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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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William Gibson @greatdismal.bsky.social · 5h
As of 1:00PM today, Hager Books, 2176 W. 41st, had two copies of the UK trade paper of Mona Lisa Overdrive on their SALE table outside, $13.99. I don’t think I even have one of those myself! (Unsigned, as I didn’t have time to prove I was me.)
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 6h
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Federal intelligence agency contacted as U.S. interference claims swirl in Quebec election | CBC News
Quebec's incumbent premier says she is "very concerned" about possible interference in the provincial election by the United States.
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Criterion Channel @criterionchannl.bsky.social · 8h
Merging psychological dread with existential inquiry, the Japanese auteur's films use genre trappings to probe the alienation and anxiety underpinning modern life.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 8h
No surprise. Same for Quebec. Republicans and Canadian separatists are best friends and will do anything to break up our country.
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Nate Purkeypile: Solo Indie Dev🤘🏹🔪 @npurkeypile.bsky.social · 10h
How's the playtest going for Gone Feral? I made a short video about it the playtest is up on Steam until October 31st, so celebrate spooky season by becoming the horror villain and checking it out!🔪 it's been great seeing the reactions of all the people playing!
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 18h
We worked together for about a year on some early BLACKFROST worldbuilding. He was truly an exceptional artist and a wonderfully creative thinker.
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Knobitobi @knobitobi.bsky.social · 19h
#dailyTLDscreenshot
A view over Broken Railroad containing the Hunter's Lodge and the Maintenance Shed
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Finally, the church and I agree on something.
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Knobitobi @knobitobi.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
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A very deep ravine in Far Range Branch Line
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AndresPlays @andresplays.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Every person I know that has played Demonschool has loved it. Plus, this quote by its creative director is all you need to know to support it.
A quote from Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games. In it, he dunks on Generative AI in a pretty impeccable way.
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
ADIOS RETURNS! At the lowest price it will ever go! That's right: it costs less than the price of an Arby's Reuben sandwich! store.steampowered.com/app/1271400/... If you like the game, please leave a review? We're only a COUPLE reviews away from OVERWHELMINGLY POSITIVE!
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Yesssssss....
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Knobitobi @knobitobi.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
#dailyTLDscreenshot
The sea lights the surrounding area in a blue haze in Coastal Highway
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Anthony Floyd @anthonyfloyd.ca · 01/10/2026
Lighthouses of the BC South Coast. Cool. mapped.earth/lighthouses/...
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
yeah, wow...it's such a mystery...
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Peter Falk as Columbo Gestures
ALT: Peter Falk as Columbo Gestures
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I was not prepared for how disturbing this movie would be.
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Knobitobi @knobitobi.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
#dailyTLDscreenshot
Heavy snow is falling just before arriving at the Poacher's Camp to take refuge
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Michael Spicer @michaelspicer.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Most TV is just this now.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Wait isn’t that second photo Marc Andreesen?
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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
wait this game has an actual story?
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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
That’s amazing!!
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
You can find it on the @criterionchannl.bsky.social
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I feel like this is a film @jesawyer.bsky.social would enjoy.
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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I'd be curious to hear from die-hard RE fans and how they feel about the "adaptation". IMO the director's commentary wouldn't talk about the games at all, apart from the very thinnest of fan service (single mention of Raccoon City and Umbrella Corp, potted plants, ammo box, etc.).
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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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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I thought it was fantastic!
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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
Yeah, it's interesting -- it plays more like an adventure game than a survival game IMO, but I can see it'll get more challenging as I continue to play so I haven't hit any issues with difficulty yet (it's probably coming though...)
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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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Raphael van Lierop 🇨🇦 @raphlife.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
One of the best shows on TV IMO.
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Boo-rad 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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