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Nathan Dunton
@novanathangd.bsky.social
770 followers 1.9K following 190 posts
25 | Autistic | United Kingdom
QA Tester
Indie Games Developer
Safe in our World Ambassador
Limit Break Mentee '25
Northamptonshire, UK
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novanathangd.bsky.social
Almost time!
A countdown for the game "Gears of War: Reloaded" with text saying "Available In: 00 H 43 M 15 S"
August 26, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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doublefine.com
To honor Ozzy's larger-than-life rock and roll legacy, we're making Brütal Legend *FREE* on itch.io: doublefine.itch.io/brutal-legend

But this incredible deal will only last for 666 minutes, as the prophecy foretold. So get yourself clicking, before it disappears like a demon in the night...

🤘 🖤
An in-game render of Ozzy Osbourne, with the logo for Brutal Legend and text that reads, "Free for the next 666 minutes" and the itch.io logo in the bottom right corner
July 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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manycatsstudios.bsky.social
Thank you to @gaconf.bsky.social for teaching us the importance of a food legacy at a conference.
You have the Legend of the Battenberg.
We bring you the Fable of The Yorkshire Pudding.
#ImpactDay
Mat, The Wobbly Gamer has a grinned expression to camera with a variety of Yorkshire Puddings exploding around his face.
July 19, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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jarvdusa.bsky.social
📢Kicking off a new series spotlighting talented folks in games struggling to land roles through no fault of their own.

😁First up: @shutterfinch.bsky.social

A thoughtful, creative, community-focused powerhouse. Hire this person.

👇Find out why 👇

🔗 www.linkedin.com/posts/jarvst...
🎮 Spotlight Series: Talented Folk Deserving a Break 💬 | Jarvs Tasker
🎮 Spotlight Series: Talented Folk Deserving a Break 💬 The games industry is full of passionate, skilled people who, despite experience, talent, and heart, are still struggling to land that next oppor...
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July 19, 2025 at 10:46 AM
novanathangd.bsky.social
I am at Develop Brighton for all 3 days! Come and say hi if you see me!
A sunset with umbrellas at the bottom and buildings to the right
July 8, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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playhilltop.bsky.social
Hey you! Are you one of the 120k people who've wishlisted Lil' Guardsman? Biding your time, waiting for that perfect sale to get your hands on our AWARD-WINNING INDIE GEM? Now's your chance!!!

Note: If this isn't you, kindly disregard, or, even better, check it out yourself!
Key art for Lil' Guardsman, in the cartoon style of the game depicting the protagonist Lil, a twelve year old girl with big red hair, sitting in the window of her guard shed listening to a walkman tape player, while a number of characters approach her, trying to get her attention. The game's logo showing the title Lil' Guardsman is in the top right corner.
June 30, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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radderss.bsky.social
Quote tweeting with Alt Text because on top of trying to hand wave their use of AI, clearly the devs aren't bothered about Accessibility

(Bonus cat picture so I can continue the Alt text)
Graphic of a statement from 11 Bit Studios, developers of The Alters. We’ve seen a wide range of accusations regarding the use of AI-generated content in The Alters, and we feel it’s important to clarify our approach and give you more context. AI-generated assets were used strictly as temporary WIPs during the development process and in a very limited manner. Our team has always prioritized meaningful, handcrafted storytelling as one of the foundations of our game. During production, an AI-generated text for a graphic asset, which was meant as a piece of background texture, was used by one of our graphical designers as a placeholder. This was never intended to be part of the final release. Unfortunately, due to an internal oversight, this single placeholder text was mistakenly left in the game. We have since conducted a thorough review and confirmed that this was an isolated case, and the asset in question is being updated. For transparency, we’ve included a screenshot to show how and where it appears in the game. While we do not want to downplay the situation, we also want to clearly show its limited impact on your gaming experience. In addition to that, a few licensed movies that the alters can watch in the social area of the base were added at the final stage of development. While those were externally produced, our team was not involved in the creative process, and these required additional last-minute translations. Due to extreme time constraints, we chose not to involve our translation partners and had these videos localized using AI to have them ready on launch. It was always our intention to involve our trusted translation agencies after release as part of our localization hotfix, to ensure those texts would be handled with the same care and quality as the rest of the game. That process is now underway, and updated translations are being implemented. Continued Alt text from previous picture: To give you a better understanding of what a small part of the overall scope of the game’s narrative layer they are, those few external movies are approx. 10k words out of 3.4 million across all languages in the game, or just 0.3% of the overall text. The alternative was to release those specific dialogu⁸es in English only, which we believed would be a worse experience for non-English-speakers. In hindsight, we acknowledge this was the wrong call. Even more so, no matter what we decided, we should have simply let you know. As AI tools evolve, they present new challenges and opportunities in game development. We’re actively adapting our internal processes to meet this reality. But above all, we remain committed to transparency in how we make our games. We appreciate your understanding and continued support as we work towards that goal
June 30, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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ga11ygathering.bsky.social
🎤 Speaker Spotlight!

Li Brady @wiredusagi.gay‬ - Accessibility Specialist & Indie Dev - will be sharing their talk, "Everyone Deserves To Be Scared: Accessibility In Horror Games", digging into horror’s accessibility barriers and how to welcome more players to the genre.

