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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Professionally good, inn is doing well and I still have contract work for bills. Family and personally is difficult due to health issues but doing my best. I hope you and felice are doing well. Miss you both lots.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

In general, I just think there's a lot of lacking of genuine experience and more acceptance of plastic feelings for the social internet that creates a hollowness in me that I don't accept anymore. I hope y'all are being good and doing well.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

That paired with negativity and outrage being the primary communication driver makes me completely disengage. I got enough on my plate I don't want to get handed more. The opposite is framing everything you experience as incredible to foster fomo which also feels bad to see.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Socials are a firehouse of opinions, breaking news, and experiences without a real way to prune the experience. Every time I mention this, I'm met with "just unfollow or mute" which is short sighted. Every daily experience is different and thus interest and capacity is with it.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

I've thought a lot of why I moved away from social media and general online communication. I've realized that a lot of it is that capacity and connection is more important to me than what is really offered in many online spaces now.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

@megacrit.com Design feedback for STS2: The first area shops shouldn't have items that the player would have no possibility of being able to purchase. If every path has a shop in the first 8 battles there's no way to purchase anything of value. It's a bad experience with many simple solutions.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

it's impressive how confident you are at being wrong

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Hello, I'm currently developing a game that has a fishing mini game in my game!

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Damned To Hellgore 🐦‍⬛ (andrew elmore) @elmore.zone · 16/06/2026

AFTER NEARLY THREE LONG YEARS, THE SINGLE BIGGEST CREATIVE PROJECT OF MY LIFE IS FINALLY COMPLETE!! THE NAMCO MUSEUM MUSEUM - EVERY COLLECTION, EVERY GAME, EVERY REGION, EVERY PORT RELEASES FRIDAY 6/26/26 @ NOON PST youtube.com/@MythicResonance

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Man, I think about the game a lot and was talking to Josh a few months ago about how we would redo it current day. I think, EVENTUALLY, I want to try again now that I'm a bit better at my job lol.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I've been working on having a dynamic sky and fog system for a while and I'm finally starting to get it feeling good. I really love how this scene specifically turned out.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Life is fragile and long and way too fucking short. Love fiercely because time is undecided. Fuck cancer.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

My dog doesn't understand how hard things are or how uncertain everything feels all the time. She's just happy to be asleep beside me and I'm so grateful for her.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

@musicologyduck.bsky.social Hey! I was just thinking about you yesterday and miss chatting ever since we both left twitter. I hope you're doing well.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

EASILY one of my proudest video game achievements

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

Working on a mini game where the player rides a train up a mountain to the observatory and tries to find constellations in the sky. A lot of my effort recently has been to romanticize small moments in life in the game so things that many people can do in real life feel magical.

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Damned To Hellgore 🐦‍⬛ (andrew elmore) @elmore.zone · 19/12/2025

I am so deeply sorry to be in the position to have to pull this lever again, but I just watched my car get towed away and I don't really know what else to do anymore. More details in the update & description, but if you're able to help out or share, we would be grateful beyond words.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

I referenced this EXACT train for a part of the game I'm designing. So cool to see funiculars inspiring more people haha.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 12/11/2025

Being completely genuine, nothing in the world has ever crushed my spirit more than dealing with game publishers.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I literally logged into this fucking website and THIS is the first thing i see.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

All of these have to feel cared for equally because if not the experience has lost its purpose.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Every mini game could be someone's favorite so they all need to be equally thoughtful in player experience. You might want to stay and help take care of the inn and the guests with quiet peace and occasional chaos. You might want to just know how to find a way home and way to see the story unfold.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I think that's most challenging to communicate when I talk about what makes the game special. It's that all parts are designed to support each other because it's built by a person that spent their life playing this type of game incorrectly and needed a game to give this specific experience.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

The combination of making a visually vibrant world to explore off path, interesting global mini games, and ways to move back and forth between old spaces and new in engaging ways brings a unique experience that wasn't always in the original vision but a satisfying world couldn't exist without it.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

Without combat able to give the player easy access to quick engagement, the spaces between locations take on that task. As a result it's been a constantly evolving problem to solve.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

This causes a lot of challenges, especially narrative wise. However, the one that unites all three paths to my frustration is engagement balance. Under normal circumstances there would be combat to break up movement points because in most RPGs combat is a high engagement time padding for story.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

My game, Inn Between, is designed in a way that different gameplay styles influence how players reach the end of the game. I wanted to do this because I the concept of all roads leading to the same result fits the game but also I don't want to take away progress if people just want to focus on fun.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Until one is carbon negative, stands on it and has it as a part of their actual development I will not be giving any leeway at all.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I get that and I'm not saying you are supporting them. I'm just saying how I view all crypto and AI as a whole. Just because they're trying doesn't mean I'm handing out passes because easy forgiveness leads to permittable performative bullshit.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Local crypto says "oh im different i want to therapy" like it exempts them of all the fucking damage they caused. absolutely fucking not.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

If someone lit your house on fire every day for 10 years and got paid for it then one day came up and said "hey I can light your house on fire less and still make the same amount of money we cool right?" would you give them a pass???

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Still an object that had no purpose that did incredible damage to the planet then "solved" the problem that it caused 12 years later while we're seeing the climate crisis becoming extremely visibly terrible. There should not be a pass for any AI or crypto that suddenly pretends to give a shit.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

If any folks have resources for education in game level design, more specifically open world level design I would greatly appreciate it. Thank you.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

i just constantly feel like communication needs purpose and talking about how I'm feeling is selfish compared to how insane and shitty the rest of the world is. So, I don't wanna talk openly about what is happening w me but I miss being an online goofball sometimes

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 10/08/2025

if you hate someone and you tell them in a way that isn't you doing something fucking cool while also hating them you are fucking up. "yo I'm skating a half pipe but i still fucking hate you" is way more cool than "your addiction to glue is tearing this family apart"

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Damned To Hellgore 🐦‍⬛ (andrew elmore) @elmore.zone · 06/08/2025

I've truly enjoyed the small ways I've been able to help Marc on Inn Between. What started as a way to work through some game design ideas after being tossed out into the gutter by the machine of the industry enough times, has flowered into a whole entire video game bursting with ideas and life.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 06/08/2025

I'd like to show you all my game Inn Between. It's a cozy game for people that are bad at cozy games. I've been working on it since November with the more recent help of @brylon.bsky.social and @elmore.zone and last month we finished the proof on concept. Excited to continue creating this.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I completely agree. The only way you're able to up your rates and take "less" is if you're already affluent enough to not need the current job you're taking on in order to survive.

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marcstraight.bsky.social @marcstraight.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Being away from making music for such a long time while I work on my game has been refreshing. I do have music that I want to share. However, I'm more focused on making worlds that that music can exist in.

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