Victor Breum -> BIG Conference (REVIEW MIND DIVER)
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Game director of Mind Diver: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/Mind_Diver/
And other stuff: https://www.victorbreum.com/
And other stuff: https://www.victorbreum.com/
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“Mind Diver is absolutely captivating”-Lucas Pope
“It's the kind of game that makes you remember why you love games”-heavyeyed
Investigate a broken mind to solve a twisted case. Uncover a story of love and lies.
store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
#indiegames #gaming
“Mind Diver is absolutely captivating”-Lucas Pope
“It's the kind of game that makes you remember why you love games”-heavyeyed
Investigate a broken mind to solve a twisted case. Uncover a story of love and lies.
store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
#indiegames #gaming
This article starts out well but I disagree with the conclusion, pointing at better *leadership* as the solution.
The real solution is stronger unions & more worker ownership. Which tools to use & how to use them should be decided by the workers.
The broader perspective:
youtu.be/2Qec5Iv7nvw?...
The real solution is stronger unions & more worker ownership. Which tools to use & how to use them should be decided by the workers.
The broader perspective:
youtu.be/2Qec5Iv7nvw?...
December 18, 2025 at 9:18 PM
This article starts out well but I disagree with the conclusion, pointing at better *leadership* as the solution.
The real solution is stronger unions & more worker ownership. Which tools to use & how to use them should be decided by the workers.
The broader perspective:
youtu.be/2Qec5Iv7nvw?...
The real solution is stronger unions & more worker ownership. Which tools to use & how to use them should be decided by the workers.
The broader perspective:
youtu.be/2Qec5Iv7nvw?...
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Happy Steam Winter Sale!
Mind Diver is 20% off.
It's got 97% positive.
It's award-winning!
It looks pretty cool.
It's got a nice story.
You get to feel smart.
It makes for a nice present.
It's a game for a refined palate!
You can get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Mind Diver is 20% off.
It's got 97% positive.
It's award-winning!
It looks pretty cool.
It's got a nice story.
You get to feel smart.
It makes for a nice present.
It's a game for a refined palate!
You can get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
December 18, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Happy Steam Winter Sale!
Mind Diver is 20% off.
It's got 97% positive.
It's award-winning!
It looks pretty cool.
It's got a nice story.
You get to feel smart.
It makes for a nice present.
It's a game for a refined palate!
You can get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Mind Diver is 20% off.
It's got 97% positive.
It's award-winning!
It looks pretty cool.
It's got a nice story.
You get to feel smart.
It makes for a nice present.
It's a game for a refined palate!
You can get it here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Mind Diver is nominated for Best Art Direction! Thanks so much to the Thinky people for nominating it :)
Please check out the rest of the nominees. Thinky Games are doing a wonderful job of curating an interesting style and collection of games. Games for people who solve a crossword every Saturday.
Please check out the rest of the nominees. Thinky Games are doing a wonderful job of curating an interesting style and collection of games. Games for people who solve a crossword every Saturday.
December 18, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Mind Diver is nominated for Best Art Direction! Thanks so much to the Thinky people for nominating it :)
Please check out the rest of the nominees. Thinky Games are doing a wonderful job of curating an interesting style and collection of games. Games for people who solve a crossword every Saturday.
Please check out the rest of the nominees. Thinky Games are doing a wonderful job of curating an interesting style and collection of games. Games for people who solve a crossword every Saturday.
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anyway, I nominate "slop" to be the @merriam-webster.com word of the year
April 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
anyway, I nominate "slop" to be the @merriam-webster.com word of the year
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
Check out our new bundle together with Raw Fury! There are some interesting overlaps between Mind Diver and The Signifier, both in style and substance.
If investigation and near-scifi is your vibe, this is probably one of the best deals you can get your hands on right now.
If investigation and near-scifi is your vibe, this is probably one of the best deals you can get your hands on right now.
A first-person tech-noir mystery adventure that blends investigation, experimental psychology, & artificial intelligence meets investigating a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Give your brain a workout with The Signifier and Mind Diver: store.steampowered.com/bundle/64458...
December 16, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Check out our new bundle together with Raw Fury! There are some interesting overlaps between Mind Diver and The Signifier, both in style and substance.
If investigation and near-scifi is your vibe, this is probably one of the best deals you can get your hands on right now.
If investigation and near-scifi is your vibe, this is probably one of the best deals you can get your hands on right now.
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Disappointed in their ball-handling skills, Keke decides to send the ball into a stable orbit
#babaisyou
#babaisyou
December 16, 2025 at 4:34 AM
Disappointed in their ball-handling skills, Keke decides to send the ball into a stable orbit
#babaisyou
#babaisyou
Almost didn't make it through security because of a very special piece of luggage 😄 I'm on my way home from Bilbao with the "Most Innovative Game" award from BIG Conference. It's so heavy that the security guards had a longer discussion about it, but eventually decided to wave me through!
December 14, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Almost didn't make it through security because of a very special piece of luggage 😄 I'm on my way home from Bilbao with the "Most Innovative Game" award from BIG Conference. It's so heavy that the security guards had a longer discussion about it, but eventually decided to wave me through!
