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Taylor

@tayl1r.itch.io

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Solo game dev and practicing autistic living in Japan. Making sys:tan restore. Made Witching Stone, Touhou Library Survivors, SOKOBOT. Ex-Creative Assembly, Lionhead... devlogs: https://www.patreon.com/c/AlexanderTaylor linktree: alexandertaylor.net

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 13d

i'm sick so i'm just gonna RT this

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · Jun 27

all me shit's on sale
store.steampowered.com/curator/4416...

screenshot of a (slightly chopped up) steam page showing witching stone, touhou library survivors and sokobot widgets. they have discounts. amazing discounts. best discounts you've ever seen.

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 1d

yeah that's true, and that’s all good stuff. i guess "compulsion loop" is the one with the more evil connotations. but i've seen multiple people use it to describe e.g. silksong combat now :x

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 1d

in my mind a "gameplay loop" is when a mobile game or MMO has a cursed diagram of a big wheel that says grind -> get currency (⚠️fricton⚠️) -> upgrade -> grind. but i see it used to just mean, like, second to second gameplay.

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SLIME CITY @slimecitymusic.bsky.social · 1d

🎵 NEW SLIMES BOP ALERT 🚨

'Trigger The Dads' from our upcoming album NATIONAL RECORD OF ACHIEVEMENT is now available to stream on Bandcamp ➡️ slime-city.bandcamp.com

💰 Pre-order the album, due for release 21 Nov.

⚠️ No dads were harmed in the making of this banger.

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Leo Ijbolstoy @analoguebath.bsky.social · 1d

I started watching Slayers because @tayl1r.itch.io ‘s game Witching Stone put a retro fantasy anime virus in my brain and OH MY GOD THEY REFERENCE SLAYERS IN THE GAME

Anyway play Witching Stone it’s like Slay The Spire meets Super Puzzle Fighter

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 1d

really want to redesign the ui, add some vfx, and split the sim/view, but i need to pop this proto out pronto so people can help evaluate if this is ass

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · Jun 27

all me shit's on sale
store.steampowered.com/curator/4416...

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 2d

i'm planning on building most of my infastructure of vulcanus so surely i won't spend hours fucking around with trains before i launch a single rocket

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 2d

playing around with what cards and enemy intent looks like
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sys:tan restore Skill Icons | Alexander Taylor

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 2d

pivoting sys:tan restore into something i would actually play
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sys:tan restore revisited | Alexander Taylor

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 3d

i think one of the weaker parts of silksong is how the true ending quest is locked behind an invisible checklist, containing items irrelevant to the plot like buying a house, and it feels like you're doing the optional post-game clean up midway through the game.

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 4d

worked for years on projects i knew would never ship :)
most famous game i worked on i was never credited for :)

Ben Nicholas ⚪️ Looking for work! @belgianboolean.bsky.social · 5d

It’s wild that half my career has been spent on projects that never shipped. They either got canceled or the studio shuttered. I don’t mourn them with the exception of one sci-fi project that was so stunning. Years of work down the drain. I did get a couple Chris Foss sketches out of it though.

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 6d

if she's a spider why does she have 2 legs?
well, her dad was a worm
...
but he'd turned into a man bug then, i think
did he have any other kids?
um, a few, yeah

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 6d

it's going to have cards in it tho, so brace yourself

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 6d

completely changing the gameplay in sys:tan because it was pants and in a genre i don't even like 👍

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 11d

until yesterday i thought the bluesky ceo was jack dorsey
a more innocent time

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 13d

just pretend i put them inside the steam autumn sale images but with slightly different fonts because i don't have photoshop

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 13d

i'm sick so i'm just gonna RT this

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · Jun 27

all me shit's on sale
store.steampowered.com/curator/4416...

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 14d

now i can't be spoiled on silksong i've started reading people's opinions on it. i've become radicalised and i now think all contact damage should be fatal

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Zack Polanski @zackpolanski.bsky.social · 16d

Now. And always.

🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

PinkNews @pinknews.bsky.social · 16d

Zack Polanski: ‘It’s time for a party to stand in unconditional solidarity with our LGBT community’
https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/09/29/zack-polanski-green-party-uk-lgbtq/?utm_content=1759143618&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky

Green leader says party stands in 'unconditional solidarity' with LGBTQ community

New elected Green Party leader Zack Polanski speaks exclusively to PinkNews to make clear what his, and the Green Party's, policies on LGBTQ+ rights are.

www.thepinknews.com

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 16d

thursday murder club was more okay with human trafficking than i thought it would be

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 17d

every android update just changes the fonts and colours. maybe moves the crop button for fun.

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 18d

if it's brown lay down, if it's battle skedaddle

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 19d

took my socially awkward ass outside

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Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 19d

after doing a quick search i found eight 10x pulls costs 12,800 obfuscation shards which, at its cheapest, is $99.99 per 8,080. is that true? because that's $160 or 8 hollow knight: silksongs

Taylor @tayl1r.itch.io · 20d

agree with a lot of this! not sure how you're classifying optional content, but you can get the normal ending without doing mount fay