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Julia Minamata
@juliaminamata.bsky.social
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Toronto-based solo-ish game dev of The Crimson Diamond: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/
Also Strange Scaffold artist https://www.juliaminamata.com / Latest game: Chance's Lucky Escape (w/ Goloso Games), Playdate Season 2
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Pixel art image of a newspaper. An inventory item in The Crimson Diamond.
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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November's Crimson Gazette is out now! I made an Over the Garden Wall game & you can play it NOW, for ✨✨FREE!✨✨ The evolution of a ruthless space crab 🦀, courtesy of @strangescaffold.bsky.social, a new Let's Play, & Japanese copper! Read all about it! www.thecrimsondiamond.com/CrimsonGazet... #otgw
Screenshot from my tiny Over the Garden Wall adventure game. Wirt is in a tree, Greg is standing by. They're in an apple orchard. There's a robin in a nest and a shack. Screenshot of the start of the ruthless space crab iteration process! A low-res pixel art image, green on black, of a crab with stars in its eyes. Video thumbnail of my newest Let's Play! Handwritten text across the top: "Let's Play Karuizawa Yūkai Annai" with a screenshot of the first screen in the background, and some Japanese text. I'm head and shoulders in the bottom right. Copper cast in the shape of the Sumitomo Group logo. On the underside of the lid of the white cardboard box, handwritten text reads: Sumitomo. Toyo Works. Besshi Division. Funaya, Saijo. Ehime, Japan.
November 13, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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Done for the night! I showed some Over the Garden Wall game, wallpapered some pixels & explored Karuizawa Yūkai Annai! Thanks @lemmingruns.bsky.social, @rat707.bsky.social, and @martydotzone.bsky.social for the raids! I raided @robotspacer.online playing 7th Guest! Happy Crimson C'Tuesday!
Screencap of my livestream, with "Happy Crimson C'Tuesday " handwritten across the bottom. A screenshot of the DOS game Gold Rush is in the background. There's a speech bubble with a nearly finished pixel art background.
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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It's Crimson C'Tuesday, 8pm Eastern! I'll tell the story behind making my tiny Over the Garden Wall fan game and discuss some of the design, plus show a bit of the game (a teeny bit of a tiny game!)! Then it's back to more EGA pixel art and retro gaming. Come join me! www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery
November 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Done for the night! Good progress on art, plus some investigating got done in Karuizawa Yūkai Annai! Thanks @fedorasaurus.bsky.social, www.twitch.tv/disastersquad, and www.twitch.tv/freedrull_ for the raids! I kept the Yuji Horii appreciation going w/ @ashsaidhi.bsky.social & Dragon Quest!
Screencap of my livestream, with "Happy Crimson C'Tuesday" handwritten across the bottom. A screenshot of Gold Rush (Sierra, 1988) is in the background. Speech balloon containing my work in progress game background in the Sierra AGI style!
November 5, 2025 at 6:07 AM
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It's Crimson C'Tuesday again! 8pm Eastern! Pixel art, retro gaming, a few new mushroom photos! Hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery
November 4, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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Oooh my favourite is the Lucky Alhambra one! I was so into it that I made my own out of polymer clay and little metal beads. And yes I made “gold” and “silver” versions! Gosh they make some gorgeous stuff.
Gold version of my faux Van Cleef & Arpels Lucky Alhambra necklace. Created using polymer clay. Silver version of my faux Van Cleef & Arpels Lucky Alhambra necklace. Created using polymer clay.
November 2, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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Drink called “Roundabout Orchard”, contents listed as pumpkin spice, apple cider, and oat milk! Named after the game I designed especially for the Requiem Cafe for their Over the Garden Wall Hallowe’en event!
November 2, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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October 31, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Have a safe and Happy Hallowe'en, everybody! (Music by Dan Policar dantheband.bandcamp.com). 🎃👻 Note: it doesn't get THIS dark in The Crimson Diamond -- Pun intended! 👹
October 31, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Last year's Hallowe'en stream costume! The mask was black and white laser printed on office paper -- Frank's mask from Donnie Darko. 👻 Hope everyone's having a fun spooky season! Here's this year's costume reveal: youtu.be/89AHlafvLGo?...