🎟️ Ticket link in our bio.
A purple image with white text which reads: "Li Brady, they/them. Everyone Deserves to be scared: accessibility in horror games". A circular headshot of Li is to the right. At the top of the image are the logos for Nothing Without Us, Unity, Sony Interactive Entertainment PlayStation, PlaytestCloud, Games User Research, and Scopely. At the bottom right corner is a white game controller icon.
June 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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electricsaint.bsky.social
🚨OUR CRESCENT COUNTY KICKSTARTER IS LIVE🚨

💫Drift and drive on your witch-tech motorbroom
🎁Make deliveries by day, street race by night
🖌️Explore a painterly open world
😘Be a flirty disaster and kiss your friends

Pledge now!!
👉 www.kickstarter.com/projects/ann... 👈
May 20, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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safeinourworld.org
📢 We're celebrating the many positive, impactful voices in games industry accessibility with the release of our new Workplace Accessibility Toolkit!

🔗 safeinourworld.org/news/safe-in...
May 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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ramiismail.com
I left Duolingo when they set out in this direction. Language is the way humans communicate, and I want to learn from humans, by humans, about humans. AI should have no place in this as far as I'm concerner.

www.theverge.com/news/657594/...
Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI
Duolingo is making some AI-focused changes.
www.theverge.com
April 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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pinssss.bsky.social
It's been a while, having fun in the new biome with a whole lot of artefacts (only the Dishwashing Elemental is canon to this biome, though!)

#solodev #godot #turnbased
April 22, 2025 at 1:04 PM
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mrahmedgaming.bsky.social
I had a fun time playing Fall Guys during the @safeinourworld.org Ambassador Game Night and we even won a couple of games! Thank you @novanathangd.bsky.social for organizing the event.
Fall Guys main menu screen with a Yooka-Laylee and Spongebob Squarepants skin. Loading/queueing screen for Fall Guys. Winner screen in Fall Guys. Winner celebration screen in Fall Guys. Player in a Spongebob Squarepants skin is singing into a microphone.
April 19, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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bigbut5.bsky.social
Very tired after a long day, gave a speech about how a lot of the hate reviews for @sandwitchdev.bsky.social didn’t talk about the queer characters, because they don’t recognise realistic queer people, but the flags because it’s all they know of us.
Me stood in collage green, Bristol holding a sign featuring Sauge from Caravan SandWitch and a slogan reading “Sisterhood not Cis-terhood”
April 19, 2025 at 5:41 PM
novanathangd.bsky.social
I'm now an Mentee for Limit Break Mentorship of 2025! Very grateful for the opportunity, and look forward to start and meet the rest of the Cohort!

@limitbreak.co.uk
A GIF that says LB25 Mentee
April 11, 2025 at 11:52 AM
novanathangd.bsky.social
Who's attending GDLX tomorrow?

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gamedevlocal.bsky.social Game Dev Local @gamedevlocal.bsky.social · Mar 19
Did you miss GDLX 23 & 24?
Here’s what you missed, and why you can’t miss out this time!

40+ incredible indie games
Two talk stages
Networking, Networking, Networking

A full-day of games, talks & community
All in one incredible space for indie games.

Get your ticket now
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April 11, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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rebeccamwrites.bsky.social
Your final reminder that @gamedevlocal.bsky.social GDLX is this weekend.

I'm on the Audio in storytelling panel at 2:30 on the fireside stage. Come say hi!

Tickets available at:
www.gamedevlocal.com/gdlx
GDLX speaker image with my photo
April 10, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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safeinourworld.org
📢 Announcing our FREE online course, hosted by Lisa Marie Hall - designed to help you build a long-lasting foundation for healthy and effective communication.

Ideal for those:
💼 new to leadership
💬 improving leadership skills
💚 building psychological safety at work

LINK BELOW ⬇️
Graphic showing new training, "How To Human with Lisa Marie Hall" on a space background with illustrated aurora borealis, and two people climbing a slope together with a charity flag. "Creator of Self Advocacy Speaking, Developer of the Human Handbook, free and flexible learning environment". Image contains Safe In Our World logo.
April 7, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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safeinourworld.org
"A great deal of attention was given by the development team towards safeguarding, messaging and empowering players to opt out of any uncomfortable experiences."

Big thanks to ambassador @novanathangd.bsky.social for covering this game. 👏

safeinourworld.org/games-and-ap...
Wednesdays - Safe In Our World
From writer Pierre Corbinais (Haven), Wednesdays raises awareness around child sexual abuse via a hopeful story told from many perspectives.
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March 27, 2025 at 6:00 PM
novanathangd.bsky.social
That was a great Nintendo Direct! I'm certainly looking forward to the new Rhythm Heaven, Tomadachi Life, and Metroid Prime 4 and Pokemon Z-A!

What did everyone else think of the direct?
March 27, 2025 at 2:46 PM
novanathangd.bsky.social
What's everyone's thoughts on Assassin's Creed Shadows? I've been debating about whether to get it or not!
March 21, 2025 at 11:28 AM
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laurakbuzz.bsky.social
Oh shit, Assassin's Creed: Shadows has tone tags in its subtitles for non verbal subtext?!?!

Apparently called soemething like "Emotional Indicators"

I have been advocating for game devs to try this as an autism accessibility option for YEARS!!!

I can't believe someone's finally doing it!!!!
March 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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spoonienet.com
Finances are looking really tight due to some unforeseen circumstances so I'm reopening my commissions full time.
I'll post more soon but if anyone is looking for vtuber models (3d), stream/social graphics or video editing, hmu please!

#vtuber #vroid #commissionsopen #graphicdesign #videoeditor
March 16, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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safeinourworld.org
Ambassador Virginia Casagrande exposes the emotional impact a lack of context can have on those working in video games localization. 👇

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Localization: How context is crucial to game dev mental health - Safe In Our World
Ambassador Virginia Casagrande exposes the emotional impact a lack of context can have on those working in video games localization.
safeinourworld.org
March 14, 2025 at 4:56 PM
novanathangd.bsky.social
Anyone going to GDLX next month? 👀
March 12, 2025 at 11:50 AM