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Nate Purkeypile: Solo Indie Dev🤘🏹🔪 @npurkeypile.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I’m a solo dev (worked on Fallout) and just opened the STEAM PLAYTEST for my roguelike inspired by iconic ’80s horror flicks you are the HORROR VILLAIN stalk your victims use stealth & disguises turn everyday objects into weapons playtest is solo but co-op coming GONE FERAL

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

The Kickstarter for this indie game I helped on has launched. Necrofane is inspired by FROM Software's first title, Kingsfield. Please check it out, give a share. Someone you know my love this game!

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Where did NVIDIA get these names from. They seem to off the wall to be AI generated.

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Ty 💀 @tys.work · 14/04/2026

My college is hiring a full time game design faculty, with a strong union! please share around, link in reply. $85k-100k Salary Benefits and retirement matching Design, Programming or Art disciplines Seattle Area

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Aaron Makes Video Games (and a podcast) @nemo10.bsky.social · 15/01/2026

The podcast is back! This week on Make Games, Drink Coffee, I spoke with @natloh.bsky.social about game design, leadership, masking, and the need for regular game developers for have a seat at the proverbial table when big companies decide how (and if) to use AI. www.makegamesdrinkcoffee.com

It basically repeats the post, don't worry about it.

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Anyone else notice how bad Google Docs auto-correct has gotten lately. Sometimes it ignores typos and other times the word is changed into something completely unrelated to the current sentence. "Commiting" becomes commuting instead of committing. "Suprressing" becomes "Superceding" ??? I blame AI

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 21/08/2025

Does anyone have a clever pun or caption for this image? Cat-ra-oke? Meowtallica? "And I'm feeeeeeeeeline good"

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 20/08/2025

I finally got a perfect score in Dungeon Sweeper on my lunch break.

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Are there any fictional worlds that use the metal Jabronium?

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Does his hair really look like instant ramen?

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

If you missed my GDC talk with Monica Fan, Scott Fine, Damien Crawford, Jakub Kasztalski, and Joe Quadara, it is now up on the vault in the free content category! My topic was systemic complexity. Let me know if I missed something. gdcvault.com/play/1035079...

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Independent Games Summit: Gameplay System Design for Indies Microtalks: A Soapbox

A well-designed gameplay system is essential to creating an engaging experience, and even minor adjustments can lead to significant improvements. However, for many first-time indie game developers, sy...

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

If you're a publisher or VC partner and your team score formula is only "total years of experience" x "total shipped games" you're missing out on a key factor that could spell doom. "Total games shipped together."

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Dense and full of good information / resources. If you are considering a multiplayer / GaaS title and this article sounds wild / foreign to your ears, maybe reconsider that game, scope down, or hire a consultant to guide you through your design. I'm sure a lack of social design has ended some games.

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

@johnaustin.bsky.social proposed an amendment to my flavors of complexity examples that I like with Outerwilds moving into a Explorative Complexity category (+the Witness, Runic) and Disco Elysium taking up the Narrative Complexity spot. Thoughts? What games do you think fit these categories?

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

I'm speaking at #GDC! If you are there, please consider attending the Gameplay System Design microtalks. I'll be talking about Systemic Complexity and I hope to see you there.

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

www.nature.com/articles/s44... every two minutes, you alternate between 100 C water and 30 C water for a total of 32 minutes (8x in each temp pool). If you ever want to spend all that time to cook a "scientifically perfect egg"

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Periodic cooking of eggs - Communications Engineering

Emilia Di Lorenzo and colleagues propose an approach to address the energy transport problem of cooking the albumen and yolk of a boiled egg at their optimal temperatures without separation. By altern...

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT! A 1995 CD-ROM. A game buried for a reason. You flip a card. The screen glitches. Something is watching. Forbidden Solitaire—a dungeon horror from the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline. store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... With @slicknicklives.bsky.social

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Raph Koster @raphkoster.bsky.social · 13/01/2025

Yesterday we announced that we are doing a Kickstarter for STARS REACH. We're doing this because the climate for games investment is terrible. We've raised a lot of money, and expect to keep raising. Being able to show support from players helps. Even a Follow goes a long way:

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

📢 Announcement! 🗣️I'll be speaking at GDC this year! 👯‍♂️I will be participating in the Gameplay Systems Design for Indies Microtalks with the incredibly talented Monica Fan, Scott Fine, Joe Quadara, Jakub Kasztalski, and Damien Crawford 📅Please consider adding this talk on your GDC scheduler app

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Independent Games Summit: Gameplay System Design for Indies Microtalks: A Soapbox | 2025 Schedule | Game Developers Conference (GDC)

Attend 750 sessions for game designers, programmers, artists, producers, audio, business, and marketing professionals over 5 days at GDC.

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

1st diamond victory in Arena/Ranked

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

First time to get 10 wins in #TheBazaar Arena 🙌

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

On this day, at the Hudson Yards, I have fallen to #Mariahgeddon

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

This holiday season, should you find Whamageddon not challenging enough, consider the new game plus version; Mariahgeddon. My score from last year was 3 days.

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I finally got 10 wins with Dooley in The Bazaar. And in quite an epic fashion. This build was able to beat 66 gold out of the training bot.

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

It's either diamond or bronze wins (sometimes unfortunate journeys) for me. playthebazaar.com

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I finally got a 10 win victory in The Bazaar and it was a perfect victory. This is my new Balatro.

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Nat Loh 🔜 DICE / GDC @natloh.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Hello Bluesky, it's time I stopped lurking. I'm Nat Loh, currently a freelance design consultant working with [redacted]. I've previously been a Design Director/Lead at Toys for Bob (Skylanders), Beyond Games, and Disruptive Games. Hear to talk leadership in games + cats

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