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wayward @wayward524.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

It's rare for a 100% to feel so satisfying, thank you Derelict Star

A screencap showing full achievement completion in Derelict Star

gate @gate.itch.io · 22/09/2026

the beginning of this video sounds like i'm in a counseling session with an abusive spouse who's trying to impress the therapist.

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Warp Door @warpdoor.com · 20/09/2026

Derelict Star (@gate.itch.io) "Poor planning has put you in a tough situation: your spacecraft is nearly out of power and an abandoned derelict freighter is your only chance for survival." Paid - Windows, Mac, Linux: warpdoor.com/2026/09/20/d...

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gate @gate.itch.io · 11/09/2026

don't let big color fool you colors are continuous, not quantized

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adamatomic @adamatomic.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

its just so fucking gaslighty like every fucking app you open is like "LEMME GUESS YOU HATE YOUR JOB LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE" no! fuck! i just wanted to make a little guy jump on some bricks or whatever selling stuf fis just like a thing that makes it so i can do that more heaving hugest sigh fuck

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/09/2026

huh i played a ton of ps1 games and never ran into this. i feel like most games followed the pattern of creating or loading save games upfront so you'd sidestep this issue completely. i guess i always had a bunch of save cards so running into this wouldn't have been memorable anyway.

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Nifflas @nifflas.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Playing Derelict Star. I love this! I've struggled with how to through mechanics explaining something like this to the player. but turns sometime just spelling it out is very effective

A screenshot from the game Derelict Star. The following words appear on a terminal: Seriously, these don't unlock anything - no new areas or story or anything. Please only do it for the love of the game

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gate @gate.itch.io · 31/08/2026

yeah it's really hard for me to not work in big blocks because there's such a high barrier to entry in the form of context switching. it feels like it takes a good hour before i start actually being productive in most projects. i'd want to do an hour here or there but it's so much less effective.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 30/08/2026

and it's currently on sale folks! great time to see what all the fuss is about.

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Paul @paulhamx.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

"Alien Frenzy" mode in Wor Games (#wizardofwor) adds alien eggs and pac-man type power-ups for collecting them. Leave it too long and they hatch into super-fast baby monsters! Totally different and fun experience to the other modes. #arcade #gamedev #retrogaming #picotron #c64

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gate @gate.itch.io · 26/08/2026

they were not familiar with tower of druaga at all; all similarities between them are pure coincidence

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gate @gate.itch.io · 26/08/2026

idk if I've ever thought "man this author would be better if they had read fewer books"

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gate @gate.itch.io · 26/08/2026

listen i'm all for outsider art but if i had to come up with video games from first principles i doubt the results would be all that memorable. after a life's work i'd be lucky to create a bootleg pacman. well yeah idk pacman is pretty good maybe even that's too ambitious.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 25/08/2026

this is one of the things that building your own engine helps with tremendously. i've never built a game loop and have it not be clear what's running and what's not, but this seems to happen all the time when i use someone else's engine hmm.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 25/08/2026

oh neat you've played my game? i love your videos! and yes nifflas's work was very influential to me in my youth, particularly the knytt series and within a deep forest.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 19/08/2026

she first played yesterday evening edt; idk if that helps you narrow down any cache issues or anything but there you go.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 19/08/2026

also I've learned this is your "test vibe coding" project so uh good luck with that one lol

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gate @gate.itch.io · 19/08/2026

just fyi my sister reports that sharing can undo conjugations/plurals. attached image is what she sees vs what was shared: fridgle.net#p=ogwf1Mp0HQ...

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gate @gate.itch.io · 19/08/2026

if you're taking suggestions then it would help in terms of organization to be able to reorder lines easily. certainly much easier to do on a real fridge when i can manipulate more than one word at a time.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 18/08/2026

this blue bar at the top pretends it's loading something but then the bar reaches the end and it still hasn't loaded. love it.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 18/08/2026

love this new github feature where links don't work unless i open them in a new tab because the javascript that's supposed to switch out the DOM shits the bed. remind me again why single page web applications are good? they're certainly more complicated; i can clearly see that.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 18/08/2026

aka the mario maker of 2007

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gate @gate.itch.io · 18/08/2026

@ivysly.com's daily magnet poem site is pretty fun! fridgle.net

“thanks ordinary darling
my whole being
sweetest littlest darling one
without burden of smarts
basically uncolored cartoon
in shops he fights me
having interviewed the wine and worst cologne”

— #fridgle 4
fridgle.net/#p=6taOvFXywv6Iqv6QsuZDVeWuesuisbC7JMKE29eWBb-gate

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gate @gate.itch.io · 17/08/2026

regularly reported as one of the hardest sections. i wish you the best!

