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I’m an experienced cyber compliance officer and a big fan of retro gaming and game dev, looking to make friends with people who treat others as equals. Not a fan of ego or entitlement.

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skywardabyss @skywardabyss.bsky.social · Feb 25
Looking for a good resource for a game design document (GDD)?

code.tutsplus.com/effectively-...
Effectively Organize Your Game's Development With a Game Design Document | Envato Tuts+
Do you want to learn how to plan a video game? Have you ever dived right into developing a game, but found yourself having to constantly change aspects of the design or the gameplay due to a lack...
code.tutsplus.com
skywardabyss.bsky.social
Yikes 😱
snmrrw.bsky.social Sean Morrow @snmrrw.bsky.social · 1d
Jeffrey Epstein advised Steve Bannon that the lawyers representing Brett Kavanaugh in his confirmation hearing should accuse Christine Blasey Ford of being on medications that cause false memories or memory loss.
Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Time: 09/29/18 05:44:30 AM (559917870) Flags: 1150981 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No GUID: 1F755C6D-AFFB-4541-8599-FDC11EF05647 Message: Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Time: 09/30/18 04:41:49 AM (560000509) Flags: 1085445 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No GUID: E46497CA-E1F7-4836-AFF2-019A5EDE8AF9 Message: i delayed my trip a day. so im still around. tell burke they should make sure they ask ford about her medications , what type and for how long. . my guess is that katz won't let her answer Sender: Time: 09/30/18 04:49:01 AM (560000941) Flags: 1060865 Is Read: Yes Is Invitation: No GUID: 97454E15-953A-490B-A0C2-38D17ECA1541 HOUSE OVERSIGHT 027436 Message: Roger Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Time: 09/30/18 05:23:07 AM (560002987) Flags: 1150981 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No GUID: C824FCC2-13CF-4192-AD8F-DE22B94E3ED5 Message: https://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/8-medications-that-may-cause-memory-loss Sender: Time: 09/30/18 05:29:44 AM (560003384) Flags: 1060865 Is Read: Yes Is Invitation: No GUID: 08AACCED-20FB-4CD5-AB60-0F2D519E3503 Message: Is this a hint Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Time: 09/30/18 05:36:49 AM (560003809) Flags: 1085445 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No GUID: B83D7125-7359-42BF-9612-72F8CE3A3CCF Message: duh Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Time: 09/30/18 05:50:08 AM (560004608) Flags: 1150981 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No GUID: 60E73416-0013-4BD4-91DF-2E97344992A4 Message: ttps://www.researchgate.net/publication/321089419 False memories in social anxiety diso _ _ _ _ _ _ rder Sender: e:jeeitunes@gmail.com Time: 09/30/18 06:08:30 AM (560005710) Flags: 1085445 Is Read: No Is Invitation: No GUID: D6C0F382-87BC-4B71-AD7D-1518D4BA8A08 Message: she couldn't recall if the lie detector was given the same day as her mothers funeral or the next day.? MEDS Sender: Time: 09/30/18 06:12:55 AM () Flags: 1060865 Is Read: Yes Is Invitation: No Message: Oh I get it now
November 12, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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samthielman.com
If at any point you are tempted to feel sorry for that miserable waste of skin please remind yourself that he has murdered a quarter of a million children and counting
Tracking Anticipated Deaths from USAID Funding Cuts
Brooke Nichols has launched online tracking tools that capture estimated increases in mortality and disease spread for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other diseases as a result of the near-total...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:10 AM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
This is a perfect example of one of the things that Nintendo does to make me dislike and boycott them (excerpt from a Kickstarter campaign I backed).

I was almost foolish enough to request a Nintendo Switch key, but thankfully, I came to my senses and requested a Steam key instead 🙌
This is an excerpt from a Kickstarter campaign I backed: "We know many of you are eagerly waiting for the US keys for the Nintendo Switch, and believe us, we are waiting too! The process with Nintendo is unfortunately not as straightforward as with platforms like Steam, where keys can be ordered. For Nintendo, developers and publishers receive a limited number of free keys. Any additional keys have to be purchased. However, these purchases can only be made after the game has been released (and occasionally, a system bug requires manual intervention before that’s even possible). Once the purchase becomes available, Nintendo issues a pro-forma invoice that allows payment to be made. That payment has already been completed some time ago. Afterward, the transaction number must be confirmed, which we’ve already done. Now we’re waiting for Nintendo’s confirmation. Once that comes through, we’ll receive the keys and send them out to everyone immediately. Unfortunately, we don’t have a way to expedite this process. It’s entirely in Nintendo’s hands at this point. We appreciate your patience and understanding while we await the completion of this final step."
November 11, 2025 at 3:08 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
This indie game is shaping into something good.
froghatlabs.com Frog Hat Labs // Wishlist VOIDFACE! @froghatlabs.com · Sep 12
Sentinel - a large guardian in the intro stages of VOIDFACE that surrounds the arena with spike walls and a bunch of other deadly attacks!
#voidface #gamedev #indiegame
September 13, 2025 at 12:04 AM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
I recently purchased the #GDQuest bundle on sale ($216 on early access, IIRC) to work through their #Godot 4 course: www.gdquest.com.

I am at the #GDScript section. I have a game or two in me, I know it.
A screenshot of the Godot 4 course library included with the Godot 4 Starter Pack.
September 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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sammgreer.bsky.social
Frankly, I don't think there's any comic out there offering this much pipe-per-page action
A sea of pipes and tubes receding into darkness A pit of pipes wrapped around the interior of a huge concrete cylinder structure under a gloomy red sky
August 7, 2025 at 3:54 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
Why are these showing up in #gamedev?

Does anyone else see these?
March 11, 2025 at 2:33 AM
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goodboygalaxy.com
New trailer for PC version of Goodboy Galaxy, take a sniff:
🐾NEW couch co-op missions
🐾Wider res + HQ audio
🐾GBA ROM included
🐾Native Steam Deck / Linux version too
Coming very soon to Steam, please wishlist! ❤️
store.steampowered.com/app/2705890/...
October 11, 2024 at 2:12 PM
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greyalien.bsky.social
No Design Doc, No Problem? We Disagree! (public post)

www.patreon.com/posts/no-des...
February 12, 2025 at 11:21 AM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you.

One game per day for 20 days.

No explanations, no reviews, and in no particular order.

Day 18: No Man's Sky

#GameChallenge #gaming #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #retrorewind
This is a screenshot from No Man's Sky, encapsulating a gorgeous vista from an alien world. The player's spaceship is flying meters above the vast expanse of water below, captured in the lower left corner. The water below is primarily transparent, featuring pinks, purples, and blues, lit up by the planet's sun behind the player. The background surrounds the viewport with cliffs and mountains of varying heights, shifting in tone from gray to purple to deep, rich pink colors. The spaceship has a massive thruster attached to its rear of a deep neon blue color. The body was designed with maneuverability in mind, with its short body and downturned wing span. The ship's body color is a metallic silver color with accents of red and white. The rocky skyline incorporates a purple-and-pink rainbow effect, dotting the landscape like a clone of the Grand Canyon, modeling its underlying sensibilities.
February 27, 2025 at 8:31 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
I saw someone agree with a post’s message, but it was lost because of word choice, leaving the reader feeling shamed.

Reframe those instances to keep others from hijacking your mindset, mood, etc.

No one controls your mind but you.

Choose to change the message to fit.

Slow = methodical, etc.
February 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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sammgreer.bsky.social
New trailer from the day job!

I have been looking forward to Heartworm for so long, so I was over the moon to be asked to put together this trailer and showcase what is a very special game.

Seriously folks, don't miss this. Go watch!
dreadxp.bsky.social DreadXP @dreadxp.bsky.social · Feb 25
A new trailer for @adinolfi.bsky.social Heartworm dropped during @ign.com Fan Fest today.

Make contact with the other side, Spring 2025.

Play the demo and Wishlist today

youtu.be/W06a44bXdd8
Heartworm - IGN Fan Fest Trailer
YouTube video by DreadXP
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February 25, 2025 at 11:27 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you.

One game per day for 20 days.

No explanations, no reviews, and in no particular order.

Day 17: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

#GameChallenge #gaming #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #retrorewind
This is a screenshot of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. The main protagonist Link stands in the center of the frame holding a gnarled wooden club, wearing a light-colored long sleeve shirt with the sleeves rolled up, brown capri-style pants, and a pair of medium height brown hiking boots. A blue bokoblin to his right is wearing what appears to be a brown fur fashioned into a sort of shirt and a lighter-colored fur loincloth underneath. It is swinging a wooden club in Link's direction; although, Link appears poised to dodge backwards out of the club's reach, likely in a counterattack maneuver that will take the bokoblin unaware. The bokoblin looks a bit like a pig with its pink snout and mostly toothless mouth, including its oversized teardrop-shaped ears and pink eyes. A humongous cave stands before Link around the middle to the background of the viewport, carved out of a stone similar to granite, fashioned into the shape of a bokoblin skull with gaping eyes, mouth, and nose holes to let in light and serve as the entrance. You can spot some dangling lit torches, precariously perched upon their skull bases, strung up with a length of rope, explosive red barrels marked with cautionary markings, a locked treasure chest with pale purple eyes, and another bokoblin a short distance from the cave's opening. A black bokoblin approaches from off screen, running into the frame from the left side, sporting a wooden shield fashioned from a thick tree's bark. It looks similar to the blue bokoblin, including a singular bone-like horn protruding from its crown.
February 25, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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matpiscatella.bsky.social
Circana US Player Engagement Tracker - Top 15 Titles by Total Weekly US Players (Not Concurrent) - W/E Feb 15, 2025

- Civilization VII reaches 10th on Steam in first full week of release
- Monster Hunter: Wilds Open Beta Test 2 helps it stay at number 4 on Steam.
February 25, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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trezy.codes
Hey #GameDev, my buddy @drewls.bsky.social gave me an excellent idea. I'm gonna put together some merch for the Game Dev feed. If any artists wanna get their designs on shirts and make some extra cash, hmu. 💙
February 25, 2025 at 5:28 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
Looking for a good resource for a game design document (GDD)?

code.tutsplus.com/effectively-...
Effectively Organize Your Game's Development With a Game Design Document | Envato Tuts+
Do you want to learn how to plan a video game? Have you ever dived right into developing a game, but found yourself having to constantly change aspects of the design or the gameplay due to a lack...
code.tutsplus.com
February 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you.

One game per day for 20 days.

No explanations, no reviews, and in no particular order.

Day 16: Pokémon SoulSilver

#GameChallenge #gaming #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #retrorewind
This screenshot shows a scene from Pokémon SoulSilver, featuring the protagonist and their Pokémon walking down a gray brick walkway. The main character is wearing a black-billed hat with a yellow strip running vertically across the hat's crown and what appears to be a red and black jumpsuit with white accents. They seem to be walking with a destination in mind. The Pokémon is blue with large eyes and red protruding plates along its spine with some greenish coloring on its tail and underside. The scene is a gorgeous 16 or 32-bit autumn landscape with leaves in colors raining from golds, and reds to oranges and browns donning the viewport.
February 25, 2025 at 4:56 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you.

One game per day for 20 days.

No explanations, no reviews, and in no particular order.

Day 15: Chrono Trigger

#GameChallenge #gaming #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #retrorewind
This is a screenshot from the SNES classic Chrono Trigger, featuring the time travel machine that enables the protagonists to travel backward and forward in time to fight the forces of evil. This viewport shows the portal engaged by the two machines, allegedly transporting a party member to or from another period. The main protagonist stands at attention in the left middle with red spiky hair and boots in his classic blue jumpsuit until the phasing ends. The three characters to his left are facing the machine, which has an amulet lying at its base, likely facilitating the origin period for the jump point and representing the past. The machine to the right has no objects lying at its base, and this one likely represents the future state. The main protagonist stands with one of his crew to the right, his master at arms in a green and yellow beanie-type hat with additional functionality (unbeknownst to me) and a yellow outfit resembling coveralls. Several bystanders are in the scene, one in an olive green tunic-style shirt with blue pants, two conversing to the character player’s left, and another childlike character to the left and back a few steps. The child in the back has medium-length orange hair and is wearing a green vest with a long-sleeved shirt, dark pants, and shoes. Another similar-looking character to his right The two conversing individuals are men, one bald, wearing an olive green overcoat with dark pants and boots, and the other a spirited man with rust-colored hair and a dark brown goatee. The energetic man animatedly waving his arms while speaking with the bald man. The lively man is wearing a forest green vest, blue pants, and brownish-red boots with a thick leather bracer upon his right wrist.
February 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
I can corroborate this one as a don't skip 🤩
sammgreer.bsky.social Samantha Mackenzie Greer @sammgreer.bsky.social · Jan 28
IT EATS PLANETS is now publicly available to read!

A queer, sci-fi comic about heists, ancient evil and fighting to survive on a dying planet. New pages every Thursday.

