sincerely, rob dubbin
@robdubbin.bsky.social
utility clown
writer & game developer & he/they
games @brainfruit.bsky.social
proprietor @ https://roblemsolving.com
cohost @eggplantshow.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 @eggplantshow.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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a peek at how the school 👩🏻🏫 and dorm 🏫 freetime scenes from consume me look in blender!
November 25, 2025 at 4:04 PM
a peek at how the school 👩🏻🏫 and dorm 🏫 freetime scenes from consume me look in blender!
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WE ARE SO BACK
New OFK track this Friday
Our first original song since the game
Something to warm u up 🤍
New OFK track this Friday
Our first original song since the game
Something to warm u up 🤍
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
WE ARE SO BACK
New OFK track this Friday
Our first original song since the game
Something to warm u up 🤍
New OFK track this Friday
Our first original song since the game
Something to warm u up 🤍
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the journey of life is amazingly gorgeous!
November 25, 2025 at 3:50 AM
the journey of life is amazingly gorgeous!
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This takes SO MUCH PREAMBLE out of hyping this beautiful podcast I’m so blessed to run with. So hyped for this rebrand and peep this lovely homegrown art by the one and only Dick Hogg!
BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Introduction
We're joined by Frank Lantz (Q-UP) and Mare Sheppard + Raigan Burns of Metanet (N++) for the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough. We share our th...
secretlives.games
November 25, 2025 at 2:36 AM
This takes SO MUCH PREAMBLE out of hyping this beautiful podcast I’m so blessed to run with. So hyped for this rebrand and peep this lovely homegrown art by the one and only Dick Hogg!
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November 24, 2025 at 10:27 AM
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The epic, nearly four-hour finale of our Into the Depths series on Caves of Qud just posted early to our Patreon. Linking that here in case you've been thinking of supporting TSLOG, since these funds allow us to pay @dylliebar.bsky.social to edit our four-hour convos: www.patreon.com/posts/into-d...
Into the Depths: Caves of Qud Finale (Early Access) | The Secret Lives of Games
Get more from The Secret Lives of Games on Patreon
www.patreon.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:31 AM
The epic, nearly four-hour finale of our Into the Depths series on Caves of Qud just posted early to our Patreon. Linking that here in case you've been thinking of supporting TSLOG, since these funds allow us to pay @dylliebar.bsky.social to edit our four-hour convos: www.patreon.com/posts/into-d...
it's too bad, all the great posts about neil young's classic album "Harvest" that i'll miss because of my rigorous new bsky filter
November 23, 2025 at 2:35 AM
it's too bad, all the great posts about neil young's classic album "Harvest" that i'll miss because of my rigorous new bsky filter
Friday Noooooos Dump
November 22, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Friday Noooooos Dump
aaaand lizza with the counterspell
fitting that MTG's resignation was played as an interrupt
November 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
aaaand lizza with the counterspell
fitting that MTG's resignation was played as an interrupt
November 22, 2025 at 3:00 AM
fitting that MTG's resignation was played as an interrupt
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RAIGAN BURNS DISCUSSING MICHAEL BROUGH KLAXON
BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Introduction
We're joined by Frank Lantz (Q-UP) and Mare Sheppard + Raigan Burns of Metanet (N++) for the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough. We share our th...
secretlives.games
November 22, 2025 at 12:29 AM
RAIGAN BURNS DISCUSSING MICHAEL BROUGH KLAXON
yeah lol i tried disabling gmail smart features and it was a disaster…. i’ve had gmail for over two decades and even with all their “be evil actually” shit over the past few years this is the first thing that has me thinking i might actually have to leave, for real
November 22, 2025 at 12:24 AM
yeah lol i tried disabling gmail smart features and it was a disaster…. i’ve had gmail for over two decades and even with all their “be evil actually” shit over the past few years this is the first thing that has me thinking i might actually have to leave, for real
eggplant is dead* long live the SLOG
* - after one run more episode we recorded before flipping the switch on this. plus the years long archive. nevertheless, rip
* - after one run more episode we recorded before flipping the switch on this. plus the years long archive. nevertheless, rip
BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Introduction
We're joined by Frank Lantz (Q-UP) and Mare Sheppard + Raigan Burns of Metanet (N++) for the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough. We share our th...
secretlives.games
November 21, 2025 at 11:28 PM
eggplant is dead* long live the SLOG
* - after one run more episode we recorded before flipping the switch on this. plus the years long archive. nevertheless, rip
* - after one run more episode we recorded before flipping the switch on this. plus the years long archive. nevertheless, rip
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BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
The Secret Lives of Games: All Systems Brough - Introduction
We're joined by Frank Lantz (Q-UP) and Mare Sheppard + Raigan Burns of Metanet (N++) for the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long exploration of the work of Michael Brough. We share our th...
secretlives.games
November 21, 2025 at 9:32 PM
BIG NEWS:
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
We are no longer Eggplant. We are, simply:
The Secret Lives of Games
AND ALSO:
We've launched the first episode of All Systems Brough, a year-long, one-a-month series exploring the work of @smestorp.bsky.social. Join us and play along!
secretlives.games/all-systems-...
