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cygni 🦢
@cygni-a.bsky.social
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She/her. Indie dev. Sometimes I write games. https://cygni.itch.io/
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aceottorney.bsky.social
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
October 8, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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markpopham.bsky.social
now where i am from when someone in your office has an accuracy rate of 57.2 percent in editing spreadsheets we call them "fired"
October 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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megsyv.bsky.social
You can respond here with your interest and/or support, or take the additional step and check out my Patreon:
patreon.com/MegSyv

If you have any experience in RenPy or programming visual novels and would like to help me with a demo, please send me an email. :)

Thank you for you attention!
Get more from Meg Syv on Patreon
creating Stories and Comics
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September 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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klimtsonian.bsky.social
Conventions that platform gen AI are willingly alienating real artists and creators, who are the actual core of these events. Those conventions shouldn’t be surprised when artists and attendees begin to avoid them in favor of better curated shows.
August 22, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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thinkygames.com
If you’ve run out of New York Times puzzles to play…here are some other fun daily puzzle games you can try out!
thinkygames.com/feat...
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Tired of Wordle and Connections? Try these 6 fun daily puzzle games that will get you thinking · Thinky Games
The Mastermind-deduction-word-game Wordle inspired a tidal wave of similar designs following its stripped-down, simple approach to making a daily, sharable puzzle that you could solve in a few minutes a day while competing with friends. Here are a few of our favorite Wordle-likes.
thinkygames.com
August 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
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marlowedobbe.com
The tomatoes are starting to come up in the garden!! 🍅
A colorful illustration of a bunch of tomatoes on the vine surrounded by tomato plants and flowers. Each tomato has a different goofy little face on it.
August 8, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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kupogames.bsky.social
Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.
July 30, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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ebihimes.bsky.social
so itchio has shadowbanned any games tagged with 'nsfw', 'adult', or 'erotic' so they don't show up in searches, and several devs have reported that their r18 games have been removed from the site with no warning
July 24, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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ashleylynch.bsky.social
WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for.

Stop using WeTransfer.
July 14, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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hempuli.bsky.social
Hey, would you look at that, A Solitaire Mystery is out on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3743220/...
#gamedev
Save 10% on A Solitaire Mystery on Steam
A collection of mysterious solitaires. The solitaires included vary from fairly standard cardgames to funky reimplementations of other games in solitaire form.
store.steampowered.com
July 9, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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kinmoku.bsky.social
Play visual novels. I promise you, they won’t bite.
June 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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narrascope.org
Today is your 💥 last chance 💥 to purchase online tickets to NarraScope 2025! Join us on Discord for a fully hybrid conference experience. The ticket portal closes at 11:59 ET: www.eventbrite.com/e/narrascope...
NarraScope 2025
NarraScope brings together writers, developers, and players in support of adventure/narrative games and interactive fiction.
www.eventbrite.com
June 18, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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wolf.observer
3 panel LOTR "fighting side by side with a friend" meme. first panel: Gimli saying: I never thought I'd be fighting side by side with the Walt Disney Company. second panel: Legolas saying: If you draw a goofy I will fucking kill you. We will extend copyright 1000 years. Our intellectual dominion will last until the end of time. third panel: gimli, silent
June 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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kinigames.bsky.social
The City of Voices demo is OUT NOW, as part of the @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social! Really hope you enjoy our Golden Idol-like :)

Huge thanks, too, to Thinky Direct, for including our new trailer in their live show just now!
store.steampowered.com/app/3342470/...
City of Voices on Steam
A short Golden Idol-like deduction game about a young girl who is catapulted from her suburban life into the mysterious world of the ancient Maya. Investigate a series of moments frozen in time. Exami...
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May 29, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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thinkygames.com
Someone made a website where we all collectively solve every possible 5x5 Nonogram (aka Picross) 😅

11,263 down, 24,965,248 to go! Let's do it, folks!

