Stuffed Wombat
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Mosa Lina. PRODUCER 2021. qomp. 10mg. Gutwhale. ord. Handulum. A lot of other games. he/him. Check out my website: https://stuffedwomb.at/
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there is no grass to touch anymore
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ivysly.com - there is no grass to touch anymore
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September 15, 2025 at 8:26 AM
there is no grass to touch anymore
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I'll tap the sign, though.
Strange and brilliant games do continue to be created. And they don't need to be state-of-the-tech, massive budget projects to do so.
The tech for most 3D and 2D mechanics used in games approached maturity over 20+ years ago.
Strange and brilliant games do continue to be created. And they don't need to be state-of-the-tech, massive budget projects to do so.
The tech for most 3D and 2D mechanics used in games approached maturity over 20+ years ago.
September 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I'll tap the sign, though.
Strange and brilliant games do continue to be created. And they don't need to be state-of-the-tech, massive budget projects to do so.
The tech for most 3D and 2D mechanics used in games approached maturity over 20+ years ago.
Strange and brilliant games do continue to be created. And they don't need to be state-of-the-tech, massive budget projects to do so.
The tech for most 3D and 2D mechanics used in games approached maturity over 20+ years ago.
what ended up happening is the third biggest sales spike of the game!
northernlion has played mosa lina on stream :)
let's see what happens next :)
let's see what happens next :)
September 11, 2025 at 7:39 AM
what ended up happening is the third biggest sales spike of the game!
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The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
September 7, 2025 at 7:12 PM
The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.
if you were wondering what i meant with "expression" in that post about the slotmachine indies a while back, here you go:
"Expressionist games are negotiated experiences shaped by the unresolvable tension between mechanically-imposed external worlds and passionate inarticulate internal worlds."
"Expressionist games are negotiated experiences shaped by the unresolvable tension between mechanically-imposed external worlds and passionate inarticulate internal worlds."
good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...
The Expressionist Games Manifesto
“Work! Intoxication! Brain-racking! Chewing, eating, gorging, rooting up! Rapturous birth pangs! Jabbing of the brush, preferably right…
possumcreek.medium.com
September 9, 2025 at 6:32 AM
if you were wondering what i meant with "expression" in that post about the slotmachine indies a while back, here you go:
"Expressionist games are negotiated experiences shaped by the unresolvable tension between mechanically-imposed external worlds and passionate inarticulate internal worlds."
"Expressionist games are negotiated experiences shaped by the unresolvable tension between mechanically-imposed external worlds and passionate inarticulate internal worlds."
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good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...
The Expressionist Games Manifesto
“Work! Intoxication! Brain-racking! Chewing, eating, gorging, rooting up! Rapturous birth pangs! Jabbing of the brush, preferably right…
possumcreek.medium.com
September 8, 2025 at 12:41 PM
good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...
possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...
northernlion has played mosa lina on stream :)
let's see what happens next :)
let's see what happens next :)
September 9, 2025 at 6:17 AM
northernlion has played mosa lina on stream :)
let's see what happens next :)
let's see what happens next :)
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EVERYTHING SPIRALS TO A FINAL POINT OF UNIFICATION
THE SACRED ΩMEGA POINT
cathroon.itch.io/omega-point
A MIXTAPE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
[FLASHING IMAGE WARNING]
THE SACRED ΩMEGA POINT
cathroon.itch.io/omega-point
A MIXTAPE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
[FLASHING IMAGE WARNING]
September 7, 2025 at 2:47 AM
EVERYTHING SPIRALS TO A FINAL POINT OF UNIFICATION
THE SACRED ΩMEGA POINT
cathroon.itch.io/omega-point
A MIXTAPE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
[FLASHING IMAGE WARNING]
THE SACRED ΩMEGA POINT
cathroon.itch.io/omega-point
A MIXTAPE AT THE END OF THE WORLD
[FLASHING IMAGE WARNING]
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Been thinking about this all week; but really this just brings a bunch of stuff bubbling up that I've been sitting on for way longer. On the death of criticism:
noescapevg.com/games-critic...
noescapevg.com/games-critic...
Games Criticism is Dead; Long Live Games Criticism
A response to Grace Benfell’s Endless Mode piece, “Silksong Hastens the Death of the Critic” Last week the long-awaited sequel to Team Cherry’s hit search-action game Hollow…
noescapevg.com
September 7, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Been thinking about this all week; but really this just brings a bunch of stuff bubbling up that I've been sitting on for way longer. On the death of criticism:
noescapevg.com/games-critic...
noescapevg.com/games-critic...
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You'll never believe how this newly-released BABY was made!
- only nine months development time
- solo female developer! (with contractor help)
- only nine months development time
- solo female developer! (with contractor help)
September 6, 2025 at 2:07 PM
You'll never believe how this newly-released BABY was made!
