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Alvie @alvie.dev · 20/09/2026

I'm generating generic job names for a game I'm making, and some of these company names are already cracking me up.

Fake job listing for a Junior Manager at Super Arts, Semi Senior Manager at Nice Dock, and Senior Manager at Hard Depot Inc.

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 19/08/2026

whenever I go to a cafe I want to feel like this

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 13/07/2026

Shoichi (agito) plot: haha mana-chan don’t worry about anything, I’ll bake you a cake! Hikawa plot: mana-chan, I’m too busy investigating your father’s death Ryo plot:

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 25/06/2026

Going live with that new starfox! www.twitch.tv/alviedev

phone picture of me holding a nintendo switch controller in front of a screen with starfox on it

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 09/05/2026

Also shoutouts to the VFX - sure, they look goofy as hell for today's standards. But I don't think I struggled to take them seriously due to how straightforward they're played. No irony, no shame over them, just doing the best they can to push the story forward, and succeeding!

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 09/05/2026

this is the kind of show that makes cool takes look effortless - but it isn't until you process it that you realize just how AMAZING they are

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 08/05/2026

IT'S THE FRAME! HIM WITH THE GUN also I'm sorry - HOW MANY CASUALTIES?!

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 08/05/2026

I'm just gonna keep posting images as I go along, this is great stuff

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 08/05/2026

I've been watching Kamen Rider Kuuga and my god, this show is so cool

Three silohuettes standing in front of a neon sign

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 30/04/2026

Here's a new little project in #PicoCAD2 : a little Cubivore!

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 29/04/2026

Kamen Rider: Geats My first Kamen Rider, and it's got me feeling in ways that can only begin to be approached in a longer form post. And that's exactly what I did, so here's a link to my personal site's blog. It's a LOT. But in short, I really liked it! and it touched my soul www.alvie.dev/blog/3

Promotional poster for Kamen Rider Geats, featuring the main caracters posing.

An infamous scene in Kamen Rider Geats, where a pivotal antagonist is doing the worm in order to avoid getting shot at

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 22/04/2026

I figured I should start logging stuff I'm working on Today I was messing with our VN project's sounds, and using test sounds from a certain game I couldn't stop giggling

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 26/03/2026

Gosh this one was FUN to make, it's the first picocad model I've gotten to make with no 3d reference. Decided to texture it a little bit and I think it was to great effect!

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 26/03/2026

Star Cannon from Terraria! #PicoCAD2

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 23/03/2026

update: made a cube. managed to manipulate vertices much better with my new picocad knowledge. nice! added a cylinder tried to rotate it both the cube and cylinder rotated gave up maybe after a tutorial or two I'll try again, clearly I'm not prepared lol

a slightly askew pair of models in blender: a cylinder, and a slimmer cube.

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 23/03/2026

Maybe... Maybe I ought to give it another try... Surely it's just as fun as PicoCAD, right?

Screenshot of Blender on the Steam Library, updating

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 20/03/2026

And a jiggy! This one turned out much rougher - but I'm honestly happy with it!

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 20/03/2026

Made a quick little #PicoCAD2 recreation of LTTP's opening! :)

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 19/03/2026

I think it's time I uninstalled Tekken, and it hurts! I gave them a chance with more aggressive combat but it really isn't fun to learn: It's all about facerolling the enemy, and never about cleverly defending. It was a good run, but unless they make it a different game I'm gone

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 17/01/2026

No Other Choice Park Chan-Wook really moves like no other, the really creative camera movements and editing make it so that it feels more dense and colorful. FUNNIEST scenes I've ever scene, and yet also a narrative that's just... bleak, morally. It's so good!!!

Beautiful illustrated poster for the movie No Other Choice, featuring the main character being embraced by his family and a snake, while holding a flower pot with a bonsai growing in it.

Some neat details in the poster I'm seeing now is that the protagonist's competition is painted on the pot, all happily living their lives, but the pot's water streams down on our protagonist, who looks very upset and sad at what he's thinking of doing with said pot.

It also features the bugs, talked about in the movie as a plague to the pear tree, on the protagonist's bonsai tree.

The O in choice also circles the protagonist's daughter, which unlike the adoptive son, is his blood relative, and this plays a large role in the movie for both parents and their relationship, their goals and values.

A still from No Other Choice, featuring Man-Su (portrayed by Lee Byung-hun) sneaking into a room wearing a suit with a red overall on top of it. Not gonna spoil anything, but this is one of the few times I've laughed out loud at a movie for minutes at a time

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 17/01/2026

Three Billboards more like three billbullshit this movie pissed me off. Frances McDormand's AMAZING performance carries this movie so high up it even convinced people it was an oscar nom but its writing is so ass it makes you cringe and wince and just end up extremely confused. Kind of evil, even.

the amazingly talented Frances McDormand acting her heart out in a scene that's honestly not that great in writing but feels amazing. Like. she feels like a real woman who this all happened to. there's a ton of presence to her voice and mannerism and just being on screen. gosh. she's amazing, have I said that already?

