Squidly Games
@squidlygames.bsky.social
Maker of adventures and esoterica - find them here http://squidlygames.itch.io
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Squidly Games
squidlygames.itch.io
I make little games and digital worlds - check them out on itch!
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WHO NEEDS FREE CURSORS? FREE CURSORS COME GET YOUR CURSORS PIXEL AND VECTOR ALL FREE COME GET YOUR CURSORS BEFORE THEY RUN OUT
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October 27, 2025 at 6:48 PM
WHO NEEDS FREE CURSORS? FREE CURSORS COME GET YOUR CURSORS PIXEL AND VECTOR ALL FREE COME GET YOUR CURSORS BEFORE THEY RUN OUT
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Today we released our 8-bit Adventure Pack! Over 1400 graphics, made by humans, including tiles, NPCs, enemies, bosses, items and a hero character. Everything you need to make a Game Boy-style adventure game 100% FREE for commercial use ci.itch.io/8-bit-advent...
#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev
#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev
October 9, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Today we released our 8-bit Adventure Pack! Over 1400 graphics, made by humans, including tiles, NPCs, enemies, bosses, items and a hero character. Everything you need to make a Game Boy-style adventure game 100% FREE for commercial use ci.itch.io/8-bit-advent...
#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev
#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev
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"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost
October 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
"This website is free" No. This website comes at a terrible cost
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Every single game on this page should be marked either In Library or On Wishlist GO GO GO GO GO
store.steampowered.com/sale/Melbour...
store.steampowered.com/sale/Melbour...
Melbourne International Games Week 2025
The MIGW Steam Festival 2025 showcases Australian developers and their games for 10 days, offering demos and discounts!
store.steampowered.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Every single game on this page should be marked either In Library or On Wishlist GO GO GO GO GO
store.steampowered.com/sale/Melbour...
store.steampowered.com/sale/Melbour...
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I'm starting to suspect that about half of all the classic games which are small but densely packed and intentionally designed are the result of a developer who lacked the resources to make something massive and mediocre.
September 13, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I'm starting to suspect that about half of all the classic games which are small but densely packed and intentionally designed are the result of a developer who lacked the resources to make something massive and mediocre.
I think I know what happened. Every time someone made a joke about how long Silksong was taking, they added another enemy gauntlet to the game.
September 12, 2025 at 1:17 PM
I think I know what happened. Every time someone made a joke about how long Silksong was taking, they added another enemy gauntlet to the game.
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Just saw these #gameassets by Emerald Eel Entertainment and somehow never thought about drawing stairs this way! Perfect for retro games or when you want to go reaaaaally low poly. The template is CC0!
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September 9, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Just saw these #gameassets by Emerald Eel Entertainment and somehow never thought about drawing stairs this way! Perfect for retro games or when you want to go reaaaaally low poly. The template is CC0!
opengameart.org/content/n64-...
opengameart.org/content/n64-...
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the interesting thing about this era of software is that i'm increasingly turning to free + open source stuff because it's just more reliable than the things you pay for
August 19, 2025 at 9:50 PM
the interesting thing about this era of software is that i'm increasingly turning to free + open source stuff because it's just more reliable than the things you pay for
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Been thinking about idle games a lot and had this phenomenal progression in the shower
August 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Been thinking about idle games a lot and had this phenomenal progression in the shower
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More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.
This seems kinda significant.
This seems kinda significant.
August 13, 2025 at 3:00 AM
More and more people reporting today that Stripe - the payment processor that Itch said were putting the most pressure on them - now have staff actively confirming that yes, they are censoring LGBT content, adult or otherwise. That this is official company policy.
This seems kinda significant.
This seems kinda significant.
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From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell
au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...
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August 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
From a story about a new species of pseudoscorpion, this sort of highlighted the management of Australia in a nutshell
au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...
au.news.yahoo.com/incredible-p...
Quite funny that open source is the thing that keeps the tech bubble floating, and yet all these big companies are constantly looking for opportunities to take it out back and shoot it.
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft, as CEO Thomas Dohmke resigns. GitHub is now moving to Microsoft's AI engineering team, CoreAI, with a new structure for GitHub's leadership team. Details 👇 www.theverge.com/news/757461/...
GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation
GitHub will be part of Microsoft’s AI engineering team
www.theverge.com
August 11, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Quite funny that open source is the thing that keeps the tech bubble floating, and yet all these big companies are constantly looking for opportunities to take it out back and shoot it.
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"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
Sex is getting scrubbed from the internet, but a billionaire can sell you AI nudes
Grok’s nonconsensual deepfakes show how hollow the online safety push can be.
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August 10, 2025 at 5:52 PM
"In the new ... internet, girls can’t learn about periods on Reddit and artists can’t sell smutty games on Itch.io, but a military contractor will make you nonconsensual deepfakes of Taylor Swift taking her top off for $30 a month." — @thedextriarchy.bsky.social www.theverge.com/internet-cen...
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If we reach 5,000 followers by August 10, we will give away over 100 fonts for free! Commercial use is permitted, too.
If you already own the fonts, please support us by reposting. Have a great summer!
If you already own the fonts, please support us by reposting. Have a great summer!
August 7, 2025 at 3:41 PM
If we reach 5,000 followers by August 10, we will give away over 100 fonts for free! Commercial use is permitted, too.
