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CMZinac

@zinac.bsky.social
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Combat Designer, Programmer and Fearless Night Cocreator. ゲーム開発者 www.youtube.com/zinac www.twitch.tv/zinac

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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
While our funding source waits to make up their mind... anyone happen to need a gameplay programmer for contract work?
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D.W.A.P. (Ben) @andwap.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
When your gamedev friend shows you progress on their new engine.
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Jules @ds9official.singles · 23/09/2026
one thing about newsom is that once you notice his gul dukat vibe you can't unsee it
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Kayin @kayin.moe · 23/09/2026
When you design games to be executionally easier, with very clear cut uses for moves, with characters with much more well rounded kits, OBVIOUSLY things will get more solved. Why would you expect it not to happen? That's not even necessarily a bad trade off, but it is what it is!
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Hagure @ 迷中 → SQXL → ? → Vortex Gallery×FF @hagu.re · 20/09/2026
To help folks watching #JMD9 at home, I've made an info sheet for this year's event! It lists out the pool Blocks, Teams & Players, & has some more info regarding the event as well. Hope it helps folks enjoy some #BeautifulVSAV! 956pro.com/jmd9info #ヴァンパイアセイヴァー3on #VSAV
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JMD9 Infosheet
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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Please support his family's GoFundMe, which will be used for a charitable donation to honor his name. www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-...
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Donate to In Loving Memory of Daniel Nikov, organized by Desislava Dryankova
There are moments in life when words simply are not enough. With the he… Desislava Dryankova needs your support for In Loving Memory of Daniel Nikov
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Who's going to be at TGS today/tomorrow?
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ElvenShadow @elvenshadow.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
SweetXJam was one of my best friends from the GG community for 10 years. He was just a great dude to everyone. Him passing in an accident so suddenly feels so unreal. I'm just devastated right now. I want to do something at Frosty to honor his memory. He absolutely deserves it. This fucking hurts.
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Melissa! 🔜 Eclipse/HOLIDAY HAVOC @melissa.guiltygear.gay · 16/09/2026
I don't know if anyone else has posted this yet, but sweetxjam passed away this weekend. If y'all could give something to the gfm for his family that would be great. www.gofundme.com/f/in-loving-...
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Donate to In Loving Memory of Daniel Nikov, organized by Desislava Dryankova
There are moments in life when words simply are not enough. With the he… Desislava Dryankova needs your support for In Loving Memory of Daniel Nikov
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 14/09/2026
Free newsletter: The idea that we're nearing the creation of AI systems that we can't control and that pose an existential threat to humanity is a lie and a distraction from the tangible harms and problems caused by LLMs and AI labs' near-unlimited resources. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-alread...
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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
"What makes a fighting game deep (and why it matters)" Been working on this one for a while! It's about the different kinds of skill checks in fighting games yield depth, and how the combinations of those skill checks attract or alienate different players. www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
I hate the part of programming where I think too far into the cascading side effects of any code change and then just become paralyzed by anxiety.
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Smokage of the Burning Leaf @pattheflip.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
"On opiates" I have been thinking a lot over the years about the unhealthy roles games play in people's lives, and the last week got me to finally put together this post on the kind of work I am doing (and not doing) going forward. I am here to heal and strengthen. www.patreon.com/pattheflip/p...
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On opiates | Patrick Miller
First, some admin: My work has escaped containment over the last week, and I fully expect some lingering haters to stop by from time to time
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Lewis Gordon @lewisgordon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Capcom is on a generational run. But this is no renaissance: the company has never been greater. I reported on the secret of its success, from "Crapcom" in the early 2010s to its one-banger-after-another present, speaking to many of its most illustrious producers. www.theringer.com/2026/09/03/v...
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How Capcom Cracked the Code of Game Development
The video game industry is in turmoil, but 2026 could be Capcom’s career year. How does the company behind ‘Resident Evil Requiem,’ ‘Pragmata,’ and ‘Onimusha: Way of the Sword’ keep pumping out hits?
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
I'm never eating sea snails again. Seafood sick is a special kind of sick
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Shellfish sick sucks
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Interview with the lead developer on HnK (who happened to be my boss on GBVS) www.famitsu.com/article/2026...
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『北斗の拳』なぜ“バスケ”は生まれたのか。バグがあるから愛され続ける世紀末格ゲー、約21年越しの開発者インタビューで新事実続出 | ゲーム・エンタメ最新情報のファミ通.com
2005年、格闘ゲームは、バスケの炎に包まれた。2005年にアーケードで稼働を開始した世紀末格ゲー『北斗の拳』のおよそ21年越しの開発秘話をインタビュー形式でお届け。
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
Some motivated game producer needs to write a book directed at gamers who think they know how to fix all the problems in gamedev titled "That's not how any of this works!"
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MARVEL Tōkon: Fighting Souls @marveltokon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Tōkon Warriors! We’ve got a patch update incoming this Friday PT for all our players, bringing a range of fixes and improvements to online play, stability, and the overall gameplay experience. Here’s a look at what’s included: ⬇️
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🦑オニーカ🦑 @chuunioniika.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
In One hour I'll be streaming MGS Master Collection Vol 2. and Metal Gear Solid 4 at twitch.tv/oniika !!!
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Solid Snake Smoking in Metal Gear Solid 4 Mgs4
ALT: Solid Snake Smoking in Metal Gear Solid 4 Mgs4
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Eniko Fox @enikofox.com · 27/08/2026
PSA: if you don't want notifications for your reposts go to 'Settings > Notifications > Likes of your repost / Reposts of your repost' and turn that shit off
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Every thread is just going to devolve into people posting their pet idea on why 2xko failed huh. Just don't please.