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i swear these thoughts must have each of us on speed dial. feeling this one right in the oof!. can feel so convincing at times :(. but its wrong though. you are not secretly in deep financial trouble.
November 21, 2025 at 4:23 AM
i swear these thoughts must have each of us on speed dial. feeling this one right in the oof!. can feel so convincing at times :(. but its wrong though. you are not secretly in deep financial trouble.
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This Saturday, come to No Quarter to play brand new game, THIS MUST BE THE FACE by me & @okremiok.bsky.social
Compete in a head to head to head to head battle of expressivity. Will they understand you're in love or will they think you just ate a weird egg?
gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/no-qu...
Compete in a head to head to head to head battle of expressivity. Will they understand you're in love or will they think you just ate a weird egg?
gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/no-qu...
November 20, 2025 at 3:55 AM
This Saturday, come to No Quarter to play brand new game, THIS MUST BE THE FACE by me & @okremiok.bsky.social
Compete in a head to head to head to head battle of expressivity. Will they understand you're in love or will they think you just ate a weird egg?
gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/no-qu...
Compete in a head to head to head to head battle of expressivity. Will they understand you're in love or will they think you just ate a weird egg?
gamecenter.nyu.edu/events/no-qu...
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"This place never loved us back."
2026 | DECONSTRUCTEAM x SELKIE HARBOUR
🟥 published by @devolverdigital.com
Stay tuned for a first look at our new game this December on @dayofthedevs.org
2026 | DECONSTRUCTEAM x SELKIE HARBOUR
🟥 published by @devolverdigital.com
Stay tuned for a first look at our new game this December on @dayofthedevs.org
November 13, 2025 at 3:58 PM
"This place never loved us back."
2026 | DECONSTRUCTEAM x SELKIE HARBOUR
🟥 published by @devolverdigital.com
Stay tuned for a first look at our new game this December on @dayofthedevs.org
2026 | DECONSTRUCTEAM x SELKIE HARBOUR
🟥 published by @devolverdigital.com
Stay tuned for a first look at our new game this December on @dayofthedevs.org
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you are absolutely stunning!
November 18, 2025 at 4:23 AM
you are absolutely stunning!
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this thread is like if Godfather II somehow came out the same year as The Godfather
Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
this thread is like if Godfather II somehow came out the same year as The Godfather
this thread is like if Godfather II somehow came out the same year as The Godfather
Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.
November 17, 2025 at 7:16 AM
this thread is like if Godfather II somehow came out the same year as The Godfather
are we habemus fun yet?!
Adam Scott meeting the pope, for anyone interested in that sort of thing
November 16, 2025 at 12:25 AM
are we habemus fun yet?!
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Inspired by some great discussion on Q-UP from @austinwalker.bsky.social, @notquitereal.bsky.social, @sylvibullet.bsky.social, @molleindustria.org and other folks, I wrote a short piece on the design inspiration for Q-UP and what developing the game meant to me
stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in...
stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in...
Qing-UP in the Age of Tilt
As anyone who has played 5 seconds of League of Legends knows, competitive multiplayer games have a tilt problem.
stiknork.substack.com
November 15, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Inspired by some great discussion on Q-UP from @austinwalker.bsky.social, @notquitereal.bsky.social, @sylvibullet.bsky.social, @molleindustria.org and other folks, I wrote a short piece on the design inspiration for Q-UP and what developing the game meant to me
stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in...
stiknork.substack.com/p/qing-up-in...
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November 14, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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I've been playing Q-UP, a brilliant and deeply weird incremental game with an esports theme.
It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics.
I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics.
I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
Save 10% on Q-UP on Steam
Sick of long queues, unfair matchups, and arbitrary reflex tests? Try Q-UP, the coin flipping eSport. It's one part clicker, one part multiplayer strategy game, one part demented capitalism simulator,...
store.steampowered.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I've been playing Q-UP, a brilliant and deeply weird incremental game with an esports theme.
It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics.
I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
It starts with a simple coin flip and spirals into a fugue of emergent mechanics.
I'll post some thoughts here as I idly play…
store.steampowered.com/app/3730790/...
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We will be streaming this panel with Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Julian Cordero and Gabe Cuzzillo at 7 PM EASTERN. Deep horrible secrets of indie game development exposed! Live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter -- see you there in 78 minutes!!
THURSDAY EVENING in downtown Brooklyn I'm moderating a talk w/
julian cordero of @despelote.game !
@apthomson.bsky.social + @qdork.bsky.social of Consume Me !
@gcuzzillo.bsky.social of Baby Steps !
Come discuss the SHEER AUDACITY to release an indie game in 2025
alumnideveloperspanel.eventbrite.com
julian cordero of @despelote.game !
@apthomson.bsky.social + @qdork.bsky.social of Consume Me !
@gcuzzillo.bsky.social of Baby Steps !
Come discuss the SHEER AUDACITY to release an indie game in 2025
alumnideveloperspanel.eventbrite.com
November 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
We will be streaming this panel with Jenny Jiao Hsia, AP Thomson, Julian Cordero and Gabe Cuzzillo at 7 PM EASTERN. Deep horrible secrets of indie game development exposed! Live at twitch.tv/nyugamecenter -- see you there in 78 minutes!!