Please kindly check it out, give it a read and share it

🔴 iteatsplanets.com 🔴
A three armed woman in a prison jumpsuit with a mullet walks in handcuffs along a metal walkway away from armed guards in futuristic, padded armour and helmets that completely hide their faces. Behind the woman the title "IT EATS PLANETS" is emblazoned in bright red. At the bottom the author's name "Samantha Mackenzie Greer" is written in red too. In the background is a landing pad with a large, well used helicopter with fumes falling from its exhaust pipe. Above them is a dark sky of green clouds though a parting reveals the void of space where a ringed gas giant is silhouetted against a red sun. A blueish, gloomy derelict factory floor with an avalanche of garbage in the foreground and sides of the frame with a sliver of floor space guiding the eye under a concrete bridge and past heavily graffitied columns, to a large, towering machine and altar at the centre. A person in a poncho sits there, waiting beneath the collapsed ceiling where far above we can see towering pipes of extraction criss crossing to form a dark, steel sky. A comic page. A vertical panel on the left side which depicts a mysterious person in a poncho coming down the steps of a trench and alleyway carved out of rock, covered in graffiti and with pipes criss crossing above. On the right are a panel of this person rustling under their poncho and a second panel show them looking up some small orange case with a relieved smile, held in the hand of a previously concealed third arm. A third panel shows them concealing this object, their attention drawn to something off panel.
February 25, 2025 at 1:10 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you.

One game per day for 20 days.

No explanations, no reviews, and in no particular order.

Day 14: The Simpsons (Arcade)

#GameChallenge #gaming #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #retrorewind
This is a screenshot of Marge Simpson standing in the middle of Springfield Street, accompanied by her trusty Hoover-esque vacuum cleaner, circa 1970, in all its red fabrics, plastics, and silvery steel glory. Marge’s green dress, pearl necklace, and red pumps complete her look as she stares down two mischievous-looking approaching baddies. The twins wear purple suits, blue collared shirts, and brown loafers with matching devilish grins. The storefronts in the background include a seafood restaurant and a video store. The former is adorned with reddish brick and an Italian-style awning, while the video store sports a more modern visage, including its glass front with green and blue steel frames crisscrossed throughout. Light posts line the block with yellow globes and silver colored posts.
February 24, 2025 at 8:29 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
If you live in the UK, are you ashamed, enraged, unfazed, etc. at the government's encryption ban for Apple devices?

What are you doing about it, protesting and lobbying the government, switching to Android, using apps like Signal or Threema, etc?

#uk #encryption #ban #apple #iphone
February 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
I have been playing a lot of Goodboy Galaxy lately, and it’s an absolute pleasure.

The controls are tight, the artwork is beautiful, and the writing is solid, too.

goodboygalaxy.com
Goodboy Galaxy
Goodboy Galaxy is a game for Game Boy Advance, (PC + Switch soon). Be good or play dead.
goodboygalaxy.com
February 21, 2025 at 2:16 AM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
Surprisingly, while doing this game challenge for 20 days, I most enjoyed writing the Alt text.

I don’t remember what inspired me to start doing it, but it reminds me of verbally explaining how a complex topic works to someone (of course, in written form).

#a11y
February 21, 2025 at 1:51 AM
skywardabyss.bsky.social
The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you.

One game per day for 20 days.

No explanations, no reviews, and in no particular order.

Day 13: Dark Souls

#GameChallenge #gaming #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev #retrorewind
An artist's rendering of the Dark Souls disc cover focusing on the protagonist is framed beautifully in the mid-to-right center of the viewport. The character stands frozen, donning a knight's armor. Its gaze is fixed upon a fading fire burning in its hand, willing the fire to live. The intricately crafted helmet the protagonist has equipped sprouts a plume of cloth from its rear, waving surreptitiously in the breeze. The armor has been deeply battle-tested and appears worn and very well used, with sporadic dents, dings, and rust spots. Its cape flapping in the wind is a shadow of its former glory, gnawed and chewed through by many different spear tips, swords, and axes through many hard-won battles. This depiction symbolizes the main story and plot of the game. The player’s objective is to either relight the fire or snuff it out, plunging man into another age of darkness and relinquishing the First Flame. Further in the distance, magic and electricity appear to light the night sky, and an overcast and foggy reception awaits the Hollow ahead (a name used to describe those who can traverse the realm of the undead).
February 21, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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themilklake.bsky.social
more darknessss
#indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #unity3d #themilklake
February 21, 2025 at 12:47 AM