Gregory Avery-Weir
@gregoryaveryweir.bsky.social
I make games and write. I don't care for kyriarchy. I'm part of @futureproofgames.bsky.social.
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I'm Gregory! I make games and write queer.
My website is: ludusnovus.net
You can check out my personal work, including all of my old Flash games, at: gregoryaveryweir.itch.io
I'm half of @futureproofgames.bsky.social, and you can see our stuff at: futureproofgames.com
My website is: ludusnovus.net
You can check out my personal work, including all of my old Flash games, at: gregoryaveryweir.itch.io
I'm half of @futureproofgames.bsky.social, and you can see our stuff at: futureproofgames.com
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trying to remain sane by thinking about old canadian computers
January 25, 2026 at 1:50 AM
trying to remain sane by thinking about old canadian computers
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Testing reality-bending visual effects for my game!
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #Steam #WishlistOnSteam #SteamGame #ActionAdventure #IndieGames #GamingNews #PCGaming #GodotEngine
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #Steam #WishlistOnSteam #SteamGame #ActionAdventure #IndieGames #GamingNews #PCGaming #GodotEngine
January 24, 2026 at 8:07 AM
Testing reality-bending visual effects for my game!
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #Steam #WishlistOnSteam #SteamGame #ActionAdventure #IndieGames #GamingNews #PCGaming #GodotEngine
#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev #Steam #WishlistOnSteam #SteamGame #ActionAdventure #IndieGames #GamingNews #PCGaming #GodotEngine
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wow they finally made a fat girl warframe and she's also an epic mickey. what a time to be alive
January 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
wow they finally made a fat girl warframe and she's also an epic mickey. what a time to be alive
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all the Chuck Tingle-style Warframe covers I made over the last couple of days
January 22, 2026 at 5:43 PM
all the Chuck Tingle-style Warframe covers I made over the last couple of days
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"A look of glass stops you." -- a bitsy game poem about reaching out and reaching out again. After my favorite three lines from John Ashbery (and maybe my favorite three lines of All Poetry.) In Game Poems #1: www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
January 20, 2026 at 2:58 PM
"A look of glass stops you." -- a bitsy game poem about reaching out and reaching out again. After my favorite three lines from John Ashbery (and maybe my favorite three lines of All Poetry.) In Game Poems #1: www.gamepoems.com/issue01/
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my lil game poem "lessons in anatomy" is featured in the first issue of GAME POEMS, which is an incredible honor to me. it's a short meditation on pleasure, pain, sex, and the vulva (because my whole thing is games about vulvas). www.gamepoems.com/issue01
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
www.gamepoems.com
January 13, 2026 at 5:52 PM
my lil game poem "lessons in anatomy" is featured in the first issue of GAME POEMS, which is an incredible honor to me. it's a short meditation on pleasure, pain, sex, and the vulva (because my whole thing is games about vulvas). www.gamepoems.com/issue01
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We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects! 100% Free for commercial use. #GameDev
Backgroundese Fonts for Nonsense Text in Games
We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects.
chequered.ink
January 20, 2026 at 12:44 PM
We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects! 100% Free for commercial use. #GameDev
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Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
January 19, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Cow Tools!
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
We have lived alongside cows for nearly 10,000 years.
We breed them and exploit them
It is now, only now, that we have discovered THEY CAN USE TOOLS
Here I describe our study
(paper) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... in @currentbiology.bsky.social
with @auersperga.bsky.social
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There are people in the world who say that there are only two genders: male and female.
But the heart and soul have much more personality.
It's very sad that people who can't accept this sometimes utter very harsh words.
You were born to live freely.
Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
But the heart and soul have much more personality.
It's very sad that people who can't accept this sometimes utter very harsh words.
You were born to live freely.
Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
January 16, 2026 at 7:29 PM
There are people in the world who say that there are only two genders: male and female.
But the heart and soul have much more personality.
It's very sad that people who can't accept this sometimes utter very harsh words.
You were born to live freely.
Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
But the heart and soul have much more personality.
It's very sad that people who can't accept this sometimes utter very harsh words.
You were born to live freely.
Chiitan is an ally of transgender people🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Heads up that the version of The Ur Game in the magazine is currently a super old build! Until that gets updated, you can play the current version in your browser here: gregoryaveryweir.itch.io/the-ur-game There are fixes for loading issues, puzzle flow improvements, and other areas of polish.
January 16, 2026 at 3:50 PM
Heads up that the version of The Ur Game in the magazine is currently a super old build! Until that gets updated, you can play the current version in your browser here: gregoryaveryweir.itch.io/the-ur-game There are fixes for loading issues, puzzle flow improvements, and other areas of polish.
Anna's ZZT book is a little puzzle box as intricate and charming as the best ZZT games. Mechanical analysis is woven deftly together with memoir and community interviews. The image of the purple key that unlocks terrifying, queer mystery will stay with me forever.
happy 35th birthday to ZZT, the shareware game-making kit that made me a game designer when i was ten years old! if you want to learn all about the lasting impact of this weird piece of software on games culture and development, buy my acclaimed ZZT book from @bossfightbooks.com!
ZZT by Anna Anthropy
Release Date: June 2, 2014144 pagesISBN 13: 978-1-940535-02-9 In 1991, long before Epic Games was putting out blockbusters like Unreal, Infinity Blade, and Gears of War, Tim Sweeney released a strang...
bossfightbooks.com
January 15, 2026 at 5:40 PM
Anna's ZZT book is a little puzzle box as intricate and charming as the best ZZT games. Mechanical analysis is woven deftly together with memoir and community interviews. The image of the purple key that unlocks terrifying, queer mystery will stay with me forever.
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You'll like my indie game if you played these games:
- Mercs (Especially Original Mode)🎮
- Wizardry 🧙♂️
- Contra🌴
- Might and Magic⚔
- Etrian Odyssey🌲
Yes really!
store.steampowered.com/app/3016480/...
- Mercs (Especially Original Mode)🎮
- Wizardry 🧙♂️
- Contra🌴
- Might and Magic⚔
- Etrian Odyssey🌲
Yes really!
store.steampowered.com/app/3016480/...
January 15, 2026 at 4:37 AM
You'll like my indie game if you played these games:
- Mercs (Especially Original Mode)🎮
- Wizardry 🧙♂️
- Contra🌴
- Might and Magic⚔
- Etrian Odyssey🌲
Yes really!
store.steampowered.com/app/3016480/...
- Mercs (Especially Original Mode)🎮
- Wizardry 🧙♂️
- Contra🌴
- Might and Magic⚔
- Etrian Odyssey🌲
Yes really!
store.steampowered.com/app/3016480/...
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It's not just a heist. It's a rescue mission.
On 10 February 2026, Relooted arrives at a museum (and store page, we guess) near you.
#indiegame
On 10 February 2026, Relooted arrives at a museum (and store page, we guess) near you.
#indiegame
January 15, 2026 at 3:01 PM
It's not just a heist. It's a rescue mission.
On 10 February 2026, Relooted arrives at a museum (and store page, we guess) near you.
#indiegame
On 10 February 2026, Relooted arrives at a museum (and store page, we guess) near you.
#indiegame
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Well this morning I was going to say we soft-launched a used bookstore where we're going to try to do small curated drops every month or so but overnight the entire stock sold out so. Uh here's the link I guess
January 15, 2026 at 1:58 PM
Well this morning I was going to say we soft-launched a used bookstore where we're going to try to do small curated drops every month or so but overnight the entire stock sold out so. Uh here's the link I guess
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wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
January 15, 2026 at 1:47 PM
wikipedia turns 25 today! the last unenshittified major website! backbone of online info! triumph of humanity! powered by urge of unpaid randos to correct each other! somehow mostly reliable! "good thing wikipedia works in practice, because it sure doesn't work in theory" - old wiki adage
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transgender healthcare is genuinely miraculous and the medical establishment at large doesn't care (even before transphobia hit the mainstream!) because anti-woke culture war virtue signaling is more important than people's lives and the advancement of medical science
If this was any other set of medical treatments, the entire medical community would be scrambling to study how they could improve their own treatments.
