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Dad, photographer, gamemaker

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jwest @follysoft.bsky.social · Oct 19
Alright I’ll try to put a bit more effort into an intro 🥴

I’m jwest, recently going by FollySoft in the gamedev sphere. I’m a dad who takes pictures and spends his lunch breaks making goofy little games.

You can find out more about me and the stuff I make at my website: follysoft.github.io
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free-play.bsky.social
The Parallels 2025 recording is live! Whether you want to revisit a favourite talk or see the show for the first time, it's available on our channel now:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD2a...

🎩🏈💀🃏⬜💐🧚🏠
Freeplay Parallels 2025
YouTube video by Freeplay
www.youtube.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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aplovestudio.bsky.social
Jobhunt - a short horror game about applying for jobs

Available on Itch & Newgrounds
(links below)
November 11, 2025 at 12:43 AM
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eldritchboots.bsky.social
Going live in a bit more than an hour for 💙 COMMUNITY GAYMES 💙 !!! 8pm EST / 5pm PST

Bring your pizza, bring your boots, we're stomping through the Annual Ghost Town Festival haunted mansion puzzle 😈 Late joiners are v welcome to hop in when you can!!

♡ twitch.tv/eldritchboots ♡
big smiling at the cam making a peace sign from behind a glowing RGB streaming mic, the lighting of the room is soft purple
November 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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marioparty.blog
anyway, the only reason I was thinking about this is because I wanted to share a screensaver I made for a friend!! please enjoy or abandon as you see fit 🐦🪦🤍 mariopartygod.itch.io/cemetery-scr...
cemetery screensaver by mariopartygod
life in a cemetery
mariopartygod.itch.io
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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pizzapranks.bsky.social
An eternal (and monthly) championing of the underground game scene, it's Indiepocalypse #70!

-10 curated games for $15!
-Zine!
-Newly commissioned game by
@dorukb.bsky.social

-Cover by @fairywarriorcat.bsky.social

pizzapranks.itch.io/indiepocalypse-70
November 7, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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deepskygamescoop.bsky.social
ALL HANDS is a couch coop sailing game that combines elements of games like Journey and Death Stranding.  
Work together to master everchanging winds in a post-revolutionary solarpunk world.

We are looking for publishing! Hit us up!

#PitchYaGame #Solarpunk #CouchCoop #WorkerOwned
November 7, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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doougle.net
After a long gap, pleased to share:

Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.

We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.

games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...
S1E2 - 02 - Ramsey Nasser
# Episode 2 - Ramsey Nasser For our second episode, we talk to Ramsey Nasser, a Lebanese game designer, computer scientist, and educator who lives in NYC. We talk to Ramsey about one of his recent p...
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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boshis.place
if you love game manuals, we've got the events (in collaboration with TXTbooks) for you!!

ONLINE ITCH JAM: sat 11/15 - 11/29
IN-PERSON WORKSHOP: sat 11/22 @ 11am - 2pm at boshi's place

check out this thread for more details! ⬇️
Game Manual Jam - In-person Jam! [boshi's place x TXTbooks] WHEN: Saturday 11/22 11am - 2pm WHERE: boshi's place, 1002 Metropolitan Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11211 WHAT: Join us for an in-person workshop at boshi's place where we imagine and co-create a game manual for a game that doesn’t exist! (yet?) No previous experience with games or manuals required! (On top of a collage of snippets from game manuals. The right side is jagged as if it were torn apart from something) Game Manual Jam - Online Jam! [boshi's place x TXTbooks] WHEN: Saturday 11/15 - Saturday 11/29 WHERE: https://itch.io/jam/game-manual-jam WHAT: Submit your own speculative game manual, along with other physical ephemera enthusiasts! (On top of a collage of snippets from game manuals. The left side is jagged as if it were torn apart from something) A combination of the two previous images, where they are spliced together in the center by a jagged line, as if they were previously torn apart. Across the center, in ASCII bubble font, "GAME MANUAL JAM"
November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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alt254.bsky.social
Excited to be working w/ @tigershungry.co.uk & the NYU crew to make an intramural, bsports tournament for NO QUARTER 2025!

To recruit teams @chouxsalad.bsky.social & I will show the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player NES controller, at

@nyugamecenter.bsky.social 11/6
@boshis.place 11/7
@wonderville.nyc 11/8
A grey, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at NYU Game Center. When: Thursday, Nov. 6 from 5:30PM-7:00PM. Where: Room 233 at 370 Jay St., Brooklyn, NY 11201. https://gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/playtest-thursdays" A red, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Boshi's Place. When: Friday, Nov. 7 from 7:00PM-11:00PM. Where: 1002 Metropolitan Ave., Brooklyn, NY 11211. @boshisplace https://boshis.place" A blue, Xerox-style poster featuring two hands gripping bundles of modded NES controllers. Instead of eight buttons on one controller, each of these bundles feature eight controllers with one button each. The text on the poster says: "The Octopad Open at Wonderville. When: Saturday, Nov. 8 from 3:00PM-8:00PM. Where: 1186 Broadway, Brooklyn, NY 11221. https://wonderville.nyc"
November 5, 2025 at 6:12 PM
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doougle.net
Super excited to share that I will be attending @playtopia.bsky.social in Cape Town in December! I've heard such good things about the festival.

I'll be there giving a talk (playtopiafestival.co.za/program-satu...) and exhibiting a new iteration of Canopy Co-op (doougle.itch.io/canopy-coop)
Photo of hanging PS Move controllers in a garage. The controllers are hanging by strings, glowing different colors (pink, yellow, green, white). A painted wall with test is blurry in the background. Photo by Nick Robertson.
November 5, 2025 at 2:19 PM
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boshis.place
Time for the OCTOPAD OPEN! From 7-11PM on 11/7 @alt254.bsky.social & @chouxsalad.bsky.social will be at Boshi's to scout teams w/ the HEXADECIPAD, a 16-player controller for the NES that turns head-to-head games like Tetris, Tecmo Bowl, & TMNT: Tournament Fighters into team-vs-team tournaments!
two arms outstretched, each holding eight NES HEXIDECIPAD controllers, with text reading “The OCTOPAD OPEN at BOSHI’S PLACE”
November 4, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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johnleeerg.bsky.social
I'm givin a lil talk at "ThinkyCon 2025" tommorow at 5 PM EST!

about Trail Mix and Life in Captivity, and how there's no undo/rewind in either of them and how that effects the design and response to each game. Tune in! Doing it live so who knows what could happen! Very Nervous!
little thinkycon advert with my face and a nice scarf and the title of the talk "Is a Puzzle Game Without an Undo Still a Puzzle Game?" Screenshot of Trail Mix, the level "Richard" to be precise. a colorful village full of our iconic pilsbury dough boy guys. A screenshot of Life in Captivity. Green squares and brown walls and spongebob fish in the bg for some reason
November 4, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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jotson.bsky.social
The Mailroom is in PC Gamer www.pcgamer.com/games/horror... #indiegames #themailroom #horrorgame #gamedev
The Mailroom is a scarier version of Papers, Please, set in the Devil's corporate office that's full of frogs and toilet paper
There's a security camera in the toilets.
www.pcgamer.com
November 4, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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zipit-games.bsky.social
freak <3 #indiegame #gamedev #anglerfish #wideopensky #catfishgame
November 3, 2025 at 4:11 PM
follysoft.bsky.social
Pictured: Me retreating from the overwhelming state of social media
November 2, 2025 at 2:45 PM
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hatimb00.itch.io
organizing this 👇
November 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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computerjames.itch.io
some very good folks have orgainised a Game Manual jam starting in two weeks, one of the most beautiful lost art forms itch.io/jam/game-man...
Game Manual Jam 25
A game jam from 2025-11-14 to 2025-11-28 hosted by hatimb00, boshi's place, mariopartygod & Nichole Shinn. ________ ____ ___ ___ _____ ___ ___ ____ ___ __ __ ____ __ / _____// __ // _ ´_ // __ / / _ ´...
itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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exgs.bsky.social
Last day to submit to the 2026 session of the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC!

No more extensions. This is it. Submit today!

www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
October 31, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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carolmertz.itch.io
Reminder that we extended our submission deadline — you have until tomorrow to submit your game to the Experimental Games Showcase at GDC 2026!

We'd love to see what you're up to!
exgs.bsky.social Experimental Games Showcase @exgs.bsky.social · 18d
🚨 Hey, everyone! We are extending our submission deadline until Oct 31! 🚨

So there is week more to send games for consideration for the 2026 session of the Experimental Games Showcase.

Submission form and more info in our new website: www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
Experimental Games Showcase
SUBMIT YOUR GAME TO THE
www.experimentalgamesshowcase.com
October 30, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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amazefest.bsky.social
All editions of the A MAZE. Magazine are online again. The links were broken. Now it's fixed! Enjoy reading! #AMaze2025 #magazine #indiegames #arthousegames #futureofgaming #games
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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dannyhawk.com
Recently I've been doing some work for @castle.xyz and for their halloween event I made this path-drawing high score game! You can play it in browser as well as in app, my best score is 28 and the current world record is 35 :O
castle.xyz/d/gy-VNhDdGFvT
@hawkdanny's deck on Castle
Black Cat Paths!
castle.xyz
October 28, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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tigershungry.co.uk
The line up for No Quarter 2025 is finally live alongside tickets & a shiny new visual identify.

This year's event will debut new playful commissions from the superlative... Jana Romanova 🟡 @nicole.pizza + @okremiok.bsky.social 🟡 @alt254.bsky.social + @chouxsalad.bsky.social 🟡 Julián Cordero
nyugamecenter.bsky.social NYU Game Center @nyugamecenter.bsky.social · 14d
No Quarter is back!

On Saturday November 22nd No Quarter will be returning for its 2025 edition!

No Quarter is an annual playable exhibition where four newly commissioned works from outstanding artists working across games are debuted. Tickets here noquarter2025.eventbrite.com
NYU Game Center Presents No Quarter, An exhibition of new games by Jana Romanova, Julian Cordero, Nicole He & Remi Forcadell, Patrick LeMiewux & Stephanie Boluk. 7:00pm November 22nd, 2025, Brooklyn, New York
October 28, 2025 at 3:36 PM
follysoft.bsky.social
Kids are the best playtesters, don't think I would have landed on these effects the way they did by just cranking up whatever value they felt like.
October 28, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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timholt2024.bsky.social
Registration begins Dec 1 for the GSCCC '26 Convention in El Paso Texas. Three days of celebrating #photography with outstanding guest speakers, workshops and awesome field trip s all around the El Paso area. #photo #art
sites.google.com/view/peepelp...
Please share this info. Open to all!
October 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
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pfquarta.bsky.social
Sickhouse is a community and event space that does some of the most innovative experimental games and playful arts programming that I know of.

Right now they're raising emergency funds to get rid of asbestos in their new venue and they could use your help!
sickhouse-nl.bsky.social Sickhouse @sickhouse-nl.bsky.social · 15d
4 DAYS LEFT! Can we go beyond 100%? Of course we can!
It's a pleasure to have @pfquarta.bsky.social as a friend. If you don't know their projects yet, go check them out right now! But first, don't forget to contribute to our campaign!

Go to sickhouse.creativefunding.nl and support playful art 💙
October 27, 2025 at 4:30 PM