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Boo-barb
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Game Dev (UK) 👾1-Bit Games 📝1-Page RPGs 📣 Barefoot in the Snow OUT NOW! 🕹️ https://rhubarb-games.itch.io 🚫AI shite
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · Apr 25
📣📣 OUT NOW! 📣📣

Barefoot in the Snow 🦶❄️

👾 1-Bit Gothic Horror Story
💻📱 Play in browser
⏰ Length: 5-10 mins
💀 Multiple endings
👻 Talk to ghosts
💕 FREE

Please enjoy and share with your pals.

#GameDev #1Bit #PixelArt #IndieGame #Bitsy #Gothic #Horror

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Barefoot in the Snow by Rhubarb
A short gothic horror tale.
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PlayStation Park @playstationpark.bsky.social · 8h
A Japanese commercial for 'Siren' on the PlayStation 2.
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 12h
6 adventurers struggle to identify mysterious shoe-like items found in the dungeon until they go to the tavern and allow a Bishop to inspect them closer, only to confirm they are in fact shoes.
Screenshot of Wizardry The Five Ordeals on Nintendo Switch
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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 15h
RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌
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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 16h
GHOST WANTED (1940)
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 19h
youtu.be/xRjI3J__2c4?...
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 20h
I’m also just enjoying it until they tune it to a point where they either abandon the game because it’s not profitable or they spoil it with intrusive lootbox stuff.
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 20h
Everybody should read more for pleasure.

But that isn’t to say that it’s noble, or your new personality or performative for social media, or you should keep count of how many books you read in a year.

You don’t count how many telly programs you watch in a year do you?

Don’t be daft!
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Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d
Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 20h
I’m really enjoying the new Skate as it’s “FREE” . Love the map. I have no compulsion to engage with lootboxes or do any goals. Just find a spot and do what I want. Ideal.
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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 22h
Sometimes as a writer it is important to really test yourself - to take risks, to break out of your comfort zone and do something radically new. With this in mind, I have written a nostalgic article about a Sega game

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...
Space Harrier at 40: how Sega’s surreal classic brought total immersion to arcades in the 80s
As they flew above Yu Suzuki’s innovative, psychedelic 3D landscapes combating space dragons and alien rock monsters, the moving arcade cabinet would physically involve players in the action
www.theguardian.com
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 23h
Good morning team!
Flat White - Pink Lane Bakery Shokupan French toast with bacon and maple syrup - Pink Lane Bakery
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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 1d
Wizardry 44th anniversary sale on Steam buff.ly/FvRdujj
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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 1d
Ok we have liftoff! (Still have to tweak the controls a lot, and wait for more parts before putting it together properly)
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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Oct 31
Book cover for Pet Cemetery featuring an angry cat’s face hissing as a silhouette of a man stares off. Text and title read: I just FED YOU Stop yelling at me...
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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 1d
I have yet to play a single PS5 game. I have no felt compelled to even buy a ps5 yet, the library has been so meager

and I say this as someone who bought a ps1, ps2, and ps3 with fervor. they're making hardware so advanced that no developer can live up to the specs, because they don't provide tools
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VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 1d
Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...
PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC
Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…
www.videogameschronicle.com
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d
Thanks to this video I discovered a great quality of life feature hidden in the menus that animates your movements through the dungeon instead of snapping to the next tile. Makes it less disorientating.

youtu.be/NsIv6ukuFzw?...
This Option Will Change How You Play Wizardry: The Five Ordeals
YouTube video by Tea Leaves
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d
Playing some Wizardry: Five Ordeals, which I believe is a collection of some Japanese Gaiden games and some fan made scenarios.

It’s a VERY barebones Switch port of the PC game but it’s also just great to have something like this available on Switch.
Map screen of Wizardry: Five Ordeals on Switch
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d
Just had a look at some Pokemon Legends: Z-A leaks and I have to say, every mega evolution looks dreadful. They look AI generated.
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d
Uggggh!
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d
Excellent showcase of the ever exciting and innovative indie horror game scene.

PROXIMATE stands out as another title in an emerging sub-genre that finds an interesting way to take away the players sight to lay on the tension thick.

See also:

Duskers (2016)
Iron Lung (2022)

Any others?
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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 2d
Three indie games, three different takes on a digital nightmare. While Proximate, Without a Dawn, and Dead Letter Dept. differ in their approaches, the takeaway is the same: our very perception of the world has been warped by systems outside our control. youtu.be/0zxQ9YAzy00
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Richard Littler @richardlittler.bsky.social · 2d
🧵Thread. I collect photos that people took of their TV screens (in the days before video) because they wanted to capture a historical moment, or at least something that meant something to them.
1970s shot of a TV screen 1950s/60s? shot of a TV screen. Female presenter 1950s/60s shot of a TV screen. Unknown guitarists Blurry pink shot of a TV screen. Women in evening dress
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videogame history @vghistory.bsky.social · Apr 27
tempest 2000, print ad, imagery, jaguar (1994) archive.org/details/vide...
an in game screenshot of the game tempest from the haguar is shown in the middle of the imagery. surrounding the in game screenshot is the repeated thick white caps text font: 'them' (again and again and again) and then one 'you' in red (all with various arrows pointing towards enemies and you on the screenshot).
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 2d
Look at the brazen HUD.

You’ve got to respect that!
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 2d
System Shock (1994)
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Alex Kain @tdcpresents.bsky.social · 3d
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Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 3d
Gourds! #gourds 🌱
Various pumpkins and squash I just harvested from our allotment. An old procreate doodle I did of some pumpkins and squash with faces, and at the bottom it says GOURDS
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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 3d
A spectacular game.
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RPGFan @rpgfan.bsky.social · 3d
It has been one year since #MetaphorRefantazio was released. A great addition to the Atlus catalog, bringing many of the best mechanics from the Shin Megami Tensei series to a new fantasy setting.

Review: www.rpgfan.com/revie...