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Markus Lange
@eriard.bsky.social
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Game Developer, Designer, Teacher, Writer.
Working on a Mythical Stone-Age Horror TTRPG.
Lead Designer/Writer at @hybrosia.bsky.social
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Markus Lange @eriard.bsky.social · Jan 2
"Under Shadow Of Night" is a Mythical Horror TTRPG set in the Stone Age. Prepare to carry the mantle of the Wardens; protectors of the people.

Perform the sacred rites, bargain with spirits and rebuke accursed monsters. Forge yourself a legend, and a worthy legacy.

#ttrpg #horror
Dark skinned woman with large orange wavy hair. Adorned with golden armbands and necklaces. Holding a glowing incense burner with a blue cloth draped over her hand.
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arodem.bsky.social
For 15-ish år siden drev Gamer.no med idémyldring rundt forslag til norske erstatningsord for engelsk spillterminologi. Noen kjempegode (digger fremdeles drott).

Jeg husker ikke hvem som starta initiativet (@tst.gamer.no ?), men jeg fant en kopi slengende her nå.

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
Spillterminologi
docs.google.com
July 1, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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kaitave.bsky.social
Increasingly I have come around to the perspective that "hackability" of TRPGs is not actually a positive of the medium and is instead an overall neutral aspect that often dips into the negatives when used to justify Bethesda-esque "it's fine that the game is bad because YOU can fix it!" stances
April 29, 2025 at 8:23 PM
eriard.bsky.social
Holy shit!
About bloody time, but damn im pleased to see it.
sunnyvalleystudio.bsky.social Sunny Valley Studio @sunnyvalleystudio.bsky.social · Apr 29
🆕The new Auto Tile feature in Unity 6.1 lets you create perfect tile connections without manually setting rules! 😎

#unitytips #unity2d #gamedev
April 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
eriard.bsky.social
Some of my students just published their game demo on steam under the #SteamNextFest. Really excited to see them get this far in just 5 months of hard work.

Check out this little indie gem and support the up and coming game devs.
Bloodmoon Rush on Steam
Brave through Dracula’s castle to retrieve Davids true love; his car! In this 2D platformer with stunning visuals, you’ll face goons and ghouls, fight off Dracula’s loyal staff and explore the castle ...
store.steampowered.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:23 PM
eriard.bsky.social
To any game dev students: This picture goes so hard, because this is exactly 100% how it is.
Learn to accept the meandering roads of game development and your will make games with less worry and headache - still difficult to make good games tho..
caseportman.dev Case Portman - Wishlist Lost in Fuzz @caseportman.dev · Feb 21
Game dev isn’t a straight line - it’s more like a twisting, looping roller coaster. There are setbacks, breakthroughs, and a ton of learning along the way. Every detour is progress in some way or another. Keep going, you’re building something awesome! #gamedev
February 22, 2025 at 6:23 PM
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rune.lvup.no
Hvis du er opptatt av å snakke, skrive eller tenke om spill, hold på hatten din: @jacobgeller.com kommer til Oslo!

12. feb: Temakveld hos Fritt Ord, med Geller + panelsamtale.

13. feb: Visning av utvalgte Geller-essays på Cinemateket.

14. feb: Workshop hos Fritt Ord.

youtube.com/jacobgeller
Jacob Geller
Talking about video games, history, politics, empathy, and more — typically at the same time, always unpredictably. For more info, visit my website: JacobGeller.com
youtube.com
January 24, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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thelastomnitect.bsky.social
You know what I want to see more of in fantasy?
GOD TREES.

Trees so massive & ancient that to call them anything but gods does them injustice.

Trees with root structures & mycelial networks so vast that locals whisper they might be aware & watching.

Trees so big they ARE a biome.

