Guardians, behold my loot from @yungkhan.bsky.social! When I saw the extra goodies, I cried. No really. Thank you Khan 🥹 This man has been the sole supplier of my workout tees for years. Stop by khanartist.org & grab these before they are gone! Support independent creators & artists like Khan. 🔥

Sold a lot of these at GCX this year. KhanArtist.org/merch

So obsessed with my merch from @byssworks.com!! You can find these & more at www.byssworks.com. Also, he’s available as a seasoned & talented voice actor for your next audio project. Please support independent artists & creators. So proud of him! Reposts appreciated 🫶🏼

Probably the last Destiny shirts I'll ever produce. This was a send-off design for GCX. Only have about 25 left. Probs no reprints. Sony nor Bungie can kill what we had as Guardians. Guardians make their own fate. KhanArtist.org/merch

100 GAMES FOR $10!!! Even aside from the worthy cause, that is a STEAL! Go get it! Tell your friends! Or gift them a bundle!

United Videogame Workers-CWA@videogameworkers.bsky.social · 6d ago

🎉 IT'S LIVE 🎉 The game industry hardship fund itch bundle made in partnership with @necrosoftgames.com is HERE. Over 100 games for $10+ bucks: all funds (save for itch fees) go directly to the UVW-CWA Game Worker Hardship Fund. GOOD GAMES FOR A GOOD CAUSE👇 itch.io/b/3802/game-...

We're live! In 10 days, expect Directing 101. For now, enjoy Marketing 101. We're going to cover a lot of 101 in this one: store pages, wishlists, KPIs, setting clear and measurable goals, press lists & releases, influencers, social media, ads, timelines, and some basic community management.

Rami Ismail (رامي)@ramiismail.com · 4d ago

Getting read to launch Marketing 101 on courses.ramiismail.com - for those of you that bought the full package or pre-ordered, it should go live in the next hour and a half. For those of you interested, you can check the course details out at courses.ramiismail.com/courses/mark...

Listening to Glen Hansard while writing this morning. Rest in peace you beautiful soul.

So, that was fun. 🐺⚔️

Cash Grab khanartist.org/merch/p/cash...

I posted my first short in several years. Watch it... comment it on it... tell me how sexy learning is in the comments. I'll just take a butterfly comment just to let me know Bluesky is still rockin' with me. youtube.com/shorts/IX1qH...

How I Use the Taco Anatomy Books #digitalart #tutorial #sketch #art #anatomy #howtoanimate

YouTube video by Khan Art & Design Co.

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Thank You. 👉 youtu.be/tElIeZ2Z7FI

You All Changed My Life. Thank You.

YouTube video by Fallout Plays

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Just a few more days until Levellling The Playing Field launches the 2nd of the 8 courses - the Marketing 101 course! Very excited about this one too: pre-orders are available, and you can preview the full course content on the store page. courses.ramiismail.com/courses/mark...

Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail

Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.

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You may hear people say, “Be yourself." But it’s exhausting when people are unaccepting of your truth. Part of being that true version of yourself is knowing that not every person is meant to stay in your life. You deserve to be accepted & loved. Allow your true self to shine unapologetically. 🧵

Time between ruthlessly laying off the person who did the work & Xbox claiming that work as a forward-looking team victory: 14 days. www.gamespot.com/articles/xbo...

Xbox Layoffs Included 37-Year Veteran Who Designed One Of Xbox's Best Features Ever

The Xbox cuts will affect more than 3,000 people.

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Tom Warren@tomwarren.co.uk · 2w ago

🚨BIG Xbox news. Microsoft is launching Xbox backward compatibility for PC today. The initial preview will include 4 original Xbox games on PC, with plans to bring more Xbox console games to PC over time. Full details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/969117/...

Months of work, a lifetime of learning, but the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Courses program launches right now. Eight €40 courses launching 10 days apart, I aim to make the critical less-spoken parts of indie gamedev accessible away from expensive visa-locked hotel bars. courses.ramiismail.com

Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail

Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.

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Pudgy Penguin Waving Spain Flag

Alt: Pudgy Penguin Waving Spain Flag

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People be sleepin’ and missing out on this gentleman of talent and dedication. Skills: ✅ Smarts: ✅ Great voice: ✅ Handsome AF: ✅✅ If you don’t yourself need work done, please consider reposting him. Forward, always forward.

