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The annual ghost town pumpkin festival is so cute, I have no idea who these people were but I photobombed them and then we took group photos

See you at the Spooky Games Marathon TONIGHT! At Black Water Bar from 6pm-10pm. Check out some SCARY & GOOFY GAMES with local horror-themed games out & available for free play 🎃 pigsquad.com/events-list/...

Tomorrow*: Pumpkin Bongos will return. Also come by and watch scary games being played live on stage! I'll be playing for part of it, and I'm going in fully blind for maximum spooks. *Tuesday, Oct 27

Previous years' pumpkins

Just got home from our spooky Shadowdark session: we all played members of the Addams family up against a group of ~meddling kids~ who invaded our house and try to rip our faces off.

I feel it's important to share this again. The internet is so hostile toward creators nowadays. I've seen people have their work stolen, and no longer feel comfortable sharing their creations. We can do better. Let's be supportive to the people that make this a better place! 💞

Oregon is a vote by mail state, but you can also drop your ballot into a roadside collection box. ORRR you can walk up and shove your ballot directly into the county elections building. #ivoted

🍕🕹️ HELLO HELLO, it's time for an ALT CTRL GAMEJAM 🕹️🍕 itch.io/jam/get-tilted Join us this year and make a game for our motion-based tiltbox controller! This is our 3rd annual jam, and a great way to get started in alternative controller game design! No hardware experience required so COME ON IN

Checkmage! is releasing in less than two weeks! check out the launch trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=GV84... #chess #pixelart #indiegame

Get you someone who looks at you like

Going out to NW tonight for an Art/Code Night! Join in if you'd like to cowork or just hang out and look at what folks are working on :) pigsquad.com/events-list/...

By the way, if you're making a game with its own language and/or or writing system, you should hire me as a consultant! I will work within your budget and you will get something that feels real, rather than English hiding under a tablecloth. (And guaranteed no AI!)

As a certified linguistics sicko and C# knower: y'all gotta watch this vod when it comes out.

1 minute into @roguelike.club and we already have a “VI & EMACS CONTAINMENT/FUN ZONE OF UNITY AND PATIENCE” on the slides, did you know that our conference rules

Got my ballot today! I consider myself an above-average engaged voter, but even I have no idea what some of these races on my ballot are. Really appreciate Chloe Eudaly putting together a voter guide for me and my MultCo friends streetwonk.substack.com/p/street-won...

Only one more sleep 'til Rooguelike Celebration! Before getting into the last batch of speaker shoutouts before the show, one more reminder that tickets are pay-what-you-can - we'd love for you to hang out and join us! ti.to/roguelike-ce...

Hey folks, my friend Sam and I are making our first game, Wasteward! It's a physics based puzzle game about making stuff out of junk! We just took the steam page live and appreciate any wishlists!

My Playdate may be cooked. It started trying to update as soon as I plugged it in and it reboots or something every couple of seconds. My fault for leaving it in a drawer for so long honestly

The festival is back online for the season!! No new trailer this year, but this video by @ifindgames.bsky.social is a great introduction! We've already had 17,000 pumpkins submitted this season!

Watching House (1977, Japan) and by far the biggest jumpscare is when the girl sat down at the haunted piano and started playing My Chemical Romance youtube.com/shorts/ZZ0Hz...

TIL.

We are ALSO hosting an online hangout & submission page for the Zero Hour Game Jam again ⏳😈 We start jamming at 1am on November 1st. After 60 minutes have passed, it's 1am again. Hmmm... itch.io/jam/pigsquad...

I've been given the honor of giving the closing talk at this year's #Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club, joining a stellar speaker lineup. I'd share my talk's title, but it would go over bsky's character limit! Check out the full program: www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

Looking for something Halloweeny to do on your coffee break? PixelTown is a spooky tiny town builder made in Pico-8. Play for free in browser! nextlevelbanana.itch.io/pixeltown

Showing your game at an event? I wrote up some tips for setting up your demo machine (and booth, but mostly the machine) nextlevelbanana.live/blog/demo-ma...

