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Martin Ferenc

@melancholerik.bsky.social

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Drinking coffee, learning Godot and trying to figure out what's next. Prev: QA on Darkest Dungeon II | DD: The Butcher's Circus | console ports of Creaks and a bunch of other games. From 🇸🇰 living in Prague 🇨🇿 he/him

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 14d

A short dumb thing I made today about keeping track of time, what you can do in that time and how my 10 minutes and your 10 minutes are not the same.
melancholerik.itch.io/10-minutes-o...

10 Minutes of Your Time by melancholerik

A short experiment.

melancholerik.itch.io

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 1h

"What have you been up to lately?"
me: "Oh, you know, just making a website for my cat."

Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 2d

I know you said you don't listen to other interview podcasts but maybe it was Chris Plante's Post Games? He had an episode/interview about Blippo+ in September.

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sink @sinksadventure.bsky.social · Sep 10

My next game is a Tetris style word game called Writer's Block
Spell words one block at a time and set up combos by sandwiching words between each other
Aiming to release early 2026!

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old uncle BATface @catfacejoe.bsky.social · 3d

tweet screenshot
Matt the outlaw
@cursedgloryhole
Lady behind me at the thing screening last night to her partner "why are they shooting at the dog?" and her partner says very firmly "have you never seen a film before? you watch and information is revealed"

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 3d

No worries! 😂

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 3d

I mean I don't care if it's AI in whatever sense of a word. Maybe a human wrote but who talks like that? I was just joking that it's not difficult to tell what's spam if the message like this.

Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 3d

Android 13 if that's relevant

Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 3d

Yep that's what I see on POCO F3

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torcado @torcado.com · 4d

I made a tool that lets you find the treasure in your computer.

It's called Windows Explorer 2

torcado.itch.io/windows-explorer-2

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 5d

Idk this looks like a very normal, human-written question that a regular human person would ask.

Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 5d

Can't say I'm surprised since that's exactly what my review was about LOL

Screenshot of my Steam review for Unfair Flips:

"I previously worked as a QA tester on a turn-based tactics roguelike that's got lots of dice rolls in it. The game being what it is, we frequently got emails or bug reports in the spirit of "fix your RNG bro, I have 50% chance to hit and missed FOUR TIMES IN A ROW??? WTF???"
There were a few instances where we found actual bugs, but 99% of these were just bad, unfair rolls. Players just aren't able to accept that that's how randomness works. They want to be lied to. They were mad that we didn't lie to them.

Playing Unfair Flips was a very cathartic experience for me, and I highly recommend it to those above mentioned players in particular."

Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 6d

DS is too baby shoes to be a qwopper. I like DS but it's not nearly as hard as those early reviews were making it out to be.

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 6d

😐

Fake screenshot of an imaginary pixel art game. A frightened looking character with ponytail and dishevelled look stares in panic at a computer that has just bluescreened. Various UI elements scattered around the screen just indicate "panic".

The scene is rendered almost entirely with a monochrome black and white look, with the exception of the bright glow of the bluescreen.

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 7d

Knew things were fucked when Canva got them. Always just a matter of time.

Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 7d

I'm just sad that Bill Burr took the gig

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 8d

Wow, you didn't delete the default cube. Respect!

Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 8d

I love my Xbox Series S, it's so good... for streaming Steam games to my living room through Moonlight and for emulating old Nintendo and Playstation games 🙂

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 9d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 8d

Fake games made for TV would be a really funny game jam theme

Harris Foster @harris.zone · 8d

My fiancé has been watching me play a lot of Megabonk and Clover Pit lately, or as she called them, “fake games made for a CSI episode about an older brother with anger issues”

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 9d

💀💀💀HEADS is out now!💀💀💀

Heads are required for the process. If you cannot provide, we shall have to take yours.

Flip coins, upgrade your build and try to stave off the advance of Headhunter Harry in my free spooky October game :)

not-jam.itch.io/heads

#indiedev #indiegames #godotengine

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 9d

Hell yeah! Pretty sure every single PC in our elementary school computer lab had Icy Tower installed on it.
The pixel art in this new version tho 😍

Johan Peitz - wishlist Icy Tower! @johanpeitz.com · 9d

📣 ICY TOWER IS COMING BACK
Stoked to announce that we're making a brand new Icy Tower game, ready for the 25th anniversary next year!

Check out the trailer, spread the news, and wishlist on Steam :D
s.team/a/3014860

More in thread 👇🧵

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Not Jam @not-jam.itch.io · 11d

Heads are required for the process. If you cannot provide, we shall have to take yours.

(fuck it, game will be out October 1st why not)

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Rémy🍬 @curseofremy.bsky.social · 12d

More Is Better Jam

make as many games as possible in a week.

2026. (maybe january?) who's interested?

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Martin Ferenc @melancholerik.bsky.social · 12d

🔥🔥🔥

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dannyodwyer @dannyodwyer.bsky.social · 13d

butter side down is relentlessly weird
store.steampowered.com/app/3812580/...

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