Michael
@michaelklamerus.bsky.social
Makes tiny games. Currently in grad school to be a librarian. Helps organize local game dev stuff near Detroit. they/them
https://michael-klamerus.itch.io/
https://virtualmoose.org/
https://michael-klamerus.itch.io/
https://virtualmoose.org/
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Michael
@michaelklamerus.bsky.social
· Dec 30
The mini games anthology that I helped organize for the Ann Arbor District Library for the city's bicentennial is out. Featuring a puzzle game by @flyovergames.bsky.social, game boy game by @itsmelilyv.bsky.social, and point-and-click adventure by me
aadl.org/drchasegames
aadl.org/drchasegames
Indie Game Roundup (November 14, 2025)
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November 15, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Indie Game Roundup (November 14, 2025)
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Is this an “average” in that “we plugged in the salary of a ceo or two who is making 50x more than the employees and skewed the whole calculation we did”
The average salary for games industry professionals based in the United States was $142,000 in 2025, according to a new report from GDC Festival of Gaming.
www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-survey-a...
www.gamesindustry.biz/gdc-survey-a...
GDC Survey: Average salary for US games professionals was $142,000 in 2025
Findings reveal 33% of workers feel employers are "working to close existing pay gaps," while one-tenth report no efforts are being made
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 14, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Is this an “average” in that “we plugged in the salary of a ceo or two who is making 50x more than the employees and skewed the whole calculation we did”
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Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.
November 14, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Please read this in the gentlest possible voice but we HAVE to divest from mil-sims as gamedevs. Even before this AI bullshit in the latest Black Ops, these games have done so much harm and contributed massively to the dehumanization of several populations worldwide. It’s US foreign pol propaganda.
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Asking for help again because life won’t stop happening and things are really bad right now despite mine and others efforts:
robsgob.bearblog.dev/help-rob/
robsgob.bearblog.dev/help-rob/
Asking for help again, because life keeps happening.
Earlier this week I found myself in the position of explaining to the company that manages my carer hours that I wasn’t actually taking the piss, no it wasn’...
robsgob.bearblog.dev
November 14, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Asking for help again because life won’t stop happening and things are really bad right now despite mine and others efforts:
robsgob.bearblog.dev/help-rob/
robsgob.bearblog.dev/help-rob/
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And what did they save? Like a few thousand bucks? On a game that is like a billion dollar franchise?
This is just petty and cheap.
When you're spending hundreds of millions and try to save a few thousand on some inferior ass art, something's wrong.
This is just petty and cheap.
When you're spending hundreds of millions and try to save a few thousand on some inferior ass art, something's wrong.
Call of Duty isn't even hiding the fact that loads of its calling cards and other unlockables are AI generated this year.
For one of the biggest video game franchises in the world this is pretty disgusting...
For one of the biggest video game franchises in the world this is pretty disgusting...
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 PM
And what did they save? Like a few thousand bucks? On a game that is like a billion dollar franchise?
This is just petty and cheap.
When you're spending hundreds of millions and try to save a few thousand on some inferior ass art, something's wrong.
This is just petty and cheap.
When you're spending hundreds of millions and try to save a few thousand on some inferior ass art, something's wrong.
a few times a year you'll see a journalist bring up that trust in legacy media outlets is at an all time low and hmmmm idk why
November 14, 2025 at 5:38 PM
a few times a year you'll see a journalist bring up that trust in legacy media outlets is at an all time low and hmmmm idk why
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Patton Oswalt was right to say it and Bluesky mods should get to know the actual audience they have here.
patton oswalt has been suspended from bluesky for saying that megyn kelly should be fed to a woodchipper for justifying the sexual abuse of minors
November 14, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Patton Oswalt was right to say it and Bluesky mods should get to know the actual audience they have here.
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What's up seasoned detectives! There's a new Tex Murphy book from Aaron Conners! 'Tex Murphy and the Steakhouse Stakeout: An Interactive Adventure' is a choose your own adventure book with 70 possible outcomes. Get it on Amazon (links in comments). Available as paperback or ebook.