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headfallsoff @headfallsoff.com · 25/08/2026
the reaction to the patrick miller 2XKO article is basically why no devs will ever be honest about their process in public and nor should they be. gamers can’t be fucking normal
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
I appreciate everyone here. If I were having this discussion on that other site replies would 90% be people who didn't read and want to start a fight.
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Tough Love Arena @toughlovearena.com · 26/08/2026
1.0.0 - Launch version! We're officially leaving Beta / Early Access - Updated splash art and logos Log: about.toughlovearena.com/log#1.0.0
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Patch Notes | Tough Love Arena
Tough Love Arena is a web-based, indie fighting game with rollback netcode that's 100% free to play.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Yes you can remove all the barriers to doing *all the stuff* that can be executed in a fighting game, but you're just going to hit that high-level wall muuuuch sooner. If you're unable to get over that you're just going to quit all the sooner or just never understand why you can't make progress.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
A lot of what people are projecting onto casual players is their own inability to move from mid-level to high-level play. They're really talking about what *they* think is needed to make that next step. Casual play has nothing to do with it.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
You want to beat your friend who is always using a cheap move you can't get around, so you go search for ways to get around it online. Congrats now you're a fighting game nerd and you cannot escape.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
On ramping casual players onto being mid-level players is easy. Just takes desire on the part of the player to take the game seriously. Moving mid-level players so high-level play is very much not a solved problem, and may just be intractable for fighting games.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I do find it funny that so many mid-level players seem to know what casuals want. They don't have a clue and it's a story as old as people have been posting about fighting games on the internet. They bounced off fighting games and assume everyone else can't handle the complexity either.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
People clearly have shown over the last few days they do not deserve the contribution Pat has made to the fighting game ecosystem.
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mauve @mauvecow.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
random poll time; What puzzle and puzzle-adjacent games have people been into as of late? Also like, I explicitly do not mean block falling games here, lol.
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👑TTTTTsd👑 @tttttsd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I think he is OWED a good faith reading, he is OWED this. Not just deserving of, but OWED. If you look at his contributions to how he's kept his (successful btw, Xrd was a fucking HUGE success for Arc) game and its community alive, you owe him this. Period.
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👑TTTTTsd👑 @tttttsd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
I don't really have much to say about 2XKO, I never played it because I really really dont fw League like that, but I want to be clear that I do not think the circumstances that led to its shortcomings and lack of mass adoption fall in the lap of people like Pattheflip working on it lol
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👑TTTTTsd👑 @tttttsd.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
That this is being said of the person who has done so much groundwork for Xrd, Rev2sday, the AFGC and really his community as a whole is a little upsetting. Success can be commended and respected but it is not 1:1 with innovation or even interesting ideas in a space/medium
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Even when you've made a successful game, devs are constantly barraged by the same online people claiming they know how their game should be made. There absolutely is no winning when trying to appease backseat developers. The same devs can be laid off at a moment's notice too.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
Got news for everyone who thinks Riot should have not hired fighting game players about every fighting game dev team.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
It's absolutely wild that anybody is curious about fighting games going to end up finding something like r/fighters first. I knew that place was bad but holy hell, not this bad!
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Remembering the days when once in a while our feed got filled with pro-wrestling posts and many of us were very confused for the day. Nostalgic now really.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
I mean, he already had to step down but now he really has to step down.
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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
He has to step down.
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Hagure @ 迷中 → SQXL → ? → Vortex Gallery×FF @hagu.re · 23/08/2026
After popular demand, I did the thing @vampiresavior.com . Sorry it took so long. Tag the account with vsav stuff & I'll RP. If anyone is down to help manage the account, lmk! bsky.app/profile/vamp...
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Been reflecting on my time living in the Tokyo area (9 years) vs my nearly 4 years and Chicago. My pay in Tokyo really matched the standards of the area, but my pay really left me nothing in Chicago. That was even when I had a room mate..most meals were spaghetti.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
Everyone seems to have an answer to what would make a fighting game sale gangbusters. To those people I say, go ahead and make that game and prove that idea. Or perhaps look at all the games that already have been made first and check if the idea has already been tried or not. Posts are cheap.
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Vampire Savior @vampiresavior.com · 23/08/2026
Note: This account is currently run by a single person (@hagu.re), so reposts may be delayed. We're also looking for folks to help manage these accounts as well, so please reach out if you're interested! Thanks, and enjoy #BeautifulVSAV
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Pretty big quake around Tokyo.
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Keits @keits.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A large number of the most successful competitive games didnt have bonus modes for solo play at all when they launched, either. Its almost like you need to make the games for the audience that buys and plays that type of game first and foremost.
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CMZinac @zinac.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
The thing that makes fighting games unique and fun compared to other competive games is the heavy emphasis on timing, spacing and the mental stack that can be a little too much for some people. bsky.app/profile/keit...
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Keits @keits.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
*taps the sign* Competitive games can be, and are, massively popular and financially successful. But almost zero of the ones that are successful have a low skill floor. Makes ya think, huh?
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Max Nichols @maxnichols.bsky.social · 03/02/2026
Every game company I've worked at has had that one ultra-senior engineer who never wanted to become a manager, and instead personally runs a bunch of load-bearing infrastructure and process. They have the greatest job security in the industry. If you say their first name everyone knows who you mean
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