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Reese Valentine
@areeseofcake.bsky.social
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they/them. Co-founder of @amelore.coop, i lov vidya gaems.
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ventdeiji.bsky.social
I FINALLY FOUND IT
September 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
areeseofcake.bsky.social
production
September 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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azurebitch.bsky.social
All the images are apparent screenshots from an Android phone SMS messenger. The contact name simply says "Unknown Number". Incoming messages are referred to as coming from "Them", outgoing messages are referred to as coming from "You". Them: Hello, I’m sorry, this is going to sound weird but please give me a chance. When you were eighteen, did you have a childhood friend named Carli that you lost contact with after you left to go to college? You: Um, hi? Who the fuck is this? Carli? You: This is an extremely creepy way to get back in touch if so. Them: No, this isn’t Carli.
August 31, 2024 at 4:14 PM
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thormungandr.com
Want to see how I map hollow Knight to a potato controller (literally)? Of course you do!Get in here! twitch.tv/thormungandr
August 26, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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denmanrooke.com
Worker Cooperatives in Game Dev webinar this Wednesday!!!

I'll be moderating a panel with our fantastic speakers from KO_OP, Baby Ghosts, Necrosoft Games, CoLab Collective, and Wild Blue Studios.

www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/co-create-...
Graphic promoting webinar with Saleem Dabbous from KO_OP Graphic promoting webinar with Eileen Mary Holowka from Baby Ghosts Graphic promoting webinar with Shane Marks from Necrosoft Games
August 25, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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krysidian.bsky.social
✏️Draw and Carve out Detached Facial Features!🖌️

Use a regular mesh or make use of #GreasePencil!
My FREE tool SMIRK for #Blender 4.4+ is finally out

Use #geometrynodes to generate a 3D mouth from a drawing and animate it Frame by Frame

Based on EdwardUrena's DFF

#b3d
July 18, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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wtchcrft.com
Love in the Time of Spellphage is in here! 🌈🔮
A zoomed in screenshot of Love in the Time of Spellphage being on the Wheel of Woke
July 19, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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toonyballoony.bsky.social
had the big brain realization that you could just whip up a whole D&D cast/NPC list from Whose Line prompts alone
A screenshot of Wayne Brady holding up three fingers with the text "Girl Scout Selling Cookies Who's Possessed by the Devil" A screenshot of Colin Mochrie making a face with the text "Heroic Frog Leading 'The Great Escape' of All the Frogs from a French Restaurant" A screenshot of Ryan Stiles with the text "Gradually Turning into a Parrot" A screenshot of Greg Proops frowning with glasses halfway down his nose with the text "Judge Judy"
July 12, 2025 at 11:04 PM
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dirtbagboyfriend.bsky.social
I’m gonna be straight up with you: please buy my game so I can have the funds to move out of this country before it kills me. That’s why I’m pushing so hard! Trying to move my entire trans household out of here and it’s very expensive. If you have the game, please leave us an honest (5words) review?
softnotweak.bsky.social Play Spirit Swap!✨ @softnotweak.bsky.social · Jun 26
Hot Queer Brown, Black, Arab, East Asian, etc, baddies in YOUR COMPUTER?
And the key to their hearts is match-3 mechanics with a twist?
AND the game is 20% off RIGHT NOW?
AND it's buy once with no microtransactions or play limits? AND upcoming FREE UPDATE?
store.steampowered.com/app/1592170/...
A square promo image for Steam's summer sale that lasts from June 26th to July 10th at 10 AM PT, letting you know that the game Spirit Swap is on sale for 20% off. The price went from $19.99 to $15.99.
July 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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amelore.coop
#PortfolioDay yay!

We do: gameplay & AI programming, concept art, 3D sculpting & modelling, environment design, rigging & animation, and more.

We offer Unreal Engine game development support, as well as 3D characters, from concept to playable in engine.

www.artstation.com/amelore_coop
A 3D environment rendered in Unreal Engine, it is a Victorian Study, sparsely decorated. A 3D model of a black character, her hair and clothing peachy pink. A thumbnail of a capybara dressed as an astronaut sitting on a hill. A logo at the bottom reads Critter Cosmos. A thumbnail montage of courts from the video game Slappyball. A logo in the center reads Slappy Ball.
July 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
areeseofcake.bsky.social
Hey, attendees of #SGDQ2025, im the spirit island guy, im an island-pilled spiritcel. Message me if you wanna play this week (or check the board games channel in the official GDQ discord)
July 8, 2025 at 1:20 AM
areeseofcake.bsky.social
Coloring pages at the Back 2 Black booth, Reese enrichment #SGDQ2025
July 7, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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ekanaut.bsky.social
I'm sorry for all the folks affected by layoffs recently. It's not much easier in the indie space and most of us are just getting by. If you are thinking about starting up a studio or going indie, I'm happy to share what I've learned running a small studio for the last 8 years with a remote team.
July 4, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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sliwinski.bsky.social
IT IS PART OF THE FUCKING JOB! AND IF PUBLISHERS ARE JUST FINISHING FUND COMPANIES THEN THEY AREN'T PUBLISHERS THEY'RE JUST LOAN SHARKS!

(And I am fully qualified and certified to say this.)
supernorn.bsky.social Adam Riches @supernorn.bsky.social · Jun 26
Attended a few talks recently, and the advice on funding / publisher support seems backwards to the consensus of even a few years ago.