October 30, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Done for the night! Thanks for celebrating early 🎃Hallowe'en🎃 with me! And thanks to @thedeivore.bsky.social, @dawgnet.tv, www.twitch.tv/therealcanad..., & @puzzlebetter.bsky.social for the raids! I raided @macaw45.bsky.social, playing Japanese Jekyll & Hyde! Happy Crimson C'Tuesday! 👻
Screencap from my early Hallowe'en stream! "Happy Crimson C'Tuesday" is handwritten across the bottom in spooky letters. I'm dressed as Miss Scarlett, in the character card as it appears in the 1986 Parker Brothers version of the game. The background is the board from that edition, as well as a couple of the cards and the revolver, rope, and candlestick.
October 29, 2025 at 5:09 AM
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👻🎃👹🏮💀 Former art school kid who loves Hallowe'en, checking in! 😀
One of my Hallowe'en costumes dressed up as Sadako from The Ring (I think?). Black and white photo, face painted white, undereyes darkened with black makeup. Dressed in an old white patterned flannel nightgown. Me dressed for Hallowe'en, as Princess Leia in Star Wars, with Darth Vader in the background. Hair up in buns and wearing a white backwards Puma jacket that looks like her white dress. One of my Hallowe'en stream costumes. I was a floating head! I was wearing a green t-shirt that got chroma-keyed to be invisible. Another Hallowe'en costume! This time as the Wicked Witch of the West, with green face make-up and a witch hat, with fake brown hair attached to the hat.
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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8pm Eastern! It's Crimson C'Tuesday, 🎃Hallowe'en edition!🎃 I'll be in costume! There will be new mushroom photos, EGA pixel art, and the start of my Let's Play of Karuizawa Yūkai Annai! www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery Come hang out! 👻 See some of my past costumes below! 👇
October 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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Done for the night! Lots of art progress, unearthed some quartz bits, and finished The Twilight Zone (thanks, @sonneveld.bsky.social !)! 🎉 Thanks www.twitch.tv/puke7 for the raid, I raided @ghoulbabe.bsky.social playing Ripper (1996)! Happy Crimson C'Tuesday, thanks for hanging out!
Screencap of my livestream, with "Happy Crimson C'Tuesday & Happy Canada Day" handwritten across the bottom. A screenshot of the DOS game Gold Rush is in the background. There's a speech bubble with a pixel art background work in progress. It's a room interior that is starting to get some colour!
October 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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Tonight, 8pm Eastern! Streaming more EGA pixels! PLUS I'll do live mini-mineralogy and possibly escape The Twilight Zone! It's Crimson C'Tuesday! 🎉 youtu.be/90vqCKEEj3s?...
October 21, 2025 at 5:20 PM
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Got my long boy keyboard (Keychron B6) today! I even love how it was packed. But got my first Hallowe’en scare 👻 while setting it up. Didn’t know about Ctrl Lock and I thought I’d somehow managed to break this keyboard AND my laptop keyboard at the same time. 😭 Double-tapping the Ctrl fixed it. 😮‍💨
Keychron B6 keyboard in retro red How this package arrived! Awesome red packing tape and colourful packing labels.
October 16, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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The latest Crimson Gazette! @adventuregamegeek.bsky.social's TCD video, TCD on TV Tropes, flea market big box finds, mushrooms, & meteorites! Read all about it! 📰 www.thecrimsondiamond.com/CrimsonGazet...
Adventure Game Geek's thumbnail for his The Crimson Diamond video. Shows a close-up shot of an EGA pixel art scene showing a fisherman looking in awe at a giant diamond in his hand. Bottom left corner has a South Park style Canadian Mountie, bottom right corner is Adventure Game Geek's chinchilla mascot. Top left corner is The Crimson Diamond logo. Close-up photo of an unidentified mushroom that I took with my iphone in an Ontario park in October. It's in the foreground with fallen autumn leaves. Meteorite I'm holding in my hand, showing its fusion crust. Photo taken at a Royal Ontario Museum meteorite workshop. Screenshot of my livestream showing me and my green screen background, holding a big box copy of the PC game The Twilight Zone. I bought it for $20.10 CAD at a flea market.
October 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Done for the night! Thanks so much @martydotzone.bsky.social and www.twitch.tv/ohheyitskara for the raids, I raided @cylonbythesea.bsky.social who kept the EGA text parser adventuring going with some Hugo 2 Whodunnit! Happy Crimson C'Tuesday!
Screencap of my livestream, with "Happy Crimson C'Tuesday" handwritten across the bottom. A screenshot of the DOS game Gold Rush is in the background. There's a speech bubble with a pixel art background work in progress. This one is a room interior.
October 15, 2025 at 6:13 AM
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It's Crimson C'Tuesday! 8pm Eastern at www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery. Starting a new Mini-Maple Mystery background, more new mushroom photos, more Double Dragon, and more The Twilight Zone! Hope to see you there!
October 14, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Ooh nice! I did some EGA demake screenshots of The Consuming Shadow a while back. Just mock-ups!
Side by side comparisons of the original art for The Consuming Shadow and my EGA demake mock-up. This one features a brick background and the UI. The player character is a silhouette holding a handgun. Side by side comparisons of the original art for The Consuming Shadow and my EGA demake mock-up. This one features an office background with a water cooler and the UI. The player character is a silhouette holding a handgun. Side by side comparisons of the original art for The Consuming Shadow and my EGA demake mock-up. This one features the driving section of the game. It’s a car interior and a mobile phone with the option to answer or ignore a call. Side by side comparisons of the original art for The Consuming Shadow and my EGA demake mock-up. This one features an establishing shot of a town at night.
October 14, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Done for the night! Thanks www.twitch.tv/ps_garak for the raid! I finished another Mini-Maple Mystery background, showed some treaures (including this Small Toby Lord Nelson creamer) and the last Ontario-grown strawberries! Raided @songbirder.social, playing Ogre Battle! Happy Crimson C'Tuesday!
Screencap of my livestream, with "Happy Crimson C'Tuesday" handwritten across the bottom. A screenshot of Gold Rush (Sierra, 1988) is in the background. There's a speech bubble containing a work in progress of a Mini-Maple Mystery background, EGA colours, double-wide pixel. Shows a two story building with a facade, wooden siding painted white, on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. Small Toby Lord Nelson Creamer, bought at an antiques market for $10 CAD. VanGo Farms Ontario grown straberries. Two 1 litre cardboard containers.
October 8, 2025 at 5:22 AM
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It's Crimson C'Tuesday! 8pm Eastern on Twitch! Antiquing treasures, new mushrooms, EGA pixel art, and more The Twilight Zone! Hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery.

✨The Crimson Diamond is 20% off on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/... and GOG! www.gog.com/en/game/the_...
October 7, 2025 at 4:33 PM
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Done for the night! Thanks so much for joining me. Got good work done and good progress in The Twilight Zone! Raided @robotspacer.online who is playing a Nancy Drew mystery. Happy Crimson C'Tuesday! :D
Screenshot of my livestream. Work in progress of a Mini-Maple Mystery background, EGA colours, double-wide pixel. Shows a two story building with a facade, wooden siding painted white, on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean. That's all in a speech bubble, being said by me. "Happy Crimson C'Tuesday" is handwritten along the bottom and a screenshot of Sierra's game "Gold Rush" is in the background.
October 1, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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Thanks so much! I would say I'm a mushroom enthusiast, hah! Recently grew these beauties (blue oyster mushrooms) from a kit. They were delicious.
September 30, 2025 at 5:27 PM