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studio director League of Geeks • co-host AIAS #GameMakersNotebook • GDC board • co-creator Armello + Solium Infernum + Jumplight Odyssey

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I Tried Cycling The Length of Britain: 1,750kms & 17 Days On The Road | Land’s End to John O’Groats
YouTube video by Oscar Boyd I Tried Cycling The Length of Britain: 1,750kms & 17 Days On The Road | Land’s End to John O’Groats

I have an international squad of mad mates I adventure with annually, and Oscar is the maddest of them all (adventure-wise).

He's cycled the length of Britain(!) and made yet another stunning film in his uniquely charming brand of storytelling. Perfect weekend viewing!

youtu.be/k6Yp-5jbPN0?...

18.10.2025 06:09 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

good news! we've successfully addressed the problem where people were getting too emotionally entangled with our chatbot. we're happy to announce you'll be able to fuck it soon

15.10.2025 00:06 — 👍 648    🔁 112    💬 21    📌 4
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PAX 2025.xlsx

Here is a player facing spreadsheet of 150 indie games from PAX. Aus, NZ and SE Asia. Game name, steam (or other) link, demo y/n, genre, comments (which I'm editing). Please share. Let's work together to connect people to Aussie indies. I'm going to tag people next. docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

13.10.2025 05:15 — 👍 72    🔁 38    💬 11    📌 2

emma's stuff is so insanely good. always blown away.

09.10.2025 02:55 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congrats, you fucking legend. Yewwww! 🤙🏼🤙🏼🤙🏼

09.10.2025 02:05 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Fuck yeah, Powerhoof! The GOATs. 🐐

09.10.2025 02:04 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you, René! This is rad. 👏🏻🙇🏼‍♂️

08.10.2025 12:45 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

wake up babe, new absolutely bonkers indie videogame resource just dropped

08.10.2025 08:38 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
Building Relationships - "a silly adventure game about a house on a date"

Building Relationships - "a silly adventure game about a house on a date"

Dogpile - a dog is jumping into a pile of dogs! One of the dogs has cool sunglasses. Hell Yeah.

Dogpile - a dog is jumping into a pile of dogs! One of the dogs has cool sunglasses. Hell Yeah.

Coming to Parallels on Thursday? We have two additions to the line-up to announce!

Building Relationships - @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com (TALK)
Dogpile - @folly.studio (PLAYABLE SHOWCASE)

07.10.2025 01:00 — 👍 55    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

30.09.2025 22:34 — 👍 17022    🔁 6429    💬 165    📌 96

OUR NEW GAME!!!

It's so happening right now. Plz plz plz share and wishlist we need all that juicy data.

Also the demo is UP ON STEAM, you can literally play it's very very fun.

30.09.2025 23:17 — 👍 34    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0

Get it, my dude!
💫🚀

29.09.2025 23:24 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Ten years ago, Armello brought tabletop adventures to life. Now, delve into its lore-rich depths with this gorgeous anniversary hardcover omnibus of tales both old and new! Coming soon to Kickstarter!

tinyurl.com/foundingandf...

02.09.2025 14:20 — 👍 39    🔁 15    💬 0    📌 4

Grateful for the chance to chat with Nikita about EFT's exceptional success, distinctive design & immense depth. Some brilliant tales in here, including the exact moment his love of Day-Z and EVE Online gave birth to Escape From Tarkov and with it, the creation of the extraction shooter subgenre. 🤘🏼

02.09.2025 14:14 — 👍 7    🔁 1    💬 3    📌 0
Dwarf Fortress is 20% off

Dwarf Fortress is 20% off

Caves of Qud is 15% off

Caves of Qud is 15% off

Ostranauts is 20% off

Ostranauts is 20% off

Boyfriend Dungeon is 65% off

Boyfriend Dungeon is 65% off

Only a few hours left to snag some great deals on all our games!

▶ Last day of the Kitfox Festival 2025: store.steampowered.com/developer/ki...

