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@lbc.bsky.social
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Maker of ZZT games.
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lbc.bsky.social
* The resurrection of a beloved 90s classic
* By its original author
* Constitutes the best iteration on this idea yet seen

You could do worse than to give this a shot. Well-paced challenge, charming art, peak puzzling. Bravo.
jdm0079.bsky.social jdm @jdm0079.bsky.social · 21d
Just released my newest game: "Zem!"

It's an indirect-control puzzle game, loosely based on a 30-year-old series of ZZT games. 35 increasingly difficult stages, plus a level editor. Free download for Windows and macOS at @itch.io. #gamemaker #gamerelease #freegames #indiegames jdmgames.itch.io/zem
Zem by John D. Moore
Place blocks to help Zem make it to the exit!
jdmgames.itch.io
January 13, 2026 at 7:29 AM
lbc.bsky.social
Meet the girls of CANNONBALL RUN 2177!

From left to right:
Lucida - Posthuman
Ari - Bee-derived GMH
Carmen - Immortal
Ryda - Famous Family
Opal - Pure Biotech
Null - Unknown
Priviu - Precog
Juno - Brassica Cultivar
Tivva - Not from Earth

Learn more: keysick.com/CBR2177

(Gorgeous art by @Nixhil7)
December 23, 2025 at 1:42 AM
lbc.bsky.social
The Trailer is out! Spread the word:
youtu.be/l2_YyXGNYGI

CANNONBALL RUN 2177 is a management sim where you traverse the US by car. The story depends on your loadout, inventory, driver, passengers, weather, and choices, making no two runs alike.

Hit the Feelies page for more: keysick.com/CBR2177/
Cannonball Run 2177 - Release Trailer
YouTube video by Keysick Music
youtu.be
December 23, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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zed.cafe
keysick.com/CBR2177/ a new MS-DOS game in 2025, made by my brother ???
itch.io/jam/dosember...
Well it's all y'alls time to be a chaotic race car driver in 2177 !
December 5, 2025 at 4:13 PM
lbc.bsky.social
@tomvii.bsky.social This is maybe a bit long in the tooth for memory but the lowest-scoring album-a-day of all time (-1,000,000 points!) turned 20 a few months ago and I went back and revisited the album: stale-meme.bandcamp.com/album/projec...
Project 17 Sherman Takes a Trip (2024 ed.), by Keysick
18 track album
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August 29, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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worldsofzzt.bsky.social
Three ZZT releases on disk were recently acquired, and tomorrow their contents will be revealed and uploaded!

There is something on one of these disks that isn't just a text file which hasn't been seen before...
July 24, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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jdm0079.bsky.social
Oh, and my finger hit the shutter button at just the right instant to catch this picture.
White bufflehead duck in the water seen from behind, its bill open mid-quack
March 31, 2025 at 4:53 AM
lbc.bsky.social
An ancient ZZT project from 2006, TAHWAIN, is finally seeing release as a Weave title: stale-meme.itch.io/tahwain if you know anything about ZZT, this one might be up your alley. Check it out!
Tahwain by WiL
or, The Dead God
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March 30, 2025 at 8:50 PM
lbc.bsky.social
if centar war cloths
a shirt and pants very normale
there must be a new kind of agarment in the middle
to hold the front cloppitys that arent the arms
I am calling it a Shants
it would have to be a stretch fabric like a jersey
that could be pulled on over either the hindcloppitieys or the fronttorso
A centaur with the caption "if centaur wear clothes" astride it. The centaur's clothes are diagrammed and labeled "shirt", in red, "pants", in blue, and "shants" covering its forelegs, in purple.
March 9, 2025 at 6:22 PM
lbc.bsky.social
One of my favorite ZOZ avatars by TGH! For reference, this is what that attack looks like in-game: (My humble skills as programmer notwithstanding, the avatar is gorgeous at any scale)
On the left, a kangaroo with floor-length red hair brandishes a pair of truncheons at two robots named "Slinger" and "Zroid" on the right. A row of cards at the bottom includes the "Crash" attack, which is currently highlighted in preparation of its being played.
February 12, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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computerjames.itch.io
Best Nonfiction game 🏆📝 PURPOSE by @lbc.bsky.social youre a smiling pixel wandering across an empassioned manifesto about creativity and games. WiL has been making games with ZZT software for 31 years so has real thoughts for you to ramble around. Intimate and Inspiring stale-meme.itch.io/purpose
December 24, 2024 at 1:00 PM
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verasev.bsky.social
Played Cold by WiL (stale-meme.itch.io/cold) and it honestly scared me more than most other horror games. Real panic inducing.
Cold by WiL
An adventure in the ice.
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December 14, 2024 at 5:21 AM
lbc.bsky.social
O hey - the game I made over thanksgiving weekend is out of beta and consumable by all and sundry: stale-meme.itch.io/cold please to enjoy an arctic! (Also very cold temperatures are scary, consider yourself warned)
Cold by WiL
An adventure in the ice.
stale-meme.itch.io
December 12, 2024 at 2:29 PM
lbc.bsky.social
AI Autocomplete giving us the game mechanics of the future
A game design document with the heading "Starting Rooms" and the content "Have a collection of rooms that are marked as starting rooms. These will be where players spawn." Below it an AI autocomplete suggestion of "Ending Rooms" with the content "Have a collection of rooms that are marked as ending rooms, these will be the rooms where players go to die."
December 11, 2024 at 6:07 PM
lbc.bsky.social
Through the power of emergence, I accidentally created the bleakest game in my worldography over Thanksgiving weekend. if you have a keyboard and a web browser and want to give it a try, ping me here and I'll send you a link to the HTML5 build.
DOS-era text reads "Press SPACE to continue shivering."
December 2, 2024 at 2:46 PM
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thegreenherring.neocities.org
Featured at Deadline 2024 (www.demoparty.berlin): "Circus of Dreams", an infinite canvas #ANSIArt comic! Check out its page on my website to see it in its full scrolling glory!
thegreenherring.neocities.org/art/2024/TGH...

#FurryArt #Furry #SciFiArt #SciFi
In a city at night, a throng of people with animal features files into a huge, red and white-striped circus tent with two peaks. Inside the circus tent, a smiling ringtail person in a green leotard, wearing green gloves, thigh-high boots and bands on their tail, walks across a tightrope while holding a long wooden balance pole, with a massive audience watching below. From the stage beneath the tightrope, a white skunk with a red mohawk, singlet and bracelets juggles red and white checkered balls. As the audience watches, a raccoon with long red hair and a blue dress dances with their hand gripping and pulling a line of light they are drawing in the air with a plasma pen. In the circus audience, a muscular rabbit and a slender squirrel cheer with raised arms. As the satisfied audience leaves the circus tent, the muscular rabbit, in a blue tank top and white trousers, and the slender squirrel, in a cropped blue t-shirt and side slit skirt, hold hands as they walk, looking into each other's eyes.
October 5, 2024 at 6:56 PM
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thegreenherring.neocities.org
#HeyCohost, in 2023, I did #ANSIArt of #Eggbug. That was too easy, so I did a furry version, "Super Eggbug". Over-the-top, but it did "severals". Then yesterday, I did a speed-draw of him as Eggbug's spirit guardian to mark #Cohost 's closure the next day. May you never be forgotten!

