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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦

@raphlife.bsky.social
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Exploring apocalypses. I founded and lead Hinterland, and created THE LONG DARK. Game Director, Writer, Designer. Proud Canadian. Lover of film. Just doing my best. He/Him.

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Knobitobi @knobitobi.bsky.social · 11h
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Heavy snow is falling just before arriving at the Poacher's Camp to take refuge
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 8h
Most TV is just this now.
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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 15/10/2024
Formal affordances are the elements that pull a player toward certain actions, they “cry out” for the player to take those actions. Material affordances are the actions a system actually allows the player to take. Agency occurs when the two are in balance. (Mateas 2001)
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Best game dev post ever.
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Amanita Design 📣 @amanita-design.net · 28/09/2026
The Leader urgently requests that you report to goldenjoysticks.com and vote for Phonopolis! 🎨 Best Visual Design 🕹️ Best Indie Game - Self Published The Leader thanks you for your cooperation. #GoldenJoysticks
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Nate Purkeypile: Solo Indie Dev🤘🏹🔪 @npurkeypile.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I've been asked if my indie games use AI🤮 No. I spend more time polishing and tweaking than creating it in the first place so the idea of getting slop just seems awful🔪🤖 Support real games and wishlist Gone Feral or buy The Axis Unseen + Deedlee Doo! Carkour!
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Knobitobi @knobitobi.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
#dailyTLDscreenshot
The fog arrives just before the sun sets at the crash site in Pleasant Valley.
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henhau.bsky.social @henhau.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
#TheLongDark I recently made a TLD GeoGuessr game as a hobby project! Check it out! 😃 New locations every day! And you can compete on the leaderboard and upload your own screenshots 😄 tldguessr.com @raphlife.bsky.social
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TLD GUESSR – The Long Dark GeoGuessr game
Daily location guessing game set in The Long Dark. Find screenshot locations on maps of Great Bear, follow the leaderboard, and submit your own screenshots.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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A ★★★½ review of Resident Evil (2026)
A really solid, entertaining and pacey monster film that has almost nothing to do with Resident Evil at all. Many people have commented appreciatively that the film delivers a tight 90-minute experien...
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
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A ★★★★½ review of Marketa Lazarová (1967)
An absolutely beautiful film. Epic in scope, alternating between grimy medieval squalor and surreal heavenly rapture. Unfortunately, its episodic structure softened some of the film's impact. A case s...
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Kate Armstrong @brainchain.ca · 26/09/2026
Canada was a manufacturing leader in hi-fi systems in the 1950s and 1960s. Friends. Romans. Country people. Let me present you the Clairtone G2.
A Clairtone G2 stereo system with two shelf layers, the lower being a turntable and amp plus a box for records the upper shelf beings being something I’m not sure and on either side. There are black spheres that are actually the speakers there are four of them it is against a white wall and a floor that is made of blonde hard wood
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Knobitobi @knobitobi.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
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Bears are pretty common in Hushed River Valley. Beware of the hilly terrain
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thoughtful recap of Episode Five, exploring the themes and some of the meaning behind the relationships. www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZU3...
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Nothing is Forever | The Long Dark
YouTube video by Writing Women
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Geoff Clarke @geoffhasag.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Sensational! #thelongdark store.hinterland.com
The Long Dark poster set.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
LTTP but DARKWOOD is quite good and very very moody. 👍🏻 store.steampowered.com/app/274520/D...
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Darkwood on Steam
Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.
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Brad Shankar @bradshankar.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Jennifer Hale once told me Canadians need to champion ourselves more. I wholeheartedly agree. Over the past few months, I reached out to dozens of Canadian devs to learn their favourite Canadian games. Their varied responses offer a wonderful spotlight on some of the incredible talent we have here.🍁
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These are must-play Canadian games, according to Canadian devs
As Canadians, we don't champion ourselves enough, so we asked dozens of game developers to do just that.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
wtf re: this quote? Someone needs to inflict an enormous amount of pain on Jensen Huang’s bank account.
