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Mawxiwtz

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My love language is being totally lost in a dungeon with half my party dead and a chance of taking a random encounter on my next step.

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Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 7h
In between payments, applying for jobs, and running low on funds for health insurance...if folks are able to support, feel free to do so here
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craze @ratfishing.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
if you want some early halloween vibes, WINE & ROSES is the (free!) mid-divorce occult combat rpg people know me for. and you may even like it contains beautiful women, turn-based boss combat, and overpowered crowd control crazetex.itch.io/wine-and-roses
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Wine & Roses by craze
Mid-Divorce Occult Combat RPG
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Kevin Maxon @sonofbadru.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Here's 90 seconds of REVOLUTION FANTASY, which I've been working on discreetly for the last few years. It's built on the bones of Tenderfoot Tactics, in Godot. This is a sandbox combat that I'm using to design skills and progression. Expect me to post a lot more about RF from here on out!
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MinaSheep (Wishlist Sealed Fortress on Steam) @minasheep.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
WILD MAGIC BECKONS DEVOUT BLOOD The latest Sealed Fortress trailer is here! Along with its release date! 🏰 Wishlist on Steam! : store.steampowered.com/app/5210640/...
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Did the playtest for Critical Shift! Pretty neat mix of XCOM and Biohazard/Parasite Eve with a dash of SCP/Control. Also reminded a bit of the eurojank oddity Gorky 17 if anyone's played that. Horror + Tactics have a long history and it's good to see it carried forward here. Please give it a try :D
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Sgt M @sgtm.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Game design meme for me and maybe three other people on this site.
Guy looking at random encounters: "Wow! RPGs are grindy!"
Text overhead: "Random encounters help ensure that the the play experiences combat at regular intervals instead of avoiding fights and ending up underpowered, increasing the risk of quitting entirely."
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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Heads-up for fellow CRPG dungeon crawler fans as one to avoid: this one is made by ban-evading neo-nazis.
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Ogre Run @ogre-run.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Seems like Springer Nature's Japanese Game Studies book finally released. The collection gathers writing from academic researchers in Japan on the history of Japanese Game Studies: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
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Japanese Game Studies
This book introduces the study of games in Japan. It provides a guide for those who want to study Japanese games and do so in Japan.
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The Price of Reason @priceofreason.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
OKAY FINE YOU CAN HAVE A CHURU
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Andrea Demetrio @andreadprojects.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
For the Steam RPG Fest, 8-Colors Star Guardians+ is on the highest discount I can actually set (really, I can't make it cheaper even if I wanted)! store.steampowered.com/app/2483150/... So, it's the right time to convince some friend to try it out (and maybe leave a Steam review) 😛
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Digging how Destiny Spire uses its ATB gauges for Criticals and Misses. You time your Attack to when an Enemy's ATB gauge is full it will be Critical. But if your Attack lands during their Skill execution right after it will Miss. Small but meaningful mechanic among many in this delightful game :)
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Skyboy Games @skyboygames.com · 12/09/2026
One of the more technical nods to Dragon Quest that our NES JRPG, Even Goblins Fall In Love, makes is storing game data in CHR (graphic) data. See all that noise in the tiles? That's monster and dungeon data! #indienes #gamedev #homebrew #retrogame #nes #nesdev #indieretro #screenshotsaturday
Even Goblins Fall In Love, an indie NES JRPG, running in an emulator. Next to it, you can see graphical tiles used in the game. Some of the titles look like white noise static. They are actually compressed game data making room for more code logic in the game itself.
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Played this one a couple years back at Tokyo Game Dungeon, was really impressed with it at the time and it looks like it has really hit its stride (and found a pub to take it worldwide). Sickos please keep an eye on this one :) store.steampowered.com/app/2731030/...
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Dungeon Automata on Steam
Dungeon Automata「Algolemeth」is an "autologic": a JRPG dungeon crawler meets auto battler where you control your party with visual node-based programming. Program your party and conquer dunge...
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r1kGAMES @r1kgames.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We just released our retro rpg Destiny Spire on Steam! Go check it out! #rpg #jrpg #indiegame #retrogaming #gaming store.steampowered.com/app/3369150/...
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the homophobic boy detective @gaorush.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
KENJI ITO I KNEEL
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Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
if capcom made a solid turn-based breath of fire game that looked like pragmata or something, it would sell a billion copies and win game of the year at the game awards
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GSK | ALL CITY SLOP SHOP (ETA SOON) @allcityslopshop.com · 07/09/2026
coming to PC & consoles in early 2027: METRO QUESTER ZERO, a third game in Thousand Games' ultra-compact retro dungeon crawler Quester series, featuring chara/world design by Bastard mangaka Kazushi Hagiwara store.steampowered.com/app/4961120/…
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METRO QUESTER ZERO on Steam
METRO QUESTER ZERO is a dungeon exploration RPG based in a post-apocalyptic futuristic world created by the manga artist Kazushi Hagiwara, with a deep game system designed by Hironori Kato that offers the excitement and surprises reminiscent of 1980s computer games through hack and slash.
