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one who create the toyz

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
thinking about this again today, and not even in the context of procgen. The thing about systems design is that it's so easy to get excited about making little sandboxes for yourself that you forget the player needs insight into it, lest it simply appear the same as complete randomness.
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The biggest wtf moment coming from 2d is realizing the creature needs not only its own direction to decide which way to flip the sprite, but also the angle the camera is pointing!!! Otherwise it’ll be looking the wrong way when you stop facing north
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
A few people have told me this!! I didn’t even realize they actually look like claws or something in the sprite..
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I need to give them ramps and tunnels
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Redraw of all 20 familiars .io’s
The 20 familiars from familiars.io in a different art style
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
yay :D i hope I can make another fun game for you to enjoy soon!!
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
whatever, go my thingys
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Got about a quarter of the way(?) through this game in just a couple hours!! It seems like it’s going to be exactly the type of short, lovely party-based rpg that I often yearn for…
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Ash 🦴🦇 🌒 @ashrowan.design · 22/09/2026
whoa, here she comes, watch out, boy—she’ll chew you up! #art #metroid
Digital artwork of Samus Aran from Metroid Ravenous in an action stance, sporting her sleek blue-and-white power suit but wearing no helmet. The view is foreshortened with her clawed left hand toward us, neon pink and ablaze with glowing energy trailing behind it. It illuminates the side of her face.
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Redraw of all 20 familiars .io’s
The 20 familiars from familiars.io in a different art style
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Ohh congrats on finishing ur script!! I will look forward to this..!
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Zelda Notes
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
[WR] my laundry 100% all clothes, sheets, blankets
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
oh!!! What an amazingly tiny little thing!!!
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It’s a really solid tutorial, really good at introducing concepts in a natural way, and has you build projects from scratch and write all the code yourself instead of editing prebuilt templates. I like it a lot
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Me update: my wife, my brother and I are 4 hours into Clear Code’s godot tutorial. we’re basically treating it like a fake college class and doing a bit of it twice a week. I’m really excited about it!!! Being able to use an actual game engine seems like it should be really nice..
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
I’m curious why the array would need to be holey actually? Do you need only a subset of the 512 possible combinations just cuz some are too rare to worry about?
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Either way the substance of what you’re actually doing, the hand-picking of the Unicode symbols to fit the subgrids and representing those as 9-bit numbers, is really cool and the effect looks really good!!
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
that said I've seen a gameboy emulator in JS that preferred using a massive switch statement for opcodes instead of mapping, and said it was actually better for performance that way. so I can't say if this is necessarily better, you'd have to test it out, if it matters
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
holey array is reasonable here, but you also definitely can use binary values as object keys! or you can construct a Map object. like this:
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
It’s really the only one that actually integrated Disney into their own final fantasy + original kh characters world in a fun way. I wish the other ones did that. And the emotional notes are probably the most tight and coherent. I’m just very compelled by Roxas and his friends lol
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
When kingdom hearts misses it’s really funny and when it hits it’s really good. It sucks it’s the perfect series
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
hi, I was scrolling through this post to see if anyone said undertale and what they might say about it! undertale is one of my all time faves, but this reading makes complete sense to me (yeah why were they all trying to kill me???) and I can see how it would ruin the game!! thank u for the thoughts
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Kae Kolormore @kaekolormore.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
hollow knight and silksong doodles
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Darya Noghani (Small Saga now on the Switch!) @sketchylogic.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Trying a new marketing strategy.
A mouse dripped-out in a puffer jacket and enormous yellow trainers. Text behind him reads, 10 Days 'Til Small Saga Nintendo Switch Launch.
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
YES I will finally be able to play it easily!!! I will buy it day one!!!
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noé @celechii.itch.io · 29/07/2026
inspired by lily i finally wrote my first blog post only 7 months into the year! i've got a whole bunch of these little gamedev brainworm things i'd like to write about, and giving myself an hour time limit to write the first draft was so nice knivesforcats.online/correlated-r...
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Correlated RNG
Games that rely heavily on procedural generation often want their random number generators to be deterministic so that if given one single seed, each of your...
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Gonna have to remember this for later, thanks for the tip:)
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Max @hyynma.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
It's really funny watching my GF drawin characters while I'm out here spending all my art power on bricks and shit. I have just fuckin ALWAYS loved drawing textures.
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Salman Shurie (recovering HP mode 😵‍💫) @salmanshh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
did a talk on HIDDEN MECHANICS that I categorised years ago on ways to use them. Its such an interesting game design topic. #gamedev
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
oh ya this isn't bad! good idea
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
oc drawing challenge.... which one is carrying the battle, which one is smoking weed and which one is beatboxing
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
or maybe I go more mother 3 style??? that might be it
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
maybe i gotta enter the 3d world and not show everything at once. probably should remember what persona's doing, that's probably closer to what I want
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
just have one witch/familiar pair out at once? maybe.... it would solve problems. is it weird if they're not all out working together tho? maybe it's fine
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
like I could lay it out like this but I worry I'll be fighting the deltarune allegations lol......
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hmm not sure what you mean
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I haven't really found tactics games I enjoy yet so I don't really want to make one myself. Moving ppl around in a space in a battle is completely unappealing to me, idk why. I enoyed it in Infinite Wealth for some reason but no others. So I don't think I want that
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
like I want 1) a party of at least three friends and 2) a monster catcher where each party member has a familiar. but I don't want a game where you are managing 6 guys. that's so much decisions
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
this is so many guys on one screen.. I do not like how much information this will be.. and I even want to put one more partnership in there.. this is so messed up
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SaKo @sako.works · 24/07/2026
if you're interested in making pico-8 carts but don't have any programming experience or if for any other reason it seems intimidating, this is a really good introduction
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Yayy🩷
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Extremely compelling review, I may have to check this out..!
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
there’s some thoughtful commentary on familiars in this!!! yay^_^
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
thank you so much for talking about my game!!! I’m happy that the plush type stuck with you enough that you used it as an example years later! I’m gonna check out your games:)
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
it's like this
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
IT's What
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clay loam @clayloam.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
trying to do an artfight thread but my gifs are not uploading correctly!!!
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