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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

the weird perspective makes it look like Barry is holding a gun to a child. How did they forget his beard?! Leon needs some chapstick.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Resident Evil Gaiden has such an eclectic mix of amateurish renders and badass pixel art.

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 01/10/2026

Several weeks ago, Phil Tippett's legendary animation studio in Berkeley, CA closed. An anonymous hero noticed a folder of CDs. This turned out to be hundreds of unseen hi-res images and videos from Star Wars, Robocop, Jurassic Park, etc. ~90 isos for you to browse: archive.org/details/tipp...

A casual Star Wars alien fella at the cantina, in a sun faded, reddish photo. Someone will be mad at me for not knowing who this is.

Phil, a balding Caucasian man, poses a model of the garthok, an antagonist from the Coneheads movie.

Phil, a balding caucasian man, points at some CG on a CRT computer monitor, as a younger man looks on. The screen shows a model of a dinosaur attacking a jeep, while there's an actual physical model of that event in the foreground for reference.

an isolated shot of a star wars vehicle. Sorry, I don't know star wars lol

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Sure would be nice if it worked in reverse, if enthusiasm and sincerity created a state of permanent euphoria.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

This game is torture. Great job.

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 25/09/2026

FF7 scenarios with pre-rendered backgrounds were always a mystery to me during childhood; but even to this day it's still something that amazes me. Now you can inspect every single Final Fantasy VII stage, including the 3D path + variations. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“There are only two genders.”

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Osmose @osmose.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

The Tower of Zeldaga is a mashup of the Legend of Zelda and Tower of Druaga. Every room has a secret puzzle and the puzzles get more obtuse as you go on. It's free, runs in your browser (incl mobile), supports controllers, and I'd really love for you to try it out! legitimatebusiness.biz/tower/

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If the Backrooms was real and any government was aware it’d be “free housing” for undesirables, outcasts, refugees, unhoused, political prisoners - fiercely guarded to ensure no one escapes. There’s so much social commentary baked into endless office space beyond BOO SPOOKY MONSTER.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don't know how this scenario is different from posters/wall art but I agree artistry is what matters and so much merch is vacant of artistry.

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goba (ACT 2 out NOW!) @gobadev.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

REAL WEB LEGENDS: Carter's Quest Act 2 is NOW AVAILABLE!! My solo action-adventure game inspired by Zelda, DMC, and Bayonetta just got bigger. A FREE update to Carter's Quest, adding a whole new chapter to the story, massive graphical updates, and more. Available on Steam now!

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

The "mini-game collection" of 80s PC games are kind of dismissed by contemporary retro gamers but their tight scope and economic focus makes them very appealing to small scale development and they were often programed by a literal teenager in their attic.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Recently discovered The Train, a game where you're French resistance delivering Nazi-stolen art to the allies. It's a "plate spinning" simulator with multi-step input, playable in about 20 minutes. It feels like the progenitor to a modern indie game: Iron Lung 30 years before Iron Lung.

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SULLY - POLYPAINT out now! 🎨 @artofsully.com · 17/09/2026

thanks so much for the warm reception to PolyPaint everyone! 🥹 if you haven't already, check out the fun interactive booklet at polypaint.artofsully.com, and please leave a review on the asset store page if you love the tool (it helps a lot!)

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

My hyper-fixation of the week: Densha de Go on an elevator. I know "Densha de Slow" doesn't work but let's go with it.

Cross section of an old timey elevator with manual lever and annunciator panel.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Games never should've advanced beyond the "sixth generation" because Raven Software perfected X-Men 20 years ago.

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SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! @segasaturnshiro.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Developer, @pvthinge.bsky.social (creator of the action-platformer, Scarf of Embers on Steam), has been fast at work on a 3D Saturn software development tool built on top of Johannes Fetz' Jo Engine, to make the Saturn development process both fun and easy! www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/11/f...

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Feature-Rich & User-Friendly ‘Saturn Workshop’ in The Works

Developer, Hinges (creator of the action-platformer, Scarf of Embers on Steam), appears to be well underway with the rapid-fire creation of a user-friendly 3D game development tool for Sega Saturn.…

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Jumping Flash/GitS wall-crawling 6DOF Fuchikoma sim

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A.J. Wilden🏳️‍⚧️ @wcwit.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

"They're not misunderstanding the film; they're co-opting a message"

Screencap from the interview linked in the quoted post

Marlow Stern (the interviewer): You have one of the most renowned replies in Twitter history. Elon Musk tweeted out, “Take the red pill,” then Ivanka Trump enthusiastically wrote, “Taken!” to him, and then you replied, “Fuck both of you.” I’m curious how you feel about the co-opting of “The Matrix” by those on the right who don’t really seem to understand its messaging.

Lilly Wachowski: I mean, I can’t sit in a room and explain the movie to every single person who watches it. Even if I did sit in a room with Elon Musk and Ivanka Trump — yikes — it doesn’t matter. They’re not misunderstanding the film; they’re co-opting a message. And that’s what fascists do: They co-opt the messages of progressives and use it to their benefit to confuse and obfuscate what is going on and the intention of their ideology. They do it with everything. They do it with Martin Luther King Jr. Look at how they’ve changed the idea of what antisemitism is.

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Blood Machine @bloodmachine.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Digital Painted designs

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NoonDragoon @noondragoon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I’m sorry, but you’re just not gonna ever see me care about a new Kojima game going over budget when Sony has wasted hundreds of millions of dollars on live service flops and closed half a dozen studios this generation

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Eliminate tier lists Demand equal equity from your representatives Donate your unused stuff Reevaluate the transactional mindset

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I love how the HUD dips into the view screen like a dashboard.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

I've been meaning to share more resources I come across for references/studies. This method only applies to low-poly hair styles but the results are gorgeous (good looking natural hair 😍): www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-Xy...

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Experimentando com cabelo 3D

YouTube video by vivini

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goba (ACT 2 out NOW!) @gobadev.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

REAL WEB LEGENDS: Carter's Quest Act 2 Launches SEPTEMBER 18th!! A FREE update to my 2024 solo indie game, continuing the story while the combat, performance, graphics, and more. This has been a labor of love and I can't wait for you to play it.

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Quinn K. @quinnkdev.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

"games were a promise", a text document on my computer, written tonight. with apologies to efrim menuck, and hopes i didn't rope "my contemporaries" in wrongly.

videogames were a promise.

they were a cultural medium that said, in a hoarse and bitcrushed voice first, then rising in definition, in clarity, with each generation:

"we can tell stories that truly involve you."

you slot this cartridge or this disk in, lock it and load it, and here you are:
adversary to my ones and zeroes.
here you are, an abstracted you on the screen that moves when your thumb will it.
here you are, surrounded by a facsimile of the real or imagined.
here you are, the piece on the board.
here you are, the driving force of meaning.

you, the player.

but games are breaking their promise.

games no longer need a player.

like the stock market, like cryptocurrency, like gambling apps that bet on sports or elections or plagues. they are now a sign without a referrent; they are a plus sign or a minus sign. always online, they are disconnecting from the humane and the human; they sever themselves violently from the human beings that create them, in great bundles of thousands at a time, tens of thousands last year, and that number is finished rising, rising, going up like the line it feeds to its meatgrinder.
their physical manifestations flag and crumble; they sever themselves from the players, too, like a disputed belonging in a divorce. "you will own nothing and be happy"; in owning nothing, you will be an owned object. ownership of things is wealth; ownership of people is dominion, is domination.

stream the newest live service, always online. listen to the latest heinous voice piece of more or less artificial intelligence blather every few seconds, filling the silence, painting over reflection to prevent introspection, or contemplation, or any thought. do nothing, and watch the cutscene as a you-less "you" shatters the skulls of human beings, lovelessly rendered by artists whose trauma was irreplaceable by generative A.I. (the hurt of an intelligence must be real for the later lay-offs to doubly sting).

games are turning into a torture device for anyone willing to hear them out.

the people making games are livestock to be cut.
the people buying games are numbers going up.
the people playing games are rats in boxes.
the people loving games hate games and themselves for hating games.

it's like the promise was written on sand, washed away in the deluge.

and people like me want to be a rock. people like my contemporaries, who heard the siren song of the promise lead them to shore, want to sing upon it to break more people's hearts.

i've spoken to people who only play antediluvian games, now. who play ur, or chess; who play the NES, the SNES, the PSX, something, anything other than the rot-driven, digital asbestos-riddled, untouched by human hands and untouching of human hearts aphasia that is modern video games.
that turn away from the cost of doing business to give business to only the old, or the small.

but people like me are starving on the rocks. there is no boat coming to us, bringing us sustenance. we are dying.

we want to be the change of the tide; but this system doesn't give change to those like us, who sing.
it only takes.

please let our games be good.
please let our games be ours.
please let our games be played.
please let our games be real.
please let our games be loved.

this is a pamphlet towards a radical humanity in game development and fandom.

games are made by humans for humans to play; they are not made of humans for humans to consume.

games are made of code, they are not made of claude.

games are made of art, they are not generated.

games are a promise.

say it again, with meaning, this time.

- Quinn K.

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Tiny Cartridge @tinycartridge.com · 09/09/2026

it's 2026 and we have a two-minute trailer for Torneko‘s Mystery Dungeon releasing to the West for the first time

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

you cannot just slot a remake of Torneko’s Mystery Dungeon into a sizzle reel wtf where do I get it

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emma @emmagamedev.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

textures i painted with gouache vs. model i used them for

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2dos @ DK64Randomizer.com @2dos.dk64randomizer.com · 29/08/2026

The DK64 recomp is now out! Play "DK64 Rekongpiled" now! Playable on Windows, Mac and Linux, just provide your own DK64 rom. No generative AI used at any point in the process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVUvGGXTk0E dk64recomp.com

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DK64 RECOMP RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT

YouTube video by 2dos

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Alfred Reinold Baudisch @alfredbaudisch.com · 28/08/2026

Imagine Aseprite or another #pixelart program inside Blender? Pixel Perfect Pixel Art drawing and texture painting on top of the model in the 3D viewport and in 2D. Drawing, painting, selection tools, layers, texel density (pixel size) setup and density zones (multiple pixel sizes). #blender3d

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

What if a modern adaption of DOS era detective games that starred you, the player, but things get increasingly personal as the game continues? Like those Doritos Flash games where you could opt into receiving emails.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Not a single allusion to decadence being the direct path to fascism in sight.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

“Hai Guhrace” “Give me an example of a gkh-ree gkh-ree“ “Wolf-gang noooo… NYUOH!!”

The sexiest video game hunk Gabriel Knight, voiced by the late great Tim Curry

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I feel like the real reason is that every Western studio has been thouroughly dismantled by aggressive capital.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

37. Mole A contemporary take on Soviet era existential horror (Solaris, On the Silver Globe) combining esoteric religious themes and brutalist retro-futurism. The kind of game where after viewing the "credits" I had to take a walk to decompress.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Speaking of games with a high obituary, fight against Tim Curry with the help of Lemmy Kilmister and Ozzie. Play the Stage Battles like a MOBA, you literally melt faces and drop burning zeppelins on the battlefield.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Mockup of a Story of Seasons style game where you maintain a co-op rooftop garden while organization with your neighbors to buy the deed to the building. As a suburban boy I dream of living in a clean self-sustainable urban environment. #lowpoly #pixelart

A pre-rendered sprite of a capybara guy admires some plants on a low poly rooftop garden

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

The people who can hear his delivery in their head, y'all are cool.

Stratos from Shiny Entertainment's Sacrifice, voiced by Tim Curry

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Please not a return of the "games influenced by games" discourse which is a gross oversimplification. My GOTY 2025 was about managing an eating disorder which was equal parts fun and horrifyingly existential. There is an indie game for every niche, fetish, and esoteric interest.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I grew up with Betamax and have a habit of calling it Beta but I acknowledge there’s a difference.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Cole Dröws, with permission from the rights holder, released the unpublished UK English version of Blackout. Blackout is a 1997 non-linear point-and-click psychological horror game filmed on Beta with hand crafted sets and stop motion puppets. coledrows.itch.io/blackout

coledrows.itch.io

Blackout 97 by Cole Dröws

Escape your fate - if you can

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

This game was originally released in Scandinavian countries in Danish. A full English version was produced but never released. Until now this was considered lost media. If you're a sicko who loves The Dark Eye, Cosmology of Kyoto, and Gadget this is a game you can really sink your teeth into.

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

coledrows.itch.io

Blackout 97 by Cole Dröws

Escape your fate - if you can

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Jaybee @jayb33.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Dragon Buster arcade and NES, the timing is like a few frames before you reach the peak height. Exact.

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