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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

“If I can enjoy playing as my least-favorite character, that means the game is good” absolutely sounds like Miyamoto logic from what I’ve heard about the guy.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

My one (impossible) hope is that, by taking launch WoW in a different direction, they’re going to explore an alternate path where WoW leaned ALL the way into world-PVP and the Alliance-Horde struggle playing out dynamically across the overworld. Yes I just watched that Ultima Online video.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

This is a fun trend, and more difficult than I thought it would be. Since I'm an indie dev, I specifically listed the games that have most influenced my game design sensibilities, or at least my stylistic and tonal inclinations.

My 9 games are The Binding of Isaac, Banjo-Tooie, Chrono Trigger, Kirby Super Star, Deltarune, Pokemon Gold, Yume 2kki, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and Gex 3

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Batomon Showdown is where incredible things happen.

Winning a run of Batomon Showdown with a Danuki that's dealing 26,000 damage per hit, two level 4 monsters, and a backpack with 96 trinkets in it...just to name a few things.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

As a new Fire Emblem player, the hardest thing to get my head around in Fortune’s Weave is how misleading levels can be. Equipment and skills seem to matter so much more than raw levels that an enemy 5+ levels above you could well be completely harmless if you’ve been optimizing at all.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Oh, this place is gonna get turned into a CRATER at some point, huh?

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Question for Fire Emblem Fans: Is Fortune's Weave the first game in the series to add sci-fi elements like this? 'Cause I'll be honest, I think it adds a lot to the setting. A sword-and-sorcery fantasy where there are also aliens with laser pistols showing up is such a fun angle.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I spend so much of Fortune's Weave worrying I'm not using my time optimally and then I get to the story battles and I've massively, massively overpowered myself to a hilarious degree. (On Hard no less.) Guess I'm roleplaying Theodora pretty well, at least.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

FE Fans before Fortune’s Weave: “Play with permadeath on. It adds so much when you have to live with your mistakes.” FE Fans playing Fortune’s Weave: “What the hell? This game is making me LIVE with my MISTAKES!”

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Something I think about is how, even if the next Paper Mario game goes back to the classic turn-based gameplay, it’s still likely going to have the modern Origami King-era writing style and sense of humor. I wonder how jarring that contrast would be for people that fell off at Sticker Star.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

As I'd hoped, Fortune's Weave is really hooking me in ways Engage didn't. The fact that the story is incredibly weird AND gets going from the jump is helping a lot. The plot honestly feels a lot more Final Fantasy-ish than other Fire Emblems I've seen.

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T. Ashley 🌸 Jenkins @fluttersprite.itch.io · 24/09/2026

The First Law of Thermodynamics states that one should never use extreme temperatures to harm a human being or, through inaction, allow a human to be harmed by extreme temperatures

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Okay, I’m in. I’m all-in. THIS is how you open a video game.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I’m at a point where I’m excited if I hear someone describe a game as “overwhelming” because it means it gets you to the good stuff right away.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Injustice 2’s Multiverse was one of the best single-player modes I’ve ever played in a fighting game. It made by GOTY Top 5! But then Mortal Kombat XI’s Towers were a much, much worse version that leaned all the way in on microtransactions over any kind of fun. So I dunno how to feel about this.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

This is cute and all, but speaking from personal experience, it’s a pretty terrible idea when your game’s first impression actually matters for selling it, which is the case for 99% of indie games.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

So, I’m conflicted. The only Fire Emblem game I’ve ever played in my life was Engage, just to see what the series was all about, and I REALLY didn’t care for it. Fortune’s Weave looks cool, but…so did Engage before I actually played it. I really feel like I might just not like Fire Emblem.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

All the talk I’m hearing about Control Resonant just makes me want to boot up Ghostwire Tokyo again.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Apparently MAGFest tickets are selling out way faster than usual for some reason, so I’ll echo what other people are saying on here and say that you should panic and buy as many as you can right now.

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nina matsumoto 🌸 @spacecoyote.com · 17/09/2026

Homer wearing the nacho hat but the nacho had has been photoshopped to look like the Guile hair popcorn bucket

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

You know, it's been a very, very long time since I've streamed, but Batomon Showdown is almost making me want to do it again. I feel like people need to see how crazy this game is. Maybe, soon...

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Every Mario Frame in Order @marioframes.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Super Mario Brothers Super Show - Season 1 Episode 8 - Love Em and Leave Em Frame 2583/2960 Caption: Real Elvis will be back, after exciting scenes from Legend of Zelda. Timestamp: 00:18:16.4

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Okay, another big #indiegame recommend from me! You've probably already heard of Batomon Showdown if you follow autobattlers, but if you haven't, you NEED to check this one out! One of the most satisfying synergy-building games I've ever played. It's like the final form of Super Auto Pets.

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Creature-collecting pvp async auto battler where you choose your trainer, select your Batomon and assemble the ultimate team to take down other players! Play at your own pace while you discover new de...

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

If you have three and a half hours to kill this video is a really great breakdown of a fascinatingly unique piece of video game storytelling. Don’t let “Mario horror romhack” throw you off. This goes to some incredible places more indie devs need to see. youtu.be/2e3ipF_qx_k

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Mario's Most Disturbing Mod

YouTube video by Gravitorix

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Drawing your own map is the subsistence farming of video games.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I think "the name of a thing as though it's a brand" might actually be my favorite genre of sign gag.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

So, I picked up an #indiegame today called Rhell: Warped Worlds and Troubled Times, which I'd never heard of before but was immediately intrigued by the premise. It's essentially a game of Tears of the Kingdom-style creative problem solving, which I see very few games attempt.

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Save 35% on Rhell: Warped Worlds & Troubled Times on Steam

Create unique spells by combining magical runes to solve puzzles your way. Transform objects, manipulate time, and discover the mysteries of a world where everyone has vanished, leaving only 12 people...

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Replaying Starfox Adventures it becomes even more obvious that Rare was forced to use the Starfox team at gunpoint. Every one of these characters is the most shrill, obnoxious version of themselves and they also all seem to hate each other. It's honestly amazing.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

Wolverine was really the only AAA game I was looking forward to this month so I guess that's $70 more freed up for indie games. Shame, though. As a big Insomniac fan I was almost going to get it despite the reviews, but this just doesn't sound like anything I want.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Okay people are officially being weird about this now.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Starfox Adventures is a game I will happily watch someone else play.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I don’t know why these leakers do this song and dance about “hurting” companies. This clearly doesn’t hurt anyone. It’s historical preservation and free advertising.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Easily the wildest jumpscare of the Direct. Like what do you MEAN?

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I’d love to know the behind-the-scenes on this because, to my eye, this REALLY looks like some procedural texture work and it makes me wonder if Nintendo came up with their own tech for it.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Honestly, my only issue with this design at first was that the outfit looked too fancy. I always assumed the Kokiri Tunic was basically just rags stitched together in the same way everything in Kokiri village is charmingly ramshackle. These goblin children aren’t doing leather embroidery.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Today I randomly found myself playing Neon White, a game I got free through PS+ forever ago but never bothered playing until now. Has anyone else made the comparison that this game is Super Monkey Ball with guns? Because that immediately what it made me think of.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Wow, literally centered on the exact two places I’ve lived half my life.

My dialect map, showing my dialect is most like Maine and California.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

So, recently I started doing something I've never done before. Writing a design doc. I don't know where it will lead and I'm not entirely sure I'm doing it right, but it feels like the next step for where I want to go as an #indiedev.

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Niko @nikoamiko.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

in Goofy's Hysterical History Tour if you want points credit for the Goofballs you've collected you need to manually deposit the Goof Balls into a Goofball Funnel Gooftraption by pressing Down once per Goofball and must also wait for the Goofball Funnel Gooftraption sequence to fully play each time

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Watch NikoAmiko's clip titled "Goofy Deposting his Goofballs in the Goofball Funnel Gooftraption"

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

You ever get messaged by an account that's clearly a bot, but whoever created the bot added so many weird details to the account to make it look like a person that you find yourself trying to decode it like an ARG?

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

I don’t normally make a big deal about it, but it’s my birthday today! If you’d like to get me something, get yourself something instead and check out my game New Meat! And if you have it already, do me a favor and leave a review! #indiegame #indiedev

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New Meat is a fast-paced horror-comedy roguelite about burgers, monsters and dead-end jobs. Survive five days of mayhem on the path to your first paycheck, meet a fun cast of extradimensional horrors,...

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

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New Meat on Steam

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I was surprised the $100 GTA 6 bundle was so popular but then o remembered no other games are going to come out for those three months and now it kinda makes sense.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m sure GTA6 will be fine but god I miss Saints Row.

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Genuinely wondering now, would the human Olympics disqualify you if you ran so fast you died after crossing the finish line? I could imagine wanting to avoid that becoming the meta.

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