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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · 15h

I LOVE CICLAVIA

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A.R. Moxon @juliusgoat.bsky.social · 2d

I've noticed the opposing team's fans only cheer when the opponents score on us. To win those fans over, I recommend we score on ourselves repeatedly; that will surely make them so happy they'll start supporting us. And I'm sure all our fans will keep cheering for us—who else is there to cheer for?

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Draculanna 🧛🌿👁️ @annacwebs.bsky.social · 4d

I gotta hand it to whatever advertising firm Informa hired to make these, there really is something almost poetic about GDC's advertising being "an AI-looking depiction of an industry staple being destroyed with no clear elaboration of what comes after." Masterclass in unintentionally nailing it.

Game Developers Conference @officialgdc.bsky.social · 4d

A New Era Awaits!

bit.ly/3KKYUIq

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · 10d

I watched my dad play a bit of Earthbound yesterday and, despite having played it before, was overwhelmed by how many smart minute details were on every screen and encounter. Somehow, an underrated RPG

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LA City Controller Kenneth Mejia @controller.lacity.gov · 10d

"WHERE THE HELL ARE MY TAX DOLLARS GOING?!?" 🤔

People of Los Angeles, take a look at our easy-to-use budget website to see where your tax dollars are budgeted to be spent this fiscal year! 🔎

Visit: budget.lacontroller.app

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · 13d

Big fan of Pumpy’s Big Clumpy

Jonah Davidson @hangedman.bsky.social · 17d

I strongly believe in the breadth and influence of independent art, to grant us oblique angles on the world and ourselves.
But also every indie game is somewhere on this spectrum:

A triangular range chart labeled "Indie Game Vibe Check", where the three axes are "Enpoisoned", "Pumpy's Big Clumpy", and "Misty Cube". Each intersection features a game - Lunacid is the most Enpoisoned, Untitled Goose Game is the most Pumpy's Big Clumpy, and Manifold Garden is the most Misty Cube. Undertale is directly in the center, surrounded by Tunic (Pumpy), Void Stranger (Misty), and Star of Providence (Poison)

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · 19d

Holy shit this interview ahahahaaa

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · 22d

Found the craziest passport holder

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Sep 10

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Jon Perry @perryjon.bsky.social · Sep 9

Now that I have some distance from my GDC talk, I think if I were to boil down my game design advice into a single sentence, it might be something like:

Focus less on adding stuff to your game, and more on developing connections between the stuff you already have.

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Sep 9

POV of watching Open Doom Credcendo

esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Sep 9

god bless Open Doom Crescendo

“Any similarity to any person, living or dead or dead to me or ‘living’ but dead inside cause they’re pieces of shit, or to any actual events is at most suck-that-for-life troll-level coincidental and unintentional.

All material is protected by the copyright laws of Canada and all countries throughout the world. All rights reserved. Any unauthorized exhibition, distribution, or copying of this film or any part thereof (including soundtrack) is an infringement of relevant copyright and will subject the infringer to severe civil or criminal penalties. Or put this up on private bay, remember to seed, and do your part to show this damngod art so that the life savings I’ll probably never make back at least don’t go to existential waste. My hopes and dreams travel with you.

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Criag @craigpsutton.bsky.social · Sep 7

The eye exam is the perfect game design. That big E is a great tutorial that teaches you the basic mechanic. But it doesn't baby you and quickly gets hard as they introduce the small and blurry enemies.

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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · Sep 8

new blog post: mgs3 and photorealisming the painterly game

www.joewintergreen.com/mgs3-and-pho...

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Aug 28

Long shot but if I know anyone who wants to buy a small boba business in downtown LA — space, equipment, branding, secret recipes — for an *outrageously* low price, I’m neighbors with the owners and they need someone to take over. It’s my favorite spot in the area, would hate to see it shut down 😔

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Aug 21

Producers around the world praying that their devs do not read this and feel inspired to not update their Jira tickets

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Aug 21

Team Cherry told me that Hollow Knight has sold 15 million copies, making it one of the biggest indie games of all time.

What's really wild is that in February 2019, when Silksong was announced, Hollow Knight had only sold 2.8 million copies.

The full story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Why ‘Silksong’ Took Seven Years to Make

The highly anticipated indie game has been in production for so long that it’s become an internet meme

www.bloomberg.com

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orin @knbyo.bsky.social · Aug 19

he’s so real for this

“In the previous game, you used a single button for everything,”

“but this time we’ve added a second button. Unfortunately.”

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Aug 19

Asking my girlfriend why all of Hatsune Miku’s songs are so emo and she assures me that she also has songs about the boys being back in town

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Seb Downie-Blackwell 🔜 Games Ground Berlin @downieseb.bsky.social · Aug 4

Games in pre-alpha

Helen Macdonald @hjm.bsky.social · Aug 4

This is incredible

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Alexander King @literallyaking.com · Aug 1

This is pretty incredible. A guided tour of 20 years of "control panel" displays, all actually interactive running via emulation in browser. There are even little achievements and easter eggs in each section! Lovely UI design resource.

Waxy.org @waxy.org · Jul 9

Frame of preference: Marcin Wichary made an astounding history of Mac settings using 10 different embedded emulators, including easter eggs and bonus tasks https://aresluna.org/frame-of-...

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

aresluna.org

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Aug 1

Summer is for buying far too many plums and then forgetting about all of them, and repeating this every two weeks

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Jul 31

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Lt. Com. Alexis Chaircheck @chaircheck.bsky.social · Jul 30

I just want to point out again

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Jul 29

Holy shit chainsaw man ahahaha

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esteban @estebanthinks.bsky.social · Jul 28

I haven’t seen First Steps but the world isn’t ready for my Superman takes

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UnstableBill @unstablebill.bsky.social · Jul 24

Corp accountant here, Investor Relations is the team that is legally obligated to handle investor concerns.
If you have a fund with MC or Visa in it, I suggest calling and demanding to know what your compensation will be for the reduction in Earnings Per Share caused by cutting off income streams (:

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