14.08.2025 14:53 — 👍 65    🔁 20    💬 0    📌 1

HELLO MIGW FRIENDS

we're preparing something that rhymes with shmeekon and I would love to hear from cool devs that have interesting stories about...

✨humiliation✨

What are your career lowlights, embarassing situs and bad things you've learned and grown from over your career. hmu

07.08.2025 12:20 — 👍 23    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 2

We can permit one cry, and then, back to work as the people’s champion please.

14.08.2025 03:50 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Microsoft literally shut down the guy who made DOOM to pay for AI shit.

14.08.2025 01:16 — 👍 469    🔁 162    💬 8    📌 4
Working on Sustainable Game Development with Xalavier Nelson Jr. | Game Maker's Notebook Podcast
YouTube video by Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences Working on Sustainable Game Development with Xalavier Nelson Jr. | Game Maker's Notebook Podcast

And if you’re interested in the specific hows and whys, well do I have news for you… I spoke to Xalavier at length about this exact thing just a year ago.

Enjoy. ❤️

youtu.be/6wkDf5sFapk?...

14.08.2025 03:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

One of the few roadmaps to success as a sustainable indie game dev studio that will, by design, protect you from many of the challenges traditional pathways no longer do is being practiced, demonstrated, and narrated, for yall live by @writnelson.bsky.social and Strange Scaffold.

Pay attention. 👀📝

14.08.2025 03:41 — 👍 11    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

Australians have put up with America’s cultural crimes for a long time, but these claims that calling something “cooked” is some Gen-z American invention is an attack on our sovereignty unlike any other.

I grew up hearing geriatric Rotarians call someone cooked.

14.08.2025 03:37 — 👍 48    🔁 7    💬 4    📌 0

🚨 New pub alert! 🚨

13.08.2025 09:11 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Auschwitz-survivor Gabor Maté: Gaza genocide 'the worst thing I've seen in my whole life.' “It's a bit of an obscenity that I'm asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren't we listening t...

“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”

12.08.2025 20:02 — 👍 1684    🔁 720    💬 4    📌 17

*Open LinkedIn*

Third post:

A plasterer attempting to educate a 30+yr legendary game developer as to why his game's launch didn't go well.

A plasterer.

*Close LinkedIn*

13.08.2025 06:41 — 👍 22    🔁 0    💬 5    📌 0
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‘A million calls an hour’: Israel relying on Microsoft cloud for expansive surveillance of Palestinians Revealed: The Israeli military undertook an ambitious project to store a giant trove of Palestinians’ phone calls on Microsoft’s servers in Europe

If you've sold your Xbox, canceled Game Pass, or boycotted other parts of Microsoft following the BDS announcement earlier this year or reports like this one please email me at ethan.gach@kotaku.com or reach out on Discord at ethangach

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...

06.08.2025 21:28 — 👍 93    🔁 58    💬 2    📌 2
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We're so excited to quietly announce that our game has received funding from both Screen Australia and Screen NSW.

We're thrilled to have begun production on our short, narrative-driven adventure game rich in Indigenous storytelling, and we can't wait to share more about this story with you soon!

08.08.2025 02:49 — 👍 44    🔁 13    💬 1    📌 0
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🍒 Whoa, what's this?!

UFO 50 is available right now on #NintendoSwitch!

#UFO50 #IndieWorld

07.08.2025 14:22 — 👍 2055    🔁 569    💬 49    📌 82

I once heard a cybersecurity expert say that no degree of tech-savviness or awareness of scams will 100% prevent you from ever getting scammed.

We are all susceptible to deception, especially so when given the right context and emotional state.

07.08.2025 16:33 — 👍 10    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Ahahahaha

07.08.2025 13:48 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Luckily, they’re intelligent, talented and privileged enough that I’ve no doubt they’ll be fine. They more so destroyed the life they had, not the rest of their life. But yeah, one helluva ride.

07.08.2025 11:25 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

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