thatjoshoverthere
@thatjoshoverthere.bsky.social
Josh!
He/Him
Creator of Pluto: Cave Mission Prologue
Game dev, artist, animator
NFT and "AI" users will be kicked into the sun
https://joshmusto.weebly.com/
He/Him
Creator of Pluto: Cave Mission Prologue
Game dev, artist, animator
NFT and "AI" users will be kicked into the sun
https://joshmusto.weebly.com/
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My first ever video game, Pluto: Cave Mission Prologue is available RIGHT NOW! Enjoy a short and fun metroidvania entirely for free.
Link: thatjoshoverthere.itch.io/pluto-cmp
#indiegame #indiedev #metroidvania
Link: thatjoshoverthere.itch.io/pluto-cmp
#indiegame #indiedev #metroidvania
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*several alarms, bells and sirens sound off all at once*
November 20, 2025 at 12:06 AM
*several alarms, bells and sirens sound off all at once*
Guess who got chosen to be part of the Marvel Tokon beta 😎
November 19, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Guess who got chosen to be part of the Marvel Tokon beta 😎
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oh shit happy 20th birthday blaze the cat
November 15, 2025 at 8:46 PM
oh shit happy 20th birthday blaze the cat
Prime 4 looks awesome! I've seen people worried about NPC dialogue, and especially how some of it breaks the fourth wall with game instruction, and all I can say is GOOD. I MISS WHEN CHARACTERS TOLD YOU WHAT BUTTONS DO IN A TUTORIAL.
November 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Prime 4 looks awesome! I've seen people worried about NPC dialogue, and especially how some of it breaks the fourth wall with game instruction, and all I can say is GOOD. I MISS WHEN CHARACTERS TOLD YOU WHAT BUTTONS DO IN A TUTORIAL.
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There's a VERY real reason I stopped co-streaming the TGAs, even though they were always my most popular streams overall.
Shit like this is a blight on the industry, and needs to be chopped off like the profitized growth it is. They ain't perfect either but pls watch @indiegameawards.gg instead.
Shit like this is a blight on the industry, and needs to be chopped off like the profitized growth it is. They ain't perfect either but pls watch @indiegameawards.gg instead.
perhaps the most egregious thing that happened with the Future Class was when The Game Awards took money from Old Spice in the name of the FC & simply... pocketed it
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
it wasn't used to fund Future Class initiatives, it wasn't used to help lift marginalised developers
they just profited from us
November 7, 2025 at 8:08 AM
There's a VERY real reason I stopped co-streaming the TGAs, even though they were always my most popular streams overall.
Shit like this is a blight on the industry, and needs to be chopped off like the profitized growth it is. They ain't perfect either but pls watch @indiegameawards.gg instead.
Shit like this is a blight on the industry, and needs to be chopped off like the profitized growth it is. They ain't perfect either but pls watch @indiegameawards.gg instead.
I don't really talk about it, but as a Marvel Rivals player since launch: I me stoked for S5. S4 kinda felt draining to me, and the battlepass didn't help, but S5 and the anniversary are looking fantastic to me.
November 12, 2025 at 11:58 PM
I don't really talk about it, but as a Marvel Rivals player since launch: I me stoked for S5. S4 kinda felt draining to me, and the battlepass didn't help, but S5 and the anniversary are looking fantastic to me.
New Steam hardware looks sick! A tiny computer that lets me easily play my games on any tv I want? Glorious. A new controller with two actual joysticks this time? Perfect. A VR headset? Exists
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 PM
New Steam hardware looks sick! A tiny computer that lets me easily play my games on any tv I want? Glorious. A new controller with two actual joysticks this time? Perfect. A VR headset? Exists
It's snowing!!!
November 9, 2025 at 3:06 PM
It's snowing!!!
So, as it turns out, I am very not good at Kirby Air Riders
November 9, 2025 at 5:15 AM
So, as it turns out, I am very not good at Kirby Air Riders
Is anyone else having an issue where every time you go to YouTube's home page it adds an official Microsoft Copilot ad video to your history? It's annoying as hell and I refuse to believe that it isn't an intentional thing
November 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Is anyone else having an issue where every time you go to YouTube's home page it adds an official Microsoft Copilot ad video to your history? It's annoying as hell and I refuse to believe that it isn't an intentional thing
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The Winner of the Mini Collab vote is...
APPLIN!!!!! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
This month we'll be drawing the Applin family for a harvest themed Mini collab!
More info and how to join: t.co/wsu8IkoN1s
APPLIN!!!!! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
This month we'll be drawing the Applin family for a harvest themed Mini collab!
More info and how to join: t.co/wsu8IkoN1s
November 6, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The Winner of the Mini Collab vote is...
APPLIN!!!!! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
This month we'll be drawing the Applin family for a harvest themed Mini collab!
More info and how to join: t.co/wsu8IkoN1s
APPLIN!!!!! 🍎🍏🍎🍏🍎🍏
This month we'll be drawing the Applin family for a harvest themed Mini collab!
More info and how to join: t.co/wsu8IkoN1s
Damn, now I miss my Chimecho from Brilliant Diamond
Serebii Update: Official render for Mega Chimecho has been released. It is Psychic/Steel-type
www.serebii.net
www.serebii.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Damn, now I miss my Chimecho from Brilliant Diamond
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This goes into that “deprofessionalization” of the game industry article that went around a few months ago. People who don’t understand the work or care about the value of the people doing the work or honestly even care about quality at all. They just want to not have to pay workers.
www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-...
I imagined trying to get through bug reports written by an LLM and immediately got an honest to god headache. What do you mean I can’t even go back to the person who wrote it and ask for more details because there isn’t one, but it can still make shit up?
I imagined trying to get through bug reports written by an LLM and immediately got an honest to god headache. What do you mean I can’t even go back to the person who wrote it and ask for more details because there isn’t one, but it can still make shit up?
Square Enix says it wants generative AI to be doing 70% of its QA and debugging by the end of 2027 | VGC
The publisher is researching “Game QA Automation Technology” with the University of Tokyo…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 6, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This goes into that “deprofessionalization” of the game industry article that went around a few months ago. People who don’t understand the work or care about the value of the people doing the work or honestly even care about quality at all. They just want to not have to pay workers.
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Very important factor to this
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Very important factor to this
Happy Halloween! I'm stuck at work. Spooooooky
October 31, 2025 at 11:54 PM
Happy Halloween! I'm stuck at work. Spooooooky
This is such a big talking point that requires a lot of nuance, so I don't really care to try and elaborate via Bluesky post. (Again) But I will say this: in the disease that is hyperrealism open-world AAA oversaturation, yellow paint is a fever.
The debate over yellow paint in video games to guide players has resurfaced again after Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth director Naoki Hamaguchi told GamesRadar+ that "there is definitely a need" for it. What do you think? bit.ly/4qA6JRL
October 29, 2025 at 10:21 PM
This is such a big talking point that requires a lot of nuance, so I don't really care to try and elaborate via Bluesky post. (Again) But I will say this: in the disease that is hyperrealism open-world AAA oversaturation, yellow paint is a fever.
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friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
October 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
friend shared this, immediately updated my settings
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The best time to cancel your Xbox game pass was at the start of the BDS boycott, the second best time was when they jumped all prices up and laid off thousands, the third best time is fucking now
October 27, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The best time to cancel your Xbox game pass was at the start of the BDS boycott, the second best time was when they jumped all prices up and laid off thousands, the third best time is fucking now
I've never played the original Air Ride, so after the first Direct I wasn't really solid on Riders, but after the new Direct yesterday? Yeah I'm sold. A tremendous amount of (mostly) quick modes with adorable visuals and wild customization? I'm in.
October 24, 2025 at 4:47 PM
I've never played the original Air Ride, so after the first Direct I wasn't really solid on Riders, but after the new Direct yesterday? Yeah I'm sold. A tremendous amount of (mostly) quick modes with adorable visuals and wild customization? I'm in.
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please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
please watch movies and read books and play games and look at art, please view it with your own eyes through a lens you made yourself and not just through video essayists and ending explained videos please im begging you
Masterful gambit by Xbox to both absorb as many developers as possible AND raise the price of their devkits. Not making another Xbox isn't enough for them, they don't want anyone to even consider making a game for the current Xbox.
October 22, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Masterful gambit by Xbox to both absorb as many developers as possible AND raise the price of their devkits. Not making another Xbox isn't enough for them, they don't want anyone to even consider making a game for the current Xbox.
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Here is a Reddit threat that explains how to disable Copilot in Windows, which I've just followed:
www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...
www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...
October 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Here is a Reddit threat that explains how to disable Copilot in Windows, which I've just followed:
www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...
www.reddit.com/r/WindowsHel...
So I got Legends ZA. And within a few hours I've stumbled upon a shiny Gastly. So I guess it's going on the team!
October 16, 2025 at 4:42 PM
So I got Legends ZA. And within a few hours I've stumbled upon a shiny Gastly. So I guess it's going on the team!
Looks like it's time to double hunker down to avoid spoilers until the morning(?). Good thing I have game dev and sleep to keep me occupied!
Just realized I don't know when Best Buy emails preordered download codes. Crossing my fingers I'll actually get my code for Legends ZA at midnight tonight!
October 16, 2025 at 4:54 AM
Looks like it's time to double hunker down to avoid spoilers until the morning(?). Good thing I have game dev and sleep to keep me occupied!