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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

🤘🏾@clumsybearstudio.com Thanks for hosting this week's #TurnBasedThursday Y'all keeps a solo dev inspired and on point! I'm learning recording and editing in OBS this week as I march toward my Steam trailer and demo goals for Zero Days: a Netrunner-inspired deckbuilder. #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

I am IMMORTAL!!! also, I'm outta coffee beans...🤷🏾‍♂️ #zerodays #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My offering up to the #ScreenshotSaturday spirits! Zero Days: a single-player hacking deckbuilder where your deck IS your cyberdeck. Netrunner-inspired. Been working on New chrome. New ICE-breaking mechanics. Steam page imminent. #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Ran my first Wages of Sin game last night for @openhearthrpg.bsky.social Shared Hearth event. Mothership does it for me: situations + agendas instead of story beats, and violence experienced vs rounds of combat. Then Wages of Sin steps it all up You're bounty hunters. Armed antiheroes...

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Thanks psychicsoftware.com for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! So much inspiration in these threads! Here's a WIP PEEK at Zero Days: a single-player hacking deckbuilder where your hand IS your cyberdeck. New chrome. New ICE breaking mechanics. Steam Page SOON! Finishing the year STRONG! 💪🏾 #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

It's Friday. I'm off today. —and back on some 🐴 💩 🤣

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! I will be IMMORTAL!! #zerodays

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

HAHAHAHAHAHA! So that's how it is?!

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

WE called it 'Tops' in Jersey City. My first street game.

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

CROWNBREAKERS! Thx for hosting #TurnBasedThursday Y'all keep me AMPED!! 🤘🏾 I'm coding away on Zero Days, my Netrunner + Gibson Sprawl inspired hacking deckbuilder where your deck is your deck and you're running the ICE Follow along: madjayzero.itch.io/zero-days Run the ICE. 🧊

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Like the good book says: To do it, ya gotta do it.

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Date yourself with an image of your first ever computer. (my mom saved it)

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Saw a thing IRL that inspired me, got me working a node-graph view of the network map today — trying to figure out if its better than grid-card view. Cute, might delete later 🤷🏾‍♂️ Anybody else fighting with "does this UI actually communicate anything" this week? #sologamedev #gamedev #zerodays

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday 🤘🏾and congrats on your release! @curiousdynamics.bsky.social I'm still marching forward with "Zero Days", a hacking deckbuilder. I've got a core game loop I dig, it's still fun...but gonna need some art upgrades PDQ! I'm on Itch 🤷🏾‍♂️ madjayzero.itch.io/zero-days

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Zero Days demo proof-of-concept Unlocked!! Imma have to start thinking about art soon now! #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

And there I was, deep in the middle of a client's Rails and Tailwind code, trying to make a dollar outta 15 cents... And UI inspiration. 'Zero Days' is @70% set on gameplay, but 0% on art direction. I got some thoughts now! (pay no attention to the data behind that left panel!!) #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Backers get ready... time to run them dice. h/t @rustysellsword.com for all the support, talks and games. to @ndpdesign.com for making it all look Incredible! #Lifted:Indomitable #CortexPrime

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Ok, big code move from Lua/Love2D to C++ and the Cute Framework. No shade on Lua, it was always going to be C/C++ for me 🤷🏾‍♂️ No big UI changes except for the Dear IMGUI features baked into the CF. I'm shooting for a fall Steam demo. Zero Day Bandits still the working title. #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

The eXorcists vs The Reavers. Newport Centre Mall, Hoboken. Mimic, after a round of bullet hell w/Pretty Boy: "Look out, he's got a gun" Two issues left. Wild Talents. My thoughts at my new web-home. www.playfearless.games/p/field-note...

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

One of my favorite (pre-final) spreads in my TTRPG Lifted: Indomitable RPG (Primed by Cortex). Reviewing it earlier this week, I got those "I'm Real Boy, now" feelz. Thanks, @ndpdesign.com I love how good you make me look!!

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yeah....the internet heat was on brand. This flick totally RAWKED!! Krem is teh Bestest!! Prolly gonna go see it again. I've just started reading the GN SG: Woman of Tomorrow, and I like how it's starting out.

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

also mad-dice.com has ORE dice! I've been running Wild Talents a couple of sessions with normal dice to figure it all out. Tomorrow we use Real ORE Dice, and the eXorcists (Pixe, Polaris, Mimic and Old Man Creed) get a visit from HEL— uhhh.. LIMBO! I think I'm going with "Pryor Causes"

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Alright, that's much better. Time for brunch. #ttrpg

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Man, I ain't ready to let AI code for me yet. I'd miss laughing at myself over dumb mistakes... #ttrpg

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Little ditty about JACK AND DIANE

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Pull a card from a 52-card deck and the deck changes. Pull twenty more and you'll watch it get colder — fewer suits, lower variance, the deck telling you what it has left to give. A poker deck is a randomizer with memory. Dice are amnesiacs.

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Wild Talents: the eXorcists. Session Zero: vs MARAUDERz @orklord.bsky.social x @madjay.bsky.social

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Alright, returning to my roots. Prepping a series by request, Wild Talents RPG, featuring a return of the eXorcists. My Canva mood board.

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

When Do You Know A Game Is Done? The Bakers Flip The Question: publishing can be the beginning, not the end. Listen to Muses Of Play Part Two. www.patreon.com/posts/mm149-...

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

And this is how the Mighty Wizard Apprentice, Kormel, saved everyone from a fire pit by walking on air! [cue: 'Walking on Sunshine' by Katrina and the Waves] #MondayNightsInIskanard #ttrpg

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Sexing up my placeholder graphics w/Canva while waiting on my double cappuccino! ☕️ WFCS > WFH #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

A Zero Day Bandits (prototype) update. Mad love to Brian Cronin: Black Box Sim for Roguelikes youtu.be/jhcHlg7YhPg?... helped me organize my shit. Anyways, took a break to update my graphics a little and added a preview screen. #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 12/02/2026

#TurnBasedThursday Seeing everyone’s art/ui work today inspiring❤️ The diverse graphic details help me think about my WIP art direction. Zero Day Bandits (my Netrunner-inspired deckbuilder RPG) is still deep in prototype mode — placeholders everywhere. Thanks for hosting @runelightowl.bsky.social

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

all the boring, non-sexy stuff for prototyping card play of my deckbuilder: Zero Day Bandits. 'cause nobody's working on a Netrunner Deckbuilder game for me to play. 🤷🏾‍♂️ #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

A little something-something I’ve been working on with the most awesome @scorchadoom.bsky.social Creativity in the TTRPG space. Should be going live today, it’s been a while since I did any podcast work, a brotha’s a bit rusty!

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Dogs walked, coffee brewed. back to discovering the shape of this cyber-hacker deckbuilder thing. Night club system nodes at the top, card 'deck' at the bottom. Thinking about card resolution mechanics, turn structure, stealing from Netrunner and SR:Crossfire until I figure it out. #indiegamedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 07/12/2025

Easy Sunday morning. Working my Advent coffee calendar and 'discovering the shape of fun' in a prototype for a deckbuilder game that should already exist. Discovering things you can do with a digital card deck that you can not or wouldn't do with a physical one, like destroying a card! 👀🤬 #indiedev

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Smart Cropping?! 🤷🏾‍♂️

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Catching up on #inktober #inktober2025 Day 2. Weave. I think I found a nib I like.

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

We're live, with coffee this morning! Join us! www.twitch.tv/actualplay

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Also @secretkc.bsky.social has its own page! So if you're into curated KC nightlife + culture drop, and you're in Kansas City, you know what to do! #kansascity #kcmo

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

This One Coffee Hack.... I’m Coffee-Boxing this morning, because time boxing is for chumps. I am working on Lifted: Indomitable RPG. It’s SUPER late. #ttrpgs AMA —before my coffee runs out. (400g) www.kickstarter.com/projects/mad...

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Daddy's got a Brand new Bag! I can't wait to run this jammie right here!

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

👀 KC, the weekend’s about to pop. We’ve got wine + jazz in Lee’s Summit, ladies night in Midtown, soulful sets at VOO, Parkville Days across the river, and even Alabama Shakes on Sunday. Full rundown drops in this week’s SecretKC. 🎉 👉 Get on the List! #KansasCity #KCevents www.secretkc.com

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

"Don't let them take the Fight outta you" -Ben Harper

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

🔥Top Picks this weekend in KC VOO Lounge – Thu, Aug 7 Cocktail Class + Live Jazz with David Basse Sherri’s Lounge – Sat, Aug 9 Soul-funk with The Go Hard Band Libations & Co – Fri, Aug 8 Blues night with Nick Schnebelen at The 1909 Club Nighthawk – Sat Late Night Talya Groves + Sir Queen And More!

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Mad Jay @madjay.bsky.social · 07/08/2025

KANSAS CITY WEEKENDS 4EVAR! 🤘🏾 🦋 First Flight Giveaway We’re celebrating our first 100 subscribers with a luxe cocktail night at The Monarch Bar — $100 tab, reserved seats, and a signed cocktail book. Want in? Get on the List! there are few spots left before we hit 100!!

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