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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 11h

Star bento is shaping up to consist of about 50 locations, all hand drawn! #playdate #gamedev #pixelart

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

STAR BENTO! スターベントウ This weekend on track to finish the last background art for Star bento! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #playdate

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Dom @knockoffgoblin.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

they work at an amusement park and make minimum wage

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oOO-Oatcup! @oatcup.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

because true gamers demand realism, the next update to Cherry Hill for @play.date will include realistic gas prices! experience the thrill of a crashing economy! become stranded at a truck stop ...𝓈𝑜𝓂𝑒𝓌𝒽𝑒𝓇𝑒! so real it's now technically impossible to complete the game!!!!!! #indiegame

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looking awesome, is this pre-rendered 3d > pixel sprite?

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carl // Isle of Reveries OUT NOW! @desertcucco.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Throughout your adventure you'll find Trinkets that grant your tools powerful new abilities. With the Witch Hat equipped, any enemy you teleport with will be turned into a frog! 🦉🪄🐸 Isle of Reveries is out now on Steam and consoles! Links ⬇️ #screenshotsaturday #zelda #indiegame

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TimOfLegend @timoflegend.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

It’s sorta like King Arthur in that way.

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yeah I’m a Ghibli Stan what about it

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Expect this to be true with every AAA game in production in the future :(

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I feel that certain forms of art are relatively insultated from the threat of AI. It will create a bifurcated market, where people who engage with art primarily as a distraction will bow to the machine, whereas people that use art for its emotional value will pay a premium for human made stuff.

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

STAR BENTO! Working on a space-radar this morning! Hope this runs ok on system.. 😅 #playdate #gamedev #pixelArt

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Playdate @play.date · 09/09/2026

Season 3 CONFIRMED, starts October 8. Pre-order now! 🛼 play.date/s3

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

STAR BENTO! スター弁当 The primal feelings collecting a spinning coin was known by our forefathers but has since been forgotten #playdate #pixelArt #gameDev

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

This is one of the best used/retro game stores share.google/odLNzjSfvJVf...

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There comes a point where you must answer the question: “Do I play NEW games or do I just play Diablo II AGAIN”

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Richard Jordan @ericretro.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Haven't posted for #screenshotsaturday in a long time, so here's a little clip of Melkhior's Tower, coming soon to the Playdate. Currently on the 3rd iteration of tweaking 'n polishing the levels. bitglint.itch.io/melkhiors-to... #melkhiorstower #playdate #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

With GTAVI, We gotta be nearing the end of outrage culture… right?

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Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Only video game hardware maker to do this, as far as I'm aware...

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Lamb 🐑🎮 @lamb.northsky.social · 21/08/2026

ports u to playdate

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Twilight Town and Destiny Isle make you nostalgic for original settings and characters that carries you through the entire rest of the game even with their fraction of the runtime.

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Kingdom Hearts 1+2 best quality is not IP crossover but the expert understanding and empathy of the player's nostalgia, not for IP and familiar characters, but the nostalgia you felt as a child- child like yearning. Children yearn in the evening for what they experienced just that morning.

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Sen, but Spooky @dresdencodak.com · 15/08/2026

Art tip: don't share everything you draw. Draw things you never intend to show anyone. Your brain needs time to just exist in a state that's not about performing for strangers. This used to be the normal way to exist before social media poisoned us.

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

GTA VI couldn’t spend any amount of development cost to capture the same breadth of human emotion Big Walk has

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

Horizon zero dawn. Awful writing.

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Star Bento! スター弁当 Moon Shop Background Art Timelapse: #gamedev #playdate #pixelArt

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Boghog @boghogstg.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

If a game connected with you & changed your tastes in some meaningful way pls do urself favor and dig up the devs, their past work, their scene/peers & their influences. Don't be like those ppl who find the latest game in a long tradition & treat it like an exception

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Star Bento! スター弁当 Warp screen coming online! #screenshotSaturday #playdate #gamedev

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 05/08/2026

if it's layoffs on ship no matter what, never pay that company for anything. why would you. your money will never reach anyone who worked on what you bought, or respected those people. you'll not be investing in anything in any sense software is on the honour system and these people have no honour

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

This is correct, it is an art direction problem not a tools problem. Unreal provides the fastest ‘good enough’ to the untrained eye. The tools have advanced but the teams ability to define and execute a specific vision have not.

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Joey Ferris @ferriswheelpro.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

"Let PlayStation have a Wii U generation" goes so hard.

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

“Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead.”

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DOKI DOKI CRT PIXEL @crtpixel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

OUTRUN STUDIO 128/SEGA 1990 PC ENGINE

Should we pull over the Ferrari for some gas, darling?

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Daniel @danieltg.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

On the topic of vibecoding in retro gaming, it should also be made aware that the lack of information about making custom games for old systems has lead to people vibe-coding games. If you don't want people to vibe-code, then we NEED to have more ACCESSIBLE information ABOUT coding in general!

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Most hyper real game art is made in under a year through internal and external co-dev once indecision is impossible

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

STAR BENTO! This week made a title screen, and wrapping up the polish pass on the prologue.... #playdate #gamedev #pixelArt #screenshotSaturday

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Joy🏳️‍⚧️ 又 @safewithjoy.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Long ago when the four nations lived in harmony.

Game cube, Dreamcast, Xbox, PlayStation 2 signage at a 2001 convention

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

This should replace gender selection in character creation

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

If you're lucky you'll use it to play a 25 year old game that was just re-released for full price!

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piousPigeon @piouspigeon.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Most AAA studios unless they overtly express anti AI philosophies are definitely developing with AI.

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Ray @raysan5.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

A raylib user ported #raylib to @play.date! 🤯 Port just adds a new rcore_playdate.c and 3 new functions for the crank, it was possible thanks to the new raylib software renderer; definitely, it keeps delivering, best new feature ever! 🚀 Source code: github.com/plaidate/ray...

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