Inspiration can come from anywhere. Today, it's coming from BLM Technical Reference 1737-22. www.blm.gov/documents/na...

Happy fma day! 🦾✨

Our Portland Retro Gaming Expo 2026 Lineup is live! Come see this incredible show with the Tetris World Championships, guests responsible for classic games, a massive hall of free play & shopping, and us! Extremely excited to share these wonderful local games with you <3 @retrogamingexpo.bsky.social

When language comes too late: Developmental implications of delayed sign language exposure. New paper by @dilaykaradoller.bsky.social doi.org/10.1093/cdpers/aadag021

🦇🦇🦇 FREE Halloween video game music! 🧛🧛🧛 🎃🎃🎃 ocremix.org/tag/halloween 👻👻👻 OC ReMix has 100+ VGM arrangements for your haunted house, to (playfully?!) scare your kiddos, or otherwise embrace the otherworldly nature of All Hallows' Eve! :-) Castlevania, Silent Hill, Resident Evil... MUHAHAHAHA!

My free annual newsletter, 31 Days of Halloween, hits inboxes tomorrow! One spooky-themed email with cool art and links every day of October, and then it goes back in the crypt. (Did I mention it's free?) Sign up here: buttondown.email/31daysofhall...

The schedule for @roguelike.club is up! We’ve got yet another stunning lineup with multiple people who are such a good fit I had assumed they’d spoken already 🤣 Time is fake and it’s just over two weeks until the con so check it out, buy a ticket, come hang out! www.roguelike.club/event2026.html

Once upon a time, a game was made in a basement, bedroom, garage, or wherever the magic happened. Now it has 2 DAYS LEFT to make its way to #SuperMAGFest 2027! Submit your #Homebrew game to the #IndieRetro Showcase: bit.ly/MCSIR27S Submissions close: September 30th, 11:59 PM EST

SUPER EXCITED to say that I'll be speaking at @roguelike.club about making HINT LINE '93, the silly game that @yarnspinner.dev, @themartianlife.com, and @firkraags.bsky.social made with talented Tasmanian actors' photos as callers for @acmimuseum.bsky.social! www.roguelike.club/event2026.ht...

This one's a thumbs up from me. They do some really cool things with the fake desktop

Nurse complimented my breathing technique. So I just got a good grade in flu shot, a thing both normal to want and possible to achieve

Thanks for chatting @gameplayarts.bsky.social ! www.gameplayarts.org/mark-kleback...

It is important that developing your game occasionally makes you go "hehehe"

Send us your experimental game — we wanna help you show it off! Get a chance to share your project onstage at GDC next spring, and help us inspire more people to make strange and experimental projects that change how we think about games. <3

Vendor Alley Submissions open this week! Artists, makers, indie game devs, community & event orgs please keep any eye out! #AGDQ2027 will be here before we know it 💖

🏁 TIME 🏁 #FlameFatales 2026 has raised a total amount of $132,100 for Malala Fund! Thank you to everyone behind-the-scenes who made this marathon possible, and to all of YOU for your incredible support of girls' education. See you at #FrostFatales 2027 from March 14-20, 2027!! 💜💛 STAY WIGGLY!!

Doing donations was really fun! So happy I got to be a part of that truly unhinged finale. As a woman with a master's degree, the thought of women being denied an education is especially heartbreaking. What a privilege to help raise over $130,000 for the Malala fund.

Fields of Mistria

Q: What's got five switches and is going to be in the MAGFest Indie Arcade? A: This guy! nextlevelbanana.itch.io/nuclear-logi... Flip 5 switches to "type" one letter at a time. Try not to blow up the world.

You can catch mola molas in Mistria lmaooooooo

Y'all, every time Ragon gives me a new asset it makes the game look 100% more like a game. THE TREES

PSA: today is national voter registration day! If you're not registered to vote yet, there's still time. If you live in Oregon: secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/vr/r...