Tyler Pham
@tylerphamsound.bsky.social
I needed recommendations to replace my clothes dryer. Also, I am a video game composer/sound designer (I also just started my own indie game studio.)
It's always scary (at least to me) to put work out in the open like this, especially something that's very much a work-in-progress. But I really think it's time to start pulling back the curtain (at least a little bit) and to start talking to people about the weird game we're trying to make!
Sneak peek at prototype snippets? 👀 Here are some demo clips of the prototype build that we submitted to GDC's Experimental Games Showcase!
December 11, 2025 at 10:07 PM
It's always scary (at least to me) to put work out in the open like this, especially something that's very much a work-in-progress. But I really think it's time to start pulling back the curtain (at least a little bit) and to start talking to people about the weird game we're trying to make!
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⚽ ⚽ ⚽ !!!!!!! buy despelote !!!!!!! ⚽ ⚽ ⚽
despelote 35% off right now. that's less than $10 in the US, less than $5 in latam!
i know a bunch of u wishlisted the game after @thegameawards.com nominations, now is ur time to buy it!
store.steampowered.com/app/2367820/...
i know a bunch of u wishlisted the game after @thegameawards.com nominations, now is ur time to buy it!
store.steampowered.com/app/2367820/...
Save 35% on despelote on Steam
A slice-of-life adventure about childhood and the magical grip soccer held over the people of Quito, Ecuador in 2001.
store.steampowered.com
December 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
⚽ ⚽ ⚽ !!!!!!! buy despelote !!!!!!! ⚽ ⚽ ⚽
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The best games of 2025 give a glimpse into a better world — where artists can invite audiences into their memoirs, where AAAs are thematically ambitious and small teams can sculpt epics.
This is also my 100th(!!) proper video on YouTube, a milestone seven years in the making
youtu.be/tJ4X6FsLn6Y
This is also my 100th(!!) proper video on YouTube, a milestone seven years in the making
youtu.be/tJ4X6FsLn6Y
December 11, 2025 at 4:54 PM
The best games of 2025 give a glimpse into a better world — where artists can invite audiences into their memoirs, where AAAs are thematically ambitious and small teams can sculpt epics.
This is also my 100th(!!) proper video on YouTube, a milestone seven years in the making
youtu.be/tJ4X6FsLn6Y
This is also my 100th(!!) proper video on YouTube, a milestone seven years in the making
youtu.be/tJ4X6FsLn6Y
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I'm gonna resonant computing so hard that my adaptive pluriverse becomes as prosocial as a god damned golden retriever.
resonantcomputing.org
resonantcomputing.org
The Resonant Computing Manifesto
Technology should bring out the best in humanity, not the worst—a manifesto for resonant computing built on five principles that reject hyper-scale extraction for human flourishing.
resonantcomputing.org
December 10, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I'm gonna resonant computing so hard that my adaptive pluriverse becomes as prosocial as a god damned golden retriever.
resonantcomputing.org
resonantcomputing.org
3D printing really let's me make then break then fix then break then fix then break then hack together a patch then call it good enough.
December 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
3D printing really let's me make then break then fix then break then fix then break then hack together a patch then call it good enough.
3D Printing really do be like this sometimes 🙃
December 7, 2025 at 5:42 AM
3D Printing really do be like this sometimes 🙃
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What a great headline
November 28, 2025 at 3:49 PM
What a great headline
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“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”
November 28, 2025 at 11:47 PM
“AI is here to stay” from the visionaries who brought you “NFTs are the future.”
Hot take (not serious): Valve's Steam Machine is "underpowered" on purpose in order to dissuade players from buying AAA and to encourage the purchase of indie games.
HL3 will run great on the steam machine, since they managed to get Portal 2 to run better than FEZ on my first crappy laptop.
HL3 will run great on the steam machine, since they managed to get Portal 2 to run better than FEZ on my first crappy laptop.
two men are playing a game of chess and one of them is holding a chess piece
ALT: two men are playing a game of chess and one of them is holding a chess piece
media.tenor.com
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Hot take (not serious): Valve's Steam Machine is "underpowered" on purpose in order to dissuade players from buying AAA and to encourage the purchase of indie games.
HL3 will run great on the steam machine, since they managed to get Portal 2 to run better than FEZ on my first crappy laptop.
HL3 will run great on the steam machine, since they managed to get Portal 2 to run better than FEZ on my first crappy laptop.
Typing prompts into "Agentic AI" replaces pesky GUI that you don't want to click through which replaces that scary terminal that you didn't want to type commands in.
AI companies are trying to convince their users that typing into a text box that is makes shit up is better than one that doesn't???
AI companies are trying to convince their users that typing into a text box that is makes shit up is better than one that doesn't???
November 15, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Typing prompts into "Agentic AI" replaces pesky GUI that you don't want to click through which replaces that scary terminal that you didn't want to type commands in.
AI companies are trying to convince their users that typing into a text box that is makes shit up is better than one that doesn't???
AI companies are trying to convince their users that typing into a text box that is makes shit up is better than one that doesn't???
Many times over the past years, I seriously considered purchasing the Meta Quest 3 as an upgrade to my HTC Vive, to the point of putting it into my online shopping cart, and every time I could not bring myself to purchase one due to the privacy concerns I had of wearing a Meta product on my face...
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Many times over the past years, I seriously considered purchasing the Meta Quest 3 as an upgrade to my HTC Vive, to the point of putting it into my online shopping cart, and every time I could not bring myself to purchase one due to the privacy concerns I had of wearing a Meta product on my face...
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I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.
October 28, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I saw someone call Ai a Thneed and I can't stop thinking about it. It's a PERFECT analogy. The Thneed was an all-purpose tool that didn't do anything really useful. It was a fad that did major damage to the environment to make the Onceler a billionare. It left no real lasting impact, only damage.
@jacobfullerton.bsky.social Holy shit that swordle was insane.
October 28, 2025 at 2:02 AM
@jacobfullerton.bsky.social Holy shit that swordle was insane.
A lot of people will sing the praises of "This was a triumph" and "Want you gone" in the Portal games' soundtracks (and rightfully so), but can we take a sec to appreciate the rest of the music in the games as well? It all oozes with unbridled creativity.
October 27, 2025 at 4:54 AM
A lot of people will sing the praises of "This was a triumph" and "Want you gone" in the Portal games' soundtracks (and rightfully so), but can we take a sec to appreciate the rest of the music in the games as well? It all oozes with unbridled creativity.
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doodles.google/doodle/celeb...
Yo @developers.google.com did you pick up a couple copy of Venba?
We're just a teeny indie team and our art was pretty distinctive and this looks eerily similar
Anyways in good faith, the game is on all platforms, credits easily accessible, link below
Yo @developers.google.com did you pick up a couple copy of Venba?
We're just a teeny indie team and our art was pretty distinctive and this looks eerily similar
Anyways in good faith, the game is on all platforms, credits easily accessible, link below
Celebrating Idli Doodle - Google Doodles
Learn more about the creation of Celebrating Idli Doodle and discover the story behind the unique artwork.
doodles.google
October 16, 2025 at 7:48 PM
doodles.google/doodle/celeb...
Yo @developers.google.com did you pick up a couple copy of Venba?
We're just a teeny indie team and our art was pretty distinctive and this looks eerily similar
Anyways in good faith, the game is on all platforms, credits easily accessible, link below
Yo @developers.google.com did you pick up a couple copy of Venba?
We're just a teeny indie team and our art was pretty distinctive and this looks eerily similar
Anyways in good faith, the game is on all platforms, credits easily accessible, link below
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why did it take me 2 hours to edit 1 minute of footage.. i gotta get faster at this 🫠 #gaming #indiegames #videogames #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 AM
why did it take me 2 hours to edit 1 minute of footage.. i gotta get faster at this 🫠 #gaming #indiegames #videogames #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev
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fellas is it DEI if i'm uncomfortable when everything isn't about me
October 10, 2025 at 3:36 AM
fellas is it DEI if i'm uncomfortable when everything isn't about me
The mushroom kingdom, koopa kingdom, the bean bean kingdom, the flower kingdom, and... Italy? Mario's Italian so somewhere in the Mario canon Italy exists right?
October 6, 2025 at 10:15 PM
The mushroom kingdom, koopa kingdom, the bean bean kingdom, the flower kingdom, and... Italy? Mario's Italian so somewhere in the Mario canon Italy exists right?
Society accepts eating mashed potatoes as a side but guacamole is regulated to being a dip and that really illustrates how unfair the universe can be.
September 26, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Society accepts eating mashed potatoes as a side but guacamole is regulated to being a dip and that really illustrates how unfair the universe can be.
I remember when I was in high school, and kept dying in Fez because it was running at 12 frames per second on my Toshiba laptop. Back then I wished there was a way to plug a GPU into it for more performance.
September 20, 2025 at 4:41 AM
I remember when I was in high school, and kept dying in Fez because it was running at 12 frames per second on my Toshiba laptop. Back then I wished there was a way to plug a GPU into it for more performance.
Sleight of hand magician does the trick where they take an unsuspecting participant's watch, but the participant is actually another sleight of hand magician, and he sneakily puts another watch on. This goes on as the first magician keeps taking watch after watch but the participant always has more.
September 19, 2025 at 7:43 AM
Sleight of hand magician does the trick where they take an unsuspecting participant's watch, but the participant is actually another sleight of hand magician, and he sneakily puts another watch on. This goes on as the first magician keeps taking watch after watch but the participant always has more.
Hi it's me I'm one of the people on your steam friends list that was playing Hollow Knight to get caught up for Silksong.
September 9, 2025 at 2:08 AM
Hi it's me I'm one of the people on your steam friends list that was playing Hollow Knight to get caught up for Silksong.
If you asked me a few years ago what hobbies I'd be expressing interest in, I would've never been able to guess that it's going to be rock climbing and... Motorcycles?
August 24, 2025 at 10:31 PM
If you asked me a few years ago what hobbies I'd be expressing interest in, I would've never been able to guess that it's going to be rock climbing and... Motorcycles?
When I play a video game for an extended period of time before sleeping it influences what my dreams look/feel like. Pulled a late night of playing Receiver 2 (which tbf has a lot of metacognition dreamstate themes) and then more or less dreamt the game that night. Anyone else like this?
August 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
When I play a video game for an extended period of time before sleeping it influences what my dreams look/feel like. Pulled a late night of playing Receiver 2 (which tbf has a lot of metacognition dreamstate themes) and then more or less dreamt the game that night. Anyone else like this?
I'm thinking about the time I was at the Paul Revere's house in Boston and asking the historian about the fork with 2 tines on the dinner table and seeing them light up because they probably don't get that question often and they had fun and interesting info about the Revere family's 2 tine fork.
August 1, 2025 at 4:27 AM
I'm thinking about the time I was at the Paul Revere's house in Boston and asking the historian about the fork with 2 tines on the dinner table and seeing them light up because they probably don't get that question often and they had fun and interesting info about the Revere family's 2 tine fork.