Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends
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Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
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Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends on Steam
Little Nemo and his friends return for a hand-animated metroidvania adventure! Explore magical dream worlds with Nemo, the Princess of Slumberland, the mischievious Flip, and royal guard Peony as they...
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Happy #WishlistWednesday! If you like hand-animated games with multiple playable characters and big worlds to explore, our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends may just be the game of your dreams! Please help us out by wishlisting it at: store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/...
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I should probably start sharing these, huh? November development update for my #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends store.steampowered.com/news/app/222... #indiedev #gamedev
Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends - November Update - Steam News
I know we say that every month is a busy month full of progress...but this was once again a busy month full of progress!
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November 16, 2025 at 5:37 PM
I should probably start sharing these, huh? November development update for my #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends store.steampowered.com/news/app/222... #indiedev #gamedev
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When a colleague and I used to visit a local college with a game design program they liked having us because we weren't afraid to tell the students how things really worked out in the wild.
November 16, 2025 at 1:35 AM
When a colleague and I used to visit a local college with a game design program they liked having us because we weren't afraid to tell the students how things really worked out in the wild.
Following up on before where I said that game design schools need to do/be better: this is EXACTLY the kind of thread I share with students to tell them, “we want and wish you to get your dream job, but lots of places want the skills this program teaches you, so keep an open mind…”
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
November 16, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Following up on before where I said that game design schools need to do/be better: this is EXACTLY the kind of thread I share with students to tell them, “we want and wish you to get your dream job, but lots of places want the skills this program teaches you, so keep an open mind…”
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
This is exactly why I’m annoyed with the GDC salary report - so skewed. I tell people applying they’ll get a good salary (if they find a salaried position at all - contracts are more likely), but not THIS. That’s like my AAA friends 10+ years in
(every gamedev school): you could be making $142,000 right after graduating, see 📈
November 15, 2025 at 3:40 PM
This is exactly why I’m annoyed with the GDC salary report - so skewed. I tell people applying they’ll get a good salary (if they find a salaried position at all - contracts are more likely), but not THIS. That’s like my AAA friends 10+ years in
Stroopwafel on architecture mug. Attn: @rystorm.com
November 15, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Stroopwafel on architecture mug. Attn: @rystorm.com
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DO NOT TALK TO SAMUS WHILE SHE IS WORKING
November 14, 2025 at 2:25 PM
DO NOT TALK TO SAMUS WHILE SHE IS WORKING
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I’m thinking about having Retro Remake host a PS1 homebrew game jam with cash prizes and free SuperStation one units.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
November 12, 2025 at 1:17 AM
I’m thinking about having Retro Remake host a PS1 homebrew game jam with cash prizes and free SuperStation one units.
Thoughts?
Thoughts?
This was a terrible port of Super Mario Bros., but I played the heck out of it
SUPER MARIO BROS. DELUXE
NINTENDO EAD 1999
(Captured on Game Boy Color)
NINTENDO EAD 1999
(Captured on Game Boy Color)
November 14, 2025 at 2:41 AM
This was a terrible port of Super Mario Bros., but I played the heck out of it
Stop calling them “AI Artists” and start calling them “Photosloppers”
November 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Stop calling them “AI Artists” and start calling them “Photosloppers”
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These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
November 13, 2025 at 1:07 AM
These emails really do highlight why rich folk are so impressed by ChatGPT.
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Metroid Prime 4: Beyond implies the existence of Metroid Prime 2: Bed and Metroid Prime 3: Bath.
November 13, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Metroid Prime 4: Beyond implies the existence of Metroid Prime 2: Bed and Metroid Prime 3: Bath.
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please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
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new Steam Hardware coming in 2026 store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware
-Steam Controller
-Steam Machine
-Steam Frame
-Steam Controller
-Steam Machine
-Steam Frame
November 12, 2025 at 7:01 PM
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
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please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
please be reasonably priced
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"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
November 12, 2025 at 9:47 PM
"If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine"
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🚨The Catalog Fall Sale wraps up tomorrow morning at 10AM PT!!
Snag some classics + fan-favorites at a great discount before it's too late ⚡
play.date/games 👾
Snag some classics + fan-favorites at a great discount before it's too late ⚡
play.date/games 👾
November 12, 2025 at 10:28 PM
🚨The Catalog Fall Sale wraps up tomorrow morning at 10AM PT!!
Snag some classics + fan-favorites at a great discount before it's too late ⚡
play.date/games 👾
Snag some classics + fan-favorites at a great discount before it's too late ⚡
play.date/games 👾
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Doubt truth to be a liar
November 12, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Doubt truth to be a liar
People who do or like AI-produced art or music owe Milli Vanilli an apology
November 12, 2025 at 1:29 AM
People who do or like AI-produced art or music owe Milli Vanilli an apology
Oh yeah…happy with this
November 12, 2025 at 12:20 AM
Oh yeah…happy with this
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"We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people. You know where Future Class met that day? At a Starbucks.”
‘We were effectively props’: young stars of game development feel let down by the ‘gaming Oscars’
Announced in 2020 by the Game Awards as an inclusive programme for the industry’s next generation, the Future Class initiative has now been discontinued. Inductees describe clashes with organisers and...
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
"We found out later that Keighley had a party in another room with all the influencers and industry people. You know where Future Class met that day? At a Starbucks.”
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November 11, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same.
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
November 11, 2025 at 3:07 AM
Pixar designed Toy Story to be printed on physical film. The Disney renaissance movies were the same.
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
Today, it's hard to see them as they were meant to be seen. The versions on streaming and home media aren't quite the same films that ruled the '90s:
animationobsessive.substack.com/p/the-toy-st...
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It was 50 years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald set out on her doomed trek across Lake Superior. Slide through our detailed images looking back at her final voyage. 🛎️🛎️
November 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
It was 50 years ago today the Edmund Fitzgerald set out on her doomed trek across Lake Superior. Slide through our detailed images looking back at her final voyage. 🛎️🛎️
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this is how joyce carol oates executed elon musk on live television
November 10, 2025 at 7:19 PM
this is how joyce carol oates executed elon musk on live television
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Whatever production time and cost was "saved" by using AI for one of the most human-dependent disciplines in game making was actively obliterated by the act itself, overshadowing the hard work of every single other developer on the project and making this situation impossible to right. WHO KNEW.
For Arc Raiders to ride the wave of human sociability all the way to the bank, while also being so contemptuous of the thing that makes us social animals in its own workflow demonstrates a lack of artistic integrity that I find impossible to ignore.
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
Our review: https://bit.ly/49bVn01
November 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM
Whatever production time and cost was "saved" by using AI for one of the most human-dependent disciplines in game making was actively obliterated by the act itself, overshadowing the hard work of every single other developer on the project and making this situation impossible to right. WHO KNEW.