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Jay Tholen

@jaytholen.net
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jaytholen.net lead designer, writer, artist, & composer for Dropsy, 1999 web sim Hypnospace Outlaw, & Slayers X. Clickteam software oldhead. follower of Jesus. husband of Katie. dad. 70s prog/fusion/zeuhl guy. Braunschweig, DE / Florida

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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 27/09/2026
i didn't mean i have more refined taste, i meant that my tastes in art and music are literally actually probably super unpalatable to you. to me art is at its best the more you sense the hand of the person who made it. the more convincing and flawless it is, the less interesting.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 21/09/2026
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 19/09/2026
his friends are all gonna be mossy hims for a good while yet
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 19/09/2026
boy is deep in debug territory
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 18/09/2026
nobody else like this post or i'll throw the garbage all across the floor
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 17/09/2026
nobody tell my dad I'm listening to pagan rituals
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 15/09/2026
i procrastinated the hypertext dialogue and event scripting systems for like a month and i'm more-or-less finished with both after only 10 days of work. i'll likely not learn any lessons from this.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 14/09/2026
ok there's a bug on YouTube where it shows the comments for the previous video and I was mega confused for about five minutes
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 11/09/2026
ok added emoticons
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 10/09/2026
No Man's Sky Cosmos 7.01 Patch Notes: Fixed an issue that caused the Grave of the Ocean King to appear 600 times smaller than intended.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 10/09/2026
not sure if i should add lil emoticons but i might.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 10/09/2026
if you're one of Hypnospace Outlaw's Brazilian fans (sometimes Brazil is our #2 country in sales even though the game is only in English) you'll be happy to know that i planned it to be localizable from the start!
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 10/09/2026
finished the hypertext dialogue system for my new game! it's my attempt at striking a balance between a geocities page and a dialogue box. works well with a controller too! i know browser/IF/twine games have done this for 1000 years, but have there been any examples of it used as a dialogue system?
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 09/09/2026
new Kirby game looking sick
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 08/09/2026
dude this The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time remaster is baller
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 08/09/2026
dude the new zelda ocarina of time remake looks sick
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 03/09/2026
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 28/08/2026
actually this is a Sea Numph
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 28/08/2026
first time since Hypnospace in 2017-2018 i've been this immersed in a time and place.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 26/08/2026
gotta be careful what you put in your games because sometimes it starts becoming real
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 25/08/2026
bugged by this "they deserve it!" thing every time T does something that'll hurt rural towns or industries. this is frustratingly common among people who identify as socialist. do you even read? do you operate from an actual ideological framework or is it just an identity/tribe for you?
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 24/08/2026
but wait Rami has an actual logo
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 24/08/2026
no contest
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 21/08/2026
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 20/08/2026
lol this is so blatant dadgum. nice airbrush.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 20/08/2026
there are like a gazillion instances of this. take your pick.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 19/08/2026
if they give most boring biome awards my game is going to win all of them
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 11/08/2026
florida has some of the best made-up sounding names
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 11/08/2026
debatably even worse than Peace Creek Valley County. woof.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 11/08/2026
Pantania has to be the WORST county in Florida. sinkholes everywhere, that disappointing manmade beach near Olfenda, most towns being a single gas station and a mine pit, etc. at least Lime Ridge still has a functional trolley.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 10/08/2026
July 4, 2024. Might be kinda cool for him to know the day he played his first ever platformer. :3
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 06/08/2026
hey people, if you want to be the first to hear about the things I'm making, head to jaytholen.net and sign up for my newsletter at the bottom. OK???
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 06/08/2026
when i told my 5-year-old son and his friends this news they were literally bouncing off the walls, screaming in excitement. his smartest friend stood up and shouted "we're finally getting contact points with our favorite Nintendo characters in a variety of approaches all over the wooorld!"
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 05/08/2026
hey @gamemaker.io check out this historic beef i have with you
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 05/08/2026
source: luxangelae
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 04/08/2026
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 04/08/2026
Ah yeah, he said it in 2011. I think by 2015 they were doing mobile stuff. I suspect that a combination of the mobile game industry taking off at the time and the Wii U failing led to their reversal.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 03/08/2026
i mean come on it is the same guy
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 03/08/2026
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 30/07/2026
it's all just these holes and these holes are WRONG
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 30/07/2026
nice, enjoy! this one does have a nice little diorama inside
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 27/07/2026
you could learn the actual chords in like 2 weeks tops. v much worth it to just learn them instead of spending over 500 money on this. also you need fewer hands for most chords than this requires, lmbo
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 24/07/2026
Citizen was also mostly just floating primitives and used scanned-in colored pencil drawings to give it the look that it had. i used mixamo to rig and animate her, though I did a bit to obfuscate the stock mixamo animations via lowering the update framerate.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 24/07/2026
the HypnOS year 2000 update splash animation was made in Bryce and took 500 years to render. also back then (2018?) i hadn't *really* learned how to 3D model so the y2k Hypnospace logo seen here is just a bunch of simple overlapping shapes extruded one at a time from a .svg
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 23/07/2026
I even got a lil trophy! (Not this one specifically, but v similar.)
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 23/07/2026
Which I think was an intentional riff on the fact that my record was super Christian. I was shocked because I wasn't particularly confident in it, especially since I was up against Disasterpeace. I did spend a LONG time on it though. it has 30,000 layers per song, half of which were live/non-VST, so
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 23/07/2026
I won an album of the year award in 2010 from a Chiptune blog. I was stealthily watching the livestream of the live awards show up in the projector booth of my church during a worship service. The speaker (Bud Melvin) announced my winning by saying "Hail Satan, the winner is Jay Tholen!" (...)
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 23/07/2026
heck with a fancy DAC. buy used CDs and play them on this thing like me. you get almost as much bass as a phone.
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 20/07/2026
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Jay Tholen @jaytholen.net · 18/07/2026
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