Franco Balerio
@francobalerio.bsky.social
🇺🇾 Uruguayan
Game Dev @Entrevero
Design, Programming, sometimes Art
Dungeon Master for a ragtag bunch in Eberron
Game Dev @Entrevero
Design, Programming, sometimes Art
Dungeon Master for a ragtag bunch in Eberron
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A big part of gamedev is working out custom ways to use your tools to create the specific content for your game.
November 6, 2025 at 4:59 PM
A big part of gamedev is working out custom ways to use your tools to create the specific content for your game.
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i owe so many video game designers an apology
November 3, 2025 at 6:49 PM
i owe so many video game designers an apology
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Brooklyn, 1980. A kind young man from Japan offers Mario to adapt his life's story into video games. The old man's only request is that his wife gets to be a Princess, as she should be.
July 28, 2024 at 8:33 PM
Brooklyn, 1980. A kind young man from Japan offers Mario to adapt his life's story into video games. The old man's only request is that his wife gets to be a Princess, as she should be.
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LinkedIn is like HEY WE HAVE GAME DESIGNER JOBS FOR YOU
And also OH THEY ALL REQUIRE UNREAL ENGINE EXPERTISE
Good grief
And also OH THEY ALL REQUIRE UNREAL ENGINE EXPERTISE
Good grief
October 20, 2025 at 5:16 PM
LinkedIn is like HEY WE HAVE GAME DESIGNER JOBS FOR YOU
And also OH THEY ALL REQUIRE UNREAL ENGINE EXPERTISE
Good grief
And also OH THEY ALL REQUIRE UNREAL ENGINE EXPERTISE
Good grief
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There's really only two file formats
October 15, 2025 at 8:53 AM
There's really only two file formats
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that Watchmen panel but in every single one the government of Argentina has caused a financial crisis.
I think this has happened six times in my lifetime.
I think this has happened six times in my lifetime.
The problem, in Argentina, was utterly predictable. Milei repeated the exact same mistake of the 1990s, stabilizing the peso by tying it to the dollar, without having the political capacity to reign in spending (driven by state governments) enough to make that sustainable.
October 9, 2025 at 8:41 PM
that Watchmen panel but in every single one the government of Argentina has caused a financial crisis.
I think this has happened six times in my lifetime.
I think this has happened six times in my lifetime.
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Worker owned things will have much better time existing when people will understand that “the rich/capitalists” doesn’t mean “anybody who gets paid (slightly more than me) for their work”
when I was defending itch I heard from a lot of - frankly to my shock - other queers who were like "it's a platform, platforms are the enemy" and until we're able to distinguish _as users_ the ways in which worker owned services aren't your enemy and deserve grace, we won't be seeing very many
October 7, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Worker owned things will have much better time existing when people will understand that “the rich/capitalists” doesn’t mean “anybody who gets paid (slightly more than me) for their work”
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Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
October 5, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.
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CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
September 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
CHOTINER: This game you like to play, what's it called?
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
ME: Slay the Spire.
CHOTINER: And you play it on the computer?
ME: Yeah. Well, I also have it on my phone. I played another 300 hours.
CHOTINER: And these other games in your Steam library. Have you finished them?
ME: Now hold on a second,
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Genuinely powerful words to live by.
September 22, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Genuinely powerful words to live by.
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THANKS. FOR. WATCHING.
Again and again, thank you for watching and your continued hype for animation made outside of mainstream studios. So proud of our crew, so thankful to work with Glitch, so happy to write next to Zach and JBO.
🧡💚💙
Again and again, thank you for watching and your continued hype for animation made outside of mainstream studios. So proud of our crew, so thankful to work with Glitch, so happy to write next to Zach and JBO.
🧡💚💙
September 19, 2025 at 11:20 PM
THANKS. FOR. WATCHING.
Again and again, thank you for watching and your continued hype for animation made outside of mainstream studios. So proud of our crew, so thankful to work with Glitch, so happy to write next to Zach and JBO.
🧡💚💙
Again and again, thank you for watching and your continued hype for animation made outside of mainstream studios. So proud of our crew, so thankful to work with Glitch, so happy to write next to Zach and JBO.
🧡💚💙
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who called it the necromancers guilds and not the megacorpse
September 18, 2025 at 3:18 AM
who called it the necromancers guilds and not the megacorpse
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starting a gay dating service for Confucians called the Man Date of Heaven.
April 6, 2025 at 2:18 AM
starting a gay dating service for Confucians called the Man Date of Heaven.
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How the hell did they even get this patent approved when it applies to HUNDREDS OF GAMES going back decades? Is there no prior art protection clause in the US?
Nintendo has successfully acquired a US patent covering the ability to summon characters in a game and make them battle for you.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintend...
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/nintend...
Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC
The new patent theoretically covers an action that is present in numerous non-Nintendo games…
www.videogameschronicle.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:31 AM
How the hell did they even get this patent approved when it applies to HUNDREDS OF GAMES going back decades? Is there no prior art protection clause in the US?
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I feel there can be no canon of games that doesn't *at the very least* include tiny Finnish demoscene games, Polystation and Gameboy hacks from the Middle East and LATAM, half-translated hacked ROMs from South Europe, mobile games from Africa, and the entire corpus of mini-iterative RPGs from Asia.
September 9, 2025 at 2:11 AM
I feel there can be no canon of games that doesn't *at the very least* include tiny Finnish demoscene games, Polystation and Gameboy hacks from the Middle East and LATAM, half-translated hacked ROMs from South Europe, mobile games from Africa, and the entire corpus of mini-iterative RPGs from Asia.
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fighting flying enemies in Silksong:
September 8, 2025 at 10:07 AM
fighting flying enemies in Silksong:
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If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up
September 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
If you're an indie developer, you should hang this screenshot on your wall and use it as inspiration to never give up