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i make games and music and other things! wishlist my game derelict star! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/Derelict_Star/ https://gate.itch.io/

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gate @gate.itch.io · 18d

My game Derelict Star is coming soon!

It is a platformer about exploring and navigating tricky spaces. I hope you love it as much as I loved making it!

Available to wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...

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gate @gate.itch.io · 1d

two types of people

top review: 1/5 stars - "There is no help"
bottom review: 5/5 stars - "this entire experience was excruciating pain. thank you"

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gate @gate.itch.io · 1d

oh no i didn't see the other post with the nest -- still think narrative has some bearing but i like the aesthetics of the balcony better

gate @gate.itch.io · 1d

depends on narrative you want, i think -- is this an egg leaving comfort to explore, or are they born into a world of struggle from the beginning?

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gate @gate.itch.io · 2d

this is very clever! i kind of love the implementation for the realtime projectiles!

Benjamin Soulé @benjaminsoule.bsky.social · 2d

I finished the #pico8 version of clockwise knight ! You can play it here : www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=151...
#gamedev #indiedev How many days do you need to defeat Karnoth ?

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melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · 3d

Finished this great cave story review / historical context of it amongst shareware, doujin, and modern indie: syslbnth.neocities.org/htxt/cave-st...

Which led to a 2013 post by @ellaguro.bsky.social on the game corrypt & the discourse around its "bad" graphics
ellaguro.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-...

From the corrypt post, quote:

It's hard not to see the magic in the game as some sort of allegory on human beings' never-ending thirst for more resources, and the irreparable damage it enacts on the environment. It suggests, especially taken with his other works like Vesper.5, that environments are delicate spaces that need to be accepted on their own terms in order to really be understood at a deeper level.

These greater themes seem to be absent in the little critical writing that does exist about his games they're not mentioned anywhere in the Wired article, nor in this detailed critical reading, which focuses solely on the mechanical aspects of his games. The strangeness and beauty of the environments become a marginalized backdrop to a game seen as only remarkable from a design perspective-something the game even seems to mock with its flat looking aesthetics and its big, square block pushing and its few mock-JRPG miniquests in the beginning.

From the cave story post, quote:

"What's more, as indie games improved dramatically in quality over the course of the ensuing decade, the technical skill floor lowered by the first wave of hits would get raised back up in the end. You could get away with pixel art and chiptune now, but it had to be the pixel art and chiptune of a professional. Tools would be released to help control the ballooning scope of new indie games-Unity, Unreal, GameMaker Studio, and the, like. [15] But somehow this would just move the goalposts further. When these were released, we didn't make Iji faster and more comfortably-we made Hollow Knight."

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gate @gate.itch.io · 3d

looks good to me!

gate @gate.itch.io · 3d

i have learned how to turn my self-critical lens off when i'm in the process of making a game but the moment i have to show it to someone else i empathize w/ their experience of it and that critical lens comes back. all i know how to do is notice it and any bad emotions it brings, and then move on.

gate @gate.itch.io · 5d

this is gorgeous june wow

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June Flower @juneflower.bsky.social · Aug 22

My lizardman game is out! It's free! Very happy with how it came out, if you give it a try let me know what you think of it. Most of all... enjoy swamps.
june-flower.itch.io/elbe
#gamedev

Elbe by June Flower

a life spend wading in drivel

june-flower.itch.io

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 7d

legitimately don't know where i found this but this is great. perfect moody midi orchestra shit. this is what i wish oneohtrix point never sounded like tbh lol barchboi.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...

Feral Scape II :: Wolf Dragon .Midi, by Barchboi

26 track album

barchboi.bandcamp.com

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gate @gate.itch.io · 5d

holy shit yeah this rocks

gate @gate.itch.io · 10d

yeah this one is very legible in context i think

gate @gate.itch.io · 10d

wow bluesky just absolutely crushes images lol the artificating looks terrible

gate @gate.itch.io · 10d

i think this is my super small search one

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gate @gate.itch.io · 11d

i think aesthetically i agree (and my very small capsule is basically just the title) but there are some advantages to the busy one -- i think it sells the scope better. it also grew on me a bit when i thought about the DOS platformer vibes it gave off (small tiles, packed screen).

gate @gate.itch.io · 11d

so you would maybe prefer the even more minimal version someone suggested? (i do think the image is balanced better with a vertically centered title)

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gate @gate.itch.io · 11d

anyone with opinions on which capsule art they like better?

(same as last thread but i made the option b title pop more)

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gate @gate.itch.io · 11d

wow bluesky really crushes images; there's so much noise/artifacting!

gate @gate.itch.io · 12d

hello please enjoy a song called "Mystery" from my upcoming game "Derelict Star" thank you

gate @gate.itch.io · 14d

anyone know where i can get those indie game laurel hat awards?? i mean i don't want to call anyone out but SOME GAMES are hogging them all imo

legit award that says "good job gate you made a good game"

gate @gate.itch.io · 14d

ok @ivysly.com i'm starting to cook!! it's tough bc i'm still having to learn new enemies. rush of a game though -- all flow state

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gate @gate.itch.io · 14d

oo i love the colors!

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John @farawaytimes.bsky.social · 15d

Had fun poking around this collection again after some time away, it's really a new gold standard for "classic freeware dev doing a super-loved-on collection of their old games"

if you like VVVVVV or Super Hexagon or Dicey Dungeons you should absolutely check it out, some all-time classics in here

Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com · Feb 13

Presenting "Terry's Other Games"! A messy little collection of short games I've made over the past 20 years, out now on Steam and Itch! <3

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/...

Itch: terrycavanagh.itch.io/terrys-other...