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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Help, I've been sucked into FFVI T-edition and I don't actually want out. Send dancing moogles.

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Impulse, Ardent Sympathizer @eotimpulse.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

This game is incredible and I love it. It's a steal.

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💀 Shalloween 💀 @shallowva.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Clicking Google's fun whimsical throwback logo today sends you to an AI chat pre-filled with a goofy prompt and immediately hits you with a warning that it is potentially dangerous to continue. You couldn't make a better commentary on how badly they have fucked up the internet if you tried.

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Blackblooms (indiegamedev) @blackblooms.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hmmm....so apparently I need to write something contentious to drive engagement.... ...hey you! The thing in videogames you like is bad design and that thing you hate is good design. Prove me wrong!

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The real reason the games have staying power imo is that they are the sole remaining "JRPG-ass story" games after all the other AA budget JRPGs died.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I know lots of people defend its "tab target mmo" style combat, but I'd be surprised if that was a real draw for anyone. I think the buildcrafting options make an otherwise weak combat system palatable.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Even though I'm an xbc enjoyer, FFXII is more what I want from "offline mmo." Granted, I only play modded FFXII these days. Vanilla XII has flaws that didn't stop me from enjoying it, but ability/job system mods made a clear improvement for me.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Knowing nothing about it, I would still guess it holds up as well as any of Matsuno's games hold up. They're all uniquely dense.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

XBC2 is actually my favorite by a good margin. XBC3 is 2nd place in most categories, but the worldbuilding in XBC3 is frankly the weakest of the 3 for me. The forever war made the world feel incredibly repetitive for me, even though the vistas and landscape work are still fantastic.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think affinities need major tuning. I always forget the gotchas without studying the guide on GameFAQs. But I inevitably tell myself "nah optimal build FAQs ruin the fun of blindly exploring the world." Then I find myself doing 0 dmg to bosses in the midgame, wondering where I went wrong.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

XBC2 is a game I love, but I don't know how to talk about it. A lot of what I want to praise about it carries massive baggage I'd have to address.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

You can't just say things like this 😂. You know I want to ask your opinions about it now. I also now assume you are bursting from the seams with opinions crying to be unleashed on the world. You can have unpopular opinions about xbc. It's a polarizing series with very valid baggage.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Vagrant Story is probably the coolest game in the Matsuno canon, honestly. It is also, unfortunately, a game where you can accidentally fail so thoroughly at its growth systems that you find yourself doing 0 damage to mid-game bosses, and scratching your head about what went wrong.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I need to play ogre battle 64. Never got to that one.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Also, @thetrin.blacksky.app you never actually followed my acct. I feel like you should lol. I replayed Xenogears because of your Xenosaga posts, and then I rolled credits on xbc2 just last week.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Wait that was 7 months ago. Maybe I'll play it again.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I think where I'm going with all of this rambling is I should probably play Crimson Shroud again at some point 🤔

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I own like 6 copies of FFT, and 3 copies of LuCT lol. I didn't know the connective tissue with Matsuno until a full decade after I played FFT, and I almost completely missed playing XII. First time I played XII was ~4 years after its release.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

TO:LuCT has always been slightly abrasive to me in a sense. There's no route where you get to feel like a good person, and that's the point. I definitely prefer getting to play Ramza. Clearly on the wrong side at the start, but he spends the rest of the game spitting straight fire in redemption.

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Aftermath @aftermath.site · 24/09/2026

Need something to play this weekend? Here's a selection of indie games we've been into lately: 🧵

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Rei Kitakaze @reikitakaze.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

The cat's out of the bag! I'm proud to announce that I'll be the lead composer for @stillsunark.bsky.social! I'm very excited to bring this beautiful and dangerous alien world to life through my music! #indiedev #JRPG #OST

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William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Slop slingers aren't in it for the love of the art. They don't stop and smell the roses. Your potential ceiling will always be higher than theirs because you can do what they can't. Build a community of people that love art. Champion the creatives. Here's one of Rado's games.

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Fallen Blades on Steam

Spark a rebellion in this top-down slasher where you lead rogue armies against hundreds of imperial soldiers at once. Master split-second combat in the story-driven campaign – playable solo or in co-o...