pixelogic.app/every-...
May 30, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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narrascope.org
A message from IFTF's president about this year's event (don't panic!):
Hello fellow IF fans, game writers, players and story enjoyers! Our annual conference on narrative games, NarraScope, is less than a month away. As the event draws closer, I wanted to turn your attention to the trademark Big Thermometer on narrascope.org, which tracks fundraising for the event. We are currently at $15,005, which is 60% of our $25,000 goal. To be clear: NarraScope is not in danger of going under or being canceled. However, we rely on donations from both sponsors and individuals to make sure that we don't need to dig so deep into IFTF's treasury that it could impact our other programs you love – things like IFComp, IFDB, the Twine committee, and more. This year, contributions from both individuals and institutions have been lower than in the past, for reasons we can likely deduce by looking at the world around us. These contributions are what allow us to offer attendance at a significantly lower price point than many other conferences. The conference team is working as always to continue to fundraise, but we wanted to ask that if you have the stability and ability to do so, to consider sending IFTF a small donation. You can do so at iftechfoundation.org/give/, and if you want, put a note indicating that it is directed at NarraScope and how you would like to be credited, if you so desire. Additionally, if you know any institutions that may be interested in a sponsorship, please email sponsorship@narrascope.org with the details. This year's event looks to be our largest yet, with more programming, attendees and events than any in the past! Your support helps keep NarraScope and IFTF sustainable and ensures that the event goes off without a hitch. Our in-person tickets have totally sold out, but passes to stream talks live are still available through 18 June 2025. As always, we appreciate your support, and I’m excited to see many of you next month in Philadelphia! - Justin Bortnick, President, Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation
May 29, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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daryam.com
Meme in the style of "you wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign that says "you wouldn't overscope a project"
May 26, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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gcbaccaris.itch.io
I'm still looking for work, and patreon remains the best way to sanction my buffoonery 🤠

there's a free tier, optional pledges from $2-$5, and an archive of almost 300 posts: monthly devlogs, Twine Grimoire updates, original fiction, and more behind-the-scenes 🪩 patreon.com/gcbaccaris
Get more from Grim on Patreon
creating Interactive Fiction & Twine Resources
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May 15, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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daff.space
chart drafted by a friend about the difference between indie and AA, and AAA game developers
chart with three columns: Indie, AA, AAA and seven rows: Development budget, marketing, team size, publisher, graphics and technology, target audience, development time. Each cell has a funny but also pretty much true content
May 8, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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iamhectordiaz.com
A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope
May 8, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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tinyteamsfest.bsky.social
📣 Solo and small team game devs! 📣

Are you looking for visibility for your indie game? Then Tiny Teams Festival is the one for you.

Submissions for Tiny Teams 2025 will open on May 5th—we can’t wait to play your games!

#gamedev #gaming #indiegames
April 24, 2025 at 4:02 PM
cygni-a.bsky.social
Heading out on a vacation! I wonder if I should use this time to relax with my family or stress about not using the time to game dev? 🤔
April 23, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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renpytom.bsky.social
I wonder if any designers want to make themselves hated by suggesting a redesign for Ren'Py's error and utility screens.
April 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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katelynburns.com
yeah there's a direct through line between this ruling and anyone who bought that hogwart's game that trans people got screamed at for suggesting we boycott
hedgewizardly.bsky.social Hedge Wizardly 🌱 @hedgewizardly.bsky.social · Apr 16
JKR funded the campaign group behind all this btw. This is why we beg you to stop engaging with Harry Potter media.
jessothomson.co.uk Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · Apr 16
The UK Supreme Court has unanimously decided that the definition of sex under the Equality Act 2010 refers solely to biological sex, and does not include people with a Gender Recognition Certificate.
April 16, 2025 at 1:05 PM
cygni-a.bsky.social
I watched a demo for blue prince last year and thought “huh neat” and I don’t understand how so many people I follow are talking about it. Was there an insane marketing ploy I missed or something
April 14, 2025 at 3:15 PM