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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is getting a bit of attention so I'd like to expand on it a bit. What the compiler offers to the programmer is a way to a) describe their mental model and b) reify it into a behavior for the executing machine. The process of programming is the process of unambiguously describing this model.

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Almost all of my music writing for the past 5 years or so has been for the game I'm making, so I decided I wanted to spend some time writing a piece for its own sake. Pretty happy with how it turned out! soundcloud.com/problem-mach...

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The Incomprehensible and Deadly Love Poetry of Stars

It's been a while since I've written any music not intended as soundtrack for my game project. Quite happy with how this one turned out, some fruitful experimentation with frequency band splitting eff

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

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The Incomprehensible and Deadly Love Poetry of Stars

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

I've been playing a lot of banger games recently but I finished Look Outside a few days ago and am still thinking about it. Highly recommended, though be aware it is a somewhat brutally idiosyncratic survival-horror JRPG. store.steampowered.com/app/3373660/...

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Look Outside on Steam

Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scaveng...

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Alice Camp @acampwriting.com · 29/03/2026

people say they want narrative games to have a lot of choice but the bigger the choice the less it matters. if you can choose to kill a character then every other world state has to scope for a scenario where that char doesn't exist. even alive they can never meaningfully impact the story again

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The Onion @theonion.com · 25/03/2026

Archaeological Dig Uncovers Ancient Race Of Skeleton People theonion.com/archaeological-dig-unc…

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Criminal government, traitors to humanity. I leave it to your discretion to determine what appropriate consequences are for that sort of treason.

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maura quint @mauraquint.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

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Chris Franklin @errant-signal.com · 03/01/2026

I don’t know how else to say it: we must be stopped.

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

Occasionally I see an artist frustrated and saying that they'll never be as good as they want to be, so why bother, and, like... No one is ever as good as they want to be? The more one improves as an artist, or as much of anything, the more the scope of what they know is possible expands.

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Aura @aurahack.ca · 05/12/2025

i am begging game developers and musicians who are not putting your soundtracks on bandcamp/ampwall to just... do that... please... i will not be streaming your music off A Music Service. let me actually give you money.

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

It's time to face that books simply aren't a good medium for storytelling. Such a dry and linear medium has no way to convey systems or relationships outside of tiny snapshots to the player, or so-called "reader." This will be true until they innovate by adding LED screens and buttons to the books.

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

www.apmreports.org/episode/2019... This article's been going around and it's very worth reading. I can't help but see parallels with the infection of AI boosting, where solving the immediate task of saying words is superseding the actual purpose of the task -- learning to read.

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How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers

For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Experimenting with using IK solvers to drive enemy movement #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

Not specifically game design, but I think my primary principle for art in general: Find the tension, then emphasize it. Some people like to resolve it too. That part is optional though.

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

I have made a public demo for my game Bound City available! About an hour long, containing one zone and bits of others. Please check it out, wishlist, tell everyone you've ever met, fraudulently inflate my numbers, etc. Every little bit helps. store.steampowered.com/app/3871260/...

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Bound City on Steam

An action-packed and bittersweet adventure in a city of endless night. Explore the dying city and try to find your way to the tower that seems to be at the heart of it all. Nothing is quite as it appe...

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Also! Why am I not just posting the trailer directly? Here's the trailer!

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

I need to get in the habit of doing this... um, habitually. Here's my game's store page! It won't be out for a long while yet but wish lists and spreading the word will help that happen! Thank you! store.steampowered.com/app/3871260/...

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Bound City on Steam

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

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Bound City on Steam

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hypoderanged anchoress @lugubriouscreature.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

i played an alpha build a year or two ago, and this game is going to be great.

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

This year I: Worked on Bound City. That is all. It's a lot of work! I had hoped to have chapter 2 done by April, and it's now looking likely...ish that I can finish it next month. Currently: 5 boss fights (3 new this year) 28 enemy types (16 new) 30-40k words (Lots new, hard to count)

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 04/11/2024

After replaying Silent Hill 2 and watching most of a playthrough of the remake, I have to say that while it seems like a pretty good game, and maybe even a pretty good Silent Hill game, it doesn't seem like a very good adaptation of the things that were most interesting about Silent Hill 2

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 10/08/2024

Added 2.5 new enemy types this week #ScreenshotSaturday i.imgur.com/jqcNiDl.mp4

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 25/07/2024

Instead of on Twitter - let's try this here & see if it works by now. If you're developing a game, or released one: reply with the title, description, screenshots, and/or a link. Doesn't matter what stage of development you're in. Then repost this, and let's see what cool stuff we're all making.

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 03/07/2024

After about an hour of attempts I'm prepared to state that the last boss of the Elden Ring DLC seems just extremely tedious. What a chore.

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 24/03/2024

I've been working on enemies for my game. The design intention is that A) They all move differently and pose a completely different danger and B) They be fundamentally unsettling. i.imgur.com/gTQG2K8.mp4

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 18/10/2023

Brain's been chugging, occasionally stalling. did someone install a crypto miner on this thing?

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 30/09/2023

I did the thing a little bit ago. I mostly tried to stick to games I felt had significantly shaped my taste or conception of what games can or should do.

A list of 25 favorite games containing the following:
Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, Armored Core, Final Fantasy Tactics, Dark Souls, Sekiro, Anachronox, Alone in the Dark, Silent Hill 2, Disco Elysium, Grim Fandango, Left 4 Dead, The Beginner's Guide, What Remains of Edith Finch, Braid, Spelunky Classic, Hotline Miami, Cave Story, Super Hexagon, Inscryption, Undertale, Slay the Spire, and Space Funeral

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Problem Machine @problemmachine.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

AMV of all of Dermott's scenes in Venture Bros. set to Tom Waits' Goin' Out West

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