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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 5h

Even if you decide to set aside the walkthrough and play by yourself again, the slightest friction will make you return to the walkthrough, is my experience.

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 5h

This reminds me a lot of using a walkthrough when playing an adventure game. I think most people have experienced that you can often start off just fine playing without hints in such games, but the moment you look up something it becomes very very hard to keep playing on your own.

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Sophie 🎲🏳️‍⚧️ @sophieh.itch.io · 5h

#RNGDay date selection begins in 15 minutes! (Explanation of process first, then the selection!) www.twitch.tv/sophiehoulden

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SophieHoulden - Live on Twitch

RNG Day Date Selection! (CW: Tics) | Streaming sophie's dice.

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 8h

what does "unexpected behaviour" even mean when you don't understand the code you're running

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

nothing could possibly go wrong while pouring water on top of your computer equipment

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Is your desk already straining under the weight of your bulky CRT monitor? Why not add some more!

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

idk if this is really a case of "mishearing", but in "Girl" by The Beatles they go "tit tit tit tit" in the backing vocals and pretended it was just an innocent sound like "la la la" or whatever, even though they very much were just saying tit on purpose lol

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Sophie 🎲🏳️‍⚧️ @sophieh.itch.io · 10/10/2026

It’s #RNGDay tomorrow (the 11th)! rngday.com/en/ Tomorrow I’ll be streaming the random selection of next year’s date, and detailing how I removed all the annoying signal from my wonderful noise <3

rngday.com

RNG Day

International Random Number Generation Day

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Cyningstan @cyningstan.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

My Namelib is finally available! It can read in ASCII text in a language, and spit out names that vaguely sound like that language, giving each faction or region in your game its own flavour. You can get the library on its Itch page: cyningstan.itch.io/namelib #msdos #gamedev

cyningstan.itch.io

NameLib by Cyningstan

A name generator for procedural games

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

One time I did a Nicolas Cage deep dive and watched all of his more artsy films (e.g. Raising Arizona, Adaptation, Matchstick Men) and I thought "damn, this is pretty good, why does he do shit like National Treasure??" and then I looked at the box office numbers and that's when I knew why

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Michael @michaelklamerus.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I also think The Chambers Beneath is a neat roguelike for DOS and again, the source code was released and the game is pay what you want cyningstan.itch.io/the-chambers...

cyningstan.itch.io

The Chambers Beneath by Cyningstan

A role-playing dungeon crawler game for DOS

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

haha yeah I remember sometimes spending my entire school lunch break trying to load a game 😭

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I say: let's bring back the glory days of European homebrew and have cassettes for home computers at the till again 😎

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Yeah I kind of get that you only learn the thing by doing it, but man... my house is my sanctum you know 😅

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I've felt my whole life that homework is fundamentally unfair :D

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Sophie 🎲🏳️‍⚧️ @sophieh.itch.io · 03/10/2026

Patrons can get my newest game "Reversitaire" right now! Everyone else will have to wait at least a month! www.patreon.com/SophieHoulde...

Screenshot showing a 5x5 grid of black and white tiles, one column is twisting about the center

Screenshot showing a 6x6 grid of black and white tiles, one row is twisting about the center

Screenshot showing a 20x20 grid of black and white tiles, the bottom four rows have been flipped completely white, but the others are jumbled

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

imagine working in retro computing without getting any of the actual benefits of retro computing, which is being free of modern bullshit

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👁️saac 👁️o @eyesack.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

someone made music theory tutorials in pico-8 and they're extremely cute! bikibird.itch.io/music-theory

bikibird.itch.io

PICO 8 Music Theory for Programmers by bikibird

How Music Works

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I've never been happier to be a freelance solo dev and am in a position to choose the tech I want to use without anyone pushing me in one particular direction.

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

worst is when they stop at the top of an escalator to look around I can't even help it, I'm coming for you old man!

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Laura Eek!! Hall @lauraehall.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

My free annual newsletter, 31 Days of Halloween, hits inboxes tomorrow! One spooky-themed email with cool art and links every day of October, and then it goes back in the crypt. (Did I mention it's free?) Sign up here: buttondown.email/31daysofhall...

buttondown.email

31 Days of Halloween

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

hell yeah, and the same is true for all human expression, not just language. All art is about communication and AI art communicates nothing. It's an empty shell, an ugly hollow husk without anything inside that's worth experiencing.

