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droqen @droqen.bsky.social · Aug 24
the end of gameplay.
5. and yet time does what time does and in time, all the doors of the tower became locked. // pixel art opposite: brown doors in grey-purple tower. bunny.
droqen.bsky.social
my tarot is back :0 with some really beautiful new packaging by [redacted]. (we wrapped these by hand. vellum, laserjet, and gluestick babyy.)

the last run sold out in like a week, so don't wait?
www.etsy.com/ca/listing/4...

p.s. tariffs are included for the USA in the shipping. they aint cheap :(
"droqen's tarot" written (signed?) along the side of a box containing a deck of cards. visible through translucent vellum is the ace of cups. a lot of my cards! at the right of the spread on top is the ace of cups. beneath are too many to name but i can easily make out the ace of swords, eight of coins, the empress, inverted king of cups, five of cups, nine of coins, three of swords, knight of coins, knight of swords, seven of cups, temperance, my beloved six of cups, the sun... oh, and the wheel of fortune peeking out at the bottom there.
November 15, 2025 at 7:59 PM
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okunari.bsky.social
Blue Sky
November 14, 2025 at 1:37 AM
droqen.bsky.social
@adamatomic.bsky.social have you read Girls Last Tour, and Saturn Apartments? a couple i love for their megastructures & artstyle
November 12, 2025 at 6:11 PM
droqen.bsky.social
there aren't polls on bluesky right
ok manual poll time:
in the "shorter games with worse graphics" meme do you interpret games' shortness and graphics' worseness as

A. instrumental
(i.e. necessary for achieving devs paid more to work less)
or
B. an end in and of itself?
(short/worse = desirable)
November 11, 2025 at 9:17 PM
droqen.bsky.social
design notes by sylvie
November 11, 2025 at 7:57 PM
droqen.bsky.social
November 7, 2025 at 4:39 AM
droqen.bsky.social
from nov 6-7 later this week i'll be in Rochester for a pop-up arcade of my games @ VSW. if you're nearby, come see me & nilson talk about my work! (i will try also to get video.)

www.vsw.org/vsw-salon/sa...
November 4, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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okunari.bsky.social
Blue Sky
November 4, 2025 at 1:19 AM
droqen.bsky.social
my tarot deck & i will be here at the ball tonight! if you can't make it i also have a brand new online shop :: shop.droqen.com
droqen's tarot deck (blue pixel art flowers) over a skull print droqen holding a mannequin hand
November 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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follysoft.bsky.social
Accept my sky offerings in exchange
October 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
droqen.bsky.social
hi! life is good, but i've been thinking a lot about what it is to be somewhere and belong anywhere, and finding that artmaking is something that feels great in private but sharing things can feel kind of burdensome -- i don't know to whom. in this time i've been appreciating skyscapes. have some:
sky and buildings and clouds. pixel art.
October 18, 2025 at 2:30 AM
droqen.bsky.social
solid pale/light brown colour square image. #9F8B8B, apparently.
October 6, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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cleverpidgeon.bsky.social
nice

this run went well
A screenshot of LiveSplit showing my new PB time for 31 unmarked games, the Full Clear category. It's completed run 4 out of 10 total and my previous PB was 30:08. My new PB is 26:49.1!
October 2, 2025 at 1:15 AM
droqen.bsky.social
breaking my social media fast to say i really like Consume Me

store.steampowered.com/app/2359120/...

