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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 13m

I go through this regularly. Every few years.

mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 2h

I've got an ink game I'd like to include as a writing sample; should I submit a truncated playable HTML build with a note, the .ink source, copy out a transcript, or something else?

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 18h

I'm playing Manaic Mansion again and it's pretty good for a 30+ year old game.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 22h

If I made a parser-based game in TADS3 or Inform7, would anybody play it? Would it encourage people to support the development of future such games on patreon? I probably couldn't pull it off without a return because of CAPITALISM (I need work). #interactiveFiction #gameDev

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 23h

how the fuck do you pawn someone else's stuff? That's fucked.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 29/09/2026

This little monkey is 9 years old, hard to believe it. #catsOfBlueSky

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 29/09/2026

"Retirement" becomes a euphemism for dropping dead in the middle of your shift.

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Specialist_K @thevaliantone.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Retirement has been phased out, thanks to capitalist enshittification, judging by the 80+ year old Walmart greeters 😭

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 29/09/2026

I don't even know what retirement would mean at this point. Your body gives out and you hope you've accumulated enough wealth to last your last desperate years?

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 29/09/2026

Anyway, I write, draw, code, etc because I enjoy the process. Using any form of AI to do these things for me would negate the very reason I was doing so in the first place. I would feel nothing. Accomplish nothing. Sure I might end up with an end-product, but that's the least significant part of it.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 29/09/2026

I also had a ZX Spectrum clone from Timex, but never really got into Spectrum BASIC because it was so weird to me, and it was a lot harder to get the materials to learn from in the US.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 29/09/2026

I started coding in junior high in 1990 with a TRS-80, C64, and Atari 800 I picked up at a rummage sale. Three versions of BASIC on machines just a bit past their heyday, entering lines of code from books and magazines checked out of the library. Coding is fun. Fixing bugs is fun. Learning is fun.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 29/09/2026

I think dogs are tiny naked humans in this world.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 29/09/2026

Managed to get a decal system implemented for Torchlike's full release. Should let me add cool little variation to the textures so things feel less griddy. #devLog #godotEngine Check out the demo (which does not have decals) if you haven't! store.steampowered.com/app/5038760/...

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Torchlike on Steam

A tense first-person dungeon crawl where a single dying torch stands between you and the darkness.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

It was pretty great. I don't think Mike Flanagan has disappointed me yet.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

That was more or less my experience. I remember a home console port that didn't even have the voice chip, important entirely because of my memories.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

1981 Think the ColecoVision port for most of these. Except Ultima obviously.

Wizard of Wor, Vanguard, Mouse Trap, Lady Bug, Ultima, Astrosmash, Kaboom!, Gorf, Donkey Kong

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

1980. This was hard. Too many good games that meant a lot to me as a kid playing them years later. Galaxian is a mistake, should be Galaga, but I think that might have been '81? I don't remember.

Missile Command, Berzerk, Pac-Man, Galaxian, Adventure, Akalabeth, Sasuke and Commander, Rogue, Star Castle

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

1979. This was harder, added a lot of Scott Adams adventure titles. Imagine the TRS-80 releases.

Galaxian, Asteroids, Lunar Lander, The Count, Eamon, Voodoo Castle, Temple of Apshai, Mystery Fun House, Pyramid of Doom

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

1978. Lower right should be "Dungeon Campaign."

9 games from 1978:

Space Invaders, Beneath Apple Manor, Superman (Atari 2600), Super Breakout, Pirate Adventure, Adventureland, Skydiver, Human Cannonball, and IMAGE COMPUTER PRODUCTS

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

Surprised not to see the Thompson Twins game up there with Frankie.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

Uh, I ignored the main quest to just go do side quests and fight resonants, is that bad? Should I leave moldville and do some main quest stuff?

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

Fewer people are reading, but the ones who do read are reading more.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 28/09/2026

Two data points: 1. Book sales rise with population growth. If they rise slower than population, that's a decline against expectation. 2. Most books are purchased by people under 30 making lower to middle class income. When these groups have less purchasing power, sales slow.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 27/09/2026

That's what happens when we measure quality by duration of play.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 27/09/2026

You're responding to a post from last November but I'm still in the same situation - managed to limp along another year, but I'll be in a tough spot come December. That said I am also working on a game, and I just finished a demo for Next Fest.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 27/09/2026

In the early 2000s I had a collections guy hang up on me in frustration because I told him it wasn't my policy to get upset about things I couldn't control.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 27/09/2026

You're thinking of Rocktober Sunrise

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 27/09/2026

Guys used to stamp their feet while their eyes bulged out to twice the size of their skulls and their bowties spun like propellers. Dark times indeed.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 26/09/2026

I could tell you but it'd be faster to just play my demo.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 25/09/2026

This would fix me. Literally. Imagine if I could create without an eye towards commercial marketability, all the weird shit I could justify without worrying about the fact that I'm dead broke in a month or so unless I find a job.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 25/09/2026

The best time to go meatless was when Trump gutted the FDA. The second best time is now.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 25/09/2026

Most of the interviews I've been to they offer you a drink if you didn't bring one.

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 25/09/2026

But children cannot Pokemon Go to the polls?!?

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mcoorlim is developing Torchlike @mcoorlim.com · 24/09/2026

Kids these days neither feel the magic nor do they hear the roar.

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