November 14, 2025 at 12:07 AM
What's up seasoned detectives! There's a new Tex Murphy book from Aaron Conners! 'Tex Murphy and the Steakhouse Stakeout: An Interactive Adventure' is a choose your own adventure book with 70 possible outcomes. Get it on Amazon (links in comments). Available as paperback or ebook.
This fucking Big Bopper-looking guy is younger than me?!? The guy that kept popping up in Twitter feeds because people kept RTing his bullshit money giveaways?
This is good reporting and all that but here's the thing I learned the other day: Bill Pulte, the 50-year-mortgage dude and the guy who keeps pulling the mortgage docs of Trump's enemies is only 37 years old.
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
www.wsj.com/finance/regu...
Exclusive | Fannie Mae Watchdogs Probed How Pulte Obtained Mortgage Records of Key Democrats
FHFA’s acting inspector general handed the probe report to the U.S. attorney office that had indicted New York Attorney General Letitia James.
www.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This fucking Big Bopper-looking guy is younger than me?!? The guy that kept popping up in Twitter feeds because people kept RTing his bullshit money giveaways?
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(trying and failing not to make this about me) I'm not really a journalist but I am on a gaming podcast called VGBees. I cover indies from my perspective with no particular timeline or timeliness, we discuss gaming news across the board, and we have a damn good time making fun of executives
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 10:47 PM
(trying and failing not to make this about me) I'm not really a journalist but I am on a gaming podcast called VGBees. I cover indies from my perspective with no particular timeline or timeliness, we discuss gaming news across the board, and we have a damn good time making fun of executives
Hell of a time to publish this!
I love writing one single article over and over again every month
November 13, 2025 at 10:41 PM
Hell of a time to publish this!
I uhhhh wish there were a whole lot more games journalists not covering Call of Duty because of the Microsoft boycott
November 13, 2025 at 9:33 PM
I uhhhh wish there were a whole lot more games journalists not covering Call of Duty because of the Microsoft boycott
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November's Crimson Gazette is out now! I made an Over the Garden Wall game & you can play it NOW, for ✨✨FREE!✨✨ The evolution of a ruthless space crab 🦀, courtesy of @strangescaffold.bsky.social, a new Let's Play, & Japanese copper! Read all about it! www.thecrimsondiamond.com/CrimsonGazet... #otgw
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
November's Crimson Gazette is out now! I made an Over the Garden Wall game & you can play it NOW, for ✨✨FREE!✨✨ The evolution of a ruthless space crab 🦀, courtesy of @strangescaffold.bsky.social, a new Let's Play, & Japanese copper! Read all about it! www.thecrimsondiamond.com/CrimsonGazet... #otgw
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Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Megyn Kelly: "I know somebody very close to this case…Jeffrey Epstein, in this person's view, was not a pedophile…He was into the barely legal type, like he liked 15 year old girls…He wasn't into like 8 year olds…There's a difference between a 15 year old and a 5 year old."
November 13, 2025 at 6:38 PM
Predictable but still amazing to watch people who spent literally years accusing every librarian, teacher, and trans person they could find of sexually grooming children suddenly throw themselves in with "actually it's ephebophilia"
Enjoyed the audiobook of Tim Curry’s memoir and it was nice to hear him bring up Muppet Treasure Island and Red Alert 3 (?!). Hoped for a Gabriel Knight mention since doing video games was brought up* but it was not meant to be
*doesn’t get them but thinks it’s fun being in front of a green screen
*doesn’t get them but thinks it’s fun being in front of a green screen
November 13, 2025 at 6:21 PM
Enjoyed the audiobook of Tim Curry’s memoir and it was nice to hear him bring up Muppet Treasure Island and Red Alert 3 (?!). Hoped for a Gabriel Knight mention since doing video games was brought up* but it was not meant to be
*doesn’t get them but thinks it’s fun being in front of a green screen
*doesn’t get them but thinks it’s fun being in front of a green screen
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After Republicans refused to extend ACA subsidies, 4 Michigan insurers are dropping out of the ACA marketplace altogether. That’s 200,000 Michiganders who just lost their plans.
Four health insurers are dropping or significantly curtailing individual market offerings in 2026 as insurance pools are predicted to grow sicker. bit.ly/444v08M
November 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
After Republicans refused to extend ACA subsidies, 4 Michigan insurers are dropping out of the ACA marketplace altogether. That’s 200,000 Michiganders who just lost their plans.
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I saw some scuttlebutt about a strike and “not crossing the picket line” as a consumer but it’s good to see this in clear language from the union itself: no Starbucks treats til the SWU’s demands are met. I’m down with that
As of this morning, Starbucks workers across the country are officially ON STRIKE. And we're prepared for this to become the biggest and longest ULP strike in Starbucks history.
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
Say #NoContractNoCoffee with us: DON'T BUY STARBUCKS for the duration of our open-ended ULP strike! $SBUX
November 13, 2025 at 2:35 PM
I saw some scuttlebutt about a strike and “not crossing the picket line” as a consumer but it’s good to see this in clear language from the union itself: no Starbucks treats til the SWU’s demands are met. I’m down with that
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The work we do at @avalonhousing.bsky.social is a housing first, permanent supportive housing model; organizations like ours are being targeted for actually implementing the evidence-based practices known to help our neighbors survive. This punitive desire has already been tried and fails miserably
Housing First approaches to homelessness, that prioritize getting a stable roof over people's heads before addressing trauma from the streets & other issues, prove to lead to long term stability. Rounding every homeless person up for forced mental health care which is incarceration is not the way!
I'm a mad person who's lived on the streets & knows a lot of mad people & I know that people like me are disproportionately inclined to homelessness & I don't like when that gets taken out of the conversation. But our reality is that late stage American capitalism can push anyone to the streets.
November 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
The work we do at @avalonhousing.bsky.social is a housing first, permanent supportive housing model; organizations like ours are being targeted for actually implementing the evidence-based practices known to help our neighbors survive. This punitive desire has already been tried and fails miserably
folks it's a sad day for email enthusiasts 😔
Can’t believe I’m excited about email in the year 2025
November 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
folks it's a sad day for email enthusiasts 😔
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every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
November 12, 2025 at 10:41 PM
every few years it's revealed that the NYT was sitting on information about some horrific thing that public knowledge of would have changed the country's course and for some reason a ton of people still give them money. you can play those games on other sites
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As part of my site's 30th anniversary celebration, I've revamped the Space Quest 7 section. The page now offers a detailed look at Sierra's cancelled Space Quest VII project (1997-1999) and Escape Factory's unfinished 2002 reboot.
Concept art! Leaked footage! Never-before-revealed plot details!
Concept art! Leaked footage! Never-before-revealed plot details!
The True Story Behind Space Quest 7 - The Virtual Broomcloset
Discover the full story behind Sierra’s cancelled Space Quest 7 and Escape Factory’s unreleased Space Quest platformer, including timelines, concept art, creator interviews, and why both were shelved.
wiw.org
November 12, 2025 at 8:16 PM
As part of my site's 30th anniversary celebration, I've revamped the Space Quest 7 section. The page now offers a detailed look at Sierra's cancelled Space Quest VII project (1997-1999) and Escape Factory's unfinished 2002 reboot.
Concept art! Leaked footage! Never-before-revealed plot details!
Concept art! Leaked footage! Never-before-revealed plot details!
how are people supposed to ride the horses at Meijer now?
The American penny died on Wednesday in Philadelphia. It was 232. The cause was irrelevance and expensiveness, the Treasury Department said. Nothing could be bought any more with a penny, as the cost to mint the penny had risen to more than 3 cents. nyti.ms/48bFd5K
November 12, 2025 at 7:32 PM
how are people supposed to ride the horses at Meijer now?
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love cubes. Can't get enough of them.
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
love cubes. Can't get enough of them.
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it's a real shame there wasn't just a Democratic president with control of federal law enforcement for 4 years, otherwise it would be pretty fuckin outrageous that he didn't find this
A direct email exchange from 2011 between Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, just released by House Oversight Committee Democrats.
November 12, 2025 at 3:17 PM
it's a real shame there wasn't just a Democratic president with control of federal law enforcement for 4 years, otherwise it would be pretty fuckin outrageous that he didn't find this