Stanwixbuster
LightNews LightNews
banner
stanwixbuster.co.uk
Stanwixbuster
@stanwixbuster.co.uk
2.3K followers 210 following 610 posts
Stanley W. Baxton // he/him 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️
Award-winning narrative game dev
NWCDTP-funded PhD on punk-indie game communities, BAFTA Breakthrough 2025, ex-Supermassive Games
Posts Replies Media Videos
Pinned
stanwixbuster.co.uk
Stanwixbuster @stanwixbuster.co.uk · Oct 19
hello bsky: I'm Stanley, indie dev creating text-heavy narrative experiences that are satirical, horrifying, or queer, and sometimes all at once. I make games for exactly 3 people to lose their minds. #gamedev⁠ #visualnovel #interactivefiction
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
choiby.bsky.social
At the end of a rollercoaster year, I’m genuinely humbled to share that I’m part of this year’s #BAFTABreakthrough UK cohort!

Thank you @bafta.org, @baftagames.bsky.social, @netflix.com and everyone involved in the program for your belief and support 🙏

Photographer: Hollie Fernando
November 25, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
spdrcstl.bsky.social
I'm really proud of Stan :) 3.5 years ago I took him on as a mentee with just a handful of games worked on, and now he's a creative powerhouse with dozens of games released, winner of the 2024 New Media Writing Prize, a PhD underway, and today's exciting news - now a BAFTA Breakthrough member!
stanwixbuster.co.uk Stanwixbuster @stanwixbuster.co.uk · 6h
hi everyone. while the industry's still hellbent on calling anyone who makes /weird/ games "not a real dev" @baftagames.bsky.social decided that maybe people making things with three quid and a piece of string know what they're talking about, actually

i'm part of bafta breakthrough 2025
Game developer Stanley loved playing The Sims as a child, not because of what happens in the game but because, in simulating life, it allowed him to concoct his own narratives for the varied characters within its fantasy world. One Games Design & Production BSc later, Stanley has been channelling that love for storytelling into his own authored games. Creating the writing, art, coding and almost everything else himself, often on the micro-est of microbudgets. Stanley’s breakthrough project, LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST (2024), is as provocative and explicit in discourse as it is in title. A beautifully written, transgressive work of interactive fiction, it leans into Stanley’s own experiences of the trans masculine and online space and its multi-layered narrative earned him the 2024 New Media Writing Prize. He’s currently a PhD student at the University of Salford and working on his next solo game, CHILDREN OF HELL. In their own words… “Because I’m trans, I thought I would be overlooked for BAFTA Breakthrough, because we always are, but I decided to do the application anyway. I didn’t think it would go anywhere, and now it’s a reality I want to make the most of it. But I want to stress how I am, in many ways, an exception. I wanted to strike out and do my own thing against what the mainstream is doing, and I was just fortunate enough to be born middle class and have a support network that let me do that. We should be here and we’re often not, especially because we’re making weirder, more experimental games than mainstream gaming, and hopefully I can champion and elevate the people who brought me here. That’s how I want to make the most of it.”
November 25, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
jttg.bsky.social
I'm really really struggling to find potential Sponsors for @limitbreak.co.uk at the moment

We're not looking for huge amounts of money. We're a very lean programme thanks to our amazing volunteers!

Can you help? Look at out Sponsorship Deck or share this post 💖
limitbreak.co.uk/sponsorform
Limit Break - Sponsorship Deck Request
Please fill in the following, and we will reach out with our most up to date sponsorship information.
limitbreak.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 3:23 PM
stanwixbuster.co.uk
hi everyone. while the industry's still hellbent on calling anyone who makes /weird/ games "not a real dev" @baftagames.bsky.social decided that maybe people making things with three quid and a piece of string know what they're talking about, actually

i'm part of bafta breakthrough 2025
Game developer Stanley loved playing The Sims as a child, not because of what happens in the game but because, in simulating life, it allowed him to concoct his own narratives for the varied characters within its fantasy world. One Games Design & Production BSc later, Stanley has been channelling that love for storytelling into his own authored games. Creating the writing, art, coding and almost everything else himself, often on the micro-est of microbudgets. Stanley’s breakthrough project, LATEX, LEATHER, LIPSTICK, LOVE, LUST (2024), is as provocative and explicit in discourse as it is in title. A beautifully written, transgressive work of interactive fiction, it leans into Stanley’s own experiences of the trans masculine and online space and its multi-layered narrative earned him the 2024 New Media Writing Prize. He’s currently a PhD student at the University of Salford and working on his next solo game, CHILDREN OF HELL. In their own words… “Because I’m trans, I thought I would be overlooked for BAFTA Breakthrough, because we always are, but I decided to do the application anyway. I didn’t think it would go anywhere, and now it’s a reality I want to make the most of it. But I want to stress how I am, in many ways, an exception. I wanted to strike out and do my own thing against what the mainstream is doing, and I was just fortunate enough to be born middle class and have a support network that let me do that. We should be here and we’re often not, especially because we’re making weirder, more experimental games than mainstream gaming, and hopefully I can champion and elevate the people who brought me here. That’s how I want to make the most of it.”
November 25, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
wayneradio.tv
i have to actually put real assets & information on our twitch team page for something we're doing soon. so sadly we have to say goodbye to this version of it 😭
November 21, 2025 at 5:41 PM
stanwixbuster.co.uk
>tries going to advx
>
Major disruption in the Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent area expected until the end of the day Major disruption in the Stafford and Stoke-on-Trent area expected until the end of the day
November 21, 2025 at 3:41 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
deswalsh.bsky.social
And finally seems to be on the mend.
November 18, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
spdrcstl.bsky.social
no one tells you but you can just make your own awards ceremonies with your own games, with an announcer and fun award art and everyone coming together at once for the event and spectacle. we've been doing it for years in domino club! its fun! who cares about any "official" awards!
November 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
zhugeex.com
Yes, this could imply an acquisition of sorts. Could also imply some accounting / financial issue.

Just remember to freak the fuck out for the next few days and speculate as much as possible until they announce something.
November 13, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
socpens.com
a random $2 steam game called The Puppy actually managed to scare the shit out of me
November 12, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
jonbois.bsky.social
not only am i a guy who likes to watch football, but i'm also a dad. so right off the jump i'm already one of the most fascinating people you've ever heard of. and that's before you find out that i live in brooklyn and post on bluesky a lot
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
stanwixbuster.co.uk
my hottest writer take: if you have an unmoving opinion about the use/unuse of the oxford comma i will not listen to any of your writing opinions
November 7, 2025 at 10:35 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
nictringali.bsky.social
I can say with complete certainty that you will lose nothing by just ignoring The Game Awards. You do not need to give it any cultural power. It is purely a vehicle for marketing, and an ongoing insult to the people and craft we all take part in.
November 7, 2025 at 9:48 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
lightskintiger.bsky.social
THEIR MONEY IS YOUR MONEY, AS OF RIGHT NOW
November 5, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
from 2003
November 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
stanwixbuster.co.uk
it's incredible how ever single "counter culture" ai artist is just culture. painfully culture. babes it doesn't matter how many papers on marx you read you're "unfunded" while being bankrolled by an ai company
November 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
computerjames.itch.io
king of all cosmos from Katamari saying a bluesky post that says 'hotfixes for firmament incoming'
November 4, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
cryptotheism.bsky.social
Maximilian and Diocletian
November 3, 2025 at 4:02 AM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
socpens.com
November 2, 2025 at 7:28 PM
stanwixbuster.co.uk
new blog post: being mad at the job market stanwixbuster.co.uk/blog/posts/2...
Being a Game Dev Makes you Unemployable
Thoughts after getting “a job”
stanwixbuster.co.uk
November 1, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
AAHHHHH!!!!
October 31, 2025 at 9:23 PM
stanwixbuster.co.uk
it's so awesome that we're at a point where you don't even have to check if the new kids slang people are suddenly calling cringe originally came from aave it just always is
October 31, 2025 at 4:49 PM
stanwixbuster.co.uk
i love basing art off other art you can just steal shit
October 29, 2025 at 10:45 PM
stanwixbuster.co.uk
londoners barging in front of you at the tube train exit to save 0.2 seconds on their commute to their job they hate
October 27, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Reposted by Stanwixbuster
dayofthemutants.bsky.social
this game is crazy and fascinating
queenjazz.gay jazz mickle @queenjazz.gay · 29d
i wrote a quick blog post about MEMOREL RESTORATION PROJECT covering some of the tech stuff involved with it if u were interested in reading about that
www.queenjazz.gay/blog/#memorel
October 27, 2025 at 4:58 PM