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gamewitch @ sylvie.website 🐈 sylvieish half of love ❤ game @ love-game.net

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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
A sleepy kitty on the couch
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
CALL ME COWGIRL THE WAY IM RAIDEN HER?
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
fuck the fucking fuck off
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
this is happening to me right now
The story of Raiden takes place in the year 2090, when a species of alien lifeforms known as the Crystals invaded Earth. The Crystals took control over most of Earth's military hardware to use in the invasion. In response, the world organization known as Vanquish Crystal Defense (VCD) develops the Fighting Thunder attack craft, a cutting-edge weapon based on Crystal technology. To survive against the invaders and fight back, VCD deploys Fighting Thunder as the only hope for humanity. The game's setting and storyline focus on the use of advanced alien technology and resistance against the Crystal invasion.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
i like that "neko" apparently has 5 entirely different meanings that aren't "cat". i've never seen it in a context other than cat or bottom but maybe one day i'll see it being used as an abbreviation of wheelbarrow and point at the screen
Japanese-to-English dictionary entry for the word "neko". It can mean:
Cat
Shamisen
Geisha
Wheelbarrow
Clay bed-warmer
Bottom (submissive partner of a homosexual relationship)
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
I'VE PLAYED THIS FOR 56 HOURS AND NO CLEAR?
Powershell script calculating the amount of time I've played Raiden by looking at the difference between the creation time and last modified time of my MAME replay files. The total is 56 hours and 26 minutes
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
action movies: highly skilled protagonists, elaborate fight scenes, big explosions etc. action games:
Bio Miracle Bokutte Upa screenshot depicting a baby in a world of giant cakes
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
sylvie.itch.io/gmtk
Mastodon screenshot of a post by me, reading:
"games with mechanics are like.... okay so imagine you had a grapple hook.... but you can teleport to the exact midpoint of the wire and you have to use it to solve platforming.... wow"
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meme with Shadow the Hedgehog holding a gun, and text:
Don't DM me on some "Are you OK" shit
Obviously not but we move
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
it took like 7 hours of practice and routing but i finally recovered from the last checkpoint in raiden one time. chance of doing this in a real run increased to 0.000001%
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
you're the only one i can trust
Wikipe-tan, the anime girl Wikipedia mascot
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
practicing the game backwards from the end and this stage is so stupid lol
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Shockingly low FPS, let me turn on the AI generated frame interpolation built into my graphics card, which I use because I love Art.
The Mona Lisa
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
same reason my new game only has one, adding multiple save slots is annoying
Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave only has one save file, devs explain why
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
mine is this
The top 12 most popular games on Itchio right now, nearly all of them look like some kind of horror or horror-adjacent game
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
me watching utena for the first time: i can't wait until the show gets to the part when utena and anthy don their knight armor and attack the castle in the sky together upon flying horses
The part of the Utena opening where Utena and Anthy don their knight armor and attack the castle in the sky together upon flying horses
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Me on my way to KILL YOU
A grumpy looking prototype version of the Pokemon Azumarill, it's yellow instead of blue, has no tail, and is making an angry face
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Kitten
Prototype Furret, it's pinkish-red and has a funny tail
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
YOU
Wooper prototype. The back sprite is some kind of fucking bird?? The front sprite is a cute little critter
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
True
Sunken prototypes. The back sprite is clearly a silhouette of Pikachu with a big green question mark on it. The front sprites are a little green egg with feet holding a plant.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
jumpscared by this guy
Weird lookin prototype of Pichu
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
pikablu and yelloblu..... tcrf.net/Proto:Pok%C3...
Prototype designs for Marill and Azumarill from Pokemon. Marill looks pretty normal but Azumarill is kind of yellow and unfinished.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Earlier, she started using my computer while I got up.
A kitty sitting on my laptop. Her fur has black spots, making her a spotted lily.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
me when people use save states in a retro game
Picture of a cute round white bunny (snowshoe hare) in the snow
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
they need to do this but with ganondorf
Email sent by the game Far Cry 6 titled "You disappoint me, [NAME]" with header text "It was amusing watching you fail" and a picture of someone I assume is the game's villain
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
felt a bit weird about using a photo by nasa when everything in the actual game is made by me or aria so i drew my own space background meow
The same picture but with a space background drawn by sylvie. It looks a little more messy
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
added a random ass nasa photo in the background, ship it
Same image as previous post but with a starry space background
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Grapplehook Midpoint Teleport Killer key art, showing the game's title on a black background along with a Sylvie with a fluffy tail shooting her Grapplehook.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
its kind of sylvish especially if you do this
Edited Pikachu sprite with the frowny mouth flipped upside down to make a smiley mouth
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Mastodon screenshot of a post by me, reading:
"games with mechanics are like.... okay so imagine you had a grapple hook.... but you can teleport to the exact midpoint of the wire and you have to use it to solve platforming.... wow"
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
can't figure out how to finish this joke
Unfinished edit of a popular XKCD comic with two people talking:

 "Sylvie platforming is second nature to us Sylvs so it's easy to forget that the average playtester probably only knows ths inputs for (blank) and one or two (blank)."

"And (blank) of course."

"Of course."

