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Tabby Rose

@tabbyrose.bsky.social
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UX Director, Mighty Yell Studios. Accessibility Advocate. she/her #tabbymakesart #tabbyjournals

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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 16h
Dave I'm scared Dave 😭
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Mighty Yell @mightyyell.bsky.social · 18h
Two SPOOOOKY pieces of news this Halloween. 1) Dave is now in control of the social accounts. oooOOOOooooOO 2) The Big Con is FREE on the Epic Games Store on Mobile for ONE WEEK. You want the best con artist game released on mobile platforms this year? Head to tinyurl.com/tbc-epic-mob...
an image promoting the Epic Mobile Store's Big Con Promotion.
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Phil Salvador @philsalv.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
If you leave short story-sized comments in your code, it should be to explain something so messed up that you need to leave a message to yourself, Memento-style See: the first half of a comment block I left in the weapon code of Reelism 2
A massive comment block in the Basketball weapon code for Reelism 2. It reads, in part:

"Abandon hope, all ye who enter the Splot_BasketballProjectile section!

During the Early Excess period for Reelism 2, the Basketball was extremely prone to crashing. This was probably the most frequent piece of feedback that we received. We tried many, many, many times to fix it, and for that reason, I must tell you the story of what happened.

The Basketball was originally split between two objects: a projectile actor, which handled the collisions with monsters and geometry, and a WeaponGiver actor with a larger radius, which is what the player picked up and made the ball easier to grab in the air. This configuration ran into an issue where, randomly, GZDoom would crash immediately after the ball was thrown or dunked. The problem stuck around for months, even persisting into the first public release of Reelism 2, much to our frustration.

As far as we can tell, the underlying problem was related to how the two Basketball actors would need to constantly reference each other. If one actor was removed from play in the middle of the other actor's script, there was a chance that GZDoom would crash by trying to reference the properties of an object that didn't exist anymore. We could never get the two actors in sync, no matter how many safeguards we added.

The obvious solution to this problem was to combine the two Basketball objects into one actor, which is what you'll see below. However, I was reluctant to do this at first, because we would lose the expanded WeaponGiver hitbox. The Basketball is a pretty small object, so I was hestitant to cut that feature.

I started to implement the trimmed-down version of the Basketball on the evening of December 2, 2020 when the solution dawned on me: We could still use a hitbox actor, as long as it did NOTHING."
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Mali 💤 MCM London G-23 @sleepimali.bsky.social · 17h
Star puppy is up next week, and that will be my final painting auction until mid November-ish ✨️
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Cloudy🐈 @hellocloudy.bsky.social · 19h
If you see this, post some cats 🐱
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Revertices @revertices.com · 28/08/2026
"steal their look" meme with ders, showing the clothes as a $35 blue snuggie, a $350 set of red strappy lingerie and a $1200 pair of heeled purple thigh high pleather boots
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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 @softrains.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
We're not the only Toronto launch today - we're joined by our pals at @kittencupstudio.bsky.social, who are launching the fantastic Capy Castaway!!! 💜 Spend your weekend with both our sci-fi shenanigans and their island hijinks! ➡ store.steampowered.com/app/2890240/...
Dalia and Capy warm themselves by a campfire while Dalia roasts some marshmallows.
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Kitten Cup Studio @kittencupstudio.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Happy International Friendship Day from two Toronto indie studios cheering each other on! 🤝 We’re grateful for friends like the team at @softrains.bsky.social & this year we’re sharing one very big date: August 6! Two very different indie games, one shared launch day & so much hype for next week🎉✨
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Boo-rad Shankar @bradshankar.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Toronto devs are having their own "Barbenheimer" moment today. Congrats to @softrains.bsky.social & @kittencupstudio.bsky.social on the launches of Ambrosia Sky & Capy Castaway! One's a melancholic sci-fi clean 'em up, the other an adorable animal adventure, & both are absolutely worth your time. 🍁
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Toronto indie games are having their own 'Barbenheimer' moment today
Melancholic sci-fi clean 'em up Ambrosia Sky and cozy animal adventure Capy Castaway both launched today, and they're absolutely worth your time.
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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
We brushed
Foreground: a very fluffy tabby cat with furry ears. Middle: a giant pile of her fur rests just next to her, it's nearly as big as her. Back: a ceramic mug, a large white speaker, some little hints of cable
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
I ship them 😌
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
It makes vocab easier (I sure know a lot of nouns from the ambient environment/school) but it doesn't do anything for pronunciation sadly, at least in English-speaking Canada, you really need immersion for that.
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
Can't believe I got to work on such a cool project with so many cool people, and now I can finally talk about it! 💕💕💕
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Mighty Yell @mightyyell.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
So happy to at last share Barbie Rewind with all our besties! ☺️ Mighty Yell had a blast working on UI, narrative design & writing, and dev with @digitaleclipse.bsky.social - come make the DreamHouse feel like home 🏠 💖 #gamedev #BarbieRewind
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Mighty Yell @mightyyell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
THE BIG CON - Physcial Edition! Get your grift on, save your Mom’s video store, play some Rad Skater, maybe hit the pawn shop? Available for #switch and #playstation (with exclusive reversible covers!) Grab your copy today: bit.ly/LimitedRunTh... #indiegame #indiegames #games #thebigcon
A promotional image for a video game called the big con which has physical additions available for pre-order while supplies last. The product shots feature a colourful cast of cartoon characters, including a cool looking teenage girl in a backwards baseball hat, flipping a coin, and a ghost in a yellow sheet wearing sunglasses and a backwards baseball hat.
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SPiNDLE @spindlesong.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
her gf fell in love again
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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 @softrains.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Come say hi this weekend at TCAF! 🙋‍♀️ In collaboration with @torontocomics.bsky.social & @thehandeyesociety.bsky.social, we're bringing our sci-fi adventure to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival. Find us on the fourth floor! For more info, visit: torontocomics.com
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Revertices @revertices.com · 02/06/2026
If you thought Steam Next Fest was the only Revertices news today... YOU'RE WRONG! Revertices is going to be showcased at @torontocomics.bsky.social through @thehandeyesociety.bsky.social!! Come stop by our booth to try out the shapes... we'll also have posters, pins and stickers!
Hand Eye Society x Toronto Comic Arts Festival
FEATURED GAME
Revertices
PC(Steam), Coming Soon, Action Sidescroller

