Balmut
@balmut.bsky.social
#GameDev Goblin.
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http://thrallgames.bio.link
Support with cheese! http://ko-fi.com/balmut
http://patreon.com/Balmut Thrall of Time⌛️ (Any)
http://thrallgames.bio.link
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Balmut
@balmut.bsky.social
· Sep 14
Figure I should probably post some older GameDev stuff since we have videos now!
These are my Goblins
#PixelArt | #Goblins | #CozyGames | #indieDev | #IndieGames | #SoloDev | #FarmingSim | #TownBuilder
These are my Goblins
#PixelArt | #Goblins | #CozyGames | #indieDev | #IndieGames | #SoloDev | #FarmingSim | #TownBuilder
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Gum Squad coming soon! Holy heckkk!
February 13, 2026 at 7:17 AM
Gum Squad coming soon! Holy heckkk!
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"Beautiful things are still beautiful, Cricket. Even when they have mud on them."
I adored getting to voice this lovely comic with these wonderful lil goblins ><
Comic by the ever amazing Pocketss over on Insta!
I adored getting to voice this lovely comic with these wonderful lil goblins ><
Comic by the ever amazing Pocketss over on Insta!
November 5, 2025 at 12:02 AM
"Beautiful things are still beautiful, Cricket. Even when they have mud on them."
I adored getting to voice this lovely comic with these wonderful lil goblins ><
Comic by the ever amazing Pocketss over on Insta!
I adored getting to voice this lovely comic with these wonderful lil goblins ><
Comic by the ever amazing Pocketss over on Insta!
I hope someone is able to pick up where they've left off, we need more things like this in the world!
All the best to those that ran the Queer Games Bundle, you're legends!
All the best to those that ran the Queer Games Bundle, you're legends!
The Queer Games Bundle is officially disbanding. There will not be another bundle this year. Thank you for your support over the years.
Please continue to help each other. A community can only exist if it helps each other survive in a meaningful way.
Read our final statements here:
Please continue to help each other. A community can only exist if it helps each other survive in a meaningful way.
Read our final statements here:
Queer Games Bundle is ending
When I set out to make the Queer Games Bundle in 2021, I wanted to get revenge on a world where $200 usd could mean the difference between fucking up your life or being okay. I just wanted people to b...
itch.io
February 12, 2026 at 9:17 PM
I hope someone is able to pick up where they've left off, we need more things like this in the world!
All the best to those that ran the Queer Games Bundle, you're legends!
All the best to those that ran the Queer Games Bundle, you're legends!
Good level design 10/10 no notes
February 12, 2026 at 12:23 PM
Good level design 10/10 no notes
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There's a metric fuckton of money to be made harassing and dehumanizing a tiny minority of innocent people just trying to live their best lives.
"A conservative network led by Michael Gove and Nigel Farage’s senior adviser James Orr has spent more than half a million pounds pushing far-right and anti-trans voices – some of it fuelled by profits from Russian oil."
Putin’s megaphone: Orbán’s far-right push into UK universities is fuelled by Russian oil | Good Law Project
Good Law Project has uncovered a network funded by Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán, that uses profits from refining Russian oil to platform far right and anti-trans campaigners in the UK
goodlaw.social
February 12, 2026 at 11:33 AM
There's a metric fuckton of money to be made harassing and dehumanizing a tiny minority of innocent people just trying to live their best lives.
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The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
NHS closed Tavistock over care complaints – there were only eight
An eye-opening FOI report has revealed that just eight people complained about the Tavistock gender clinic's care provision in 10 years.
www.thepinknews.com
February 12, 2026 at 1:22 AM
The NHS closed Tavistock over trans care concerns – there were just eight complaints all from cisgender people.
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
1. JK Rowling
2. Maya Forstater
3. Helen Joyce
4. Graham Linehan
5. Kathleen Stock
6. Posie Parker
7. Wes Streeting
8. Rosie Duffield
www.thepinknews.com/2026/02/11/n...
Lecterns are in!
I need to make a couple more variations of broken bookcases, rejigger the ground tile generation so the Lecterns don't blend into it (maybe add some floor tiles?) and fix torches being placed behind bookcases.
