Matty!?

NYT 1765 @nytpitchbot.bsky.social: "Let them eat" - updated guidance on wealth inequality from the French monarchy

We have a ✨ secret ✨

Oath coin currently on my PC mousepad, a constant reminder of my sworn duty to *checks notes* invest in long term modular shelving solutions

Were you able to check out Bloodrage Summer Fight Club tho

Fitz is here to protecc da fishies

superrrr (franky poses with the fishtank)

so many fish! so many drawings!

People cheering for a perfect feed

Just gonna photo dump, guess I'm a game dev now

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Huge thanks to the rest of the @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social team for having me in the space / not giving me too much surprise work in December so I could finish it.

And to peeps like @goferboy.bsky.social and @smashriot.bsky.social for being VERY LOUD about how much they loved the game from hour 1!

Had a 4 day out of body experience watching people have fun with my first ever game and first "art thing i brought to a festival" my god.

An absolutely unhinged @magfest.org this year. I saw strangers setting 4 hour timers on their phones, or running to my table with 6 badges from their friends.

I also was obsessed with @mtylpg.bsky.social's fish badge game. Set timers the entire con. Seemed like "cheating" to get friends to scan your badge, but having people came together to take care of each other's fishes made it even more communal and fun.

My boy Low Guevara got so big, I love him

for the record you're in 5th, pretty massive gulf from you to 6th place but I am astounded there are 4 ahead of you (no idea who bits mayo is)

Really looks like the group feeds on the final day are what heavily skewed things (lots of bonus perfect feeds for folks who kept their fish on-screen)

Legit hurt my shoulder on Panic Park day one and have no regrets, amazing cabinet

Signage for HenrySchein Dental Supllier Fair Together Aligned Moving Forward

A car plastered with anime

Damn magfest2 lookin sick

Tanks for the memories

@magfest.org
#magfish
#fish
@profpisces.bsky.social

Keel shark in da tank

A new fish has entered the tank

ONE WEEK REMAINS
SUBMIT YR DANG GAMES
DON'T WASTE YOUR HOLIDAY WEEKEND FRETTING ABOUT YOUR APPLICATION, SUBMIT IT NOW AND EDIT IT LATER
NO EXTENSIONS
SEPT 2 IS THE END
GET IT IN
super.magfest.org/apply/

This year's Super Magfest held a David Lynch shrine. As the weekend progressed, it grew and grew, at one point including a Blue Velvet screening on repeat (pictured bottom right). What a lovely gesture from fans.

HEY IF U WERE AT MAG FILL THIS OUT REAL QUICK
- Had fun in the Indie Arcade? MIVS? MAGPIE? Anywhere else? LET US KNOW! Your feedback helps the convention grow!

- Liked Quantum Jungle? Wanna see more weird art? Thems thangs take 💰big moni🤑 and your 📋feedback☑️ helps get that 💸good green💶 🚚movin🛫

Also for fans of the MAGPIE space: let us know! Lots of new initiatives start up at MAGFest every year, and attendee feedback can do wonders for helping new teams grow (and if you had a good time in the Indie Arcade post about that too and help me out ty luv u)
super.magfest.org/feedback

General Franky Bionicle

This year I just sorta just threw a bunch of APX flashcards around the room to get convos started and it worked out!

This was in a new space at MAG devoted to inclusion and equity, def going to scale up the session a lot next year now that I know there's a folks interested in learning more 🌱

It ended up being less a workshop and more a round table but it was lovely! Great mix of experience, both in terms of personal ability and relation to gamedev/design (some brand new indie devs, some folks with AAA experience), lots of new contacts made so that's a win in my book ✔️

yep

I was only in that room for a bit and can't take any credit, but MAGPIE was a brand new team at mag as of this year! I can't find the folks who run it on bsky but they made an incredible lil corner, I'm excited to see how it grows! Awesome to see new groups pop up every year at this con

Great meeting you too! As well as @designermonicat.bsky.social and @majesticgaming.bsky.social in that great lil MAGPIE session! I wasn't able to get to any of the major accessibility panels this year (dept head work was real this year) but hoping Default Options are Boring will be on MAG's youtube🤞

I am of course also lucky that I now get to go home and sit in a quiet room and watch one piece.

ohmygosh I forgot to include this incredible pic in the larger thread, but thank you so so much for coming! Was lovely hanging out with you and @ninfadp.bsky.social!

Let's get that place to the full ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ it deserves.

And ofc the people, both new and old. What a lovely group to work with, I'm very lucky to know them and be a part of this weird event every year.

c u in 2026 (and also at magstock)

Sheets of stickers and mini posters, many of which are chaos from sonic adventure 2

A malformed Squirtle figure

A development DS prototype, just a board with 2 screens on it

A shrine to David Lynch, including notes about him and a small TV playing Blue Velvet

- Tons of stickers, again the theme was great cuz it meant more Chao content
- My sweet sweet child from the "ugly pokemon $5" bucket
- Looking at a development DS prototype that's just a big-ass board
- Paying respects to a legend

Playing Sonic Adventure 2's Chao garden

A MAGFest Staff badge covered with ribbons and stickers, including one about getting wrecked by Rey Dau in the Wilds beta

Wacca, the circular rhythm game

Wacca, the circular rhythm game score screen, feat a track from the anime Bocchi the Rock

- Hanging out with Blitzen, the 999/999/999/999 Chao available in the consoles space (amazing theme this year)
- Gettin pegged as a MH die-hard on _Wednesday_, and collecting a mess of ribbons etc (can't believe the pattern in that button one...)
- Wacca Good (Bocchi good)

- Really just so many new games this year, including a bunch from student devs and first-time MAGFest attendees which we love to see
- Also got to know some of our returning devs a WHOLE lot better
- I now play the Digimon TCG pls trade me promo seadramons

A woman sits in front of 3 large colored buttons, having just run a round of Guess Hue, an alt control color game

A parent and child playing Crab Volleyball on a home made arcade cabinet

Two people playing Arcade Common's WeatherSys Admin arcade cabinet

My fearless Indie Arcade co-DH Socks playing a game I made on a lever-based controller ty socks <3 u

- Twistin Fingers, Guessing Hues, Plugging Chugs, tbh a banner year for “this is a game so detached from any other game you’ve played you’ll be fine”
- Having some 10/10 all star volunteers who already said they wanna help with off season work hell yeah help us pls help us there is so much to do