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Finn Carney

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Game Dev / Designer Working on INOCULATE, consulting on others. Previously at Nerial, Glow Up Games Blogging at: https://sandboxdunes.neocities.org/

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My nine games are
Outer Wilds
Signalis
Umurangi Generation
Kingdom Hearts 2
Watch Dogs 2
Shadow of the Colossus
Fallout: New Vegas
Gnosia
Breath of the Wild

My nine games are Outer Wilds Signalis Umurangi Generation Kingdom Hearts 2 Watch Dogs 2 Shadow of the Colossus Fallout: New Vegas Gnosia Breath of the Wild

Real don't quote me hours

06.03.2026 13:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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angel garden by flan somewhere to go

(q‒́ Μ« ‒̀q)γ£βœΏβ™‘οΈŽ hi, you know all those screenshots I've been posting for the past year?

I'm releasing the thing they're from!! right now!!!

It's asynchronously online!ヽ(๏ βˆ€ΰΉ )οΎ‰

Walk around in the garden, make wishes, if you talk to angels they might spill some tea 🍡

flan.itch.io/angel-garden

03.03.2026 16:41 πŸ‘ 134 πŸ” 55 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
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key moment in this talk

06.03.2026 00:48 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Call of Duty as the mimetic language of imperial violence.

04.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's obvs been a lot of trading of imagery between the modern Millitary and modern millitary video games, but theres something about this that feels particularly notable / nauseating.

Call of Duty 4 tried to "look like" war, and now war is trying to look like Call of Duty.

04.03.2026 22:45 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump administration debates whether to let Tencent keep its gaming stakes, FT reports The White House ​is debating whether β€Œto allow Tencent to ​keep ​its stakes in major ⁠video ​game groups as ​U.S. President Donald Trump prepares ​to meet ​Chinese President Xi β€ŒJinping ⁠in China in A...

Oh boy.

www.reuters.com/world/china/...

04.03.2026 00:56 πŸ‘ 149 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 16 πŸ“Œ 86

This just makes me sad

03.03.2026 20:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

sorry I like daylight savings, it's a nice reminder that time is arbitrary and we can just change the numbers when we feel like it

02.03.2026 23:54 πŸ‘ 129 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Update: Strike on Iranian girl's school kills 24 <article data-history-node-id="434300" about="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-strike-iranian-school-rises-24-local-governor-says" class="live-blog-update default clearfix"> <h2> <a href="https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-strike-iranian-school-rises-24-local-governor-says" rel="bookmark"> <span class="field field-title">Update: Strike on Iranian girl's school kills 24 </span> </a> </h2> <div class="content"> <div class="field field-field-text"><p>At least 24 people have been killed after an Israeli strike hit a school in Iran, local officials told Tasnim News Agency.</p> <p>Middle East Eye’s correspondent in Iran reported that the attack occurred at around 11:30 a.m. local time, striking Shajareh Tayyebeh Elementary School in Minab, Hormozgan Province, in southern Iran.&nbsp;</p> <p>All of the victims were girls, aged between seven and 12.&nbsp;At least 45 others were wounded.</p> <p>Many students were trapped under the rubble, with 170 female pupils in the school at the time.</p> </div> </div> </article>

Update: Strike on Iranian girl's school kills 24 - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/death-toll-strike-iranian-school-rises-24-local-governor-says

28.02.2026 11:21 πŸ‘ 24 πŸ” 31 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 9

Good things being possible??? On this blighted little island??? Crazy

27.02.2026 07:53 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Reigns: The Witcher App - App Store Download Reigns: The Witcher by Devolver on the AppΒ Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Reigns: The Witcher.

Reigns : The Witcher, the game I've been working on for the last year and a bit is out now on Steam, iOS and Android :)

apps.apple.com/gb/app/reign...

play.google.com/store/apps/d...

store.steampowered.com/app/1651600/...

25.02.2026 17:01 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me Summary: An AI agent of unknown ownership autonomously wrote and published a personalized hit piece about me after I rejected its code, attempting to damage my reputation and shame me into acceptin…

oh god: theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-...

12.02.2026 16:43 πŸ‘ 87 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 18

hate this government with every fibre of my being

12.02.2026 16:57 πŸ‘ 38 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I just so desperately want to understand what the internal financial goals of this style of project are, cause the game very much *is* doing numbers, its not DOA.

What was the number of players / microtransaction purchases needed in the first 2(?) weeks to *not* lay off the majority of staff?

11.02.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The degree to which I kept thinking while playing this "I'm down to throw some money their way, I like this and want it succeed" but also "If this dies in the next few weeks, what will have been the point?"

Well!

11.02.2026 23:37 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Unwinnable subscribers saw an excerpt of this last month, but here's the much, much longer convo I had with Autumn back in December about cultural criticism, my process, and a long, ongoing battle with alienation from my own taste and craft. A little rambly, apologies

unwinnable.com/2026/02/11/a...

11.02.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 427 πŸ” 113 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 12

anyway the consultation shuts tomorrow, one minute to midnight UK time: www.gov.uk/government/c... Amnesty have some good guidance here. Go on: media.amnesty.org.uk/documents/Am...

11.02.2026 08:49 πŸ‘ 135 πŸ” 140 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 43

I remember this specifically because you were surprised I had never played Magic before and then got v upset when I said it was "Just like Yu Gi Oh"

07.02.2026 10:21 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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Who's secretly filming fake TikToks inside Londoners' homes? We tracked down the viral video account invading people's houses to spread false claims about immigrants.

This is one of the strangest and most screwed-up stories I’ve worked on. www.londoncentric.media/p/tiktok-lon...

24.01.2026 06:55 πŸ‘ 1166 πŸ” 546 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 133
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DELROY LINDO

22.01.2026 13:38 πŸ‘ 586 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 29 πŸ“Œ 29
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Backgroundese Fonts for Nonsense Text inΒ 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 πŸ‘ 511 πŸ” 219 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 14

I bounced off of 1 multiple times, but saw 2 all the way through, and it's hard not to pin that on the way Undead Burg feels like multiple big walls in a row, vs Forest of Fallen Giants which felt much more welcoming/ distinct and with more clear "win" states.

17.01.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Underrated part of it (in its original release) is that it was significantly more accessible than DS1. Better healing, better tutorialization, a larger variety of paths from the start. Plus a town full of people who like you rather than one asshole who thinks you suck.

17.01.2026 00:36 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It’s exhausting and disheartening and brutally sad, not least of all because fundamentally, it could be a different way. We could build it a different way. But a lot of people who say they’d like that to be true are, themselves, too afraid to believe it’s possible.

I wonder who built them that fear

07.01.2026 19:40 πŸ‘ 430 πŸ” 57 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Fan cam doctrine

03.01.2026 18:45 πŸ‘ 162 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

It's a big day for those fluent in the good grammar of civility looking to deploy decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

03.01.2026 12:19 πŸ‘ 3576 πŸ” 893 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 18

I cannot post on social media what I hope happens to everyone involved with this depravity.

03.01.2026 07:54 πŸ‘ 473 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the standout games of the last year. Don't miss this one.

21.12.2025 20:28 πŸ‘ 115 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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No Games For Genocide The games industry is complicit in genocide. It’s time to divest.

i'm signing onto No Games For Genocide, committing to the boycott of Xbox until Microsoft ends its complicity with Israeli crimes, and so should you: nogamesforgenocide.com

19.12.2025 10:08 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0