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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou

@kanaratron.bsky.social

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Indie Developer/Director @ Polygon Treehouse (Mythwrecked & Röki) • BAFTA Breakthrough 2021 • BAFTA Games & The Game Awards nominee • 2 x BAFTA Juror • Industry speaker & mentor • He/him Dundee (Scotland) https://www.polygon-treehouse.com/

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · Dec 5

📢 EEEP!!! MYTHWRECKED is OUT NOW

After *3 years* my next indie game (following Röki) is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox and Nintendo Switch...

🏝️ Explore a secret island
⚡️ Meet the gods of legend
🔎 Uncover the truth, behind the myth

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 17m

No harm will befall this pumpkin*

*terms and conditions may apply

A big pumpkin with a knife lurking ominously on the table beside it

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Davis Bickford @davis.social · 7h

Had so much fun at “Twin Peaks: A Conversation With The Stars.”

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Photo of me and my wife Lacey standing at the sign for Twin Peaks: A Conversation With The Stars

Photo of Sabrina Sutherland and Ray Wise sitting on a couch on stage at Twin Peaks: A Conversation With The Stars

Photo of Dana Ashbrook, Harry Goaz, and Kimmy Robertson sitting on a couch on stage

Photo of the stage at Paramount theater with the cast standing for Twin Peaks: A Conversation With The Stars

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 19m

Wow! Supremely jealous. 😍

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The Indie Brew - Your Indie Game Media Specialists @theindiebrew.com.au · 1h

The true cat experience 😹

Game 👉 Schrodinger's Cat Burglar

#SchrodingersCatBurglar #indiegames #paxaus @abandonedsheep.com

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 1h

UK Game devs - there's an open letter going to DCMS about a new Games Growth Relief. Get involved! ukie.org.uk/news/press-s...

Press start on growth - open letter to the Secretary of State for DCMS - Ukie

Open letter from leaders across the UK's video games and interactive entertainment industry to urge the Government to introduce a new Games Growth Relief in the forthcoming Autumn Budget

ukie.org.uk

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Moo Yu (Mythmatch) @oneofmoo.bsky.social · 3h

Got some lovely animations for this little guy from Hollie. Might have gotten the initial scale wrong, though.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 18h

Took a month, but the local birds have finally found their way to the avian spa I built for them!

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 4h

“I asked chat GPT”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 3d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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The Green Party of England & Wales @greenparty.org.uk · 5h

🎉 We've done it. We've passed 100,000 Green Party members!

📈 But we're not stopping there.

💚 Let's make hope normal again! Join the Green Party today!

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 5d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Neugin @lostcitymagic.bsky.social · 6h

With alt text so everyone can get it

Post from x account gooseymane that reads "can somebody explain to me why it's bad if immigrants take our jobs but it's good if a.i. does?"

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 16h

I think I'll load up this old CD-ROM that I found in a thrift store yesterday. It's a banned game from 1995 called Forbidden Solitaire!

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OverClocked ReMix (We ♥ video game music!) 🎮🎵 @ocremix.org · 20h

25 years in, we are NOT allowing genAI music onto OC ReMix, full stop.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

ocremix.org/remix/OCR04918
youtube.com/watch?v=fUsg...

Recent comment: "This A.I. music is as fake as 🏈 🦇."

In this case, this is human-made. (3 of our judges panel are also involved as collaborators on it: jnWake, pixelseph, and paradiddlesjosh.)

We explicitly do NOT accept any music made with generative A.I. There are tools out there that help identify genAI music. If music involving genAI is ever unknowingly let on, it will be removed if it's discovered.

We're 100% against genAI music and are a community geared toward authentic creativity and artistic development. You don't get that by doing text prompts.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 17h

Ah brill. Thanks for that Rhianna! 🙌🏻

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 17h

That 90s search engine aesthetic 👌🏻

A fictional (?) 90s web browser from the movie Fallen

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 17h

I'm excited for it. They have more to do in making a new version of 1 than they did with 2, so will definitely be very interesting.

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 18h

Spooky Season continues with Fallen...

A Blu-ray copy of Fallen starting Denzel Washington

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 18h

It had a recipe for beans on toast! I've been keeping my eyes open for the third one, so fingers crossed.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 18h

I'll take what I can get!

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 18h

...if they hang around for a little longer, squirrels come out and give them a foot rub.

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 18h

Took a month, but the local birds have finally found their way to the avian spa I built for them!

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rawb! 🏳️‍🌈✨🎾 @rawbherb.bsky.social · 18h

New Single just dropped! 🎵🎾 "Dueling Racquets" is the battle theme for #TheTennisAcademy composed by Piero Ramirez!

Listen to the whole thing on Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/6fsk61...

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 18h

One last weekend job, fitting a motion-activated light for Trico.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 19h

Ha, amazing :)

Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 19h

I can imagine. I bet that was a mission!