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@janksmith.bsky.social
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Game dev and creative writer, it doesn't need to be pretty if it works. She/Her, old enough to be someone's mom Projects I remembered to publish: janksmith.itch.io www.scribblehub.com/profile/126661/…

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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
Brain to me: Hey jank, why aren't you doing any #programming Me: is it better to have the unreadable but more succinct bitwise or the front heavy enum for storing dungeon room exit info in this proof of concept I started today?
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
I write very normal meet cutes. Don't ask how many times similar things have happened to me or if I write from experience.
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Brun got ready to mop up more rain water and check them in, turning to walk to the counter so they didnt feel as bad about bringing in rain. They turned back to face the door again, just in time to watch as the person got within spitting distance of the door only for the wind to change directions and knock them to the ground with a concerning, wet thud.

Moments passed and the person didn’t move.

Brun realized she was gripping the counter quite hard. 

Pops of white blushed over the skin on her knuckles.

The presence detection on the front door finally noticed the guest and it automatically slid open. The wind, now blowing into the hotel brought with it no sounds from the person on the ground, and Brun noticed they were face down in a puddle.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
I get sweaty about video games, but in the way of someone who has several academic books on the subject would. Like someone who traces the go right to advance level design in Mario games to the way English writing is arranged.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
We all need to acknowledge as parents that sometimes you feel the deep and powerful urge to spend 10 minutes tripping and or bullying your child because they've essentially been emotionally harassing you all day.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
I have 200 hours of this game, and I know how collision works and how to optimally mash through cutscenes. I know how the unlisted speed stat affects critical hits and the most efficient path through the tech tree to the fun stuff. Can't remember the game's name or year of release though.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
I almost never use rafts for my 3D prints, they just don't seem to help. I've got a big flat and thin print that was having issues adhering to the bed for layer 1. OK, I'll try a raft. Print stuck to the raft and won't unstick, attempting to do so just peels off the upper layers. Rafts. Never again.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Poster attached to a cubicle wall that reads: "And remember kids only do crimes in ways where you can't be incriminated"
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Sometimes programming is like iterating on a 3D model where it looks like nothing changes. But I know how many issues I had to resolve to get it to something that looks effortless.
4 models of a 3D print project from left to right oldest to newest
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
I have too many games in my backlog to actually play all of a JRPG. I tend to get to the end of disc 1 and then call it. There's often nothing mechanically unique beyond the end of disc 1, just plot and interesting characters and world building. And I'm here for ideas to steal for my own #gamedev
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 27/12/2024
This but for older card games. Knowing how Gin Rummy works means i can play any game that uses Rummy rules for playing tricks. Knowing poker hands gives a leg in the door for any trick turning game. A lot of older games focused on play resolution rather than player interaction, mtg wants conflict.
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Mariana Z @mariana057.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
I was out with my young daughter and ran into a friend I'd not seen in years. “This is Beth." I said, introducing my kid. “And what's Beth short for?" he asked. “Because she’s only three,” I replied.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Today's question: Can I design a game that is its own prequel and sequel. Like, imagine a game called "GameThing X: Where X is the number of times you have played this game" What legacy type things can I steal from boardgames that change how the game is played? Like "Beat X Bosses to win the game"
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Cats have the right idea, if I scream really softly: my chronic pain feels a little less bad
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Do i have a problem? Yes, its too hot to wear these more often. Just once, I want to turn up to work in a full lolita coord to answer why I never buy clothes my work sells.
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FᎪᎢ ᏩᎪNᎠᎪᏞF @sofarrsogud.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I was helping my son with his homework and I told him that a female gazelle was called a madamazelle so now I have another meeting with his teacher.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
I can be trusted with trick turning mechanics. I can be normal about trick turning mechanics. Please just let me put some trick turning mechanics in my game, it'll be so cool, I promise. Algebraic solutions for point scoring in a pen and paper game is normal and cool.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
I sometimes think clever clogs try to pick just the right frame to have at that few minutes into an episode point where Netflix asks you to wiggle the controller.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Guess who's (self imposed) ban on using IbisPaint has been lifted. Time to pretty up my trans zines so they're no longer works in progress.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I am sad to announce that any plans I had to play PC games in the next 3 months have been skuttled as I have entered the armpit of summer and air cooled computers in Australia are no longer capable of cooling to ambient and everything becomes unplayable.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
This is a great explanation. I've had designs rotating in my head for years before I get to a point where I think I've lined up enough ideas where they synergise and become fun. The idea of fail fast also doesn't help, since you often need to stick with a bad idea for a while to know why it's bad.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
With the power of trying to explain to a 5 year old it sounds like I've spent an hour programming nothing. What I did: set up a depth ordering solution to handle classful terrain and structures How I described it: I asked the computer to put the taller things on top so it looks nicer
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
That's beautiful
