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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 1d

Watching Celebrity Traitors UK and getting wound up at Stephen Fry saying, "As the greatest detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes, once said-"

Sherlock Holmes isn't real. You can't do that. It's like saying the greatest long distance runner of all time is Sonic the hedgehog.

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 3d

show me the sylux

everyone's asking, "where's sylux?"

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 11d

Seeing people having an absolute blast playing Hades 2 while I'm still trapped in Silksong purgatory (holy hell the game is so long it just keeps going)

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 11d

graphic design is my passion

Bytten Studio | CASSETTE BEASTS 1.8 Update available now! @byttenstudio.bsky.social · 11d

Hey, Cassette Beasts is 50% off on the Raw Fury Steam Autumn Sale! What a great time to bother your friends into playing our monster collecting RPG! 💜

store.steampowered.com/app/1321440/...

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 11d

Seeing people having an absolute blast playing Hades 2 while I'm still trapped in Silksong purgatory (holy hell the game is so long it just keeps going)

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Kholdseid @kholdseid.bsky.social · 11d

rough draft but i was inspired

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 11d

very good effort, top stuff

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 11d

yo that's oomf...

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 11d

Now we're talking

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 11d

it's a jumpscare

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 11d

Working on a master classification system that will put an end to art game discourse once and for all

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 15d

Was super cool to chat with Joe @ the Software Engineering Daily podcast about Cassette Beasts, making games and Godot and such! If you wanna listen, check it out here:

Software Engineering Daily @softwaredaily.bsky.social · 16d

Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon are the creators of Cassette Beasts at @byttenstudio.bsky.social. They join the show with Joe Nash to talk about the development of their game.

@jaybaylis.bsky.social

softwareengineeringdaily.com/2025/09/25/b...

Building an Indie Hit in Godot with Jay Baylis and Tom Coxon - Software Engineering Daily

Cassette Beasts is a turn-based monster-battling RPG that lets players record creatures onto cassette tapes and transform into them during battle. The game was an indie hit, and is also one of the mos...

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Kate Barrett @thewaether.bsky.social · 23d

if I have to obey this many US laws I want to have a vote

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 23d

Feels like we're at a point of total cultural apocalypse where "Steam games with pronouns are banned from sale in the US" feels like it has a non-zero chance of happening by the year's end.

Culture Crave 🍿 @culturecrave.co · 24d

The CEOs of Discord, Reddit, Twitch, and Steam have been invited to testify before Congress about the radicalization of online forum users

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · 25d

I'm at Act 2 of Silksong and this continues to be relevant

Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Sep 8

fighting flying enemies in Silksong:

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Sep 8

fighting flying enemies in Silksong:

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sorry to hear, Luke! Excited to see what comes next for you!

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Sep 8

fighting flying enemies in Silksong:

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Sep 4

Happy big game drop day to Team Cherry, the smartest people in the game industry!

Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Aug 21

Genuinely happy that the 7 year long development time was spent working at a leisurely pace, spending time with their families and flexing their creative muscles - with no pressure to expand their company, deliver sooner or read a single reddit post. Smartest people in our entire industry.

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · Aug 21

BREAKING: Silksong will be out on September 4. Two weeks from today. Really.

Often, games that take 7+ years to make are plagued by mismanagement and painful burnout. But for Silksong? Team Cherry was having a blast. They still are.

This is their story: www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Sep 2

it's cool to be in this country and vote for something and then get the result I want for the first time in my life

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Aug 28

Had similar thoughts recently - feels like there was something huge that we've just... lost since
bsky.app/profile/jayb...

Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Jul 15

Really enjoyable mini-doc on the origins of Psygnosis.

It's rather sad to see how UK had a thriving independent northern game empire in the late 80s - early 90s that stretched from Liverpool to Newcastle and Dundee - mostly gone now.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcQW...

How an Owl ruled the world : The Story of Psygnosis

YouTube video by Modern Vintage Gamer

www.youtube.com

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Aug 26

Although our team isn't attending this year, I'm glad that we've been able to rep Brighton game devs at Gamescom this year with a Cassette Beasts banner at the ukie stall!

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Aug 25

kind of had to when I saw it, really!

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Aug 25

hell yeah

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Jay Baylis | making CASSETTE BEASTS @jaybaylis.bsky.social · Aug 22

Might be unwise to do gaming discourse but a recurring sentiment I still see online a lot that I think is just *so* off the mark is this idea of:
Dark, difficult, oppressive games = right wing
Cozy, soft, wholesome, nonviolent games = left wing

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