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nickbell 🆗️
@nick.aetheric-games.com
Indie game generalist at Aetheric Games some of the time, and game dev lecturer at Edinburgh College other times. Undercover, queerly neurospicy nerd, attempting to infiltrate the normals with a big coat and a fake moustache. https://aetheric-games.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:29 AM
people who read this and are now letterboxed:
November 8, 2025 at 11:52 AM
aromatic 😅
November 6, 2025 at 12:44 AM
is *this* the torment nexus?
November 4, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Weenies be like:
October 30, 2025 at 3:52 PM
gonna tell mykids this is Hari Seldon and Gaal Dornick
October 27, 2025 at 10:16 PM
happy #BisexualVisibilityDay from Neelix
September 23, 2025 at 6:38 PM
done.
September 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
#itch @itch.io is and always has been, an ally to queer indie game devs. These people hating on them don't know they're born. Itch deserves some gratitude. For a couple of weeks I'm setting the rev share slider to 100%. (And you can also get Bonbon and Interactivity for $5.)
itch.io/s/159020/-it...
August 20, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"Raw data were not weighted and are therefore only representative of the individuals who completed the survey." ...You don't say!

Also, who is the arbiter of what a "game dev" is here? Who did they ask? People who signed up for emails from Google about AI?
August 18, 2025 at 5:56 PM
This entire article and the "study" it's promoting is haute garbáge, but *this* slide in particular is one of the more nonsensical.
August 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
August 14, 2025 at 11:41 PM
is this anything?
July 22, 2025 at 12:28 AM
Ahhh laundry day!
🧼🫧🧦⛲️🌞🌬👕🤍😭
July 7, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Ok, so, you know the thing where some cats look like Ron Perlman?

Somehow I did not remember that the 1980s Beauty and the Beast tv show with Linda Hamilton also starred RON PERLMAN, as thirsty CAT MAN?!
July 1, 2025 at 9:07 AM
June 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Hello! This is Pizza Rat Collective - an exploration and puzzle game about skilling up your rattie crew and working together to get that pizza. It's kind of only soft announced but will definitely come out one day, promise.
aetheric-games.com/pizza-rat-co...
June 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Dang, that's even better than Twin Beaks.
June 28, 2025 at 9:22 AM
I wanna play *this* game!
June 26, 2025 at 5:22 PM
The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

But, the more you know, the less you know about what others don't know more.
June 24, 2025 at 9:21 AM
(If it matters, this is from my short game Bonbon, the section where I force the player to sit still and listen to me read them a creepy bedtime story for like 3 whole unskippable minutes. You have my full permission to use it as you like.)
June 17, 2025 at 6:54 AM
Here's another sneaky peek of a #gamedev student demo that you can play TOMORROW, Thu 5th June, at #ECGx, the #Edinburgh College Games Expo!
Free tickets and info: dub.sh/ecgx2025

This is puzzle-platformer, The Three Mushkateers! It's like a single-player co-op, with lil shroom peeps!
#scotgamedev
June 4, 2025 at 11:52 AM
It's now only 2 sleeps to #ECGx! Where did all those sleeps go?

If you're in #Edinburgh this Thursday, come to CodeBase from 17:30 to play 40 student and #indiegames, including Keeno, a lo-fi village-management game that's not to be slept on.

Free tickets and info: dub.sh/ecgx2025
June 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
9 sleeps until #ECGx ! 👀

Here's some more pics from our amazing FE & HE #gamedev students. Come to #Edinburgh College Games Expo, 5th June, CodeBase, and you can play these amongst 40 games from both students and #indiedevs. Yes, FORTY!

Get free tickets & info here👉 dub.sh/ecgx2025
#scotgamedev
May 27, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Oooh, I get it! Ohana means sanitising socio-political themes for fragile racist egos!

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May 25, 2025 at 9:47 AM