Dylan Ilvento
@dylanilvento.com
Game dev working on cool things at @ward-games.com | he/him | dylan@ward-games.com
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Dylan Ilvento
@dylanilvento.com
· Dec 4
Hey Bluesky! It’s Ward Games, your favorite indie game studio. If you’re following us elsewhere across the ‘Net, you know we’re working on a pretty cool game: Project Lexa, a sci-fi mystery where you explore a planet where everything is written in an alien language! ward-games.com/post/what-th...
What the Heck Have We Been Working On?
A surprise update!
ward-games.com
Hello, Bluesky followers! In case you didn’t know, I’m making a game with a cool buncha folks and we just started talking about it on Bluesky. You should follow our studio account and check out the other devs working on it! It’s all in this handy dandy thread below 👇
More funding
November 10, 2025 at 11:44 PM
More funding
They’re talking shit about you in the Ichneumonidae chat.
![Ferdinand Rudow (2 April 1840 – 3 September 1920)[1] was a German entomologist best known for the poor quality of his taxonomic work.[2] He described over 200 species of wasps during his lifetime, almost all of which have been revised as synonyms of other species.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreiawxaz22fm63iswczfs5wlbxsbynjchlch5xklwem2jrd3e6g46ay@jpeg)
![After an initial interest in studying lice and mites, Rudow began to focus on wasps in 1871.[3] Over the course of his research, he described 234 species and varieties within the Ichneumonidae family of parasitoid wasps, eventually amassing a collection of close to 14,000 insect specimens](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyyd366g3hrxp5rynixm2mm3/bafkreie3ek67bgpzccweql4pohzxdpdvvbf4ejzeqngrvyg6xh336xhxta@jpeg)
November 10, 2025 at 3:57 PM
They’re talking shit about you in the Ichneumonidae chat.
Anyways, got the presskit page done. 😪 ward-games.com/project-lexa...
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 AM
Anyways, got the presskit page done. 😪 ward-games.com/project-lexa...
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Important article about politicians and how you, yes YOU the people have to hold them accountable at every single turn!
November 9, 2025 at 2:46 AM
Important article about politicians and how you, yes YOU the people have to hold them accountable at every single turn!
Every time I have to add a new feature or webpage to the Ward Games site, I get more and more upset at the state of this codebase. I started a rewrite in Gatsby/React a while back, but to rebuild the whole site would take... a lot of time.
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Every time I have to add a new feature or webpage to the Ward Games site, I get more and more upset at the state of this codebase. I started a rewrite in Gatsby/React a while back, but to rebuild the whole site would take... a lot of time.
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Feel like I’m well and truly out of the Fortnite loop cause I had no idea that they put the Simpsons in it.
November 8, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Feel like I’m well and truly out of the Fortnite loop cause I had no idea that they put the Simpsons in it.
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Oh it's #PitchYaGame time?
I'm working with some awesome folks on Project Lexa — a game all about translating an alien language and using what you learn to solve puzzles, explore an alien planet, and uncover secrets!
Check out more here 👉 projectlexa.com
I'm working with some awesome folks on Project Lexa — a game all about translating an alien language and using what you learn to solve puzzles, explore an alien planet, and uncover secrets!
Check out more here 👉 projectlexa.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Oh it's #PitchYaGame time?
I'm working with some awesome folks on Project Lexa — a game all about translating an alien language and using what you learn to solve puzzles, explore an alien planet, and uncover secrets!
Check out more here 👉 projectlexa.com
I'm working with some awesome folks on Project Lexa — a game all about translating an alien language and using what you learn to solve puzzles, explore an alien planet, and uncover secrets!
Check out more here 👉 projectlexa.com
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Your regular reminder that IGFs, BAFTAs, and the DICE Awards mean a hell of a lot more than The Game Awards do.
If you’re at GDC, attend the awards. If you’re at DICE, attend the awards. If you’re able, watch the BAFTAs via stream (unless you’re fabulous enough to be invited, of course).
If you’re at GDC, attend the awards. If you’re at DICE, attend the awards. If you’re able, watch the BAFTAs via stream (unless you’re fabulous enough to be invited, of course).
November 7, 2025 at 6:28 PM
Your regular reminder that IGFs, BAFTAs, and the DICE Awards mean a hell of a lot more than The Game Awards do.
If you’re at GDC, attend the awards. If you’re at DICE, attend the awards. If you’re able, watch the BAFTAs via stream (unless you’re fabulous enough to be invited, of course).
If you’re at GDC, attend the awards. If you’re at DICE, attend the awards. If you’re able, watch the BAFTAs via stream (unless you’re fabulous enough to be invited, of course).
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#PitchYaGame
LOVE 3 is the third in a series of minimalist precision platforming games with the ability to set your own checkpoint at any time. Play with limited or unlimited lives and find all the secrets. It also includes the levels from the first two games. [ PC & Switch ]
love-the-game.com
LOVE 3 is the third in a series of minimalist precision platforming games with the ability to set your own checkpoint at any time. Play with limited or unlimited lives and find all the secrets. It also includes the levels from the first two games. [ PC & Switch ]
love-the-game.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
#PitchYaGame
LOVE 3 is the third in a series of minimalist precision platforming games with the ability to set your own checkpoint at any time. Play with limited or unlimited lives and find all the secrets. It also includes the levels from the first two games. [ PC & Switch ]
love-the-game.com
LOVE 3 is the third in a series of minimalist precision platforming games with the ability to set your own checkpoint at any time. Play with limited or unlimited lives and find all the secrets. It also includes the levels from the first two games. [ PC & Switch ]
love-the-game.com
Oh it's #PitchYaGame time?
I'm working with some awesome folks on Project Lexa — a game all about translating an alien language and using what you learn to solve puzzles, explore an alien planet, and uncover secrets!
Check out more here 👉 projectlexa.com
I'm working with some awesome folks on Project Lexa — a game all about translating an alien language and using what you learn to solve puzzles, explore an alien planet, and uncover secrets!
Check out more here 👉 projectlexa.com
November 7, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Oh it's #PitchYaGame time?
I'm working with some awesome folks on Project Lexa — a game all about translating an alien language and using what you learn to solve puzzles, explore an alien planet, and uncover secrets!
Check out more here 👉 projectlexa.com
I'm working with some awesome folks on Project Lexa — a game all about translating an alien language and using what you learn to solve puzzles, explore an alien planet, and uncover secrets!
Check out more here 👉 projectlexa.com
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I think what really needs to happen re: The Game Awards is we all need to boycott it. it goes beyond Future Class; the game awards exist to push marketing at people. it's not a real award show and it's not produced by people who care about gamedevs at all. we're just props.
November 7, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I think what really needs to happen re: The Game Awards is we all need to boycott it. it goes beyond Future Class; the game awards exist to push marketing at people. it's not a real award show and it's not produced by people who care about gamedevs at all. we're just props.
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Still thinking about the “official” 2023 Future Class meetup after we had to pay for our own travel to LA/hotel/tickets to the Game Awards, only to stand on a sidewalk outside a Starbucks where they wouldn’t even cover the cost of our shitty coffees 🫠
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 7, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Still thinking about the “official” 2023 Future Class meetup after we had to pay for our own travel to LA/hotel/tickets to the Game Awards, only to stand on a sidewalk outside a Starbucks where they wouldn’t even cover the cost of our shitty coffees 🫠
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
www.gamedeveloper.com/business/the...
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marginalised developers are among the poorest in the industry, but were expected to pay for their own tickets to their token inductions (not even talking travel+accom)
TGA organised meetups at places like Starbucks where FC members were left with the tab after a quick photo-op-and-dash
TGA organised meetups at places like Starbucks where FC members were left with the tab after a quick photo-op-and-dash
November 7, 2025 at 6:15 AM
marginalised developers are among the poorest in the industry, but were expected to pay for their own tickets to their token inductions (not even talking travel+accom)
TGA organised meetups at places like Starbucks where FC members were left with the tab after a quick photo-op-and-dash
TGA organised meetups at places like Starbucks where FC members were left with the tab after a quick photo-op-and-dash
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perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
November 7, 2025 at 5:59 AM
perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
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trash-tier organization. the craven way they attempted to use the future class as a "30 under 30"-esque fig leaf to make it seem like they were socially engaged, while actively treating that class as if they were trophies rather than humans, is disgusting.
EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:57 AM
trash-tier organization. the craven way they attempted to use the future class as a "30 under 30"-esque fig leaf to make it seem like they were socially engaged, while actively treating that class as if they were trophies rather than humans, is disgusting.
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Personally, I believe that institutions that purport to support or otherwise celebrate an industry have a responsibility to pursue material action that backs that support up.
Here, we have an example of the most abject failure to uphold that responsibility, and it's frankly embarrassing. (1/5)
Here, we have an example of the most abject failure to uphold that responsibility, and it's frankly embarrassing. (1/5)
EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Personally, I believe that institutions that purport to support or otherwise celebrate an industry have a responsibility to pursue material action that backs that support up.
Here, we have an example of the most abject failure to uphold that responsibility, and it's frankly embarrassing. (1/5)
Here, we have an example of the most abject failure to uphold that responsibility, and it's frankly embarrassing. (1/5)
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The Future Class was created in 2020 when a lot of companies responded to online critiques and broader social justice movements with DEI initiatives.
Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."
Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."
EXCLUSIVE on @gamedeveloper.bsky.social: not only has The Game Awards not nominated a Future Class for 2025, it's told alumni it "does not have any active programming plans" for the award.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Future Class page was taken down sometime this year—eliminating a definitive archive of honorees.
The Game Awards' Future Class program remains on ice
Future Class organizer Emily Weir has informed past honorees that The Game Awards has no active plans for the program.
www.gamedeveloper.com
November 6, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The Future Class was created in 2020 when a lot of companies responded to online critiques and broader social justice movements with DEI initiatives.
Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."
Hard not to read part of the subtext here as the TGAs, like many other brands, trying to distance itself from "woke."
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Viewing this as a mandate in favor of my “Stop making me hear about Ezra Klein” platform
November 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Viewing this as a mandate in favor of my “Stop making me hear about Ezra Klein” platform
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It exists! And you can buy it, and play it right now!
Now we just have to make the rest of it!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/296...
Now we just have to make the rest of it!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/296...
Generation Exile - Generation Exile - OUT NOW IN EARLY ACCESS - Steam News
We won’t beat around the bush - you can go play Generation Exile right now! We’re so excited to finally be able to share what we’ve been working on with everyone. It’s been a long road to get here, an...
store.steampowered.com
November 4, 2025 at 6:56 PM
It exists! And you can buy it, and play it right now!
Now we just have to make the rest of it!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/296...
Now we just have to make the rest of it!
store.steampowered.com/news/app/296...
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I have never known which one is Beavis and which one is Butt-Head.
November 4, 2025 at 4:26 PM
I have never known which one is Beavis and which one is Butt-Head.