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Geoff Clarke @geoffhasag.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
#thelongdark Here's to another 4,000 🫎, but there's a Cougar waiting for me outside! (4000 hrs, 85/87 achievements, Broken Body & Tough Enough still to go.)
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Burn OpenAI to the ground.
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Reminder that in Canada upon becoming an engineer you get an iron ring made of a collapsed bridge, purposely designed to be uncomfortable, to remind you that your ethics demand you give a fuck even about the boring grudgework of such as double-checking your math. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Ring
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Iron Ring - Wikipedia
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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
PM Carney interviewed in New York Times is asked if Canada has prepped for military threat: “You have a responsibility in these roles to look at extreme tail risk. That’s just risk management. It would be irresponsible not to prepare." And they wonder why we don't buy their booze.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Quick TV reviews. * New season of SLOW HORSES. This show is always good. Every episode feels like it ends just before it should. * New season of REACHER. This show has progressively become more formulaic and the exposition has gotten out of control. More fighting, fewer long awkward expo dumps pls
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Jason Pitre @genesisoflegend.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
The kickstarter for Lonely Timbers is now live at www.kickstarter.com/projects/Jag... and I would love your support. La campaigne sociofinancement pour Tire-toi une bûche est maintentant active. Merci pour soutenir ce projet franco-canadien et québecoise.
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Lonely Timbers - Tire-toi une bûche
A TTRPG about french-canadian lumberjacks in the early 20th century. Un JDR des bûcherons québecoises du début du XXe siècle.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Kinda weird honestly to see how many folks are saying to other people "hey you just didn't understand how CONTROL was supposed to be played when it came out so your opinion on RESONANT is wrong/doesn't matter".
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Burn OpenAI to the ground.
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LinieBurrito456 @linieburrito456.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
#dailyTLDsreenshot
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The video games industry in North America right now.
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The Simpsons: Nuclear Meltdown
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LinieBurrito456 @linieburrito456.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
#dailyTLDsreenshot
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Maddy Thorson @maddymakesgames.com · 22/09/2026
we are in the reaping phase of the industry gorging itself on dark design patterns
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Yes. As I said at the time: sue them to oblivion.
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Cooper Lund @cooperlund.online · 22/09/2026
Damn, he had Sam Altman dead to rights in 2016
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LinieBurrito456 @linieburrito456.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
#dailyTLDsreenshot
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Knobitobi @knobitobi.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
#dailyTLDscreenshot
Just shot the typical bear in Fishing Camp. A lot of nomnom and the Bear Skin Bedroll is getting closer
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Goodfellas Henry Hill Laughing
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Good thread with some hard-won wisdom re: the TTRPG business. (Much also applies to independent game dev IMO.)
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Bros.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Agreed. This article headline is gross.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Ok, very important decision To Be Made for today. HOPE? or RESIDENT EVIL? ??
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 20/09/2026
no game dev skill is more important than making up your fuckin mind
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Damn!
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LinieBurrito456 @linieburrito456.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#dailyTLDsreenshot
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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You're Locked In Here With Me!
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David Lynch's Worlds @davidlynchsworlds.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Possibly the B.C. / A.D. line of television programming. #TwinPeaks
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh no. 30% off sale at @criterion.bsky.social. Oh no.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
If this were true no resident evil game would work.
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Knobitobi @knobitobi.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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It's a looooooooooooooooong way down in Ash Canyon.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Q: Why does nobody in the UK take cream in their coffee? You can only get a weak splash of milk in cafes and believe me it’s not the same.
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Konstantinos Dimopoulos @konstantinosd.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Have I mentioned I'm teaching the "History of Video Games: a tale of tech and game design" course? I imagine I must have... Anyway, lessons start next Tuesday and people can still enroll. Preferably, here: www.d6learning.com/course/histo...
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