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Damien Crawford

@developerdamien.bsky.social

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Indie dev, witch; fae/faer. I've made a 99 character RPG, a game about retired adventurers, a fake MMO, and other things. Games at cannibalinteractive.itch.io contact: [email protected]

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 8d

Patch 1.3, the three year anniversary update for Purgatory Dungeoneer, is out now! The game's also 50% off (so currently $4.99) so it's as good a time as any to check out an RPG about retired adventurers!

steamcommunity.com/games/196301...

A turn-based JRPG battle with several enemies on the left and the player's party of five on the right. The selected enemy is the Cyclops Blackguard, who currently has five status effects with tooltips shown.

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 1h

All my comics have happy endings!

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 1h

They really looked at the complaints of how hard the Demi-Fiend fight was as the superboss of the base game and went "ok, we're listening :)"

Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 1h

Been grinding through SMT V: Vengeance and gosh, this is still one of the scariest things to see when you go into the Masakado fight because yes, he's weak to every non-Almighty element, and after the first hit it's clear that it expects you to use your turns well

and then his Press Turn Icons show

The text at the top says "Masakado Weaknesses and Resistances". There's seven icons for Physical, Fire, Ice, Electric, Force, Light, and Dark. All of them say Weak beneath them.

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 2h

Right, like if I want to see what a person posts I follow or look them up, but endorse is quite the word choice to use

Also I assume that'd be what some people use the feeds/lists functions for but I don't use either lol

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 3d

I saw this on youtube two days ago and I've been thinking about it ever since

Honestly amazing how built for fighting games he is

フブキ👑 Letourneau🫃(librarian) @northerniion.bsky.social · 6d

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 2d

Up to 43 reviews on Purgatory Dungeoneer! Just 7 away from reaching Very Positive (and becoming my first game to do so)!

store.steampowered.com/app/1963010/...

A review on Steam showing "Recommended" from October 6th saying: Perfect balance of session size and depth that's rare to find in turn-based RPGs.

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max and 19 others 🌌 @sneptech.bsky.social · 6h

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Ben Eltham @beneltham.bsky.social · 6h

I see America is now at the “dissident professors fleeing the regime” stage

Mark Bray @mark-bray.bsky.social · 10h

Our plane to Spain is in the air!

🙌🙌

Thank you so much to the countless people supporting us in every way and in particular all of the Rutgers students and faculty who have supported us every step of the way.

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 4h

Hm, maybe. I'll give this some thought, thanks!

Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 5h

Then there's also the considerations for making it both big enough of a world to feel like a world, but keeping things simple enough to be able to be played in half hour sessions

So I guess the overwhelming thing is knowing the expectations of making a commercial project that people'll play lol

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 5h

It depends on the project; the current thing I'm messing with is a Tactics game but mechanically I'm having a hard time settling on classes, and story-wise I want there to be 12 countries in a large-scale war (mostly perpetuated by one country) that you take mercenary contracts from

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 5h

not technically the kids of heroes, but Teen Titans was great and close enough to the concept/pre-established world that I think it's worth mentioning

Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 5h

Right, or at least long enough to where Naruto's no longer Hokage; gives enough time to have flashbacks, but gives enough distance for the world to have grown wide rather than tall

Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 5h

Think that's also why the one episode I liked was when Metal and Guy talk and fight each other. It's a character actually trying to deal with something they can't help

Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 5h

I think that hits the nail on the head for why I can't get into it or other series that do spinoffs like that

When the power scaling's started off so high, there's no space for characters to overcome weaknesses or turn those into their strengths, there's just writing whatever solutions to problems

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 6h

"want it all but can't do anything" is so real dude

I've been trying to experiment with projects but it quickly grows to a weight that fatigues me just to look at

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dr. hazel 🐝 @hazelmonforton.com · 2d

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

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ceej @ceej.online · 6h

damn. hoping it at least signifies something

William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 7h

It is a tale
Told by an idiot

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 9h

See also: "Why isn't anyone DOING ANYTHING"

Translation: "I'm not doing anything"

People are doing things. They are doing a LOT. It's up to you to plug in and participate.

The Enigma of Amandagara Fault @amandalafrenais.com · 3d

"why is nobody talking abou--" EVERYONE is talkin about it BRO. You just never stick around to listen to ANYONE ELSE, you're just here to TALK

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 15h

Make shorter games with worse graphics and fewer shareholders

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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 9h

the portland chicken explains

Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 9h

www.wweek.com/culture/2025...

Can you put into words what that purpose is? You and the frog have really become icons of this protest.

There’s been a nice overall whimsy that has shown up. The frog is amazing. We had a bunch of other inflatable people here last night, too. I saw people playing Twister the other day.

What they rely on is fear. So by coming out in an absurdist manner, it speaks to them, to some extent, that we’re actually not that afraid.

It also dismantles their narrative a little bit. When they try to describe this situation as “war-torn,” it becomes much harder to take them seriously when they have to post a video saying [U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security] Kristi Noem is up on the balcony staring over the Antifa Army and it’s, like, eight journalists and five protesters and one of them is in a chicken suit.

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 10h

My great-uncle told a story about how my great-aunt was doing work with foster kids and had started getting into antiques and his first thought was "well, guess we're going to need a bigger house"

That giving mentality really helps relationships to last.