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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 10h

We don't talk enough about the soundtrack of Fuck's Quest II, which was clearly made by someone who understands how to compose music and used that knowledge for evil

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åge 🦭 @aage.vertebrae.rip · 1h

Sometimes a work of fiction will do this id vs. ego thing where giving into your base impulses turns you into an awesome murder beast. And then they get a bit carried away making cool monster designs. So the takeaway ends up being, be selfish and you'll be rewarded with an awesome beast form.

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DTEE @dtee.bsky.social · 14h

what is wrong with him

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 4h

A former dev from Arxel Tribe / Sinister Systems is on the RPG Codex talking about the 2003 Slovenian RPG 'Mistmare' rpgcodex.net/forums/threa... Interesting look at the challenges they faced - like how the writing was done expecting an actual writer / native English speaker to review it later

We've frequently been criticized for the poor quality of writing, of the dialogues in particular, which are also way too long and wordy. But in our defense, the deal with Arxel was that a professional, native english speaking writer would be hired for a complete overhaul before the game was published. As we were neither professional writers nor native speakers, that seemed pretty reasonable. But as it happened, there was just yet another case of "applied mismanagement" in the end, because the "overhauled text" we got from that lector was pretty much unchanged. Bummer!

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www.hottopic.com @chuunitoons.bsky.social · 7h

performance

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winpuss 🍥 (COMMS open) @winpuss.bsky.social · 11h

Sketch September 29, 2026

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Kieran @toadally.bsky.social · 11h

I haven’t posted Pigeon in a while! Raised by birds, she destroys anti-bird spikes and hostile architecture. She sleeps in a park and lets the local children draw on her with sidewalk paint.

A green and copper gargoyle covered in pigeons and children’s drawings

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Jiikae @jiikae.com · 16h

I find it funny when people talk about how games are this art form that can make you feel emotions, but then you bring up something like wanting more games to have timers & people will say its bad design "because it makes me anxious" So emotions only allowed through story, not gameplay. Got it lol.

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lottie "frog k" lovely ⚧️🏴‍☠️ @vaporlight.bsky.social · 10h

at *barely* enough to make rent, and yesterday slipped in bathroom and seemingly broke leg. if you can help, please do, i have insurance so this isn't instant death, but it's a "slowly reimburse if paid for at all" situation on orthotics and the like & being able to use the toilet by myself is nice

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me @virusofminora.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Commission Two ants playing ping-pong in the forest

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 22/09/2026

Messy Roblox lawsuit includes salaries paid in Robux, ownership disputes: aftermath.site/tower-defense-...

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Val @ BOOM Goes the Bride!! @valwrites.ca · 24/09/2026

Anglerfish female says male anglerfish will retain "distinct identity" despite being absorbed into her body and losing his brain

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nat alison @tesseralis.site · 20h

What does it mean for the probability to be five percent? Well, that’s five percent. But six percent? Well, that’s still five percent. Four percent is also kind of five percent. Three percent is two percent. And two percent is basically impossible.

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åge 🦭 @aage.vertebrae.rip · 12h

The local gacha game subreddit is having a hard time wrapping their head around the concept of nonbinary people. "They're not nonbinary, they're just outside the binary." (Nonbinary as a third gender?) "Subtext is when there's pronouns." (I think that's just text?)

"[character] is not nonbinary. They're completely genderless"

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åge 🦭 @aage.vertebrae.rip · 14h

Dreamt a bizarro world Better Call Saul where instead of being a lawyer he was a child therapist who worked with autistic kids and instead of the drug cartel he got involved with illegal building construction, in a cold foggy coastal town.

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Andy Bell @bell.bz · 15h

on the anthropic IPO stuff, I think this via @garbageday.email is pretty much spot on www.garbageday.email/p/they-want-...

But I’ll end this here with a little conspiracy theory courtesy of Hacker News that I have decided I will believe until I see proof to the contrary. “OpenAI and Anthropic are publicly asking for slowdown in AI research,” one user wrote. “Translation: We see this technology not being any more useful than what it is now, no AGI is coming, and the first one to accept this and slow down the dollar burn rate will incur the wrath of the market. So let's say this big boogeyman technology will end all life on earth and we all slow down together.”

