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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

@boodoo.co your mahjong posting inspired me. Game is good.

Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

@unormal.bsky.social saw this and thought of your comments re: losing the semantics in code when LLMs write them. delta.dev not sure it's a good solution to simply bring along all the agent back and forth (it's often v low semantic density) but maybe it's a start??

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Delta | A Multiplayer Environment for Coding with Agents

Build and review software with teammates and agents in shared threads, with every conversation and code change kept in context.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

After a visit to a cave, started thinking about traversability and vision. What if you needed tools to get around the space? Here's a little prototype where you can grab a drill and drive it through walls.

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sam “ludonarrative disinterest” sorensen @samsorensen.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

been thinking about Jason Grinblat's idea that the aesthetics of simulation[ism] are tied to the aesthetics of non-fiction. part of this, I think, is about like a certain "anti-Chekhov's-Gun" attitude. a certain willingness to not connect everything, not resolve everything, let things go unfinished

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

Oh this is IMPORTANT. This is a crisp quantitative example of "eating the seed corn." We train LLMs on this body of expert organized information, but the incentives to regenerate it are busted. Model operators can capture the questions, but where will new answers come from?

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Is there a better push notification to get than "your hold is now available!" On Libby?

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

does anyone out there need FREE personalized 868-BACK purchasing decision counseling? perhaps just shouting about how great it is is not the best i can do. reply or DM and I will leverage my decade+ of broughlike recommendation experience to help you decide if 868-BACK is right for you. please RT!

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Happy new Hunter X Hunter day!

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Love a boostable device, but at first this felt a little meh. You mostly appear in a new sector at a corner, and then this device empowers that corner. But how often are you shooting from a corner?

/imbroglio
Attack: extra click from 3 selected cells.

Boostable.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

Okay, 868-BACK has fully clicked. A masterpiece by @smestorp.bsky.social! I particularly admire the tactical decision density. At every moment you are a few moves from death. There are the most delicate dashes of output randomness to avoid puzzle syndrome. But rarely is death inevitable.

A high score summary from
868-BACK. Total score: 2268.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

The primary problem with the RECON shell is that it should be named HUNTER. The name misleads people. This trailer is its actual gameplay pattern.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

I've never marked out for anything as hard as I did for the Cryo Archive trailer. My god, they're doing the damn thing.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#7drl day 4 It's ui time! Added item dropping and picking up. So we don't need an inventory screen. Plus an "extract" option to convert an item to money to improve your score.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

#7drl day 3 Spent a lot of the day refactoring behavior trees and expanding the set of enemies. Here's a cute one -- an enemy that moves at double speed and explodes when it gets near you. It demands a reaction!

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

Whatever happens with Marathon in the next few weeks, I'm hopeful it will have a big aesthetic blast radius. It's rare to see something so strange get so much oxygen. It may crash and burn, but maybe it's a wedge that opens up more imagination.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

There's a rare delight in guessing correctly the shortcuts for a new tool based on experience with past similar tools.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

#7drl day 2 First, filling in some details in rooms and junctions. This room filler strategy was something I used in my first #7drl, runner. I like it as a rough way to add some flavor. One long thing bit is a conference room, many rows could be server racks.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

#7drl day 1 I spent the day on world generation. I wanted a network of hallways, through which enemies would patrol and the player will seek treasure. What's missing is a "room" system. I'll finish that off tomorrow. Look along the edges of hallways for spaces that can be carved out into rooms.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

I regret to predict that in five years "chat" is going to morph to imply "ChatGPT."

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I had "mines" scribbled in a notebook for a while and finally got around to building them. I thought of them as another area-denial tool for enemies, but one that has some interaction potential. Here I'm placing mines and blowing them up from a distance.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 04/02/2026

This is descriptively valuable for bucketing certain sorts of beliefs. I think a single "performance" axis gives away the game, though. Lots of software is better-than-human at some things. LLMs certainly are too. And they're better in surprising domains, as opposed to, say, a calculator.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

Weapons can now have an odds to miss, and a range of potential miss angles. Broadly, output randomness increases tension and push-your-luck feelings. I think that fits my gameplay pillars, so I'm playing around with it more to see what feels right.

