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Jagriff - Gentoo Rescue dev
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Solo dev of open-world penguin puzzler Gentoo Rescue (steampowered.com/app/2830480/)

Other interests: 1v1 AFPS, RTS, platform fighters, cs+math (PhD), ergo keyboards, PC hardware, baseball, piano, Esperanto, and cats

https://www.twitch.tv/jagriff
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Aging meme from Saving Private Ryan
November 17, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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(meme spoilers, I guess?)

The new Kappa emote on Twitch is making it really hard for me to troll Gentoo Rescue players.

#twitch #kappa #loss #puzzlegame
chatter asking "Is it fucking loss" , to which I replied "Kappa". But it's not the traditional twitch emote. Instead it's some COD character for a promotion??? really!?
November 14, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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Even the penguins are excited about surpassing the 100 review threshold!
November 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
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We're at triple-digit reviews! This dream that felt unrealistic after the humble launch numbers. And 100% positive on top of that?!

🐧THANK YOU! 🐧
Steam store page of Gentoo Rescue showing 100 reviews total. (Technically there are some uncounted reviews from players that were gifted the game.)
November 10, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Gentoo Rescue will be in Steam’s Animal Fest! 🐧🦭🐟

Explore an open-world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles, and discover many surprises. It's 20% until November 17!

Complete either bundle for more discounts:
- w/ Can of Wormholes and Maxwell's puzzling demon
- w/ Glowkeeper
Steam Animal Fest promo showing that Gentoo Rescue is 20% until November 17.
November 10, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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People in the Gentoo Rescue discord are going crazy trying to create a puzzle that requires an insanely high number of moves.

Look at this abomination! I love it 🐧 (it's very light on spoilers, so no worries if you haven't played yet)

#indiegamedev #puzzlegame
Very large Gentoo Rescue puzzle with a lot of gates and buttons.
November 9, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Here's a few of my favorite comments from the video that released earlier today. This community has me grinning from ear to ear.
> I love it when puzzle games end their tutorial with "the end?" > their *what* > Their *tutorial*. Which has been the only thing this series has covered thus far. >Picked this game up after episode 2 and man, some of the endgame puzzles have been kicking my ass. Excited for when Tyler gets to all the meta madness. > sounds like its a can of wormholes > i mean, they opened that can of wormholes, now they have to lie in it > it gets pretty hard. But the in game hint system is so helpful I managed to beat it without looking up a single solution. welcome to Baba is You 2, everyone ...
November 8, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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My talk starts in <90 minutes! Don't miss it!

I just did a quick dry-run, and I afraid to say that I finished my ~24 minute talk in 33 minutes. I guess I'll be skipping some slides...

Also, if you're put off by the title, don't be! It doesn't mean what you think :)

#puzzlegame #ThinkyCon2025
Poster for my talk "Making a puzzle game with AI" for ThinkyCon 2025
November 5, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I made some decent progress on my talk tonight! I feel like I'm back in college with this recent procrastination cycle...

In other news, there's been a crazy amount of Gentoo Rescue reviews today!
Image of two Gentoo Rescue reviews posted November 3. The first is by a player with 59 reviews and 37.8 hours played that reads: "GOTY 2025, honestly. Placeholder review until I write a better one. " The second is by a player with 18 reviews and 17.5 hours played that reads: "I thought I didn't like ice slide puzzle games, but it turns out that I just haven't stumbled upon a good one before. "
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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I'll be procrastinating for a bit and then working on my talk tonight.

Just so we're clear, the "AI" here isn't gen AI or even machine learning. Just a basic puzzle solving AI agent. The talk is about using this for design, testing, and more..

www.twitch.tv/jagriff

#ThinkyCon #Twitch
ThinkyCon 2025 advertisement image with a picture of me and my talk titled "Making a puzzle game with AI"
November 4, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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Gentoo Rescue is 20% off for 2 weeks! This is in celebration of so many things:
- Aliensrock's playthrough
- ThinkyCon 2025 (my talk on Wed)!
- DevGAMM, Metroidvania Fusion, and Animal Steam Festivals
- ...and more, see the link below

store.steampowered.com/news/app/283...

