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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 2d

"iPhone build only bug"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

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.

Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 2d

Not only is it not worth it, typically it's actively harmful. The reason being, when you do your future projects you'll leave your audience behind and have to crosspost if you want them to know about it.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 5d

Yes! This is my favourite kind of talk! Looking forward to it. :-)

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 5d

"after playing it an unhealthy amount of time"

Only 10 and already he's internalized ideas characterizing fun as harmful!

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 6d

You're not wrong, but the other thing is live service games. A lot of players mainly want to play with their friends, which means giant megagames that reward heavy time commitment. Singleplayer experiences have a much smaller slice of the gaming pie now.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 6d

Definitely moving in the wrong direction, but is this maybe the chance for a high profile indie event not based around huge amounts of air travel and expense?

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 7d

The demo for Pieced Together is out!

I've just been coding on this project, but @katekillick.bsky.social & @ellieeady.bsky.social at Glowfrog have done incredible work. Check it out, then give it a wishlist! (Reposts also welcomed. ❤️)

store.steampowered.com/app/4005690/...

Pieced Together Demo on Steam

Pieced Together is a cozy scrapbooking game that takes you on a heartfelt journey about friendship, getting older and learning to let go. Sort items, solve gentle puzzles, and decorate the scrapbook a...

store.steampowered.com

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 9d

The cat on the right seems to have settled in slightly deeper than intended and is now looking concerned at the possibility of being stuck in Autumn.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 13d

Reminds me much more of Luck Be a Landlord than Balatro. (The former being a major inspiration for the latter.)

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 13d

Easily @thinkygames.com - literally every post is worth reading. Might not be for everyone, though. :-)

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · 18d

I wish people would, a lot more. We get so many safe-but-dull design decisions because they don't seem worth criticising. It's the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" of game design.

Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Sep 9

Also, I want him to still have a big saggy face, not look all perky and kittenish. Also also, I have very high standards for marvellous, mechanical mouse organs!

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Sep 7

In Unity, a runtime script handling a prefab can add components to it. If it does, they stay there on exit. However, it cannot remove components "to avoid data loss". A classic example of seemingly reasonable design causing chaos... BRB, off to remove a few hundred duplicate components by hand. :-/

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Sep 6

Be careful, I think this means there's going to be a boss battle!

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 30

Update: Yes, this is really good! Everything I hoped it would be already. Would recommend.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 29

It has made them feel stupid and so must be destroyed. There is no worse crime.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 29

Have been watching this one for a while. Excited to finally get to play!

Glowkeeper ✨ OUT NOW!! @glowkeepergame.com · Aug 29

GLOWKEEPER IS OUT EVERYONE!!!!

store.steampowered.com/app/3410660/...

#indiegame #puzzlegame #godot #godotengine #gamerelease

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 28

I'm sure this will cause no problems at all in the context of their insistence on deferring everything to "the people". Hopefully at some point they'll have the courage to write some policies without making everything a referendum.

Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 22

"Our plan was profoundly stupid. The problems were pointed out to us in advance, but we didn't listen, so now we're pretending we can solve them."

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 20

I see this as something a bit different. It sounds like you DO know that always shooting the moon is terrible. You do it anyway because your personal utility payoffs don't match the game's scoring system.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 20

Given how good your character design was in Sunken Stones I'm 100% here for this. Sounds hard to fund, though. I think someone should give you a few million in angel investment.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 20

Unfortunately those same people don't do too well with input randomness a lot of the time. Trying repeatedly to draft decks not well supported by the cardpool isn't a recipe for success.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 19

Really good intro to puzzle design. Worth bookmarking to share the link with new devs.

Ludipe @ludipe.bsky.social · Aug 19

I wrote an Intro to Puzzle Design article🧩

This covers the usual points I discuss with people who are working on their first puzzle game. Given how some concepts can be quite abstract, I think a written piece allows everyone to digest it at their own pace.
www.ludipe.com/2025/08/18/i...

Intro to Puzzle Design – Ludipe

www.ludipe.com

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 19

Oh, I absolutely guarantee there are excellent Black British fantasy writers we've never heard of because they aren't getting published.

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Dom Camus @bateleur.bsky.social · Aug 13

All he's doing is this article is proving that he feels comfortable writing about a topic before he's done the reading. It's a shame. As a scientist he should know better.

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