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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

After almost a year of digital nomad travel, I'm back in Wisconsin for the next 3 months. After that I'm getting back on a plane - the opportunity to keep doing this just feels too good to pass up. Also I've got access to my PS5 for a bit. What should I play?

View of Wisconsin landscape from a plane

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I bet every game developer following me knows what this script is and has their own stories about the one they used.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Ok I said I was done, but I got so many more ideas. Here's eclipse final v2.0

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

A few weeks ago, I was lucky enough to go see a real solar eclipse in Spain. It was incredible. I had already added an eclipse to Race The Sun: Challenge Edition, but it felt wholly insufficient after seeing the real thing. So here's the new version.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

I'm in London til next Friday. What should I definitely do while I'm here?

Aaron, looking like a tourist in front of Big Ben

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona has been in development for 144 years, and crowdfunds approximately €2.59 million every week via admission ticket sales. Is it the Star Citizen of cathedrals?

Photo of La Sagrada Famíla cathedral in Barcelona

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Hey here's my 3D game, it could run at 60fps on an iPhone 5!

A screenshot of RACE THE SUN, a minimalist endless racing game featuring simple 3D graphics.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I don't talk about it enough here, but I've been doing a lot of work on RACE THE SUN this past 6 months! Right now I'm doing some visual experiments for a new mode called TRIALS. What do you think?

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Sometimes I wonder if I should have stayed in my corporate games job working on Call of Duty. Then I remember that I no longer need to make products for these gamers.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I've been quietly developing a new web game platform for the last year, with my friend @bjornithopter.bsky.social. This week, we're announcing it's called Player Galaxy (previously PlayFly). I wrote a bit about our history and goals here, and what's next: www.playergalaxy.com/news/feed?it...

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Ending my month-long trip in Japan tomorrow! Can't wait to come back. Nos off to Seoul for June! Anyone in the games scene there want to connect?

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

I haven't seen it yet, but I've seen the gist and just picked up the manga. I was in an Osaka station late at night a few weeks ago and grabbed this footage:

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

One page horror story: Don’t Feed The Stray Read the whole thing here: www.playfly.games/ugc/cb293558...

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

I'm having a ridiculous amount of fun adding some pretty mundane quality of life things to Race The Sun: Challenge Edition, like this fancy new patch notes screen. It even has feedback buttons so players can tell me what they like/don't like right from this screen!

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

Implementing an updated stats screen for Race The Sun:Challenge Edition. I'm afraid the race is as futile as ever.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

I'm having so much fun working on Race The Sun: Challenge Edition again! It's really a blast to iterate and get rapid feedback from a subset of the ~300k monthly players. This is a WIP, but I like how it's coming together: a "thunderstorm" as one of the new daily challenges:

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 01/01/2026

More "Daily Challenge" prototyping for Race The Sun: Challenge Edition. Evil Birds x3

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

The visuals are very rough, but this "black holes" daily challenge in Race The Sun: Challenge Edition is shaping up to be pretty fun!

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Working on some fun stuff. Race The Sun is about to get *way* weirder.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

I got a very warm welcome by the owner/manager, had a great time!

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

ANNOUNCEMENT! (Sort of 😅) I'm gauging interest in a Kickstarter to bring Race The Sun: Challenge Edition to PC, along with some major updates. Is that a thing you'd back? You can register your interest and read more here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/fli...

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

I had a wild experience today where a person texted me and I thought it was just some kind of spam, so I replied STOP to try and unsubscribe. Then I got this text from 911, followed by an actual call from 911 checking if I had an emergency. Turns out a scammer made an actual group chat w/ 911!

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Still working on this little spider running game. What do you think of the new spider? Also, what do you think is happening with the hills? What do you *want* to be happening here?

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

More games should have lots of pretty cubes in them.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Also, there are giant mysterious titans that players can make appear, such as Bethemotep:

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

When those head/totems are unlocked, a new node in the season map appears, and players can go one more level deep in their run. There's a global event feed announcing when things get unlocked. Concept:

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

And the way the new worlds are unlocked in a particular seasons is that these giant heads need to receive enough player sacrifices

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The players would also get to decide which features/powerups get added to the world. Here's a mockup of an "A/B Choice" artifact where players get to vote by sacrificing themselves into one of two holes.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

The real twist is that the game plays out in 2-week seasons, where each season has new worlds in a map that are unlocked when players achieving collective goals. Crucially, this involves worlds that are created via an in-game level editor and shared/upvoted by the community.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Ok I genuinely need some input. I have this game concept and I can't tell if the idea is just too fucking weird to have an actual audience. There's a little "beta signup" at the end of this thread so you can register your interest to tell me if I should build this! You could also repost! Thread:

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I assume it's this bit, combined with the fact that Xalavier works insanely hard:

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

I've made a lot of weird stuff, but this one is really out there

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

Thinking about making this into a $1 game on Steam where for each person who downloads it, another spider gets added to the world. Would you buy it?

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

As someone who named my horses in Zelda:Breath of the Wild Horse1, Horse2, and Horse3, I've gotta say I really like Kojima's style here. Save that creative energy for other things.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Whisker Squadron: Survivor is now released out of early access on Steam, and available on PS5. So proud of what we did with this game and I hope you all enjoy it if you play! This 1.0 update includes voice acted characters, a new endgame, and a TON of quality of life improvements.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

I think a lot about how lucky we were to have released Race The Sun at the tail end of 2013 on Steam.

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Aaron San Filippo (✈️Madrid) @aaronflippo.bsky.social · 12/02/2025

Disney+ just let me know they're upgrading my subscription terms. I thought this was pretty audacious 😅

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