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Ian Badcoe
@ianbadcoe.itch.io
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(they/he) nonbinary, poet, father, husband, gardener, *retired* game-dev from Sumo Digital...
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Ian Badcoe @ianbadcoe.itch.io · Mar 31
New intro now I am retired...

Looking to get into some #Indie #GameDev now I have time. Want to write the games I wanted to write all along: #Roguelike #Roguelite #ProceduralContent ...

Also available to help other people with projects/personal development... Commercial or unpaid, drop me a
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Abeona is the Roman goddess of outward journeys. Project Abeona celebrates the outward journey of humankind into space with a sequence of speculative poems from ordinary lives. #52 sees Ian Badcoe looking back at a dwindling Earth.
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September 15, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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September 16, 2026 at 5:14 AM
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I once more have a #SciFi #Space #Exploration #Poem on the excellent Project Aboena #ProjectAboena :

https://projectabeonapoetry.substack.com/p/transmission-52-parting-glance
Transmission #52 - Parting Glance
Transmission from: Faith MacAdmin, Senior In-Flight Engineer, Starship Thistledown (personal note appended to final pre-hibernation, system report)
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September 16, 2026 at 4:26 AM
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I’m excited to be joining Ken Evans and David Van-Cauter for a poetry reading in September! There will also be an open mic sign up on the night. It’ll be lovely to go back to The Lescar😍 Come and join us on 3rd September. Tickets:

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Poetry Reading at The Lescar
Join us for a gorgeous evening of poetry with readings from featured poets Ken Evans, David Van-Cauter and Charlotte Lunn plus an open mic.
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July 18, 2026 at 10:28 AM
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The stars sure are close together here in the centre of the galaxy...

#Photo #ceiling #lights #cafe #GalacticCore #NoObviousBlackHole
A cafe ceiling crowded with light bulbs, paper lanterns and coloured balls.
August 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
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Final sign.

#photo #silhouette #sign #luminous
A plaquard-type sign silhouettes against a luminous yellow-orange sunset.
August 23, 2026 at 4:09 PM
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#Godot #Gimp #Icons #Iconic #Desktop #UI #Oops

Why can I never remember which of these is which, I am always clicking the wrong one...
A snippet of my task-bar with Godot and Gimp right next to each other...
August 15, 2026 at 10:50 AM
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Forty-One featuring the work of Rachel Burrows
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Forty-One featuring the work of Rachel Burrows
A Feast Of
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August 9, 2026 at 6:27 PM
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Thirty-Six featuring the writing group Sheffield Spammers. Today we explore the work of Dawn Kirby and @ianbadcoe.itch.io:
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Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Thirty-Six featuring the writing group Sheffield Spammers. Today we explore the work of Dawn Kirby and Ian Badcoe
A Feast Of
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August 4, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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I'm featured in Paul Brookes' Fifty Days of Poetry and Artwork in the Starbeck Orion today:

https://the880.substack.com/p/welcome-to-the-starbeck-orion-summer-152

These are a tree poem sequence centred around some particular areas of dissatisfaction I have had with the world recently: [1/3]
Welcome To The Starbeck Orion Summer Feast Fifty Days Of Poetry And Artwork. Day Thirty-Six featuring the writing group Sheffield Spammers. Today we explore the work of Dawn Kirby and Ian Badcoe
A Feast Of
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August 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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CW: potential mass death from climate change causes

#ClimateChange #Death #SoapBubble #Poem #Video #PoemSetToMusic #Gigadeaths

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rot0wPRp_9M [1/4]
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July 5, 2026 at 11:48 AM
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Call Out For 7 of Your Unpublished Poetry And Prose On Your Neglected Local Water Courses
The Wombwell Rainbow is putting out a call for unpublished poems and short prose on your local neglected water courses. What history, geology, industry has effected these streams, becks and rills a…
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June 29, 2026 at 9:24 PM
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Finally! I'm qualified to open these emails now...

#OverlySpecificMuch #IAmTheOnlyIanBadcoeYouKnow ?
This email was intended for "lan Badcoe (Retired, Game- Dev, Poet, Software Engineer)"
June 25, 2026 at 1:29 PM
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#Poets , please consider making a #Poetry #Submission to The Starbeck Orion:

https://open.substack.com/pub/the880/p/contributions?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=33jsyn
Contributions
How to contribute to The Starbeck Orion
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June 24, 2026 at 12:17 PM
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I've got this
June 22, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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those eyes and mine black
two black molars window-paned
over a field
a prescribed burn
chest speaking
boneless buzzing mouths
fly-wing
necks craning for the sun
even though the sun’s
just another screen
June 21, 2026 at 7:07 PM
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#dianeSeuss
June 21, 2026 at 9:28 PM
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Science fiction authors in the order you want them to be right about AI:
Iain Banks
Becky Chambers
Martha Wells
Douglas Adams
Charles Stross (Singularity Sky)
Peter Watts
Charles Stross (Laundry)
Harlan Ellison
June 10, 2026 at 4:29 AM
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*This* crack in the fabric of reality, dammit!
A crack in a tarmac footpath with yellow arrows on either side, pointing inwards at it...
June 13, 2026 at 10:52 PM
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#Convergent #evolution ?
A pot of house leaks with a flower spike curving gently to one side... A pile of plant pots curving gently to one side...
May 30, 2026 at 7:11 PM
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Wow! Thank you...
nickvv.me Nick V // Daikon Games @nickvv.me · May 26
Oh actually we're on to a third now!
May 26, 2026 at 11:31 PM
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Yes, here they are (there are two, cause that's how many devs want to be proudly anti-AI!)

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eternalskies.neocities.org Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · May 25
Hello everyone, I just made this starter pack for game devs who refuse to use generative AI. In any capacity at all, including for ideas or placeholders or code or inspiration or whatever excuses people have.

No AI use, period. Let me know if you want added.

go.bsky.app/6DRdowf
May 26, 2026 at 6:53 PM
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This might be useful, although it is only sporadically active these days: https://groups.google.com/g/proceduralcontent

My picture, attached, shows a few more grid based transforms I have thought about over the years... [1/5]
May 20, 2026 at 10:04 AM
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I totally agree that people should not be fishing for ducks but they could have proofread the sign a bit before putting it up... #sign #ducks #dusk #DadJoke #WellIAmADad
A sign reading: fishing is not shower after dusk
May 4, 2026 at 7:40 PM
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This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
April 20, 2026 at 8:35 PM