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Janet Gilbert

@janetgilbert.bsky.social
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Game developer since 2001, worked on lots of indie and casual games you never heard of and maybe some you did? Loves Unity, C++, turn-based roleplaying games, sci-fi novels, all that good nerd stuff.

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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 2h
Frog and Toad but post-apocalyse-style.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 20h
Uh-oh we’re a metaphor! @richardcobbett.bsky.social
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 22h
This one was answered in the game! There's a definitive answer!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Here's a blog post I wrote about how I did this to trim a bloated git repo: janetgilbert.net/2026/04/27/d...
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Dealing with old LFS bloat filling up your Git cloud storage - Janet Gilbert Game Developer
For anyone who has made a large game with Adventure Game Studio using Git as the source control, the problem of the sprite file is surely the bane of your life. For older versions of AGS, all sprites ...
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How to back up an entire repository with all branches and LFS files.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I realized I rarely read books anymore so I'm starting to make myself do so, particularly paper books from the local library, which is literally down my street.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I saw a handcoded PR like this only once, when a developer spent about 3 months translating an app from one language to another.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"I can't believe it's not Nighthawks!"
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The slop-cloners are doing this to even the tiniest unreleased games. I think they probably have an automatic AI workflow set up to clone literally everything.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
That one still has that "black dots" problem that ChatGPT seems fixated on for food photos right now.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I'm on the edge of my seat!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The teasing is very mysterious!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
I only remember it because it scared the crap out of me as a child. I'm not even Australian!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The Bunyip song from Dot and the Red Kangaroo. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtrY...
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The Bunyip Song
YouTube video by mrboombasticx
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
The girl who plays the fiddle is the freakiest part of that game.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
All the "serious tech" apps like Xcode have blue icons. There is not one red icon. There must be some design thought behind this.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Continuing my march through time of old story games that I was too busy parenting to play when they came out, I picked up "Dear Esther" and "Everyone's Gone to the Rapture" in the Steam Sale.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I'm always amazed that authors seem to be constantly on the road. I've never bought a book because of a signing.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Never found a bug in this quest!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Look at all this blue!
MacOS quick bar with a lot of blue icons.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Why are all icons blue? My quick bar is at least 70% blue icons. Makes things hard to find at a glance.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Apt metaphor for a vampire game!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Text adventures with art had the art at the top of the screen and the text at the bottom, and most visual novels have followed suit. So it is interesting that Nighthawks follows the Disco Elysium "text at right" pattern.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Is it a right-handed people thing?
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
If we do another Ink game I need to do something like this because my hand still hurts from all the manual testing.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
How do you limit it to one scene rather than spiraling randomly through the script?
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Don't tell Steam about the butts!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
I made an ink autoplayer to test Nighthawks but ultimately that game was too complex for testing that way.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
M is a bad letter in Nighthawks!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Who is the worst worst? Millicent or Maze?
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
The BEST at being the WORST
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Monika is the WORST
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most people learn about cool new games from social media or YouTube.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Some of the Nighthawks backgrounds have amazing detail that you can't normally see because the dialogue box covers it up @threeohfour.bsky.social
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I think we should bring back Michaelmas, including its cosy customs, like stealing your neighbor's horse. www.nts.org.uk/stories/st-m...
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St Michael’s Day and Michaelmas traditions
Là Fhéill Mìcheil – St Michael’s Day – happens on September 29th. Canna House Archivist Fiona Mackenzie looks at some of the folklore traditions…
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When people complain about random encounters, it usually means there's too many easy random encounters, which makes it feel like walking through mud to get anywhere.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today I'm busy working on a patch for Nighthawks with @richardcobbett.bsky.social - fixing all those annoying little problems that don't break the game but take it a little away from perfection.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gotta play your cards right with this guy!
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Alasdair Beckett-King @misterabk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is it me, or does Michaelmas start earlier every year?
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I saw this at the Brilliant Indie Treasures event in Brighton, was beautiful. I didn't do the farming bit, it was all conversations with the townsfolk in the demo.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's a hot steak sandwich with melted American cheese, worth eating if you ever end up in Philly.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I don't truly understand it but these things are at every buffet. www.greatgrubdelicioustreats.com/philly-chees...
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Philly Cheesesteak Egg Rolls
Philly Cheesesteak Egg Rolls Recipe These Philly Cheesesteak Egg Rolls are about to be your new favorite appetizer. Packed full of taste and flavor, you’re going to be chowing down on this simple reci...
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
In Philly, Egg Rolls have cheesesteak in them.
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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
WE'RE MAKING A SHELVING SIM WHERE YOU USE THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM IN A LIBRARY THAT'S HAUNTED AS FUCK BECAUSE A BILLIONAIRE WAS STUFFING CORPSES IN THE WALLS TO GENTRIFY HIS CITY WISHLIST "SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THE LIBRARY" TODAY store.steampowered.com/app/3971340/...
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
From most people that would be a joke, but with you @writnelson.bsky.social I know that it's one of your less off-the-wall game concepts!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
He had an office in the basement but it's too cold, so he moved to the attic and I moved to the bedroom!
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Over the weekend I rearranged my messy bedroom as an office because @wadjeteyegames.com stole my attic and it's incredible how much calm moving a bookcase and adding a cheap secondhand desk and standing lamp can add to a room.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The reason I didn’t play this when it came out is that she was a toddler at the time and I was wiped out from child stuff.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
On discussing this game at dinner it turns out my daughter already watched a complete walkthrough of this game and had strong opinions. I’m very late to the party.
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Janet Gilbert @janetgilbert.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Got a lot of motion sickness from this game, probably because I played all afternoon without breaks.
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