If you already own the fonts, please support us by reposting. Have a great summer!
If you already own the fonts, please support us by reposting. Have a great summer!
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Windows 11 feels and works like a giant web app. Right click, and you have to wait like 60 seconds for things to show up. And having 24-core CPU doesn't help apparently.
August 6, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Windows 11 feels and works like a giant web app. Right click, and you have to wait like 60 seconds for things to show up. And having 24-core CPU doesn't help apparently.
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I'm gonna try three new games and report back on first impressions because let's talk about art more to remind ourselves good exists in the world
August 2, 2025 at 1:32 AM
I'm gonna try three new games and report back on first impressions because let's talk about art more to remind ourselves good exists in the world
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Havent had a vacation in 252 million years!!!
July 31, 2025 at 4:38 AM
Havent had a vacation in 252 million years!!!
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Okay, that's enough arguing about itch on the internet. Time to go look at the content for the unit I teach and get it ready for next week.
The content in my unit I've been teaching for years:
The content in my unit I've been teaching for years:
July 30, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Okay, that's enough arguing about itch on the internet. Time to go look at the content for the unit I teach and get it ready for next week.
The content in my unit I've been teaching for years:
The content in my unit I've been teaching for years:
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I can't escape the conclusion that we've ceded the entire public discourse about art to outrage merchants and algorithms and this is the result. Massive audiences addicted to passively consuming frictionless media while eagerly waiting to be told which title it's en vogue to hate next.
every game on steam is like Very Positive (86 Reviews) or Overwhelmingly Negative (34,581 Reviews)
July 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I can't escape the conclusion that we've ceded the entire public discourse about art to outrage merchants and algorithms and this is the result. Massive audiences addicted to passively consuming frictionless media while eagerly waiting to be told which title it's en vogue to hate next.
I think that something along these lines is the future - storefronts like itch and valve represent a single point of failure which is trivial for payment providers to apply pressure to.
I've made an indie game store self-hosting template github.com/liana-p/indi... ✨
With this you can use completely free services to run your own game store without any cost, and without being tied to bigger platforms or censorship.
Live example of the result at walk-through-the-forest.ovh
With this you can use completely free services to run your own game store without any cost, and without being tied to bigger platforms or censorship.
Live example of the result at walk-through-the-forest.ovh
Liana's Store
Buy our games
walk-through-the-forest.ovh
July 26, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I think that something along these lines is the future - storefronts like itch and valve represent a single point of failure which is trivial for payment providers to apply pressure to.
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I've made an indie game store self-hosting template github.com/liana-p/indi... ✨
With this you can use completely free services to run your own game store without any cost, and without being tied to bigger platforms or censorship.
Live example of the result at walk-through-the-forest.ovh
With this you can use completely free services to run your own game store without any cost, and without being tied to bigger platforms or censorship.
Live example of the result at walk-through-the-forest.ovh
Liana's Store
Buy our games
walk-through-the-forest.ovh
July 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I've made an indie game store self-hosting template github.com/liana-p/indi... ✨
With this you can use completely free services to run your own game store without any cost, and without being tied to bigger platforms or censorship.
Live example of the result at walk-through-the-forest.ovh
With this you can use completely free services to run your own game store without any cost, and without being tied to bigger platforms or censorship.
Live example of the result at walk-through-the-forest.ovh
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Founder of Collective Shout (who got all the adult content banned from Steam and itch), Melinda Tankard Reist, is on the Stakeholder Advisory Board of the Australian government's social media age assurance technology trial. So is @igea.bsky.social CEO, Ron Curry. ageassurance.com.au/stakeholder-...
Stakeholder Advisory Board - Age Assurance Technology Trial
We have established a Stakeholder Advisory Board, chaired by Professor Jon Rouse APM. The minutes of its meetings can be found in the document library, and will be published after they are agreed at ...
ageassurance.com.au
July 25, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Founder of Collective Shout (who got all the adult content banned from Steam and itch), Melinda Tankard Reist, is on the Stakeholder Advisory Board of the Australian government's social media age assurance technology trial. So is @igea.bsky.social CEO, Ron Curry. ageassurance.com.au/stakeholder-...
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I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
July 24, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I saw somebody on TikTok using the word 'slopper' as a slur for people who use ChatGPT, and that's a thing we should start doing.
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this is worth repeating honestly.
if you are in Australia and would like to look more into it, you can do so here:
www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
if you are in Australia and would like to look more into it, you can do so here:
www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
July 24, 2025 at 11:41 AM
this is worth repeating honestly.
if you are in Australia and would like to look more into it, you can do so here:
www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
if you are in Australia and would like to look more into it, you can do so here:
www.acnc.gov.au/raise-concern
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Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
ok then. one angle of attack then needs to be actively bombarding Visa and Mastercard's phone numbers and emails.
are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?
are customer support phone numbers/emails the best avenue to start with or is there a better option?
The fact that they only needed ~1000 people to call in and email to get their way is actually pretty crazy. There are more people on some of the Discord servers I'm in that could equal their weight, and some of these are just podcast fandoms.
July 24, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Collective Shout, the group that took credit for bullying Mastercard into recently censoring more platforms, stated that apparently it took them ~1000 phonecalls to convince them to give them what they wanted?
We got like way more people than that don't we?
We got like way more people than that don't we?