#puzzlegame #indiegame
Gentoo Rescue puzzle with the game's logo and "20% off!" text.
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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I love the editing!
Aliensrock eating a penguin
November 1, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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It's my birthday! I'm too old for the appropriate number of candles, so we went with binary.
A cake with 6 candles. There are two types of candles: 2 tall ones and 4 short ones. They are arranged from left-to-right as follows: (tall) (short) (short) (short) (tall) (short)
November 1, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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The Aliensrock effect is in full force: There's been a burst of Gentoo Rescue reviews recently. Hopefully we can reach 100! That's 100, not 100 factorial (although I'll accept 100!).

#puzzlegame #indiegamedev #factorialjoke
Store page of Gentoo Rescue showing 10 recent reviews.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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After one look at the cover page on Itch, I realized I needed to add more contrast to the text. Here's the new version.
Same as the original, except the "Witch" word in the title is now blue with a red glow.
October 26, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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My spooky themed puzzle platformer will be releasing tomorrow for FREE on itch. You'll be able to find it here whenever I roll out of bed tomorrow morning:

jagriff.itch.io

#indiegamedev #puzzlegame #platformer #metroidbrainia #metroidvania
Big test that reads "Witch Cauldron", with a witch and two cauldrons on either side. The witch is facing the right cauldron, which is lit up with green. The word "Cauldron" in the title also has a green glow.
October 26, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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Nothing warms a game dev's heart more than seeing fans (respectfully) praise and spread their work around.

Full context in alt text.

#indiegamedev #puzzlegame
Image is a comment by MsMaeve in Aliensrock's discord that reads: Feeling pretty vindicated from when i mentioned this game and folks were like "he doesnt play those anymore" This comment is a reply to a comment MsMaeve posted ~5 months ago, around the release date of Gentoo Rescue, that suggested the game to Aliensrock. A few people had responded to the original suggestion by saying that Aliensrock doesn't really play sokobans anymore.
October 23, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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So what's the impact of a popular content creator playing your game? Well it's only been ~6 hours and there have been more units sold today than on release day. The game is not on sale. This is insane!

#indiegamedev #puzzlegame #Steam #sales #data
Histogram of units sold on Steam showing a big spike at launch, a few small spikes for updates/sales, and then an even-bigger-than-launch spike today after Aliensrock's video.
October 20, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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We're currently sitting a very nice number of reviews!

#indiegamedev #puzzlegame
Steam store page of Gentoo Rescue showing that 100% of the 69 user reviews for the game are positive.
October 20, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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I made a simple rebind menu that will hide binds the player isn't supposed to know about yet. I use non-standard binds, so I had to do this even for a small prototype.

I can repurpose this for any other Godot projects as well, so the time hasn't been wasted.

#indiegamedev #puzzlegame
Controls menu showing A, left arrow, and left dpad mapped to "Move left" and D, right arrow, and right dpad mapped to "Move left". There are 4 more actions that only appear as "????????". Their binds are also shown as "bind hidden".
October 15, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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I think I found an Axe Ghost bug
No boss after many many turns
October 12, 2025 at 6:01 AM
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Only 1.5 days left for Steam discount! Check the game and these bundles out if you're into deep puzzle games hiding many surprises.

Glowkeeper is another top puzzler of 2025.

Thinky Award winners Can of Wormholes (2023) and Maxwell's puzzling demon (2024) need no introduction.

#puzzlegame
Steam store page showing that: - Gentoo Resuce is 15% off - Gentookeeper (bundle with Glowkeeper) is 17% off. - Gentoo'd Demon Wormholes (bundle with Maxwell's puzzling demon and Can of Wormholes) is 30% off.
October 5, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Template for the game categorization
October 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Hempuli shared this in the Thinky Games discord. This was difficult for me to fill out, as you might notice by the several "troll" entries. Template in reply
Game categorization among my favorite games
October 4, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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As someone that watches/listens to a lot of twitch streams, this comment hits really hard.
Twitch chat message that reads "You know how people volunteer to entertain old people? This is that"
October 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM