What if we all just walked out into the woods and became cryptids?

“Oh no”

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · last mo.

Breaking news: Tesla’s profits dropped unexpectedly as Elon Musk’s group offered discounts to boost electric-vehicle sales and revenue from sales of regulatory credits to rivals dried up. ft.trib.al/XbQAMjC

Good news! 🧟You can get Beatdown City Survivors 💯Which is 100% Very Positive on Steam 💸For 25% off! beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

Shawn Alexander Allen@shawndoublea.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧟Beatdown City Survivors🧟 Eradicate hordes of monsters in this 🗽Immersive 👥survivors roguelite 🌃set in a destructible city OUT NOW! 🛠️fun weapon crafting 🐱large cast of characters 🏗️dynamic environments 🔊pumping soundtrack Play the demo/check it out today! beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

"I only have so many vertebrae, and they simply cannot carry your aspirations to fix whatever is wrong with you all, which, I further regret to tell you, is A LOT."

I’m Jimothy, the Short-Spined Raccoon Who Has Taken the Internet by Storm, and the Collective Weight of Your Adoration Is Breaking My Already-Compromised Back

“I’m happy that the absurd proportion of my legs to my body fills you with a dim echo of what you used to call joy. I would be thrilled if your delight at me...

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Something something Torment Nexus

Maggie Harrison Dupré@mharrisondupre.bsky.social · last mo.

NEW: Alice Gilman, a cofounder of R3 Bio — a startup that's said it wants to create nonsentient "organ sacks" — tried to delay the publication of an interview she gave in February to the podcast Skyline Drive. Why? Unclear. But she alluded to being a "federal asset." futurism.com/future-socie...

Co-op Baldur’s Gate: “Ok let’s talk our way into this place” “Oops, sorry, I started a fight”

So I mainlined the entire Dungeon Crawler Carl audiobook series last week and what a delightfully weird world that is.

Different Penguins #indiedev #gamedev

If you fux wuth Beatdown City Survivors PLEASE leave a review ASAP! We're still in launch week and hitting 50 would be HUGE for discoverability. Once we hit 50 I'll do a raffle for something cool. We're 11 away.

Shawn Alexander Allen@shawndoublea.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🧟Beatdown City Survivors🧟 Eradicate hordes of monsters in this 🗽Immersive 👥survivors roguelite 🌃set in a destructible city OUT NOW! 🛠️fun weapon crafting 🐱large cast of characters 🏗️dynamic environments 🔊pumping soundtrack Play the demo/check it out today! beatdown.city/bdcsrstm

hello! all of my #playdate games are on sale in catalog! • rowbot rally — my loving, experimental story game — is just $10! • HEXA — an addicting match-six logic puzzle game — only $5! • cloudburst — an on-line weather app?! — just $3! and more!! running until 06.30.2026. play.date/games/search...

SPEAKER ANNOUNCEMENT📢 Geneva Heyward: How Games Influence Kids to Create Games are a gateway to writing, visual art, and music for young learners. Geneva shares what they've learned teaching grade school students through a games lens. 🎮 #GDoCExpo

A world-class education is now completely free — MIT has opened its entire vault of more than 2,500 courses to the public online. source: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (2026). About Us: MIT OpenCourseWare. MIT Open Learning. 😊

our Yarn Spinner+ version for Unity is on sale at 50% off for another ~30 hours! assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

Yarn Spinner+ for Unity, the friendly dialogue and narrative tool | Behavior AI | Unity Asset Store

Get the Yarn Spinner+ for Unity, the friendly dialogue and narrative tool package from Yarn Spinner and speed up your game development process. Find this & other Behavior AI options on the Unity Asset...

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As of 3 minutes ago, it’s my birthday. I made the mistake of opening social media after an otherwise good day and would like to not doomscroll, so if you want to give me a present, fill my feed with good, exciting, or uplifting stuff you’re doing or working on or looking forward to!

Janet's new demo is part of Next Fest, and we have absolutely zero GenAI. If we wanted slop we could make it ourselves, thank you very much! store.steampowered.com/app/2168480/...

Janet DeMornay Is A Slumlord (and a witch) on Steam

RENT MONEY IS DEAD MONEY and your landlord is expecting payment IN FULL. Puzzle your way out of a maze of DEPRAVED magical appliances and the UNHINGED diaries of a DEBAUCHED faded television celebrity...

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bees 🐝 go play snap & grab k thx@bees.nogoblin.social · 2mo ago

Also: If you want a list of Steam Next Fest games that don't have an AI disclosure, SteamDB has a handy filtering option for that! steamdb.info/sales/event/...

Isn’t it great how, just a week later, a bunch of brilliant acquired studios are being shut down or at risk of closure? 😩

Ted DiNola 🔜 PAX West@esdin.net · 3mo ago

Since I was in Canada on Friday, catching up on Summer Game Fest, and love the dichotomy of “Now, more than ever, players want weird stuff from small teams”… “Now here’s a bunch of things that took a decade to make and a bunch of remakes of games from your youth”

Obsession with the quarter and short-term shareholder value is one of the quickest ways to gut all long term worth from your company.

I swear to god if Xbox kills three great Indie Studios instead of literally *any other plan*, they’re demonstrating some severely bad business sense. The market is hungry for new categories right now. You should be empowering your small internal studios, not shuttering them

Saw two movies in theater this week. The Amazing Digital Circus was a much better cinematic experience than whatever the heck they were trying to do with Masters of the Universe.

Finally documenting the “business therapy” process I’ve used a few times to help companies balance their mission statements, activities, and culture. Derived from the work of a lot of smart people, thrown together with the power of ADHD, and validated by different smart people.

Since I was in Canada on Friday, catching up on Summer Game Fest, and love the dichotomy of “Now, more than ever, players want weird stuff from small teams”… “Now here’s a bunch of things that took a decade to make and a bunch of remakes of games from your youth”

I learned the other day from someone that the Chinese name for America is “beautiful country”. For phonetic reasons.

Everyone is celebrating Pride month but Orlando does it in October for historical, practical, climatological, and Halloween reasons.

and here... we... go gayyyyy shit! get'chur gayyyy shit!!! step right up, step right up, and let's have some fun

rainbow capitalism | artbymox

We try to make cool things. We are sometimes successful.

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Broke: Follow me on LinkedIn Follow me on X Follow me on BlueSky Follow me on Insta Woke: Follow me into the sea

english isn't for cowards. if you're not saying 'torpify,' that's a skill issue. there's no Académie Française telling you what to do. if you try to type 'pallific' and freak out when you see a little red underline, maybe you're not ready to roll with the big dogs.

Met some great poutines this week.

300k in three days for Mina. That's a solid run for a Kickstarter-funded title.

Mina the Hollower sells 300,000 copies in three days

Yacht Club Games previously indicated the title's performance would 'make or break' the studio.

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About to enjoy an excellent panel with some lovely speakers. Having expert voices from the games field speaking directly to people building AI tools and infrastructure is one of the strongest ways to minimize damage and maximize benefit from these technologies.#GameDev #AI

There is something so wonderful about explaining why a certain thing is the way it is in America to someone from any other part of the world and seeing the horror on their face as they try to wrap their brain around our contorted systems. “I…I don’t understand. Why?” #America