Fayad
@dfayad.itch.io
Game Designer 🇨🇴 🇱🇧 🇵🇸 Working to build a community of gamedevs in Colombia.
fayadgames.itch.io
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Quick non-take about game design but... I've never liked or agreed with the MDA Framework (mechanics, dynamics, Aesthetics) to analyze or understand games.
Not ready yet to clearly articulate why, but I felt like putting it out there.
Not ready yet to clearly articulate why, but I felt like putting it out there.
June 6, 2025 at 10:54 PM
Quick non-take about game design but... I've never liked or agreed with the MDA Framework (mechanics, dynamics, Aesthetics) to analyze or understand games.
Not ready yet to clearly articulate why, but I felt like putting it out there.
Not ready yet to clearly articulate why, but I felt like putting it out there.
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This is so sad.
May 2, 2025 at 9:59 PM
This is so sad.
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they are talking this way about gamers because they know that without modern gaming online culture, starting out with gamergate, the current cultural rightwing movement wouldn’t be what it is. without gamergate there wouldn’t be paid ads for adolf hitler on twitter
March 7, 2025 at 4:59 PM
they are talking this way about gamers because they know that without modern gaming online culture, starting out with gamergate, the current cultural rightwing movement wouldn’t be what it is. without gamergate there wouldn’t be paid ads for adolf hitler on twitter
Let's play videos are a game changer for video game analysis. You can find hundreds of detailed player experiences from all across the world, most of them including face and input recording.
Anything from highly edited interactive experiences, to painfully slow livestreams. Incredible resource.
Anything from highly edited interactive experiences, to painfully slow livestreams. Incredible resource.
March 6, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Let's play videos are a game changer for video game analysis. You can find hundreds of detailed player experiences from all across the world, most of them including face and input recording.
Anything from highly edited interactive experiences, to painfully slow livestreams. Incredible resource.
Anything from highly edited interactive experiences, to painfully slow livestreams. Incredible resource.
If you want consistently interesting and well made games to play on your phone, look no further than @adamatomic.bsky.social pico-8 output.
I spent a couple of hours last night when I should've been sleeping playing Cave of cards. The pico-8 mobile controls are actually good!
I spent a couple of hours last night when I should've been sleeping playing Cave of cards. The pico-8 mobile controls are actually good!
new web game! CAVE OF CARDS
♠️ Dig around and find out 👀👀👀
♣️ Fight monsters like: Mold, Demigorgon Flower, or Eyes
♦️ Spend gems on UPGRADE (s)
♥️ Don't die !! From fighting, or punching rocks -
🚪 Escape the cave and get AHIGH SCORE
made in #PICO8 ( again)
adamatomic.itch.io/caveofcards
♠️ Dig around and find out 👀👀👀
♣️ Fight monsters like: Mold, Demigorgon Flower, or Eyes
♦️ Spend gems on UPGRADE (s)
♥️ Don't die !! From fighting, or punching rocks -
🚪 Escape the cave and get AHIGH SCORE
made in #PICO8 ( again)
adamatomic.itch.io/caveofcards
March 5, 2025 at 5:01 PM
If you want consistently interesting and well made games to play on your phone, look no further than @adamatomic.bsky.social pico-8 output.
I spent a couple of hours last night when I should've been sleeping playing Cave of cards. The pico-8 mobile controls are actually good!
I spent a couple of hours last night when I should've been sleeping playing Cave of cards. The pico-8 mobile controls are actually good!
The kids ain't alright.
I've started teaching an elective on 'Videogame analysis and creation' for students of any major (though it's mostly computer science and multimedia design).
It's tough to see them parrot alt-right talking points when we get into discussions of games and representation.
I've started teaching an elective on 'Videogame analysis and creation' for students of any major (though it's mostly computer science and multimedia design).
It's tough to see them parrot alt-right talking points when we get into discussions of games and representation.
March 5, 2025 at 1:37 AM
The kids ain't alright.
I've started teaching an elective on 'Videogame analysis and creation' for students of any major (though it's mostly computer science and multimedia design).
It's tough to see them parrot alt-right talking points when we get into discussions of games and representation.
I've started teaching an elective on 'Videogame analysis and creation' for students of any major (though it's mostly computer science and multimedia design).
It's tough to see them parrot alt-right talking points when we get into discussions of games and representation.
This looks like a great crash course into videogame history.
VIDEO GAME OF THE YEAR, my book, is one of the best video game history books around
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linktr.ee/jordanwminor
February 28, 2025 at 4:01 PM
This looks like a great crash course into videogame history.
This 100% it's never about "balance", what does balance even mean? It's about feel. (Not game-feel necessarily). We really need better semantics for games discourse.
Gonna stop using the word "balance" and start using the word "tuning." Whenever I talk about "balance", I get pulled into conversations about "overbalancing" and how "balance isn't that important actually"--which feel like non-sequitors to me. But I think I've just been using the wrong word.
February 26, 2025 at 6:20 PM
This 100% it's never about "balance", what does balance even mean? It's about feel. (Not game-feel necessarily). We really need better semantics for games discourse.
Jokes are and will always be the best reason to make art.
i thought this was a funny single-joke game, but actually it's a funny ten-joke game brandonhare.itch.io/bluejeweled
BLUEJEWELED by brandonhare
welcome to bluejeweled
brandonhare.itch.io
February 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Jokes are and will always be the best reason to make art.
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My own take on this is the very notion of "design" is an inescapably poisoned and neoliberal concept and personally I'd rather approach games in terms of media or art
(Please nobody lookup what kind of school employs me)
bsky.app/profile/sylv...
(Please nobody lookup what kind of school employs me)
bsky.app/profile/sylv...
I think I'm reaching the conclusion that I've been approaching this all wrong. What I care about is self-expression. What is "good" to me is when the self-expression is striking and resonant. I cannot game-design my way into that no matter how hard I try, because it truly does depend on the person.
December 28, 2024 at 3:55 AM
My own take on this is the very notion of "design" is an inescapably poisoned and neoliberal concept and personally I'd rather approach games in terms of media or art
(Please nobody lookup what kind of school employs me)
bsky.app/profile/sylv...
(Please nobody lookup what kind of school employs me)
bsky.app/profile/sylv...
Slightly warmer take. No, but this is actually part of the problem with players equating 'realism' with better games, which fuels the graphical arms race that bloats development times and sinks studios.
Also... This is sometimes paired with "beautifying" female characters.
Also... This is sometimes paired with "beautifying" female characters.
Probably a lukewarm take but i dont like those "hyperrealistic" game mods. It takes away all the art style choices and just turn it into something more bland. Loses the sauce. Lukewarm bc its a mod that i dont have to download so its really none of my business but idk why ppl like it
January 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Slightly warmer take. No, but this is actually part of the problem with players equating 'realism' with better games, which fuels the graphical arms race that bloats development times and sinks studios.
Also... This is sometimes paired with "beautifying" female characters.
Also... This is sometimes paired with "beautifying" female characters.
Loved this take on quality of life changes in games. I for one, am down for arguing semantics, especially when there is a hidden meaning to common terms that needs questioning.
This one asks, are "quality of life" changes ever actual improvements? Or just unexamined changes to design flavours.
This one asks, are "quality of life" changes ever actual improvements? Or just unexamined changes to design flavours.
kayin.moe/quality-of-l...
Wrote a bit about some issues I have with out the term Quality-of-Life gets thrown around. Not that I'm against it's use, but I think there are some assumptions we make about QoL changes that aren't true.
🗨️ replies will appear as comments under the post!
Wrote a bit about some issues I have with out the term Quality-of-Life gets thrown around. Not that I'm against it's use, but I think there are some assumptions we make about QoL changes that aren't true.
🗨️ replies will appear as comments under the post!
Kayinworks - Quality of Life
I try not to argue exact language much. I try to keep my approach to language as a descriptivist. Language evolves in terrible and funny ways. Metroidvania is an awful term, but it's a term with histo...
kayin.moe
January 22, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Loved this take on quality of life changes in games. I for one, am down for arguing semantics, especially when there is a hidden meaning to common terms that needs questioning.
This one asks, are "quality of life" changes ever actual improvements? Or just unexamined changes to design flavours.
This one asks, are "quality of life" changes ever actual improvements? Or just unexamined changes to design flavours.
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yet another issue with the “indies will save us” narrative outlined (and debunked) on the latest you are error
aftermath.site/you-are-erro...
aftermath.site/you-are-erro...
January 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
yet another issue with the “indies will save us” narrative outlined (and debunked) on the latest you are error
aftermath.site/you-are-erro...
aftermath.site/you-are-erro...
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Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.
January 9, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Writing tip: After you finish, go back & cut all the adverbs. Then all the adjectives. Then all the other words. Eat the paper. Now you're free.
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I did it! Speed Squared is now available for download and play in browser!
Itch: kichex.itch.io/speedsquared
GxGames: tinyurl.com/yc6ezdyc
Gamejolt: tinyurl.com/bdfhh7c3
Play it for free! leaving a review is highly appreciated!
Thanks to @aelspecto.bsky.social for the awesome music!!
Itch: kichex.itch.io/speedsquared
GxGames: tinyurl.com/yc6ezdyc
Gamejolt: tinyurl.com/bdfhh7c3
Play it for free! leaving a review is highly appreciated!
Thanks to @aelspecto.bsky.social for the awesome music!!
December 13, 2024 at 4:27 PM
I did it! Speed Squared is now available for download and play in browser!
Itch: kichex.itch.io/speedsquared
GxGames: tinyurl.com/yc6ezdyc
Gamejolt: tinyurl.com/bdfhh7c3
Play it for free! leaving a review is highly appreciated!
Thanks to @aelspecto.bsky.social for the awesome music!!
Itch: kichex.itch.io/speedsquared
GxGames: tinyurl.com/yc6ezdyc
Gamejolt: tinyurl.com/bdfhh7c3
Play it for free! leaving a review is highly appreciated!
Thanks to @aelspecto.bsky.social for the awesome music!!
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Remember the whole point Squid Game was trying to make?
Neither does these game devs...
Neither does these game devs...
December 13, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Remember the whole point Squid Game was trying to make?
Neither does these game devs...
Neither does these game devs...
What the actual fuck. Are journalists actually doing the "videogames cause violence" bit with... let me check I read this right... AMONG US!!!?
What a target to replace CoD in the modern era to distract from the collapse of American ultra capitalist libertarian ideals.
What a target to replace CoD in the modern era to distract from the collapse of American ultra capitalist libertarian ideals.
If you haven't read this, please take a moment to guess which game NBC is talking about here. Which assassination game might be inferred by this headline to have radicalized Luigi into supposedly committing the most artistically thought-out assassination of the past decade.
December 10, 2024 at 4:27 PM
What the actual fuck. Are journalists actually doing the "videogames cause violence" bit with... let me check I read this right... AMONG US!!!?
What a target to replace CoD in the modern era to distract from the collapse of American ultra capitalist libertarian ideals.
What a target to replace CoD in the modern era to distract from the collapse of American ultra capitalist libertarian ideals.
My brain seemed to think I couldn't burn out if I was unemployed.
FALSE
You'd imagine I'd get better at seeing and preventing it after everything.
ALSO FALSE.
FALSE
You'd imagine I'd get better at seeing and preventing it after everything.
ALSO FALSE.
December 6, 2024 at 2:59 AM
My brain seemed to think I couldn't burn out if I was unemployed.
FALSE
You'd imagine I'd get better at seeing and preventing it after everything.
ALSO FALSE.
FALSE
You'd imagine I'd get better at seeing and preventing it after everything.
ALSO FALSE.
I never got into twitter. Only used it when the studio I worked at needed an online presence. Apparently it was "the place to be". I don't think it ever was a good place to promote games, but I did like hearing takes from devs I loved.
All that is to say, Bsky it's reminding me I love to write.
All that is to say, Bsky it's reminding me I love to write.
December 5, 2024 at 2:00 AM
I never got into twitter. Only used it when the studio I worked at needed an online presence. Apparently it was "the place to be". I don't think it ever was a good place to promote games, but I did like hearing takes from devs I loved.
All that is to say, Bsky it's reminding me I love to write.
All that is to say, Bsky it's reminding me I love to write.
Looking for a job in games is so discouraging. It's been months of going through round after round of screenings and interviews to generally just end up ghosted.
I've followed all advice I could find, taken mentorships, done and redone my portfolio and CV a number of times.
Just venting here. 😮💨
I've followed all advice I could find, taken mentorships, done and redone my portfolio and CV a number of times.
Just venting here. 😮💨
December 3, 2024 at 3:01 PM
Looking for a job in games is so discouraging. It's been months of going through round after round of screenings and interviews to generally just end up ghosted.
I've followed all advice I could find, taken mentorships, done and redone my portfolio and CV a number of times.
Just venting here. 😮💨
I've followed all advice I could find, taken mentorships, done and redone my portfolio and CV a number of times.
Just venting here. 😮💨