June 6 + 7
Mattamy Athletic Centre
4th Floor

handeyesociety.com | torontocomics.com
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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
Disabling achievements when turning on provided accessibility features might seem like a sensible compromise, but it's actually a weird pointless humiliation ritual for everyone involved
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Douglas @dmgregory.ca · 21/03/2026
This reminded me of an older paper I read, talking about the ecosystem of "edge activity" that springs up around games: communities of many-to-many learning and sharing. Prioritizing instant, personalized answers runs a real risk of turning communities into ghost towns, and never growing new ones.
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I've been thinking about this all week... What a microcosm of capitalist alienation, to want to excise the whole part of the game experience that connects you to friends, strangers, community. Half of the joy of playing is the schoolyard gossip, the lovingly updated wikis, gamefaqs, video essays...
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Max Lander @snaxwell.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
I did it! Himbo Tactics zine is real!
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
Oh no I hate this for you!
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Streets of Rage~
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shel kahn @portablecity.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
So for about seven years now I've been painting these abstracted watercolour maps:
A green and blue map with magenta accents in a mountain range.A pink, orange and blue-violet map with some warm green highlights.
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James Whitbrook @jwhitbrook.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
anyway, watch Outlaw Star!
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Animated 'Firefly' Already Exists, and It's Called 'Outlaw Star'
The sky's already been taken from you to much better effect in Sunrise's 1998 sci-fi anime.
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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 16/03/2026
I was asked to give my thoughts on generative AI usage in games - here they are!
From the article: 
"I think that until the bubble bursts, AI will be used by quite a few game companies, and perhaps even beyond the bubble," says Brandon Sheffield of Necrosoft Games, which released the RPG Demonschool last year. "Look, I am not a fool – I understand that AI has some uses. Primary among those being the devaluing of work, the cheapening of labour, the laying off of creatives, and the generation of busywork for humans to fix whatever AI generates."

