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Team Salvato @teamsalvato.com · 22/09/2026

Happy birthday to Monika! Where are you headed for your club field trip?

An illustration of the Doki Doki Literature Club characters on a train together. In the front, Monika holds out her phone to show something to Natsuki, with the two sharing a pair of earbuds. In the back, Sayori is excitedly looking out the window, admiring a mountainous landscape, and Yuri is absent-mindedly glancing out the window as well, lost in thought.

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Serenity Forge @serenityforge.com · 17/09/2026

Doki Doki Literature Club has returned to Android devices via Epic Games Store Mobile! 🩵💜💚🩷 You can once again experience the entire #DDLC story for free on phones and tablets! All of the additional content from DDLC Plus is also available now as a paid add-on. store.epicgames.com/p/doki-doki-...

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 10/09/2026

You know it's the 2020s when Samus' new suit upgrade is a cooking pot

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Team Salvato @teamsalvato.com · 30/07/2026

It turns out today (July 30th) is Natsuki's birthday! Happy birthday, Natsuki!

An illustration of the Doki Doki Literature Club characters in an arcade. Natsuki and Sayori are on a dance machine, with Natsuki in a confident step, and Sayori exhausted and slumped over the rear support bar. Yuri and Monika are gazing at Natsuki in shock and awe from behind the machine.

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 13/07/2026

Debunking the "you look like SmallAnt" myth once and for all. It's just the glasses and the nose and the smile and the facial hair and the eyebrows and th

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 10/06/2026

See you at Anime Expo! I'm doing a panel where I talk about how I wrote the characters for DDLC, and how I approach character writing in general.

Anime Expo
Room 403AB
July 2, 2026
12:00pm-12:50pm
Writing the Doki Doki Literature Club Characters, with Dan Salvato

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 19/06/2026

If only the Wii Remote had a gyro built-in from day 1, instead of MotionPlus being too little too late. Imagine the generational impact. No waggle legacy. There would be more inspired hearts. Fewer kids growing up to build datacenters

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 10/06/2026

See you at Anime Expo! I'm doing a panel where I talk about how I wrote the characters for DDLC, and how I approach character writing in general.

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 14/05/2026

Welp, I caused an integer overflow in Mewgenics. It wasn't enough that I killed my own unit by healing NEGATIVE 744 million health—imagine my confusion when I was awarded the "Bug" item after winning the fight. Took me a moment to process that it was just a ridiculous coincidence

A screenshot from Mewgenics with a tooltip that says "Basalin's Leeches. Drains -744669674 health at the end of Basalin's turn and gives it to Basalin."

A screenshot from Mewgenics of the inventory with a tooltip for the "Bug" item.

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Team Salvato @teamsalvato.com · 11/05/2026

To celebrate Sayori's birthday, we've decided to reveal that Sayori's birthday is today, May 11th. Happy birthday, Sayori!

An illustration of the characters from Doki Doki Literature Club on a miniature golf course. Sayori is in the foreground, lounging in the grass next to a golf ball which has been sunk into the hole. The other characters are occupied in the background.

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 07/05/2026

Nintendo fans waiting for the report on what studio is developing Star Fox so that they can calibrate their confirmation bias subsystems before launch

Screenshot from Star Fox (2026) in which Fox and Peppy are standing over an empty hologram terminal

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 01/05/2026

LSPX: Converts OpenMPT-supported tracker modules (mod, s3m, xm, it, mptm) to #Amiga LSP (LightSpeed Player) format. github.com/dansalvato/l... Now you can compose for Amiga with modern tracker features, and even with 16-bit 48KHz samples, which LSPX will downsample to a configurable quality target.

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GitHub - dansalvato/lspx: Converts OpenMPT-supported tracker modules (mod, s3m, xm, it, mptm) to Amiga LSP (LightSpeed Player) format.

Converts OpenMPT-supported tracker modules (mod, s3m, xm, it, mptm) to Amiga LSP (LightSpeed Player) format. - dansalvato/lspx

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 21/11/2024

The unfortunate thing about The Last of Us getting a gazillion remakes is that it's being forgotten how much of a technical marvel the original PS3 game was. We really got to see the endgame of PS3 where the Cell CPU architecture was pushed to its limit. This is a game console from 2006

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Serenity Forge @serenityforge.com · 09/04/2026

A statement regarding the removal of DDLC from the Google Play Store:

Yesterday, Google chose to remove Doki Doki Literature Club from the Google Play Store. Their explanation is that the game’s content violates their Terms of Service in its depiction of sensitive themes.

DDLC is widely celebrated for portraying mental health in a way that meaningfully connects deeply with players around the world, helping them feel heard, understood, and less alone on their journey. Managing to achieve that—making a truly meaningful difference by using the power of fiction to connect to others—is what I’m most grateful for. It inspires me every day to keep making cool new things, things that can really reach others, especially those in need of connection.

DDLC is available on many different major platforms, including iOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation, and more. We’re continuing to do everything we can to find a path forward for getting DDLC reinstated on the Google Play Store. Meanwhile, we’re also looking into potential options for alternate methods of distribution on Android devices.

We worked hard to bring DDLC to Android, and we’ve gotten to see so much love and enthusiasm from passionate Android users over these past few months. Thank you so much to the community for continuing to express your love and support for DDLC through the years. We’ll keep you updated on the future of DDLC for Android.

- Dan Salvato and the Serenity Forge Team

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 06/04/2026

Bluesky-exclusive outreach: I'm looking to contract a technical artist with a specific passion for applying math to create mesmerizing visual effects, e.g. shaders, particle effects, or other demoscene-like displays. Please feel free to spread the word and send portfolios/examples via reply or email

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 18/03/2026

The poor technical artist who spent 1,000 hours getting lighting and materials to work and now has to spend another 1,000 hours wrangling a semblance of visual consistency out of the AI beauty filter that Nvidia paid their boss 5 million dollars to market

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 12/03/2026

I had to go to this party at a bar for like networking or whatever but it's so loud and I just want to play Melee please send foxes

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 10/03/2026

At GDC with a Melee setup, anyone tryna play

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 03/03/2026

Uh actually, as a coffee aficionado the more proper terminology is "Vessel of Joseph"

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 28/02/2026

Don't give unsolicited advice to neurodivergent folks, it's oftentimes a big trigger of negative feelings due to a lifetime of them enduring people trying to "fix" them with misguided suggestions

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 25/02/2026

I'm writing a blog post about the Nintendo DS era. What are some games you feel used the stylus in especially creative, bold, or joyful ways that centered the whole gameplay experience around it? For example, WarioWare: Touched!, Trauma Center, and Zelda: Phantom Hourglass.

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 23/02/2026

Out of curiosity, I was looking around at old Pokemon print material to see if Feraligatr was ever spelled "Feraligator" and that the name was simply shortened in-game due to the character limit. Then the Prima Strategy Guide delivered what feels like a punchline aimed exactly at my specific musing

A page from the Pokemon Gold Prima Strategy Guide book showing Feraligatr misspelled as "Feraligtr"

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 20/02/2026

I discovered a new, unpatched method of escaping without a starter in Pokemon Scarlet on Switch and Switch 2. (Old save/load displacement method was presumably patched.) Detailed instructions in this thread, as well as some things I haven't yet tried but would like to find out if they're possible.

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 10/02/2026

Age verification? All your base are belong to us

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 07/02/2026

Here are the kinds of sketches I'm giving to my sprite animator for Magicore on a regular basis. Using phrases like "Whiplash her spine like a noodle" and "that downwards power pose chibi magical girls do" and "0-10-50-90-100 motion curve". Really a language that only humans can actually understand

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 18/01/2026

I like achievements, but I'm not a fan of the expected implementation for them. Getting a pop-up e.g. the exact instant I get the final hit on a boss takes me out of the moment. I know I can just disable the notifications, but I still don't like how it's become the default experience in gaming.

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 14/01/2026

Playtesting has recently taught me that there is a very fine line between "too precise for anyone but the designer's movement habits" and "too lenient causing players to tunnel-vision on the unintended solution that's 10x harder". And you teeter between the two by moving obstacles 2 pixels at a time

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Thab East @thabeast721.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Got to do a couple runbacks of Dan Salvato’s newest game demo at AGDQ. Got the deathless and found some cool speed strats too! I’m real excited for the full release

Thab leaning and pointing at the screen with Dan Salvato’s newest demo of Magicore Anomala. The screen reads the time as 04:42 and 0 deaths

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 05/01/2026

If you're at #AGDQ, I have a brand new Magicore demo up and running in the practice room. It'll be here all week. I worked incredibly hard to get this demo done in time for the event, so I hope you take the time to check it out!