Nu@byssworks.com · 3w ago

Hey everyone ☺️, trying to get back on my feet. Graphics design and voice acting 🙏🏿 HMU via email: byssworks@gmail.com Examples: www.byssworks.com/portfolio.html If you want to help, feel free to drop a little dono love on my PayPal, byssworks@gmail.com or merch ahnubyss-shop.fourthwall.com

Hey everyone ☺️, trying to get back on my feet. Graphics design and voice acting 🙏🏿 HMU via email: byssworks@gmail.com Examples: www.byssworks.com/portfolio.html If you want to help, feel free to drop a little dono love on my PayPal, byssworks@gmail.com or merch ahnubyss-shop.fourthwall.com

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Need - Vector Logo - Custom Vector Art - Merch - Social Media Graphics? Look no further

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Maybe you’re exhausted from trying to be the person others want you to be. You’ve been trying for so long to make them proud of you. I know you’re tired. Don’t be afraid to set boundaries & live your own truth. Families don’t determine your fate, only you do. You still have the power of choice.

Today is French National Day, otherwise known as Bastille Day, the anniversary of the Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. Let us join our French sisters and brothers in celebrating liberté, égalité, fraternité.

Looks like I’m binging Sam Neill movies today. Still can’t believe you’ve left us. 💔

Alan Grant: Just Like Listening To You

Alt: Alan Grant: Just Like Listening To You

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And yes: if you run -any- type of organisation, game studio, educational, charity, supporting marginalized developers, accelerator/incubator, government effort, whichever - and want to offer the course to your people or teams: please use courses.ramiismail.com/for-teams

Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail

Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.

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Proud to announce you can now pre-order the Levelling The Playing Field 101 Video Courses. Practical, focused 101 video courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - €40 (excl. VAT) per course, with bulk & group discounts! courses.ramiismail.com

Levelling the Playing Field - Courses by Rami Ismail

Practical, focused courses for indie game developers. Business, marketing, budgeting, production, pitching and more - by Rami Ismail.

courses.ramiismail.com

Bonnie Tyler; the number of times I sang my heart out to her powerful music from the rolled down windows of my car on a summer afternoon. Farewell to a beautiful legend.

This week, Microsoft GUTTED Bethesda, Zenimax, iD, & more. The C-suites treat the workers who make the games we love as disposable and don’t care they’re destroying the future of the industry! Let them know it has to STOP here: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

OneBGS - Bethesda Game Studios Union@bethesdaunion.bsky.social · 4w ago

One way you can show Microsoft your concern is here through the XBOX Player Voice feedback platform: feedbackportal.microsoft.com/feedback/ide...

Hey you, it’s been a minute. I took some time to be purposeful with the things that make me smile. Gaming has been therapeutic. The creative artists behind these titles deserve big hugs right now. Took a short holiday w/ the husband. I drank too much wine; not supposed to have it, but no regrets.

Furthermore it's fucking laughable to blame an "unprecedented hardware crisis" that your parent company fucking helped cause by promoting the AI slop-feast that is causing the hardware crisis "We shot ourselves in the dick and therefore you all must suffer"

Robert Brookes 🌿@sphynxian.bsky.social · last mo.

"1 billion gamers every day" is private equity talk. It's key jingling for the dragons that want to die on larger heaps of gold. And when there aren't a billion players a day it won't be the promise-makers that pay, but the remainder of the industry.

They crunch us and bleed us dry and leave the broken bones for scraps, and they make money every step along the way

Jason Schreier@jasonschreier.bsky.social · last mo.

BREAKING: Xbox will cut 3,200 jobs as part of a major reorganization, and divest from five studios: - Compulsion and Double Fine will go indie - Ninja Theory and Undead Labs will be sold - Arkane to enter consultation process Here's the full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Incredible thread full of incredible games.

Colin Spacetwinks@spacetwinks.bsky.social · last mo.

you already know what's up (steam sale rec thread is what's up) as always, i focus primarily on older, obscure, and just plain weirder games, as big name titles don't need the help. with that said, onwards!