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Ferruccio Cinquemani

@cinquemani.it
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Game designer. Worked on Helldivers 2, Toca World and a bunch of other stuff. Made weird Mosa-roguelike There's Nothing Underground: store.steampowered.com/app/3223370

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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 01/10/2026
Do you like games that let you solve levels using Wile E. Coyote solutions? Now you can do that with a friend! We just released an update for our physics game There's Nothing Underground: co-op, new modes and a ton of improvements. And it's 2.33€ right now! store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“Dutch people cycle an average of 2.6km each per day. If this pattern was replicated worldwide, annual carbon emissions would drop by 686 million tonnes. This mammoth figure exceeds the entire carbon footprint of most countries, including the UK, Canada, Saudi Arabia and Australia.” @euronews.com
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Cycling like the Dutch would slash the world’s carbon footprint
If everybody cycled like the Dutch, we could offset the UK or Australia’s entire carbon footprint.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 18/08/2026
"You were riding in the morning, or at night, or on a quiet road, or a main road. The only time and place to ride a bike is a time beyond time and a place beyond place, where the space-time continuum is bent so strangely that you are both everywhere and nowhere." buff.ly/bSa1Wm5
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You’re a Cyclist Who Was Just Struck by a Car Driver. Here’s Why It Was Your Fault
You were riding during rush hour Why were you riding then? There are way too many cars on the road. If you were commuting, you should have contacted your bos...
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 18/08/2026
So we sort of had a look at There's Nothing Underground and maybe some new stuff will be coming soon?
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 13/08/2026
Honestly, amazing book. As good for a terminal Nintendo fan like me as it is for someone just vaguely aware that videogames exist
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 05/08/2026
Big Walk - 2026
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Sophie Cunningham Pointing
ALT: Sophie Cunningham Pointing
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Florence @justflorence.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 22/07/2026
Those clay models!
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 18/07/2026
We are part of Games Made in Sweden sale. You can get our experimental puzzle-roguelike for around 3€. Aaand, if you like the the soundtrack, you can get it for free on bandcamp sanbeizaa.bandcamp.com/album/theres... store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...
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Save 60% on There's Nothing Underground on Steam
There's Nothing Underground is a roguelike puzzle adventure where you use random tools to solve levels in endless ways. Unlock and combine tools to tackle 100+ levels, each with unique challenges. Fin...
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 27/06/2026
Yesterday night a Tesla parked under my apartment had its alarm blast at ungodly volume every ten minutes. Of course Swedish Police "couldn't do anything" (and scolded me for calling). Every time someone's shitty car becomes my problem I get a bit more radicalized. Fuck all cars.
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 07/06/2026
Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 06/06/2026
A tiny, cheap, e-ink portable console inspired by game and watch with a few pre installed games and an easy to develop system. Like some sort of Nintendo PlayDate with integrated Game Builder Garage.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 06/06/2026
The new Ueda game was worth it all. (some other cool stuff too. But.. new Ueda game!)
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 04/06/2026
That feeling when, 7 months into working on a new game that you know it's a fresh new spin on an established genre, someone publishes a trailer of something based on the exact same concept. Gameplay is different but, at a glance, it will look like we copied them. 🥲
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Jackson O'Lantern-Brien @sprobeforebros.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
GREG DAVIES: seems like a kind of a shit task. Everyone just seems like they're going home normally. ALEX HORNE: well before you say that let's have a look at how Odysseus did. cut to panel of AJAX, MENELAUS, AGAMEMNON, and DIOMEDES who are all staring at ODYSSEUS with his head in his hands
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 26/05/2026
Today we launched a new, refreshed version of our first game, SphereCats. It is still the best suika on Steam. But now it also looks awesome. It's also 50% off at 1.99, so I think you really should buy it. store.steampowered.com/app/3091310/...
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A cozy merge puzzle game about spherical cats, with a twist. Play the classic suika experience or try new variations every day!
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Cameron “Inevitability Needs To Hurry” Suey @cameronsuey.com · 25/05/2026
when you first start being a parent, you wisely will realize that you should never judge any other parent ever again for whatever it takes to get through the day. It will pass, after a decade, at which point you will develop the finely honed skills of knowing who is just really fucking it up.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 23/05/2026
Played the first world of Yoshi and it seemslike a game fully committed to game feel. You can have a game that is all about exploring interactions. It's refreshing.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 20/05/2026
I wonder why, as a player, I always end up getting weirdly obsessed with side challenge modes, especially in Capcom games. You know, like the shooting range in RE. Or the challenged in Pragmata. People are like "it's a brief 10 hours game". Is it, when I am trying to 3 stars everything?
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 18/05/2026
I made Italo Calvino in Tomodachi Life. I like to think he would have found it funny.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 17/05/2026
The kids are alright
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Nintendo GIFs @nintengifs.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
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a cartoon character with a sad face is walking and the words you are below it
ALT: a cartoon character with a sad face is walking and the words you are below it
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Cabel Sasser @cabel.panic.com · 11/05/2026
this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 01/05/2026
Metroid Prime 4 is proof that if you mess up the end part of a game everything will feel retroactively worse. And also that you should not force an open world where it's not needed.
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Wii Shop Wednesday @wiiwednesday.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
Update day! New Wii Titles!
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alix e. harrow @alixeharrow.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters
All you do is take all the sex out, and use little short words, and little dumb ideas, and don't be too scary, and be sure there's a happy ending. Right? Nothing to it. Write down. Right on.

