Vince Twelve
@vincetwelve.bsky.social
Ex-game developer (Resonance, What Linus Bruckman Sees When His Eyes Are Closed). Book, board game, comic, video game enthusiast. Husband, father, and software developer. Trans rights are human rights.
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I’m super happy to officially announce our next project, spearheaded by @threeohfour.bsky.social!
“Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God.
Learn more (and wishlist!) over here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3979770
“Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God.
Learn more (and wishlist!) over here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3979770
Gilt on Steam
Embark on a quest of redemption across the planet of Gilt to restore a disillusioned priest's faith, a dying God's power, and the waning hope of a people who have forgotten how to believe. A sci-fi fa...
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November 19, 2025 at 5:58 PM
I’m super happy to officially announce our next project, spearheaded by @threeohfour.bsky.social!
“Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God.
Learn more (and wishlist!) over here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3979770
“Gilt” is a sci-fi/fantasy game about a priest haunted by a dying God.
Learn more (and wishlist!) over here:
store.steampowered.com/app/3979770
The Fall by Albert Camus
I fell in love with this book in the first couple pages and, like the narrator with his many love affairs, lost interest soon after that. Even with the book’s short length, I found it a bit of a slog to finish. Light on narrative, heavy on pontificating. 💙📚 #booksky
I fell in love with this book in the first couple pages and, like the narrator with his many love affairs, lost interest soon after that. Even with the book’s short length, I found it a bit of a slog to finish. Light on narrative, heavy on pontificating. 💙📚 #booksky
November 17, 2025 at 2:46 AM
The Fall by Albert Camus
I fell in love with this book in the first couple pages and, like the narrator with his many love affairs, lost interest soon after that. Even with the book’s short length, I found it a bit of a slog to finish. Light on narrative, heavy on pontificating. 💙📚 #booksky
I fell in love with this book in the first couple pages and, like the narrator with his many love affairs, lost interest soon after that. Even with the book’s short length, I found it a bit of a slog to finish. Light on narrative, heavy on pontificating. 💙📚 #booksky
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Some scenes from the prologue of my new adventure game. #ProjectLion
November 11, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Some scenes from the prologue of my new adventure game. #ProjectLion
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
One of my favorite authors writing today. No one describes gore & visceral emotions like Khaw and this is them at their most unhinged. Some of the non-linear storytelling didn’t fully work for me, robbing some scenes of tension, but a solid A. #booksky 💙📚
One of my favorite authors writing today. No one describes gore & visceral emotions like Khaw and this is them at their most unhinged. Some of the non-linear storytelling didn’t fully work for me, robbing some scenes of tension, but a solid A. #booksky 💙📚
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
One of my favorite authors writing today. No one describes gore & visceral emotions like Khaw and this is them at their most unhinged. Some of the non-linear storytelling didn’t fully work for me, robbing some scenes of tension, but a solid A. #booksky 💙📚
One of my favorite authors writing today. No one describes gore & visceral emotions like Khaw and this is them at their most unhinged. Some of the non-linear storytelling didn’t fully work for me, robbing some scenes of tension, but a solid A. #booksky 💙📚
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Read this to my 7yo this month. Probably my third or fourth read, but the first in maybe a decade. Still makes me feel like a kid! I always try to make distinct voices when reading to kids but it’s hard to keep a dozen basically-indistinguishable dwarves straight. #booksky
Read this to my 7yo this month. Probably my third or fourth read, but the first in maybe a decade. Still makes me feel like a kid! I always try to make distinct voices when reading to kids but it’s hard to keep a dozen basically-indistinguishable dwarves straight. #booksky
November 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Hobbit by JRR Tolkien
