkh-Orgil and Adiyasuren Acrobat Lkhagva- Ochir Team Mongolia make an entrance The moment Adiyasuren knew she’d hold out longer
November 20, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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lithiumproject.bsky.social
12 weeks of prototype devving later

Taking a small break soon (and trying to find work), but delighted with how the project is coming together so far.

#indiedev
A penguin flying around in a hot air balloon A penguin in a cafe a penguin flying around in a hot air balloon a penguin talking to a wolf who is a postman
November 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
jefftanton.bsky.social
They could simply put the delay between releases down to scheduling issues.
gaudipern.bsky.social Bo Thompson @gaudipern.bsky.social · Nov 14
If we ever were to get a sequel to D&D Honor Among Thieves, I'd hope they'd keep the exact same cast... but roll new characters on a new campaign. It would make watching them as a double feature both SO D&D accurate but also SO HILARIOUS.
November 14, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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This is honestly the best effort I’ve seen to try and categorize “Knowledge” games.

Especially helpful as I’ve now discovered I’m making a *checks notes* deductive learn-action game.
November 13, 2025 at 7:10 AM