If you do all that, you might even write Jonathan Livingston Seagull and make twenty billion dollars and have every adult in America reading your book.

But you won't have every kid in America reading your book. They will look at it, and they will see straight through it, with their clear, cold, beady little eyes, and they will put it down, and they will go away. Kids will devour vast amounts of garbage (and it is good for them) but they are not like adults: they have not yet learned to eat plastic.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 25/04/2026
Today is the Italian Liberation Day from nazifascism. Always remember fascists are pieces of shit whether they wear a uniform or have CEO as their job title.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 24/04/2026
Spring in Stockholm almost makes up for the total lack of color, light, joy, life and meaning of the winter. It's like: remember colors? Remember the air not hurting your face? Glorious
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Jordan @jordanpfot.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 24/03/2026
Italian representation, finally
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 22/03/2026
Yo! There's Nothing Underground is on sale at its lowest price ever! 3,89€ for the best roguelike puzzle that gives you random tools to solve levels any way you want (it's a genre, I swear) since Mosa Lina! Buy it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...
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Save 50% on There's Nothing Underground on Steam
There's Nothing Underground is a roguelike puzzle adventure where you use random tools to solve levels in endless ways. Unlock and combine tools to tackle 100+ levels, each with unique challenges. Fin...
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 17/03/2026
This game seems very cool and my very millennial hot take is that pen controls are much more interesting than touch controls. We lost a lot when we collectively decided the iPhone was a better game machine than a DS (I mean, we did not, but you know what I mean)
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 16/03/2026
Snap filters caused more damage than locusts
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 10/03/2026
Marathon *feels* like a single player/co-op roguelike to me, with its focus on missions and the NPC enemies being tough to fight. Also the fact that other squads will almost certainly be aggressive makes them into mini-bosses and (weirdly) ends up making the game less toxic. Also, weird insects.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 09/03/2026
Please read the text generated in the picture and imagine that several engineers, product owners, managers and other people with degrees looked at that and thought "that's good enough writing" This is what happens when people don't read, understand or respect literature.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 06/03/2026
I don't dislike Geese, but that guy sings in a very silly way
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 02/03/2026
Just saying
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Chuck Wendig @chuckwendig.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 16/02/2026
She is spitting truth. Elites won't touch Gen AI for anything that matters
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 16/02/2026
I cannot be the only one who reads it as Resident Evil Quiem
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David Dylan Thomas @daviddylanthomas.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Don't give anything an Emmy until it's as good as this.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 11/02/2026
Maybe all those CEOs saying that AI is an answer to bloated team sizes and ballooning budgets should take a look at No Man's Sky and try to replicate whatever they're doing. Cause I don't particularly like what it has become but that small team has no issue pumping out insane amounts of work.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 09/02/2026
The Italian in me agrees. My Swedish side will defend oatmeal to death.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 29/01/2026
Just saying: I haven't seen cyclists and pedestrians destroy shit.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 22/01/2026
A clear explanation of a very strong feature of Godot. Much more understandable than "any node can be a scene and a scene is just a node", which is how I describe it usually
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 19/01/2026
The game that got linkedin marketing experts talking (about how you should not market a game) is now on sale! store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...
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Save 25% on There's Nothing Underground on Steam
There's Nothing Underground is a roguelike puzzle adventure where you use random tools to solve levels in endless ways. Unlock and combine tools to tackle 100+ levels, each with unique challenges. Fin...
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Genevieve Cogman @genevievecogman.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
As Pratchett said:
“They avoided one another's faces, for fear of what they might see mirrored there. Each man thought: one of the others is bound to say something soon, some protest, and then I'll murmur agreement, not actually say anything, I'm not stupid as that, but definitely murmur very firmly, so that the others will be in no doubt that I thoroughly disapprove, because at a time like this it behooves all decent men to nearly stand up and be almost heard...
No one said anything. The cowards, thought each man.”

― Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 15/01/2026
As someone who finds grimdark fantasy way more cringe than Kirby, despises mouse and keyboard as input system, hates overcrowded UIs, overlong games and horror, this kind of explains why the Steam ecosystem baffles me. I wish developing for consoles was easier. howtomarketagame.com/2026/01/15/p...
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PC Gaming Has Changed Less Than You Think (12 examples) – How To Market A Game
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Dan Thomas @heydanthomas.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I've run businesses since 2003, a large chunk of that time in games. I've worked with AAA, publishers, platforms, service providers and indies. Huge success and epic failures. No one knows what's going to work today, or in the future. Anyone claiming otherwise just hasn't been humbled ✨yet✨.
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Ferruccio Cinquemani @cinquemani.it · 12/01/2026
We decided to slash the price of our game to 7.99. There's something to say about perceived value and commodification of games. But reality is that the market makes the price. And, even more important IF YOU HAVEN'T BOUGHT THERE'S NOTHING UNDERGROUND DO IT NOW store.steampowered.com/app/3223370/...
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There's Nothing Underground on Steam
There's Nothing Underground is a roguelike puzzle adventure where you use random tools to solve levels in endless ways. Unlock and combine tools to tackle 100+ levels, each with unique challenges. Fin...
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