sincerely, rob dubbin
@robdubbin.bsky.social
utility clown
writer & game developer & he/they
games @brainfruit.bsky.social
proprietor @ https://roblemsolving.com
cohost @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
tools @ https://scripto.live
previously @ colbert
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writer & game developer & he/they
games @brainfruit.bsky.social
proprietor @ https://roblemsolving.com
cohost @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social
tools @ https://scripto.live
previously @ colbert
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Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks
A party game where you get into your friends' heads. Kinda like a blend of Wavelength and Letterboxd that fits into a deck of cards.
www.kickstarter.com
Looking for a party game that combines social deduction with the pleasant absurdity of rating animals, films, and the weather on a scale of ★ to ★★★★★? And it's just a simple deck of cards? AND it's live on Kickstarter now?!?! Guess what, STARFRIENDS has launched! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
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i guess one reason i enjoy reading about sports is the occasional perfect sentence like “Carneiro's huge leg shined again”
January 9, 2026 at 3:50 PM
i guess one reason i enjoy reading about sports is the occasional perfect sentence like “Carneiro's huge leg shined again”
ah shit, unfollowing now, i hadn’t realized his famous unhearing falcon bit was plagiarized from the actual falconer, that sucks. i guess mere anarchy really has loosed upon the world… no you’re right, i should move on. time to read more poems, broaden my horizons. hey you know what else is widening
January 9, 2026 at 1:48 PM
ah shit, unfollowing now, i hadn’t realized his famous unhearing falcon bit was plagiarized from the actual falconer, that sucks. i guess mere anarchy really has loosed upon the world… no you’re right, i should move on. time to read more poems, broaden my horizons. hey you know what else is widening
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purifying your timeline with DIGITAL GOVERNANCE, my new crossword on @puzzmo.com today ~ edited by the great madeline kaplan, who has one of the best jokes in it. this one's kind of a personality test, with certain patterns emerging in the answers people get right away www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...
Puzzmo - Cross|word
Play Cross|word on Puzzmo, Take a hint.
www.puzzmo.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:37 PM
purifying your timeline with DIGITAL GOVERNANCE, my new crossword on @puzzmo.com today ~ edited by the great madeline kaplan, who has one of the best jokes in it. this one's kind of a personality test, with certain patterns emerging in the answers people get right away www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...
indulge in a moment of brief return to the relatively placid utopia of yesteryear with our jumbo-sized TSLOG GOTY 2025 episode. out now everywhere but spotify!
Our almost 4-hour GOTY 2025 special is live now!
The gang's all here to count down our favorite "games" of "2025", alongside a bevvy of great picks from previous guests and listeners.
secretlives.games/151-games-of...
The gang's all here to count down our favorite "games" of "2025", alongside a bevvy of great picks from previous guests and listeners.
secretlives.games/151-games-of...
The Secret Lives of Games: 151: Games of the Year 2025
The gang's all here to count down our favorite "games" of "2025", alongside a bevvy of great picks from previous guests and listeners. Happy new year! Audio edited by Dylan Shumway Our GOTY Pic...
secretlives.games
January 8, 2026 at 6:17 PM
indulge in a moment of brief return to the relatively placid utopia of yesteryear with our jumbo-sized TSLOG GOTY 2025 episode. out now everywhere but spotify!
purifying your timeline with DIGITAL GOVERNANCE, my new crossword on @puzzmo.com today ~ edited by the great madeline kaplan, who has one of the best jokes in it. this one's kind of a personality test, with certain patterns emerging in the answers people get right away www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...
Puzzmo - Cross|word
Play Cross|word on Puzzmo, Take a hint.
www.puzzmo.com
January 8, 2026 at 3:37 PM
purifying your timeline with DIGITAL GOVERNANCE, my new crossword on @puzzmo.com today ~ edited by the great madeline kaplan, who has one of the best jokes in it. this one's kind of a personality test, with certain patterns emerging in the answers people get right away www.puzzmo.com/puzzle/2026-...
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okay, I think I am going live with a Downpour workshop in about 10-15 mins! twitch.tv/vtwentyone
January 7, 2026 at 3:02 PM
okay, I think I am going live with a Downpour workshop in about 10-15 mins! twitch.tv/vtwentyone
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join us 2/19 for our first ever lecture series event, featuring @ellaguro.bsky.social: "What Doth Videogame? A personal history of art and life in the age of collapse."
following the talk will be a listening party for liz's new album, Saint Elizabeth!
rsvp here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boshis-lec...
following the talk will be a listening party for liz's new album, Saint Elizabeth!
rsvp here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boshis-lec...
January 6, 2026 at 3:26 PM
join us 2/19 for our first ever lecture series event, featuring @ellaguro.bsky.social: "What Doth Videogame? A personal history of art and life in the age of collapse."
following the talk will be a listening party for liz's new album, Saint Elizabeth!
rsvp here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boshis-lec...
following the talk will be a listening party for liz's new album, Saint Elizabeth!
rsvp here: www.eventbrite.com/e/boshis-lec...
roe is red
violet flow the vapors
violet flow the vapors
January 4, 2026 at 6:17 PM
roe is red
violet flow the vapors
violet flow the vapors
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Welcome to 2026 - New Year, New Voices! We'll be announcing the winners of our amazing New Voices puzzle grant next week: $15k each for 5 under-represented teams in puzzle development. If you'd like to participate in next year's grant, drop us a line!
grants.draknek.org
grants.draknek.org
Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant
The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is a grant opportunity for game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups and backgrounds who are interested in designing and developing puzzle games.
grants.draknek.org
January 2, 2026 at 5:02 PM
Welcome to 2026 - New Year, New Voices! We'll be announcing the winners of our amazing New Voices puzzle grant next week: $15k each for 5 under-represented teams in puzzle development. If you'd like to participate in next year's grant, drop us a line!
grants.draknek.org
grants.draknek.org
mountain: the goathering
if you want to imagine the future, just picture me, milling your deck by turn six at the latest, forever
January 2, 2026 at 1:12 AM
mountain: the goathering
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spent a few liminal nights before the turn of the solar calendar finally doing something about the bitsy tab i've had open in my browser for over a year and learning/bumbling through the making of this tiny dumb game
play it here: wolfchirp.itch.io/rendezvous
play it here: wolfchirp.itch.io/rendezvous
January 1, 2026 at 7:36 PM
spent a few liminal nights before the turn of the solar calendar finally doing something about the bitsy tab i've had open in my browser for over a year and learning/bumbling through the making of this tiny dumb game
play it here: wolfchirp.itch.io/rendezvous
play it here: wolfchirp.itch.io/rendezvous
happy new year everybody, i bring you the first great timeline juxtaposition of 2026. congratulations to @bijan.bsky.social and @unormal.bsky.social
January 1, 2026 at 5:26 AM
happy new year everybody, i bring you the first great timeline juxtaposition of 2026. congratulations to @bijan.bsky.social and @unormal.bsky.social
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December 29, 2025 at 6:21 PM
me, returning to the carboniferous period, bragging to humanity’s common ancestor with reptiles about how much farther along i am cognitively:
posting occupies an entirely different part of my brain than texting does
Is there a term for when your friend isn't texting you back but is posting on social media
December 28, 2025 at 11:54 PM
me, returning to the carboniferous period, bragging to humanity’s common ancestor with reptiles about how much farther along i am cognitively:
Steam Deck (Valve, 2022)
I gave this Game Gear an overdue upgrade. USB-C rechargeable batteries, clean audio board with stereo support, new shell, IPS screen, and HDMI output.
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Steam Deck (Valve, 2022)
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nice overview
December 28, 2025 at 12:12 AM
nice overview
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liminal week! liminal week!
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 PM
liminal week! liminal week!
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you guys are all missing the point with avatar. the real “way of water” is buying a bidet for your home.
December 27, 2025 at 4:25 PM
you guys are all missing the point with avatar. the real “way of water” is buying a bidet for your home.
merry qudsmas!
ive been playing caves of qud for five minutes and my pet just exploded
December 25, 2025 at 2:21 PM
merry qudsmas!
one of video games' most important annual events approaches
ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
Cinco Paus by Michael Brough
Available for Windows, macOS
smestorp.itch.io
December 24, 2025 at 9:25 PM
one of video games' most important annual events approaches
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ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
Cinco Paus by Michael Brough
Available for Windows, macOS
smestorp.itch.io
December 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
ATTENTION BSKY: in celebration of Cinco Paus Day's Eve, please message me if you'd like a free copy of the best game ever made. :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
smestorp.itch.io/cinco-paus
Also TSLOG are doing an amazing series of podcasts on Michael's games:
eggplant.show
PLEASE REPOST! OR RE-SKEET! WHATEVER IT'S CALLED!! :)
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If you like crosswords at all, or are even interested in beginning to solve them more regularly, and especially if you think crosswords are too hard or contain too many cultural references that feel alienating, you need to try a few of these small puzzles.
we 💛 our amazingly talented crossword constructors: here's 50 of our crossword editor @xws.bsky.social's favorite puzzmo midis from 2026, all of which are now free to play 💝
blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/1...
blog.puzzmo.com/posts/2025/1...
50 amazing Puzzmo crosswords from 2025
I started thinking critically about midi crosswords as a genre when Chris, Enrique, and I co-founded the midi branch of AVCX, where we decided to define midis not by their rows and columns, but by the...
blog.puzzmo.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
If you like crosswords at all, or are even interested in beginning to solve them more regularly, and especially if you think crosswords are too hard or contain too many cultural references that feel alienating, you need to try a few of these small puzzles.
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i did a couple of tracks of this joke compilation my friends put together and both were ranked as the worst tracks on this collection by some person on twitter. i will consider that a win
there are now entire light years between all previously existing christmas music and the new champion of the form, COOKIE, the full green day parody xmas album. frankly i won't stand for any outcome but a grammy redandgreenday.bandcamp.com/album/cookie
Cookie, by Red and Green Day
13 track album
redandgreenday.bandcamp.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:19 AM
i did a couple of tracks of this joke compilation my friends put together and both were ranked as the worst tracks on this collection by some person on twitter. i will consider that a win
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Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
December 24, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Jodie Foster: They should have sent a poet
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night
Poet: Aliens ahoy! A galactic sight. When you’re in space all day is night