Depresso headline, but the interview with Keita is still delightful. Especially make note of his comments on the throughline of his games, and his excellent music recommendations 😄
Keita Takahashi said 'To a T' didn't sell well enough. He moved back to Japan with his family, unsure if he will stay in the industry.
store.steampowered.com/app/1875320/...
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
store.steampowered.com/app/1875320/...
www.gamesradar.com/games/advent...
December 14, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Depresso headline, but the interview with Keita is still delightful. Especially make note of his comments on the throughline of his games, and his excellent music recommendations 😄
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THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 PM
THEY'VE PUT ME ON THE POCKETSTATION COOP. I'M BEING RENDERED IN A 32 BY 32 GRID OF MONOCHROME PIXELS. THE BOYS BACK AT QUANTICO SAID THEY'RE GOING TO RELOCATE ME TO A "DOKO DEMO ISSYO" UNTIL THEY CAN GET THIS STRAIGHTENED OUT.
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I intend to use my profits from the game to fund and uplift creators less privileged than he is. I’ve already begun that effort with the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant: grants.draknek.org
Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant
The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is a grant opportunity for game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups and backgrounds who are interested in designing and developing puzzle games.
grants.draknek.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
I intend to use my profits from the game to fund and uplift creators less privileged than he is. I’ve already begun that effort with the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant: grants.draknek.org
Annoying vagueposting, but I MUST share my excitement: we're starting up an extremely cool project, but more importantly, we are doing it in a way that feels inordinately meaningful.
we'll be more democratic & cooperative this time around.
so many fresh, inspiring ideas in our conversations.
we'll be more democratic & cooperative this time around.
so many fresh, inspiring ideas in our conversations.
December 10, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Annoying vagueposting, but I MUST share my excitement: we're starting up an extremely cool project, but more importantly, we are doing it in a way that feels inordinately meaningful.
we'll be more democratic & cooperative this time around.
so many fresh, inspiring ideas in our conversations.
we'll be more democratic & cooperative this time around.
so many fresh, inspiring ideas in our conversations.
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In this hypothetical (full auto science) what's lost is the direct participation of human beings in the growth and direction of knowledge that would affect our own futures. So a loss of autonomy and agency -- which might make someone sad, of course. But also... losing autonomy and agency is huge!
December 8, 2025 at 10:15 PM
In this hypothetical (full auto science) what's lost is the direct participation of human beings in the growth and direction of knowledge that would affect our own futures. So a loss of autonomy and agency -- which might make someone sad, of course. But also... losing autonomy and agency is huge!
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Big ups to Julian, our next-door neighbor at NYU's Game Innovation Lab, a long-time AI researcher protesting full-human-replacement as evil?!
I recommend the accompanying blog-post; really articulates some high stakes at play in this discourse, and gives me many thoughts.
I recommend the accompanying blog-post; really articulates some high stakes at play in this discourse, and gives me many thoughts.
was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans at all levels in the scientific process. So I stood up and protested that what they are doing is evil.
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
Full post:
togelius.blogspot.com/2025/12/plea...
Please, don't automate science!
I was at an event on AI for science yesterday, a panel discussion here at NeurIPS. The panelists discussed how they plan to replace humans a...
togelius.blogspot.com
December 8, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Big ups to Julian, our next-door neighbor at NYU's Game Innovation Lab, a long-time AI researcher protesting full-human-replacement as evil?!
I recommend the accompanying blog-post; really articulates some high stakes at play in this discourse, and gives me many thoughts.
I recommend the accompanying blog-post; really articulates some high stakes at play in this discourse, and gives me many thoughts.
cheat-code for academic/journalistic 2010's twitter discourse that apparently still works: locate the Naomi Clark reply to get the sophisticated, succinct conclusion to most of the discussion.
Then go back to posting about Desert Golfing.
Then go back to posting about Desert Golfing.
Ian I’m kind of annoyed that this didn’t just wrap up 10 years ago at the fairly obvious synthesis that games can and do achieve a variety of things distinctly from other forms of culture (distinctive subject-position form of storytelling, distinctive aesthetic of systems and contingency and agency)
December 6, 2025 at 9:35 AM
cheat-code for academic/journalistic 2010's twitter discourse that apparently still works: locate the Naomi Clark reply to get the sophisticated, succinct conclusion to most of the discussion.
Then go back to posting about Desert Golfing.
Then go back to posting about Desert Golfing.
Loving stuff is smart as heck
I’ve forgotten this sometimes but being able to discover something you like, curate it, and make time to enjoy it *is* intelligence, connecting with art is intelligence, empathy is intelligence, the way of the dullard is to find nothing meaningful in art except for a way to seem snidely clever
December 4, 2025 at 6:29 AM
Loving stuff is smart as heck
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Backloggd GOTY event
December 3, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Backloggd GOTY event
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And it’s a story that felt very grounded and mature, in how messy and beautiful adult relationships can be
To all the exes indeed
To all the exes indeed
November 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
And it’s a story that felt very grounded and mature, in how messy and beautiful adult relationships can be
To all the exes indeed
To all the exes indeed
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Stayed up way too late to finish Mind Diver, clocking in at 4.6 hrs -fantastic game. All the clues are there if you take the time to really look around, listen/read closely, and pay attention.
