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Thinks way too much about Caves of Qud

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flattened beneath the layer cake @fractrans.bsky.social · 19d
Thanks to everyone who watched my talk at @roguelike.club yesterday!

Slides / links: codeberg.org/librarianmag...
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lucavi.bsky.social
let game
November 14, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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bigsimple.bsky.social
hey there! I'll be streaming Caves of Qud in about 5 minutes with @fractrans.bsky.social and @unormal.bsky.social, and we'll be going through the Reanimated Monster Mash mod jam 2025!

come hang out, peruse the beasts, and enjoy the vibes!

youtube.com/live/LmmCumv...
Caves of Qud - Looking at Qudjam Submissions with Libby!
YouTube video by Big Simple
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November 14, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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pyrofoux.bsky.social
Just want you to know that when I asked Geoff why he gave the silent treatment to an open letter written by his own "future of games" program (& co-signed by 3000+ industry peers), he replied:

"Because that's my show and nobody gets to tell me how I should use my platform". 💀💀💀
November 11, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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ectafoole.bsky.social
Although I love all of what @loccorocco-art.bsky.social has drawn about Caves of Qud, I'm especially fond of how he looked at my snarky Issachari dialog and thought, "that's gay teasing" and drew it so it was
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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lize.bsky.social
Met a Halloween moose today
November 1, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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orb.nexus
jpeg artifacts on my aura
October 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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hollynielsen.bsky.social
Getting my Halloween costume together for tonight :)
A plaid shirt with a name tag that says “Hello I’m Dan/Chris/Matt I’m a GENUINE solo game dev (shout out to my contractors)
October 30, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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lazerwalker.com
It's always a good time to get your mailing list off of the site that actively funds transphobic writers, but now is a particularly good time to migrate, while you can still take your customers' Stripe billing tokens with you and not have to get people to reenter payment
melbuer.bsky.social Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · Aug 31
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
October 29, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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mtrc.bsky.social
I worked on the Torment Nexus for five years. Here’s why the project has lost its way. | New York Times (Gift Link)
October 28, 2025 at 12:49 PM
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unormal.bsky.social
we gotta hyper optimize so we can fill the new headroom with new frog opinions
notquitereal.bsky.social Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 18d
i don't want them to optimize caves of qud. i want them to go backwards. i want it to take eight minutes to load because it's computing how much a frog hates me
October 28, 2025 at 3:23 AM
fractrans.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who watched my talk at @roguelike.club yesterday!

Slides / links: codeberg.org/librarianmag...
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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unormal.bsky.social
roguelike celebration is a good conference
October 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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lorenschmidt.bsky.social
it would be great if after a character died, your game made a .txt file which is just generated ascii art of their bones.
October 26, 2025 at 10:43 PM
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dixonij.bsky.social
None of this tech grift bullshit is truly inevitable despite what they keep trying to say.
shiningangelx.bsky.social perfect angel @shiningangelx.bsky.social · Oct 9
"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore
October 26, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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roguelike.club
Thank you @jbrew.bsky.social for adding the Brooklyn Interpretation of karaoke to our collective community toolkit.
Slide asking 'what is karaoke?' and presenting the brooklyn interpretation: well-known songs, lyrics on screen, tech-assisted, and possible to practice.
October 25, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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andrewdoull.bsky.social
Roguelike Celebration (2025)
unormal.bsky.social 🐔 Brian Bucklew 🐔 ₑͤ＞∿＜ₑͤ ∞🌮 @unormal.bsky.social · 22d
we should all just get on a bbs instead of going to gdc
October 24, 2025 at 3:47 AM
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apepers.bsky.social
If you want cons to be smaller, cheaper, more accessible, and less corporate- consider checking out @roguelike.club this weekend, maybe even buying a ticket! Even if proc gen isn’t your fav, I think it can be inspiring to see this type of event in action, and we can only keep doing it with support ❤️
October 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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nora.zone
i made another trans ghost
it’s supposed to be a glowing orb with eyes in the trans pride colors but it also kind of looks like if you took a blurry picture of a gas giant
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
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fractrans.bsky.social
Excited to announce that I will be speaking at Roguelike Celebration @roguelike.club this year!

www.roguelike.club/event2025.ht...
A Mythopoetic Interface Reading of Caves of Qud Caves of Qud renders a world where artifacts of the distant past present elaborate legends from the events of historic characters' lives. In the same way, the game's interface elaborates on the player character's abstracted interactions and experiences to present their own legend. This talk proposes a reading of Qud's interface as mythopoetic—representing the player's story as mythologized and metaphorical rather than directly literal. This interpretation of Caves of Qud's narrative and themes offers the play experience as one more myth-made layer to dig through.
September 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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kitfoxgames.com
Join us this Halloween for a five-day-long modding jam for Caves of Qud. Take part in the joy of creation and distill Qud's beautiful monstrosity into a creature of your own making.

🎃 Sign up here: itch.io/jam/caves-of...
🧟‍♀️ Chat about the event in the Kitfox Discord: discord.gg/hpUJFdKHdd
Caves of Qud modding jam: reanimated Monster Mash
October 21, 2025 at 1:14 PM
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catacalypto.bsky.social
pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:
October 20, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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jfg.land
In simulation game design it is important for one area of the simulation to be inexplicably overgranular (because it was a pet interest of one of the designers) and thus become a key part of the system's signature expressivity
October 17, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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ectafoole.bsky.social
the Caves of Qud finale episode of @eggplantshow.bsky.social has been scheduled and I'm just vibrating as it slowly crawls toward us
October 15, 2025 at 3:21 PM
fractrans.bsky.social
A popup from Caves of Qud. The popup reads, "You became a cord in time's silly carpet. You were cooked." In the center of the popup is a picture of a puff of steam.
October 11, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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wolf.observer
caves of qud is a rare and excellent example of living earth fiction. the world ended long ago and it's fine*

*mostly
October 6, 2025 at 5:25 AM