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Alec S. // Tales of the Renegade Sector Games Solo Game Developer. Low-Poly Pulp Games. He/him Steam: store.steampowered.com/developer/Re… Itch: malec2b.itch.io

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Cephalopods Daily @cephalopodsdaily.bsky.social · 20h
Telescope octopus (genus Amphitretus) are a small, gelatinous and translucent octopus that lives out in the open ocean. They have a mantle length of 9 cm and have unique tubular eyes that resemble a telescope, hence their common name. #OCTOtober 🐙🎥Schmidt Ocean
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 7h
Even in the day, old games functioned like this too. It'd be crazy for beat'em ups to have contact damage. Enemies control space in a different way, because there are no real platforms or jumping (okay sometimes there is, but it usually sucks). The behavior of groups of enemies are 'the level'.
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 8h
Nice and unambiguous. But just because something is synergistic doesn't mean you have to do it. Games without contact damage tend to focus more on whatever mechanics the game has. You can make a 'combat game' that just also happens to have platformers and jumping and plenty of reasons not to do CD.
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 8h
I tend to personally like contact damage, especially in platformers. A moving hitbox is a very bare, to the metal interaction that is very tactile. Platformers are about working around obstacles and you have an enemy with contact damage is a mobile obstacle. It's very synergistic!
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_Mostly_Ghostly_ @mostlyghostly.bsky.social · 20h
Fan girling about Hammer Horror movies on discord with friends 🧛🏻‍♀️
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 8h
Ok I'm seeing arguing now rather than just lamenting so I gotta talk about CONTACT DAMAGE and whether it's fair or outdated or w/e and in general I just find all these questions to not make sense. It's a persistent hitbox that moves and can be attacked. It's a tool, resistant to category judgement.
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Jan Willem Nijman @jwaaaap.com · 17h
i haven’t played this yet but do wanna say it’s very important in game design to let some things be annoying sometimes
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 18h
I said this elsewhere, but this is very unfair to cucks. Vibe coders don't care at all what's in their projects, but while cucks are extremely invested in what's going inside their wives. 😔
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Just a few days left to get Tales of Lost Ages for 60% off in the Steam Weekly Sale! An anthology of four short fantasy action-adventure dungeoncrawls! store.steampowered.com/app/2857070/...
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Just a few days left to get Tales of Lost Ages for 60% off in the Steam Weekly Sale! An anthology of four short fantasy action-adventure dungeoncrawls! store.steampowered.com/app/2857070/...
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Just a few days left to get Diorama Dungeoncrawl for 75% off in the Steam Weekly Sale! Take on the Master of the Living Castle in this old-school action game presented in Diorama Perspective! store.steampowered.com/app/1074640/...
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
Just a few days left to get Diorama Dungeoncrawl for 75% off in the Steam Weekly Sale! Take on the Master of the Living Castle in this old-school action game presented in Diorama Perspective! store.steampowered.com/app/1074640/...
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 18h
Sure, yeah
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P-O Desbiens @podesbiens.bsky.social · 16/10/2026
fun look there
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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 15/10/2026
Love that some execs are paid hundreds of thousands of dollars a year and yet still need to do studies to determine that teaching people how to do their jobs well makes them better at doing their jobs.
Microsoft found that “adding agents to a broken process still leaves a broken process” and “speeding up one step just creates a longer queue at the next”, Hogan’s blogpost reads. The company found that focusing on employee training, particularly pairing up early-career engineers with more seasoned employees, boosted productivity
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Maia Kobabe @redgoldsparks.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
I really enjoyed this conversation @luckyscomix.bsky.social and I had with Madeleine Jubilee Saito, published as a long interview on @comicsjournal.bsky.social! We worked on Opting Out together for 6 years, so we had a lot to say!
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cortana.SQL @cortanav.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
falling for the LLM personhood propaganda disqualifies you from credibility in this conversation. genAI/LLM is statistical software. It puts together what is most likely to convince the user of whatever the owner requires.
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Mindy Lee @mindyleedoodles.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Finish.
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ADHD Memes @adhdforreal.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 15/10/2026
Yeeesssss!
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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
If you’re a programmer by profession you should be worried by the continued effort by companies to water down what you do by saying it too difficult and thinking worse results by vibes is preferable to you. They will continue to water down and weaken your position even if you join them.
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Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
That this bot, which posts random stills and clips from the thousands of hours of VHS transfers on archive.org, landed on *this specific frame* feels like finding the monkey at the typewriter that managed to write Hamlet.
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Clintical Analysis @clinticalthinkr.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
But which one? 🤔
Yor Forger from Spy x FamilyYor, the Hunter from the Future
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animal jayson ⭐️👁️ @animaljayson.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
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Smooth Dunk @smoothdunk2.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
it’s just great marketing
3 panel comic

Panel 1:
Red Guy in t-shirt is sitting at a desk being interviewed. He says “AI is going to kill us all”

Panel 2:
Interviewer looking directly into camera, says “Well, we’ve heard from the anti-Ai guy. Now let’s hear from the CEO of AI

