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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Patio door kept the squirrel from freaking out!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There might be millions of pictures of squirrels online but there's something satisfying about taking your own photos!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I love how you can just glance at these 90s Pop Will Eat Itself covers and identify they're created by Designer's Republic

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

9 albums that shaped my music tastes

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Okay, these 9 games got me into playing more games like these games (i would have liked to have squeezed Yakuza on PS2 as a tenth)

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The website has started doing it too!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

This is my favourite paragraph from Obey the fist's review of one of my games

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Or maybe just copying 2 Echo and the Bunnymen covers!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

(my Girlfriend Paula's copy, I don't have it) I really love the cover for it! Paula agrees with you that it's a masterpiece. It's grown on me over the years, really like the one that goes "baby's coming back!"

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

They're basically a copy of mccoys but they do have a max brand already

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It's funny you say that because I am also an old AGS solo dev, but I don't expect most people to know that, especially as I don't use my username from AGS here.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Speaking of which, I bought this boxset in a charity shop for 50p without paying much attention to the contents, I was buying it for the good condition jewel cases. So it was to my surprise to see you, Spin Doctors, Fugees and Kula Shaker featured on this Daily Mail disc!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

From that list I've (thoroughly) played A Plague Tale Scars Above Kena: Bridge of Spirits Control Alice: Madness Returns Mirror's Edge Spiritfarer Remember Me So there's probably more I've forgotten! Heck, Scars Above is sitting in front of me on the shelf and I beat it a couple of years ago!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Ah yes you can see their logo on the bottom! Also the game is my favourite side scrolling beat em up, 100% recommended to any streets of rage fans.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don't actually recommend anybody watches this but it was a gripping show at the time!

A poster for the TV Show "Space Above and Beyond"

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I don't know if I ever saw it not being a huge xfiles fan but this image I just came across is awfully familiar. I could have just seen it in SFX magazine, who knows!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I can't be the only one to have seen this "It happens on PS5" and immediately think this right now with Sony

Altered text to say "Shit happens on PS5" on a Sony commercial

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

My dad showed me this birdhouse model of a coffee shop and I borrowed it and recreated it in Blender. Why? I don't know, it was fun, is that weird? 😅 I found a way to use it in my game as a literal model of a "coffee shop" so it's not a waste of time either now.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I googled yellow covered Ps2 games, maybe it's this?? I wouldn't have recognised it because PAL had a different cover eh.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Nice, I played a lot of really obscure PS2 games back then, so I probably saw a lot of this pixel art from then! Oh I see you worked on that zombie game and Wargroove, I have Wargroove physically on PS4, with the nice artbook. Here's some unused pixel art I did last year, I used to be terrible lol

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Everybody Loves Raymond. He gets a PS2, I've worked out NTSC only release Okagi, Jak and daxter, but what's the third game, Dark Alliance?? And yes, when him and his bro play on it they don't use the analog sticks, these actors weren't gamers..

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I lost the person's post with them understanding the ol' Digimon screenshot now they're at that age, and I had made my own version (although I'm actually 44 but eh)

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I suspect this AI artwork physical release has nothing to do with the band but you gotta feel sorry for hardcore Guns N' Roses fans who have to own everything, because if they hate AI, will they draw the line here and refuse to buy this? I think I would, if it was me.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Solus Ascending, a point and click adventure game, coming one sunny day in the future.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Yeah I don't buy that many new albums just because I don't get into many new artists, but here's some 2026 releases I bought.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

How about Heretic 2 but on the Amiga (Didn't have a good enough Amiga to play it, my accelerator was an 030 and I think it needed 060 or powerpc.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Someone on the Adventure Game Studio engine forum said this to me recently and it made my day! Comments like this make it worthwhile making games.

"If it's any consolation, finding Thomas Tew on the eShop is what compelled me to message you on social media and find out about AGS. Now, if it wasn't for you, I wouldn't have found this cool community and trying to make my own game!"

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I am guessing you don't mean the band but you do look a bit like the Sleeper singer, so.. I am going with that

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Did you see this Tears for Fears AI album cover? They PAID someone to "make" this flawed shit. The prompter could have at least cleaned up the glitchy bits. I am also highlighting this Clawfinger album cover. I quite like it but I'm suspicious, and no artist is credited in the booklet.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

A comparison of my old lift transition, to the new one. I had to do some tricks to make a fake reflection of the character on the lift wall!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I knew this guy replying to me and one other on Pushsquare's website's post about Crimson Desert would be very wrong and here we are 3 months later.

"This game is not going to be on sale for a while. This year it will stay full price and most of next year will be the same. I love the constant updates and even more to do. These updates are another reason there will not be a sale anytime soon. They also made double their budget so a sale is not needed. Why give a sale when you can add more content, YouTube and Social media sharing will keep the game selling. No sale anytime soon."

A screenshot showing Crimson Desert on sale

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

I had this now banned guy in May telling me Crimson desert will absolutely not go on sale this year and most of next year, when I said I'll wait for a sale. Lol!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

This game? I'm not sure I Understand though, the background doesn't appear to be pixelated? I decided to go this route because although I could do pixel art, it's even more time consuming than 3D, basically.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

I thought I'd give a rough idea of my background method for my 2D game. First I create the scene, making all the objects myself (except for a tree somewhere that's an asset). Then it's rendered out. Then I scale it down to make it look pixelated, although the game is 1280 x 720.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I just imagined Nathan W Pyles' aliens having this conversation

2 aliens talking, one says "I have read human narrative content today"

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Basically everything but this one lol

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just had a look at the first Amiga magazine issues I ever bought to gauge when I got an Amiga, same year then! Had a C64 prior to that.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

I don't want to call them out so I've hidden their name and they seemed like an alright person but this here is exactly what you mean and this person said this yesterday and I'm like um wut

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Like how I now see this band's EP cover and think gosh I miss those horrible days

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

After several hours of painful coding, I think I finally have a fully functional pause function. Problems I never imagined occured, like being able to advance dialogue lines by clicking the mouse button despite it being "paused" or being able to select dialogue choices whilst paused. All fixed!!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thought you'd like to know that your pause game post did result in me spending several hours implementing the ability to pause my game that's in development! So, thanks! I had no idea the engine I'm using would have so many issues with pausing it but I think I've ironed out all the pause game bugs.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Can anyone name these 4 Amiga games I wish would have a PS5 console port?

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I found the Japan CD release for Liquidizer in a charity shop for £2!! (Already have the collectable Japanese Doubt and Perverse releases) Didn't expect a review for the album to be included in the introduction text!

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Maybe this is the same thing? A week ago, couldn't get as close as you did! Or your phone camera is just better than mine lol.

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Matt @becausebecause.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Some recent games I bought, all new. Enjoying the physical Playstation games while I still can!

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