January 14, 2026 at 10:02 PM
transgender healthcare is genuinely miraculous and the medical establishment at large doesn't care (even before transphobia hit the mainstream!) because anti-woke culture war virtue signaling is more important than people's lives and the advancement of medical science
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i turned my friend's tatoos into enemies in my game, one of which becomes your friend in the end
it would be cool to make a game entirely of tatoos made by people i know
it would be cool to make a game entirely of tatoos made by people i know
January 14, 2026 at 10:22 PM
i turned my friend's tatoos into enemies in my game, one of which becomes your friend in the end
it would be cool to make a game entirely of tatoos made by people i know
it would be cool to make a game entirely of tatoos made by people i know
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celebrate the 35th anniversary of ZZT, the game creation system for terrible gay teens, with the debut of a community remake by 13 authors including myself! friday!!
Presenting our schedule for this week. Watch along with us at https://twitch.tv/worldsofzzt/ and see a long awaited community project for ZZT's 35th!
#stream_schedule #zzt
#stream_schedule #zzt
January 14, 2026 at 6:14 PM
celebrate the 35th anniversary of ZZT, the game creation system for terrible gay teens, with the debut of a community remake by 13 authors including myself! friday!!
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I've been excited for (and getting little peeks of) Game Poems for a little while now and now it's out for everyone to see!
"see", which is to say that you, the person reading this, should aside an hour or so and play through these games.
"see", which is to say that you, the person reading this, should aside an hour or so and play through these games.
I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
www.gamepoems.com
January 13, 2026 at 10:43 PM
I've been excited for (and getting little peeks of) Game Poems for a little while now and now it's out for everyone to see!
"see", which is to say that you, the person reading this, should aside an hour or so and play through these games.
"see", which is to say that you, the person reading this, should aside an hour or so and play through these games.
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Tropic of Dinosaur (@bulboka.bsky.social)
"This game poem is a reflection of my own aging, excitement about the past, about life, the world around me, my anxiety about how I’ve been living my life"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/01/14/t...
"This game poem is a reflection of my own aging, excitement about the past, about life, the world around me, my anxiety about how I’ve been living my life"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/01/14/t...
January 14, 2026 at 1:25 AM
Tropic of Dinosaur (@bulboka.bsky.social)
"This game poem is a reflection of my own aging, excitement about the past, about life, the world around me, my anxiety about how I’ve been living my life"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/01/14/t...
"This game poem is a reflection of my own aging, excitement about the past, about life, the world around me, my anxiety about how I’ve been living my life"
Free - Browser: warpdoor.com/2026/01/14/t...
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We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI.
TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...
TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...
Why We Don't Use AI | Yarn Spinner
We get asked about AI a lot. Whether we’re going to add it to Yarn Spinner, whether we use it ourselves, what we think about it. Fair questions. Time to write it all down.
Yarn Spinner doesn’t use the...
yarnspinner.dev
January 13, 2026 at 8:35 AM
We're not subtle with all our sassy skeeting about it, but it's probably time for a persistent, official statement about our stance on AI.
TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...
TL;DR: we know what we're talking about. GenAI is harming creatives. There will be no AI features in Yarn Spinner. yarnspinner.dev/blog/why-we-...
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“last fall I had this idea for a zine about Dilbert quitting his job and trying to learn to be happy and coming to terms with the fact that he’s trans actually” (posted 4/18/2022)
July 3, 2025 at 10:52 PM
“last fall I had this idea for a zine about Dilbert quitting his job and trying to learn to be happy and coming to terms with the fact that he’s trans actually” (posted 4/18/2022)
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I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
Game Poems #1
An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.
www.gamepoems.com
January 13, 2026 at 1:20 PM
I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!
A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.
Thanks for playing and sharing!