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fern 🌻
@fernfolk.bsky.social
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✍️ Deputy editor/many hats at videogamesaregood.bsky.social, loves narrative games, farming sims, VNs, co-op survival horror
📚🌶️ Romance reader
🐾 Dog dad
💓 #StillMasking
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10-hour yule log be damned. 3-hour ILA: A Frosty Glide is our new cozy winter ambience of choice.

New review up on VGG for @magicrainstudios.bsky.social's small, snowy, and glide-y open world.
REVIEW: The wintry ILA: A Frosty Glide is a warm hug of a cozy micro open world
ILA: A Frosty Glide has the perfect atmosphere for the chilly season.
www.videogamesgood.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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November 21, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Delighted to share that I've just been named a 2025 BAFTA Breakthrough, alongside such luminaries as the director of K-Pop Demon Hunters and the star of Sinners!
www.bafta.org/stories/brea...
December 2, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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Things slow to a crawl during the back half of December, but we managed to fill up the monthly game release calendar nonetheless! Look forward to a busy first two weeks of December. Check out 30+ games releasing this month in our free Patreon post!
2-week whirlwind of December game releases! 🌬️❄️ | video games are good
Get more from video games are good on Patreon
www.patreon.com
December 2, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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GDC 2026 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN 📣

Our alumni say it best!

🗣️"This opportunity allowed me to connect with other marginalized game designers, who helped me navigate challenging experiences in AAA & continue to act as mentors for me."

✏️ www.gamedevsofcolor.org/scholarship

#GDC2026 #gamedev
December 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Consoling myself with this as we continue to put out 1 or perhaps 10 articles/reviews a month lmao. It's giving the people 🫴 authenticity.
Could a bot make art this inconsistently? Huh?
December 1, 2025 at 9:01 PM
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If I was a young person or creator just starting out on the internet today, I’d have no clue how to convince people I was real or that I made my own art myself.

You all only know I’m real because I’ve been around for awhile. I use that same reasoning for other creators I know are real.
December 1, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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On December 9th, the doors of Waterfalls at Dawn will open for a once in a lifetime showcase of the raw creative talent of illusive artist Maurice Clayborn. Only the paranormal investigators Saint Garcia Flores and Agent Alister McAndrews will have the opportunity to see what he has in store.
December 1, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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[observing someone’s obsessive passion project] wow i really like whatever’s wrong with that guy
November 28, 2025 at 11:40 PM
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one insidious thing about gen AI is it's not just causing us to mistrust dodgy images, it's also making us mistrust images that look perfectly normal. this is gaslighting in a very literal sense bc the technology is undermining the trust we have in our own ability to perceive reality!
November 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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🚨 Creator Day is LIVE! 🚨

For the next 24 hours we are waiving our platform fee! Creators will get the most they can from each transaction.

Support your favorite developers and check out over 15,000 projects participating in our Black Friday sale

itch.io
November 28, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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WE ARE SO BACK
New OFK track this Friday
Our first original song since the game
Something to warm u up 🤍
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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Keep it up folks! Do your dailies! Call the paypros and call your reps too! I'll be sending some letters in the mail as well today.
Spoke to my source familiar with internal workings at Mastercard. The holiday call campaign re payment processor censorship is working, there is a lot of pressure being felt from your calls. This is resulting in increased response times at a core moment for Mastercard due to the holiday season
November 24, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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If you're planning on shopping during black Friday or cyber Monday, why not consider supporting artists, writers, creators? Buy a book, purchase an indie video game, commission an art piece, gift someone a Patreon. Your support means everything.
November 24, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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These posters for the South Korean stage production of Macbeth are the greatest thing ever? #art
November 23, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"
November 21, 2025 at 6:35 PM
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It's that time of year again.

Here are our 2025 Game of the Year nominees! As with every year, our list of nominees are synonymous with our favorite games of the year. We highly recommend you check ALL the games out and support these incredible teams.

These video games are GOOD.
Video Games are Good's 2025 GOTY Nominees Reveal
YouTube video by Naetoid
www.youtube.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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IT'S TIME. We are live and starting our 24-hour stream, the fifth and final VGG Campout. Come see us!

Schedule:
ANNOUNCING: The Video Games are Good Campout Campout
Join VGG for a 24-hour stream! The Campout Campout on Twitch celebrates the fifth year of Video Games Are Good and honors the tradition we've built with this stream over the last few years. Don't miss...
www.videogamesgood.com
November 22, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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Ben’s being very sweet in this post so I’m gonna go on the other side of the coin and say support vgg this weekend and all other times or else 🪓
I'm a big fan of Video Games are Good and you should be too. They're a needed voice in video gaming - in any hobby space really. You can check out the full schedule for this weekend at the link above.

Hope to see people at www.twitch.tv/Naetoid at noon tomorrow!
Naetoid - Twitch
Hi! We're Video Games are Good, a community dedicated to the best things in gaming. Nate and Julie run the channel and website! Emotes courtesy of Rincs! Check out her stream on the side panel! VGG em...
www.twitch.tv
November 22, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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I spoke with people role-playing ICE raids in video games to help educate people on their rights and what to do in real-life situations. Tonight, they're holding an event in Fortnite www.wired.com/story/activi...
November 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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(after spending hours rehearsing natural things to say if someone engages me while I'm out doing photography) hey my good boy
November 22, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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I feel like marketing wants me to make all sorts of grandiose statements about being the best at this or that. All I really want to say is that Heartspell is a thing we really wanted to make and we think it's really special and fun and you might really love it too.
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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I'm a big fan of Video Games are Good and you should be too. They're a needed voice in video gaming - in any hobby space really. You can check out the full schedule for this weekend at the link above.

Hope to see people at www.twitch.tv/Naetoid at noon tomorrow!
Naetoid - Twitch
Hi! We're Video Games are Good, a community dedicated to the best things in gaming. Nate and Julie run the channel and website! Emotes courtesy of Rincs! Check out her stream on the side panel! VGG em...
www.twitch.tv
November 22, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Thrilled and honored to have been involved in the last 5 years of the annual Video Games are Good Campout. Commemorated by this wonderful gift from @fernfolk.bsky.social.
November 22, 2025 at 3:42 AM