i havent been playing a lot of games lately in large part because i dont think they really have anything to say about life at all, let alone anything relevant to my life. but Consume Me . . .
Save 10% on Consume Me on Steam
did you feel stupid, fat, lazy, and ugly in high school? well i did...but at least i made a life-simulation RPG about it!
store.steampowered.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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hantani.bsky.social
some twitter gamethoughts... hmmMMm
cool being in the generation of indie devs where people who had hits 10-15 years ago are now in their 30s and 40s, and are still defining part of the culture by putting out things that are a good portion based on their teenage years fav games stuff and like the psychological motivation often feels like something that (compulsive or not) is designed to really just suck you in for as long as possible through heavy detail and stuff. the vector of mental movement is to keep you circulating in their gameworld.. idk. weird i mean its a given that a game is essentially taking a mental train to a different station. But I guess to me it's like is that experience like getting you to buy into the Disneyland Adult Universe, or is it like some different kind of trip or purpose fulfilled there. when i think of droqen's kill gameplay, the previous thread is the kind of thing my mind thinks about - it's a quality to games I feel should be put up to criticism, that is kind of hard to put into words... and it's not compulsiveness, it's not gameplay, it's this other Thing
September 6, 2025 at 3:23 AM
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cryocannon.bsky.social
i made a short lil game at @droqen.bsky.social’s game workshop today! it’s baby’s first downpour and it is pretty topical downpour.games/~cryocannon/...
"don’t get raptured" by cryo
A Downpour game by cryo
downpour.games
September 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
droqen.bsky.social
the end of gameplay.
5. and yet time does what time does and in time, all the doors of the tower became locked. // pixel art opposite: brown doors in grey-purple tower. bunny.
August 24, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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dasharez0ne.bsky.social
IM HERE TO WALK AROUND AND PICK UP OBJECT'S AND THATS IT - dashare.zone ADMIN
A SKELTEN IN THERE NEW HAT THEY FOUND IN THE GAME AND THERE HAVIN G A GREAT TIME AND IT SAYS " I WILL NEVER COMPLETE MISSIONS, I DONT LIKE GOING TO WORK IN REAL LIFE, WHY WOULD I DO IT IN A VIDEO GAME " - I AM GOING TO WALK AROUND "DA MAP" I WILL TALK TO PEOPLE I WILL JUMP OVER THINGS AND TRY TO WALK INTO BUILDINGS AND I MIGHT EVEN FUCK AROUND AND CRAFT SOME ITEMS BUT U KNOW WHAT I AINT OBEYING SOME VOICE ACTOR WHO TELLS ME I HAVE TO DO SOMETHING FOR THEM!!! IM EXITING THIS DIALOGUE AND IM LOOKIN AROUND YOUR HOUSE FOR SOMETHING TO STEAL!!!!!! GAME'S SHOULD BE FUN I WILL NEVER GRIND I WILL NEVER MAKE A SPREADSHEET TO PLAY A GAME I WILL NEVER CONSENT TO HAVING A BOSS UNLESS I GOTA DO IT TO PAY MY REAL BILL'S - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN AND ANOTHER THING ,WHEN I TURN ON MY RIG YOU BETTER LOAD THE GAME ASSAP DONT MAKE ME DOWNLOAD A BUNCH OF GIGS OF UPDATES, I KNOW ALL THAT EXTRA SHIT IS JUST "DLC" OR I GOTTA OBEY A WEIRD GUY IN ORDER TO SEE WHAT IN THOSE GIGS, NO THANKS - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN
August 22, 2025 at 6:42 PM
droqen.bsky.social
can everyone people stop perpetuating the myth that the only way things get done is if they are rewarded with money

it is possible to do something without being paid, or elaborately devising a way to pay yourself, to do it

you can just do things
August 23, 2025 at 9:37 PM
droqen.bsky.social
hello if you're in or near rochester come see my thing at VSW in november!!! www.vsw.org/vsw-salon/sa... yrkkeys paradise will be present and we can talk about computers
Nov. 6 + 7: esc to leave: games by droqen | Visual Studies Workshop
Visual Studies Workshop nurtures experimental and expansive approaches to photography and media arts, and builds community among artists and the public through exhibitions, publications and residencie...
www.vsw.org
August 23, 2025 at 8:19 PM
droqen.bsky.social
aftermath.site/silksong-ind...

can i delay the release date of my already-released game to be september 4 2025
Indie Devs Are Delaying Their Games Because Of Silksong [Update] - Aftermath
'I feel like a little krill trying to not get eaten by a blue whale,' wrote one developer
aftermath.site
August 22, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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radiatoryang.bsky.social
new vlog: wedging my rocks into my tight wet crevices vt.tiktok.com/ZSAryevhB/
August 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
droqen.bsky.social
buy my last kind video game and leave a review, inflicting evil upon the world is going to be expensive and the machine must serve me

store.steampowered.com/app/3120040/...
The End of Gameplay on Steam
droqen's desperate attempt to explain, or explore, or understand the true meaning of "kill gameplay."
store.steampowered.com
August 22, 2025 at 5:55 AM
droqen.bsky.social
to kick things off i did my first tarot read in a while and wtf is this shit??? four major arcana in a row there???? plus i never get the world. or temperance. OR the Starseed Pilgrim card for that matter
August 22, 2025 at 5:53 AM
droqen.bsky.social
the evil droqen era begins today
August 22, 2025 at 5:30 AM