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MinaSheep (Wishlist Sealed Fortress on Steam) @minasheep.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
MY DRPG SEALED FORTRESS IS COMING TO STEAM (and Itchio) SOON! If you could wishlist the game it would make my day 🥰 store.steampowered.com/app/5210640/...
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Sealed Fortress on Steam
A dungeon-crawling, turn-based RPG in which you take a party of 3 through the treacherous halls of a castle corrupted by wild magic.
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mcc @dryad.technology · 05/09/2026
Also I know I yell people should read Diana Wynne Jones a lot but I don't talk enough about how people should read Patricia A. McKillip? Not sure if it scratches the Harry Potter itch but if you ever had a period you liked Neil Gaiman, you'd like these books
The Changeling SeaPatricia A McKillip, Alphabet of Thorn
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
For the dawn.
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Listen to Joji Nakata completely destroy his vocal cords for a pitch perfect Dio impression in OT2 (god I love this game)
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Reminded of Sgt. Joe
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
RPG Free Ball Idea: Steal "Blessing in Disguise" from OT2 for your games. It inverts negative bonuses of equipment (like -Speed for Heavy equips) into positives. Lowkey brilliant how it activates so many cool viable equipment choices midway through the game.
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Lie of Caelum: Spirit - Kickstarter Live! @lieofcaelum.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Our Kickstarter is now LIVE! 🎉🎉🎉 Lie of Caelum: Spirit is a traditional turn-based Sci-fi Mecha JRPG inspired by Xenogears and Phantasy Star Make sure to follow us and repost this post to work towards the community goals too! Campaign details below. Let's fly towards the goal!! ⬇️
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
lrt: core memory from Terranigma where I made a choice to elect a town mayor, stepped outside on the World Map, went back to grab something and suddenly a 100 years passed and it was now a city. In a single moment I understood Ark's loneliness as a singular existence as the world changes around him.
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Luci 𓆩♡𓆪🐊 (on break till October) @mewtsukki.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
i'm gonna ramble about game design again sorry and it's gonna be a very unpopular opinion but i do think that it's extra funny how a huge chunk of people that play videogames are allergic to backtracking, one of the top 3 things that actually make videogames unique as a medium
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dvlsblsh @devilsblush.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
dragon quest iv: michibikareshi monotachi / psx heart beat, 2001
adventurer standing under a purple sky. an ivy covered pergola stands to the right, a pond to the left.adventurer standing in a patch of flowers.
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
There's an interesting subtheme in the OT2 NPC microstories of kids needing to look after their parents / take on the role of protecting them. RPGs sadly tend to use kids only as props so it is refreshing to see them written with a lot more agency.
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
RPG Free Ball Idea: Cursed Accessory found 3 floors into a Dungeon that jacks up your Encounter Rate to max on equip, can only be removed in Town so the player has a helluva return trip back, once Exorcised it becomes an Accessory that lowers Encounter Rate to 0 (or to the lowest amount) instead.
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Ephiam @ephiam.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🌟Last Days of Tsufana's steam page is LIVE!🌟 Please like and follow the page in support of its announcement! There will surely be a demo in the not so distant future 😉 store.steampowered.com/app/4877580
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Akito INOUE @hiyokoya6.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
I co-edited an English-language book, Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games link.springer.com/book/9789819... and it is now out. The project started back in 2021, so it has taken us five years to finally get it published... hiyokoya.hatenadiary.jp/entry/2026/0...
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Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games - Critique of Games メモと寸評
I co-edited an English-language book, Japanese Game Studies: A Guide to Studying Japanese Games https://link.springer.com/book/9789819598564 and it is now out. The project started back in 2021, so it ...
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Bobby Schroeder @ponett.dog · 20/08/2026
New on Patreon: I've got a big (free) post about Super Lesbian Animal RPG's upcoming version 2.0 update featuring the long-awaited Hard Mode! Read on for details about what I'm working on and some insight into where my head's at right now design-wise #SLARPG
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What's next for SLARPG version 2.0: Hard Mode and more! | Bobby Schroeder
Hey everyone. Been a minute. Recently I replayed Super Lesbian Animal RPG front to back for the first time since release, to reflect on the
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
lrt: Wouldn't be a Phantasy Star IV post without II goobers in the comments going like "But 2 is better, right?", "I like 2's ending better", "Why won't you validate my opinion about 2, the only game in the series I've bothered to play". 30+ years of this shit, just move on dawg
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AuroralVisage @auroralvisage.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
I'm making thumbnails for my Phantasy Star IV playthrough and can't help but tear up during the ending. It’s such a special game to me. Perfection. 10/10
A screenshot from Phantasy Star IV. Rune says to Chaz, “It’s over… huh, Chaz?”
