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TrickyTriangles
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Video game person: development, design and history.
Always on the lookout for cool birds.
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mikkihel.bsky.social
A lot of the business failures of the games industry are really rooted in this desire to create a product that dominates the market. The recent Amazon thing really highlights that: they wanted to create a product that outperformed Steam, but they didn't understand Steam or what the audience wanted.
October 30, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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nifflas.bsky.social
Announcing that Rhythm Doggo has a steam page now! It'd be super helpful if you wishlist it!

store.steampowered.com/app/4090240/...

Key art by @1neila1.bsky.social
Rhythm Doggo on Steam
You wanted to play a video game and just got transformed into a dog! Rhythm Doggo is a classic platform adventure where you play as a dog and make music on the way. Can you go back to your human form?
store.steampowered.com
October 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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kennylauderdale.bsky.social
So anyway I restored Daicon IV from scratch. This was a joint project with Chris Person (papapishu), who sourced the incredibly Rare Laserdisc release. The raw files can be found on the internet archive for those interested in processing it yourself. Enjoy! archive.org/details/DAIC...
DAICON III & IV Opening Animation -Domesday Duplicator Remaster] : hideaki anno : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Deinterlaced & remastered version of the original Laserdisc for Daicon IV & III.
archive.org
October 26, 2025 at 12:36 AM
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shanedenhardt.bsky.social
Was super excited that the trailer for our game Drift Scavenger just got posted to IGN! WOOOOO! Definitely a big milestone for me. feels good!🙂

www.ign.com/videos/drift...
Drift Scavenger - Official Gameplay Teaser Trailer - IGN
Take a look at the Gameplay Teaser Trailer for Drift Scavenger, an action roguelike extraction shooter developed by Evil Villain Games. Players will explore procedurally generated maps in the pursuit ...
www.ign.com
October 24, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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birdperhour.net
#birdbot
September 27, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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envinyon.bsky.social
Disney adults canceling subscriptions, vacations, etc really are making the Harry Potter adults that threw a fit over a $60 video game look like huge bitches
September 21, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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pvgd.bsky.social
We wrapped up our PICO8 game jam this weekend; check out our stuff!
pvgd.org/picojam2025

Thanks to @noelcody.bsky.social , @lankung.bsky.social , @trickytriangles.bsky.social, and everyone else for contributing!
#indiegames, #gamedev, #pvgd, #pioneervalley, #indiedev, #pico8, #lexaloffle
PVGD PICOJam 2025 – PVGD
pvgd.org
September 15, 2025 at 6:26 PM
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zunguzungu.bsky.social
Immigrants are a social good, anti-immigrant propaganda is basically all lies, and any approach to the "problem" that doesn't start form those two points is worthless
September 6, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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atherton.bsky.social
what a fucking stupid time to be a person who cares about other people
August 28, 2025 at 10:40 PM
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radishharmers.bsky.social
Videogames are a waste of time. But so is your job.
August 26, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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poppyhaze.bsky.social
every “ancient tradition” was invented between 1848-1870 and every “modern perversion” is so ancient as to predate writing
August 15, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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veryimportant.lawyer
hey, nerd. i got a "regular expression" for you: up yours
August 15, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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vortexegg.com
This is an example where the problem is not so much the capabilities of LLMs as it is the fact that we have independently normalized a widespread culture of acceptable lying
August 9, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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komi-tsu.bsky.social
A new event series has started...."CD-ROM studies!"

