MewJAM
@mewjam.bsky.social
i like STGs and yugioh and kissing my boyfriend
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MewJAM
@mewjam.bsky.social
· Oct 19
working on an arcade stick display you can add to obs! took a bit to get transparency working and i still need to make the buttons glow brighter when pressed and change them to be rounded instead of just reusing my key display sprites but pretty good day 1 progress :)
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I don’t even think sonic sounded this sega coded during this time
December 2, 2025 at 3:10 AM
I don’t even think sonic sounded this sega coded during this time
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a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
December 1, 2025 at 4:42 AM
a lot of people debating the merits of that dogshit essay meanwhile the girl’s mom is retweeting demands to ban all trans people from teaching at any level. it’s forest for the trees shit
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iirc, in the code for Kero Blaster, the health bar (which is made up of hearts) is referred to in several places as 鳩, which is the Japanese kanji for pigeon, or dove. The kanji can be pronounced as "ha-to", which sounds like heart. :)
i was going through my X archives and found this by @superpodsaga.com, which I qrt'd at some point years ago
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
so, let me bring the question back: what is the most useless piece of video game knowledge you know?
November 29, 2025 at 8:01 AM
iirc, in the code for Kero Blaster, the health bar (which is made up of hearts) is referred to in several places as 鳩, which is the Japanese kanji for pigeon, or dove. The kanji can be pronounced as "ha-to", which sounds like heart. :)
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if ai is so good why is there no bj?
November 29, 2025 at 3:40 AM
if ai is so good why is there no bj?
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Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Getting stuck causes players to explore the world.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
Dying causes players to think about what they're doing.
An "impossible" situation causes players to learn how the game works and eventually achieve the impossible.
We need to be able to design *some* games around these fundamental ideas.
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Part of me feels like Dark Souls wouldn't have caught on if the first game had difficulty settings. It'd be "cheap", "pointless", etc.
Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".
Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".
November 28, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Part of me feels like Dark Souls wouldn't have caught on if the first game had difficulty settings. It'd be "cheap", "pointless", etc.
Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".
Arcade games had a relatively granular difficulty option via credit feeding and it played a big part in them written off as "button mashers"/"quarter munchers".
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November 28, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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1 million years of chain-based scoring
October 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
1 million years of chain-based scoring
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Raiden Fighters 2 clear with numbers for Calice Cup! Dropped medal in stage 7 lost me 80 million but sometimes you just gotta move on and live life.
November 28, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Raiden Fighters 2 clear with numbers for Calice Cup! Dropped medal in stage 7 lost me 80 million but sometimes you just gotta move on and live life.
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I am thankful for Yukari Yakumo's big boobs.
November 28, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I am thankful for Yukari Yakumo's big boobs.
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Some modern STGs are conscious of possibly being anyone's first arcade scrolling shooter, and bend themselves into knots trying to be an entire genre tutorial before being their own identifiable game.
As ever, make the games/music/videos/writing you'd want to enjoy, and others will enjoy it too.
As ever, make the games/music/videos/writing you'd want to enjoy, and others will enjoy it too.
liking game genres that spawned from the arcades condemns you to forever suffer cuz no one outside of the bubble gets it and every developer wants to the appeal to the guy who doesn't get it
November 27, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Some modern STGs are conscious of possibly being anyone's first arcade scrolling shooter, and bend themselves into knots trying to be an entire genre tutorial before being their own identifiable game.
As ever, make the games/music/videos/writing you'd want to enjoy, and others will enjoy it too.
As ever, make the games/music/videos/writing you'd want to enjoy, and others will enjoy it too.
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honestly I'm excited that Kirby Air Riders seems to be landing with people because it very much is a New Language sort of game compared to your average mascot kart racer. it's cool and fun to learn new things
November 27, 2025 at 6:21 PM
honestly I'm excited that Kirby Air Riders seems to be landing with people because it very much is a New Language sort of game compared to your average mascot kart racer. it's cool and fun to learn new things
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some people learned dark souls in 2011 and went "ok i know how to play every video game now, so if i fail in anything after this it's the game's fault" is all i'm saying
November 27, 2025 at 6:35 PM
some people learned dark souls in 2011 and went "ok i know how to play every video game now, so if i fail in anything after this it's the game's fault" is all i'm saying
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honestly learning a new "play language" is one of my favorite things in gaming and I'll never fully gel with people who complain that a game doesn't work the same way that unrelated games in the sane genre do
honestly I'm really looking forward to trying out the other modes on my own time. incredibly good game, nothing else like it. and I love that feeling of really having to learn a new set of rules for a game like this
November 27, 2025 at 6:13 PM
honestly learning a new "play language" is one of my favorite things in gaming and I'll never fully gel with people who complain that a game doesn't work the same way that unrelated games in the sane genre do
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this like intuitive impulse that "if a game is not preparing you to play every other game on the shelf it is wasting your time or impeding you"
November 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
this like intuitive impulse that "if a game is not preparing you to play every other game on the shelf it is wasting your time or impeding you"
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been thinking about how much talk about games compulsively veers towards reversion to the mean. Ninja Gaiden 4's camera "no longer fights the player" because it is now like every other game, unlike the first three, whose camera system is bespoke. God Hand, Kirby Air Ride, Penny's Big Breakaway, etc
November 27, 2025 at 5:35 PM
been thinking about how much talk about games compulsively veers towards reversion to the mean. Ninja Gaiden 4's camera "no longer fights the player" because it is now like every other game, unlike the first three, whose camera system is bespoke. God Hand, Kirby Air Ride, Penny's Big Breakaway, etc
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They’re called “Shmups” because you SHMOVE UP the screen
November 26, 2025 at 11:17 PM
They’re called “Shmups” because you SHMOVE UP the screen
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Taking a break~
November 25, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Taking a break~
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happy ten year anniversary to my favourite fighting game post of all time
November 25, 2025 at 5:26 PM
happy ten year anniversary to my favourite fighting game post of all time
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM