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Robert Vinluan
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Lead Product Designer, New York Times Games ✰ Art, music, and code the rest of the time ✰ Karaoke Disney Prince✰ 🇵🇭
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Consume Me (2025)
November 15, 2025 at 12:50 AM
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November 5, 2025 at 2:41 AM
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One more Halloween costume. TROBBIO!!! 🌪️🌪️🌪️ #Hollowknight #silksong
November 2, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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One thing about being in a boy band is that there was no world where this wasn't going to be my Halloween costume this year
The band RV (Robby, RJ, Rob, Bobby, and Roberto) dressed up as the members of the Saja Boys (Baby, Mystery, Jinu, Abby, and Romance) from KPop Demon Hunters
October 31, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Yoooooo this character in Silksong is Filipino
September 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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Happy #silksong day! Here's a picture I drew for Inktober back in 2021
An illustration of a person in a Hornet costume helping a child in a Knight costume keep their balance.
September 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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Merry Silksong Eve
September 3, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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Here's an announcement trailer for my new game, Sticky Hands! Play it at the link below 👐🙂
June 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Today’s Strands puzzle has a special theme! I’m so thrilled to have contributed to this wonderful team effort 😊. Check it out when you get a chance!
June 29, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Here's an announcement trailer for my new game, Sticky Hands! Play it at the link below 👐🙂
June 29, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!

There aren't enough 2-player-1-phone games so I made one. It's called Sticky Hands and it's about slapping cards faster than your friends.

Play it at this link! 👇👇

sticky-hands.com
Sticky Hands: A new game from Robert Vinluan A rules screen explains when you should slap: -slap when a 5 appears -slap when two cards in a row are spades -slap when two cards in a row are hearts A gameplay screen shows the scores at 30 to 10. The King of Spades is on the top of the pile. Player 2 has slapped and successfully earned 10 points.
June 28, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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This is ominous
June 27, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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I have some big news to share:

I’m hosting a Science Game Show in NYC!!! 🧪🤹‍♂️💡

You can join us to see what Our Findings Show at
👉 OurFindingsShow.com 👈
June 13, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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Hi! Anyone want to playtest my upcoming game?? DM me! You'll need a phone and a friend 🙂
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Teasing something #2
June 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Teasing something #2
June 6, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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This is the best description I could come up with for how it feels to play Blue Prince
You know how in animation, especially older cartoons, like Scooby Doo for example, you can tell the difference between the static painted background and the objects that have to animate which are inevitably colored or drawn differently? And how that can spoil the surprise a little bit, like you can tell the monster is going to jump out of THAT locker because of the way it looks? Blue Prince is the polar opposite of that. It’s a game where every single thing in the house seems like a painted background: static set dressing that doesn’t move and can’t be interacted with. But then you’ll solve a puzzle and an entire wall that has been there the whole time will open up and reveal something entirely new—and then you realize that could happen with literally anything, and it does.
June 2, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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I wrote about Blue Prince and how it's amazing and how I hope it spawns a bunch of games like it

open.substack.com/pub/robertvi...
Big Thoughts: Blue Prince
May 2025 Part 1
open.substack.com
May 31, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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We're on Steam today (feat. me making a fool of myself) with the GAMES IN NEW YORK sale: a whole lot of games made or set in New York! Have you played Despelote yet? Crush House? Immortality? Getting Over it with BFOD? Beglitched? Ape Out? Norwood Suite?
store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesinNY
Games in New York
Games set, published and designed in New York
store.steampowered.com
May 29, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Diamonds
Jack of diamonds card depicting two hands wearing baseball gloves. Queen of diamonds card depicting two hands with fancy nails and jewelry. King of diamonds card depicting two hands with a signet ring and goblets.
May 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Playing an instrument is simply parrying notes.
May 27, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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New blog post! At the intersection of language and... abstract math

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Square Theory
The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, som...
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May 27, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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Just hit a new PB in my outfit compliment any% speedrun (guy in my elevator as I was leaving my apartment said my sneakers were cool)
May 27, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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I don't know when playing card layouts were standardized but I had a lot of fun making these which I find to be a lot more pleasing
The rank 3-10 cards in a deck of playing cards with different layouts for the design of the card centers
May 27, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Finished The Lemurian Phoenix last night; the Golden Idol games seriously do not miss. Was delighted by multiple breakthroughs I unlocked by remembering a simple recurring theme: nothing in the Golden Idol universe is actually magical.
May 23, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Teasing something 👀
May 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM