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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

You Rule, and You're super cool. Gottem.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Wishing you a speedy recovery.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Yeah, we ran a kickstarter last year, and have a different product about to hit the water. If nothing changes, we'll have a >$200,000 tax bill. That's multiple people's salaries.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

*In a single player experience, Cheating in multiplayer is robbing other people of fun, and that sucks.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

IMO People are better experts on what they have fun with than designers. I don't think anyone is robbing themselves of anything by skipping (or cheating*) their way through an experience. That doesn't mean all games have to be for all people, and difficult games still have their place.

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Rob Daviau @robdaviau.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Me, every morning

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

Sultai if you feel confident, Temur if you just want big stuff to throw at someone.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

As a board game developer, and specifically one who operates on Kickstarter, basically any board game Kickstarter run in the past 6-12 months just saw their operating profit vanish in a cloud of smoke. Our industry is about to get decimated.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This game rules and I'm so happy that people are still finding it.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Cosigned, this game is so good.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

For a lot of people, tariffs are not a distraction. They are impactful and will cost jobs and livelihood.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Found this through the pointcrow vid. Looking forward to a release and amazing work.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

IME people don't like admitting that their takes are subjective. A decent chunk of internet culture lacks the nuance to recognize that subjective takes are valid and important, that a vast majority of criticism is subjective, and that they aren't rooting in objectivity when they speak.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Muhammad Ali comes out this year, so they can have a boxing match.

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Dan Thurot @danthurot.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Thunder Road: Vendetta is another effort by Restoration Games that not only captures the spirit of the original, but supercharges it. My review: spacebiff.com/2025/02/19/t...

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Witness My Exhaust Pipe, Sucka

There’s something refreshing about Thunder Road: Vendetta. In a bygone era we would have called it Ameritrash, although there’s an elegance under the hood that belies its spots of rust.…

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

This is a very good dog good job.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

I love the Marriage% speedruns in Stardew Valley, where the first 15-20 minutes of the run are carving crop circles in the beach.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

hell yeah it rules. Outer Worlds is also good!

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Have you played Outer Wilds, a game released in the exact same year, which I constantly get confused with this game?

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Oh, and wrasslin' Go Turbo Floyd

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

tbh, this is my 'personal' social media now, so I'm just blocking/muting people who talk about politics on here. This place is for games and comics and pictures of animals.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

I usually hate puzzle games, but Storyteller clicked for me in a way that little else has.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

I saw this so many times in video games. My first job was a team of 20 balance designers, and by last count only one other person besides me was still in games.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Patrick and I are going to get some sleep deprivation for the kids, starting at 10AM ET. Come watch us bungle through Elden Ring, while hopefully being a little bit entertaining. And if you have the means, please toss a couple of bucks towards towards CT Children's hospitals.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

www.polygon.com/best-of-the-... This is a leading indicator that I work with some of the most talented people in the industry. For the fifth year in a row, we're on the "best board game of the year" list from Polygon. This rules.

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The best board games we played in 2024

Building community at the table

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Alice Averlong 🏳️‍⚧️ @alice.averlong.com · 08/12/2024

My big project: The Death Generator. It's a tool for making fake video game screenshots, just fill in new text and it'll give you a (generally) pixel-accurate image back, the correct fonts and everything. deathgenerator.com

The Mario 64 intro scene with a letter from Princess Peach, reading:
Dear Mario. Please come to the castle. I'm down bad. Yours truly-- Princess Toadstool (Peach)

CATS from the video game Zero Wing (the All Your Base Are Belong To Us game), saying: "I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is Futile"

Dracula from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, saying to Richter "Get out of my house"

The transportation advisor from SimCity 2000, saying "YOU CAN'T STAY ON TWITTER! YOU WILL REGRET THIS!"

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

If he's into math + Engineering, Mark Rober's Build Boxes are awesome.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It's 15 bucks, and 1000% worth it. It's amazing.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

10. Tribes of Midgard - This game has been on my list for like 4 years now. It hasn't changed in the last two. This is the comfort game. We load it up and play when we've had a bad week, or we don't want to learn something new. It's the nice cup of tea that we all remember. And it's still great.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

9. Helldivers 2 - I really need to get back to this, but helldivers probably has the best moment to moment gameplay of any game I've played this year. It's just so much fun to load up and roll out to shoot bugs and robutts.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

8. Cascadia - This came out in 2021, but I played it for the first time this year. Another thinky game, but longer and very pretty. You make an ecosystem for your wildlife and they all want different things. You will be frustrated by trout.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

7. Mechwarrior 5 - I pull this game out every couple of years with some friends. Stompin around in a big dumb suit is always going to be fun. But having a 'go to sleep' button is always going to be better.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

6. DaDaDa - Okay I literally just picked this up at PAX Unplugged, but I played like 10 games of it there. You make a lil fake language by putting out syllables and attaching pictures to them. Then you try and talk to each other. It's incredibly clever and very fun.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

5 Mecha Simultactics - So this game is only in Alpha. Barely a tech demo. Bottom of the barrel. And it slaps. The core systems are so good that I've put like 15 hours into it. It's a turn based multiplayer fighting game where you pilot a mech and punch each other. Or sword each other. It is so good.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

4. River City Glassworks - Another cute little game that got way more mileage than I expected. It's the perfect filler game. Just thinky enough to take enough brainspace, but playing in under an hour.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Ticket to Ride: Legends of the West - TTR, but Legacy. I'm a sucker for a legacy game, and being able to do it with my train game folks is double plus good. Also when you get to [spoiler] you can [spoiler] [spoiler] [spoiler]

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

2. Elden Ring (Seamless Co-op Mod) - Elden Ring is great, but the seam co op mod lets it function how everything should function. Everyone gets a horse, you all walk in and get blasted by a Fire Giant. This game rules.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

It's about time for my top 10 games of 2024. I don't think the order of this thing is particularly necessary, here's my list. It's probably gonna be multiple posts. Or Skeets. Or whatever they're called here. 1. Abiotic Factor - Truly a fun game with friends. It's Don't Starve by way of Half-Life 2

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Somehow everyone found me through this post. I have twice as many followers as I did an hour ago. @bananachangames.bsky.social Is too powerful.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I'd watch a fight between Majima and Paul Rudd.

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Brian @murderknuckles.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I've decided what my first Bluesky post is. And it's sharing this picture with @bananachangames.bsky.social

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