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Jim Shepard
@madjackmcmad.bsky.social
Gamedev, Dance, Dice, Sandwiches. Noble service, cheerfully rendered. This class also ✨wields magic✨
FF12==BestF12.
Today is Best Day Ever in Dungeonmans, players get lots of gifts and free loot because it's my birthday. Do gifs work on bluesky yet? Why does the VCR timer keep blinking?
November 3, 2025 at 6:24 PM
A handy counting rhyme for keeping all those RPGs in order.
October 30, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Some Canadian developer pulls a name out of a hat and 20 years later here I am still rather chuffed to be flying out of gate N7. Feels like the Shepard thing to do.
October 24, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Here, yeah, i got u fam, now you can lick the pearls while clutch -- wait no
October 18, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Wifey has a dozen copies of Dracula. We made them into a Halloween mantle. I added a special one too.
October 15, 2025 at 1:49 AM
avoided that shit for a reason
September 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
Thanks for hosting #TurnBasedThursday! Here, for everyone who liked Etrian Odyssey but wished they could play shirtless with a minigun. 90s Dungeon Crawling meets 80s Action Movies: Eye of the Commando!

Streaming dev: www.twitch.tv/playdungeonm...

Game: store.steampowered.com/app/3016480/...
September 18, 2025 at 4:02 PM
December will be Dungeonmans' 11th Mansiversary and I am not going to create a new sprite for the Headmaster statue each year.

Instead I created a balloon font and dynamic numbers and now the Academy correctly celebrates any year up to a uint from 2014. Doing my part for game preservation.
September 13, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Want some video? 'Course ya do. And hey it's on sale this week too!
August 26, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Freedom isn't free, but this week it's 33% off! Eye of the Commando is on sale during Steam's Third Person Shooter Fest, all week!

"Contra, but RPG?" Sure! Etrian Odyssey with a minigun? Why not?

store.steampowered.com/app/3016480/...

#indiedev #gamedev #godot
August 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
"Ah, um, yes, uh, To Whom It May Concern at Freehold... yeah, there's been a terrible, terrible mistake...."
August 25, 2025 at 3:44 AM
See what I did there? <3

Grats @cavesofqud.com, now continue your Heinlienesque journey by getting Verhoeven to make the movie!
August 18, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Show me your quick getaway vehicle!
August 15, 2025 at 7:35 PM
This is the content I crave here on bluesky. More ideas and possibilities, creativity, what if, what could be, etc.

ty @unormal.bsky.social @prinnyforever.bsky.social
August 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Here's my own blueberry gpt adventure, a tragedy in three parts.
August 8, 2025 at 12:14 AM
Courtesy of @zirconst.bsky.social

freeman_hes_right_you_know.jpg
August 7, 2025 at 12:36 AM
can check
July 30, 2025 at 8:46 PM
At some point in your #gamedev career you wake up and realize: yes, I am at the next level. Look how far I've come. Look what I can do. I have become a finely tuned machi
July 30, 2025 at 3:02 AM
The fruits of today's UI dmans work: more dmans UI! Rolling a custom system in XNA was the choice I had at the time. It's been cool in someway and a PITA in others, which is pretty much #gamedev dot text.

That bow is pretty wild -- from a real player save, they certainly poured some love into it!
July 29, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Been helping @byobattleship.bsky.social with Torment Hexus and enjoying some of the emergent situations the various elements can spin up. This Is Fine dot em pee four, right here. That's me in the corner.

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~That's me in the spot. Light. Looo~
July 26, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The walls in Eye of the Commando were given life and started chasing the player down. This is where we say "Caves of Qud", right?
July 25, 2025 at 1:19 AM
Content pushes are such hype periods, you've got old players happy about the new stuff, new players happy about the old stuff, and then those bugs you swore you fixed but nope! Time to crank out hotfixen like they're going out of style! Nothing my wrist computer and tiny assistant can't handle.
July 24, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Same energy:
July 23, 2025 at 1:13 AM
Can't say that Dungeon Beachball development has been 100% flawless, but we're pushing the edges of known science here, mixing turn based and bouncy realtime gameplay. Unless there's like a Dead or Alive Volleyball Tactics out there?

www.twitch.tv/playdungeonm...
July 23, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Dungeonmans: Slayer's Summer is live! New difficulty modes, including Soft Adventure! Daily Danger seeded random runs with leaderboards! Autoexplore! Beachballs!

Sale starts 10am Pacific 22 July, best $5* you'll ever spend

*per each of your Steam friends

store.steampowered.com/app/288120/D...
July 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM