I wanted shareholders to give feedback without GitHub issues or DMing me. So I built a form that files straight into a private GitHub repo instead. Fun build too: specced it with an agent, ran parallel tasks, a test caught 2 bugs before it shipped. k5m.org/go/feedback-bsky

Something that still catches me off guard about being publicly traded: the shareholders slowly turn into real relationships. People who bought in years ago argue with me, check in on me, show up when I'm in their city. What started as a stunt became a sort of extended, slightly chaotic family.

Quick explainer for anyone new joining after the Shareholder Summit: I'm a publicly traded person. Real people buy and sell shares in me, and shareholders vote on decisions in my life. Running since 2008. A live market with actual governance. Anyone can join: https://k5m.org/go/premise-bsky

Tell your friends! Bother your coworkers! Beg your family! WE ARE ON SALE!

Wario64@wario64.bsky.social · 2w ago

Blippo+ is $9.74 on US eShop buff.ly/2aeYPG2

I made a trading bot, and one of my shareholders socially engineered it at 4am into making bad trades. I built it to be helpful and never taught it to be suspicious. That could have been a very expensive lesson... https://k5m.org/go/bot-bsky

Shareholder Update: 🗳️ the new vote 💰 my dumb idea 📛 shareholder summit 2026 kmikeym.substack.com/p/performanc...

New shareholder vote: should I hire AC Dickson to coach me on camera? I knew him as a character 20 years ago (eBay PowerSeller), then produced his lecture. NowI want him to coach me. vote.kmikeym.com/k5m/question...

a day in the life

🇽🇰 Leaving Kosovo in a week... but holding a Counter Strike LAN party as my going away party... partiful.com/e/fn0du8OEtt...

RSVP to Mike's Farewell CS Tournament | Partiful

🇽🇰 After spending two months in Kosovo I'm sadly leaving... and what better way to go than hosting a Counter Strike tournament at the gaming center that let me set up a little home office in the corne...

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We're fully flipped that @blippo.plus is a finalist in the most prestigious app design awards on Earth: The Apple Design Awards! We labored over every wonky pixel with love and it's wonderful to receive this recognition. #WWDC developer.apple.com/design/awards/

I'm using the local gaming cafe in Pristina as a co-working space. There's a 17-year-old who cuts hair here. He did a great job. Now he wants to dye my hair black... I told him I'd ask my friends. Vote closes Saturday: vote.kmikeym.com/k5m/question...

Dye My Hair Black • 📈 K5M

Should I let the 17-year-old kid who cuts hair in the Kosovo gaming cafe dye my hair black? I got a haircut in Pristina while using the neighborhood gaming center as a co-working space. During the qu...

vote.kmikeym.com

𝘃ideo is no 𝗴ame

Game Developer@gamedeveloper.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Video codecs are a nightmare for game developers, but there's no solution in sight

First money in is not just about the money. In 2008 someone handed me $100 to invest in KmikeyM before it existed. That was huge. Now it's our turn. Shareholder vote to invest in Paizley's Dead Internet Theory. Bigger check, same role. 👉 kmikeym.substack.com/p/new-vote-invest-in-dead-internet

New Vote: Invest in Dead Internet Theory

🗳️ KmikeyM investing in a third party project.

kmikeym.substack.com

We're honored for Blippo+ to be a part of the #InterfaceX26 Expo! If you've ever wondered what an alien cable box interface might look like and what's on TV, now's your chance to get it on sale. store.steampowered.com/sale/Interfa...

Helen Carmichael - Game Dev@bchezza.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Announcement: 💻 We created a Steam Festival of over 150 #FakeOS games 📲 InterfaceX26 is live on Steam! Enjoy discounts, game announcements and a fantastic showcase event with some of your fave streamers! Please check it out, 👍+ 🔁 store.steampowered.com/sale/Interfa... #indiedev #signalboost

Debbie Diner

Money doesn't corrupt games. Distracted players do. news.kmikeym.com/the-contagio...

The wonderful @play.date community were the original Bendonauts—the first people to visit Planet Blip when Blippo+ surprise launched on #Playdate! We’re so grateful to their enthusiasm for our world, and really honored to have won two Playdate Community Awards! Thank you! play.date/games/commun...

a proud wacko :)

Tucker Hazell@tuckerhazell.bsky.social · 5mo ago

NOW LIVE FOR EVERYONE: My interview with two of the wackos (complimentary) responsible for the IGF nominated multimedia extravaganza Blippo+. I chat with @kmikeym.com and @marklacroix.bsky.social about the wild challenges of making Blippo. CHECK IT OUT NOW! youtu.be/SH-sdBQjR0M

For friends at GDC: we brought a few albums of Blippo+ behind-the-scenes snaps to this very lovely indie game art gallery (and tea bar!) happening today! luma.com/8kv8sonp

Indie Game Art Gallery & Tea Bar · Luma

As GDC continues to turn its attention to corporations rather than the very people developing the games, Meha and I are throwing this party as an appreciation…

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So neat to see Blippo+ on display with all these wonderful indie games! 🥲

Blippo’s own Claire and Jona (aka @com.y-a-c-h-t.com) are giving a tiny talk today at GDC as part of the Indie Soapbox session, along with some other fabulous devs! Come say hello! @officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026 schedule.gdconf.com/session/indi...

📡 Blippo+ writer @theuniverse.bsky.social, and game/creative director @com.y-a-c-h-t.com will be standing on top of something called the "Indie Soapbox" and giving something called a "microtalk" at GDC. Come say hi! schedule.gdconf.com/session/indi... @officialgdc.bsky.social #GDC2026 #IGF2026

Indie Soapbox: Playing it Unsafe | Agenda | GDC Festival of Gaming

Indie Soapbox is the chance for indie devs from diverse backgrounds and projects to come together to share their thoughts, lessons and provocations about indie game dev in this long standing microtalk...

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Jona's new installation is four microwaves spinning on a platter, each displaying video of something inside a microwave. I think it's about the screen we all stopped watching, and why that might be the most forward-thinking subject an artist can choose right now. news.kmikeym.com/the-sacred-a...

An invitation to any LA-based friends On Here: this Sunday is the first Dead Media Chat Room, an informal symposium about archaic technologies and new rituals to revive them, at our office on Wilshire. Co-presented with Wilshire Online and my friends at TAPE Los Angeles:

Last, but certainly not least, @blippo.plus won this year's Herman Melville Award for Best Writing!

Blippo+ Acceptance Speech for Best Writing!

YouTube video by NYVGCC

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The Blippo+ Original Soundtrack is just $5 today only! ♫ GET BENT! yacht.bandcamp.com/album/blippo...

incredibly excited that we have a version of Blippo+ for all my mac friends!

Blippo+@blippo.plus · 7mo ago

Flip different. Blippo+ has arrived on Macintosh™ computers.  Get it on the Mac App Store: blippo.plus/mac ⌘ Get it on Steam: blippo.plus/steam

not only did we win, but i achieved an executive producer's dream when @theuniverse.bsky.social said my name on stage

Blippo+@blippo.plus · 7mo ago

Blippo+ won the Best Writing award at the New York Game Awards! Thank you @nyvgcc.bsky.social for the honor! Our hearts are full after seeing all the incredible work you do. Congratulations to Blippo+ writer @theuniverse.bsky.social and all the Blippians who riffed Planet Blip into being.

🏆 Blipoo+ writer Claire L. Evans (@theuniverse.bsky.social) is up for Best Writing in a Game at the NY Game Awards (@nyvgcc.bsky.social) this weekend! See you in New York! www.eventbrite.com/e/15th-ny-ga...

holy shit! guess i'll see you at GDC!

Blippo+@blippo.plus · 7mo ago

OH MY GOB! Blippo+ has been nominated for four awards for the 28th annual Independent Games Festival! 🏆 Seumas McNally Grand Prize 🏆 Nuovo Award 🏆 Excellence in Visual Art 🏆 Excellence in Audio 🏅Honorable Mention: Excellence in Narrative See you @officialgdc.bsky.social!