Reminded me a lot of The Roottrees Are Dead, just being curious about things helps
Reminded me a lot of The Roottrees Are Dead, just being curious about things helps
Ok "Metroidbrania" folks, apparently I'm hearing that Mind Diver is a good 'un if you like stuff like Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, and so on.
November 30, 2025 at 6:40 PM
Stayed up way too late to finish Mind Diver, clocking in at 4.6 hrs -fantastic game. All the clues are there if you take the time to really look around, listen/read closely, and pay attention.
Reminded me a lot of The Roottrees Are Dead, just being curious about things helps
Reminded me a lot of The Roottrees Are Dead, just being curious about things helps
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my personal top games:
Nightreign, Mind Diver, Clair Obscur and Hell is Us
Nightreign, Mind Diver, Clair Obscur and Hell is Us
November 30, 2025 at 1:42 AM
my personal top games:
Nightreign, Mind Diver, Clair Obscur and Hell is Us
Nightreign, Mind Diver, Clair Obscur and Hell is Us
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Just finished this game last night (got it at launch but I've had a busy few weeks since then) and I really enjoyed it!
Near-future science fiction story set in Copenhagen, deductive investigation gameplay in first person. I want to write a bit more about it later - it's really cool.
Near-future science fiction story set in Copenhagen, deductive investigation gameplay in first person. I want to write a bit more about it later - it's really cool.
Mind Diver goes on its first sale!
20% off as part of the amazing AdventureX festival. Tons of other incredible narrative games are also featured!
Get Mind Diver here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Check out AdvX here:
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
#gamedev #gaming
20% off as part of the amazing AdventureX festival. Tons of other incredible narrative games are also featured!
Get Mind Diver here: store.steampowered.com/app/2259330/...
Check out AdvX here:
store.steampowered.com/sale/adventu...
#gamedev #gaming
Mind Diver on Steam
Investigate a broken mind to unravel a twisted case. Deduce the truth. Restore lost memories. Listen to private conversations. Draw your own conclusions. Mind Diver is a murder mystery, where the vict...
store.steampowered.com
December 1, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Just finished this game last night (got it at launch but I've had a busy few weeks since then) and I really enjoyed it!
Near-future science fiction story set in Copenhagen, deductive investigation gameplay in first person. I want to write a bit more about it later - it's really cool.
Near-future science fiction story set in Copenhagen, deductive investigation gameplay in first person. I want to write a bit more about it later - it's really cool.
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Ok "Metroidbrania" folks, apparently I'm hearing that Mind Diver is a good 'un if you like stuff like Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, and so on.
November 30, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Ok "Metroidbrania" folks, apparently I'm hearing that Mind Diver is a good 'un if you like stuff like Obra Dinn, Golden Idol, and so on.
Reposted by Victor Breum -> BIG Conference (REVIEW MIND DIVER)
Today at 2pm GMT! 🔜 #AdventureX Showcase Saturday!
I've selected 8 demos from last weekend's @adventurex.bsky.social to play and share with you on stream - I'm very excited!
Twitch.tv/villainyvs
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@torreznoenter.bsky.social @kinigames.bsky.social @mucksgames.com @viceundercover.bsky.social
I've selected 8 demos from last weekend's @adventurex.bsky.social to play and share with you on stream - I'm very excited!
Twitch.tv/villainyvs
✨💜✨💜✨
@torreznoenter.bsky.social @kinigames.bsky.social @mucksgames.com @viceundercover.bsky.social
November 29, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Today at 2pm GMT! 🔜 #AdventureX Showcase Saturday!
I've selected 8 demos from last weekend's @adventurex.bsky.social to play and share with you on stream - I'm very excited!
Twitch.tv/villainyvs
✨💜✨💜✨
@torreznoenter.bsky.social @kinigames.bsky.social @mucksgames.com @viceundercover.bsky.social
I've selected 8 demos from last weekend's @adventurex.bsky.social to play and share with you on stream - I'm very excited!
Twitch.tv/villainyvs
✨💜✨💜✨
@torreznoenter.bsky.social @kinigames.bsky.social @mucksgames.com @viceundercover.bsky.social
Did you know you can actually just buy games from itch.io? It's really cool, most often DRM-free, and they take a smaller cut than Steam!
Support Santa Ragione next week, and throw some dollars after someone else than Valve for a change!
Support Santa Ragione next week, and throw some dollars after someone else than Valve for a change!
Our upcoming game HORSES was preemptively banned from Steam, with no path to appeal. The game will still launch next week on December 2nd and will be available on EGS, GOG, Humble, and Itch for $4.99. Here is a detailed FAQ covering what happened: horses.wtf/BannedFromSt...
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Did you know you can actually just buy games from itch.io? It's really cool, most often DRM-free, and they take a smaller cut than Steam!
Support Santa Ragione next week, and throw some dollars after someone else than Valve for a change!
Support Santa Ragione next week, and throw some dollars after someone else than Valve for a change!