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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 03/10/2026

Hell yeah brother that _ trick changed my fucking life

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 23/05/2026

Basucally, narrative focused third person shooter controlled only with the mouse

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 23/05/2026

oof, that compression. have a still

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 23/05/2026

Started work on the prologue and the first Big Visual - the fallen Mirage (which may or may not be God's) #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #madewithgodot

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 04/03/2026

While we're at it: Eternal Afternoon is an incredibly atmospheric timeloop game set in a nostalgic Israeli neighborhood. The amount of interactions you can do, big and small, is super impressive and varied. Incredibly heartening stuff, absolutely nailed the aesthetics

store.steampowered.com

Eternal Afternoon on Steam

Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 04/03/2026

Esoteric Ebb by @chrisbodegard.bsky.social is the closest thing to a D&D play session with a hilarious, professional, yeah-sure-you-can-do-that DM. Reactive, funny, mysterious and genuinely smart with its worldbuilding. The first truly great Child of Disco.

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 02/02/2026

Enter Stage Light (@dancingengie.xyz, Mor Ohana, Nadav Hekselman, Nadav Sheffer) "Give the spotlight to the right actors, and change its color according to the script - all in real time." Free - Windows: warpdoor.com/2026/02/02/e...

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 01/02/2026

It's the depression era. You're the only gaffer around. Read the cabaret's script and give the right actor the right spotlight - all in real time. Play it on @itch.io here: dancingengie.itch.io/enter-stage-...

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 23/01/2026

Nothing could have prepared me for seeing a Flash animation I made when I was 10 in a random video essay about Mario parodies

A screenshot from a YouTube video called "what the internet did to Mario (and why nintendo hates it)" by planet clue. Mario is laying dead on the ground with a pool of blood under it, as a Goomba besides him says: "Yay! The fucking plumber is dead!"

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 01/01/2026

What I would suggest is making as many weird janky prototypes as possible to speedrun this loop until you hit something that you want to work on for a year, with a team or without

A loop, drawn in MS paint. this is the best game ever -> this is the shittiest game ever -> i have a better idea for a game -> wow it is a better idea -> this is the best game ever -> (repeat)

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 01/01/2026

This year taught me how much I love learning and reading about history, but not particularly living in it. "There are decades where nothing happens, and years where decades happen", goes the quote. It'll all be funny eventually, you know. Unfortunately, 'eventually' is not right now.

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 01/01/2026

Things I did this past year: - 2 short films - 2 game jam games - made a working proof of concept for a giant-ass imsim - put that imsim in haitus 'cause oh god - sent 200+ resumes - finally got a full-time job - did video art for an original musical - finally beat persona 3 reload

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 31/12/2025

Seeing 30+ notifications on this post out of nowhere is one hell of a New Year's Eve gift. Cheers y'all <3 I've been experimenting with level design and outlining the setting, but I work full-time so progress is slow. Hope to post more in 2026. And thanks again

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 29/12/2025

Yeah, I was just about to make a follow-up but forgot. Turns out Godot generated a giant collider on my root bone, which collided with literally everything else. Removing it (and fixing overlaps like you said) fixed the problem.

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 24/12/2025

cool ragdoll godot (seriously though, I found a way to fix the stretching, but why does it keep simulating forever) #GodotEngine

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 13/12/2025

Gave my "mouse-only third-person-shooter killer7 thingy" a full arena combat test, and it actually works #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 11/12/2025

Brendan always delivers short but extremely sweet & stylish games, and this one is no exception. Best edutainment I ever played, and funny to boot.

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 02/12/2025

Who said settings menus explanations have to be boring

A game settings menu with a tooltip next to the "V-SYNC" setting. It reads:
"Limits the game FPS to prevent screen tearing. If disabled, the game's FPS will run free as the wind... until it reaches 120, at which point it will think about its life and stop chugging your GPU."

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 25/11/2025

Listen, @itch.io, I love your platform, but can you please implement stronger safeguards against spammers? It seems like every other day I have to ban and report another one. Just adding a CAPTCHA if a comment has a link would go a long way

A comment by a person named "Anii_starr" stating:

IT'S HERE! A FRESH UPDATE IS READY! 🎉

We've been working hard, and the newest version is ready for you to download:

[MALICIOUS DOWNLOAD LINK]

Stay safe! Only download from this official link. 🔒

WHAT'S INSIDE? 🎁

Enhanced Stability: Say goodbye to crashes! 🛡️
Performance Boost: Enjoy smoother gameplay! ⚡
New Content: Fresh things to discover! 🌟
Polish & Shine: Refined features and a cleaner UI! ✨

Update today and jump back into a better, fresher gaming experience! 🚀

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 20/11/2025

enemies with threatening auras (he is floating because i forgot to reset his y value)

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 31/10/2025

My #ScreamJam game got into the top 100 in the story category, and won (g)Host's Choice for "games that were especially innovative or unique"! Thanks to everyone who played and voted for it, and if you've yet to play it, Halloween's the perfect time: dancingengie.itch.io/monster-smok...

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 15/10/2025

You see a monster smoking in the parking lot. Investigate it, kill it, get food, think about your life, laugh, cry, drive away, or anything in between with 33 unique endings. A cinematic horror-dramedy text adventure made for #ScreamJam 2025. dancingengie.itch.io/monster-smok...

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 11/10/2025

I have no idea what the fuck I'm improvising for #ScreamJam. Turns out it's a cinematic text adventure horror comedy??? #screenshotsaturday i guess

A cinematic PSX scene where a strange muscle monster is standing in a restaurant parking lot with his back to the camera. The monologue text reads: "A monster. Smoking. In the parking lot."

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 16/09/2025

I won't be leaving itch, and I don't wish to imply that you should leave it. It's an important platform with a wonderful community. That said, I won't be surprised if people do leave it for better alternatives.

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 16/09/2025

This might be a hot take, but I believe itch is riding off its reputation and the lack of any real alternative. That's fine, but you have to actually keep that reputation. Hell, there hasn't been any significant updates or fixes since *2019*.

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 16/09/2025

I owe this audience to @itch.io , and I got actual job opportunities thanks to it. I have cut the tiny dev team a lot of slack, but I agree this is getting silly. Not to mention the influx of scam and spam comments in recent months.

A tweet by KenneyNL: Started keeping track of the @itchio
uptime, this is getting ridiculous. I'll genuinely start promoting my Patreon store a bit more, the revenue split is better and at the very least it's up

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 05/09/2025

P.S. I apologize to the good people at Valve, who forewarned in 2007 how players never look up in first person games and must be encouraged to do so, and I scoffed at them thinking this no longer happens, only to find out this still, indeed, happens

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 05/09/2025

To be clear I'm not blaming them. It's 100% on me that the game is ambivalent about what it is, and that's something to be solved. That's why you playtest and fail fast. What I *am* saying is that you should never make an imsim as a solodev in your fucking life

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 05/09/2025

Both groups really liked the exploration loop, and had a lot of fun realizing they infiltrate in different ways. It was great to see and hear all that, but that further confirmed their original expectation instead of what I as a designer intended.

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 05/09/2025

I realized that those who expected a stealth-action game were more likely to be cautious and slow (one of them outright avoided lights), while those expecting a puzzle game were more likely to fuck around and find out but cut straight into security cams and didn't care

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 05/09/2025

Playtested my first imsim level in front of a live studio audience for the first time yesterday. The interesting thing was that the LESS experience a player had playing imsims and especially stealth games, the BETTER they actually performed

A person sitting in front of a keyboard and a screen displaying a first-person, cel-shaded game. The player is standing in front of a locked door.

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 23/08/2025

Tight corridors combat test for the Mouse-Only-Third-Person-Shooter experiment #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #GodotEngine

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 28/06/2025

Toying around with a mouse-only shooter and it's basically Killer7 at this point #screenshotsaturday #GodotEngine

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 19/05/2025

Based. But considering it's a semi-urban area there's a limit to how big I can reasonably make 'em

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 19/05/2025

Mission start. Also! I need more ways make this hill less artificial and more interesting. Any ideas outside of foliage and trees?

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 17/05/2025

...also scaffolding and pickupable flashlights

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 17/05/2025

Imsim checklist: ✅ Player can awkwardly stack physics objects to get to higher spots #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 10/05/2025

מנגל יום עצמאות מאוחר essentially

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 10/05/2025

You don't have to use it (in fact every cutscene/dialogue is skippable), but I always appreciate games that give players optional content that also makes sense within the setting

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 10/05/2025

Since imsims can be a bit overwhelming, I wanted to add an optional hint system (but the hint giver is your extremely begrudging twin brother who's sick of your shit) #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #madewithgodot

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 05/05/2025

why don't stealth game heroes just remove security cameras? are they stupid? #indiegames

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 03/05/2025

Okay I figured out how to create that color isolation effect in #GodotEngine #screenshotsaturday #gamedev(?)

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DancingEngie @dancingengie.xyz · 26/04/2025

Yeah Killer7 fucking slaps

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