A photo of an Amiga 500 next to a monitor displaying a title card for the game MAGICORE ANOMALA

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 01/01/2026

You can always tell whether Gen Z is on desktop or mobile because on desktop they're like sjdfsfsdlkjsdf but on mobile they're like skxkdksnskxk

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Satchely @satchely.bsky.social · 30/12/2025

Do you wanna build a snow... cow? ❄️🐮 Official #DDLC 2025 Winter Illustration

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 12/12/2025

Matchmaking was fixed in Kirby Air Riders! Getting consistent 16-player games with no CPU padding in ranked City Trial now

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 11/12/2025

New blog post detailing the release of DDLC on mobile platforms: teamsalvato.com/news/ddlc-is...

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DDLC is now available on iOS and Android!

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 10/12/2025

Surprise, Doki Doki Literature Club is now available on iOS and Android! iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/doki-... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 26/11/2025

@nicole.express Are you familiar with the Parodius series? I learned about Jikkyo Oshaberi Parodius, which has live voice commentary throughout gameplay, even on Super Famicom, which is an awesome achievement. AFAIK it uses SA-1 to stream voice to the SPC. I thought it'd be in your realm of interest

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 24/11/2025

In Super Smash Bros. Melee, if you select random stage, it will keep re-rolling stages until it rolls a stage that's not explicitly turned off in the settings. If it rolls disabled stages 10,000 times in a row (astronomically unlikely), it falls back to Princess Peach's Castle as a failsafe

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 22/11/2025

Now that I've spent like 2 hours on this sticker formation, Kirby Air Riders is a certified good game

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 18/11/2025

This concept is often hard for devs to grasp too, not just players. I put it as "the joy of doing" vs. "the joy of being". Why does some grind or hard challenge feel joyful in game A, but a chore in game B? You enjoy *existing* in game A. The "thing to do" serves that joy. Pet the dog. Enjoy being

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 10/11/2025

In Monster Hunter Generations, the default message sent to the chat when planting a bomb is "I set up us a bomb!" The guts on that localization decision. Most players likely took it as an unintended grammatical error, not knowing the original meme, which was like 20 years old at this point.

A screenshot of a multiplayer quest in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate. The players are planting bombs, and a player's message in the chat log reads "I set up us a bomb!"

A screenshot of the intro sequence to Zero Wing. The narration text reads "Mechanic: Somebody set up us the bomb."

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 06/11/2025

Every time you rank up in Pokemon Legends Z-A

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 21/10/2025

I realized after playing enough Donkey Kong Bananza just how much exceptional talent was required to have made the game as good as it is. The meticulously-crafted platforming is completely at odds with the player's ability to recklessly smash everything to pieces, but every approach is equally fun

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 05/10/2025

I cannot get over the fact that canonically, the existence of Beedle predates the existence of Ganon

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 29/09/2025

Watching Scott the Woz cover old Nintendo stuff on Scott's Stash is like vicariously fulfilling my childhood dream of having someone who listens to me when I talk incessantly about obscure and pointless things that absolutely nobody cares about

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Satchely @satchely.bsky.social · 26/09/2025

I designed two new Monika & Natsuki outfits for the anniversary #ddlc

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 22/09/2025

Happy birthday Akiha Source: www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/...

A portrait illustration of Tohno Akiha from Tsukihime

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 22/09/2025

Happy birthday Monika and happy 8th anniversary to DDLC! Artwork by @satchely.bsky.social

An illustration of the club members from Doki Doki Literature Club. Monika is leaning out of a Ferris wheel cabin and smiling at the camera while holding a colorful set of balloons. Sayori is inside the cabin, making a funny face that's pressed up against the glass. In the background behind the Ferris wheel, Natsuki and Yuri are facing each other, both eating cotton candy. Yuri is standing on the ground while Natsuki is sitting on the guardrail enclosing the Ferris wheel's boarding platform.

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Dan Salvato @dansalva.to · 14/09/2025

Reminder that this game somehow exists: Just Dance 2020 for the Wii. An officially-licensed retail Wii game featuring Billie Eilish, who was like 4 years old when the console released. Absolutely incredible

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