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Schera Wyss 💀 SLUG HUMAN @scherawyss.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Menus in my psycho alternate-history RPG
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
If you haven't already, you should be following @tunditur-unda.itch.io and playing their games! The Dev Logs on their sketch games are highly illuminating if you want to think about RPG design from different angles. Generational talent over here whose work you won't want to miss :D
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Rock Paper Shotgun @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Sraëka Lillian's one-a-week RPG "sketches" are a lovely series of experiments with hoary old conventions from Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest
If you love mildly broken takes on classic RPG conventions such as healing fountains and castle heists, check out Sraëka Lillian's one-a-week RPG "sketches".
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shoy's little quiet spot @shoyslayer.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
🐕🗡️ Doggone, my "Helen-Like" RPG, is out! 🗡️🐕 fight my five weird guys in this extremely short, extremely short turn-based combat game. riffs heavily on Helen's Mysterious Castle, and available for free (in browser!): dvtzr.itch.io/doggone
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Got a few days off work due to a medical thing so I'm blazing through the Octopath games to take notes. Recognizing the RS3 elements in here already (tho the game doesn't seem to trust you too much with them in its opening hours).
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Made a thing :P
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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
Gonna be a tough few months as the dental work continues, so I have a sale for 50% off all of my itchio games 'til about the end of the month itch.io/s/198269/fur...
An RPG party menu. The visible characters are Android Spellbow Mere, Awoken Medic Chae-Won, Gorgon Cheerleader Kostas, and Mummy Paladin Yaqoob.A JRPG fight scene in 'I Have Low Stats But My Class Is "Leader", So I Recruited Everyone I Know To Fight The Dark Lord'. The player has a party of 99 characters facing a single enemy. The party has a variety of buffs as well as varying amounts of remaining Hp.A low-res first person 3D view of golf on the green. The text box asks "How will you swing?" with the choices of Cautious approach, Moderation, and Full send it.A pixel art crystalline hallway with a toilet at the end.
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Kimimi🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com · 09/08/2026
With some patience and effort, Power Dolls' endless, inescapable torrent of stats transform into a fantastically thoughtful and memorably demanding tactical experience: (This is the first article of ~10~ in my Power Dolls series!) kimimithegameeatingshemonster.com/2025/12/05/p...
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Power Dolls: Stat-tastic
Kogado’s strategic bipedal mech action begins not on the battlefield, but in the conspicuously thick 96 page manual that rests on top of the four floppy discs contained within the game’…
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Electric Airship✨ Isle of Reveries OUT ON CONSOLES!! @electricairship.com · 09/08/2026
Soon interviewing Don Miguel, the man responsible for bringing RPG Maker to the West with his unofficial translation. Background: www.otherstrangeness... Y'all got any questions for this legend? Send them in the replies below! :) #RPGMaker #Rm2k #rm2k3
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How One Man Brought RPGMaker 2000 to the West
The story of how RPGMaker first became available to English-speaking audiences is a little strange.
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Ephiam @ephiam.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
➡️Last Days of Tsufana has a demo on ITCH! ⬅️ ⚔️Witness Tsufana's downfall through eight tragic individuals, each roped into a conflict beyond their understanding. ✨Level up your abilities through use, increasing their offensive and defensive capabilities! ephiam.itch.io/last-days-of...
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Andes Chucky @wendeego.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
For scrmbl, I wrote about Brandish, and its PSP remake Brandish: The Dark Revenant!
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In Brandish, the dungeon rotates with you | scrmbl
Game mechanics are not a "solved" problem.
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Ollie @ordheist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
reminder that I'm looking for character design work! DM me or email me via my bio. I also have an e-book out which you can also find in my bio, only 4 bucks!
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Mawxiwtz @mawxiwtz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Got to play this for the table at the Lancer session I ran last night and I'm still jamming to it. VOTOMS OST is pretty underrated :)
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Votoms Ost 2 - 02 Scramble
YouTube video by Ni Ro
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mossworm.bsky.social @mossworm.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
designing types of lizard people for the RPG. separate species, not races.
simple color blocked drawings of fantasy species resembling bipedal lizards. from left to right: Saro are light reddish and have a single elongated crest, Sitta are orange with a large beak, Ceru are dark blue with a bony frill, Kiyoss are dark green with two horns and a club tail, Biyo are grey with a rounded crest, and Raki are golden and tall with an armored forehead.
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