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@jjsignal.bsky.social
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Pixel pusher, retro game enthusiast, and lead artist/animator/director for 2064: Read Only Memories and Read Only Memories: NEURODIVER. Header by @soaps.bsky.social
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JJSignal - GET ROM: NEURODIVER @jjsignal.bsky.social · Sep 30
Had some really cool things I got to work on since the end of May up to now, but my contracts are wrapping up this week, which means I'm jobless again! I'd love a full time W-2 job with benefits, but I think those don't exist? Anyway, my portfolio is here: jjsignal.com
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tadashidaiba.bsky.social
November 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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wittywebhandle.bsky.social
The "Where's My Wife" Fit Featuring 4 protaganists all wearing Jeans, A green / dark shirt, and bomber overcoat. James Sunderland Sebastian Castellanos Alan Wake Ethan Winters
November 24, 2025 at 7:37 PM
jjsignal.bsky.social
Drawing and animating for the first time on a friend's recently restored Vectrex. The light pen is so cool.
November 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
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ageofoddish.bsky.social
Does anyone want a survivorship bias shortbread
My hand holding a shortbread cookie in the shape of an airplane. There are red sprinkles in the pattern of the survivorship bias plane. A plate of the same cookies.
November 29, 2025 at 4:50 AM
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biggestmac.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving from Big Mac in his big fancy outfit of the day! 🦃
November 27, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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catsuka.bsky.social
I'm still waiting for a Blu-ray release of "Coo of the Far Seas" (1993).
There is an HD master, but it's only broadcast on television in Japan occasionally.
November 26, 2025 at 7:26 PM
jjsignal.bsky.social
Mid to late November is when I break out Sonic and Saturn games like one would start pulling out the Christmas decorations.
November 26, 2025 at 3:59 AM
jjsignal.bsky.social
Here are some turkeys from earlier this month. I'm spotting them more often while out and about this year. The one that flew off landed in the tree across the path. Something about a turkey sitting in a tree is very funny to me.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
jjsignal.bsky.social
Time to play Demonschool.
November 23, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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judytotoya.bsky.social
ソニック・ザ・ヘッジホッグ2
33周年記念。
November 21, 2025 at 1:33 PM
jjsignal.bsky.social
Thinking about the Peter Gabriel Steam video mentioned in the CartoonBrew article. It still looks great and works so well with the video. I wonder how much Tim and Eric were inspired by it at all? How did they end up making a 30 minute long, multi episode Steam video?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt87...
Peter Gabriel - Steam
YouTube video by Peter Gabriel
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November 22, 2025 at 10:00 AM
jjsignal.bsky.social
I was always a big fan of CG as a kid. They show off the Brilliance commercial in this article, which I'd often watch on the Isaac Asimov's Ultimate Robot multimedia software. Another one I loved on that same software was this 1987 ad for Hawaiian Punch. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIfh...
November 22, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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ator.bsky.social
“be there in a second”
November 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
jjsignal.bsky.social
I've got
Moxie soda (in an attractive orange can).
November 21, 2025 at 3:05 AM
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philsalv.bsky.social
"Game preservation takes many forms, and it’s important to consider research as well as play."

Right there, plain as day. Research access to games can coexist with playing them for fun!
November 20, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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cckirby.bsky.social
1990 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade promo cards advertising upcoming balloons: Bart Simpson Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Band Santa Claus! The Boys
November 20, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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splendid.land
clay models of the crew members from Formless Star
Anemo, a red character with rosy cheeks, a big nose, and an Anemometer on their head. They're wearing a green boiler suit with yellow boots and a backpack. Vane, a yellow character with small dot eyes, a round orange nose, and a weather vane with an orange bird on his head. He's wearing an orange boiler suit with green gloves and boots, and a brown waist bag. Turbine, a green character with large white eyes with small pupils and eyelashes, freckles, a protruding upper lip with buck teeth, and a wind turbine on her head. She is wearing a white suit with orange accents and a satchel. Fandroid, a blue robot with a single yellow eye placed asymetrically on the right side of its dome shaped head with a fan on top. Its body is roughly cylindrical with bolts holding it together, with a gauge on the left side of its body. Its arms are long metal tubes ending with claws. from its back, various pipes and antennae stick out.
June 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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designroom.bsky.social
Next up in our music game series: a big profile of Sound Fantasy and Electroplankton creator Toshio Iwai, based on a three-hour call with @radishgames.com.
Toshio Iwai's journey from Sound Fantasy to Electroplankton
We profile the artist behind two of Nintendo's attempts at making experimental music games in the '90s and early 2000s -- one a canceled Super Famicom game based on musical insects, and the other a Ni...
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November 19, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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necrosoftgames.com
Demonschool: Is OUT. It's out. Finally it is out. We hope you enjoy it.

store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...

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November 19, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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brandon.insertcredit.com
The bay area needs to get cheaper so the weirdos can come back. We also need brand new weirdos. More weirdos please
(from the below interview) 48 HILLS Kind of related, how do you think the industry has changed? On a broad scale, but also just in terms of the Bay Area scene specifically, what kinds of changes have you seen? BRANDON SHEFFIELD Obviously, the Bay Area has changed a lot. When I quit my job in journalism and started doing game development full-time, all the indie weirdo game devs were here. We all knew each other, we all had weird little dramas with each other, it felt like a big scene. Then, as tech grew and they needed places to live, all the tech folks came out into Oakland, and then all the artists that had left San Francisco to come to Oakland now had to leave Oakland. It just felt like arts were kind of disappearing from the whole area. And it was so gradual that it didn’t feel like it was a big trend until probably around the Ghost Ship fire, and then it felt like there was an endpoint for fun times. I think it’s coming back now, I feel like DIY venues are starting to happen again. In terms of the game development scene, there’s always been a gap between San Francisco and the East Bay, and that remains present, but I feel like both groups are smaller than they were before. There are fewer of us, and we don’t hang out. [laughs] But we try. I’ve been running an East Bay game dev meetup for 15 years, and we still get new people coming. But it’s very weird to watch things change over time. Because I’m staying in Oakland, this is where I’m going to live. It just feels like things are changing around me. 48 HILLS I mean, you mentioned DIY venues coming back. I’m curious if you think that could make its way into games as well. BRANDON SHEFFIELD I feel like it’s possible. I think that it’s easier when there’s a natural energy happening, and I don’t know that that natural energy will happen without cheaper rent and a bunch of young people. I can’t build a community like I could when I was in my 20s because I don’t know if the youngsters want to get involved in the same way. The way that I’m thinking about building community is probably very different from the way that someone who is graduating high school right now is thinking about building community. I still want to try to push the things that I can push, but I also want to be ready to support whatever new things are coming along that young people may try to build. And I hope they do, and I hope that I can help facilitate. I can only hope. Rent going down is the only thing that’s going to change it.
November 18, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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gst.melosylexia.com
I'd like to share this old video of hers, where she talks about her time working on the 3DO port of Doom.
it's a wild story that stuck with me, and a reminder that sometimes "bad games" have amazing people working on them
November 17, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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hmcd.bsky.social
My trailblazing game industry bad-ass friend Rebecca Heineman has passed away.

Fuck cancer.

Friends, let’s not forget her: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rebecca...
Rebecca Heineman - Wikipedia
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November 17, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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gamingalexandria.bsky.social
We return with another amazing tale of video games past!

This time: The international story of Taito. Learn about the colorful Ukranian founder, the origin of the modern crane game, and how a peanut vending company redefines the world of video games.

www.gamingalexandria.com/wp/2025/11/p...
November 17, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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antlervel.vet
3 years ago today, Riot Games offered me a job making more money than I ever thought I’d make in my life. I had 19 interviews over 2.5 months to get it. Partner and I were moving to LA for it. I put in notice at my job and apartment.

2 weeks later they rescinded the offer due to “headcount issues”.
Facebook memory. On this day 3 years ago Stella Sacco Nov 15, 2022 I am happy beyond words to say that Riot has told me the job is mine. 289 comments 2 shares
November 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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tldrellie.bsky.evl.im
And yet, a trace of the true self remains in the false self
Famous kickstarter flop game console, the Ouya Valve's new Steam Machine Cube
November 12, 2025 at 6:20 PM