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Maddy Thorson

@maddymakesgames.com

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Madeline Stephanie Thorson makes games ~ Celeste, TowerFall, etc 🏳️‍⚧️ gender criminal maddymakesgames.com

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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 15h

apparently you can remove items from a C# hashset while iterating over it in a foreach now. huh. I can't find any documentation confirming this but... it works

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John @farawaytimes.bsky.social · 24d

floating munchers are so fucking back

screenshot from maddy thorson's aptly named kaizo hack "Masterpiece"

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 22h

Today’s “P-Fact”!

Some women are born with a penis

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Wagatwe Wanjuki @wagatwe.com · 8d

watching waffles turn from a light-hearted joke about social media dynamics into a right-wing dog whistle in a few days on here has been wild.

Gwen Snyder is undead @gwensnyder.bsky.social · 8d

What stage of "great work, Jay" is it when a single follower account going by Francisco Franco is posting AI waffle animations in my repies

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 8d

This is part of why I make romhacks lol

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mcc @dryad.technology · 9d

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 10d

id be fine (arguably better off) without social media if i need to

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 10d

the thing is they're profiting off of the value we add. I find it hard to see staying as an act of defiance, knowing that

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 10d

maybe its time to pack it up

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 10d

its either that or frankly unbelievable incompetence

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 10d

it feels like the only reasonable interpretation of the bsky leadership actions right now is that they actively want trans people to leave

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 10d

yikes

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Amora ✨ @amora.ink · Oct 2

Happy October!! 💜🧡
#BRart

The character Badeline, from the game Celeste, levitating amidst red autumn leaves. She has long, purple hair floating around her, and is holding a yellow cup of coffee.

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 11d

maybe this says more about me, but l feel like that might make them more likely to fuck

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 11d

Jane Goodall, ethologist and conservationist, has died. She was 91

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 11d

<3 love the cosplay!! glad you got something out of it :)

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DustinVG @dustinvg.com · 12d

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SIFTER @sifterhq.bsky.social · 12d

"When we release a game, we don't fully understand it, right? People playing it and talking about it we learn more about it and ourselves." @maddymakesgames.com + @noelfb.bsky.social share the story of CELESTE ahead of their talk at ACMI next week
INTERVIEW: www.sifter.com.au/post/celeste...

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chloe @ccezra.bsky.social · 13d

Game Garden 2025 was a resounding success!! We had roughly 3300 attendees this year and even hit the ppl cap for some of the talks.

If you attended, we have a short public feedback form available. Any and all feedback is appreciated!
forms.gle/78u1aCRE8MCp...

And now I am in HIBERNATION 💤

2025 Game Garden Public Feedback

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kuraine @lena.fyi · 13d

(DEEP BREATH) you can wishlist it NOW, from the comfort of your own home/phone/wherever:

store.steampowered.com/app/2895500/...

and follow my blog for development updates:
blog.radicaldream.land

ANOTHEREAL on Steam

Accompany Astra as she discovers the world outside her solitude and uncovers the mysteries of the Real. Engage in shmup-style combat encounters to leave an impact and fight back against the ones who w...

store.steampowered.com

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Miyanda Nehwati 🇿🇼 @emmessenn.com · Jul 16

Ohhh Andrea Gibson ;(

Text: poem by Andrea Gibson :every time i ever said i want to die
By Andrea Gibson

A difficult life is not less worth living than a gentle one.
Joy is simply easier to carry than sorrow. And your heart could lift a city from how long you've spent holding what's been nearly impossible to hold.
This world needs those who know how to do that.
Those who could find a tunnel that has no light at the end of it, and hold it up like a telescope to know the darkness also contains truths that could bring the light to its knees.
Grief astronomer, adjust the lens, look close, tell us what you see.

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 14d

the update is submitted to smwcentral awaiting moderation and you can play it now if you want to :) www.smwcentral.net?p=section&a=...

hopefully it isnt broken lol

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 14d

...which in turn meant going back to EVERY LEVEL of this game and finding interesting/fun/silly ways to make them harder. I had a blast doing it tbh

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 14d

this is the idea that forced me to make this update lol

Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 14d

im proud of the Masterpiece v1.2 changelog :) pastebin.com/mzBRBWi9

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