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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Do you want to experience the finest Game-Boy-compatible lost-in-the-woods moody-girl camping sim of this or any other decade, but thought you'd never, ever do so for $5? Well, how about $4 during Steam's Autumn Sale? The same snark for $1 less! store.steampowered.com/app/3494790/... #gameboy

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Save 20% on Radio Ghosts on Steam

Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Recent review of Radio Ghosts on Steam: "Short, but also the perfect length. Sweet and made me tear up at the end." The marketing I've done is cheeky, but there's a real emotional core to the game I hope players find. I've watched playtesters laugh. This is my second report of tears. #gamedev

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

Peak AI content right here.

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Radio Ghosts alert! The official RG soundtrack is now available on Steam for a hauntingly low $2! It includes 7 chiptune tunes composed by the inimitable @picklewaterfall.bsky.social and 2 bonus acoustic arrangements. Tune in today! #chiptune #indie #gameboy store.steampowered.com/app/3893020/...

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Radio Ghosts Soundtrack on Steam

The original soundtrack for Radio Ghosts, composed by Joel Matthys. Includes the seven original tracks from the game plus two bonus acoustic renditions of the title and forest tracks!

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

There's still plenty of time this weekend to be haunted by Radio Ghosts! store.steampowered.com/app/3494790/... #retro #gbstudio #gameboy #gamedev

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

IT'S THE BIG DAY! Radio Ghosts is live! It's a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom. It's made for the original Game Boy, but playable on PC. Buy or wishlist today! 👻 #gameboy #gbstudio #gamedev #indie store.steampowered.com/app/3494790/...

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Radio Ghosts on Steam

Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Radio Ghosts launches tomorrow on Steam! Will *you* be purchasing Radio Ghosts? store.steampowered.com/app/3494790/... #radioghosts #gamedev #gbstudio #gameboy #indie

A screenshot from Radio Ghosts listing the only two options regarding if you will buy the game: Yeah and Eventually.

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Only 3 days left until the official release of Radio Ghosts! #gameboy #gbstudio #gamedev #indie

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Putting the finishing touches on Radio Ghosts in preparation for a July 31 release! #gamedev #gameboy #gbstudio

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

I think this is a very nice peony. #flower

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Adventure Weather Bot @adventureweather.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

A light mist past the desert town of Blarmel.

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

This is Barry. He's a radio ghost. He really wants you to try the demo of Radio Ghosts during the waning days of Next Fest, and to wishlist it if the spirit (ha!) moves you. store.steampowered.com/app/3494790/... #gameboy #gbstudio #nextfest #radioghosts

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Hey, everyone--take a tip from Liz! store.steampowered.com/app/3494790/... #gameboy #gbstudio #radioghosts #nextfest #gamedev

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Recently acquired a Game Boy Advance SP and delighted to see that the cartridge version of Radio Ghosts works well there, too! #gameboy #gba #radioghosts

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Design Notes Podcast @design-notes.show · 07/06/2025

What happens when robots collaborate with each other on art and remixes? In 2020, I sat down with @bjbest60.bsky.social‬ to unpack the surprising poetry of his ArtyBots network.

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The Surprising Poetry of AI: BJ Best, ArtyBots

Poet BJ Best on teaching computers to do what humans can’t.

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

With the impending release of the Switch 2, I just wanted you to know that I’m so ready to win at Nintendo games. #switch2 #nintendo #nes

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

“Why, yes, I’m somewhat of a rope user myself.” #knots

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

I just wanted to say that I'm proud of the jittery pixel campfire I made for Radio Ghosts. #gameboy #gbstudio #pixelart #radioghosts

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Happy to share my favorite bot is back online. @artyabstract.bsky.social generates colorful abstract art based on math equations several times a day. It was part of my ArtyBots project that began in 2016, so I'm excited to give it new life here. Give it a follow! #art #bot

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

One of my favorite things to do on The Platform That Shall Not Be Named was to create bots. Here’s a new one that generates weather reports from on ongoing D&D campaign. It uses Tracery and is hosted by @bluebotsdonequick.com. Give it a follow! #dnd #weather

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Perhaps we should be grateful that the wizardess in Radio Ghosts is duty-bound to contractual law. #radioghosts #gameboy #gbstudio #retro

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

I teach game design, and recently my university put up a video with me prattling on about it. Perhaps more interestingly, it includes several student projects that use GB Studio. Proof that #gameboy #gamedev can lead to a highly lucrative prattling career! www.carrollu.edu/academics/ar...

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 13/04/2025

The official Radio Ghosts demo is now available on Steam! Check it out and give that vampire barista the ol' what-for! (And wishlist, too, while you're at it!) store.steampowered.com/app/3494790/... #gamedev #gameboy #radioghosts

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Radio Ghosts on Steam

Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

At Midwest Gaming Classic, I had a Game Boy Camera live feed on my laptop. People enjoyed seeing themselves via that ancient technology. The Game Boy setup was a little haphazard, and didn't invite people touching it. Some people did anyway. These are their saved photos. #gameboy #gameboycamera

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

One of my other favorite things (besides Radio Ghosts) at the Midwest Gaming Classic is the assortment of vintage #pinball machines—all free play! #mgc

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Ready for people to play the Radio Ghosts demo and buy the full cart at Midwest Gaming Classic! Stop by and say hi if you’re here! #gameboy #radioghosts

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Setting up the Radio Ghosts booth with a Game Boy Camera live feed at Midwest Gaming Classic! #gameboy #radioghosts

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

It’s weird where ideas come from. This is a picture of the first “game” I made in GB Studio—just a playground to try out the software, really. But this boy’s ridiculous warning turned into a full-fledged experience once I decided to take GB Studio seriously. #gameboy #gamedev #radioghosts

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Prototype of a Radio Ghosts cart—one step closer to a physical reality! #gameboy #radioghosts

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Let me know if you’re in the U.S. and would like me to mail you a Radio Ghosts sticker to help weather these trying times. #gameboy #radioghosts

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Drew Cook: A Biting Cat @bitingcat.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Today is the absolute last day to register intent for the Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction. Make stuff, tell your friends, etc. www.springthing.net/2025/submit....

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The 2025 Spring Thing Festival of Interactive Fiction

Spring Thing is an annual online festival celebrating new interactive fiction from all kinds of people.

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

A few people asked how to put a retro game on original hardware. You need three things: software to make the game, a flashcart, and the hardware itself. Here's how I did it for Radio Ghosts on the Game Boy, a thread: #gamedev #retrogamedev

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I’ve made games for a few different retro systems (Atari, DOS, and now Game Boy) and always find a very particular pleasure in running them on original hardware. Ten-year-old me is utterly gobsmacked that this is possible. #gamedev #radioghosts

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Today's the day! Radio Ghosts is available to wishlist on Steam! It's a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom. It's created for the original Game Boy and playable on Windows. Check it! #gameboy #gbstudio #radioghosts store.steampowered.com/app/3494790/...

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Radio Ghosts on Steam

Radio Ghosts is a narrative game about geometry tests, vampire baristas, and camping with your mom.

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

T-minus 1 day until we can begin to (sorta) learn the HORRIFYING TRUTH about why ghosts live in radios and also why they DANCE SO WELL! #gameboy #radioghosts

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Soon, we will have a Game Boy game that asks the hard-hitting questions for these troubled times, such as, "What musical instrument does a ghost play?" #gameboy #radioghosts

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B.J. Best @bjbest60.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

This vampire wishing to vampiresplain capitalism to you may have been more prescient than I had intended. #vampiresplaining

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