But for now I think this area is done?
#gameMaker #gameDev #pixelArt
I need to make a couple more variations of broken bookcases, rejigger the ground tile generation so the Lecterns don't blend into it (maybe add some floor tiles?) and fix torches being placed behind bookcases.
But for now I think this area is done?
#gameMaker #gameDev #pixelArt
February 11, 2026 at 8:49 PM
Lecterns are in!
I need to make a couple more variations of broken bookcases, rejigger the ground tile generation so the Lecterns don't blend into it (maybe add some floor tiles?) and fix torches being placed behind bookcases.
But for now I think this area is done?
#gameMaker #gameDev #pixelArt
I need to make a couple more variations of broken bookcases, rejigger the ground tile generation so the Lecterns don't blend into it (maybe add some floor tiles?) and fix torches being placed behind bookcases.
But for now I think this area is done?
#gameMaker #gameDev #pixelArt
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Ooo, lecterns?
February 11, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Ooo, lecterns?
Adding Library rooms as RNG areas in the Ruins Caves, but I have a problem. Bookcases in The Archive (where you can store books you've found) don't work like chests, so how do I let the player find books? Do I just make the ruins bookcases scenery and put the books in chests?
Or
#gameDev #pixelArt
Or
#gameDev #pixelArt
February 11, 2026 at 3:51 PM
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If you care about pixel art as a medium and want to learn more about how to detect if it is genuine or AI-generated, please refer to this writeup that I created with the help of the community. Read, download, share and support real creators.
February 11, 2026 at 12:45 PM
If you care about pixel art as a medium and want to learn more about how to detect if it is genuine or AI-generated, please refer to this writeup that I created with the help of the community. Read, download, share and support real creators.
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So cool that Keir Starmer the Queer Harmer enables the cultural genocide of trans people while at the same cuddling and rewarding one of Epstein’s pets.
Anti-trans legislation is entirely based on *imagined* versions of the crimes being committed by the legislators and/or their friends.
Anti-trans legislation is entirely based on *imagined* versions of the crimes being committed by the legislators and/or their friends.
February 11, 2026 at 12:18 PM
So cool that Keir Starmer the Queer Harmer enables the cultural genocide of trans people while at the same cuddling and rewarding one of Epstein’s pets.
Anti-trans legislation is entirely based on *imagined* versions of the crimes being committed by the legislators and/or their friends.
Anti-trans legislation is entirely based on *imagined* versions of the crimes being committed by the legislators and/or their friends.
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Reminder that "degenerate" was a term coined by Nazis to describe art they didn't like and labeled problematic.
Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.
Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.
February 10, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Reminder that "degenerate" was a term coined by Nazis to describe art they didn't like and labeled problematic.
Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.
Unless you have proof of real world harm, leave people alone and let them draw fucknasty shit. You have block and mute features. Stop making your disgust everyone else's problem.
eww
Why are you using AI art? The gun on the far left is a camera lens
February 10, 2026 at 7:22 PM
eww
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::: BRIGHT STONES :::
ONE:
Goblins.
gob•lin (gä-blən)
1. (In Geology) [Slang] - A tall, thin spire of rock formed by erosion.
2023 | g.i.e. | #gie
ONE:
Goblins.
gob•lin (gä-blən)
1. (In Geology) [Slang] - A tall, thin spire of rock formed by erosion.
2023 | g.i.e. | #gie
![A manila postcard with a picture in true-black printed on one side, depicting a cave worn down by time and spilling outward with loose shale. It is a dark cave in the depiction.
There is text to the other side of the postcard reads:
"ONE:
Goblins.
gob•lin (gä-blən)
1. (In Geology) [Slang] - A tall, thin spire of rock formed by erosion."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5j6dsz3zpcmxep3iw2zaqdxn/bafkreig5f6eck6lc4mczs7p6bseimc7zebzno7cuh4jxkoslkck32z72vu@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 12:32 AM
::: BRIGHT STONES :::
ONE:
Goblins.
gob•lin (gä-blən)
1. (In Geology) [Slang] - A tall, thin spire of rock formed by erosion.
2023 | g.i.e. | #gie
ONE:
Goblins.
gob•lin (gä-blən)
1. (In Geology) [Slang] - A tall, thin spire of rock formed by erosion.
2023 | g.i.e. | #gie
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We here at Cafe Dot 🍵 want to help everyone find artists on Bluesky that you'll enjoy, and have begun curating lists for users all across Bluesky. ✨
See a list you enjoy? Give it a follow! Want to be included, or know of someone who should be? Reply to that post and let us know!👇
See a list you enjoy? Give it a follow! Want to be included, or know of someone who should be? Reply to that post and let us know!👇
February 10, 2026 at 1:13 AM
We here at Cafe Dot 🍵 want to help everyone find artists on Bluesky that you'll enjoy, and have begun curating lists for users all across Bluesky. ✨
See a list you enjoy? Give it a follow! Want to be included, or know of someone who should be? Reply to that post and let us know!👇
See a list you enjoy? Give it a follow! Want to be included, or know of someone who should be? Reply to that post and let us know!👇
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Day 26: 2025/08/05 - 9h
CW: possibly annoying SFX
Polished & added more ways to trigger SFX:
- Floaty acorn pickups!
- Area triggers for looping, pitch-varied, repeating, 1-off, & crossfading loop sounds!
- Walking on beach grass sounds silly!
#DailyDevlog #Moonshell_Island #gamedev #gamemaker
CW: possibly annoying SFX
Polished & added more ways to trigger SFX:
- Floaty acorn pickups!
- Area triggers for looping, pitch-varied, repeating, 1-off, & crossfading loop sounds!
- Walking on beach grass sounds silly!
#DailyDevlog #Moonshell_Island #gamedev #gamemaker
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
Day 26: 2025/08/05 - 9h
CW: possibly annoying SFX
Polished & added more ways to trigger SFX:
- Floaty acorn pickups!
- Area triggers for looping, pitch-varied, repeating, 1-off, & crossfading loop sounds!
- Walking on beach grass sounds silly!
#DailyDevlog #Moonshell_Island #gamedev #gamemaker
CW: possibly annoying SFX
Polished & added more ways to trigger SFX:
- Floaty acorn pickups!
- Area triggers for looping, pitch-varied, repeating, 1-off, & crossfading loop sounds!
- Walking on beach grass sounds silly!
#DailyDevlog #Moonshell_Island #gamedev #gamemaker
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hopefully goes without saying but do not upload your identification to fucking discord
February 9, 2026 at 2:46 PM
hopefully goes without saying but do not upload your identification to fucking discord
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I really wish we had a well funded, power critical fourth estate interested in investigating the source of this clearly coordinated effort by payment processors.
Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.
Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:38 PM
I really wish we had a well funded, power critical fourth estate interested in investigating the source of this clearly coordinated effort by payment processors.
Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.
Like, we keep seeing the impact of it, but I really want to know the "who" and the "why" beyond nebulous surveillance/puritanism forces.
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this is why we can't have nice things
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Age verification for all.
buff.ly
February 9, 2026 at 2:43 PM
this is why we can't have nice things
Does this count as validation?
I think the closest person (not studio) near me that I recognise is Ratcasket?
bluesky-map.theo.io
I think the closest person (not studio) near me that I recognise is Ratcasket?
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 11:17 AM
Does this count as validation?
I think the closest person (not studio) near me that I recognise is Ratcasket?
bluesky-map.theo.io
I think the closest person (not studio) near me that I recognise is Ratcasket?
bluesky-map.theo.io
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I always think of this when people try to speak up for AI even a little....
February 9, 2026 at 1:11 AM
I always think of this when people try to speak up for AI even a little....
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Starting off it's 6th year of bringing you monthly highlights of the more unexplored corners of indie games, it's Indiepocalypse #73!
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by @cmi.bsky.social
-Cover by @alexsiple.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-73
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by @cmi.bsky.social
-Cover by @alexsiple.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-73
February 6, 2026 at 7:23 PM
Starting off it's 6th year of bringing you monthly highlights of the more unexplored corners of indie games, it's Indiepocalypse #73!
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by @cmi.bsky.social
-Cover by @alexsiple.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-73
-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by @cmi.bsky.social
-Cover by @alexsiple.bsky.social
pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-73