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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean

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Infrequent YouTuber, fairly prolific poster, siaradwr gwael o Gymraeg. Likes indie games, board games, trad roguelikes, medieval history. https://linktr.ee/AlanWithTea He/him

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · Nov 2

An introduction for new folk, I guess

I play indie games, traditional roguelikes (DCSS, Angband, etc), board games, card games, tabletop RPGs

I have degrees in medieval history

I wrote unnecessarily verbose flavour text for a jam game once

Capitalism gives me the ick

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 10h

I didn't but it sounds intriguing

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 12h

Revisited a classic for October

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 13h

Choosing a single favourite is tough! I love CrossCode, Roadwarden, Paradise Killer, the Shantae games...

What about you? Any standouts?

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 19h

To this day, still the only band I've ever seen serve as their own support band

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 19h

Every time I dust off some classic Lacuna Coil after not listening to them for a while, I'm always surprised anew at how good they are.

This isn't even one of their best songs but it's still really good

open.spotify.com/track/2Zm431...

Humane

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 19h

Also, not to be unfairly dismissive of the rest of the band, but let's face it - Cristina Scabbia's distinctive voice is a large part of why this works

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 19h

Humane

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 19h

How...how is this possible? I've only upgraded to PS4 in the last couple of years...

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 21h

Ugh, I have to go to the shop at lunchtime because I forgot one crucial item when I went yesterday

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

"INDIE GAMES" gets a follow!

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

It doesn't always look like that. It's mostly more GBC

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

Game Boy Colour Morrowind has some surprisingly good art

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

Guffaws from the studio audience etc

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

But enough about Fern. What are we looking at?

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

Oh dear god, it looks like a ferret wearing the skin from an undercooked roast chicken

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 2d

With the recent release of Battlefield 6, let's raise a glass to the best, and yet also most overlooked, of the console-era Battlefield games

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2d

Here's the link and some of the sweet thematic beepage. Seems to be expanding from the initial proof-of-concept into what might hopefully be a full lil game.

jordanly.itch.io/the-elder-sc...

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Sasha's Retrobytes 🏳️‍⚧️ @sharkabytes.bsky.social · 2d

Game Boy Color visions of a Bitter Coast journey to Vivec.

Trying out a lil Game Boy game jam Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind fan adventure game that's got a whole glob of talent and charm behind it.

A pixel GBC scene of a silt strider rising above a fittingly swampy and tall mushroom strewn landscape in horizontal perspective. A tall grey mountain rises above the dithered mist.

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 2d

Again already?

a man in a suit and tie with the words wow again on his face

ALT: a man in a suit and tie with the words wow again on his face

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 2d

Oh that looks promising

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 2d

Little shout out to the track 'Witches' from Moonring - a highlight of the soundtrack for me

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pwyp...

Moonring OST - Witches

YouTube video by CompiPlays

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 2d

I have not. I'll look it up

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 2d

Yeah, they were good too. I liked how relatively lighthearted the story of Bad Company 1 was. A bunch of shit, unreliable soldiers decide to steal gold during a war

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 2d

Also the only mulitplayer shooter where I consistently placed mid to high most of the time. Something about it just gelled for me

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 2d

With the recent release of Battlefield 6, let's raise a glass to the best, and yet also most overlooked, of the console-era Battlefield games

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hungrygoriya @hungrygoriya.bsky.social · 2d

Tonight starting at 7:30 pm Eastern, I'll be firing up Bubsy in: The Purrfect Collection. I'm excited to see this series reach a new generation. Thanks for the key, @atari.com!

Watch here 📺: www.twitch.tv/hungrygoriya

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3039890/...

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