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Sam Kahn 📽️ / Explodist Media @explodist.media · 1d

I've just published a new video, an interview with @brlka.com and Rob Cocks of @ysbryd.net about Love Eternal. The game looks incredible and I can't wait to play!

#LOVEETERNAL #indiegames #horror #PCgaming #indiedev 🎮

youtu.be/Fe7At8FGoL0

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 1d

Swallow is truly goated. I personally used Rabbit + Suzuran only for boss fights; during normal combat I used Swallow + Weasel + Turtle + Crow. Turtle tanks one accidental hit which you'll recover with Crow, and a level 2/3 Swallow + Weasel kills stuff quick. Add Otter for durability recovery.

Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 1d

Got done with Silent Hill f and you need an extra helping of that exquisite flavor of unsettling dread? LOVE ETERNAL can help you with that. Demo's up now on Steam Next Fest - leave a review if you please!

Ysbryd Games | Demonschool Nov 19th! @ysbryd.net · 1d

🔴 DEMO NOW LIVE 🔴

After wowing players, critics, and award juries at conventions, our psychological horror platformer LOVE ETERNAL by @brlka.com is now playable in Steam Next Fest!

Download it now, and be taken away.

Away awaits love.

#LOVEETERNAL

store.steampowered.com/app/3973960/...

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

game director line edits

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 1d

I freaked out for a second because I was like “yes, I remember playing Siren but wtf is Forbidden Siren” until I realized it’s the PAL region name 🤪

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 1d

Not to take away from your point about what a psychological horror game should be (which Silent Hill f also masterfully serves), lol

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 1d

These are tourists who didn’t put in a drop of effort, because Silent Hill f literally follows that instruction to the letter, but the tourists got distracted by their hatred of feminism (which, surprise!! Is also a Silent Hill staple!!).

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🎃scarecrowcialism👻 @swolecialism.bsky.social · 1d

Seeing dudes try to step to the menswear guy makes me understand better the mentality of the regular Street Punks who keep hassling Kiryu in Act 3 of every Yakuza game when hes got all the abilities unlocked

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Jelly🪼 @huskapet.bsky.social · 13d

smart guy in an rpg: hmm..
party member: what's wrong?
smart guy: it's nothing.
(20 hours later)
smart guy: so it's true... i knew it.

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Bearhat @fussybabybit.ch · 4d

This the kinda shit people say to me in the smoking zone outside the gay bar

Baroque screenshot of a floating green skirt girl in a dark dungeon telling you "You were extracted from our soul. We are insane. It's your fault we became insane."

Same girl as before but now she is saying "You want to cut me? That's fine. You probably want to kill me, right? Then kill me. If you killed me, I think I'd be glad."

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 4d

🌺🏵️🌸💮🌻

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve never attended an actual book club discussion, but the answers here give me the sensation of what it’d be like to go to one where folks sincerely engage with the material.

www.reddit.com/r/silenthill...

From the silenthill community on Reddit

Explore this post and more from the silenthill community

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 4d

I played it on Hard mode for my first run, and generally didn’t run away from fights. There was a supply of slightly more than enough weapons / durability than I ultimately needed, but only because I would religiously backtrack to grab weapons. Removing that tedium probably would have been a relief.

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 4d

The worst game I’ve ever worked on was the one with 12 shareholders. (Still an indie game.)

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 5d

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 6d

The King of All Cosmos from the Katamari series, with a speech bubble.

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 4d

15 years of “wisdom” is equivalent to 3 months of experience in our industry. Very little that’s come before applies to what you will go through today. Most things that can be described as a modern hit either relied on an IP with past success, or didn’t follow any of the rules of “good marketing.”

Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 6d

Those of you who have been in gamedev for 5yrs+

What do you wish you knew before you joined the industry? What life lesson would you pass down to someone just joining today?

