Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026It felt unpolished in places, in a vaguely low-budget charming way. I know there are lots of other Paper-likes, but don't know how the stack up. Born of Bread/Escape From Ever After look slick but not sure if they have that spark. Paper Robot gets an honorable mention because it's my precious baby 021
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Art, music, and writing has been consistently stellar across the series. I think I just have to accept that 64/TTYD-style battle systems are in the hands of indies now. Everyone go play Bug Fables. 160
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I can accept that there are good things in the more recent Paper Marios. HOWEVER, PM64 and TTYD are absolutely amazing and I will never be normal about them, I love them so much 191
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 05/10/2026This is Ray, Ray is proof that I am vaguely getting better at understanding vertex shaders! 241
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026If I'd have had absolutely nothing to do I would've been tracking your progress all day in streetview, joining you in this grand adventure. Lucky for both of us, I had more than nothing to do today 010
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 03/10/2026That's so weird that you don't remember what number this one is, how weird, how strange 010
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Relevant text: "Of course, all of the hoopla is really for the Japanese version of the system, which is called the Nintendo 64. The North American NU 64 isn't scheduled to come out until this spring." 010
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Here's a weird spread in Nintendo Power volume 79 (from December '95). It's interesting, the text seems to indicate that "Nintendo 64" was already going to be the Japanese system name. (Sorry for the low-quality picture!) 221
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The first Yooka Laylee felt like it did that completely by accident. The weirdly detailed level geometry offered so many barely-usable nooks to jump around on 030
Reposted by Dabble Works | game dev creatureQuest 64 Official @quest64official.bsky.social · 26/09/2026September 26 1997, Bomberman 64 debuted as Baku Bomberman on the N64 in Japan! Developer/Publisher Hudson Soft made the tough decision to scrap over 6 months of work on the initial version of the game and start fresh after seeing other 3D games/Atomic Bomberman PC already at market! 2232047
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Man, this one stands out to me as one of the most N64 games of all N64 games. Awesome music, bright worlds, wonderfully questionable tech required for 100%. I always felt like I had outsmarted the game whenever I got up on top of something. 180
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 23/09/2026BLJ'ing the choir invisible 020
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Wowzers, the Paper Robot demo is now available on itch io! Please enjoy the exact same demo, but from a store page that has a slightly different cover image! dobbsworks.itch.io/paper-robotdobbsworks.itch.ioPaper Robot by dobbsworksA classic party-based RPG 141
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Gonna submit my losing run of mario superstar baseball 020
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026I think the only time I enjoyed one of these was skyward sword, where the dungeon WAS a 3x3 sliding puzzle 130
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026it's a single 3x3 sliding puzzle and it comes pre-solved to make it more approachable to people new to the genre 120
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 08/09/2026*quietly trashes my prototype game, Super Everything Is 3x3 Sliding Puzzles World 64 121
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026i can never take metaballs seriously because i always read it as meatballs, sad fate for metaballs 131
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I spent way too long on this, movie posters for the theater area in my #Godot RPG, Paper Robot! Please do not try to translate my secret language, there is nothing interesting to find here 071
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 01/09/2026Before and after! At first I was just updating the plain rectangle hp bars for enemies, but then everything else looked so plain by comparison... so I ended up giving Paper Robot's battle UI a pretty big facelift, including some fresh hand-drawn digits for a new numeric font. 041
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 01/09/20265-10 turns between curses (first rounds of each battle don't count), and 20% chance of double xp. So 4% chance of getting xp twice in a row. Boss fights are longer, so better chance for the curse to trigger. supermariofiles.wordpress.com/2023/04/07/m... 020
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Chapter 5 still has a lot left to do, but it's already got the most lines of dialog for any chapter in the game (so far). Why did no one warn me that making an RPG would mean a LOT of writing? 021
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 25/08/2026Somehow extremely unsettling seeing this scene when you aren't talking and there's no one running around 220
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026holy cow you guys i just saw the sickest little hop wtf 032
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026kids be like "dad watch this" and THEN try to think of something to do, like a little hop or wiggle or something 130
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 24/08/2026This is just a dependency graph for pyonadons, nice try 020
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Super germdove World? Sounds... familiar... *wistfully looks up and slightly left as the horn section comes in* 061
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026crocomire WAS the skeleton all along, the red bits were like, a condition 010
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 17/08/2026puppetted by micro-organisms, nature is beautiful 010
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 11/08/2026After Posey got into the trash MULTIPLE times, we finally child-proofed it. She is desperate for the treasures within. We thought we were forgetting to close the door all the way, but no, she had figured out how to operate cabinets. 031
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 05/08/2026The mall rats officially have names. Please welcome to the cast: Midnight Anura, Dark Pinion, and Geoff. 162
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 03/08/2026hello, yes, can we get more bees 020
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I am 100% going to be sneaking into my kid's minecraft world to create elaborate scavenger hunts that are slightly educational to play off her Boxcar Children fixation 131
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Kiddo is playing Minecraft on her own for once. She's watched me plenty and understands the basics of the game, but she's only just now learning WHY I'm always after better tools and big storage rooms and such. There's probably a life lesson or something there, I dunno 441
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Well now you gotta code up an arbitrary NxM patch rect add-on 011
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Bond, did you only agree to join MI6 because you found out that witches and goblins are real 020
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 26/07/2026TOK is... okay. I think the combat COULD have been cool if there wasn't a "right" answer to each turn. TTYD's battle system was fun for me because you have a lot of room for planning ahead, hedging bets, managing resources. In TOK it's just solve-the-puzzle again and again. Music is great, though. 011
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026calling him ol jim just makes him sound like an appalachian cryptid that wanders lonely hills looking for wicked souls to punish 111
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Spiral Mountain, from Banjo-Kazooie! BK and Tooie really pulled me in as a kid. The worlds were compact but felt big, they did exactly as much as they needed to. I even planned out my own worlds for a hypothetical 3rd game! Everybody did that, right? 041
Dabble Works | game dev creature @dabbleworks.bsky.social · 17/07/2026The best part of every paper RPG is the one where you wander around the defunct department store looking for a ghost, classic. Wow, it's just like TTYD. I'm live right now making THIS VERY GAME, wow. www.twitch.tv/dobbsworks 043
