Dave Swanson
@mictlantecuhtle.bsky.social
Dedicated games preservationist and all-round retrocomputing enthusiast. Board Member at Hit Save!, working to preserve gaming history for the ages
Having watched, in relatively quick succession, La Chimera and Wake Up Dead Man, this might now become just a 24/7 Josh O'Connor fan account.
December 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Having watched, in relatively quick succession, La Chimera and Wake Up Dead Man, this might now become just a 24/7 Josh O'Connor fan account.
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im sure it wont make much of a dent but just to be safe, in the tradition of all financial downfalls, the 6 game owch bundle is 4.20 all week (including the itch version of 10S FOREVER, pictured, usually 8 bucks on its own!)
itch.io/s/170311/eme...
itch.io/s/170311/eme...
November 27, 2025 at 12:29 AM
im sure it wont make much of a dent but just to be safe, in the tradition of all financial downfalls, the 6 game owch bundle is 4.20 all week (including the itch version of 10S FOREVER, pictured, usually 8 bucks on its own!)
itch.io/s/170311/eme...
itch.io/s/170311/eme...
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Today we'd like to express our gratitude to the game preservation community! Whether you're scanning, dumping, researching, maintaining, programming, interviewing, donating, or any of the other innumerable tasks involved, it's because of your passion that game preservation persists. Thank you! ❤️
November 27, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Today we'd like to express our gratitude to the game preservation community! Whether you're scanning, dumping, researching, maintaining, programming, interviewing, donating, or any of the other innumerable tasks involved, it's because of your passion that game preservation persists. Thank you! ❤️
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I heard there was a handy clasp
That helps rock climbers with their grasp
Of ropes, and makes your keyring look much keener
It saves on space, it opens in,
And closes with a subtle spring,
The humble and the trusty
Carabiner
That helps rock climbers with their grasp
Of ropes, and makes your keyring look much keener
It saves on space, it opens in,
And closes with a subtle spring,
The humble and the trusty
Carabiner
October 23, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I heard there was a handy clasp
That helps rock climbers with their grasp
Of ropes, and makes your keyring look much keener
It saves on space, it opens in,
And closes with a subtle spring,
The humble and the trusty
Carabiner
That helps rock climbers with their grasp
Of ropes, and makes your keyring look much keener
It saves on space, it opens in,
And closes with a subtle spring,
The humble and the trusty
Carabiner
That oughta do it lads
October 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
That oughta do it lads
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📢 Exciting news! 📢
VIDEOVERSE will be coming to consoles on...
✨November 14th✨
The port includes all post-PC launch updates plus new Japanese localisation 🇯🇵
Please share! ❤️
#indiegame #visualnovel #gaming
VIDEOVERSE will be coming to consoles on...
✨November 14th✨
The port includes all post-PC launch updates plus new Japanese localisation 🇯🇵
Please share! ❤️
#indiegame #visualnovel #gaming
October 15, 2025 at 12:02 PM
📢 Exciting news! 📢
VIDEOVERSE will be coming to consoles on...
✨November 14th✨
The port includes all post-PC launch updates plus new Japanese localisation 🇯🇵
Please share! ❤️
#indiegame #visualnovel #gaming
VIDEOVERSE will be coming to consoles on...
✨November 14th✨
The port includes all post-PC launch updates plus new Japanese localisation 🇯🇵
Please share! ❤️
#indiegame #visualnovel #gaming
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The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.
October 11, 2025 at 4:14 PM
The problem with “virtue signaling” as a rhetorical framework was always that it pressed you not toward deeper and more sincere acts of virtue, but away from goodness as a goal at all.
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In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning
October 11, 2025 at 1:21 PM
In my opinion it’s time to retire the Nobel prizes for fields where most of the important discoveries have already been made, like physics, and add prizes for newer fields where substantial innovations occur every year, like speedrunning
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Today we share a fantastic deep dive into the story of @jeltron.bsky.social, comic book artist and game creator.
Ben's work focuses on handcrafted experiences that prioritize player agency, realism, and emotional impact.
Check it out!
hitsave.org/from-comic-b...
youtu.be/dmGnhdhOytI
Ben's work focuses on handcrafted experiences that prioritize player agency, realism, and emotional impact.
Check it out!
hitsave.org/from-comic-b...
youtu.be/dmGnhdhOytI
From Comic Books to Game Boy: Ben Jelter's Journey into Handcrafted Gaming
YouTube video by Hit Save!
youtu.be
October 8, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Today we share a fantastic deep dive into the story of @jeltron.bsky.social, comic book artist and game creator.
Ben's work focuses on handcrafted experiences that prioritize player agency, realism, and emotional impact.
Check it out!
hitsave.org/from-comic-b...
youtu.be/dmGnhdhOytI
Ben's work focuses on handcrafted experiences that prioritize player agency, realism, and emotional impact.
Check it out!
hitsave.org/from-comic-b...
youtu.be/dmGnhdhOytI
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I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3
Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman
I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer
gofund.me
October 4, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3
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Open for work!
Unfortunately, I just found out that all funding and grants for my 2025 projects are canceled.
Would love the opportunity to continue the musical journey started with #Ultros. Comfortable with #GameMusic #GameAudio. Retweets appreciated linktr.ee/ratvader
Unfortunately, I just found out that all funding and grants for my 2025 projects are canceled.
Would love the opportunity to continue the musical journey started with #Ultros. Comfortable with #GameMusic #GameAudio. Retweets appreciated linktr.ee/ratvader
December 10, 2024 at 2:55 PM
Open for work!
Unfortunately, I just found out that all funding and grants for my 2025 projects are canceled.
Would love the opportunity to continue the musical journey started with #Ultros. Comfortable with #GameMusic #GameAudio. Retweets appreciated linktr.ee/ratvader
Unfortunately, I just found out that all funding and grants for my 2025 projects are canceled.
Would love the opportunity to continue the musical journey started with #Ultros. Comfortable with #GameMusic #GameAudio. Retweets appreciated linktr.ee/ratvader
@cstross.bsky.social I can't find reference to it anywhere so either I've discovered a cool Easter egg or Amazon are up to something. Is it intentional that the Kindle edition of The Labyrinth Index contains a hyperlink to v3.globalgamejam.org/2018/games/c... ?
September 13, 2025 at 9:10 PM
@cstross.bsky.social I can't find reference to it anywhere so either I've discovered a cool Easter egg or Amazon are up to something. Is it intentional that the Kindle edition of The Labyrinth Index contains a hyperlink to v3.globalgamejam.org/2018/games/c... ?
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Our latest podcast episode is up! Earlier this summer Hit Save director @jonasrosland.bsky.social sat down CrunchBite, current project lead on the #XLinkKai tunneling program, and got the story behind one of gaming's most enduring community-driven projects dedicated to connecting gamers worldwide.
Keeping the Dream Alive: Twenty-Two Years of Free Online Gaming with XLink Kai
Earlier this summer we sat down with CrunchBite, the third-generation developer and current project lead behind XLink Kai, the remarkable tunneling service that has been connecting console gamers acro...
hitsave.org
September 8, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Our latest podcast episode is up! Earlier this summer Hit Save director @jonasrosland.bsky.social sat down CrunchBite, current project lead on the #XLinkKai tunneling program, and got the story behind one of gaming's most enduring community-driven projects dedicated to connecting gamers worldwide.
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This Saturday, @sean.tcgs.co and @mat.tcgs.co (along with members of our wonderful Discord community) are running the Tatton 5k & 10k to raise money for @specialeffect.org.uk!
Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru...
Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...
Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru...
Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...
September 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
This Saturday, @sean.tcgs.co and @mat.tcgs.co (along with members of our wonderful Discord community) are running the Tatton 5k & 10k to raise money for @specialeffect.org.uk!
Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru...
Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...
Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru...
Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...
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Happy 23rd birthday to Syberia, the 2002 Adventure Game of the Year developed by Benoît Sokal and the team at @microidsoff.bsky.social! To celebrate the occasion, we've just added the PC GOTY edition to our archive! archive.hitsave.org/ark:/78322/6...
September 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Happy 23rd birthday to Syberia, the 2002 Adventure Game of the Year developed by Benoît Sokal and the team at @microidsoff.bsky.social! To celebrate the occasion, we've just added the PC GOTY edition to our archive! archive.hitsave.org/ark:/78322/6...
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Up in the @hitsave.org archive today: Panzer Dragoon Orta, PaRappa the Rapper, Perfect Dark Zero, Perfect World International, Pikmin 1-3, Pokken Tournament, Okami, and Demon's Souls, enjoy!
archive.hitsave.org/item?sort_by...
archive.hitsave.org/item?sort_by...
August 26, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Up in the @hitsave.org archive today: Panzer Dragoon Orta, PaRappa the Rapper, Perfect Dark Zero, Perfect World International, Pikmin 1-3, Pokken Tournament, Okami, and Demon's Souls, enjoy!
archive.hitsave.org/item?sort_by...
archive.hitsave.org/item?sort_by...
I'm a bit late coming to the last part of this, but playing hockey and starting to run regularly has been, no joke, life changing. I've lost weight, I'm sleeping better, eating better, my knee pain has more or less disappeared. Turns out all those "diet and exercise" people were right all along
young people: dedicate your 20s to debauched living in whatever form you prefer, then start taking care of yourself and working out in your 30s and you will be in the best shape of your life as you approach middle age
August 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
I'm a bit late coming to the last part of this, but playing hockey and starting to run regularly has been, no joke, life changing. I've lost weight, I'm sleeping better, eating better, my knee pain has more or less disappeared. Turns out all those "diet and exercise" people were right all along
Big personal milestone today, finished my first 5K! Only started running a few months ago after a couple of decades of zero exercise, really pleased with this progress
August 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Big personal milestone today, finished my first 5K! Only started running a few months ago after a couple of decades of zero exercise, really pleased with this progress
I realise the answer is ideological, but from a practical point of view the cost of keeping this service live until the heat death of the universe would be a rounding error in Google's overall budget. The desire of companies with infinite money to kill every useful thing they ever built baffles me
August 2, 2025 at 4:04 PM
I realise the answer is ideological, but from a practical point of view the cost of keeping this service live until the heat death of the universe would be a rounding error in Google's overall budget. The desire of companies with infinite money to kill every useful thing they ever built baffles me
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I've brought this up in interviews I've done with queer adult game devs
There are no safe spaces for queer games in general as long as payment providers/banks get to set the terms of our existence
This is the right-wing playbook. Get queer lives declared porn, then outlaw queer people
I hate this
There are no safe spaces for queer games in general as long as payment providers/banks get to set the terms of our existence
This is the right-wing playbook. Get queer lives declared porn, then outlaw queer people
I hate this
Valve just updated their Steam rules to ban content that “may violate rules set by payment processors or banks.” Sounds boring. It’s not. It’s the quiet normalization of financial censorship and it’s going to hurt LGBTQ+ games and devs
July 16, 2025 at 7:28 AM
I've brought this up in interviews I've done with queer adult game devs
There are no safe spaces for queer games in general as long as payment providers/banks get to set the terms of our existence
This is the right-wing playbook. Get queer lives declared porn, then outlaw queer people
I hate this
There are no safe spaces for queer games in general as long as payment providers/banks get to set the terms of our existence
This is the right-wing playbook. Get queer lives declared porn, then outlaw queer people
I hate this
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I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
July 8, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.
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This September, @sean.tcgs.co and @mat.tcgs.co (along with members of our wonderful Discord community) are running the Tatton 5k & 10k to raise money for @specialeffect.org.uk!
Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru...
Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...
Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru...
Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...
June 25, 2025 at 2:12 PM
This September, @sean.tcgs.co and @mat.tcgs.co (along with members of our wonderful Discord community) are running the Tatton 5k & 10k to raise money for @specialeffect.org.uk!
Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru...
Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...
Donate now at www.justgiving.com/page/tcgs-ru...
Sign up and join us on the day: www.runthrough.co.uk/event/tatton...
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Sonic the Hedgehog came out on the SEGA Genesis 34 years ago today! To celebrate, we've added a History of Sonic VHS tape to our archive! It was released to promote the launch of Sonic 3, and includes behind the scenes looks at the creation of SEGA's mascot! archive.hitsave.org/ark:/78322/6...
June 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Sonic the Hedgehog came out on the SEGA Genesis 34 years ago today! To celebrate, we've added a History of Sonic VHS tape to our archive! It was released to promote the launch of Sonic 3, and includes behind the scenes looks at the creation of SEGA's mascot! archive.hitsave.org/ark:/78322/6...
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Hey wanna see some cool experimental clicker / idle / incremental games?
Last month for the final project in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some *incredible* incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread showing off their work!
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👇📈👇📈👇
Last month for the final project in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some *incredible* incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread showing off their work!
1/
👇📈👇📈👇
June 22, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Hey wanna see some cool experimental clicker / idle / incremental games?
Last month for the final project in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some *incredible* incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread showing off their work!
1/
👇📈👇📈👇
Last month for the final project in my 'economics for game designers' class at @nyugamecenter.bsky.social, students made some *incredible* incremental games, so I wanted to do a thread showing off their work!
1/
👇📈👇📈👇
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Excited to share I am now working with Hit Save! to get their press materials collection sorted and viewable for public use!
June 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Excited to share I am now working with Hit Save! to get their press materials collection sorted and viewable for public use!