"Even when they're trying to compensate for it, experts in anything wildly overestimate the average person's familiarity with their field."
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
COMING SOON
Grapplehook Midpoint Teleport Killer
the sylvie with a fluffy tail legend

A small sylvie with a fluffy tail is below this text.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Getting there
A mostly empty black window that just contains the text "Ontions"
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
the chat replay on the second ever clear of dodonpachi saidaioujou inbachi is really fucking funny www.youtube.com/live/nGydzRQ...
@aimedstaticrandom brb
@TheMariox222 gl
@aimedstaticrandom brb 15min
@TheMariox222 wait
@TheMariox222 that wasn't practice
@TheMariox222 gg@TheMariox222 opened stream to last life of final
@aimedstaticrandom 1 watching
@aimedstaticrandom mariox
@aimedstaticrandom youve watched me reset so much
@aimedstaticrandom youre a real one
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
i'm not sure to what extent i still identify with the glorious trainwrecks philosophy but it was a really nice scene to "grow up in" as a gamedev. also explains my disdain for things like "polish" and "quality" and "putting music and sound effects in your game"
Front page of Glorious Trainwrecks, with an image of a train crash and the following introductory text:


Glorious Trainwrecks is about bringing back the spirit of postcardware, circa 1993. It's about throwing a bunch of random crap into your game and keeping whatever sticks. About bringing back a time when you didn't care so much about "production values", as much as ripping sound samples from your favourite television shows to use in your game, or animating pictures of yourself making goofy faces on your webcam. Where every ridiculous idea you had, you would just sit down and code. When you would make up a "company name" to legitimize dorking around on the computer with your friends.

It is not about unfinished, unplayable games. If any part of a glorious trainwreck is terrible, it is terrible in a way that is AWESOME.

Together, you and I will bring the true spirit of indie gaming back. Yes, you! For this site is about nothing, if it is not about getting off your ass and creating. Wikipedia claims that they used to stage trainwrecks (with empty trains, of course) for the amusement of the general population. Would the world not be a better place if we brought this tradition back?

It doesn't matter if you've got talent, so long as you've got gusto. Your game does not have to be coherent -- but it does have to be finished.

IT IS TIME TO TAKE THE PLUNGE INTO GLORY.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
there's danger in building up a false perception of someone based on your interpretation of their work, but there's also like.... recognizing something and going yeah, you and i are different, but i think i've felt way before that way too
Maybe, just maybe...
The fact that you made it this far means you feel the same longing as I do.
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
these diagrams are confusing me because i look at the migraine one and i'm like yeah that is exactly where the pain is but then i don't seem to have the other symptoms of a migraine like throbbing pain or nausea, maybe only a little bit of light sensitivity? baby migraine?
another diagram of different headache types
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
maybe it's a "cluster headache" because it does feel like it's near my eye but i looked that up and it also sounds worse than what i'm experiencing
diagram of different types of headache
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
theme of sylvie
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
its wild how much progress you can make on a creative project if you simply lock in and work a ~10 hour day
TODO
MUSIC
SFX
OPTIONS MENU
HTML5 FIXES
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
god so much bull shitt is left....
TODO
SAVING
TITLE MENU
PAUSE MENU
MUSIC
SFX
ENDING
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
does bsky automaticallly convert - > to an arrow thats wild
minus sign followed by greater than sign gets replaced by a solid arrow
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
You Have No Reason To Be There
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
perhaps i shouldn't be so hasty, you could make iframe dash work in megaman with a little touch of Game Design....
I added poorly drawn spikes to one of the walls in the clip with the label "spikes that kill you even with dash iframes"
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
i realized partway through making this that my argument is fatally flawed because the original japanese version probably had a readable font but i think it's funny so i'm still posting it
Meme template with the devil vs. Jesus, the devil is thinking "My child will readable font romhack" and Jesus is thinking "Terranigma (Europe).sfc"
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
forgot i made a youtube music playlist called "cool" that's just the mygo opening and nothing else
A single-track playlist named "cool" that just has the song "Hitoshizuku" by MyGo in it
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
to put on my game design propeller beanie for a moment, i think systems feel the "richest" to me when the micro/macro decisions feed into each other, like shmups have micro (dodging, killing, scoring) and macro (resource management over the run) and you adjust your approach to one based on the other
Self-playing games take microdecisions away from you in favour of macrodecisions. You don't need to choose where to aim your gun every second, but you will need to decide what ammo upgrade to select for the next level. This is an inviting approach for game designers (and not unique to the self-playing game). It allows designers to sidestep the difficult psuedoart of "gamefeel", and player skill becomes less of an issue to account for. You can focus on the metagame, the upgrades and abilities and perks and extras. The exofun. All you need to do is make the braintickling numbers work, and then make it look flashy.

But what if some genres are the microdecisions?
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
meanwhile i'm over here striving for this
Faerie's Aire and Death Waltz sheet music by John Stump. It is a parody piece covered with extremely dense and elaborate note formations and nonsensical instructions for the performers
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sylvie @sylviefluff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
twitch allowing gifs in chat (for tier 2+ subscribers) making me think of how mastodon used to not crop tall images in the timeline
A very tall Mastodon post containing an uncropped PNG of Gohda from Umineko's full body sprite
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