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Jeffrey Tumlin 🏳️‍🌈 🌁 @jeffreytumlin.bsky.social · 23/01/2026

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Added reload UI sugar. When you run out of ammo in your weapon, there's a visual marker that trails your cursor. When you reload, there's a notice next to your character.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Found this old GIF of a sneaking-focused roguelike prototype. Interesting sense of scale to it. I really like how vision looks walking through doors or peering through a door at long-distance.

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cptnqusr @cptnqusr.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Playing @drewwww.bsky.social's RECLAIMER. I would appear to be in danger.

A grid based layout of a video game, with a green bounty hunter surrounded by red enemies. The tiles surrounding the hunter are lit up red, indicating that the enemies intend to fire in their direction.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

I've started reading these to my kid, and it's a delight to return to Tolkien as an adult. When I read them as a teen, I was trying to suck the plot out of them as a pure adventure story. But there's so much here to chew on that I missed.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

First steps on a little tutorial system. I always put this off and regret it. I'm going to try to make something that onboards players and gives them some contrived scenarios to see if it's fun.

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Caves of Qud @cavesofqud.com · 01/01/2026

🍄 happy new year ✨ may the ritual nourish you

Screenshot of dialog with Barathrum the Old from Caves of Qud:

*Barathrum breathes a deep and relieved sigh.*

You are ever a courier of bright tidings, =name=. I am fond of this fact.

Categories and types are decohering in these historic times. Nonetheless, the ritual nourishes us. You are raised to Meyvn, Nyshum. The one who understands.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 28/12/2025

@lazerwalker.com ran into this and I recall you being curious about next gen go clients. Haven't spent much time with it but it seems on the path towards that destination: github.com/kaya-go/kaya

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GitHub - kaya-go/kaya: A modern, elegant Go (Baduk/Weiqi) game application

A modern, elegant Go (Baduk/Weiqi) game application - kaya-go/kaya

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Made a little guy that turns if its path gets blocked.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

Thinking about how to communicate as much as possible in a compact space. I want players to know (1) how much damage an attack will do, (2) how an enemy will be moved by the attack, (3) how much health an enemy has, and (4) if an attack will be lethal or not. This animated bar is my current idea.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Worked up a new "intent" system, where NPCs can target a spot a turn in advance and then fire the next turn. I'm inspired here by tactics games that "show the barrel of the gun" like "Slay the Spire" or "Into the Breach." The NPC has a laser weapon with two shots in it, then it needs to reload.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

Beyond research, craft ITSELF drives huge amounts of human effort. It is a mistake to think that people make things only to have them and would welcome a way to skip the making itself. Doing the work is not a "cost."

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

The npc bot (orange) can lock on to a player it sees nearby and declare its intent to shoot next turn. Anything in the red line will take damage, even if it's not the intended target.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

This is another way of saying what @jamellebouie.net was saying earlier this week. The text-based platforms are marginal among teens, and video-based platforms are dominant.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

I'm curious about this too. I see a few contributing dynamics: - Attribution in software engineering is rare - Open source culture - High average pay, low sense of precarity - Disconnection between "how" (messy LLM-internals) and "what" (the product); resulting UI has less of an LLM-smell.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Playing with a bouncing grenade-type effect. It's a bit awkward at this grid size. You can get a lot of situations where it's hard to produce an intuitive result. The preview graphics help, but aren't a total solution. Not sure if this is stable enough to use in a real game, but I'm glad I tried.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 10/12/2025

Step out of the way and push the rocket towards another target.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 08/12/2025

Rockets that fly towards the player and then explode. Not smart; once they spawn they cannot change direction.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

My 2012 dissertation is, basically, 171 pages about why not to do this and what to do instead.

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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 05/12/2025

ian bogost getting the timeline riled up by ludocentrism posting….. i will sleep soundly in my bed tonight because obama is president and idle thumbs still puts out episodes weekly and i’ve got uni in the morning for it is 2015

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Thinking about more complex NPC behaviors. Learned behavior trees this week and made two bots: a leader that picks random waypoints in the world and paths there, and another that follows the nearest leader. Think "squads" of different bot types, eventually.

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 30/11/2025

Me, yesterday: Making doors in a 2d turn based game can't be hard, right? I know people say doors are hard, but surely not in this context. Me, today: Okay, first the doors will auto-discover each other and THEN each turn check if there's a quorum for a decision about opening or closing...

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Drew Harry @drewwww.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

This rings true to me. The massive user numbers on consumer LLMS mean SOMETHING. We have to be curious about what value people are getting and why they keep coming back week on week.

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