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a stylized render of nagumo from CITY the animation with a variety of little characters from the show

CITY!!

DAY 1 OF SOS STREAM TONIGHT 6PM!!! 🛟

We’re at ✨92/100✨ memberships needed for Sabby to evolve into a community owned co-op!
Wouldn’t it be crazy if we hit 100 on stream today? 🤯🎉🥳🎊

Join us to catch the excitement on Twitch or Youtube!

www.twitch.tv/sabbygallery

www.youtube.com/@SabbyGallery

the whole economy exists to bully you relentlessly then sell you fake friends. of course people are lonely

don't look at the date of this post. i'm normal.

trying out a new profile picture! i'll see how i feel about it later

It's day 1 of @free-play.bsky.social today! Sabby is going to be there every day promoting our awesome little community. 💙💛

Come swing by and say hey or ask us about the co-op!

Which you can totally join here! sabby.gallery/join/

Angles 2025 The Angles conference returns for three days of talks and events at Science Gallery Melbourne.

Freeplay Angles starts tomorrow! Conference sessions run from midday to 5pm, Thursday to Saturday. If you can't make it to all three, individual day tickets are available. Catch you at Science Gallery soon 👭☠️🔮

events.humanitix.com/angles25

Drăculești: a romantic horror narrative game Play as Renfield, survive the terror of Castle Dracula, and find love in the darkest night in romantic horror game Drăculești.

i backed Drăculești!! you should too!!! this game is fantastic!!!!!! and i want my ghost dakimakura www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

Kevin McLeod, who for 20 years has been the "royalty-free music guy" online, has just launched a new website where other composers will also be offering royalty-free music for anyone to use in their projects: freepd.com

Wouldn't it be cool if we had a bigger. better venue so that we didn't have to hit capacity at our events?

If we get 100 co-op members by August 16th we can do just that! 🎉

... And the alternative is that we just close forever 😬

JOIN HERE: sabby.gallery/join/

Maybe we could find out.

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The (ridiculously) long term answer is decentralizing as much of the internet as possible, including payment processors.

But in the short term I think we need to figure out how to apply very strong pressure on payment processors to reverse course on this flagrant bullshit.

continuously struck by how many ways the secrecy of the games industry is directly harmful to the creativity and authenticity that makes its best games

here’s just a list of numbers

This week I’m delighted to announce Creepy Redneck Dinosaur Mansion 1: Re-raptored… and that’s it’s not made by Strange Scaffold.

Follow @pedalboard.games, wishlist it on Steam, and check out Project Share, our next foray into exploring methods of sustainability!!
store.steampowered.com/app/3830150

happy birthday!!!

'Save Our Sabby' - Turning a Melbourne Games home into a Co-Op haven. @sabbygallery.bsky.social
FEATURE: www.sifter.com.au/post/save-ou...
#gamedev

Xalavier Nelson Jr. on why the Switch 2 won't solve the industry's sustainability problem At the recent FIS Games Summit, Xalavier Nelson Jr. talks about sustainable game development and whether the Switch 2 can save the industry.

If you have more interest in what Strange Scaffold is doing, @lexluddy.xyz had a great interview with @writnelson.bsky.social earlier this year that you can check out.

Q: I'm so thrilled to see a trans male character as the player character! We rarely get any representation in media, nevermind as a player. I was already extremely excited to play the game when it drops, but now I'm going completely feral about it! A: thank you! Most of our team is somewhere under the trans masc umbrella (some nonbinary, some trans guys) and Renfield being a trans guy was an important part of our original decision to make the game at all.

A: When we started in 2019, it was post-Dream Daddy and in the lead up to Tell Me Why, and while I can't speak for everyone, I was kind of frustrated that a lot of trans masc rep in games was focused on characters who were squarely morally good. It was clearly driven by a desire to educate and win over other demographics, which is a noble cause, but it felt pretty stifling looking out at a landscape of games where the model for trans masculinity was one where pretty much every character had to be an ambassador rather than just A Guy. Renfield comes from a place of wanting to see more trans masc characters who are allowed to be flawed humans AND leading men at the same time. He's not here to be perfect, sometimes he's not even here to be good, but he's here and he's doing his best to survive. Since that's all most of us can do! Let's wish him luck out there.

thoughts about Renfield 🏳️‍⚧️

[worst possible stuff happening everywhere] man why do I feel bad

deltarunef

It's hard to describe how important Sabby is as one of the numerous "young trans people who have moved interstate and found Sabby to be their connection to community".
Such an incredibly positive and supportive place, I'd be lost without it!
Luckily this article lays it out better than I ever could!

Drăculești is LIVE on Kickstarter

Play as Renfield, survive the terror of Castle Dracula, and find love in the darkest night in this seductive romantic horror narrative game.

Starring Ray Chase as Dracula. Voice/Casting direction by @jennyyokobori.bsky.social 🖤

www.kickstarter.com/projects/171...

Thankyou so much for attending Retro Games Club on Friday! 🕹️✨

There was:

TETRIS
Sheep, Dog ‘n’ Wolf (2001)
Peppa Pig!

A reminder that there won't be anymore regular events like this at Sabby unless we become a community owned co-op.
More info here!: sabby.gallery/join/

doing another talk at @free-play.bsky.social this year!!!

you can get your tickets it for it now:
www.freeplay.net.au

Retro Games Club is tonight at 7pm!

Come check out some awesome presentations on Retro Games!

events.humanitix.com/retro-games-...

If you love our regular events like Retro Games Club, please consider joining the co-op, so that they can continue 🙏💖

sabby.gallery/join/

cool!!! i've been meaning to learn both yarn spinner and playdate dev so this is perfect

European Citizens' Initiative Give your support !

Been posting a lot about the Kickstarter recently but this is much more important. 👇

Consider lending support to the #stopkillinggames campaign.

Every game that becomes forever unplayable is a huge loss both to the culture and history of the gaming medium! 👾

eci.ec.europa.eu/045/public/#...

ok but seriously cancel your game pass. with the BDS boycott and the microsoft higher ups constantly bleeding their developers for the most miniscule of gains you'd be doing yourself a favor in the long run not giving those assholes your money. with every passing month they get all the more ghoulish