We will invite guests involved in CD-ROM software in the 1990s and interview them about the behind-the-scenes stories.
May 4, 2025 at 3:17 PM
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brandon.insertcredit.com
July 29, 2025 at 2:55 AM
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nedroid.com
In my experience there are three kinds of fantasy magic novels:
"There are three kinds of magic," said Wizzler, handing us each a balloon. "You can control tigers, you can shoot tornadoes from your fingers, or you can fly by holding your breath. The color of confetti inside your balloon will reveal which kind of power you have." I felt the panic rising in me. What if my confetti turned yellow, indicating that I was a Tiger-Talker? My family, a long line of proud Tornado-Fingers, would disown me. Could I ever return home, bearing such shame? I tried to calm myself as I readied the ceremonial safety pin. Green, I thought, willing my hopes into reality. Please be green. I popped the balloon, involuntarily shutting my eyes. When I opened them, would I see the green I hoped for? The yellow I feared? What if, gods forbid, the confetti were blue? I opened my eyes, seeing shock on the faces of my classmates. Wizzler himself stared at me, wide-eye. Looking down, I saw myself covered in confetti... purple confetti. “I don’t understand,” I growled, my body trembling with pain. “I combined eighty percent Earth-elemental mana with twenty percent Fire-elemental mana (Type B), focused through a twenty-four-sided icositetragon made of yellow topaz. This, in conjunction with my blood type, star sign, sense of humor, and nickname, should have produced a blazing column of lightning to vaporize my enemies. Instead, it made a big bubble that smells like fresh laundry. Why?” Skullgrumbler began to laugh. “You fool! You don’t even realize…” he squealed. “You’re facing east!” “It’s whatever you want,” explained Magemaster Grampledog. “Magic is just whatever you want.” I knew he was speaking in riddles, but I couldn’t grasp his hidden meaning. “So the rules are…” Grampledog lit a sliver of smokereed. “No rules. You say some words and you wave a stick and whatever you want just happens. You don’t even need the stick.” His wisdom still eluded me. I stared into his face, trying to decipher what he was really saying. “No, listen.” Grampledog snapped his fingers and his desk turned into a pile of chicken nuggets. “I didn’t even know that would happen.” His hat then came alive and began to yodel. “It’s pandemonium,” he explained. “It’s complete nonsense.”
July 28, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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videospacegames.bsky.social
There is a non-disparagement clause in Mastercard's rules, probably Visa too, and I'm guessing that's why Itch is being so diplomatic about their description of the situation. Fucking sucks. I feel bad for all parties involved except for the payment processors and the stupid ass puritans.
July 24, 2025 at 2:52 PM
trickytriangles.bsky.social
Tried participating in #kenneyjam this weekend, but I wasn't quite able to get a finished product ready in time. So there's no submission, sadly, but instead I can show you a video of what I *was* able to get done.
July 20, 2025 at 6:39 PM
trickytriangles.bsky.social
It's my birthday today, so to celebrate I went down to an arcade to play the only Galaxian3 machine in the United States. Super cool game. I'm really glad I got an opportunity to try it out.
The outside of a very large arcade cabinet. There's a poster in the middle with the game's title, "Galaxian3: Attack of the Zolgear". A look at the interior of the cabinet from the outside. The interior of the cabinet looks a bit like a movie theater, with a large, wide screen in the front where the video is being projected to. The cabinet contains six individual seats for six players, though only three are visible in the image. A picture showing how the game looks from inside.
July 14, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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misterabk.bsky.social
When I found a pub with an inverted normal map. (If you understand what this means, you have to repost.)
A whitewashed pub wall, with mortar standing proud of the stones.
July 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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rumwik.bsky.social
I'm off to a compassionate start!

#art #rumthedonkey #comic
Digitally drawn three panel comic depicting Rum the Donkey interpreting the words "console.log" on a website called Javascript 4 Babies.
July 8, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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michaelhobbes.bsky.social
Nine years ago America experienced the last weekend where hope seemed possible
July 6, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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jamellebouie.net
the republican party is a modern day Slave Power and the only way forward for this country is to sweep it into the ash heap of history
July 3, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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maxkriegervg.bsky.social
more and more elements of the games industry are going to align themselves with gambling in the coming years, in a normalization of market failure. it is crucial to build a new paradigm for games and it must be ideologically opposed to this one. restructuring around gambling is anti-culture.
June 27, 2025 at 2:16 PM