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Mike Piontek @robotspacer.online · 01/10/2026

I'd love to hear from Playdate devs that have ported Lua games to other platforms. Did you use Love2D or something else? Any general advice? If you've written about your experience please share a link! I'm mainly interested in Mac and Windows, Linux would be nice, maybe Switch someday. #PlaydateDev

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

To me, I much prefer a song that has interesting ideas or novel concepts but is poorly performed, than the other way around.

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

There are lots of different kinds of bad music, but the first things that come to mind that annoy me personally are: - boring/bland, uninteresting, overdone, cliche - not communicating anything in particular, just making sound for the sake of it

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

it's pretty funny* that after all the shit Firefox has pulled over the years, this horrible UI update nobody asked for might finally be the thing that makes me switch to a different browser lol *not funny

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

It's such an obvious point that the ai bros just refuse to understand. I don't want to have a song. I want to make music. I want to spend time making music, because I'm having a good time. I don't want to speed up the process, I want to prolong it. I want to make music forever.

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

The fact that my name is "Martijn" pretty much dates me. Before the 1960s almost nobody was called that, and after the 2010s it wasn't used much either. I was born right into the first dip 😅

Graph showing the popularity of the name "Martijn" in the Netherlands, from 1790 until now. The line is flat until the mid-1960s when it rises very sharply and peaks in the mid-1970s. Then it drops off rapidly again, stays stable for a little while in the mid-1980s, but then declining again over the decades until it reaches the bottom just after 2010.

Source: https://nvb.meertens.knaw.nl/naam/is/martijn

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Everest Pipkin @everest.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm very please to announce a public release of my drag-and-drop bookmarking, game-making, and wandering tool Scrubjay! Scrubjay is a weird website builder that lets you cobble together web elements, images, links, text fragments, etc into a series of nested rooms...

"SCRUBJAY" sits over a bunch of images of frogs, birds, doors. it's a very 90s look

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Why would I spend money on a thing, knowing the money isn't going to end up with the people responsible for the thing? It just doesn't make sense for me, as a consumer. I want to support good work. I want to buy things I like, so the people who make them can make more things I like.

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I've been less excited about AAA games than ever, and the studios firing the people who work on them doesn't help in getting me exciting to buy one.

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Cyningstan @cyningstan.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

A new tactical combat game for #msdos has been released! #StarCadre Team Command puts you in charge of a squad of elite operatives in the far future, conducting special missions on behalf of an interstellar civilisation. Get it from cyningstan.itch.io/star-cadre-t... #ibmpc #cga

A collage of screenshots of Star Cadre: Team Command against a background image. The background images shows the K-53 modified fighter craft in the foreground, that takes the away team on their missions, on a landing pad beside its hangar, with planting around, a city scape behind, mountains in the far distance. The screenshots are all in 4-colour CGA. They include: the title screen which is a 4-colour version of the background image, a mission taking place in an industrial complex, and the personnel screen where a new recruit is being added to the team.

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

I never had a console growing up, until I got an Xbox 360 when I was already in my 20s. So I never really knew just how much cool & out-there stuff there is on platforms like the PS2. My impression was that it's dominated by boring mainstream AAA stuff, but there's actually a lot of creativity!

Screenshot of my PCSX2 library, which contains Gallop Racer 2001, Magic Pengel: The Quest for Color and Road Trip Adventure.

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

oh yeah absolutely it's honestly amazing any of this works at all. and yet, instead of treating it with the skepticism and reluctance it deserves, we built our entire civilization on top of this pile of shite 🥲

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You weren't going to wake up one day and find your MS-DOS now has a chatbot.

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Martijn Frazer 🇳🇱🇪🇸🇮🇪🇮🇸🇸🇮 @martijnfrazer.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Things also moved at a breakneck speed in the 90s, but the update culture was very different. Users decided when to update. They were informed beforehand on what the changes would be. They could prepare for it and then go for it when it was convenient. And if they didn't, things remained the same!

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