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Dugan

@tikipodltd.bsky.social

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Bafta nominated game developer and owner of Tikipod. Co-Dev and Publisher of Astro Aqua Kitty, Iron Crypticle, Aqua Kitty, Rock Boshers. Currently based in VIC region, AUS.

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hi new followers!

Here is a project I hope we can get moving again (was put on ice a year ago), and finish off sometime in 2025.
It's a Super CDrom System game for PC Engine!

Vid below shows a test level with temp artwork.

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Eddie Deezenuts @32mbit.bsky.social · 11h

thread of Mega Drive h-scroll raster effects

Alien Solder flapping wings

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 2h

Kirbyyyyyyyyyyy

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s. eek smith 👻 @sesmith.lol · 1d

A little something to take the edge off as you head into the weekend @erinbiba.bsky.social

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Goldborough Studio @goldboroughstudio.bsky.social · 23h

Laputa...
#sketch

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VGDensetsu @vgdensetsu.bsky.social · 4d

I thought something seemed off about the the image posted below: it's a photo that's been edited and colorized by AI. Please don't do that.

Black and white photo showing people around a Darius cabinet at the October 1986 AM Show.

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 2d

which covid shot did you get? I think have been lucky so far, as only the 1st cov shot gave a reaction (a night of shakes/shivers)

Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 2d

New woody Asus pc case is giving off ye olde Atari 2600 vibes

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ミルキージェームズ (Remastered) @milkman.bsky.social · 2d

This story is one of my favorite ever features I got to out together on one of my favorite games. My mission is to get #PSO (OG version) onto something modern. Follow @designroom.bsky.social for more shenanigans. www.polygon.com/interviews/2...

Phantasy Star Online devs on the story, the graphics, and the angry fans that used to call the office

We continue our retrospective interview series for the game’s 20th anniversary

www.polygon.com

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 2d

Think the cake pic is for newts stunt double, she has an older looking face

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 3d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 2d

Indie game coverage is tough because games media has been gutted so the major publishers can control the message via PR-friendly influencers. No freelancer can fix this, obviously, but I can assure I (and other freelancers like me) are excited to cover indie games and pitch like crazy.

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Robert Llewellyn @bobbyllew.bsky.social · 2d

Useful comparison

A graphic showing the enormous improvements since the launch of the original Nissan Leaf 14 years ago the new one goes four times further charges three times faster has two times more power and is 36% cheaper than the original

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 2d

Guessing the brochure has an envelope of cash taped underneath

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 3d

just spotted a modern cd drive with pop up lid!

Shame Pioneer are getting out of the optical biz - this sort of drive lid would have been fab for the Analogue Duo

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 3d

why are they betting so hard on this Ai dross?
Just think how all that money could be being spent instead

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 3d

I think that's not good, but I'm no expert. 🫠

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 3d

My latest animation of the global surface temperature anomaly, 1851 - 2025 (current through September).

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 3d

On his first day there, he makes friends with a funny student with a monosyllabic name and creates an enemy of a posh boy from a noble family.

Sound familiar?

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin, written in 1968.

Funny where some authors get their ideas from, isn't it?

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 3d

when a terrible pun pops into your head, and you just have to follow through...

screenshot of the game robocop rogue city, renamed to robocop brogue city, with an image of robocop wearing brogues whilst petting a cat

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 3d

David Lynch's Straight Story is on TV again, damn it's good

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 3d

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 4d

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 4d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 5d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
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other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 6d

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 4d

"The Mysterious Cities of Gold" french/japanese series (1982) for free on Youtube (worldwide / French+English dubs).
>> www.youtube.com/@MCO_Officie...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 5d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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