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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 28/09/2026

Bright pattern is bright.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 28/09/2026

The bear trophy is mine!

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 27/09/2026

Let’s see if any life altering events happen when I start this game this time.

PS5 screen menu. Control is selected to play.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 25/09/2026

It’s simple and they are popping!

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 25/09/2026

This is gonna be some peak gaming tonight.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 22/09/2026

While I have not turned off raids, I have gotten enough of the “forest is moving” events that I took measures into my own hands. Set it up to build a on the back side. That mountain in background is the location of the second boss. Never made it this far and it’s been incredibly exciting.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 18/09/2026

Took second in our first barebow archery league session that my team put on at the Nock Point! Really good turn out. It was a pretty positive group of archers there! Everyone was having fun! Shot rough during the scoring round but picked it back up during the shoot off.

Fat Thunder standing in front of an archery target holding prize cash from the archery shoot.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 12/09/2026

I don't even make a blip.... 16. I liked it better when I was more saucy with my posting.

blockcurve image for @fatthunder.com on blue sky

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 11/09/2026

Chloé came in and says, “awww you and your friends are playing little house on the prairie together? Who is building the church?”

Valheim on console. A house sits in a field.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 08/09/2026

Zelda OOT remake looks interesting! The screens do not do the video justice. But also I just think of this.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 05/09/2026

All fixed, all deployed. Time for a nap before I get summoned to the farmer's market tomorrow as a sleepy grouch.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 05/09/2026

Absolutely happening, in fact it is going out as soon as I get a couple of bugs fixed and deployed.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 01/09/2026

I get a consistent amount of 27s when scoring a round. But that 30 is starting to happen now too.

Archery target with 3 arrows in the ten ring.

Two targets.

6 arrows all in the yellow center.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 30/08/2026

Horripilant was interesting. A lot of start the dungeon and go do some work or read.

Platinum trophy screen shot of Horripilant

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 26/08/2026

I am gonna keep Croplike.com post to these socials from now on. Feel free to follow the progress on this platform @croplike.com or on IG. bsky.app/profile/crop... www.instagram.com/fat_thunder....

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 26/08/2026

Nah that is too much work. Code deployed. Change log is up on the site now. croplike.com

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 25/08/2026

First time playing Blood Dungeon. We are off to a good start.

Player hitting #69 on the leaderboards for Blood Dungeon.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 24/08/2026

lol fishing. But seriously: - 3 mini games on their first implementation; farming, fishing, and cooking. - balanced mods a bit so they were not useless. - 2 new departure types for you to leave the hub on; salvage, raid, and survey. - alarm panels for when you break stealth.

Fishing mini game for a roguelike. Shows and @ symbol reeling in something splashing in the water.

In game depature menu. Showing scavenge, raid, and survey with a difficulty dial.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 22/08/2026

croplike is an ASCII / lo-fi pixel art browser game. Fly out. Take what you find. Hold the landing pad long enough to leave with it. Lose a run and you still keep the farm, which carries on growing. In development. More ways out, and more to find, coming. croplike.com

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 22/08/2026

Me signing into the Duskbloods network test.

A glass of wine that says “like a mother fucking sorcerer”, jambalaya and a charcuterie board.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 22/08/2026

I see they did not nerf the royal tonfas in Nioh 3. #nioh3

Nioh 3 character wearing a Scrampus hat.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 22/08/2026

Croplike update deployed. Added: 3 floors of ruins (on foot only), depth-scaled loot, caches, defend waves at the extraction pad, foraging, a farm that only grows on the runs you survive, cooking meals into buffs, and a bay to park your mech.

Extraction styled / farming Roguelike game in browser. Hub shows a mech bay, a field to plant / farm, a watering hole, and a house to cook.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 19/08/2026

I deployed a base version of the hub and a way to extract from the first type of map. It also includes item mods and the start of mech combat. I think I am most excited for this next build. Which is the start of the hub map work.

