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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 2h

Absolutely reads like a nudge nudge "any better offers?" bit of free advertising to the other billionaires.

Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 3h

Starting point on this was going back to the drawing board on an existing system, analysing what we needed, and why it didn't work. Once I'd accepted that I was ready to strip it out and try something else. Sometimes you just gotta scrap something.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 3h

We need some of that "good stress", but not too much. Tricky! But it now feels solvable. A few accommodations and tweaks with other systems, and some "level design" with the narrative elements will hopefully get us there.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 4h

And it seems like it does what we hoped! It's more simple, readable, transactional, and hopefully establishes a space where the player can make those all important "interesting decisions." The trick now is tweaking pacing and such.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 4h

Potentially big progress the last few weeks with an outstanding Innkeep central design issue (better integration of serving and narrative elements). Had a hunch about something, brainstormed it with Keegan over at @lochandquaygames.bsky.social, and got a prototype up...

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 4h

Thanks! It might be worth a shot. But even as it is I think a friend's child might enjoy it as a scribble / painting book. Fortunately the materials are only a few dollars worth.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 5h

Damn thats some advanced shit. I was just doing text based zorky stuff at that age.

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Grace @gracekind.net · 10h

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 8h

When you can make something in 2-3 hours - like a book - you get to find out how you screwed up very fast. The turnaround is so fast it makes it easy to learn and fix things the next go around. Anyway, prototype your games.

Inside end papers of my newest book. They're distorted from a large amount of glue used on the support bands.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 9h

Still, i appreciate the fast turnaround around these things compared to a computer game. You can learn from failure so quickly! Even a quick prototype isn't going to be as fast as a book.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 9h

However my attempt at hand trimming the top and tail was a disaster. :-( The glue around the support bands warped the end papers too. And the interfacing paper around the hinges makes a crinkly sound!

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 9h

The canvas looks good, and the interfacing stopped any glue leaking through well!

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Casey S. Pumpkins 🎃 @caseyexplosion.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Okay, Steam Sale time! Who'd like some recommendations? Let's get the ball rolling with one of my favourite games of 2025, The Séance of Blake Manor! A positively genius detective game steeped in Irish history and mythology with a striking comicbook artstyle and authentic turnip jack 'o lanterns. 🎃

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The Séance of Blake Manor is a supernatural detective mystery, set in 1897 Ireland, where you investigate the disappearance of Evelyn Deane in a remote hotel full of secrets and other-worldly occurren...

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loren schmidt @lorenschmidt.bsky.social · 15h

yeah this one is good. the darker, more garden-filled parts in the center are the new rule. imagine, if you will, that the smaller 2u structures are residences and storehouses within the larger communal structure.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 19h

Its in the press now! I think a mixed result, but lots learned.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 03/10/2026

But after a forest fire, the canopy opens; and when it does, the seedlings that were overshadowed for centuries by the old growth can sprout in the ashes and the sun.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 22h

Gluing up the spine. A bit of cloth for reinforcement.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Experiments in making book cloth with paper based iron-on interfacing. Starting to know my way around the local haberdashery. 😌

Three colours of folded cotton canvas on my shelves. Dark blue. A kind of cyan, and a very light cyan.

Front of the book cloth. Bit bubbly. Prob used too much heat and motion. Still, promising!

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And a super chunky one. Gonna give it a nice curved spine.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Its a nice little meditative break to be sure!

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Its Friday night. Baby is asleep. Time to pour a drink and do some book binding.

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Léonard 🛀 @leonardbertos.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

That's how I imagine God btw (photo not ai)

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There's still not a lot going on at this website is there? Haha. bootdisk.games

bootdisk.games

- Boot Disk Games

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I just realised that my micro-studio Boot Disk Games is now over two years old (2 years, 3 months). That's how long I've now been doing gamedev full time. 🤯 I hope one day I'm in a position to grow it just a little more. But for now I'm just happy to still be doing what I'm doing.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Ultimately can only manage this because my wife is with the baby during the day most of the time. Very grateful her work has decent maternity leave cover. >< And for her mum to be helping us out too. Even so it's felt insanely hard at times. But little by little it's easing up.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Getting back into the swing of things post-baby took a little while. But thankfully each week I'm able to get more dev done than the last. September was pretty good! Lot of game design + narrative progress. I think October should be even better.

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Lisy Kane @lisykane.com · 30/09/2026

I’m super passionate about translating between Publishers and Game Devs - so I’m hosting a Publisher / Investor Fireside chat. What are some “I wish I could ask” a publisher / investor questions you have?

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deus_ex.txt @deus-ex-txt.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

What if I told you that the depression was caused by a cabal of wealthy businessmen who want to rule the world?

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Ben Chandler @threeohfour.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

This week I had to explain that Gilt does not have a ‘stuffy’ religious tone. It is varied and unpredictable. Like mythology in general. Look, you can choose to be a stodgy pedant at times. That’s up to you, though, not me.

Dialogue choices where the player is forced to choose whether to correct the grammatical error of a character who is dangling from a roof.

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Aaron Lim 林家丰 @ehronlime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Get your sewing tins ready, Playtest Zero is back next week! For our SEA-friendly session, join us next Tuesday, 6 October at 8 pm (GMT+8) over at the Session Zero Discord server to do some 1-hour playtests of TTRPGs/game bits and chat with other designers! (Image unrelated)

Image of a Royal Dansk biscuit tin with a d20 roll table where 1 indicates its contents are a Mimic, 20 gets you Cookies, and 2-19 gets you Sewing gear

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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dr. hazel 🕸️ @hazelmonforton.com · 22/08/2026

Optimist: the glass is half full Pessimist: the glass is half empty Game writer: Glass_OnInteract I can’t do anything with that right now. I don’t need that. That isn’t useful right now. That doesn’t help me right now. That won’t be helpful. I can’t use that. That isn’t helpful to me right now.

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James Wood @omgmorejames.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

The intensity of my emotional response to this image only getting worse is indeed not a great sign of the times.

Four panel Simpsons comic. Homer coming into Bart’s room to wake him up saying “Bart I don’t want to alarm you but the old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters” and then Bart screams

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Hell yeah! And congratulations on launch!

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Jessica Cogswell 🌸 @jessicogs.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

crying over how pretty these Labyrinth secret lairs drops are ahhhhhh 🔮

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

subscribing increasingly to what I'd describe as the Chunky Peanut Butter theory of game design, which is that it solves a lot of problems for you if your core game mechanic, in its simplest form, still has something for the player to "chew on" - that they can fail at, be better at, think about

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Sajan @planetsmudge.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

An absolute delight to do the cover + slipcase for this one www.lostincult.co.uk/shop/p/caves...

Switch cover for Caves of Qud - illustration of a sweeping landscape framed by trees, whose roots are crowded by various denizens and artefacts beneath the earth

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VØ₦ ฿Ø₲ ₩ł₮₵Ⱨ @bogwitch.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Yeah, that checks out

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

A new game is out from the makers of the lovely Eastshade! Looks like a super good time too.

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Daniel Burke - 🍺Innkeep @innkeep.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Chronicles of Elderfall: Origins: Shadows of the Reach

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