Michael Dashow

A banner for the 3rd Annua Thinky Awards on Wednesday February 4 at 10am PST / 1pm EST / 6pm UTC. The banner art shows the thinky games mascot - a black blob with arms, legs and a single eye - holding up a trophy that looks like a decoder wheel. There are other blob-guys standing around in the middle of a colorful, stylized hedge maze.

A reminder that the Thinky Awards, a puzzle game award hosted by @thinkygames.com, is this Wednesday at 10am PST, your time may vary. Puzzle Spy International is up for Most Anticipated Game. We're excited to see all of the nominees and winners!

#puzzleGame #puzzleGames #thinkyGames #indieGames

Oh hey, looks like Libby has a built in spot to let them know what we all think of their recent announcement about allowing AI books in their systems.

Thanks so much! It's good to hear from you - I didn't even realize you were here! 😄

Thanks, Victoria!

Thanks, Brian! 😄

Thank you, Matt! 😁

Thank you! 😁

A grey rabbit in a pretty blue polka-dot dress with a carrot-patterned apron over it holds up a two-tiered carrot cake that she has just baked and frosted. The cake holds a single lit candle. This was drawn as a Draw This in Your Style challenge: The original character design was by Anastasiia Panchenko (@lapin.siia on IG)

A sunny summer scene at a tiny tea table outside a rustic cottage surrounded by bushes and trees. A young witch, surrounded by frogs and wearing purple robes and a witch's hat, talks animatedly to an ordinary looking boy. They're both holding teacups but he's looking VERY nervously at his, and also at the frog on the table. The book title reads "The Tea Witch's Retreat" with the author's name "Christina Warwick."

Luigi (from the Mario Bros games) in a rockabilly style. He's got a black and green bowling shirt in with an "L" embroidered on his chest, rolled-cuff jeans and Converse All-Stars. He's also got a large pompadour, sideburns, and lots of Mario-related tattoos. He's holding a large plumber's wrench.

In a dark nighttime hallway with huge arched windows, a girl and a werewolf (also a girl) are sneaking around. Both are wearing school uniforms, although the werewolf's has ripped a bit from her transformation. She has just knocked over a small table and broken a vase and the girl is shushing her. Through one of the large windows, we see more school buildings and a full moon. The book cover title is "Boarding School Werewolf" by Jo Barnett. At the top of the cover, it says "School can be a transformative experience."

Because it's my birthday, you have to repost my art. 🎂
(I don't make the rules, that's just the way it is on Bluesky!)

#kidLitArt #kidLit #illustration #art #birthday

If you see this, post your green art 💚

#kidlitart #artshare #ifyouseethis #illustration

There are so many Terry Pratchett quotes that eerily reflect what is happening in our life today that we can either conclude "He was a witch!" (Cue a crowd of extras shouting in a Monty Python movie.)

Or "Terry Pratchett knew history better than today's average American voter."

Any Renpy devs who see this, what minigames do you wish there was free code for? Contemplating what to do for MVNA this year 🤔

Just to toss an idea on the pile, nonograms (aka picross.)
FWIW Nom Nom Nami has a blog or two where she talks about how she coded nonograms for one of her RenPy games but afaik there’s no free code for it.

Bluesky isn't a place where trolls come to get mocked and insulted. They love that.

Bluesky is a place where trolls come to be blocked and isolated and ignored — which they hate.

If you're seeing a lot of shitty people in your feed, you aren't blocking enough people.

Get in. We're messing up Melania's Amazon search results. This weekend, Amazon is premiering it's $40 million Melania Trump documentary. It already seems to be a flop. But we're going to take it one step further by messing up Melania's Amazon search results. Specifically, we're going to amplify the paranormal erotic thriller, Melania: Devourer of Men so it ranks higher than her movie. The book is perfect: it's absurd, the cover is ridiculous, and it's free, so we're not giving Amazon any money. We need people to: 1. "buy" the book (it's free) 2. Share this post and get other people to buy the book. That's it. Then we can celebrate as an erotic novel about a bat monster Melania Trump becomes a higher and higher search result on Amazon.