Roguelike game hub map. Mech bay, fishing spot, farming area, coral and crafting bench.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 17/08/2026

lol vault empty Got to heading towards Compiler. Needs some balancing, but this was way more enjoyable than the rest of the game for me. Guess I will be back at S3.

Marathon vault showing an empty vault at level 104.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 14/08/2026

I can work with these fonts in fun ways.

Grimoire entry for large entities. Showing the player @ symbol, next to a 3x3 mech and 5x5 behemoth.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 13/08/2026

Font Lab is the tool that made the rest work. Load any pixel font, compare glyph sets side by side, auto-calibrate size and offset so every font fills the same tile box. In lampshade the font itself encodes what an entity can do. croplike.com/dev/fonts

Font Lab tool — dark UI, left sidebar with tile size / fill ratio / punctuation sliders and per font size and offset controls, right side a grid comparing the glyphs @ a A b B c C 1 2 3 across ten pixel fonts.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 13/08/2026

myth was the earlier pass at the same world. Wind blown grass, particle physics. I'm restructuring it into something calmer: a touch grass simulator. No fail state, just wandering and audio. croplike.com/myth

myth gameplay — top down hi fi tile render with dense painted grass, a large pink circle with a paw glyph, small units with red HP bars, a leafy tree cluster, and blue water.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 13/08/2026

lampshade is the one I'm actively building. Pure ASCII glyphs on a tile grid: 5 render layers, ECS combat, inventory + equipment, procedural 72x72 maps. Everything in myth is in this now but ranged combat which is being redesigned. croplike.com/lampshade

lampshade gameplay — top down ASCII roguelike, green grass glyphs on black, an @ player, red s enemies, a blue body of water, a pixel mech sprite, and an orange creature.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 13/08/2026

Merged a big branch to main, so croplike.com is fresh. It's one app now — landing page, two games, and a font lab, all served off a single router. Quick tour in this thread 🧵 croplike.com

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 13/08/2026

Mech work is in the lofi version. Gonna deploy this soon.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 12/08/2026

This is actually gonna be cool once I balance out the colors and work on a few more visuals.

Traditional roguelike game with ascii and lofi pixel art.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 12/08/2026

Clearly I have had a day. Touched some grass.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 11/08/2026

I am working with a lofi version of this game project. Trying to see how hard it would be to toggle between the 2. I could iterate faster with the lofi, because I get hung up on making things look closer to what is in my head. So testing out some looks.

Lofi version of game, tree and water. Standing in tall grass.

Lofi version of game, tree and deep water. Standing in deep water.

Higher fidelity version of game, tree and water. Standing in tall grass.

Higher fidelity version of game, tree and water. Standing in deep water.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 08/08/2026

Thank you and I also want to point out that I made it the entire evening with this glass and not one comment!

A wine glass filled that says like a motherfucking sorcerer.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 08/08/2026

We celebrated our 10 year late. We had some friends that were newly wed over. Drank two bottles of wine from 89 and 98. But the absolute peak of the evening is finding where they hid the rest of the cheese from me.

A block of Manchego aged cheese in a ziploc bag.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 05/08/2026

Power company sending this email during a heat wave and fire smoke, is more passive aggressive than should be allowed.

Power company email asking to reduce power during a certain time period tomorrow.

Weather app showing 157 aqi and a heat advisory.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 05/08/2026

I don’t think this gets talked about enough. Even with all the negative news on game dev, I have never been more overwhelmed with options. This fall looks like one of the most intense release periods in recent memory.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 03/08/2026

"A Trade of Blood" tomorrow y'all!

"A Trade of Blood" by Robert Jackson Bennett cover

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 03/08/2026

Now we are getting the AC out.

AQI map showing Spokane WA smoke traveling west.

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Fat Thunder @fatthunder.com · 30/07/2026

Reading Ring Shout and having a margarita / queso and chorizo. Fam comes back from Europe tomorrow. Spent last 2 weeks just being me and starting to work out again after all the health issues of the year. It’s been an energizing time. Wrapping it up with what appears to be so far, a good read.

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