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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 3h

If your video game has anything like this, you win my heart forever #archive

Battery charger for a power tool. It tells you its battery state using a morse-code style blinking light.

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suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 22h

makkon's textures have been a cornerstone of the quake community for as long as I can remember. they're absolutely gorgeous, thoughtfully designed, and thoroughly field-tested.

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Heather Flowers (500FF DEMO OUT NOW) @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

One of my favorite and most effective design patterns is "tell the player exactly what you're gonna do to them, then do it." You can be SIGNIFICANTLY meaner to the player if you simply tell them ahead of time that that's exactly what you'll be doing, and also the suspense of the warning is a delight

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

v. good revive-teammate animation in Splash Damage's DirtyBomb #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I made a tool to help create animated webp files. I largely made this to construct simple diagrams for my blog Blendo Webp Tool download: blendogames.itch.io/blendo-webp-... source code: github.com/blendogames/... Free! Enjoy!

A simple tool displaying a grid of images. Each image is accompanied by their filename & milliseconds frame duration.

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 21/09/2026

Game Devs of Color is this week!!! My talk making the trailer for Skin Deep by @blendogames.bsky.social is Wednesday at 1:45p Eastern time. This one is an extremely tight 30 min which starts with me getting the job and ends with final capture (and lots of unused takes 😅)

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blackle mori @blackle.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I just wrote a paranormal story in the form of a fictional forum thread! A young woman discovers a video captured from inside a recurring dream. Read here: suricrasia.online/unfiction/sp...

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Did you know: Sven Coop is v v v good... #archive

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suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 15/09/2026

Loved seeing this system take shape. It felt like one of those key advances during development that put a lid on the chaos we'd created and turned it into something you could learn the rules of.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I wrote about how Skin Deep's "Highlighter System" works -- automatically detecting events in the world and showcasing them to the player: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

in case you're not infatuated with Chronicles of Riddick like I am: it has this feature... #archive

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Zach Northrop | Wishlist Worming from Home🪱 @zachnorthrop.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I made a remote job simulator where you’re secretly a worm :) Mash the keyboard, brew coffee, message your coworkers, and wriggle your way to the big promotion. Worming from Home is OUT NOW!

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Robert Yang @radiatoryang.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

almost done with my rooftops jam map! got bored of pasting windows onto houses so I started pasting faces, maybe it's just my thing I do now

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Enamored with this button prompt in Batman Arkham Knight #archive

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Messhof @messhof.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Blood Dungeon is out! If you like roguelikes with lots of jumping and climbing, get in my dungeon!! blooddungeon.com #boneup

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

"Nothing Lasts Forever", the book Die Hard is based on: its description of Ellis... #archive

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Messhof @messhof.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Blood Dungeon is OUT NOW on Steam, Xbox Series, Windows Store, Game Pass, Switch 1+2, and PlayStation 5! RTs very much welcome. I love you. #boneup blooddungeon.com youtu.be/rmbXDEdb6Y0

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Blood Dungeon: Release Trailer

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

still bonkers to me that we can just make stuff that looks identical to concept art [Indiana Jones and the Great Circle]

screenshot of a cave in Indiana Jones and the Great Circle

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

to the Mad Max level designer who made this giant physics dancing skeleton: wow 🙏 #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wrote a post about how I love BSP/brush mapping: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

a screenshot of the DarkRadiant level editor, showing a level from the game Skin Deep

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I wrote a post about how I love BSP/brush mapping: blendogames.com/news/post/20...

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

I enjoyed Metal Garden a lot -- really lovely level design, reminded me of Source engine + Halo and now has a dev commentary mode too! Great stuff 👍👍

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Love this seamless transition to gameplay when you start Indiana Jones Great Circle Seems like (?) the level is loaded during the publisher/studio title cards?? Slick stuff

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

videogametoilets .com SOMA (2015) flushable: Y analog lid opening: Y analog flush handle: Y #archive

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Heather Penn @heatpenn.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

little laundromat scene

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I wrote a post comparing Quakeguy 1996 to remastered Quakeguy 2021 blendogames.com/news/post/20...

2 similar-looking quakeguys standing next to each other

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

indiana jones holding a crate of bananas

Screenshot from Indiana Jones and the Great Circle. Indiana Jones is holding a crate of bananas.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

one of my top faves, immaculate vibes

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The 30th anniversary update for Quake also includes a new id Vault, featuring this little face

a quakeguy face with either a) a bloody mouth or b) his tongue sticking out

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

videogametoilets .com Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword (2011) Flushable: Y Wooden: Y #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

To this day I feel so lucky that this incredible crew made the Quadrilateral Cowboy trailer. So much talent in Jake, Derek, Chris, and Erin, planning, devising, and creating this amazing stuff 🙏🙏🙏

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austin_walker @austinwalker.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

two of my favorite games ever. two of the best games of the last 11~ years. what an absolute steal of a deal.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Quadrilateral Cowboy & Invisible Inc are in a cyberpunk bundle together! store.steampowered.com/bundle/82990... I'm a big fan of Invisible Inc, what a joy to be bundled together🙏

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Save 63% on Klei Cyberpunk on Steam

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Monday Sketch: the Sub Rosa Wrecking Crew #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

Happy late birthday to Dawn of Darkness, a Quake 2 mod I contributed to when I was a high school teen I only just learned today that some on the team would later make Control & Wolfenstein The New Order?? Some of my favorite games!!!!!! I made this very cool airship for the mod:

A floating wooden boat, made in the Quake2 engine

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

FEAR 2 giving each book a unique title. true game dev sicko behavior 😌 #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Seattle-style crosswalk buttons in FEAR 2 😌 #archive

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This page is fantastic. It's a "best hits of game narrative blogging" and it can teach a student more about narrative design and production best practices than many university programs will bother to. I am also very proud to report that my writing is on it several times

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.dev · 20/07/2026

A side project I've been working on—a curated link page of important essays on video game narrative—is now live. You can read about it on my blog: azhdarchid.com/the-game-nar... Or you can go straight to the dedicated website: www.gamenarrativereader.org

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The Game Narrative Reader, Zeroth Edition

Announcing a curated, thematic link page of important essays and articles about video game narrative.

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Derek Lieu - Game Trailer Editor @derek-lieu.com · 17/07/2026

I'm gonna speak at Game Devs of Color this year! :DDD For this talk I'm focusing on the trailer for Skin Deep by @blendogames.bsky.social. Everything from getting the job through finishing it up. It'll be a whirlwind walk through my process for making a trailer.

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

turn-based strategy mockups from ~2006 (❤️ Close Combat) #archive

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

I've been replaying Wolfenstein The New Order and it's still SO good. Really wonderful work, one of my favorites. Amazing use of a modified Rage/idTech5 engine

hallway full of pipes, in the game Wolfenstein: The New Order (2014)

bj blazkowicz holding a tray with 2 coffees

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Brendon Chung @blendogames.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

The Witcher 3: you can whistle for your horse before starting a conversation #archive

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