- only nine months development time
- solo female developer! (with contractor help)
- only nine months development time
- solo female developer! (with contractor help)
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“performative male” this is not 2014. They’re not trend tweaking. Hipsters are gone. Obama’s gone. This is literally just the new wave fascists telling men w any troublesome care or conscience left to stop being a pussy and get behind the dictator
September 5, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“performative male” this is not 2014. They’re not trend tweaking. Hipsters are gone. Obama’s gone. This is literally just the new wave fascists telling men w any troublesome care or conscience left to stop being a pussy and get behind the dictator
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Cloth game is looking more like cloth now!
September 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Cloth game is looking more like cloth now!
another one of these images that spawned in my head and can only be flushed out again by posting
September 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
another one of these images that spawned in my head and can only be flushed out again by posting
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I'm so ready for genAI to be gone. I want these people to be shamed for the rest of their lives. Not only the VCs who shove it down our throats, but the scientists who let it happen because they don't want to stick their necks out. If you can't handle tough decisions, go paint houses or something.
September 3, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I'm so ready for genAI to be gone. I want these people to be shamed for the rest of their lives. Not only the VCs who shove it down our throats, but the scientists who let it happen because they don't want to stick their necks out. If you can't handle tough decisions, go paint houses or something.
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The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
September 2, 2025 at 4:22 PM
The Play for Peace: Games for Palestine charity bundle is now live! Nearly 400 games from creators all around the world, with proceeds going directly to Gaza relief efforts.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
Bundle link: itch.io/b/2979/play-...
We made a launch trailer to celebrate this moment👇 Please RT.
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i generally think it's a good thing for a game to be book-like, in the sense that you can flip to any "page" (game state) relatively unimpeded, which i feel is a more radical position on difficulty than "dark souls should have easy mode"
September 3, 2025 at 2:23 PM
i generally think it's a good thing for a game to be book-like, in the sense that you can flip to any "page" (game state) relatively unimpeded, which i feel is a more radical position on difficulty than "dark souls should have easy mode"
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The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is offering $15,000 USD to traditionally under-supported game developers working on thinky puzzle games.
If this is you, we invite you to apply!
Deadline: September 28th
grants.draknek.org
If this is you, we invite you to apply!
Deadline: September 28th
grants.draknek.org
Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant
The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is a grant opportunity for game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups and backgrounds who are interested in designing and developing puzzle games.
grants.draknek.org
September 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is offering $15,000 USD to traditionally under-supported game developers working on thinky puzzle games.
If this is you, we invite you to apply!
Deadline: September 28th
grants.draknek.org
If this is you, we invite you to apply!
Deadline: September 28th
grants.draknek.org
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It's been a while.
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Australia Did It - Reveal Trailer
YouTube video by MysticForge
www.youtube.com
September 3, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's been a while.
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
Glad to be announcing a new game, and happy that it is something experimental and weird: a tiny, tense, turn-based strategy game about merging units into spectacular combinations, and then watching them evaporate thousands of bugs.
store.steampowered.com/app/2396130/...
platformer capitalism
September 1, 2025 at 9:41 AM
platformer capitalism
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“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲
IMG_0001
walzr.com
August 25, 2025 at 7:27 PM
“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.”
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲
walzr.com/IMG_0001
this is beautiful 🥲
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sadly not going to be able to finish even a smaller interactive fiction project this month.
I'll take this week off from work to actively think through some stuff & hopefully have a healthy creative re-start in september :))
I'll take this week off from work to actively think through some stuff & hopefully have a healthy creative re-start in september :))
August 26, 2025 at 8:01 AM
sadly not going to be able to finish even a smaller interactive fiction project this month.
I'll take this week off from work to actively think through some stuff & hopefully have a healthy creative re-start in september :))
I'll take this week off from work to actively think through some stuff & hopefully have a healthy creative re-start in september :))
The difficult art of subtractive game design
YouTube video by MrEliptik
www.youtube.com
August 25, 2025 at 10:31 AM
kinda noteworthy that the event powering this surge (basically classic fake youtuber beef between the Developers of two huge live-service games) is called "The Admin War"
ig to manage the continous social space they facilitate, developers have to become administrators :)
ig to manage the continous social space they facilitate, developers have to become administrators :)
Roblox Hits Mindblowing Player Count Record Thanks to Steal a Brainrot
insider-gaming.com/roblox-mindb...
insider-gaming.com/roblox-mindb...
Roblox Hits Mindblowing Player Count Record Thanks to Steal a Brainrot
Steal a Brainrot has joined forces with Grow a Garden to propel Roblox into the history books and secure a new staggering player record.
insider-gaming.com
August 24, 2025 at 5:41 PM
kinda noteworthy that the event powering this surge (basically classic fake youtuber beef between the Developers of two huge live-service games) is called "The Admin War"
ig to manage the continous social space they facilitate, developers have to become administrators :)
ig to manage the continous social space they facilitate, developers have to become administrators :)