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Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Today on the road to Ithaca, we meet with one of the project's team members, Daniele Giardini, aka @demigiant.com, and we discuss looking on the other side of the fence and designing our the game's main character, Penelope. Please back Ithaca on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

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Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Today on the road to Ithaca, a video that is a little bit special.

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Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Here's the official revel trailer for Ithaca, our road-trip RPG about climate resistance. The world is burning. There’s a hostage in your trunk. How far will you go? If you'd like to play this one day, please consider backing the project on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

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Le Pixel Hunt - Making Games at the End of the World @thepixelhunt.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Follow the Road to Ithaca on Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/ith...

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Working in my spare time on a Infocom's ZIL language interpreter for fun, and man... debugging this stuff isn't the best experience ever 😅

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Guys... @skunkapegames.com @limitedrungames.com don't you also have a pet peeve about half-finished jobs??

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Daniele Giardini (Demigiant) @demigiant.com · 18/02/2026

Just what we needed from a gamedev engine: a way to fill the market with even more slop, as fast as possible. Unity, why would you focus so much on things whose only yield for us gamedevs is a sinking depression? It seems like you really don't like us anymore

Article title: "Unity says its AI tech will soon be able to prompt full casual games into existence"

Article excerpt: "AI-driven authoring is our second major area of focus for 2026," said Bromberg. "At the Game Developer Conference in March, we'll be unveiling a beta of the new upgraded Unity AI, which will enable developers to prompt full casual games into existence with natural language only, native to our platform—so it's simple to move from prototype to finished product."

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In my free time, I'm working on a control rig system for my personal project (Unity). Tried some popular ready-to-go solutions but, as always, I come back reinventing the wheel 🙄 #gamedev #unity

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

I think indie game developers need a cheap, open gaming platform built on fixed, deliberately limited hardware. An ecosystem where constant technological escalation disappears, speculative bubbles can't form, and creativity thrives without the gravity of hundred-person teams.

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

Perfect Blue truly is a masterpiece. Breaks the wall where entertainment stops and art begins. Still has something to say.

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Games about revolution @peterpunk.bsky.social · 03/06/2025

After more than two years of research and development, the public demo for Becoming Saint is now available on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2643010/... #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #strategy #indiegamedev #medieval #history

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

you can't trust a laser beam called 'die son'

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

The more people can afford the hardware, the more they can spend in making their games awesome instead, which are the ultimate value they can give us!

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

After all these years, people is still complaining about Nintendo offering limited hardware😅 I guess it's ok for a "tech" guy. Many people consider games a piece of tech ("argh, this looks like PS3 graphics, looks old!") and forget they buy games for the FUN, ffs.

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Now on Switch 2 you can point, and then click. Just saying.

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Can you add extra-randomness if it's orange? 😆

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

If you feel paranoid and think someone is plotting against you, it might be a good idea to take a moment to relax and calm your anger.

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

In general, anger exists to protect us from a threat or injustice—when we feel that our rights has been violated or a deserved recognition overlooked. However, this reaction can sometimes be uncontrolled or disproportionate.

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

While chatting with my wife, I realized that paranoia can be a consequence of anger. I believe that we often fall victim to our emotions. So, stress can trigger anger. We ask ourselves why, and when we can’t find an obvious reason, we see dots and start connecting them to make sense of that emotion.

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

@ragso.bsky.social I don’t think I ever had the chance to tell you how great the ending of Dreamfall Chapters was! I played it back when the game was still coming out episodically, and it felt like revisiting a suspended memory from my youth. Truly unforgettable. 🙌✨

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

I guess my father-In-law wanted to send a message to all Santas out there

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

We are such stuff as backlogs are made on 😂

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 23/12/2024

Adoro l'atto di eroismo 😆 "Figlio mio, siamo pellegrini in una terra sacrilega🤠"

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Alla fine è come dici tu: è tutto soggettivo. A me non piace il fantasy in generale perché ha di solito dentro cose che non mi interessano, mentre cura meno gli aspetti che mi interessano. In effetti, amo Il Signore degli Anelli e Terry Pratchett per motivi che non c'entrano col genere.

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

Disco Elysium has great writing. Other modern games like The Last of Us, What Remains of Edith Finch, Bioshock Infinite have great writing, but I won't say they're the standard. I dislike The Witcher writing. I like Deus Ex, but if you remove art and gameplay it's the most boring game ever to me :/

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

But I still think they're good even without the nostalgia lens! (but I know that's hard to support this opinion as I'm also a 38 who grew up playing it on a 286 😅) I actually think nowadays writing standard are pretty awful, while MI1/2 are genius in their simplicity!

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Davide Barbieri (PeevishDave) @peevishdave.bsky.social · 20/12/2024

Also talking about incels... in Monkey 1 and 2, Guybrush is not supposed to save the damsel in distress, as Eleine would have effectively solved the LeChuck problem by herself without his "help". In retrospective the game opposes to a lot of male chauvinism in games of the following decades

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