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Kai McGilligan Oliver
@kraydius.bsky.social
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Senior game designer, interactive theatre designer, making freelancer life work somehow! He/him and queer 🏳️‍🌈 !

Playing TTRPGs and banjo, and interested in triaxial weaving. Kraydius on the last platform too.

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kraydius.bsky.social
Sending up a flare to the gaming community 🎇🎆🎇 : Any vfx / tech / shader artists interested in jamming?

I'm 99% certain we'll be making a mechs-meets-pinball concept come to life this Nov!

Art by ledgem ledgem.itch.io/whimsical-ro...

#gamejam #serendipity #pinball #mecha #mech #robots #gamedev
October 30, 2025 at 11:41 PM
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lufinabina.bsky.social
I cannot overstate just how awful this stupid fucking bill proposal is

- adding backdoors into encryption on OS level
- "sniff" every single message before it gets encrypted AND SAVE IT CENTRALLY
- let a goddamn hallucinating "AI" mark people as criminals

it needs to be stopped, post haste
map of different EU countries' chat control stance as of august 2025 oppose (austria, czechia, netherlands, poland) undecided (belgium, estonia, finland, germany, greece, luxembourg, romania) support (bulgaria, croatia, cyprus, france,hungary,ireland, italy, latvia, lithuania, malta, portugal, slovakia, spain, sweden) proposed it (denmark)
August 27, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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iantos.bsky.social
It's not over. Steam isn't allowing games with 'mature themes' in Early Access. Call, email, letter PayPal, Stripe, Mastercard, and Visa. Do your dailies.
acvalens.net Ana Valens | 🔞 @acvalens.net · Aug 31
Heavy Hearts dev Dammitbird received the following notice from Steam, noting “your app has failed our review because we're unable to support the Early Access model of development for a game with mature themes”

This strikes me as overcompliance and censorious on Steam’s part
Dammitbird @GalewindG X.com According to steam, early access is no longer an option for games with "mature themes" The culling of adult games continues. @ChibiReviews @Pirat_Nation Message from The Steam Team on Aug 30 @ 7:31am | 15 hours ago Thank you for your patience during this additional review. Please resubmit your app for review when you're ready. Failure: Your app has failed our review because we're unable to support the Early Access model of development for a game with mature themes. Please resubmit when your app is ready to launch without Early Access. Message from The Steam Team on Aug 30 @ 7:31am | 15 hours ago Thank you for your patience during this additional review. Please resubmit your app for review when you're ready. Failure: Your app has failed our review because we're unable to support the Early Access model of development for a game with mature themes. Please resubmit when your app is ready to launch without Early Access.
August 31, 2025 at 5:55 PM
kraydius.bsky.social
Curious about gay giraffes and quintuple-gender fish?

Biominoes will reveal the wonders of nature - in all its queerness - in this small but mighty board game, selected to go to Queerness And Games Conference 2025! @qgcon.bsky.social

#gay #LTGB #queer #queerecology #boardgames #gayanimals
August 21, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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truthscrapper.bsky.social
Showing a trailer at gamescom can cost $500k+, but you can see our game trailer for free 📚

You have a case to solve, your memories reset each day, and two mysterious guides are vying for your attention... Who will you decide to remember?

📚 store.steampowered.com/app/3239830/...
August 20, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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samkeeper.bsky.social
invisibly slapping a scarlet letter on artworks, based on an internal set of tags deliberately obscured from the user base, that now can be used to completely cut off your income and audience, is an indefensible choice for a publisher.
itch.io itch.io @itch.io · Aug 13
I don't see any indexing restrictions on your game. Your game does have a content warning because of this setting on your page though (check the "Metadata" tab). It's possible at some point you could have added a tag to your page that is commonly associated with explicit adult content.
"Has sensitive content" option from the itchio project metadata tab
August 13, 2025 at 6:01 PM
kraydius.bsky.social
@francinedulong.bsky.social
loottheroom.bsky.social Chris Bissette 🐻🌈 @loottheroom.bsky.social · Jul 28
I'm also going to do this because this is very fun. One like, one book I love, answered once this migraine subsides and I can look at screens again
pauljessup.com 👻 The Phantasmic Paul Jessup 👻 @pauljessup.com · Jul 26
This could be fun!

One like, one book I love. Though it won't be until later, I have a book signing to do in less than an hour!
July 29, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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videogameworkers.bsky.social
Keep up the pressure! #SaveSpeech
In the last two weeks, we have seen a wave of censorship sweep across online retailers, particularly Steam and Itch.io. This is because of demands from payment processors as well as sex-negative activist groups like Collective Shout (originally reported by journalist Ana Valens, and then censored by VICE’s parent company). UVW affirms that sex and sexuality belong in games. Games are works of art, created by workers who should be free to express themselves. It's important to encourage a healthy and critical discourse about the media we consume. One vocal minority cannot have the power to categorically silence creative expression, just because some sexual themes make some people uncomfortable. Sexual art is art, sex work is work. Any attempt to suppress sexual art is an attempt to suppress all art. Any attempt to deny sex workers their dignity is an attempt to deny all workers their dignity. Workers rely on platforms like Steam and itch.io to distribute their games, and it is workers who are suffering at the behest of this vocal minority. We call on the payment processors Mastercard, Visa, Stripe, and any other companies demanding compliance with this unjust action to reverse their policies and stand with the workers who have lined their pockets for years with their labor. We call on Valve and the Itch.io leadership to reverse their policies and stand with game developers. We encourage our members and the general games community to use the resources in the quoted post to contact these payment processors directly and express how strongly we object to their actions.
July 28, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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canthealz.com
Well said!!
July 27, 2025 at 11:01 PM
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sailorrooscout.bsky.social
THIS IS HUGE! The FIRST 100% effective HIV PrEP drug, Lenacapavir, is APPROVED AND GOING GLOBAL. The makers are providing AFFORDABLE access to the drug in the United States AND beyond, signing ROYALTY-FREE licensing agreements with SIX generic manufacturers to produce AND supply it.
🧪🧵⬇️
July 28, 2025 at 1:08 AM
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youtechinfo.bsky.social
Is this the twilight of "creative freedom"? 😭 Itch.io is now removing adult games, pressured by payment processors. 💸 Founder stated "compliance" overrides content, prioritizing profit.
💔 This echoes Steam, leaving indie devs vulnerable. I see this as a chilling precedent: when money dictates art, t
Itch.io follows Steam in removing adult games
It’s Tumblr all over again.
www.theverge.com
July 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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radiantg.bsky.social
📢 ISO of Devs Affected by Itch 📢

If your game got:
• Deindexed
• Removed
• Payouts turned off

Especially if you make Adult &/or LGBTQ+ #IndieGame or #VisualNovel, I want to talk to you.

🗣️ Please reply below with how you were affected. This is for a #Journalism piece.

🔁 RTs Appreciated 🔁
July 24, 2025 at 7:02 AM
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korimichele.bsky.social
Over the past decade, I've been booted off of half a dozen different digital sales for selling queer and adult work. Itch is the one place that has never faltered. Losing the ability to sell uncensored work there would be devastating.
demongrrl.gay demon grrl 😈🏳️‍⚧️ @demongrrl.gay · Jul 21
So you know how Steam updates their TOS to restrict "NSFW" content at the request of payment processors like Visa and Mastercard?

The group behind that pressure campaign is coming after Itch.io.

If you are selling books on itch, this concerns you.

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...
Australian anti-porn group claims responsibility for Steam's new censorship rules in victory against 'porn sick brain rotted pedo gamer fetishists', and things only get weirder from there
Everyone hated that.
www.pcgamer.com
July 21, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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florencesn.bsky.social
QGCon is actively fundraising and looking for sponsors! It's a PWYW conference dedicated to queer games studies. They are raising money to make sure they can pay their keynotes and provide travel grants for speakers:

bsky.app/profile/qgco...
July 1, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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annie.redpanda.fun
The Stop Killing Games initiative is giving up because of a relentless campaign of misinformation and verbal abuse largely directed by PirateSoftware/Thor, which has completely tanked their momentum and burned out its founder.

youtu.be/HIfRLujXtUo
The end of Stop Killing Games
YouTube video by Accursed Farms
youtu.be
June 23, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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danga.games
He Who Watches is in this Next Fest!

🧩 It's a first person puzzle game about walking on walls and discovering secrets.

Check out the demo below!
store.steampowered.com/app/2381760/...
danga.games Danga @danga.games · May 30
Just had a Release Month(ish) trailer for He Who Watches premiere at Thinky Direct!

Coming Fall 2025 - Super thrilled to get this out!
June 10, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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alyssaharad.bsky.social
When you find out the bar was set, met and never surpassed 1700 years ago.
In the fourth century, the Chinese poet Su Hui wrote a reversible poem in five colors of silk, designed to correspond to a star gauge for reading the cosmos. Her poem had nearly eight thousand possible readings. Su Hui sent this poem as a letter to her husband who was far away. Upon reading Su Hui’s poem, the couple reunited for life.
May 27, 2025 at 11:54 PM
kraydius.bsky.social
@backyardzoo.bsky.social banner and game description is an immediate follow :D
May 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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junlper.beer
they are trying to outlaw being transgender in this country and this is just the first step. they were never going to stop at sports. they weren’t going to stop at bathrooms. they want a trans genocide. it is so important to spread awareness of this
alli.gay Allison Chapman (she/her) @alli.gay · May 22
🚨 The US House of Reps have now PASSED their budget bill that includes a BAN on Gender Affirming Care for Medicaid for ALL AGES.

This bill now goes to the Senate where it’s likely to pass.

Call your Senators!
May 22, 2025 at 9:28 PM
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cwaunion.bsky.social
This morning, eBay subsidiary TCGplayer abruptly announced plans to shut down its authentication center in Syracuse, NY, eliminating the jobs of hundreds of union workers who have been bargaining their first contract with the company.

cwa-union.org/news/release...
CWA Statement on eBay’s Syracuse Closure Announcement
eBay subsidiary TCGplayer has abruptly announced plans to shut down its authentication center in Syracuse, N.Y., eliminating the jobs of hundreds of union workers who have been bargaining their first ...
cwa-union.org
May 22, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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stephentotilo.bsky.social
NEW: Take Two's recently filed annual report removes all references to support of DEI, drops prior boasts about awards it got for supporting LGBT workers, and omits prior mentions of work to diversify talent pool with scholarships

No comment why, but we can guess!

www.gamefile.news/p/take-two-d...
Take Two removes praise for its LGBTQ efforts from its annual report, scrubs diversity references
Game File combed the latest annual reports from Take Two and EA, finding numerous fine-print changes. Some serious, some not, some seemingly in reaction to Donald Trump.
www.gamefile.news
May 22, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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johnnybarbu.bsky.social
#SenatorMurphy gives Homeland Security secretary and dog-exterminator Kristi #Noem an absolute spanking of epic proportions..
May 11, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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michaelspicer.bsky.social
exciting new project
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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joles.bsky.social
applying for jobs again
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
May 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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aidanmoher.com
In response to the Polygon and Giant Bomb news, I created an indie and worker-owned games media starter pack.

I’ll keep adding to it, so suggestions and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Please share!
May 1, 2025 at 11:29 PM