Toby Alden
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brlka.com
Toby Alden
@brlka.com
game dev & DJ
made youhole.tv and mixtapegarden.com
mellymelon on discord
they/them

📝 blog: brlka.com
🎲 games: brlka.itch.io
🎹 music: brlka.bandcamp.com
💿 mixes: mixcloud.com/brlka

🎧 listening thread: bsky.app/profile/brlka.com/post/3l72csvasqa2o
incredible WR speedrun of my game flower visit 👏👏👏
November 25, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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It's finally coming!!
On December 8th... I'm releasing my next game, Angeline Era!!!
It's a vast, 3D action-adventure where you travel across a country's unmarked overworld, with every level hidden in plain sight.
Please look forward to it!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920
November 17, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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ELBE "A Life Spent Wading In Drivel" 🦎by @juneflower.bsky.social
damp exploration rpg about a masturbating lizard in poison swamp. wildly beautiful handdrawn fonts

june-flower.itch.io/elbe
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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HOLDING IT 🥛by @brlka.com @paellagenius.bsky.social
a lush high-concept precision platformer, where you play a tiny baby meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time. Funny, pretty, well designed, perfect itch game

brlka.itch.io/holding-it
Free / hours (its hard)
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
i think a lot of people who don't like chess would enjoy it with a timer... it fixes a lot about the game
November 17, 2025 at 12:39 AM
i wish modern fighting games were less explicitly designed... my experience with strive/sf6/gbvsr is there's one way they want you to play each character that's enforced by a small, specific toolkit. playing MBAACC or +R feels like ordering from one of those chinese restaurants with a massive menu
November 15, 2025 at 7:33 PM
a fun movement spice i like to sprinkle on my platformers is to make the velocity cap on the x axis slightly higher in the air... it incentivizes jumping all the time, which adds a fun challenge of traversing the landscape optimally by subdividing it into the fewest number of jumps
November 15, 2025 at 9:59 AM
playing CAR ARTIST how the developers intended (at the DMV)
November 14, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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i have a lot of trouble with self-promotion, but i lost my insurance and SNAP benefits a few months ago due to federal level hijinx, and am really struggling with the day to day right now. i could really use your help! i'm trying to get back up to $1000.

www.patreon.com/vacuumflowers
Get more from Loren Schmidt on Patreon
creating video games + other digital art
www.patreon.com
November 13, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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🚨🚨🚨 !! NEW GAME !! 🚨🚨🚨

brlka.itch.io/holding-it
brlka.itch.io/holding-it
brlka.itch.io/holding-it

it's a jump king-like
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
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I still havent gotten that many requests. I would appreciate if people could share it. I am not sure when I will receive my money since that place apparently goes through stuff chronologically… 🥲
I am a bit in a rut. I usually get funding by the gov to live, but they aren’t replying since months. Means I am slowly without money. If anyone is interested, my commissions are open. All my infos and forms are here: sucaciic-info.carrd.co

Please feel free to share too.
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sucaciic-info.carrd.co
November 14, 2025 at 3:17 PM
despise the infinite scroll vertical videos format and hate that every website is trying to draw you into it, absolute mind poison
November 13, 2025 at 6:45 PM
really liked this article, it's about chess but applies to anyone trying to improve at a skill in the era of content
How titled players lie to you
This post is a word of warning for the average club player. As the chess world is becoming increasingly salesy, snake oil marketing is becoming more and more the norm. It is time to reconsider how muc...
www.chess.com
November 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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just released Holding It, a very mean little platformer about meeting your girlfriend’s parents. Artwork by Taylor Dow and me. I think it came out beautiful!

Free to play here:
brlka.itch.io/holding-it
November 11, 2025 at 6:23 PM
🚨🚨🚨 !! NEW GAME !! 🚨🚨🚨

brlka.itch.io/holding-it
brlka.itch.io/holding-it
brlka.itch.io/holding-it

it's a jump king-like
November 11, 2025 at 5:34 PM
"gotta get washed to get clean" -capablanca
November 8, 2025 at 10:27 PM
does anyone have any opinions on if C# + FNA or C# + SDL3 would be a better choice for a small 2d game engine?
November 8, 2025 at 4:33 PM
i've made a lot of stuff in 2025! three games, one album, seven mixes... good year for toby enjoyers
November 8, 2025 at 5:21 AM
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Arroyo Seco
November 7, 2025 at 10:34 PM
how it started -> how it’s going
November 7, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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We've officially set up a gofundme to get out of this hell state. spread n share if u can. bless
gofund.me/29c599d9
Donate to In dire need of a light at the end of the tunnel.., organized by Adrian Wiatrowski
My partner and I are struggling, autistic transgirls hol… Adrian Wiatrowski needs your support for In dire need of a light at the end of the tunnel..
gofund.me
June 11, 2025 at 12:31 AM
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I am a bit in a rut. I usually get funding by the gov to live, but they aren’t replying since months. Means I am slowly without money. If anyone is interested, my commissions are open. All my infos and forms are here: sucaciic-info.carrd.co

Please feel free to share too.
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sucaciic-info.carrd.co
November 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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hi. between snap cuts and recent work hour cuts i'm kinda in a real sore spot and could use some help. i have a ko-fi membership thing i never talk about that would be a really helpful long term way to support me and my art if u have the means:

ko-fi.com/gumdiseasexo...

thanks! idk!!!
November 5, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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if everyone following me chipped in 5 bucks or shared to someone who could they'd be out of danger, please consider giving if you have the means and share as widely as possible given that this is time sensitive
Please god we need help, this is as dire an emergency as it can be
We're currently facing eviction and it's putting our feet to the fire and we need to raise 5000 dollars for someplace to live
#transcrowdfund
#mutualaid

cash.app/$pittypotpat
www.paypal.com/paypalme/soc...
November 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
my gamedev's secret is i really want to make an extraction shooter. i don't really hear people talk about them but the ambiguity of intent in player encounters is soooo cool and exciting...
November 5, 2025 at 4:34 PM