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Gwen C. Katz

@gwenckatz.bsky.social

Lead developer of Nightwell Games. Currently surviving the aftermath of the Eaton Fire. All-ages deduction game DEDUCTOPIA coming soon: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4429720/Deductopia/

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Josh Bycer@gwbycer.bsky.social · 19h ago

In one week, my newest book is coming out, focusing on cozy and low stakes games discussing how these genres became popular and why UI/UX design is critical for making games around relaxing experiences #indiegamedev www.routledge.com/Game-Design-...

Game Design Deep Dive: Cozy Games

Game Design Critic Josh Bycer continues the Deep Dive series with an examination of cozy games. The market for coziness has grown dramatically, thanks to showcases like Wholesome Direct and consumers ...

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Doctora Malka Older@older.bsky.social · yesterday

"Much of science as we conceptualize it now was built on top of the framings of Verne’s era. Revisiting the exuberance, obliviousness, chauvinism, and optimism of Verne’s science-related worldview offers a useful reminder of where some of our own narratives come from." @mitpress.bsky.social

Jules Verne’s Empty Dream of Spaceflight

In “From the Earth to the Moon,” scientific advancement is treated as destiny — but no one quite asks why.

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Victoria Rose Richards@aerialembroidery.bsky.social · 21h ago

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

An embroidery hoop containing a sewn landscape from above. It shows a forest on the right, a line of fire and charred ground with smoke on the left. The smoke is felted wool.
Adam Rawnsley@arawnsley.bsky.social · yesterday

Today, August 4, 2026, is the setting of Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” about a fully automated house continuing on after the family who lived there and the world around it died in a nuclear blast.

jordan@jordantyranny.bsky.social · 2d ago

GIRL SNAKE CATCHER. she makes a snug little income by securing reptiles for traveling shows SHE JUST GRABS THEM (The Washington Bee, Washington DC, November 8, 1902)

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Jacob@iacobuscaesar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Nice AI-image-generating tool, but it will never be as great an artist as Onfim, a child who lived in the Novgorod Republic in the mid-1200s and who scribbled these drawings and schoolwork writings on birch bark at the age of 6 or 7.

Onfim’s drawing of himself on horseback as a warrior defeating an enemy.Two of Onfim’s works. On the left is a copy of a passage from the Book of Psalms he did for schoolwork. On the right is an apparently autobiographical depiction of a monster labeled with “I am a wild beast.”Some more spelling practice by Onfim with some human figures who have round heads and varying numbers of fingers on their big hands.Onfim’s writing practice accompanied by 7 little people in his particular drawing style, who tend to have very big hands with many fingers.