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  tetrageddon.com a website i made *long before* any AI vibe coding tools existed, is marked as 100% likely vibe coded by AI detection tools like IsItVibeCoded dot com. one of the reasons given is “alarming statements about infections/cyberzombies”. i can’t 😂🤣🥲

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  i told the truth. https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abusing-you-was-by-the-book-documenting-two-years-of-abuse-from-game-journalism-after-sharing-my-metoo-the-whole-painful-story-all-in-one-place if there was an investigation i would have cooperated, i was under contract, … the constant random lies these people make up while calling me a liar. it’s video game music. nostalgia doesn’t justify sexual assault.

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  short story and poem turned video game, A Butterfly, is available for 💰 50 cents💰 for the next 32 hours! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3439300/A_Butterfly/ explore a dead world where titans came to die. #IndieGame #Artgame #Gamepoem #Narrative

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  🚨 cool link alert!! 🔔 O&O ShutUp10 “The antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11” https://www.oo-software.com/en/shutup10 a tool that gives you easy control to disable all of Windows built in AI, spyware, and tracking. easier than using DISM or other commands to constantly remove recall. this tool puts everything in one place, giving you control.

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  i saw someone equating playing small indie games to “eating your vegetables” and lol, while we’re on health metaphors, wait until i tell u about “hitting the gym” and making one for yourself 😅😂😭

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  🔔 cool link alert 🚨 foxglove https://foxgloveapp.com “Foxglove protects your art before you post it. It strips tracking metadata that platforms use to profile you, embeds a hidden ownership watermark into the pixel data, and applies adversarial perturbation that corrupts AI training.” (( similar to other data poisoning options like https://nightshade.cs.uchicago.edu/userguide.html ))

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  Meanderware: Things I loved about cyberspace 💥 https://tetrageddon.com/meanderware/ 🔥 - A short playable essay and poetic breadcrumb trail of thoughts about cyberspace, the internet, and ephemeral digital worlds. - 🔥💀🔥💀🔥 #IndieGame #WebGame #BrowserGame #IndieWeb #IndieDev #GameDev #Cyberspace

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  lol there’s a rip off of electric zine maker on the app store that’s vibe coded with in app purchases to unlock templates… i know it shouldn’t bother me but the creator justified it being vibe coded because they are a solo dev and that’s “the only way to ship something solo”… i’m reeling at that… i made Electric Zine Maker ENTIRELY SOLO. it’s not vibe coded at all or pay to unlock… it’s free for the community… it’s also not ripping anyone off with AI use… AI was never necessary but hey 🤷

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  here is a wonderful piece of writing on early Flash websites that was put on my radar. it captures the culture of that era by talking about BowieNet and MTV2: https://cybercultural.com/p/bowienet-v3-flash-2003/ “Flash websites reach their peak in 2003, becoming almost the default for creative design on the web...”

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  i work incredibly hard for every penny i make then... the storefront takes a cut, the payment processor takes a cut, paypal takes a cut, the bank takes a cut, the credit card takes a cut, the currency conversion takes a cut, then the taxes take a big cut.

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  AOL discontinued dial up internet just last year 🥲 https://help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued idk what’s sadder… the fact that i thought it was dead all along, or the fact that it’s officially gone after lasting this long.

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  Open source games list (OSGL) https://trilarion.github.io/opensourcegames/ “OSGL (open source games list) is a list of open source games, game frameworks and game creation tools.” this is another useful gamedev resource to know about.

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  recommended reading 📖✅ this is a sad beautiful scary and fascinating thing to read https://www.kirupa.chat/p/forums-are-dead-so-i-filled-mine goes properly into the dead internet theory folder although it’s not so much a theory anymore. i used to visit this forum a lot back in the day for tips and help…

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  The update to BlueSuburbia is now available on itch! https://alienmelon.itch.io/bluesuburbia/devlog/1499353/the-brutalist-world-update "The poem was intended to be part of BlueSuburbia, so now you can play it in context of this bigger piece ... There's also new hidden spaces that you can discover if you find the easter eggs." #GameDev #IndieGame

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  in awe of this really long list of open source emulators https://github.com/alnacle/awesome-emulators

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@alienmelon/116375433359236876 persistence is everything although the verdict is out if said persistence was worth it or not 🥲

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  I persisted! The macOS version of “she danced in the wind like a holographic dream” is here 😭 https://alienmelon.itch.io/flower/devlog/1484919/i-persisted-the-macos-version-of-she-danced-in-the-wind-like-a-holographic-dream-is-here-x https://alienmelon.itch.io/flower/devlog/1484919/i-persisted-the-macos-version-of-she-danced-in-the-wind-like-a-holographic-dream-is-here-x this was a ridiculous amount of work 🫠 #GameDev #IndieGame

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@alienmelon/116375433359236876 icymi, the macOS version of my game about being the last flower at the end of the world is here. i actually managed to get the mac version done!

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  yay i caught a lucky break 🍀✨

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  gotta celebrate the small victories (and this one will probably not last that long lol) but my game about being a flower at the end of the world reached a 100% positive review score on Steam! 🎉✨💕 https://store.steampowered.com/app/4430780/she_danced_in_the_wind_like_a_holographic_dream_before_the_world_died/

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  it’s nice to know that voting can still beat fascism. what good news to hear today 🎉✨

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  i’m regularly reminded how important (meaningful, good…) it is to mention games in talks, to illustrate what you mean. people do check them out and find new things! like i can’t count the amount of times i’ve used “he fucked the girl out of me” as an example of meaningful game design.

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  “It's angry. It's beautiful. It's a eulogy for the very concept of goodness, given by the tiniest remaining spark of hope and human decency. It's definitely worth your time...” 🌸 “Nothing else looks like this or is written like this. Post-human, post-glitch, post-no-more.” 😭🥹🙏💕 i’m so touched by the response. it’s amazing to see that people like poetry in a game format. (re: https://store.steampowered.com/app/4430780/she_danced_in_the_wind_like_a_holographic_dream...

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  InterfaceX26 starts today! a Steam event of games featuring fake and fictional OS. "everything is going to be ok" is part of it. http://interfacex.net/ "More than 150 developers and publishers have come together to launch InterfaceX26, a week-long Steam sale and livestream running from April 27 to May 4."

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@alienmelon/116402961011503692 if any of you want to help by sharing this or telling friends about it, that would be wonderful. because so many devs are participating it’s a beautiful collection of games featuring the theme of fictional OS. it’s inspiring to see all in one place. maybe some of you will find something you love! 💕

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  i wish steam had an option of PWYW with the option of free. it would honestly be a game changer.

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  i told the truth https://www.nathalielawhead.com/candybox/abusing-you-was-by-the-book-documenting-two-years-of-abuse-from-game-journalism-after-sharing-my-metoo-the-whole-painful-story-all-in-one-place (sharing this to protect myself again)

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  this is amazing 😆🫣👻💀 Add random jumpscares to sites you're trying to avoid https://tabboo.xyz/ "You're stuck in an addictive, endless loop, loading the same sites over and over again. Install the extension and let aversive conditioning do the rest."

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  “bad” gameplay controls can be a great tool for horror in games. it’s terrifying struggling to control a character, while something is attacking. i’m thinking about… alone in the dark, resident evil, or tomb raider. the very first time i played these, movement made it terrifying.

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  one of the coolest jams on itch is happening again, and the theme is more important now than ever… 🔥 Fuck Capitalism Jam 2026 🔥 “We're living in shitty times, but there's room for optimism. Capitalism is collapsing; that much is obvious.” https://itch.io/jam/fuck-capitalism-jam-2026 let’s go! 👆