Woody Harrelson and Frances McDormand sharing a scene that's frankly baffling because she's clearly mogging his sub-par performance. He really did get the worst writing. The bed scene is just. ugh. who writes like that. about sex. in a movie like this??? Also the movie is about a very sensitive topic yet it's like, hardly addressed? It's a critique about how it can create shock when used but is not ever discussed, and yet is a movie that uses it for shock but never discusses it. So weird.

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 17/01/2026

Starting with My Cousin Vinny Honestly a new comfort movie, but like, holy shit, Marisa Tomei really steals the show, and her crazy good outfits sell it even harder

Joe Pesci and Marisa tomei starring in My Cousin Vinny's courtroom scene

Marisa Tomei in an amazing outfit from My Cousin Vinny talking about her biological clock

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 11/01/2026

Nonogram is now playable! :) Up next, crossing out squares, timer, and accounting for mistakes.

A screenshot of my nonogram clone, featuring a smiling face drawn with a playable cursor

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 10/01/2026

Got stuck with a bad block in another project I'm working on, so I decided to make a nonogram clone in pico-8. It's so much fun to work on!

Screenshot of a pico-8 build of my latest project, a nonogram. It features a grid of squares accompanied by the numbers indicating how many of those squares need to be filled in.

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 30/11/2025

Hopping back on silent hill F to get the first of the secret endings! www.twitch.tv/alviedev

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 26/11/2025

wanna make a post about the game jam we participated in but I don't want to have people's first impression to be the jam build and not the post-jam patch that has been collecting dust for a few days, so I'm sitting here waiting for the voting to finish lol

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 15/11/2025

Hago 2da, no carga 😱

Screenshot of the blog site where the sidebar is visible, but the actual blogpost is not loaded properly

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 26/09/2025

Working on my project and I somehow made this error screen show up and I won't lie... the longer I look at it the more I see a face in it

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 12/09/2025

All that's left is to focus on the game mechanics and the content. While I planned for the scope to be limited, I can definitely see myself taking a bit of time with some ideas. Fun stuff!

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 12/09/2025

When sorting scores, I realized Pico-8 runs FAST, loading screens aren't needed. Just for fun, I decided to add one, and learned something interesting: Loading into gameplay definitely amplifies the importance of the game, while loading into menus like leaderboards feels sluggish and frustrating.

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 12/09/2025

Figuring out text shadows was easy, but sprite shadows was a real headache - definitely feel much more confident in reading/manipulating spritesheets after doing that

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 12/09/2025

Visual elements were added - some are not final, but you can get an idea for what I'm going here

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 12/09/2025

Been a bit since I updated this last - big strides were made! Finished structuring the menus and navigation. It's kind of the first time I've had to structure it without any sort of pre-made engine help so I've definitely been having to learn a lot about the logic behind it

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 03/09/2025

The base is done, but now the real work is in the form of structuring the game, adding/modifying mechanics and content I want in the game. I want this to be a recreation with my own touch, as the original is still available to play, and I want to provide something that I would find more enjoyable

Long list of action items related to the game's development including structural, mechanical and content-related additions

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 03/09/2025

Figured that if I want to make it feel real I should talk about it: I'm currently working on a Gold Miner (old flash game) demake for Pico-8!

Screenshot of my current project, Goldminer Demake, running in Pico-8. It features a miner next to a spool of rope pulling up a gold nugget from the dirt. In the dirt there are also other objects like other gold nuggets and a diamond. Above is also featured a numerical goal, current score and gameplay instructions.

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 15/08/2025

Crazy to think Terraria was one of the very first games I purchased, and also that I technically bought TF2 twice before it went free to play. Guess that’s just how much I wanted to play tf2 lol

First Steam purchases made on my account in order: Gmod + TF2 Bundle, The Orange Box, Madballs in… Babo: Invasion, Bully: Scholarship Edition, and Terraria.

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 07/04/2025

Majora's Mask (2000) first time on the native PC port. The ambience here is something really personal, and that seeps through from the developer team into the game in a way that will make you feel personally touched in a truly unique way. I wish nintendo would make more of this!

A screenshot of Majora's Mask clock town, prominently featuring Deku Link in the center

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 18/10/2024

The people who genuinely wanted something like “gear death” or something were literally reading a different manga, it was the most fitting thematically.

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Alvie @alvie.dev · 17/10/2024

Gotta change this, can’t be left behind the french

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