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xenosns.bsky.social
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Citizen archivist of Nova Scotia video game development history. Sometimes hobby game dev. - He/Him https://linktr.ee/XenosNS https://xenosns.itch.io
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Embracing the meme caption that I wrote in EGM 30 years ago. 🤓

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Wild luck tonight at Value Village. I only just learned about Positronic Software, a company based in Dartmouth in the 90's that made two bridge card games. Crystal Marshall, Instructor at the NSCC told me about them last Saturday at a student event, as they had done artwork for one game .(cont.)

This Sunday, April 27 at 2pm is the next Halifax Indie Devs meetup event, the Indie Devs Demo Day! Bring your projects, play other people's projects, chat with other devs and have fun! www.meetup.com/halifax-indi... #novascotia #halifax #gamedev #videogame #indiedev

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OBJECTION! 🫵💥 Are YOU a game dev who wants to avoid a game mechanic patent infringement lawsuit? Or learn about what game mechanic patents even are?? Then check out this Full Indie Summit 2024 talk from @haleyfax.bsky.social, a video game lawyer at @voyerlaw.bsky.social! ⚖️ youtu.be/zPBk_KgJPhU

Yay! Huge thanks to Full Indie Summit for having me in Vancouver to talk all about Game Mechanic Patents! My talk I have is now available online for free for all to watch! I hope you enjoy and find it informative!

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Honestly surprised by the number of PlayStation ratings so far! It took a while for the game to get that many ratings on Steam. 🥰

Telling the vice president he's going to hell and then immediately dying has to be in the top ten coolest ways a pope, nay, a human has ever died

Mashina has some powerful UI. Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/3395930/...

A Little To The Left: Extra Tidy Edition (Switch) is $37.10 on Amazon https://lbabi.nz/RWZsz0 #ad

Video from the NSCC Student Game Launch event yesterday at The Deck Box! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcWK...

Today at 1!

The NSCC Student Game Launch event is tomorrow, 1pm to 3pm at the Deck Box. Support local student game devs and check out the games! #novascotia #hrm #halifax #gamedev

To celebrate last week's launch of Blue Prince we're running a GIVEAWAY! 8 lucky folks could win a copy of Blue Prince on Steam, Xbox or Playstation. To enter follow our account, like and share this post. Good luck. Winners will be announced on April 28th.

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going to vote, no reason to wait really

📢 The Internet Archive needs your help. At a time when information is being rewritten or erased online, a $700 million lawsuit from major record labels threatens to destroy the Wayback Machine. Tell the labels to drop the 78s lawsuit. 👉 Sign our open letter: www.change.org/p/defend-the... 🧵⬇️

All the missing images on my itch.io page have returned, never did hear what was going on xenosns.itch.io

Exclusive Interview 🎙️ Had the opportunity to chat with Brazilian #GameDev, writer and educator @thaisweiller.bsky.social about her impressive career. 🎮 Check it out this week's Newsletter 👇 thevideogamelibrary.substack.com/p/the-video-... #GameDesign #GameDevelopment #IndieDev #IndieGame #Gaming

I gotta get new tires today. So if you would like to support me and wear the latest in Gaytive fashion my shop is open. Prices for earrings are $5-$100 and I ship to USA tariff free 😉 ko-fi.com/brysonthegay...

Moving Houses launched on PC October 2024 and now has launched April 2025 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 & 5, Xbox One & X/S. It's been a wild development ride and this little indie game couldn't have come together without the help of family and friends. 🎮🧙 www.eastasiasoft.com/games/Moving...

yay! thank you @juliendjoubri.pointnthink.fr !! 🎉🥳💕✨

Any of my bskiers have small publishing contacts interested in console deployment or physical releases? Already released on 2 platforms. I've got limited time remaining with dev kit access and a few hurdles. Physical copies are a long-time dream 💭 💕 #indiegames #gamedev #publishing #solodev

Lots of progress on this pathfinding demo in Cave Engine. Support for multiple characters, move limits. Pathfinding is optimized now to only run the solver on legal-move neighbours. #python #gamedev

Get the hit settler-destruction game, Spirit Island, at lightning quick speed ⛈️ Our Forces of Nature Sale has some of our best deals yet, grab it while it's lava hot 🌋 www.handelabra.com/sale

The fox wanted to make sure you've seen the new official TUNIC hat from @fangamer.com 👀 Check out the whole collection: www.fangamer.com/collections/...

If you've wondered how people get into this very small and very new field of game history professionals, give this a listen! @chloeappleby.bsky.social is a delight

A film that takes place where you're from youtu.be/c2V_Cf0tK80?...