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Dari/scitydreamer
@scitydreamer.bsky.social
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I’m a developer and writer. MS is kicking my ass, so please check out my stuff. (any pronouns)

Games: https://scitydreamer.itch.io
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?developer=scitydreamer
Writing: https://indiehellzone.com
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Dari/scitydreamer @scitydreamer.bsky.social · Nov 18
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Good vibrations, everyone. I am a game developer under the handle scitydreamer, and I mainly make RPG Maker games about miserable people.

I also run a site called Indie Hell Zone that’s primarily me blogging about indie games.

Hit up those links in bio to see more!
The header of my itch.io page, ranking the vibes of my games. Left to right, from good vibrations to horrible fucking vibes; To Crime Nirvana, Fishing Minigame 1 and 2 (2 had worse vibes, I Hate You Please Suffer, Hand of the Goddess, Decay, Slimes Screenshot of I Hate You, Please Suffer taken from Curate of the Curious. This depicts the Necromancy Investigation quest. “So, these particular thieves are the Lonely Hearts. They’re some religious grief counseling group that turned to this more widescale cult in the last few years.” Text from my review of UFO 50’s Party House. “I’ll be real with you: I swear that the wild buddies are hardcoded to show up together. There were multiple situations where I had two wild buddies in a row and think “there’s no way a third one will show up” like a naive fool, and lo and fucking behold, the vibes are ruined. I had one instance where two showed up and had a spy check the door to see a third wild buddy. I gave the wild buddy the boot, invited the next guest in, and you don’t understand how I felt when it was the fourth wild buddy. None of the other trouble making guests gave me as much trouble as this gang of shitheads. ACAB… but maybe the police can keep the wild buddies I hand them in jail for a little bit longer.” Text from my review of QUESTER: “You got a nice array of guys to play around with, and while equipment can be interchangeable, they all have skills to carve out their own niches. Dob-Rock the Buddhist had been a general mainstay because he has a group healing skill out of the gate, while I’m impartial to Ekko the Officer because of her passive skillset that makes her kinda nutty with bladed weapons. You’ll occasionally get new crew members at new base camps, and while that does raise your food costs, well, that’s just the price of friendship.”
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johnxuandou.bsky.social
If you don't get that the "yucky porn games" are the gateway to censor further media that YOU personally think is acceptable, you need to get your head out of your ass. They're trying to divide people into smaller groups so their collective power is also smaller. Kill the cop in your head.
darkchibishadow.bsky.social DCS 🔞 @darkchibishadow.bsky.social · 2h
Already seeing folks say, "Well, HORSES isn't YUCKY PORN like other games are, so..." which is super frustrating.

Now is NOT the time to be throwing the hentai games you happen not to like under the bus. Your rage should be directly at payment processors.

Join the fight
stop-paypros.neocities.org
Stop payment processors from censoring games!
stop-paypros.neocities.org
November 25, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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russelllatshaw.bsky.social
Chainsaw Man is simultaneously worthy of serious discussion for its heartfelt look at society and cycles of abuse and dehumanization, and it's also like, a fantastic nonstop barrage of shitposts
Yoru yelling "People of Oregon!! Give me power!!"
November 25, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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nathangrayson.bsky.social
demonschool credits all 145 people who touched the game over the course of its multi-year dev cycle AND explains what exactly they contributed. the rest of the games industry, which commonly omits people from credits entirely, should be taking notes
“We worked [on Hyper Gunsport] with a localization company that refused to give the names of the people that actually did the work; they just wanted to have their company name in there,” Sheffield said. “They say they do that because ‘It's the standard’ and ‘to avoid poaching’ or whatever, but I hate that and think it's total BS. … I've also seen a lot of folks complain about how they weren't credited on a game because they'd left the studio before the game they worked on was finished. And indeed, our lead 3D artist left two years ago. But he's still the first artist credited because he set the style and visual tone for a lot of the game. Not working on the game to the very end doesn't negate the work he did.” The more Sheffield thought about how to meet the needs of so many different types of contributors – and discussed the matter on social media – the more a comprehensive, detail-oriented approach to crediting started to make sense. “That had all been percolating in the back of my mind as we got close to finishing, and then it just sort of hit me as it came time for me to write the credits,” he said. “I discussed this approach with the team and everyone was fine with it, so we just went for it. We always want to credit everyone that touched the game, so even though the core team was 7 or 8 people at any given time, we credited around 145 people in Demonschool. Who cares if it's a lot of people? Who cares if it's long? They all did something and they deserve credit. And you basically can tell who the core team was by reading the descriptions. None of us are precious about that anyway.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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junlper.beer
November 25, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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jeannesfangs.bsky.social
that being said fujimoto I think your political commentary would work just a bit better if you did five seconds of research to learn basic things about the US like that Michigan is not a city in Oregon
jeannesfangs.bsky.social fangy @jeannesfangs.bsky.social · 9h
cool csm chapter but if I’m being really honest I’m ready for the story to go back to being a story instead of a very hamfisted political cartoon
November 25, 2025 at 4:21 PM
scitydreamer.bsky.social
Poked at Sea of Stars. It does have pretty pixel art and nice combat! Zale and Valere are the same person.
November 25, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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theonion.com
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life https://theonion.com/man-who-thought-fleetwood-macs-the-chain-was-over-in-for-thrill-of-his-fucking-life/
Man Who Thought Fleetwood Mac’s ‘The Chain’ Was Over In For Thrill Of His Fucking Life
November 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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bencollins.bsky.social
I do appreciate that they've completely dropped the pretense.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Rep. Salazar on Venezuela: "We're about to go in ... we need to go in ... Venezuela for the American oil companies will be a field day"
November 24, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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bluestigma.bsky.social
It's not enough that I should succeed; others must also fail
bsky.app/profile/did:...
November 24, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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unburntwitch.com
did michael scott write this
michaelhobbes.bsky.social Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 1d
The Kamala Harris book is so excruciating
“I wish I could have gotten the message across that there isn’t a distinction between “they/them” and “you.” The pronoun that matters is “we.”
November 24, 2025 at 11:18 PM
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nikkiophan.bsky.social
if someone pulls out their phone at a party, opens grok, and goes "w-wait, no hold on... its gonna be epic... i just gotta take a pic of you for a EPIC grok roast with BASED vulgar forbidden words!!"