Panel 3:
Wide shot revealing the second interviewee looking slightly confused. He says “I’m the Anti-AI guy”
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tales of Lost Ages Vol. 1 is 60% off this week on Steam! Delve into dangerous and mysterious dungeons, fight monsters and evade traps in this anthology of short fantasy action-adventure games! store.steampowered.com/app/2857070/...
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Tales of Lost Ages Vol. 1 is 60% off this week on Steam! Delve into dangerous and mysterious dungeons, fight monsters and evade traps in this anthology of short fantasy action-adventure games! store.steampowered.com/app/2857070/...
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JAV Titles @jav.scd.lol · 13/10/2026
It Was Such A Good Journey I Was Moved To Tears.
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Nick Ostrem @nickostrem.swifties.social · 12/10/2026
Epic Handshake meme with Square-Enix fans and Frasier and Niles Crane shaking hands over “I question the quality of this port”
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Laura Kate Dale - LauraKBuzz @laurakbuzz.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
I'm going to try and verbalise a nuanced thought. I feel like, when audiences / critics are split down the middle on a piece of media, negative critiques are given more weight than positive impressions as culturally / critically valid or correct.
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Ian Danskin @innuendostudios.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Don't chase your dreams.

Humans are persistence predators.

Follow your dreams at a sustainable pace until they get tired and lie down.
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Thanks so much!! Glad you enjoyed!
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 10/10/2026
HOW DARE
A jeopardy question: "pedants argue about whether this verb should be used as a synonym of its 7-letter dictionary neighbor compose."

The answer is comprise, which I was complaining about pedantically in the post to which Ken Jennings made the below reply.
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Working on a new Dungeon Crawl module
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Working on a new Dungeon Crawl module
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Tales of Lost Ages, in particular, could use one more review to get it to that all-important 10-Review Threshold to get a Steam User ScoreA store.steampowered.com/app/2857070/...
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you picked up any of my games in the last sale, please consider leaving a review! Reviews mean a lot both in terms of getting people to give a chance on an unknown game by a small developer, as well as providing a boost in the Steam Algorithm store.steampowered.com/developer/Re...
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Steam Developer: Renegade Sector Games
Creator of pulp games. Often Low-Poly.
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Standplaats Kraków could really use some cash! @standplaatskrk.pl · 28/07/2026
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MAGENTA💜💀SKULL🔪 @magentaskull.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
people say i dont talk a lot , but my partner just said this is a picture perfect description of talking to me when i'm excited
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David Szymanski @duskdev.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
If you're serious about game development or design, PLAY OLD GAMES I can't overstate how many good ideas are sitting there waiting to be discovered. Sometimes it's not even stuff that was there at the time, it's only there now looking from a modern perspective.
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
You can find the previous batch of modules here: store.steampowered.com/app/2857070/...
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Kathleen De Vere @kathleen.loadingreadyrun.com · 09/10/2026
It's Friday and that means Pizzamas is almost over for another year, and when it ends, the Timeless Island goes away forever! $10 for charity and you get something packed with jokes like these: pizzamas.com/collections/...
Two short notices on a message board. 

One reads:
Enjoy a succulent meal of class and distinction at… MORT’S RESTAURANT!
Suitable for couples or adventuring parties! Kids menu can be requested!
Daily Specials * Monthly Health Inspections * Bi-Annual Degreasing

The other reads:
Chilcott Mines Inc is looking for:
Miners, haulers, small-fingered orphan children, assayers, bucketeers, diggers, shaft engineers and other unskilled labor
Wages Paid! Vacations Considered! Every third Saturday off!
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Hahaha. I have yet to have the experience of someone making porn of my characters. I'm curious to find out how I'll feel about it if/when it happens.
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 09/10/2026
Someone just reblogged this on tumblr with this tag and I just fucking died I've been on this shit for over a decade and it's only getting worse
kayinnasaki

written about this before but whatever.

Videogames as an artform have a problem with nostalgia. Not that people shouldn’t have nostalgia. Or that games shouldn’t draw from the past. But instead the weight we give to nostalgia.

When people go back to enjoy old games, we assume it’s a nostalgia thing. Do people assume that with books? Or movies? Or music? People certainly do go back in time with  those mediums for nostalgia! It happens! I know when my sister is listening to certain cheesy old boyband pop or punk she’s often having a musical nostalgia trip! That’s cool! But we still don’t ASSUME, CONSTANTLY thats why people go back to stuff.

People like old stuff because it’s cool and interesting. It’s historic. People go watch Metropolis still, but how many people alive could even be nostalgic for a movie like that?

I almost want to see the word Nostalgia excised from discussions about video games – not because nostalgia is bad but because we over use it to the point where it’s actually harmful I think.

I mean I made IWBTG and am making an NES style game right now and even for me, the obsession with ‘nostalgia’ seems crazy.

Old stuff is cool. I know this because I see a lot of you kids on my tumblr feed talking about games I know you didn’t grow up with. It’s like finding your parents record or CD collection. Thinking the primary greatness of old games is bringing back memories of eating cereal and playing games on a saturday morning is a great injustice, even if those memories for some are perfectly worthwhile things.

#this post is 11 years old and still holds true
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Ectoplasma Ring @plasmaring.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
the reason to play video games is to contract other people's diseases and the reason to make them is to spread the mutated forms of those diseases to others. video game cannot exist without this beautiful and terrible life cycle
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
No amount of tailoring an experience to your own exact preferences will ever come close to matching the sense of surprise and discovery that comes from experiencing something made by another human being.
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Alec S // Renegade Sector Games @renegadesector.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
As a person who makes games exactly to my own preferences, I only enjoy actually *playing* my own games in rare, brief flashes. It's like trying to tickle yourself, it just doesn't work.
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