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Eternal Skies TCG RPG @eternalskies.neocities.org · 21/09/2026

Indie game devs should band together and sell their games on CD or DVD at local events. So everyone at an event sells all the games for everyone in the group, and not just their own. Lil indie dev cooperative sales groups.

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 21/09/2026

The only part of game development I don't care about is the shareholders

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William Davis @willdavis.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"The ai slop game made 100k we're doomed!" Good news! That means your game you poured your heart out into can make that too! It starts with showing your game and getting wishlists. Do what they can't. Do it for the love of the art and let people know about it. 🧵

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Age of the Deep on Steam

Age of the Deep is a mermaid fashion looter rpg. Explore the beautiful, and terrifying, mysteries of the ocean surrounding the islands, fight off pirates that threaten the inhabitants, dive deep to un...

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We really need laws that clamp the legally allowed salary disparity inside any company. No single employee is allowed to gross more than 5x the total combined earnings of the median employee. 5x disparity sounds ridiculous, but compared to current disparities it's a 100% reduction in compensation.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Whether it saved them money or not, the money it saved would be measured in thousands. Schreier's article is relevant because this is multiple hundreds of millions lower than AAA budgets. Even if we protest the game, its budget should be dissected and used to expose ills in the industry.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't think the question of "did it save them money or not" should be mixed with the GenAI problem. GenAI is a problem, and anyone can and should legitimately remind people of it. Citing it as a reason costs are lower only legitimizes a value proposition of AI.

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Anna 🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

We’ve got some art and design roles open at Kinali! Very chill company, very cool game (if I do say so myself)

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This stuff is so frustrating. Cishet people asssume that queerness is our whole identity because they can't see the forest for the trees. So when they think about writing queer characters, they assume the character's story would have to revolve around their queerness. It's all projecting.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

New IRL Profession: Heavy Metal Friend Refer me to your shitty workplace. I'll do whatever it takes to get hired. Then I'll steal a few paychecks doing nothing but supporting you, even picking fights on your behalf. No need to pay me. Your employer will do that for you.

A "She protec" meme using Estelle Igni sprites.

It says "She protec / She attac / but mostly / She Metal as Heck"

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If you do, absolutely report back to me how it goes. It's not a -bad- idea unless you're inpatient/angry when buzzed 😂

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My CEO is the same way. I legit started drinking a truly before each meeting for a few weeks to see if his constant asshole tone would roll off me a little easier. Didn't really work, so I told my boss I wasn't going to work on the CEO's pet project or attend the meetings anymore.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Also legit thank you for nice words. Means a lot tonight ❤️

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It's so weird! Like it's so easy to be nice. Being mean is so much harder!

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I know I'm bad at confrontation because my paraphrase doesn't even sound as mean as what he said lol. How do you work 25 years in this industry and still not know the use case of a pull request???

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

[Backend dev's ticket got a frontend request. BE dev is east coast, already out of office] Me: "I went ahead and did the frontend work. Here's a pull request you can test in the morning." BE Dev: "It was my ticket and you touched it, so now it's your ticket and you have to do everything."

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Darya Noghani (Small Saga now on the Switch!) @sketchylogic.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Artificial Intelligence? Buddy, I'm not even incorporating Artificial Stupidity. If my NPC behaviour code ever exceeds 3 lines I scrap the whole project and start over.

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reilly 🐾 @poss.dog · 17/09/2026

A Venn diagram. The outer circles read dog, car, and husband. The intersection of dog and car is horse. The intersection of dog and husband is werewolf. The intersection of car and husband is centaur. The intersection of all three is dragon.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I don't understand how mean people even do it. Someone at work got extremely petty with me and I very reasonably stood up for myself. I am still trembling 3 hours later just from standing up for myself.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

This should be such an open and shut case it's ridiculous.

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

A graphical asset in the shape of a cog. It contains the following text 'This developer assures that NO GEN AI' was used in this indie game

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

idk I'm equally proud that my post has such a high ratio of people liking ever individual part of the thread. Also, I'm fascinated by the implication of someone individually reposting every single part of the thread. Like... Reposting the top one reposts the whole thread if it's not a QRP.

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Claire ✦ RPG Estelle Igni @azilyn.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

The life of a small account with one post that broke containment: "Oh cool. 10 notifications. One of my comments must have popped off a little." "Nope. 1 person liked all 5 posts in the thread, then individually reposted every single one of them."

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