GOD TREES.
An aerial view looking down on a massive Great Kapok tree, with a colossal green domelike canopy and grey bark smooth as a clay sculpture, as it towers over the Amazon rainforest, a giant amongst a sea of green. A picture of the massive roots of a Great Kapok Tree in the shadow of a forest. Surrounded by vibrant green palm trees and vines, it's bark is a pale shade of green-tinged grey, dotted with lichen, and shaped as if it was moulded out of smooth clay. A group of young researchers stand next to it on a carpet of brown leaves and forest soil, showing off its scale, as all five wouldn't be able to stretch even a third of the way around it's massive base, even with arms outstretched. Pictured is a forest of Redwood trees as seen from the bottom, towering well above the camera's lenses into the foggy sky. Their bark, ruddy shade of tanned leather brown, is smooth looking yet wrinkled from this distance, as they grow from the brown leave cover on the ground. Standing next to one is a man, utterly miniscule to scale, surrounded by the arboreal giants. A picture of a redwood forest, taken looking up from the ground. The forest is verdant and damp, exploding with green ferns and creepers and clover, as the towering brown shapes of sequoia trees push upwards into the sky. Wringed with branches covered in deep green leaves, they reach upwards into the grey sky. A woman in a white shirt and a straw hat looks up from the brown soil of a path cutting through the green ferns on the ground, and is dwarfed by the scale of the giant trees.
January 18, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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bloodyfoxie.bsky.social
We are preparing a long form Game Jam in July this summer in Bergen🏕️🇳🇴 Please share this form with your game dev communities to help us gauge interest for such an event ✨ #gamejam #indiedev
forms.gle/vmUZcN83dChz...
Summer Game Jam in Norway 🇳🇴
Hello ! We at Jotun Game Events have been cooking up some new exciting plans for game devs and would like to know if you'd be up for joining! The first one is a Game Jam that would be about a week lon...
forms.gle
January 19, 2025 at 2:12 PM
eriard.bsky.social
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Boy do i feel old
thogreer.bsky.social Thogreer - ʕoᴥoʔっ❄ @thogreer.bsky.social · Jan 18
Just how retro are you?
NEVER HAVE I EVER RETRO EDITION Give yourself 1 point for each thing you've NEVER done 1. Used a rotary phone 2. Used a floppy disk 3. Used a typewriter 4. Taken pictures with a film camera 5. Listened to music on a CD 6. Listened to a cassette tape 7. Listened to a vynil [sic] record 8. Listened to music on a walkman 9. Listened to music on a boombox 10. watched a video from a VHS tape 11. Sent or received a fax 12. Recorded music from radio to cassette tape 13. Rented a video from Blockbuster 14. Accessed the internet by dial-up 15. Used a phone book 16. Sent a postcard 17. Used a paper map to get somewhere 18. Owned a dictionary 19. Owned an encyclopedia 20. Paid with a paper check
January 19, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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emilyoram.bsky.social
This is a beautiful tribute.
kyle_maclachlan Forty-two years ago, for reasons beyond my comprehension, David Lynch plucked me out of obscurity to star in his first and last big budget movie. He clearly saw something in me that even I didn't recognize. I owe my entire career, and life really, to his vision. What I saw in him was an enigmatic and intuitive man with a creative ocean bursting forth inside of him. He was in touch with something the rest of us wish we could get to. Our friendship blossomed on Blue Velvet and then Twin Peaks and I always found him to be the most authentically alive person I'd ever met. David was in tune with the universe and his own imagination on a level that seemed to be the best version of human. He was not interested in answers because he understood that questions are the drive that make us who we are. They are our breath. While the world has lost a remarkable artist, l've lost a dear friend who imagined a future for me and allowed me to travel in worlds I could never have conceived on my own. I can see him now, standing up to greet me in his backyard, with a warm smile and big hug and that Great Plains honk of a voice. We'd talk coffee, the joy of the unexpected, the beauty of the world, and laugh. His love for me and mine for him came out of the cosmic fate of two people who saw the best things about themselves in each other. I will miss him more than the limits of my language can tell and my heart can bear. My world is that much fuller because I knew him and that much emptier now that he's gone. David, I remain forever changed, and forever your Kale. Thank you for everything.
January 16, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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minovskyarticle.bsky.social
If there's anything I hope young creatives take from David Lynch, it's to reject the modern IP-driven impulse to explicitly explain and cleanly categorize the logic behind every single event and decision inside and outside of a story at least some of the time.
January 16, 2025 at 7:32 PM
eriard.bsky.social
Working hard in the evenings on one of my ongoing yet to be announced games.
Knee deep in enemy action design - work never seems to reduce. 😅

#gamedev
January 15, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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rocketmoose.bsky.social
This is an interesting topic, but there are some big differences with games vs movies that make consistent processes much harder to achieve. (As I’m talking about this keep in mind that I’m also an outsider to films).
mtsw.bsky.social mtsw @mtsw.bsky.social · Jan 11
just as an outsider with an interest in video game development, and coming from the film industry, it really feels like the game industry has no standardized workflow. every new project gets a bespoke production system with a lot of uncertainty about tasks, roles and who should be doing what
jasonschreier.bsky.social Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Jan 10
Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement.

This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
January 11, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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mtsw.bsky.social
just as an outsider with an interest in video game development, and coming from the film industry, it really feels like the game industry has no standardized workflow. every new project gets a bespoke production system with a lot of uncertainty about tasks, roles and who should be doing what
jasonschreier.bsky.social Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Jan 10
Why do video games cost so much to make these days? A recent NYT article pinned bloated budgets on the graphical arms race, but that's only a small part of the equation. The real problem? Rampant mismanagement.

This week's column is a spicy one: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...
Why So Many Video Games Cost So Much to Make
Graphical fidelity is only part of the reason that game budgets have swelled to hundreds of millions of dollars
www.bloomberg.com
January 11, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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thatpetewoods.bsky.social
This is the single most important advice any creative person needs to hear.

There are of course factors such as financial insecurity or mental and physical impediments (spoons ≠ motivation even though people will tell you they are the same) but when you can, do, whether you feel inspired or not.
A big misconception is that you need to be motivated to get rolling. You don't. Research: Motivation often FOLLOWS action, not the other way around. In Practice: You don't need to feel good to get going; you need to get going to give yourself a chance at feeling good.
January 4, 2025 at 10:03 PM
eriard.bsky.social
"Under Shadow Of Night" is a Mythical Horror TTRPG set in the Stone Age. Prepare to carry the mantle of the Wardens; protectors of the people.

Perform the sacred rites, bargain with spirits and rebuke accursed monsters. Forge yourself a legend, and a worthy legacy.

#ttrpg #horror
Dark skinned woman with large orange wavy hair. Adorned with golden armbands and necklaces. Holding a glowing incense burner with a blue cloth draped over her hand.
January 2, 2025 at 8:46 PM
eriard.bsky.social
Hello!
My name is Markus and i’m a game developer from Norway.
My day job is teaching games design and programming in a foundational program, in the evenings i write on my upcoming stone age mythical horror ttrpg and a super secret project.

I look forward to ineracting with all of you!
January 2, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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purecelain.bsky.social
🛟Safety by Design🛟 is a series of principles and best practices to protect the wellbeing of players.

Here are the basics!

🧵
purecelain.bsky.social Rosa Carbo-Mascarell @purecelain.bsky.social · Dec 14
Every designer making multiplayer games and social platforms should read up on 🛟Safety by Design🛟.

Toxicity and harmful behaviour can be designed out.
December 14, 2024 at 9:50 PM
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tophepahle.bsky.social
LANG TRÅD!

Ting henger sammen.

Denne uken har TV2 Play lansert en reklamekampanje som består av parodier på «smale og pretensiøse» tv-serier der karakterene «innser at publikummet deres har forlatt dem til fordel for relaterbart og engasjerende innhold på TV2 Play».

kampanje.com/reklame/2024...
TV 2 Play med stikk til konkurrenter: - Tuller med seriesnobberiet
Strømmetjenesten hyller de store TV-øyeblikkene i årets julekampanje og puster Netflix i nakken.
kampanje.com
December 12, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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hiwarp.bsky.social
NAIAD OUT NOW! 🪷
Finally! After 5 years of development and dedication, I'm excited to share my first game with you.
Immerse yourself in a poetic, dreamlike, and serene experience. 😊

✨ Steam (PC/Mac)
✨ PS5 / PS4
✨ Xbox Series / One
✨ Nintendo Switch
December 10, 2024 at 9:24 PM
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magnusforsberg.no
"Klimatiltak er så dyrt"-tråden, nå på Bluesky.

Klimatiltak er så dyrt.
Flommen i Valencia: Titalls milliarder til gjenoppbygging
Pedro Sánchez legger mer penger på bordet etter den katastrofale flommen som har vekket kraftig kritikk mot myndighetene.
www.vg.no
November 11, 2024 at 12:03 PM
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rpdeshaies.farirpgs.com
Thanks @acoupleofdrakes.bsky.social
November 25, 2024 at 2:48 PM
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pressfire.no
PressFire lanserer i dag SpillNorge – en plattform for deg som digger gaming og vil prate mer om det, for deg som lager spill, for deg som lager spillinnhold og egentlig for alle sammen!

www.spillnorge.no
SpillNorge.no
SpillNorge – alt av gaming i Norge
www.spillnorge.no
November 19, 2024 at 4:18 PM