"It's also useful for burning through water, raising the prices of RAM and chipsets globally, and poisoning anyone near the data centres that run them. So there are a lot of use cases for AI. From spurring on the death of the creative endeavour to dissolving our economy, AI is absolutely gangbusters at what it does. We don't use it in our studio though."
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
Took one look at the announce and said "oh Doc will be happy" 😂
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Revertices @revertices.com · 21/11/2025
Last minute news!!! Revertices is gonna be at Toronto Games Expo this weekend! 👁️ You can Play the Shapes, you can say hi to our business moguls, you can get a little bit of hand-made merch! 🟢♦️🔽 We're at table 44 in the indie dev showcase ! #TGE2025 #IndieGames
banner reading: REVERTICES @ Toronto Game Expo (with sunny and kezia). Beside the text is an image of three shape-based characters from the game, all drawing their weapons. They are in a simple style: a red diamond head, a blue triangle head, and a green circle head.
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Zi @majormcdoom.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
For a fraction of the cost, I can make placeholders for you that are guaranteed to slip through to final build and far beyond. #indiedev #gamedev #GodotEngine
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Polygon @polygon.com · 13/11/2025
After five years covering PlayStation and Xbox, I've never felt more tested as a disabled player
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The PS5 and Series X era promised inclusion, but the reality is more complicated
After five years covering PlayStation and Xbox, I've never felt more tested as a disabled player
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Revertices @revertices.com · 13/11/2025
Revertices now has a Tumblr account!! Run by the incredible @snot.bsky.social!! Follow now to keep an 👁️ on it www.tumblr.com/revertices
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@revertices · Revertices
Play My Shapes, Boy
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Ambrosia Sky 🪐 @softrains.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
Ambrosia Sky: Act One is now available! Here's how you can support the game: 💸 Buy the game on Steam & EGS! ✅ Leave us a review! 💛 Join our community Discord! 💌 Follow us on our socials! 📚 Read our devlogs and updates! You can find links to all of these here: linktr.ee/softrains
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Owen Goss @owengoss.com · 12/11/2025
Oops, we made another game! Fivefold is a daily logic puzzle where the rules change every day. Play it free in your browser! fivefold.ca
Screenshot of a web puzzle game from a browser. The header says “Fivefold” and “Daily”. The main play area is a 5x5 grid. Some of the grid cells are filled in with large numbers of various colors. Some of the cells have small numbers in them representing possible candidates in those cells. On the edges between some cells are symbols, some are pentagons, some are multiple dots. The dots range in number from 1 to 4 dots. These symbols represent rules telling the player information about the relationship between adjacent cells.
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Can I Play That? @caniplaythat.com · 12/11/2025
It's never a bad time to restate that we do not use generative AI for our content. Accessibility, like art, is only possible through the lived experience and expertise of people. People with conscience, not clock speeds. Driven to make things better for the many, not to make a profit for the few.
A blurred view of the Can I Play That? website combining light and dark modes in the background, with the logo in front. Below the logo are the letters AI in white, obscured by a red prohibited sign (a round red circle with a red bar running through it diagonally).
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natemare before christmas @natescape.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Trying to make my whimsical apocalypse job one step closer to possible by making a website to support it www.natedavismusic.com
natedavismusic.com
Nate Davis Music
Nate Davis is a mandolin and clawhammer banjo instructor and musician based in Toronto, ON, offering education and performance in authentic roots styles.
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I thought Jays were in their Haikyuu S4 moment but it turned out to be their Haikyuu S1 moment 😢
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Rodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
they must end this game before the daylight savings clock adjustment. nobody knows what will happen if baseball gets into the time shift. we could get stuck in the time wormhole forever
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reggie 🔜 BLFC @hoppits.gay · 02/11/2025
Once a baseball game gets to the 13th inning it's like Balatro runs that go off the rails. No one knows what anything means anymore. The score has an e in it
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mankrik's wife guy @byelacey.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
no american will ever know what it is like to be a canadian who is not really that into sports but NEEDS their One Canadian Team to beat the americans. you'll simply never understand
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Given how much baseball people like to record historical firsts for stuff I think we should adopt the GDQ "that's never happened before" banner on the scoreboard
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Cat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
congratulations to the winner of Game 7: Emergent Narrative
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Also I think the crowd should be allowed to periodically yell "orb"
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Given how much baseball people like to record historical firsts for stuff I think we should adopt the GDQ "that's never happened before" banner on the scoreboard
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
People have been explaining things to me all week 😂 slowly, I learn
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I don't care about the dodgers, only the jays, go birds!
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
I like that when the baseball players get to the base they get a little pal to hang out with them
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Tabby Rose @tabbyrose.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
So satisfying!
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Josh Boykin @wallstormer.blacksky.app · 30/10/2025
Would love some support on a Thoughtful Play I just put up for @intelligame.us ! Likes, comments? Subscribes? 🔔? 😅 Started checking out @somethingclassic.bsky.social 's Quartet the other day, and loving the Final Fantasy VI vibes. Great soundtrack, compelling writing, and PEOPLE OF COLOR TOO
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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
outfielders have to be the worst farmers i've ever seen. what are you doing out there? get to work
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