If publishers expect devs to take on all the risk before making a commitment, then what is the offer? What risk do they shoulder?

Risk is part of the job, no?
June 26, 2025 at 10:14 AM
areeseofcake.bsky.social
A youtube video is screenshotted, Night Creeps. The video is set to loop endlessly.
June 26, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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charlesamcgregor.com
Alright, I'm going live now! I'd appreciate if you can hop in and hang out! youtube.com/live/vv2QD_0...
charlesamcgregor.com Charles McGregor @charlesamcgregor.com · Jun 23
Alright! I'll be back streaming tomorrow! This time I'm doing some tools development with a tool I've needed on the vast majority of my projects, but I never sat down to make universal... I'll explain it on stream heh.

Come hang out for some co-working or BTS on #gamedev
youtube.com/live/vv2QD_0...
Making Dynamic Textboxes
YouTube video by Charles McGregor
youtube.com
June 24, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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chilluminatipod.fm
AGENCY-WIDE ALERT: THE CHILLUMINATI IS RETURNING TO CHICAGO. ALSO, REPORTS OF THE CRYPTID "CRENDOR" BEING ON THE PREMESIS SEEM EXTREMELY LIKELY. PROCEED WITH CAUTION. PAY WITH CARD. 🦧👽 🦋🦥

lh-st.com/shows/11-01-...
A poster for the CHILLUMINATI X COX 'N CRENDOR Live Show on November 1st in Lincoln Hall Chicago. Door 7pm/Show 8pm
June 20, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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erininthemorning.com
Hey everyone,

The ACLU has released a FULL FAQ over the recent transgender passport decision (and the Trump admin dragging its feet on complying).

Please read this if you want to know anything about updating your passport and of or when you should pull the trigger.

www.aclu.org/trumps-assau...
Q&A: Orr v. Trump | American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org
June 23, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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pseudonymjones.bsky.social
(tomorrow)
pseudonymjones.bsky.social pseudonym jones @pseudonymjones.bsky.social · Jun 24
#makeaterriblecomicday2024
wow it’s that time of year again!
A (terrible) comic. PANEL 1: Emma looks at her watch. “What! It’s JUNE 24th already?” PANEL 2: “That means it’s MAKE A TERRIBLE COMIC DAY! how does it sneak up on me every year?” PANEL 3: “participation is SIMPLE. just make a comic! It doesn’t have to be funny or insightful or beautiful or interesting. make something for the joy of making it and if you feel it going wrong just trust yourself and keep going!!!” PANEL 4: “make a comic and don’t stop until it’s made!” PANEL 5: “remember that ole MAKE A TERRIBLE COMIC DAY saying, ‘if you want to make something GREAT, you need to start by making something TERRIBLE.’” PANEL 6: “or the other saying, ‘YOUR PARTICIPATION IS COMPULSORY!’ Stop thinking and get to work!”
June 23, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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alannamode.bsky.social
We’re gonna leave the games industry better than we found it 😤

Introducing DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library 🧬

📚 ongoing, always growing, digital archive for all
💸 COMMUNITY-FUNDED and freely accessible
🫡 curated + maintained by DnA Creative (us!)
dnacreative.notion.site/codex
DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library
DNA CODEX is a free digital GameDev Library built and maintained by DnA Creative - a curated and community supported digital archive for game development resources.
dnacreative.notion.site
June 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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heartmachine.bsky.social
It's Juneteenth! We're highlighting VALIDATE: STRUGGLING SINGLES IN YOUR AREA - a romantic visual novel about 13 adults in Jercy City navigating new relationships and the harsh realities that come alongside them.

store.steampowered.com/app/1319850/...

@validategame.com
June 19, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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derrickmalikjohnson.com
Man…let’s remember when the studios were asking black creatives to be more involved and wanted to reach out back in 2020 after the Floyd case and had all the promises in the world of “we want more black voices” but to only ghost people from communications to ghosting on test opportunities.
projectendo.bsky.social 〚Ẋ〛 @projectendo.bsky.social · Jun 19
No better day than today to discuss this, how our industry's treated black folks over the last decade is fucking shameful. Co-opted the image of their social movements, rug-pulled them with false promises of stability, exploited their vulnerabilities, then abandoned them. We gotta do better.
June 19, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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flurrys.nekoweb.org
poly hour
June 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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wtchcrft.com
Another fun studio announcement! 🔮

Love in the Time of Spellphage has been accepted to the @qgcon.bsky.social‬ conference happening September 26th-28th in Montreal! We'll be demo-ing the game live during conference weekend. Might even have some character stickers to give away 👀
Banner with the main character from Love in the Time of Spellphage (Lauren, green haired elf in blue overalls) holding up a small pride flag. The logo of the game and the conference QGCon are in the middle of the banner. Beneath that is "September 26-28 in Montreal, QC"
June 19, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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maximjdev.bsky.social
It's been a very The Autistic Experience In A Nutshell couple of weeks and I'm really over it. I need to get better at getting mad for myself.

#ventart
An stylized drawing of me says "AREN'T YOU TIRED OF BEING NICE?" No. I fuckin' love being nice. What I'm tired of is having my intentions misunderstood... and then being expected to read everyone's MINDS about it.
June 16, 2025 at 4:37 PM