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 5d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Tanat Boozayaangool 🔜 MIGW @tanatb.housefuckinggame.com · 5d

highlight of my professional game dev career

a twink in mesh green shirt on stage with slides in the back that says "I'm a fa***t and this is a game for fa**ots" with pictures of said twink pole dancing

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 5d

“Among the submissions Omni 1.0 has received… is one from Malaysia about police corruption there.

‘This particular story… would be very dangerous to make in Malaysia [without AI],’ Rice says.”

O…K… What do you think Sora and its ilk know about policemen in Malaysia that won’t be a hallucination?

Guardian Australia @australia.theguardian.com · 6d

‘AI is here to stay and change things’: Mad Max director George Miller on why he is taking part in an AI film festival

The director believes AI has made film-making ‘way more egalitarian’ – and is set to lead the judges at Omni AI film festival in Australia There’s no arguing the use of artificial intelligence in film-making is getting a bad rap. Last week’s unveiling of Hollywood’s first AI “actress”, Tilly Norwood, generated howls of protest from actors’ unions across the UK and US, where the industry is still reeling from last year’s 118-day strike over, among other issues, the threat of AI. And earlier this week, Australia’s Productivity Commission was pilloried by Liberals and Greens alike for failing to recognise the dire impact AI may have on the country’s creative industries. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 5d

Apropos of nothing, some of you will benefit from reading about this Japanese cultural phenomenon, the “fox’s wedding”:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitsune...

Kitsune no yomeiri - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

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Minovsky @minovskyarticle.bsky.social · 7d

The Vinland Saga artist seems as cool as you'd hope he'd be.

Isaiah D. Colbert @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social · 7d

Also, Makoto Yukimura said trans rights.

io9: Your portrayal of Indigenous and transgender characters—like the Lnu tribe and Cordelia—stands out in a media landscape where such representation is still rare outside of series like Golden Kamuy, Skip and Loafer, and Paradise Kiss, where they’re often mishandled. What impact do you hope these characters have on expanding the narrative terrain? How do you see your storytelling challenging the ethnocentric lens that dominates much of mainstream media when it comes to that representation?

Yukimura: I did have written characters in [Vinland Saga] from a marginalized ethnic group [and] who are LGBTQ featured here. I actually wanted to portray a character with a disability in the story, too. However, because of the setting, I really couldn’t find the right place to incorporate such a character into the story. One thing I really don’t understand, though, is why do people attack such folks? Is it because they’re different? Why do they just focus on bad things about these groups and generalize them? I truly don’t understand why people do such things. I plainly feel sad when it comes to the way people treat each other.

To me, it’s quite normal for people to have uniqueness. It’s almost needless to say that we all individually have a uniqueness that might be considered different than what is the majority. For example, I grew up in an era where higher education was considered to be the most important thing in society in Japan. You almost had no paths in life outside of that structure. I actually do live outside of that structure, and I’m living perfectly fine. I really want to say that uniqueness is okay. I don’t understand why people are making those judgments to say, “This is okay, but this is not okay.”

I haven’t really thought about what this type of storytelling or character would have an impact on society at all. I’m just writing, drawing, and portraying society as I see it and what I think is normal from my eyes in the manga. If people don’t agree with that version of what I think is a normal society, then oh well. (Laughs) That’s too bad. Those people don’t have to read my manga.

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 7d

A screenshot from a quick Google search, the first result being an excerpt from Wikipedia’s entry on the 2008 financial crisis, specifically about an estimation from the International Monetary Fund that large US and EU banks lost more than $1 trillion on toxic assets and bad loans during the period of the crisis.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 8d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 7d

At PAX last month I attended a panel about the Best Fishing mini-games of all time, and the most profound wisdom came from a master fisher who’s caught all 1,707 fish (or however many there are) in all of FFXIV

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Brian of Ysbryd @briankwek.bsky.social · 8d

My brain went brrrrr when I thought about how to render “a cry for help” in 3 letters. SAD? NOO? OOU? BAA?

Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 8d

Scariest part of silent hill f so far is when I briefly thought it was gonna make me do math

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