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@vividfax

Game designer & programmer ✤ co-organiser of Advent.js, knitwear designer ✤ prev Hollow Ponds, Stellar Cartography ✤ https://vividfax.itch.io/

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Friday Late: Player/Performer - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A Friday 27 March 18.30 – 22.00

I was invited to guest curate a V&A late!

Please come along to Player/Performer at V&A South Kensington on 27th March for a night of games and performances.

We have karaoke, LARP, drag, card games, videogames, robots and MORE

Totally free and no tickets needed

www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

05.03.2026 16:32 👍 12 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0
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Friday Late: Player/Performer - Special event at V&A South Kensington · V&A Friday 27 March 18.30 – 22.00

The Friday Late for March at the V&A Museum includes performances from the London Livecoding community! I’ll be there doing a half hour visual set with Magpie. Also includes Slaystation, Car Boot Casino and lots of games. Free tickets here: www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

05.03.2026 11:41 👍 12 🔁 5 💬 1 📌 1
Car boot casino poster. A painting of a dog who wears a poker visor and holds a hand of cards. Text reads

“Car boot casino. A night of homebrew card, bluffing & betting games”

Car boot casino poster. A painting of a dog who wears a poker visor and holds a hand of cards. Text reads “Car boot casino. A night of homebrew card, bluffing & betting games”

Friday 27 March your favourite Pitt Boss & croupiers will be opening to doors to the CAR BOOT CASINO once more.

This time we’re at the V&A as part of the Player/Performer Friday Late curated by @susepicious.bsky.social

Tis FREE & no tickets required

www.vam.ac.uk/event/Wl9jvz...

05.03.2026 16:01 👍 10 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 2
Thinky Dailies season 2 starts now! The image depicts wide angle view of a large hall with stone walls. There are shields and emblems on the walls and a few thinky characters wandering around.

thinkygames.com/dailies

Thinky Dailies season 2 starts now! The image depicts wide angle view of a large hall with stone walls. There are shields and emblems on the walls and a few thinky characters wandering around. thinkygames.com/dailies

🎉 Season 2 of Thinky Dailies starts now!

Join our daily adventure of bite-sized puzzles as our hero learns more about the mysterious Solvers. Catch up on Season 1 any time!

thinkygames.com/dail...

04.03.2026 13:34 👍 65 🔁 32 💬 1 📌 11
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one of the coolest games we are publishing!!

- for every copy sold we'll PLANT 1 REAL TREE!!
- with "we" I mean developer @henrydriver.bsky.social who lives on a farm with space for trees
- Treeplanter, a nature diorama builder
- demo out now for Steam next fest. link below
- full game coming soon

24.02.2026 09:42 👍 53 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 0

Hey, our demo is in steam! ✨ If you wanna have a fun chill time making cute plushies, now it's your chance ❤️

24.02.2026 11:43 👍 5 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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My Steam NextFest demo for Treeplanter is out now!

It’s a diorama sandbox game where you create and enjoy a peaceful interactive woodland throughout the changing seasons.

Help restore nature! Each copy of the game sold will fund planting real trees! 🌲🌳

23.02.2026 18:00 👍 22 🔁 11 💬 2 📌 1
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www.kickstarter.com/projects/637...

20.02.2026 16:03 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 0 📌 0
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The open call for Game Poems Magazine Issue 2 is now live!

Game Poems is a *playable* magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames.

If you make small, experimental games, we'd love to see what you create.

Learn more at www.gamepoems.com/submit

20.02.2026 11:44 👍 68 🔁 39 💬 2 📌 3
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20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes on Steam A puzzle game with twenty small mazes.

My next game will be "20 More, Somehow Even Smaller, Mazes".

It will be free.

Wishlist it today!

store.steampowered.com/app/4428890/...

19.02.2026 17:20 👍 233 🔁 90 💬 10 📌 17

the transparent parts are /so/ good with the vividly colored center of the elytra.

17.02.2026 04:49 👍 53 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0

Do you dream of revenge on billionaires? THEN WE HAVE THE GAME FOR YOU. Back our indie game made with rage + love on Kickstarter NOW and play our BRAND NEW DEMO on Steam
www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

16.02.2026 13:53 👍 377 🔁 221 💬 12 📌 23
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Pico8 is fun!

17.02.2026 10:49 👍 505 🔁 71 💬 12 📌 1
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⛸️Learning to Skate⛸️

15.02.2026 19:38 👍 276 🔁 53 💬 4 📌 5
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bloop

09.01.2026 02:11 👍 185 🔁 39 💬 12 📌 1
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🌳 1 sale = 1 tree planted 🌳

DEMO OUT NOW 👇

The first public demo of Treeplanter is available right now on Steam ahead of Next Fest

An interactive woodland toybox launching this Spring 🐝

Piece together a tiny grove and watch as birds, plants and animals move in over the changing seasons 🌸☀️🍂❄️

11.02.2026 15:51 👍 66 🔁 27 💬 2 📌 0
oldee timey painting of a spaniel dog in a fancy room. They have playing cards in their paw, a poker visor and a smoking pipe

oldee timey painting of a spaniel dog in a fancy room. They have playing cards in their paw, a poker visor and a smoking pipe

London & London commutable playful folks… the CAR BOOT CASINO will soon be opening its doors once more!

If you’ve a homebrew card or bluffing game you’d be up for showcasing & running a table then drop me a line

04.02.2026 16:24 👍 27 🔁 13 💬 2 📌 3
In game screenshot of our creature Lai moving around the forest.

In game screenshot of our creature Lai moving around the forest.

In game screenshot of our creature Lai moving around the forest.

In game screenshot of our creature Lai moving around the forest.

In game screenshot of our creature Lai moving around the forest.

In game screenshot of our creature Lai moving around the forest.

In game screenshot of our creature Lai moving around the forest.

In game screenshot of our creature Lai moving around the forest.

Prototype progress.
You can easily get lost in our forest, but that doesn't seem so bad to be honest.

31.01.2026 13:04 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
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Steam Event: Fake OS Games / Interface Sims Please fill in you details to apply for our 7-day Steam event from April 27 to May 4, 2026. Signup Deadline: February 7th, Midnight UTC

Are you a dev making a "Fake OS", Interface based game a la Her Story, The Operator, Desktop Explorer... or Imprinted? : D
We are organizing a dedicated steam sale and would love to include your game as well!!

forms.gle/5G4uSLroqq7r...

27.01.2026 10:58 👍 169 🔁 93 💬 16 📌 5

Welcome to Mothership. ✨ mothership.blog

26.01.2026 14:00 👍 373 🔁 112 💬 4 📌 18

Impress has a discord and a bunch of cool tools

26.01.2026 13:40 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Work-in-progress of the forewings for my Isabella tiger moth. The outline and inner “veins” of the wings are done, just gotta fill in the spaces now.

Work-in-progress of the forewings for my Isabella tiger moth. The outline and inner “veins” of the wings are done, just gotta fill in the spaces now.

Same wings, but holding one of them against the body of my moth sculpture to show how it would look all together.

Same wings, but holding one of them against the body of my moth sculpture to show how it would look all together.

The forewings started, really happy with them so far! 🦋

21.01.2026 19:04 👍 18 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

The happy guy!

20.01.2026 22:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Backgroundese Fonts for Nonsense Text in Games We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects.

We've made a family of fonts we call Backgroundese for creating nonsense text in your games and other projects! 100% Free for commercial use. #GameDev

20.01.2026 12:44 👍 511 🔁 219 💬 10 📌 14
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❄️⛸️❄️It was amazing to show the first peek of the game to people at @mivsmagfest.bsky.social ❄️⛸️❄️

15.01.2026 21:28 👍 1320 🔁 379 💬 31 📌 46
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Expedition 40 Happy 40th expedition! As you heard from our emergency communication, we’re changing things up at The Bathysphere. From now on, the entire newsletter will be...

Expedition 40 of The Bathysphere is out, and this week we have a lovely essay from Chris Donlan on the Brontës and paracosms!

The Bathysphere is now entirely FREE to access! Make sure to subscribe to be updated each week!

buttondown.com/Bathysphere/...

15.01.2026 14:20 👍 18 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 2
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Game Poems #1 An online literary magazine publishing short-form videogames directly in a playable format. Issue #1 features interactive works by international artists and game designers.

I'm excited to share that Game Poems Issue 1 is now live at www.gamepoems.com/issue01

A new online literary magazine dedicated to exploring the artistic and poetic potential of short-form videogames by publishing new games directly in a playable format.

Thanks for playing and sharing!

13.01.2026 13:20 👍 241 🔁 113 💬 6 📌 19
Doodle with an amount of feathers

Doodle with an amount of feathers

13.01.2026 18:15 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

hi! i'm co-founding a new gaming website with my former polygon colleague @zoehhannah.com. it's called mothership.blog. i made it for someone like me... the kind of website i always wished we had in our space. watch the video to learn more :D

09.01.2026 17:04 👍 1679 🔁 588 💬 87 📌 31
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The protagonist's morning routine: From a strange dream and a stubborn alarm clock to broken coffee machines, cryptic newspapers, and mysterious deliveries - there's puzzles everywhere to be solved!🧩✨

#Illustration #IndieArt #PuzzleGames #ThinkyGames #IndieGames #DigitalArt #VisualStorytelling

09.01.2026 11:37 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0