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Nick Lives 🤡

@slicknicklives.bsky.social

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Game Dev/Goof. Creative Director of @nightsignalentertainment.com. (Home Safety Hotline, Forbidden Solitaire, Night Signal + More) He/him/Bi

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · Feb 4

In case you missed it, we recently announced FORBIDDEN SOLITAIRE with @greyalien.bsky.social @bchezza.bsky.social !

💀 90's FMV-inspired dungeon hellscapes
🃏 Bloodletting solitaire gameplay
👁️ Purchase upgrades from the eye in the walls
💿 Uninstall the game before it's too late

➡️ shorturl.at/fR6i5

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 11m

I think I'll load up this old CD-ROM that I found in a thrift store yesterday. It's a banned game from 1995 called Forbidden Solitaire!

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Jacob Geller @jacobgeller.com · 4h

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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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 2h

It does out a spotlight on their “idea guy” flawed logic that their ideas mean anything on their own! Like even in their ideal AI-perfected world, Nintendo has their own ideas already.

They just think their ideas are so special and amazing and that’s all that matters so now is their time to shine.

Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 3h

But of course THAT’s never what they mean by “adapt” - they just like to justify their reliance on brain-rot slop generators to themselves as a smart business decision.

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 3h

That and there are other ways to “adapt” to an AI-flooded market that aren’t just “shrug and use the same slop tool everyone else is using”

In our case we’re making a concerted effort to film BTS content, create art books, and advertise our Anti-AI stance so we have credibility in the slop-era!

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 3h

“Adapt or get left behind” as the go-to motto for AI evangelists will never not be funny to me, because like, your thing is designed to be able to be used by anyone. That’s the whole point. Adapt to what? Learn how to type? Yeah, I better get on that early so my typing skills get sharper. 😆

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 1d

Incredibly grateful every single day that I get to continue making weird little freaks for a living.

Thanks so much to everyone supporting our little horror studio! 🙏🥳

Night Signal Entertainment @nightsignalentertainment.com · 2d

Night Signal Entertainment is now 2 years old! 🎂💀

Here's to another year of crafting home-made horrors from your half-forgotten memories.

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 2d

Sorry to hear it! But glad that you now have the cold comforts of Blair Witch. 🙏

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Night Signal Entertainment @nightsignalentertainment.com · 3d

When the creator of BALATRO says your game is "oozing vibes" - you know you're doing something right! 😍

💜 Wishlist Forbidden Solitaire: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 3d

Me when people try to make me legally acquire my inventory of fresh hearts, kidneys and eyeballs.

a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

ALT: a close up of a man 's face with his eyes closed

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 3d

Look, if you make me GET PERMISSION for these organs I stole before I can sell them that’s gonna KILL my black market business! 😤

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 3d

I also confess that the new Pennywise bothers me in a similar way. The smile makeup turning up into the eyes feels too 'horror design-y' to look like a genuine vintage clown. Which is a shame because the rest of the costume and the performance is otherwise perfect.

Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 3d

My vote is Annabelle - her design feels way too "scary" in a try-hard way, and it ruins any believability that it's a real vintage doll that happens to be haunted.

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 3d

I really enjoyed Gemini Home Entertainment on the whole, it strikes that delicate balance between dry humor and genuine horror.

Special shout-outs to 'Deep Root Disease' and 'Home Invasion Help' for their clever pacing/structure.

DRD - youtu.be/kKdmoYtrEi0?...

HIH - youtu.be/4yX55S8lGQ0?...

DEEP ROOT DISEASE － GEMINI HOME ENTERTAINMENT

YouTube video by GEMINI HOME ENTERTAINMENT

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Xalavier Nelson Jr. @writnelson.bsky.social · 4d

You would not believe how many stories like this have been popping up over the last ~5 years

Not just full games cancelled—entire characters and plot lines removed or changed, leaving less time for making the *rest of the game better*, to try avoiding a small and malicious contingent of voices.

Stephen Totilo @stephentotilo.bsky.social · 4d

SCOOP: Last year, Ubisoft cancelled an Assassin's Creed game set during Reconstruction. Was to feature a Black Assassin who, among other things, fought the rise of the Klan

Sources: Leadership nixed it over concerns re: U.S. political climate, backlash to Yasuke

www.gamefile.news/p/scoop-ubis...

Scoop: Ubisoft cancelled a post-Civil War Assassin’s Creed last year

Company leadership deemed the project too controversial for the moment, sources tell Game File

www.gamefile.news

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 4d

Kortney and I attended a costumed concert tonight and since she was going as Aurora, naturally I had to go as Maleficent! 🐦‍⬛

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 5d

For my birthday my friends allowed me the honor to not only introduce them to the 2003 Ang Lee masterpiece HULK, but also were gracious enough to sit through my PowerPoint presentation on 2003’s Ang Lee’s HULK. It was a glorious day. 🎂💚

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 6d

If you are waiting for Forbidden Solitaire, how about trying out one of our other solitaire games.

- Regency Solitaire 1 & 2 have a nice story.
- Shadowhand and Ancient Enemy have a story and also solitaire combat and RPG-style stats.

store.steampowered.com/developer/Gr...

Steam Developer: Grey Alien Games

All games that Grey Alien Games has created or published.

store.steampowered.com

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Jake Birkett - Veteran Indie @greyalien.bsky.social · 7d

This is why videogames are important (and why casual games rock!)

comment on youtube: "This video got me into playing solitaire again. So many great memories! I remember my grandpa playing it a lot when I was younger, he passed away years ago but I still play it from time to time to feel closer to him"

me: "Love to hear that!"

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 7d

Right? The resemblance is uncanny! Maybe I played this game in my dreams.

Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 9d

One day I'll get good at this mailing list stuff. 😅

Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 9d

Ah crap I just saw that. This is what I get for copying our text from Steam. Looks like the links are embedded with Steam stuff. My bad! I guess I could re-send it with working links but I don't want to risk triggering the spam filters again. 😬

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Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 9d

Thank you! 🥳

Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 9d

Thanks, Westin! 😁

Nick Lives 🤡 @slicknicklives.bsky.social · 9d

Mandatory wishlist plug!
store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

Forbidden Solitaire on Steam

Forbidden Solitaire is a card-slashing horror game about unearthing the contents of a cryptic 1995 CD-ROM that should have never existed. From the creators of Ancient Enemy and Home Safety Hotline.

store.steampowered.com