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 22h

anydice is so useful for shit like this btw. curious how Forged in the Dark rolls work? here you go, "chance of at least this level of success" for 0, 1, 2, and 3 skill pips. The fact that success rates increase by 25% for the first few skill dice produce really clean, noticable power increases

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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

teenage mutant ninja turtles: fall of the foot clan, manual, excerpt, game boy (1990) archive.org/details/Nint...

text:
pizza that will deliver you from evil

(image of pizza box)
the first ever edible pizza box
value 10 points

(image of a slice of pizza)
slice of the pie
value 50 points

(image of a full pizza)
the extra large "za"
with double cheese
value 100 points

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åge 🦭 @aage.vertebrae.rip · 21h

It went well (I am still not pregnant)

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Put some finishing touches & released my Elevator Action/Rolling Bird inspired game : boghog.itch.io/caramel-acti... You can play it in your browser Though I'd recommend getting the desktop ver since the browser version is funky

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

subscribing increasingly to what I'd describe as the Chunky Peanut Butter theory of game design, which is that it solves a lot of problems for you if your core game mechanic, in its simplest form, still has something for the player to "chew on" - that they can fail at, be better at, think about

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

digging into my twitter archive for my favourite "you can tell the designer calculated this all in a spreadsheet" skill point system example

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Kayin @kayin.moe · 29/09/2026

You can load up stuff like FF7 screens and see how the scene is assembled, which is cool as hell

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Alice Bottino @bottino.games · 29/09/2026

ambience🔊

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pang @birthbydrip.neocities.org · 29/09/2026

a late one for you tonight... monkey ball is one of the most elegantly designed precision arcade games ever made, a game that takes a design staff primed on racers and lets them create economic geometry puzzles, only building towards alien grandeur in their structures at the end. link below!

first few paragraphs: Sega was the master of exaggerated, nuanced physics engines, and Monkey Ball fits that mold to a T. There’s three stylistic inaccuracies that sew Monkey Ball’s unique physics together:

Friction is present as a constant inhibiting force, but in a sense this helps hold the monkey on downward slopes. This gives Monkey Ball a “sticky” quality.

Collisions can and often do pop the monkey up in the air, where speed is uncapped. This, and the fact that the collisions seem relatively elastic,1 make collisions actually a boon for gaining speed rather than a total obstacle.

It’s a common misconception that Monkey Ball has the player control the tilt of the stage, letting the monkey freely roll throughout it. Instead, the player is actually controlling the direction of gravity, offering very similar effects to stage-tilting while also providing essential air control to the monkey.

The three of these combined make Monkey Ball an intuitive, forgiving engine that encourages aggressive play.2 Speed gains are always at the player’s fingertips and rely heavily on environmental awareness. With that intrinsic concentration in the engine, the stage design can then follow suit. Monkey Ball’s stages are focused and brief; many stages have a max time limit of only 30 seconds, intend for you to beat them in less than half of that, and have a theoretical lower bound of only a couple seconds. While the stages are static and encourage memorization, the short length and nuanced physics put the micro-movements front-and-center in comparison to broader routing, and this creates its own form of complexity-oriented dynamism for those who can’t memorize frame-perfect input strings.

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jaseiken me crazy @tunditur-unda.itch.io · 27/09/2026

this week's rpg experiment "The Master's House" - centers the beloved rpg trope of "boss that talks to you while you fight" - you can play in your browser (mobile-friendly) (windows dl available) - made in 12 or 15 hours - it is possible to get the definitive ending tunditur-unda.itch.io/rpg35

game screenshot. battle view. the player faces a young woman standing in the forest on a rainy night. the dialogue box reads: "i'm not the helpless little girl i was when you found me. it's time for you to accept that."

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Meatball @mrmeatballl.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Happy 15th, Isaac

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åge 🦭 @aage.vertebrae.rip · 29/09/2026

Getting an ultrasound tomorrow (no, I'm not pregnant)

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åge 🦭 @aage.vertebrae.rip · 28/09/2026

rip seiko kimura you deserved better than to be a danganronpa 3 character...

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Creeps! @creepincrawl.com · 28/09/2026

🔥🔥🔥

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 28/09/2026

Why "Choosin' Texas" doesn't feel like a hit www.garbageday.email/p/why-choosi...

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åge 🦭 @aage.vertebrae.rip · 28/09/2026

Watched one of those untransformative analysis videos where they kind of just regurgitate a story for an hour and at one point the youtuber mentioned that in their retelling thus far they'd omitted a lot of sex scenes because they were gross and "you wouldn't want to hear me talk about them".

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Sunday's Playzone @sundaysplayzone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Another cute one for artfight. #90s #80s #disney #donbluth

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Srutis 🔞 @srutis.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

OC monstification doodle comm

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Garbage Day @garbageday.email · 28/09/2026

Anyway here’s this 😀 idk if bluesky appreciates this many photos but I do

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Dominic Tarason @dominictarason.com · 28/09/2026

Just giving an extra shout-out for Knuckle Jet. Great, gorgeous platformer with a hand-made aesthetic. Technically part of the Teslagrad/World to the West series, but perfectly fine as a standalone thing. Also has *multiple* SatAM/pop-punk songs about punching the rich and powerful in the face.

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Knuckle Jet on Steam

What's this? An off-the-wall, riveting jetpunk nose-breaking ricochet action platformer, lovingly crafted by the oddballs behind the Teslagrad series!

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 28/09/2026

Here’s the most incredible story you’ll read today. A small plane with four people aboard crashes in a field. Another pilot witnesses it. That pilot happens to be flying a bunch of skydivers. They offer to jump to assist, are given permission. The skydivers happen to be EMTs. Everyone survives.

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Skydivers alert emergency crews, assist after plane crashes near East Troy airport

Four people were aboard the single-engine plane when it went down in a cornfield near Carvers School Road in East Troy at about 1:30 p.m.

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Luca Dalen Espseth @bestmedbart.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Lest en kul transbok? Levd et kult transliv? Endra mening om trans? Slutta å være trans? Lært deg noe kult om trans? Kanskje du burde være gjest På Trans Norge? Kanskje du til og med vil lage en fast spalte for oss? Rop ut! (Og tips meg om folka du kjenner som ville vært bra)

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Privaty Business @wanwanattack.qtbrewer.moe · 28/09/2026

Genuinely, this completely rules

－Recently, the game has been going viral on X for its beautiful undressing animations. I’ve even read in one of your previous interviews that the development team practiced stripping themselves as reference for the undressing animations. What was the process behind making the animations actually like?

Matsui:

I’d love to know how far that story has spread. It’s true.

First, we write a plot for each undressing scene, then draw storyboards, exactly as the original team did. Then the real work begins, because the animation is essentially all keyed by hand. A designer moves the clothing’s 3D model, frame by frame, manually. It really is pretty much like the claymation method I mentioned.

We did try automating it with physics simulation first, but it was a total failure. The cloth moved in a physically correct way, but had absolutely no allure. We learned a profound lesson: accuracy and sensuality are two unrelated properties. In the end, we accepted that humans would have to do all of it.

Then VR adds its own weight. In a normal game, if something becomes awkward, you can cut away or swap models between scenes. In VR, the player can look from any angle at any time, so none of those tricks are available. The same model has to undress convincingly no matter where you’re standing. When I described this to a designer at another studio, he said, “I would never do that.” I’ve chosen to take it as a compliment.

And then, yes, the part you’ve read about. The undressing motions themselves use motion capture, but the deeper problem was that nobody actually knew the correct rhythm and order in which a person takes off clothes. So, the directors gathered and undressed themselves as reference. “That zipper is coming down too fast.” “She’d pause once before slipping her shoulder out.” These were serious, sober discussions. For compliance reasons, the Super Real Mahjong Venus Returns team works in a walled-off section of our office – and that was the moment those walls truly earned their keep.

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åge 🦭 @aage.vertebrae.rip · 28/09/2026

Sometimes I will write a diary entry and I will think to myself like "this is going to go so hard when the historians try to piece my life together".

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I always recommend "Gaming the Iron Curtain" as one of the most interesting books on games. If you want an express version, check this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzc5... Gaze into a world of games with no industry - clubs & hobbyists crafting games as jokes, diaries, journalism and political protest.

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Jaroslav Švelch - Making Games in Communist Czechoslovakia (Game Days Trnava 2019)

YouTube video by Game Days

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