im attacking and eating that individual, like full on tooth and nail animalistic cannibalism
wapplehouse.bsky.social Kristi Yamaguccimane @wapplehouse.bsky.social · 1d
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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whetmoser.com
everyone is 12 theory chugging along
semafor.com Semafor @semafor.com · 1d
A person directly familiar with the conversations tells Semafor that Donald Trump has personally pressed Larry Ellison to revive Brett Ratner's "Rush Hour" franchise.
www.semafor.com/article/11/2...
Exclusive: How Trump is trying to remake American culture — starting with his favorite buddy-cop franchise
The president is offering some creative input on potential upcoming projects.
www.semafor.com
November 24, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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smittyroo.bsky.social
there's a container ship fire off the port of la and the harbor commissioners are publicly begging the sec. of transportation to return their calls but he's on the news riffing about what you wear on a plane
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Sean Duffy: "Dressing with respect -- whether it's a pair of jeans and a decent shirt, I would encourage people to maybe dress a little better which encourages us to maybe behave a little better. Let's try not to wear slippers and pajamas as we come to the airport."
November 24, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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brkeogh.bsky.social
Great thread and investigation. Exactly what we all assumed: the ‘confidential information’ was wages and work conditions discussed in a worker-only Discord, not leaking anything about the game. Pure union busting.
chrisbratt.bsky.social Chris Bratt @chrisbratt.bsky.social · 1d
EXCLUSIVE: So far it's been unclear what proof Rockstar Games has to justify its firing of 34 union members, who it claims were leaking "confidential information in a public forum".

PMG has now seen some of the messages which contributed to this decision being made.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=8TvW...
The Messages Rockstar Saw Before Firing 34 Union Members
YouTube video by People Make Games
www.youtube.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 PM
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scitydreamer.bsky.social
I put the first five chapters of the latest draft of my book up as a patreon exclusive. A story about a weirder story, suicidal ideation, a guy that named himself after Oscar Wilde, and a cringe FBI agent.

www.patreon.com/posts/patreo...
"What is it?" Alex asked. The old man finally looked at him. "It's a play called The King in Yellow." Alex blinked. "Never heard of it." Alex said honestly, feeling further mystified. "Better that you haven't," the man scoffed, looking back at the papers. "I only brought it here to give myself one last comfort before the end. I paid to have it cremated with my corpse." "Could I look at it?" asked Alex. The old man scowled, glancing between Alex and the papers. Finally, he picked at the front of the paper stack. "Fine. The first act won't hurt. You're on your way out, anyway. Doesn't hurt me." And uhhh here's my cringe playlist because I heard some books apparently have playlists: • Body Terror Song - AJJ • Congratulations, You Survived Your Suicide - Sycamore Smith • Divine Violence - itoldyouiwouldeatyou • Gay Thoughts - The Growlers • Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins • People - AJJ • People || 2: Still Peoplin' - AJJ • Ready - The Oozes • Sweet Cis Teen - Dazey and the Scouts • World of Dogs - Death Grips And heavy trigger warning for suicidal ideation. Don't reflect on why everything I work on deals with suicide in some way.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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juxtaposedpunk.bsky.social
In Super Smash Bros Brawl, Kyle Hyde’s trophy is animated in reference to how characters are animated in the Hotel Dusk series. This is the only trophy in the entirety of Smash Bros that is animated
bsky.app/profile/m4ri...
November 24, 2025 at 12:59 PM
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jeffgerstmann.com
This is why I think spending time on slick production for a video podcast is a giant waste. The main benefit to a video podcast is it lives on YouTube and a decent number of people like to ingest things that way. They push play and tab away from it immediately. I could be nude, no one would know.
laurenshippen.com Lauren Shippen @laurenshippen.com · 4d
*banging a metal pot with a wooden spoon very loudly*

people want to LISTEN to podcasts!!!!!!!!!!!!

*hitting you on the forehead with the spoon*

STOP PIVOTING TO VIDEO

www.westwoodone.com/blog/2025/11...
Audio Remains The Primary Mode Of Podcast Consumption, Despite Growing Video Use; 92% Say They “Listen” To Podcasts, According To Cumulus Media And Signal Hill Insights’ Podcast Download – Fall 2025 Report
November 24, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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chairgtables.lamedimension.moe
My game is for NUTSHACK FANS, algorithm PLEASE FIND THEM!
My game is for NUTSHACK FANS, algorithm PLEASE FIND THEM!
My game is for NUTSHACK FANS, algorithm PLEASE FIND THEM!
My game is for NUTSHACK FANS, algorithm PLEASE FIND THEM!
My game is for NUTSHACK FANS, algorithm PLEASE FIND THEM!
November 21, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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chadstanton.blacksky.app
MLK, a whole reverend, has a day and a street in almost every city named after him here and yet everyone knows they don’t mean that kind of Christian.
November 24, 2025 at 7:40 AM
scitydreamer.bsky.social
In the Hotline Miami final boss, it's actually possible to get killed by the final boss shooting himself if you stand next to him because he's using a revolver to do it.

thanks darksydephil lmao
November 24, 2025 at 6:21 AM
scitydreamer.bsky.social
okay now i'm confident that something is scraping my site because i abandoned these years ago and there's now download links for these lol
November 24, 2025 at 6:13 AM
scitydreamer.bsky.social
Starting to write about the second half of Noel, and now that I'm away from the high of finishing the game... I think I'm more mixed about it tbh
November 24, 2025 at 5:03 AM
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edgarallanbro.bsky.social
One of the producers on Guilty Gear Strive said it was basically impossible to source player feedback on balance changes online because nobody had original opinions and would just parrot what the most popular content creators said and so they had to rely on data and I think about that every day.
November 23, 2025 at 4:08 AM
scitydreamer.bsky.social
I put the first five chapters of the latest draft of my book up as a patreon exclusive. A story about a weirder story, suicidal ideation, a guy that named himself after Oscar Wilde, and a cringe FBI agent.

www.patreon.com/posts/patreo...
"What is it?" Alex asked. The old man finally looked at him. "It's a play called The King in Yellow." Alex blinked. "Never heard of it." Alex said honestly, feeling further mystified. "Better that you haven't," the man scoffed, looking back at the papers. "I only brought it here to give myself one last comfort before the end. I paid to have it cremated with my corpse." "Could I look at it?" asked Alex. The old man scowled, glancing between Alex and the papers. Finally, he picked at the front of the paper stack. "Fine. The first act won't hurt. You're on your way out, anyway. Doesn't hurt me." And uhhh here's my cringe playlist because I heard some books apparently have playlists: • Body Terror Song - AJJ • Congratulations, You Survived Your Suicide - Sycamore Smith • Divine Violence - itoldyouiwouldeatyou • Gay Thoughts - The Growlers • Heaven or Las Vegas - Cocteau Twins • People - AJJ • People || 2: Still Peoplin' - AJJ • Ready - The Oozes • Sweet Cis Teen - Dazey and the Scouts • World of Dogs - Death Grips And heavy trigger warning for suicidal ideation. Don't reflect on why everything I work on deals with suicide in some way.
November 24, 2025 at 3:07 AM
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kibblesmith.com
As somebody situated in that exact cultural space at that time, this is *mind blowingly accurate.* The landscape is SO different, it feels like remembering a parallel universe.
November 21, 2025 at 8:34 PM