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arcanePhraze

@arcanephraze.bsky.social
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[ 21 — ( he/him ) ] [[ Capricious Extraordinaire ]] Creator of "Razzomania", a hobbyist webcomic. Read "Razzomania" @: arcanephraze.github.io Additional info and more @ arcanephraze.com “follow me for random thoughts and geeking out”

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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 4h
it's like 11:30 PM here but. BUT. we're GAME ING. where makeing this HAPPEN. next on the list? probably "coyote time" because i keep slipping off platforms. after that? enemies & hazards. after *those*? dunno really, probably research on arcade games to improve the gameplay loop #gamedev
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
trying to remind myself to draw more because i do that don't have my typical digital art equipment set up after the move yet so it's back to silly little MS Paint doodles for now Raz would like you to remember: you are great.
A horned figure stands in the center of an empty frame pointing at the viewer and sticks their tongue out playfully. A speech bubble sprouting from the figure reads "rember: your are grate".

A second, shadowy horned figure is in the left-most portion of the background with a puzzled look.
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
sometimes i wonder how my other characters feel when their projects become so detailed that i get overwhelmed and put them off.. for smaller, less complex projects for Their Diner specifically i'm looking to make it 3D with heavy inspiration from the Persona series (but i've never played one..)
An anthropomorphic fox with green fur named Green is standing at the front of an empty frame with an expression of exhaustion on their face, directing their left arm towards a figure in the background. 
A speech bubble reads 'wdym "on hiatus"??' above Green's head.

In the background is a small robot carrying a battery across the frame. Motion lines behind the robot indicate that it is hastily running.
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
huhuhuhu,,, progress,, huhuhuhu,,, with player movement out of the way i can finally work on, like, the actual "game" part (throwing items) still split on a name for this, "Bittsketball" still seems applicable but I haven't truly decided. There's "Basket-Bitt", "Sorting Bitt", etc.. #gamedev
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Captain R stands in an empty frame.

A large speech bubble is above his head, reading “SEX” in bright red font.
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
dirk strider homestuck end quote post
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
for my own peace i must specify that pre-Razzomania Raz is completely different than “Mania” Raz, their only real similarity is their design where Old Raz is some guy with Shadow Limbs and Demon Forme (Razirim) Mania Raz has pewpew beams and IS some sort of weird demon thing (a Razzo) by default
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
i like holding on to old sketchbooks and then redraw what interests me mosts in all the blank space i left as a kid— i miss my old sona’s demon form his has such aura nowadays,, but i think Razzomania is a good place for both Phraze AND Raz
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i dont have prototype footage yet but safe to say i’m back on my “gotta make a small platformer and publish it” grindset the hardest part is convincing myself the game idea i have is actually FUN interestingly enough. i love the designs and all but i want other people to enjoy the gameplay, too
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
living with someone with an alcohol problem is really fucking hard and if i had a nickel for everytime i’ve had to do it i’d have two nickels hard to live with someone who cant even admit their own faults and has to project on everyone else so im moving out for a clearer headspace
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
need to remind myself to eat more nutritionally complete meals stopped working on Razzomania mainly because i got tired of brute forcing creativity through hunger-induced migraines & i would get super critical of the artwork while working on it i’m glad i got 30-ish pages done before then though
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
you know social media isn’t really your thing when liking and tagging posts feels taboo i dont know how i got to this point but it sucks because everyone makes cool stuff and i forget to express that :(
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
part of my problem in trying to make a platformer game is trying to reinvent the wheel. in this case, the wheel is mario, where no matter what i do i can never get a running speed mechanic to work in a way that feels satisfactory when coupled with a camera system might just be skill issue though
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
tilesets in GMS 2 are awesome except for the times i try using it for collision, in which case it gets relegated to JUST tiling duty while i use collider objects to make the actual bounds… but as far as visual tiles go it’s an amazing tool and keeps total object count down
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i wanna use my physical retro game hardware to stream longplays of video games but i have neither the audience, the drive, or a solid idea of how to make those streams fun and that’s mostly because i dont want to record the game and commentary separately, its funnier when its live in my opinion
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
there are some projects i stop working on mostly because i don’t want to get slammed by the copyright hammer and so i lose interest which sucks because those happen to have the most gameplay progress too anyways, eevee/pokemon megaman fangame go brr
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
i love the idea of games like Big Walk but i never have the free time to play them nevermind the fact i don’t even have the friend group assembled either i need to go be in more social spaces methinks you know things are odd when you’re in only FOUR discord servers, max—
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
learning gamedev has been so fun it feels like only yesterday when i had no idea how to write GML and now i have this template for any prototype permanently engraved into my brain and its my duty to yap about it in full once i complete my website’s blogging features because character limits be da
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
i want to completely remake Gelcat Petting Sim but the things in the way of that are: a.) the integer limit & not having a workaround system to store values higher than 2 billion b.) wanting some sort of unique gimmick in how you play the game but the prototype looks cool at least,,,, #gamedev
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
status report on arcanephraze.com navigation added after some trial and error with Jekyll on how to use permalinks (setting the global template to “/:title/“ seemed to have worked?) now i dont need a carrd or a strawpage, because i built one i manage with my own two hands :) #webdesign #webdev
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
as a Guy Who Plays Metroid Prime 2: Echoes, i must say that Metroid Ravenous depicts Samus embracing more of her dark side, the same dark side that is “echoed” and represented by Dark Samus. it’s literally a Metroid (Prime) in the shape of a hungry Samus feeding on energy (in the form of Phazon,,,)
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
SEGAAAAAA REMAKE AND REWORK ‘06 AND MY LIFE IS YOURS RAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
sometimes i make cool character designs but not places to use them, or i take those places away because they have too much aura for where they were anyways here’s Split (i’m running out of ideas and material to post)
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
the steam frame looks like a great way to upgrade from a simple Quest 2 too bad by the time i’m ready to buy one, like the steam controller, i’ll have to wait the rest of the year out until they’re back in stock lol PCVR is fun but it makes me nauseous quick anyhow lol
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
when i was really into Sonic.EXE content i made my own computer demon who was a complete goober nowadays he’s a mini-boss in Clonetastrophe and the main villain’s #1 fanboy and is like his anti-virus kinda the design below is old, dunno where to go with him other than keeping the name “Xenoware”
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
found out my external hard drive has stuff i forgot about on it please enjoy my #epic #gamer #MLG #42069blazeit profile pictures i made to theme my steam account around feel free to use them yourselves if you want, it would be funny to see these out in the wild lol
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
#metroid ravenous is cool and all but when are we gonna actually see another classic Metroid in the main series hm. then again i dont like the implications imposed by making Samus equivalent to a Queen Metroid and allowing her to spawn new larva in combat maybe Metroid Suit is best,,,
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
my existence is a constant flux between “aw man i dont wanna spoil the game for everyone else” and “oh my god. OH MY GOD. the THEORIES, guys. the IMPLIED LORE guys!! guys!!! the unspoken connections, guys!!! the theories!!!! THE THEORIES!!!! THE EERIE SIMILARITIES!!! THE ALLUSIONS!!!! GUYS!!!!!!”
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
i hope the new #kirby game makes more references to the Super Abilities from Return to Dream Land and that this new ability isn’t exclusive to Sword Kirby other than that, the focus on cyan color coding and “Soul” bosses (Magolor, Fecto Forgo) in the Switch era is very, very, interesting.
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
i did the thing but,,,, curse the silly amount of whitespace i cant seem to get rid of on mobile viewports in portrait orientation anyways yeah its real @ arcanephraze.com tips, guidance, criticism, all welcome as im a complete n00b who stays up ‘til midnight to do this stuff #webdesign
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
learning how to use Bootstrap for mobile responsiveness is hard :( well actually keeping CSS clean and concise itself is hard okay well. web design. difficult. and i still haven’t bought my domains yet and am increasingly worried that they may get poached— end of post (i am progress ing)
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
oh HELL YEAH thank you thank you so much to the person who recommended Obsidian (the note taking software) to me, big BIG tremendous turning point in my #gamedev journey, especially with my main passion project Clonetastrophe now i can actually visualize what’s been lost in my head for a while
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
oot remake sure but when are we getting Tingle Majora’s Mask 4K
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
can we talk about how Tears of The Kingdom’s plot is very clearly a reimagining of Ocarina of Time they turned the medallions into rocks you can eat there’s seven sages the dungeons are temples they let Phantom Ganon mitose and instead of waiting out the ruined future, zelda gets sent BACK in time
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
so like what if i made a funny little rpg maker-based game where the grey ones goes to the store …and the fuchsia one gets kidnapped in the meantime, he like meets his other lost family members on the way, a horse guy is constantly in the way, and a great demon is summoned through a sacrifice
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
i’ve almost never used bases as an artist in my life but i had the idea yesterday to use them to test out Paint Tool SAI (hi i use this now) and the results don’t look horrible
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
most of the time i say im “waiting” to build a team for my greater passion projects im only half-true what i MEAN to say is “this is overwhelming how in the world am i gonna compensate these folks” and also i have like five projects like that in total and to be stretched thin is bad
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
it’s like they’re some sort of,,, #pokemon #megaman,,,
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
everybody’s got those few characters they love to death but have no idea what to use them for or if you did use them how much of a bad idea it would be to do so so yeah in short that’s why Xen and his cousin Bethany are in the “Forget Me Not Zone”
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
google how do i tell people i draw animal people without calling myself a furry google how do i cope with being a furry google google how do i stop writing a post google
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
you’re all missing out on the convoluted and dumb lore of my old OCs i fight too hard to cling onto don’t blame me when i hit it big and you’re not there for the Gigantic Razzo Lore Dump No One Asked For(tm) so follow while you can… while you can….
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
can’t tell if they’re brothers, cousins, or just two people who happen to be clones and humanoid hedgehogs
Pyrite (from Their Diner): “why dont you just *kill* the gold   man”

Samson (from Clonetastrophe): “but… heroes…”
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
then again it IS legitimately more difficult to program a tamagotchi/tiny chao garden-styled creature raising game than a little arcade game programming stats & genes for competition minigames i may not even make has made quite the spaghetti dinner out of my code
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 11/04/2026
you ever make good progress on the inner systems of one game project so you immediately think about shifting gears and working on a different, older, and relatively simpler project so you can finally get it out the door? i hope all these strict quality standards i have pays off eventually,,,
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
could hardly care about the FAME the MONEY the [[ BENCHES ]] i just want people to enjoy and have critical discussion about my stories with me because i like analyzing media i do feel like i put people off when i go on long-winded tangents about where and how i get my ideas though ._.
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
seriously though all that fandom culture put its mark on me i am constantly struggling to not feel like im missing out when i cryptically post about my game projects i have no intentions to make listings for until they’re substantial enough to enjoy i dont just cook i let it SIMMER
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 04/04/2026
the most embarrassing part of my favorite project ideas is that i wouldn’t have them if i didn’t waste my childhood obsessing over niche fnaf fangame communities for the character designs makes me feel insecure sometimes but we’re gettng Pyrite out of it so like all’s well that ends well
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
okay okay just one more out of context concept doodle before i go back to makening in the shadows (i always get antsy to show off my work no matter how small when it comes to game projects)
A character on the left is visibly enraged and yelling at a character on the right.

The left character screams “WHORE” with text below them in parenthesis stating “(he’s old)” as an explanation to their outburst.

The character on the right looks at the character on the left with concern.

tl;dr/the joke: old man screams at his granddaughter for dressing provocatively

[man im not used to writing alt text haha]
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 08/02/2026
see you guys in a year when the game this is for is done
A character casting a spell.
“you are not worthy.”
“i cast TESTICULAR TORSION.”
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arcanePhraze @arcanephraze.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
i blame this asshole for delaying my work on Fallen Games (the "random rpg" project) genderbent MLP character turned fan character more like interstellar criminal of all natural laws and also just a bit of a prick idk something something funny tag line oh look he has a theme song too wow--
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