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Michael Diskett

@disky2003.bsky.social
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Indie game dev ex Bullfrog, ex MuckyFoot, ex Rockstar North, ex Visual Science, ex THQ, ex Sega, ex Krome, ex Pandemic studios, now Five Lives studios. Into astro photography, complaining about unity, go, MTG, indie game

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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
send it back they put the keys on upsidedown
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I'd be happy they were passionate about anything..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
I went from MF to Visual Science (Carmaggeddon remake), to Rock Star North (GTA IV), to Pandemic (Batman), to THQ (Avengers) to Krome (StarWars clone wars) to Sega (Olympics then Castle of Illusion), None of them had a god damn clue what they were doing, nobody knows what they are doing!
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Back in populous days at Bullfrog we theorized it was succesful because of the urge to tidy up, to turn the chaos into order, flattening out all the bumpy ground into a nice floor.
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Australia should cancel those 300Billion worth of nuclear submaries and plow it all into renewables. If we get off the oil teet, we wont need submarines for the oil wars..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
@bulkpaint.bsky.social am now 33 in the world at sektori
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
have completed challenge mode a few times since but only increased my high score a tiny bit each time. Tried the next difficulty, way too hard..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
died on the final boss final stage. Obviously maintained a very high multiplier throughout, even spent 1M on 2 shields.
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
@bulkpaint.bsky.social
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 12/03/2026
I dont even have that card in my deck, maybe I should..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 11/03/2026
getting closer.. Died on final boss, round 3. arrived at final boss with 0 shields
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
One thing I often think about is that FTL could have come out on the amiga/ST.
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Sir, well played! Back to challenge mode I go!
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
am back on no 1 in the office leaderboard. with 9.2M but it was in easy mode, allthough easy mode has a mult cap that makes breaking 9m quite hard
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
@bulkpaint.bsky.social 8M at challenge mode and I'm only second best at 5 lives, 9M at experience is the highest score in the office
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
I dont think theres any weird RNG combos.. Best you can hope is to get +3 missiles and +100% glimmer collection distance early on..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
5.07M (challenge mode)
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
oh no..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Sometimes I overshoot the missile and have to get a blaster, the main thing is using the strikes at every oppertunity. I upgrade missiles whenever I can, but also like seeker blaster, and shield zapper, I like laser drones but can find them distracting
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
I get 3 speeds, so I can nip about and collect more glimmer, then its a missile to help with bosses, then a few strikes, then its all in on missile, picking up any shields as and when I run out.
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 29/12/2025
3.57M challenge mode
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I have 2.66 M in challenge mode so close.. weird it doesnt have different leaderboards for different difficulties..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
sent you a steam friend request, my high score is 5M
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
@bulkpaint.bsky.social have you seen sektori, its the new geometry wars.
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
well damn I obviously dont visit blue sky enough! I needed a reason to play this game more..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Just 115k more to go
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
i think that high score was a cobalt rail gun
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
very quiet over there
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Evoids on steam gets a wishlist spike on day 1 of next fest. thats like a 30 fold increase from my daily average of 1 :)
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
Pretty sure I maxed out Utopia must fall or was close to it. Well I can't see me beating this score again.. @bulkpaint.bsky.social @datacassette.bsky.social
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 16/02/2025
I dont think I'm ever going to beat this run. But Good Luck to you.. For once I actually used up all my nukes
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Only just learnt about berserker build. Love the offensive power of it. But high risk
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
just reached 6 watch towers still didnt beat even my high score..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
oh no.. I'm doomed
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
well thats better than my highest score on the previous build, so I dunno.. Maybe I got lucky..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Utopia must fall 0.666 @bulkpaint.bsky.social
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
How so? Are people forcing themselves to keep playing games they don't like? If I see a negative review with a long playtime on a game I'm thinking of buying I mentally flip it to positive. And visa versa a positive review that's played an hour a year ago.
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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Yesterday we announced a launch date (Thurs 21st!). Big thanks for all the shares :-) bsky.app/profile/grey...
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
published first game in 1984 (magazine listing for vic 20) First commercial game at bullfrog in I guess 1994 Theme Park Amiga. Then Syndicate/Syndicate Wars. then MuckyFoot ,Visual Science ,Rockstar North ,Pandemic ,Krome ,THQ ,Sega. Now 10 years at five lives studios making cozy caravan.
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
SteamWorkshop gotchas for devs. 1. users including you must agree to the steam workshop upload eula 2. Steam Cloud must have some disk space allocated 3. Steam Workshop you must tick enable ISteamUGC 4. indivdiual workshop items have public visibility settings
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
Announcing the release of my playable demo of evoids. store.steampowered.com/app/3140290/...
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Evoids on Steam
Fight against gravity, attractors and repulsors in this 16 bit inspired, side scrolling, arcade, twin stick, cave flyer/ gravity shooter game.
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Yes exactly this. 56 years old. When games take 3 or more years to make...
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Factorio Space Age DLC has made the greatest game of all time about 5 times bigger/better and stops you having to worry about the real world..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 25/10/2024
You were here before it was cool.
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 21/10/2024
But what's your high score. Mine is 410k I think. I wish it would get some updates needs more variety in the powerups
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
love this
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
My Evoids game 99.9% done, about to release demo, just making minor tweaks, get distracted and accidently start making an open world post apocalyptic petrol punk survial game #gamedev
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 20/10/2024
one thing that seems to be missing from bsky is seeing how many views a post received..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Heres a gif of my hommage to the atari ST classic game oids called Evoids on steam. Demo coming soon..
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Michael Diskett @disky2003.bsky.social · 18/10/2024
Shouting into the emptiness.. I'm here from twitter, sick of being force fed right wing BS.
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