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@basilthecreator.bsky.social

Building playful interactions @lauflauf Writes about creative life and politics. He/Him, Zürich https://lauflauf.games/en/newsletter

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We are organizing our own industry conference: Gamespace! | 8. + 9. October 2026

The Gamespace Conference will bring together the international gaming industry in Zurich, Switzerland, for two days from 8 to 9 October 2026!

FOR FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS SIGN UP HERE: gamespace.ch

03.03.2026 15:07 — 👍 24    🔁 14    💬 1    📌 3

ohh i love the style of the shading and colors

02.03.2026 16:40 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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A new Castle Come playtest went up!
#indiegames #gaming #gamedev

27.02.2026 17:13 — 👍 11    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
Same meme format as before, but it now shows the spearmint plant asking evolution to give it high menthol content to help it deter predators, and the cavemen excitedly yell "mouth cool" and instead of being deterred we ultimately got spearmint gum.

Same meme format as before, but it now shows the spearmint plant asking evolution to give it high menthol content to help it deter predators, and the cavemen excitedly yell "mouth cool" and instead of being deterred we ultimately got spearmint gum.

Same thing happened to the plants that produced menthol, probably also a deterrent to keep mammals from eating them, as menthol binds to our TRPM8 receptor that primarily senses cold (lack of heat). That's why we like cooling mint flavors so much!

27.02.2026 02:15 — 👍 107    🔁 24    💬 1    📌 2
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This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to...

The creator of Nearby Glasses made the app after reading 404 Media's coverage of how people are using Meta's Ray-Bans smartglasses to film people without their knowledge or consent. “I consider it to be a tiny part of resistance against surveillance tech.”

24.02.2026 16:15 — 👍 1098    🔁 504    💬 17    📌 35
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Ghosts, by Two Shell from the album Icons

Super interesting soundscapes! Some of it reminds me of twoshell.bandcamp.com/track/ghosts this feels alien to me as well

20.02.2026 10:21 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it is insane to me that we built a machine which takes implicit statements and therefore executes logic without the subjectivity of explicit language, liked that for certain important tasks and then proceeded to create a machine which does the polar opposite again

17.02.2026 13:29 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Why The Internet Is Terrified of London
YouTube video by Evan Edinger Why The Internet Is Terrified of London

“The next time someone shares with you some anti-London b******t, be sure to send them this video"

Excellent explainer from @evanedinger.bsky.social, countering hate and lies about London www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDky...

#racism #hateforprofit #stopfundinghate

09.02.2026 20:03 — 👍 403    🔁 171    💬 24    📌 12

its amazing how chatgpt knows everything about subjects I know nothing about, but is wrong like 40% of the time in things im an expert on. not going to think about this any further

08.03.2025 00:13 — 👍 18874    🔁 4614    💬 127    📌 152
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JORD, by MØL 8 track album

For melodic black metal / blackgaze, I enjoy MOL moeldk.bandcamp.com/album/jord-2

16.02.2026 10:17 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

❗❗ PALANTIR IS SUING US❗❗ Because of our reporting on the #SwissPalantirFiles.

More specifically, #Palantir is suing #RepublikMagazine, with whom we (@adfichter.bsky.social, Lorenz Naegeli, Jennifer Steiner,Balz Oertli & me) published our major investigation in collab with #WAVRecherchekollektiv

12.02.2026 11:53 — 👍 172    🔁 102    💬 4    📌 11

╔═══════════════════╗
║ AI DOESN'T THINK, ║
║ WE'RE JUST TOO USED ║
║ TO LANGUAGE ║
║ REPRESENTING THOUGHT║
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(•ㅅ•) ║
/   づ

11.02.2026 13:20 — 👍 61    🔁 17    💬 1    📌 1
A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

10.02.2026 12:48 — 👍 12309    🔁 4490    💬 40    📌 39

Stunning!

05.02.2026 11:13 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Striking paper from researchers at Anthropic using a randomised control trial to look at the effects of AI use on skills acquisition.

TL:DR ‘We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery.’
www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...

04.02.2026 07:47 — 👍 555    🔁 332    💬 22    📌 62

gras anfassen reicht nicht mehr ich muss 13000 millionen biere trinken gehen

30.01.2026 15:48 — 👍 118    🔁 4    💬 6    📌 0
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Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.

This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

29.01.2026 00:05 — 👍 10050    🔁 4881    💬 59    📌 127
schreckliches grosse, dicke US-Mannsfigur versucht die Schweizer Cloud zu essen, eines Schweizers, der kleiner ist...die Cloud weicht aus. Der Schweizer ist nicht happy.

schreckliches grosse, dicke US-Mannsfigur versucht die Schweizer Cloud zu essen, eines Schweizers, der kleiner ist...die Cloud weicht aus. Der Schweizer ist nicht happy.

🔥 🔥 🔥 New Scoop: US-Handelskammer will der Schweiz verbieten, digital souverän zu werden!! 🔥 🔥 🔥

Fazit: USA macht Druck auf allen Ebenen. Die Schweiz soll eine digitale und unregulierte Digitalkolonie bleiben.

www.republik.ch/2026/01/26/d...

26.01.2026 09:06 — 👍 65    🔁 42    💬 3    📌 3
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We just published a new version of the Castle Come playtest on Steam! If you are curious about the game, enlist on the page!

#gamedev #indiegames #playmygame

store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...

23.01.2026 16:50 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

something something free market

20.01.2026 16:32 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

One of the most famous Swiss German songs is about the "metaphysical creep" of seeing yourself reflected into infinity in the hairdresser's mirror. Except the monster ofc hahah

19.01.2026 09:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Castle Come on Steam Castle Come is a walking fortress roguelike. Scout a strange land full of bandits in search of new parts, defeat enemy castles and scavenge the wreckage, recruit crew to man your growing arsenal of we...

Hi, we are working on Castle Come, a mecha builder survival game set in an immersive world.

store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...

13.01.2026 13:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Just concluded the first batch of playtesting. We will be back with some new things to test soon :) #games #gamedev

13.01.2026 11:10 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

it has to be possible that if you put a fleet of self-driving cars on the road in our cities, or if you litter the sidewalks with roving bots and scooters, you forfeit all of that stuff. it has to be possible that if you deploy a system that people use to generate CSAM, you face social repercussions

09.01.2026 16:28 — 👍 37    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

But reading the article, it's almost the opposite right? Creating realities to explore spaces vs. creating spaces to explore reality. Both very interesting though

09.01.2026 10:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I have tangentially heard of it but have not yet made the link, thanks! But yeah, I see it as one of the reasons to practice game design as well, even though i prefer it applied to real life spaces

09.01.2026 10:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Interesting thought! I have been talking a lot about "story engines" with people recently, e.g activities/places/people/hobbies that produce little stories and things enriching your life

09.01.2026 10:00 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Made this gif out of the playtest version hehe

#indiegames #gaming #gamedev

08.01.2026 17:20 — 👍 12    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 2
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Castle Come on Steam Castle Come is a walking fortress roguelike. Scout a strange land full of bandits in search of new parts, defeat enemy castles and scavenge the wreckage, recruit crew to man your growing arsenal of we...

Today the Castle Come playtest went live! Sign up here:
store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...

#indiegames #gaming #gamedev #gaming

08.01.2026 17:19 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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We are getting ready for our Castle Come playtest starting on Thursday! If you want to try our game for free and give us valuable feedback, sign up here:

store.steampowered.com/app/1902970/...

#gamedev #indiegames #gaming #playtest

06.01.2026 22:23 — 👍 10    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0