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Michael (Mixel) Dawes

@mixelslab.bsky.social

Solo indie dev of retro & C= Amiga games. Draws things sometimes. ✨ He/They ✍🏻 Artist πŸ‘Ύ Amiga ♏️ INFP-T πŸ¦‡ Goth πŸ’Ύ Indie Dev πŸ’€ Horror ❀️‍πŸ”₯ Lydia

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Nicely done.

13.02.2026 06:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Oh that IS nice! I got myself a Christmas keyboard too but it hasn’t arrived yet. πŸ˜•

05.01.2026 06:35 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But that makes the n64 retro but the 3DO, CDi, CD32 (all older than the n64) and then Saturn and PS1 (contemporaneous with the N64) all somehow not retro?

02.01.2026 14:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I really liked this one! Damn that’s a long time ago, no idea what happened to my copy.

27.12.2025 10:51 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Headline "Jonathan Blow interview- the father of indie gaming on video games in 2525 AD"

Headline "Jonathan Blow interview- the father of indie gaming on video games in 2525 AD"

Okay please let's not call him that

17.12.2025 22:24 β€” πŸ‘ 1179    πŸ” 165    πŸ’¬ 85    πŸ“Œ 160
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Indie Retro News: Christmas Me Out - A Special XMAS demo for the Commodore Amiga by Mixel's Lab www.indieretronews.com/2025/12/chri... #retrogaming #gaming #games

11.12.2025 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.

09.12.2025 03:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1308    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 57    πŸ“Œ 47

This whole thing seems so bizarre, from eurogamer’s review there’s nothing *that* subversive and certainly nothing illegal to have represented..

Is it just that they know tabloids (etc) are going to go crazy about it and they’re worried payment processors will be pressured to drop them?

03.12.2025 16:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
cartoon of a cute little monkey using a saw to cut off a tree branch that it is standing on. The monkey is saying "Wow technology is amazing"

cartoon of a cute little monkey using a saw to cut off a tree branch that it is standing on. The monkey is saying "Wow technology is amazing"

artists and designers using ai like

27.11.2025 00:35 β€” πŸ‘ 3942    πŸ” 996    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 9

They also don’t understand how much of the finished art comes from the process of making it. They think the initial β€œvision” is the magic, and the rest is donkey work. But you learned more about your creation by drawing (painting / sculpting / writing / coding) it. It’s a conversation and a journey.

18.11.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 61    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Showed my dad my Miyoo Mini.
He instantly got interested asking if it got Amiga, C64, CPC, all the old PCs and consoles he had.
"yuh, got all of them"
"man technogy isn't all bad, huh"

The GENUINE smile on his face, love to see it.

17.11.2025 09:24 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Godzilla has no fucking idea how to load that paper and is begging you for help.

13.11.2025 19:26 β€” πŸ‘ 297    πŸ” 127    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 1

Everyone ten years ago when The Force Awakens came out: β€œWow, this is dumb. Why are the fascists just doing the exact same plan again?”

Everyone now: β€œOh.”

11.11.2025 16:32 β€” πŸ‘ 320    πŸ” 92    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 7

the idea that lots of gamedevs are secretly using ai is booster bullshit

what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those

making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too

oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things?

seems important

12.11.2025 03:59 β€” πŸ‘ 576    πŸ” 153    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 1

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

07.11.2025 06:11 β€” πŸ‘ 892    πŸ” 318    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 9

Space for a 4th project? πŸ˜…

04.11.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Pixelart of an Asian Tiger Mosquito up close, with all the white stripes you'd expect from a "tiger", and all the little hairs, legs and mouth appendages you'd expect from a mosquito

Pixelart of an Asian Tiger Mosquito up close, with all the white stripes you'd expect from a "tiger", and all the little hairs, legs and mouth appendages you'd expect from a mosquito

I don't think I've actually posted this one on its own, a travesty

Asian Tiger Mosquito

#pixelart #ΡƒΠΊΡ€Π°Ρ€Ρ‚

04.11.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 342    πŸ” 72    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1

Awesome, thank you, and good luck! It’s slightly evil in parts. πŸ˜…

02.11.2025 09:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Really pretty!

LS-6? I don’t know what that is; As a Leeds person I was thinking… β€œA Headingley joystick?” πŸ˜…

01.11.2025 22:27 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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EVIL EGG is OUT NOW and FREE FOREVER on Steam and Itch. infinite twin-stick paradise, no strings attached. it's not your fault you were born a monster.

download on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3651950/...

other links below
#gaming #indiegame #indie
πŸ₯šπŸ‘½πŸ‘ΎπŸ„

30.10.2025 16:03 β€” πŸ‘ 801    πŸ” 345    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 40

Thanks! 😊Going to take a while to finish, but it’s still my main project!

01.11.2025 04:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social

30.10.2025 23:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2057    πŸ” 304    πŸ’¬ 44    πŸ“Œ 21

Ahaha! I’ve never seen any in person. Thankfully. πŸ˜…

30.10.2025 22:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have no idea what that is, but it looks more like an AI hallucination than a food. πŸ˜΅β€πŸ’«

30.10.2025 22:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Demo 2! Swamps and saws? Hey everyone! Off the back of Amiga 40 Germany (which was amazing!), and just in time for Halloween - here's another demo of Creeping Me Out! It's a shorter demo than the first one but still has a goo...

Happy to finally be able to release CMO demo 2.. It’s way shorter than the first one, but has much harder levels. #amiga #gamedev

30.10.2025 01:15 β€” πŸ‘ 15    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Baron Von Blubba from Bubble Bobble

Baron Von Blubba from Bubble Bobble

Ok so I have a proposal for how to fix the problem in baseball

28.10.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 250    πŸ” 68    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Domesticated animals have pulled our heavy carts and turned our large mills for centuries. But what about the opposite end of the spectrumβ€”what if the wheel you want to turn is so small you can’t see it?

Turns out we can harness the power of bacteria to power the world’s smallest machines.

1/7 βš›οΈπŸ§ͺ

26.10.2025 02:01 β€” πŸ‘ 254    πŸ” 87    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 16

Disgusting on so many levels.

I’d been blissfully ignorant of this.. I guess grokipedia is just their alternative facts, fash-friendly Wikipedia equivalent since they couldn’t control the messaging on Wikipedia?

24.10.2025 02:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The only truly ethical response that a self-described artist can make. Anything else is a betrayal of one's colleagues.

23.10.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 5572    πŸ” 1410    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 5

in a way aren't we all holding a barrel in the darkness

09.09.2025 23:23 β€” πŸ‘ 870    πŸ” 260    πŸ’¬ 12    πŸ“Œ 0

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