Okay troublemakers, punks, antifa supervillains, and anyone who just enjoys being a petty little shitbird while they fuck up the algorithm of a massive media corp. Here's your assignment for the weekend. Get on it and spread the word.

In a dark nighttime hallway with huge arched windows, a girl and a werewolf (also a girl) are sneaking around. Both are wearing school uniforms, although the werewolf's has ripped a bit from her transformation. She has just knocked over a small table and broken a vase and the girl is shushing her. Through one of the large windows, we see more school buildings and a full moon. The book cover title is "Boarding School Werewolf" by Jo Barnett. At the top of the cover, it says "School can be a transformative experience."

Here's the illustration that I shared last week for #kidLitArtPostcard day, only here mocked up as a full book cover. 🐺🤫

#kidLit #kidLitArt #MG #werewolf #spooky #spookyMG #bookCover

A puzzle from Puzzle Spy International. There are some clues to the left with text areas to fill in, large polyomino pieces in the center that also get filled in with the answers to the left, and then a grid on the right where one can drag the polyominoes. I won't bother to tell you the clues as they're partially censored, nor list the answers as they're all wrong.

For #screenshotSaturday, here's another puzzle from Puzzle Spy International. (Partly censored because your security clearance isn't currently high enough to see it all.) But solving this should help you locate the enemy base.

Wishlist and try the demo at s.team/a/3406690

#indieGame #puzzleGame

I'm Kat Abughazaleh and I approve this message.

RE that RT.. it’s wild how steam reviews are still so damn important to getting visibility. If you play and like indie games, the most generous and helpful thing you can do is spend an hour popping positive reviews onto anything you like with <500 or so reviews.

Very appropriate of you to take this photo on the corner of 19th and Abolish Ice! 👍

My college let students design and teach classes for credit (you could only take so many of them) so the teachers were students too. But it was a thoughtful class about how it fit into society. Just having watched a bunch of it wasn’t enough to pass. 🖖

Cerebral Puzzle Showcase Cerebral Puzzle Showcase is a celebration of the most wonderful puzzle games available on Steam, organized by Draknek & Friends.

We're excited to announce that the Cerebral Puzzle Showcase will be returning this summer!

📅 Thurs May 28th - Thurs June 4th

If you have a #puzzlegame you'd like to be considered, please submit it directly here:

www.cerebralpuzzleshowcase.com

The deadline for submissions is 23:59 PDT Mar 31

Looking at the Epstein Files drop today and feeling about 150x more this:

Tell me 5 classes you took in college. 👨‍🎓

for me:
History and Structure of the English Language
Computer Graphics Programming 101
Silkscreening
Theater Set Design
The Cultural Relevance of Star Trek

I chatted with my group and we have some space. If you're interested, drop me a line and I can DM you an invitation.

To be fair, that's 47 days PLUS the experience they all received participating in January 6th.

But more training doesn't keep someone from enacting torture, or murdering, or abducting children. That's irredeemable (and it's what they were hired to do.) ICE needs to be abolished altogether.

Another time-lapse inking video, this one of the geology museum in Rome, known affectionately as the Museo di Neo Geo. This was all done in Procreate.

#gameArt #indieGame #indieGames #indieGameDev #illustration

I absolutely love this piece. Such a lovely palette and nice stylization of characters. I also loved your previous post with the knight on the walking bird, and it amazes me how different these two pieces are in approach. 😍

One-Third of U.S. Video Game Industry Workers Were Laid Off in 2025, GDC Study Reveals One-third of U.S. video game industry workers say they were laid off last year, according to GDC.

feel like this is one of the bigger labor stories of Our Current Regrettable Age variety.com/2026/gaming/...

I think one of the biggest modern influences in my work is Peter de Seve. I adore his work and his humor, and how he's managed to combine the two to great effect, and if I'm being completely honest, I'd just like the chance to meet him, whether he's giving me a portfolio review or not. 😄
#kidLitArt

I think that would be a great and natural extension of that Discord as a resource for folks!
#kidLitArt