Read this to my 7yo this month. Probably my third or fourth read, but the first in maybe a decade. Still makes me feel like a kid! I always try to make distinct voices when reading to kids but it’s hard to keep a dozen basically-indistinguishable dwarves straight. #booksky
Read this to my 7yo this month. Probably my third or fourth read, but the first in maybe a decade. Still makes me feel like a kid! I always try to make distinct voices when reading to kids but it’s hard to keep a dozen basically-indistinguishable dwarves straight. #booksky
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
In the mood for some capital-C Culture and grabbed this collection. The titular story walks well-trodden paths of what makes humans human, but adds that Culture charm while being a bit tell-don’t-show. I love these hedonistic space-anarchy-communists. #booksky
In the mood for some capital-C Culture and grabbed this collection. The titular story walks well-trodden paths of what makes humans human, but adds that Culture charm while being a bit tell-don’t-show. I love these hedonistic space-anarchy-communists. #booksky
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
The State of the Art by Iain M. Banks
In the mood for some capital-C Culture and grabbed this collection. The titular story walks well-trodden paths of what makes humans human, but adds that Culture charm while being a bit tell-don’t-show. I love these hedonistic space-anarchy-communists. #booksky
In the mood for some capital-C Culture and grabbed this collection. The titular story walks well-trodden paths of what makes humans human, but adds that Culture charm while being a bit tell-don’t-show. I love these hedonistic space-anarchy-communists. #booksky
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
My 3rd Ishiguro of the year. While I didn’t like it as much as Never Let Me Go, it had a similar wistful nostalgia to the prose. He excels at showing us the world through the eyes of an earnest naïf. The ending hit me harder than I expected though. #booksky
My 3rd Ishiguro of the year. While I didn’t like it as much as Never Let Me Go, it had a similar wistful nostalgia to the prose. He excels at showing us the world through the eyes of an earnest naïf. The ending hit me harder than I expected though. #booksky
October 28, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
My 3rd Ishiguro of the year. While I didn’t like it as much as Never Let Me Go, it had a similar wistful nostalgia to the prose. He excels at showing us the world through the eyes of an earnest naïf. The ending hit me harder than I expected though. #booksky
My 3rd Ishiguro of the year. While I didn’t like it as much as Never Let Me Go, it had a similar wistful nostalgia to the prose. He excels at showing us the world through the eyes of an earnest naïf. The ending hit me harder than I expected though. #booksky
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Stephenson’s Red Mars. Heavily-researched w/ a sweeping vision. There were parts I really loved and parts I really didn’t. 2nd part felt way too navel-gazey for me. All that for a chance to re-make humanity and they decided to keep racism and capitalism. 😭 #booksky 💙📚🪐
Stephenson’s Red Mars. Heavily-researched w/ a sweeping vision. There were parts I really loved and parts I really didn’t. 2nd part felt way too navel-gazey for me. All that for a chance to re-make humanity and they decided to keep racism and capitalism. 😭 #booksky 💙📚🪐
October 20, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
Stephenson’s Red Mars. Heavily-researched w/ a sweeping vision. There were parts I really loved and parts I really didn’t. 2nd part felt way too navel-gazey for me. All that for a chance to re-make humanity and they decided to keep racism and capitalism. 😭 #booksky 💙📚🪐
Stephenson’s Red Mars. Heavily-researched w/ a sweeping vision. There were parts I really loved and parts I really didn’t. 2nd part felt way too navel-gazey for me. All that for a chance to re-make humanity and they decided to keep racism and capitalism. 😭 #booksky 💙📚🪐
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
A singular novel. A multitude of novels. A meta novel about novels. Is an author truth teller or fabulist? Is a novel the words, the space between them, the relationship between ink and reader? Calvino really is a wizard. A new favorite. 😍 #booksky
A singular novel. A multitude of novels. A meta novel about novels. Is an author truth teller or fabulist? Is a novel the words, the space between them, the relationship between ink and reader? Calvino really is a wizard. A new favorite. 😍 #booksky
October 8, 2025 at 2:32 AM
If on a winter’s night a traveler by Italo Calvino
A singular novel. A multitude of novels. A meta novel about novels. Is an author truth teller or fabulist? Is a novel the words, the space between them, the relationship between ink and reader? Calvino really is a wizard. A new favorite. 😍 #booksky
A singular novel. A multitude of novels. A meta novel about novels. Is an author truth teller or fabulist? Is a novel the words, the space between them, the relationship between ink and reader? Calvino really is a wizard. A new favorite. 😍 #booksky
Binti series by Nnedi Okorafor
I read the first a long time ago and am glad that I finally read it all together. The three short novellas combine to almost make one novel (a bit rushed in parts to be a single cohesive volume). I liked parts 2 and 3 a lot. This is great Africanfuturist fiction. 💙📚🪐
I read the first a long time ago and am glad that I finally read it all together. The three short novellas combine to almost make one novel (a bit rushed in parts to be a single cohesive volume). I liked parts 2 and 3 a lot. This is great Africanfuturist fiction. 💙📚🪐
September 24, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Binti series by Nnedi Okorafor
I read the first a long time ago and am glad that I finally read it all together. The three short novellas combine to almost make one novel (a bit rushed in parts to be a single cohesive volume). I liked parts 2 and 3 a lot. This is great Africanfuturist fiction. 💙📚🪐
I read the first a long time ago and am glad that I finally read it all together. The three short novellas combine to almost make one novel (a bit rushed in parts to be a single cohesive volume). I liked parts 2 and 3 a lot. This is great Africanfuturist fiction. 💙📚🪐
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
I liked this one a lot more than the first book in the series. Some new characters like the imperial heir and Swarm help keep it interesting. But it still feels like the plotting is weak. Some threads don’t end up mattering. #booksky
I liked this one a lot more than the first book in the series. Some new characters like the imperial heir and Swarm help keep it interesting. But it still feels like the plotting is weak. Some threads don’t end up mattering. #booksky
September 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine
I liked this one a lot more than the first book in the series. Some new characters like the imperial heir and Swarm help keep it interesting. But it still feels like the plotting is weak. Some threads don’t end up mattering. #booksky
I liked this one a lot more than the first book in the series. Some new characters like the imperial heir and Swarm help keep it interesting. But it still feels like the plotting is weak. Some threads don’t end up mattering. #booksky
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This November I'll be teaching a @d6learning.bsky.social course/workshop on the creation of text-only, interactive cities using @inkle.co's ink scripting language.
Find out more here ⇢ www.d6learning.com/course/text-...
Find out more here ⇢ www.d6learning.com/course/text-...
September 17, 2025 at 11:34 AM
This November I'll be teaching a @d6learning.bsky.social course/workshop on the creation of text-only, interactive cities using @inkle.co's ink scripting language.
Find out more here ⇢ www.d6learning.com/course/text-...
Find out more here ⇢ www.d6learning.com/course/text-...
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This scene had been waiting for me to paint the details in properly for forever. I finally got there last week. :)
September 15, 2025 at 3:50 PM
This scene had been waiting for me to paint the details in properly for forever. I finally got there last week. :)
I know I don’t have much reach on here, but maybe this might help someone:
I have two kids in that guy’s target audience both of whom were shown graphic video of him being shot either by their friends or by The Algorithm. Your kids may not say anything, but they might want to talk about it.
I have two kids in that guy’s target audience both of whom were shown graphic video of him being shot either by their friends or by The Algorithm. Your kids may not say anything, but they might want to talk about it.
September 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
I know I don’t have much reach on here, but maybe this might help someone:
I have two kids in that guy’s target audience both of whom were shown graphic video of him being shot either by their friends or by The Algorithm. Your kids may not say anything, but they might want to talk about it.
I have two kids in that guy’s target audience both of whom were shown graphic video of him being shot either by their friends or by The Algorithm. Your kids may not say anything, but they might want to talk about it.
