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sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 7h

game design is a battle of wits. a prank war. it's you placing a whoopee cushion in the player's path, then the player jumping over it, only for the jump arc to land directly in a previously unseen pit of spikes

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sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 7h

consider the player an adversary, but not in an antagonistic sense. more "they're going to get one over on me, so i'm going to think of ways to get one over on them too"

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Felipe Pepe @felipepepe.bsky.social · 18h

So, today I'm announcing a new book project... and doing a call for papers: crpgbook.wordpress.com/2025/10/31/t...

It's an anthology of video game history outside the usual US perspective - an accessible & exciting panorama of different realities - and I'll pay 300 USD per article.

Please share :)

The Video Game History Expansion Pack – Pitch your story

Today I’m putting my money where my mouth is and launching a new project — a book focused on game history outside of the usual North American perspectives.

crpgbook.wordpress.com

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sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 7h

staying in a call drifting in and out of sleep for twenty hours with your girlfriends sure is an experience

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 8h

"hey, remember this incredibly cool thing that not only happened but was televised? yeah i don't really believe it happened"
then what do you believe? do you think we'll just never get there or something?

sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 8h

the really sad part about the moon landing conspiracy shit is like.. what do people claiming it's fake actually hope to accomplish? do they like believing that it was fake? it's one of the most pessimistic worldviews i can think of

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Joel Zico @joelzicomcg.bsky.social · 9h

Every time I see a director or creator I respected say “it’s a tool”, what they mean is “what’s in my head is cooler than a professional artist can produce”.

mors @mors.games · 1d

the fucked up part of ai is that it's built by programmers, so all the ai programming tools are made to assist programmers, and work far better than you'd think

meanwhile, ai art tools are always about "replacing" artists instead since these ai people see dealing with artists as a waste of time

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Herbert @xxgr1llmast3rxx.bsky.social · 9h

every time you refer to a significant mechanical change as 'Quality of Life' I add another turn of the wheel to your sentence in Samsara, many of you shall never escape.

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NESbot @nesbot.bsky.social · 15d

MercurySteam (Metroid Dread) employees speak out - 10-hour workdays, unclear policies, and a workplace falling apart
www.resetera.com/threads/13...

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sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 9h

in that case my answer is some unholy combination of relish, salsa and sour cream

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shelly [Big Bad Bæddel Borg]🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🐔 @droctorock.bsky.social · 13h

I know entirely too many people who are like "it's fine for therapy, if you're careful!"

ok, no, it kills people. it drives them mad and kills them, banish this demon already

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Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 15h

in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory

ChatGPT made me delusional

YouTube video by Eddy Burback

www.youtube.com

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onion person @junlper.beer · 12h

this might be one of the best videos i’ve seen all year and also one of the most terrifying things i’ve ever witnessed in my entire life

Katie Tightpussy, Editor-In-Chief @katie.bzky.team · 15h

in my humble moderate opinion i think sam altman should be tried at the hague and everyone at openAI should be tried as an accessory

ChatGPT made me delusional

YouTube video by Eddy Burback

www.youtube.com

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sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 10h

(unless the sauce is somehow connected to the desire? doc help the rules of this game aren't as clear as last time)

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sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 10h

as for the deepest desire this makes come true somehow, i want a giant pillar of light to appear in some densely-populated area with a countdown timer far above in the sky. the timer counts for something like ten years and at the end it just hangs on zero for a second and then counts into negatives

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sanctumsys @sanctumsys.itch.io · 10h

genuinely didn't know people dipped fries in mayonnaise, and i hate ketchup, so.. depends on the type of fry, honestly. waffle fries get guacamole, curly fries get ranch, shoestring fries get mustard, steak and crinkle cut fries get barbecue sauce

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 17h

I'm trying to tell a story across thousands of years of time with hundreds of characters in an extremely intricate experiment across a bunch of different genres and forms of storytelling as one gigantic work just to see if I can make something this complex.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 17h

I don't think there will be any form of influencer or academic ever capable of explaining the entire story without doing it either purely linearly (which will fail to capture why it's structured so deliberately) or assuming you have played all the games.

It's crazy ambitious hehe

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 14h

This is a parser game, but it's also a 'database thriller' mystery game inspired by titles like Return of the Obra Dinn, The Roottrees are Dead, and Immortality.

Discover an alternate history of cinema; pull threads to learn the fates of lost souls; become an utter movie pervert.

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 14h

Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates of the tormented souls bound to it. End a 50-year curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.

KINOPHOBIA, my first piece of noncommercial interactive fiction in eight years, is now available to play.

brunodias.itch.io/kinophobia

Kinophobia by Bruno Dias

Explore a haunted movie studio. Learn the fates its tormented souls. End a curse inscribed in blood and celluloid.

brunodias.itch.io

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 18h

"but, doc, don't you make games that are often very sad or scary?"

Yes.

"didn't you say some of your scriptreaders have cried?"

Absolutely

"So... about joy..."

To help someone navigate out of a maze, sometimes you have to take them past the sad or scary things.

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 18h

I think at its absolute best, my job is basically like sitting there planning the perfect gift for somebody. You have to figure out how to make something that hits someone in a way that fills them with joy.

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da share z0ne @dasharez0ne.bsky.social · 22h

NOW!!! - dashare.zone ADMIN

A SKELITEN MANIFESTING THERE WILL THRU DA SIMPLE PROCESS OF "DOING IT" , AND DA TEXT "I CANT DO WHAT I WANT BECUASE THE WORLD SUCK'S RIGHT NOW, THE WORLD ALWAYS SUCKS, DO WHAT YOU WANT NOW, DO IT NOW YOU PEACE OF SHIT, MOTHER FUCKE R" ----- AND THERE RIGHT TO SAY IT, MOST OF DA WORLDS HISTORY HAS BEEN SHIT, MOST PEOPLE LIVED IN SHIT AND ATE SHIT FOR THE FIRST DAMB 1,000,000 YEAR'S OF HUMAN BEINGS, AND JUST CAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE THINGS ARE HEADING DOWN HILL AGAIN DOSENT MEAN YOU SHOULDNT DO WHAT YOU WANT!!!! FUCK IT!!! DO IT NOW YOU FUCKEN PEACE OF SHIT!!! DO IT TODAY!!!!! DO IT NOW!!!! NOW NOW NOW NOW - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 22h

it’s Halloween time

Photo of a Halloween sounds cassette, copy and title reads

LISTEN IF YOU DARE TO THE FRIGHTENING SOUNDS OF

HALLOWEEN SEX

FUCK: THIS TAPE IS NASTY AS HELL. ZOMBIES HAVING SEX IN GRAVES, DUSTY MUMMY WRAPS COMING
UNDONE, GRIM REAPERS SUCKING EACH OTHER’S FOREVERDICKS, WHIPS, CHAINS, VEINS, AND PAIN!

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · 22h

Horrifying audio preview

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