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Things to add to New Game+ runs as rewards to the player that seem like QoL features but are also for speedrunners: Option to remove menu animations Chapter select Option to restart a battle or challenge from midway Menu to show current status of story flags and their dependencies
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Stein Makes Games @steinmakesgames.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Terrible Game Idea: Third person shooter, but you're only allowed to shoot every third person.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
So in preparation for the 200 word TTRPG jam in December I've started to shift to TTRPG design. And the current maths problem im working on is how to deduce the result tables for a game where the main requirement for play is: EVERY DICE YOU OWN Look out for my terrible app powered board game soon.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Tragically, linguistic drift has meant that i have to use "exclaimed" like some kind of scrabble player rather than the much more fun "ejaculated"
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Finished a kinetic novel for a jam today...but it's nsfw so no one who knows me is allowed to know it exists. So if you find a lesbian kinetic novel on itch assume I made it and don't tell my mom.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I think I'm fine, and then I watch the episode of Bluey that's the combination creation myth and afterlife metaphor and it's existential dread all the way down.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Some people like to flex on how early they got into a series. My first MtG product was from a friend trying (and failing) to get me into magic, and i still have the box. Until recently this box was where I kept my expensive lands and a craterhoof behemoth. I didn't get into MtG until Gatecrash
The scuffed and well worn box for the Sunburst starter deck for Magic the Gathering
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
I love it when the art assets come in and it suddenly looks like a real game
two characters facing one another in a bedroom in a hand drawn style, the dialog reads: Get some more dangerous hobbies like me. You get used to it, wanna see my scars?
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
My 2 year old designed their first game in the collaborative fiction space (we pretend to say hello and bye at the front door while I close and open it at their behest). And the process of them explaining the rules through implicit context rather than words was great. Very pictographic.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
I don't often make digital art (cause I'm not good at it), but sometimes I buckle down and do it anyway cause I have an idea only i can make. Circuit wizardry.
A golden sigil on green background made of logic gates
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Was reading some silly villaness manga and scoffing at how abused characters could act like their poor treatment was normal. And then I remembered I hid a debilitating physical disability from almost everyone I knew (especially my parents) because "I didn't want to be a bother" for over a year
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
My other test bench is a toaster that runs doom
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
I've been making silly small games for years. But I put a half finished, slightly nsfw vn and suddenly 99% of the traffic to my itch projects is for an unfinished jam game and that traffic is up around 400%. Is this how people get stuck in nsfw gamedev?
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Everyone remembers the seminal film "Bring It On" and how it was about Slavery Reperations and Cultural Vulturism
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Ready for the next gw2 patch
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
I would be keen to try rebuilding the Golden Sun (GBA 2001) battle system in #gamemaker but instead of using mode 7 style trickery, just doing it with billboard sprites and a 3D camera and lighting askeskeleton rigs.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Nearby LGS got back ally bottom surgery
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
If they ever make a person 6 (and not just more persona 5 spin offs) i want them to make the cast all teachers. Let's not pretend people can't change or grow as adults and that all your potential is only avaliable as a teenager. Plus, then we can actually date them, and not be all chaste.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
Step 1: invent little guy Step 2: invent world for little guy to justify their existence Step 3: write world building to justify the world you made Step 4: oh no
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
It's the week of trying to be as obvious with the subtle trans vibes to make clocking one another as easy as possible while staying safe. Time to break out the trans socks.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 15/11/2024
I was reminded of a tool for malicious compliance that i used to use when people over the phone tried to give me the run around or lie to me. An alternate set of words to use for a phonetic alphabet, except they don't help you at all to listen to.
Evil phonetic alphabet for evil people
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
@gallium-jaba.bsky.social Yo, i saw you had commissions open. Do you think you could draw a cybernetic fairy? I need more of them in my life.
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Yeah, I have a default string I put in #gamedev projects to test text rendering...no it's not ipsum lorum
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
What I make/do: -Video Games +Mechanics as Metaphor +Combative UX +00's era Gamefaqs lies +Fashion Combat Systems -TTRPG Design +Sticking the players hand through the 4th wall +Making games based around jokes -Zines +Trans Know-how +Game Design Exercises -Creative Writing -Poetry
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I think my favorite thing i programmed recently was a tool for my text only game to make circular text labels. #gamemaker #gamedev
Gif of rotating text written in a circle with Debug values incidating the angle of each character in the string written nearby
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I've long wanted to design games to abstract human qualities in new ways Life sim games have no difficulty scale outside making actions cost more, but allow me to present: Walking through any door has a 3% chance to toggle off of any UI reminder (like a quest log or a todo list) #gamedesign
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Mischief lastname-lastname @janksmith.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
Yo, to prove my #gamedev chops here's a 200 word TTRPG you probably shouldn't play on a table. I made it for a game jam last year where the word limit was 200 words, but you could jank your way around it somewhat.
Rules text for a 1v1 game about playing mind games and unlocking treasure
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