Kill or be Killed by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Ed and Sean are at the top of their game here. This is peak crime comics right here. A compelling anti-hero story with incredible writing paired with Sean’s dynamic art. Worth reading and re-reading. #booksky
Ed and Sean are at the top of their game here. This is peak crime comics right here. A compelling anti-hero story with incredible writing paired with Sean’s dynamic art. Worth reading and re-reading. #booksky
September 9, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Kill or be Killed by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips
Ed and Sean are at the top of their game here. This is peak crime comics right here. A compelling anti-hero story with incredible writing paired with Sean’s dynamic art. Worth reading and re-reading. #booksky
Ed and Sean are at the top of their game here. This is peak crime comics right here. A compelling anti-hero story with incredible writing paired with Sean’s dynamic art. Worth reading and re-reading. #booksky
White Jazz by James Ellroy
Ellroy took the series from staccato prose to machine gun full auto. Paradoxically, it’s still quite a slow burn. I was 150 pages in and still kind of wondering what the main plot was. A dirty cop hung up on a seemingly minor crime? But the last 75 pages are 🔥. #booksky
Ellroy took the series from staccato prose to machine gun full auto. Paradoxically, it’s still quite a slow burn. I was 150 pages in and still kind of wondering what the main plot was. A dirty cop hung up on a seemingly minor crime? But the last 75 pages are 🔥. #booksky
September 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
White Jazz by James Ellroy
Ellroy took the series from staccato prose to machine gun full auto. Paradoxically, it’s still quite a slow burn. I was 150 pages in and still kind of wondering what the main plot was. A dirty cop hung up on a seemingly minor crime? But the last 75 pages are 🔥. #booksky
Ellroy took the series from staccato prose to machine gun full auto. Paradoxically, it’s still quite a slow burn. I was 150 pages in and still kind of wondering what the main plot was. A dirty cop hung up on a seemingly minor crime? But the last 75 pages are 🔥. #booksky
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
What an interesting book! Spanning the centuries after nuclear war ushered in a new dark ages through the pov of members of a small Catholic Abbey. I didn’t love parts 2 and 3 as much as part 1. The 1st time jump kind of disappointed me tbh. 💙📚🪐
What an interesting book! Spanning the centuries after nuclear war ushered in a new dark ages through the pov of members of a small Catholic Abbey. I didn’t love parts 2 and 3 as much as part 1. The 1st time jump kind of disappointed me tbh. 💙📚🪐
September 4, 2025 at 8:59 PM
A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr.
What an interesting book! Spanning the centuries after nuclear war ushered in a new dark ages through the pov of members of a small Catholic Abbey. I didn’t love parts 2 and 3 as much as part 1. The 1st time jump kind of disappointed me tbh. 💙📚🪐
What an interesting book! Spanning the centuries after nuclear war ushered in a new dark ages through the pov of members of a small Catholic Abbey. I didn’t love parts 2 and 3 as much as part 1. The 1st time jump kind of disappointed me tbh. 💙📚🪐
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Hi I'm Ben and I'm making an adventure game that's Weird and Interesting.
August 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Hi I'm Ben and I'm making an adventure game that's Weird and Interesting.
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RT if you hate it when Galactus removes your space-time powers
November 26, 2024 at 7:17 PM
RT if you hate it when Galactus removes your space-time powers
My mom turned 70 somehow!
July 13, 2025 at 12:30 AM
My mom turned 70 somehow!
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It's hot out there, but so are these discounts on adventure games!
Grab A GOLDEN WAKE for 80% off, LAMPLIGHT CITY for 40% off, and ROSEWATER for 20% off!
You can also get the World of Vespuccia Bundle and add another 20% off!
Check it out: store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...
Grab A GOLDEN WAKE for 80% off, LAMPLIGHT CITY for 40% off, and ROSEWATER for 20% off!
You can also get the World of Vespuccia Bundle and add another 20% off!
Check it out: store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...
June 27, 2025 at 12:57 AM
It's hot out there, but so are these discounts on adventure games!
Grab A GOLDEN WAKE for 80% off, LAMPLIGHT CITY for 40% off, and ROSEWATER for 20% off!
You can also get the World of Vespuccia Bundle and add another 20% off!
Check it out: store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...
Grab A GOLDEN WAKE for 80% off, LAMPLIGHT CITY for 40% off, and ROSEWATER for 20% off!
You can also get the World of Vespuccia Bundle and add another 20% off!
Check it out: store.steampowered.com/search/?deve...
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Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here
Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
June 23, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Fortunato (coughing): You’re certain the Criterion Closet is down here
Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
Montresor (picking up a trowel): Definitely. Have you thought about your picks yet
