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She’s a ✨supermodel✨

It might be the best photo I’ve ever taken, period

This is so, so well-articulated.

I don't think it's a coincidence that this got announced within months of twitter letting grok remove people's clothes and otherwise sexualize them. tech companies have become enamored with the idea of users personalizing everything, heedless of original intent or potential harm

Indie deckbuilder All Will Rise's dev joins No Games For Genocide boycott and plans to hand back funding it received from Microsoft "We encourage others in the industry to join us and take a stand."

all will rise is handing back Microsoft money & pledging @nogamesforgenocide.com — it’s a difficult thing to do when funding and attention are scarce commodities for indies like us, but we hope more of our fellow devs and indie studios will join us in taking a stand 🔥
www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

Hell yeah!!!

CONTINUE: A Defiant, New Videogames Magazine Bringing together journalists, devs and artists, CONTINUE celebrates and interrogates videogame culture, creativity and community

I want to introduce you all to something myself and @jacksonwryan.com have been working on.

A PRINT MAGAZINE about video games and video game culture.

We know things have been bad for games writing recently. We're asking, "do you want to Continue?"

www.kickstarter.com/projects/con...

I’m not at GDC but this is #WhatAGameDevLooksLike! (when she’s in festival mode) ✨

Indie narrative designer, game writer and former community manager who loves to rave on the weekends ✍️🎮🪩

Thanks Josh!! 😊

Neon Supernova by Alivia Mantel A glam rock one-shot for the Cypher System.

Itch: aliviamantel.itch.io/neon-supernova

DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/5...

A glittery black star sits on a sparkling background that blends from orange to purple. Streaks of yellow, purple and blue stream out below the star, and the text at the centre of the star reads “Neon Supernova”. The orange silhouette of a pair of drumsticks sits in the top left corner, a blue flying V guitar sits in the top right, and a yellow lightning bolt sits beside the subtitle “A Glam Rock One-Shot for the Cypher System” below the star. In the top right corner, a white logo reads “Compatible with the Cypher System”.

I wrote a TTRPG adventure and it’s out now!! ✨

‘Neon Supernova’ is a glam rock sci-fi one-shot for the Cypher System 👩‍🎤🎸💫💅

Had an absolute blast writing this and GMing my first games. Huge shoutout to @storytellingco.bsky.social for their ‘Write Your First Adventure’ course!

Links below 🔗

Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

EXCLUSIVE: An @npr.org investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.

Other documents that mention Trump have been taken down (and some restored).

More:

People of Note is coming to PC and consoles on April 7, 2026!

Such an intriguing premise, and the demo did not disappoint! Engaging storytelling, satisfying mechanics, and much-needed catharsis in current times. Super keen for the full game! 🔥

Yessss it’s such a game changer to journal in all moods! It’s so nice to dedicate time for gratitude and excitement and all the warm fuzzy stuff

FRIENDS! I’m hoping to make 2026 the year I find a long term or permanent team! If you’re after

💌 An art lead with management and admin XP
🎨An artist who has done everything from UI to art direction to graphic design
🔥An Artist who is un-afraid to get her hands dirty in engine

Plz reach out💖

I cannot emphasize enough that what he's singing here, obscured by beeps, is "If your boyfriend doesn't eat your ass, he'd better fuck off"

A very diplomatic answer, I respect it 🙂‍↕️

You’re very welcome! It was simply too satisfying to just sit in my camera roll ❄️

Yesss love that 🙂‍↕️

A square sandpit that has been covered perfectly with snow. The surface is immaculately smooth.

Important question!! You're out on a walk and you come across this pristine patch of snow. What do you do?

1. Admire from a careful distance
2. Protect at all costs
3. Place a few artful hand/footprints
4. Absolutely obliterate with all extremities

Sign up for news about the Game Writing Kaleidoscope In early 2026 we’ll be publishing The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope, a collection of over 100 short essays by game writers about writing. Featuring some very famous names, some highly experienced free...

❄️ Update: The GAME NARRATIVE KALEIDOSCOPE ❄️ will be published soon - we just sent a proof to the authors.

400 pages - 100k+ words - 118 authors - including the writers from several well-beloved games and major franchises.

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It’s finally time to…

Unleash the ✦⁺₊✩GIRL POWER✩⁺₊✦

Don’t Stop, Girlypop! is officially OUT NOW!!!!

You better be ready, because this sh❤t is serious 👇

https://bit.ly/45CRvme

Absolutely. And I wish I could say I’d never seen someone whip a ukulele out at a party but I’m a Musical Theatre Kid so I most definitely have

(and tbh I probably enjoyed it hahah)

Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.

Stay free

Five jobs I’ve had:

1. Fast food worker (cried a lot)
2. Dental assistant (no training, they should not have hired me)
3. Merchandiser (pretty chill!)
4. Ukulele teacher (if I hear Riptide one more time, I’ll crash out)
5. English tutor (pretty fun!)

Me and my wife have been creating Burn With Me, a narrative deckbuilder, for a year already.

After work, during weekends, slowly shaping the cozy but eerie world of personal desires and forbidden rituals.

Next week, January 29th, we open first public playtest!

#ScreenshotSaturday #GodotEngine

Zoë, left, wears a collared shirt and smiles. Maddy, right, wears a flannel and smiles.

We can't believe it's only been a week since we announced Mothership on Post Games. All week, we've been watching our lives change before our eyes as we realize just how many people have been longing for a site like Mothership. We're so excited you found us! Only 10 more days til take-off...

Some thoughts: When using GenAi as a mood board you don't get sources. This means you deprive yourself from knowledge. You generated a location? You deprived yourself of knowing more about the interesting parts of the world and why things came to be. Generate an armor or costume? You deprived yourself on real world techniques, function, form and history. You generated art inspirations? You deprive yourself of learning about artists from history or lock out living ones from potentially being hired. Ethical issues of using GenAi models aside, one ends up making visuals mood boards devoid of reality and history. With it one deprives themselves from learning about our world and who is living in it, inadvertently making your work weaker, because of how detached it is from our shared human reality and history.

Been thinking on the use of GenAi for mood boards. Ethics and legal risks aside, I truly believe using GenAi as references deprives one of many pivotal things.

Here’s a blurb on what I mean:

Thanks so much!! ☺️