#FurryArt
Eggbug! A simple, solid maroon bean with black circle eyes, a cat smile, four visible bug legs and two curved lines for wings. At the top is the Cohost header bar with the logo, @TheGreenHerring's icon and handle, the post button, and the "sign out" button. In the lower right is the signature "TGH! 2023." A tall, muscular man with maroon skin, a vaguely animalistic face, white eyes and long dark hair, with a gigantic set of insect wings, alongside two pairs of arms and a complete set of upper chest muscles for each pair. He is wearing an off-white necklace; large, detached sleeves of an off-white color with maroon trimming; a pair of large, billowing trousers in an off-white color with maroon trimmings, a maroon belt and a maroon loincloth that goes down to the cuffs; and off-white sandals on his feet. He is pressing his hands together above his head with his upper pair of arms, and resting the hands on his lower pair of arms on his hips. At the top is the Cohost header bar with the logo, @TheGreenHerring's icon and handle, the post button, and the "sign out" button. In the bottom right is the signature "TGH! 2023". A portrait of a tall, muscular man with maroon skin, white eyes and long dark hair with a maroon shine from the upper pecs up at a three-fourths angle. His animalistic face has a short, vaguely reptilian snout extending from it that obscures one of his eyes when viewed from that angle. He is wearing a segmented and metallic necklace. His lower set of pecs can be partially seen at the bottom. At the top is the Cohost header bar with the logo, @TheGreenHerring's icon and handle, the post button, and the "sign out" button. In the upper right is the signature "TGH! 2023". Under the Cohost browser bar of a user named "@TheGreenHerring", the spirit of a muscular maroon insectoid man with long hair and closed eyes wearing a necklace floats over a happy, sleeping egg-shaped bug known as "Eggbug" with an ethereal message: "Safe travels, little one. May my power protect you..." The Cohost logo appears below, with the dates, "2022-2024", and a message reads, "Find @TheGreenHerring at: thegreenherring.neocities.org". In the middle left is the signature "TGH! 2024".
October 1, 2024 at 5:33 PM
lbc.bsky.social
I promised it, and here it is: stale-meme.itch.io/purpose sorry users on mobile but you need a keyboard for this one. might make a version that is for touchscreens at some point. Enjoy
Purpose by WiL
A Playable Essay on Design and Community
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September 28, 2024 at 5:40 PM
lbc.bsky.social
While working on my game, I started a little side project where I wrote down my thoughts on design and how they might be used to free a creator that's currently blocked. I look forward to providing the complete experience in a week or so. #screenshotsaturday
September 21, 2024 at 4:03 PM
lbc.bsky.social
An oddly beautiful summary of an oddly beautiful game in the genre of my current project (point-and-click adventure). A good reminder that lit crit can be uplifting while remaining analytical. Brava, June.
September 21, 2024 at 12:01 PM
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wobblypython.bsky.social
What if God's only son was Plok instead of Jesus?
A pencil illustration of Plok. His hands and feet have been nailed to a cross. Above it is written "The Passion of the Plok", also in pencil.
August 17, 2024 at 11:12 PM
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pizzapranks.bsky.social
This Saturday, Indiepocalypse Radio returns at 2pm ET with guest @lbc.bsky.social !
Tune in it at indiepocalypse.com/radio
Send questions to indiepocalypse.com/questions
August 14, 2024 at 11:39 PM
lbc.bsky.social
soundcloud.com/keysick/moin...

Moin Moin.

If you're not hip to the Hitem scene you should be:
Moin Moin
Softer and slightly off spec hitem track for my catgirls to dance to without tirin' em completely out
soundcloud.com
July 31, 2024 at 6:15 PM
lbc.bsky.social
Going to be locking it down for a couple months while I get these first chapters under way. Rather than get too crazy with it, I think this time I'm going to just link to my chost that explains everything: cohost.org/wil/post/630...
She deserved better
(content warnings: gunshot, death)
cohost.org
June 7, 2024 at 3:06 AM
lbc.bsky.social
The 2024 summer 2.4 hours jam has started!
Check out the jam page for details: itch.io/jam/24hozzt2... Please feel free to share this around, we always have a good time and any new faces are welcome. Love you!
2.4 Hours Jam ('24 summer edition)
A game jam from 2024-05-31 to 2024-06-04 hosted by Mean Girls Games. MGG Discord: https://discord.gg/2TjHgzxP THE JAM HAS BEGUN! Before you start Jamming: Visit https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/ a...
itch.io
May 31, 2024 at 2:09 AM