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Octavi Navarro
@octavinavarro.bsky.social
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Pixel artist and ½ of @whiteblanketgames.bsky.social.
Developer of horror adventure games: Midnight Scenes, The Supper.
Artist on #ThimbleweedPark.
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Octavi Navarro @octavinavarro.bsky.social · Oct 23
We're happy to announce we're cooking up the 6th episode of our critically acclaimed horror series Midnight Scenes! 😱💀🩸
You can wishlist it now, and enjoy the other five episodes in the meantime! 👻

#Spooktober #Halloween
whiteblanketgames.bsky.social White Blanket Games @whiteblanketgames.bsky.social · Oct 23
A new episode of Midnight Scenes is coming…
A horror experience where every moment could be your last!

The countdown begins!

Wishlist now:
STEAM: bit.ly/4ob6H1i
GOG: bit.ly/3WkL56d

(RT’s appreciated)

#MidnightScenes #AmongGraves #pixelart #horror #creepy #indiegame #darkgame
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whiteblanketgames.bsky.social
🎁WEEKLONG DEALS🎁
📢All our games on sale!!
📅From 12/08 to 12/15!!
🛒 store.steampowered.com/curator/3767...

#MidnightScenes #TheLibrarian #TheSupper #Unwelcome #Sale #horror #pixelart #indiegame
December 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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naniiebim.bsky.social
I feel the clients now using GenAI to do stuff and going "good enough" when they used to nitpick at every last detail is due to them finding out all those nit picky changes take time and work they cant be bothered to put in.
December 8, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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whiteblanketgames.bsky.social
Welcome to the Morgan's House👻
#Unwelcome #horror #pixelart #gamedev #indiegame
December 7, 2025 at 9:22 AM
octavinavarro.bsky.social
Release a game on Steam, and in two weeks it will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
December 8, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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fireflowergames.bsky.social
Mystery Sale: fireflowergames.com/sales
Play DRM-free story rich games. Have fun and improve the world. - FireFlower Games
Download your story rich, DRM-free games for Windows, Linux and Mac from the purpose-driven and socially responsible store FireFlower Games.
fireflowergames.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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whiteblanketgames.bsky.social
A new episode of Midnight Scenes is coming…💀🪦
Turn on your speakers!!!🔊

www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMHg...

#AmongGraves #MidnightScenes #Episode6 #Horror #indiegame #gamedev #wishlistnow
Midnight Scenes: Among Graves Teaser Trailer
YouTube video by Octavi Navarro
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December 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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heyitsdora.com
The best way journalists can support indie games is to cover more than whatever the current indie hits/darlings of the moment are. Games like Hades, Blue Prince, and Silksong do not need help with visibility, but discoverability is the biggest challenge facing many indie devs today.
November 13, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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ludonautas.bsky.social
He empezado a jugar la antología de microjuegos de terror Midnight Scenes, de @octavinavarro.bsky.social y estoy enganchadísimo a estas pequeñas maravillas.
Historias autocontenidas, cortitas pero impactantes; tal y como eran los capítulos de The Twilight Zone o Outer Limits.
Delicatessen jugable.
November 30, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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whiteblanketgames.bsky.social
His worst fears are about to materialize...💀🪦

Wishlist now:
STEAM: bit.ly/4ob6H1i
GOG: bit.ly/3WkL56d

#MidnightScenes #AmongGraves #pixelart #horror #creepy #indiegame #darkgame
November 25, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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botherer.bsky.social
I forgot to say, earlier today I wrote about the catastrophically disastrous interview the Roblox CEO gave to the NYT about protecting children from predators. It's hard to overstate how badly it went.

kotaku.com/roblox-new-y...
"It doesn't begin well. When asked about the "scope of the problem" of predators in the application, Baszucki came in shoulders first saying, "We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well." Ah, the good ol' opportunities available when your company's product is rife with pedophilia. He continued, outlining how wonderful it is that young people can build and communicate together, how they have "150 million daily actives, 11 billion hours a month, like what is the best way to keep pushing this forward." It is the most astonishingly tone-deaf response." “I would actually say that is a very simple red flag. Like, that sounds like text filter many prior generations. So I would say the techniques are much more sophisticated than that. We're constantly getting better than that and sometimes it's adversarial. Like, we're getting into, you know, if we cryptographically were going to try to have an exchange of how to share your Snap handle or whatever handle. We see some of that starting, like things we'll have to essentially prevent in the future." “Fun,” says Baszucki, a man who appears pathologically incapable of reading the room. "Let's keep going down this. And so, first off, Hindenburg is not longer in existence, correct? So, you should report on that. They went out of business for some reason..." He then demanded to know if Newton had researched the answer for himself, before saying that it's because they've moved so much of the safety regulation onto AI, all while sounding absolutely furious that he was being asked. He then demands that Newton agree that if AI is more effective, it's better to use it, and when Newton does, Baszucki starts to behave incredibly immaturely. "Good, so you're aligning with what we did. High-five." Then when Newton tries to ask a question, he interrupts to say, "Thank you for supporting our Roblox decision matrix." Then interrupts yet again to say, "I'm so glad you guys are aligned with the way we run Roblox. High-five." Think he's done? Nope. Yet again he interrupts the question with, "Is this a stealth interview where actually you love everything we're doing and you're here to stealthily support it?"
November 21, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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unburntwitch.com
Since I evidently still have the critical acclaim juice, if you know of anyone who needs a narrative/content/game designer with technical and management skills, 15 years of experience, acclaim in related fields, and has some other fancy awards like being a Forbes 30 under 30, I’m your guy!
November 17, 2025 at 7:58 PM
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unburntwitch.com
finding out your game got nominated by The Game Awards in the group chat with other folks who got laid off is… just so painfully 2025
November 17, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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marcybones64.bsky.social
i still refuse to back down from my belief that every single living person has the capacity for artistic genius. society-as-profit has just crushed those of us who don't happen to luck out
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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cdubya719.bsky.social
The Supper: New Blood in Under 2 Minutes!

A darkly comedic Point and Click Adventure that channels it's inner Norman Bates!
📷Full vid: youtu.be/ofEu4VyvEJs
📷Catch me live Mon–Fri @ 11AM CST → lnk.bio/cdubya719

@octavinavarro.bsky.social #thesupper #NewBlood #pointandclick
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
octavinavarro.bsky.social
That Mouthwashing game is crazy.
November 6, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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spongejay1.bsky.social
Hell hath no fury like an angry clown insult comic cursed to wander some cheap fairgrounds for all eternity. It's a new episode of #ThimbleweedPark! #streamersupport #youtube @terribletoybox.com @grumpygamer.com #retro #pixelart #pointandclick buff.ly/ZFDRvD8
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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konstantinosd.bsky.social
Some wonderful C64 art ⇢ polytricity.itch.io/c64-art-coll...
November 4, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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emmfoolery.bsky.social
I made a shorter game (for DOS) with worse graphics (CGA) and I'm NOT KIDDING.

It's free, it's silly, and you can download it here!

(Est. 20-30 minutes for a first playthrough.)
Emmy, Fool of Fen by emmfoolery
A short, silly, swampy adventure for MS-DOS.
emmfoolery.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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scottlava.bsky.social
HAPPY HALLOWEEN, EVERYONE! Enjoy all your treats and soups!
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Greatshowdowns.com
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#greatshowdowns #youngfrankenstein #soup
October 31, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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thatdave.bsky.social
I didn't think I was going to do a pumpkin this year, but my son wouldn't allow that. So there's a new one up, a little rushy, but still fun:
phrenopolis.com/pumpkins/
The Pumpkin House of Horrors
Carvings from 1996 to the present.
phrenopolis.com
October 30, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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chuckwendig.bsky.social
I've said this about writing and art -- the goal was not to replace writers and artists with AI, the result was either:

a) *threaten* to replace them with AI, and use that as leverage to be able to pay them less

b) replace them unsuccessfully and pay them less to fix the shit the AI barfed out
tante.cc tante @tante.cc · Oct 30
This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true.

_This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/
Screenshot of an article headline "AI layoffs to backfire: Half quietly rehired at lower pay" with "at lower pay" being highlighted
October 30, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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whiteblanketgames.bsky.social
Spot the spooky differences💀
🎁 www.redbubble.com/es/people/pi...

#pixelart #spooktober #TheArtSchool
October 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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ronscompvids.bsky.social
Ransome the Clown says "Go buy Thimbleweed park, ya' 🍕🐶🚗'n townie!"
October 29, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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sharkabytes.bsky.social
Forever charmed by Monkey Island II's iMUSE implementation, Lucasfilm/Arts' sound engine for smoothly and naturally transitioning from the musical beats and moods of one screen to another.

It's something you lose out on in the CD audio based re-releases of this, Dark Forces, and X-Wing/Tie Fighter.
October 28, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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whiteblanketgames.bsky.social
Treat or Death🍪💀
Now on Sale‼️

💾Steam: bit.ly/3Qr8CA6
💾GOG: bit.ly/3tRZZpl
💾itchio: bit.ly/3y2Zs6E

#Unwelcome #Horror #Pixelart #gamedev #indiegame #sales #spooktober
October 28, 2025 at 9:18 AM