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mooware @mooware.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Watching someone trying to beat a hard game, and also thinking about the kind of games I play and stream, and it makes me remember this message from Derelict Star

screenshot from the game Derelict Star, character standing at the starting terminal, with the text "you briefly consider not torturing yourself anymore, but it's one of your oldest hobbies and you're not convinced that you can fill all that extra free time with anything more useful"

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Toby Alden @brlka.com · 10/08/2026

my wish came true! @jack-crawford.bsky.social hosted an avoidance jam and 28 new ones were born unto the earth. super cool to see everyone's spin on the formula itch.io/jam/jacks-av...

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Submissions to jack's avoidance jam

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gate @gate.itch.io · 10/08/2026

massively influential game to my own work. and really superb sound design!

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gate @gate.itch.io · 07/08/2026

sort of -- it's likely something in their stack or OS supported. very unlikely they roll their own spellchecker even in their own app.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 07/08/2026

@jack-crawford.bsky.social's avoidance jam was super fun! there are bunch of really cool games in here (including mine), all free and most playable in the browser: itch.io/jam/jacks-av...

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gate @gate.itch.io · 07/08/2026

@jack-crawford.bsky.social's avoidance jam was super fun! there are bunch of really cool games in here (including mine), all free and most playable in the browser: itch.io/jam/jacks-av...

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Jack @jackturps.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

just release this #pico8 avoidance game about star-doomed asteroids if you've played em it'll be obvious, but this started as an homage to two platonically ideal games: helix by @smestorp.bsky.social and luftrausers by @vlambeer.com

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droqen and 24 others @droqen.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

i made a jam game instead of playing more 'gameplay (forever)'. inspired by jack crawford's love for @brlka.com's 'an angel dances in the sparks of a bonfire'. unlike the sparks of the bonfire, in this one you dance with a large white square that is persistent & player-aware. droqen.itch.io/dance-1

droqen.itch.io

a way to dance all alone by droqen

dance (forever)

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gate @gate.itch.io · 06/08/2026

beyond that, the points they make are in my mind pretty self-evident results of big AI. it shifts labor from individuals to companies, they absolutely are doing it for money, and my boomer relatives already quote their AI search results as fact. what specifically do you think is so outlandish?

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gate @gate.itch.io · 06/08/2026

if you are interested in communicating with other people, you might try a less incendiary opening line. you're referencing an obvious bad faith actor and comparing them to some random person on social media you don't know. doubt this is particularly persuasive to any party present!

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/08/2026

yeah def I was replying with something similar but you beat me. it's got so much money and power behind it, it still exists even if you have the perfect argument against it.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/08/2026

totally. the topic is politicized enough that it's hard to move the needle in any direction imo. when I interact with AI discussions it's mostly to reaffirm to myself that there are still people that are thinking critically about it. it's easy to get wrapped up in reactionary takes on either side.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/08/2026

most people are reacting to a feeling they are having. getting to the root truth of that feeling is nontrivial and there are a lot of cognitive traps on the way. i find trying to interact with the best version of the argument I can understand to be more rewarding.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/08/2026

yeah I've just been assuming that's what they mean bc as you've pointed out, it doesn't quite make sense at face value. with a lot of topics that are emotionally charged I find you have to read between the lines a bit. just bc they didn't state it perfectly doesn't mean there's not something there.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/08/2026

if you want to read the argument more charitably you have to extend it to how AI is sold as a service and priced, which is how the danger of relying on it is realized. if your screwdriver was a subscription service the argument starts to make sense. it's a critique of the product, not the tool

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/08/2026

That said I also think those sites are terrible because you should just talk to the other person like a human being instead of smugly sending them a link. i had no problem telling people directly how to communicate with me and the "bad actors" would often give up & find someone easier to manipulate.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/08/2026

but there's a contingent of bad actors that intentionally use social pressure to pass off responsibly to you to solve their problem. when someone provides clear context first, I know who I'm dealing with, but if they don't it's ambiguous + it takes twice as much effort to get the relevant context.

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/08/2026

I get where these sites are coming from bc I was very often the person at work having to field somewhere between 20 to 50 questions from random folks a day for stuff that was only tangentially related to my job. it's not that the people communicating with me are necessarily wrong...

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gate @gate.itch.io · 05/08/2026

@jseakle.bsky.social had some good thoughts on this which is basically how I think about focus too. it's necessary when it helps you survive but you try to minimize use because you don't want to ruin your pace.

— I went on a fun arc wrt focus, first being like "why would i want this", then being like "i think the controls should be inverted so i have to press the button to leave focus mode", then learning how to switch, then learning how to integrate, then learning how to minimize

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gate @gate.itch.io · 04/08/2026

SUPER FLUID HYPER FLOW! A new minimalist arcade game. Try to conquer the chaos! Play on gate.itch.io/super-fluid-...

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Jake Eakle @jseakle.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I played this game for <redacted> hours last night, it's gorgeous and so rewarding to figure out

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