Vaida
@vaida.me
Designing things & making things 🌕 a bit of UI/UX @ Strange Scaffold 🌔 Edinburgh 🌓 https://vaida.me
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🚨 The Clones and Consciousness bundle ends soon! 🧠
Explore both The Orchard and the Starward Belt in this blockbuster bundle, including Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and 1000xRESIST for 17% off!
Be quick, the bundle is only live for one more day ⏱️
💠💫 bit.ly/ClonesAndCon...
Explore both The Orchard and the Starward Belt in this blockbuster bundle, including Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and 1000xRESIST for 17% off!
Be quick, the bundle is only live for one more day ⏱️
💠💫 bit.ly/ClonesAndCon...
November 11, 2025 at 9:12 PM
🚨 The Clones and Consciousness bundle ends soon! 🧠
Explore both The Orchard and the Starward Belt in this blockbuster bundle, including Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and 1000xRESIST for 17% off!
Be quick, the bundle is only live for one more day ⏱️
💠💫 bit.ly/ClonesAndCon...
Explore both The Orchard and the Starward Belt in this blockbuster bundle, including Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector and 1000xRESIST for 17% off!
Be quick, the bundle is only live for one more day ⏱️
💠💫 bit.ly/ClonesAndCon...
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We don’t use generative AI at Strange Scaffold and I can confirm that a *lot* of other studios are not—whether indie or AAA.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
Get outta here with this normalization bullshit.
“It’s important to assume every game company is now using AI.” Nexon CEO comments on role of human creativity as AI tools become the norm
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
automaton-media.com/en/news/its-...
November 12, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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asked my mom for a tarot card set for my birthday, but the ones she sent me are "AI-enhanced"... it's a pain having to manually investigate bc this is a thing i definitely want to be 100% human-made
does anyone have a favourite deck, esp one that ships to the UK?
does anyone have a favourite deck, esp one that ships to the UK?
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
asked my mom for a tarot card set for my birthday, but the ones she sent me are "AI-enhanced"... it's a pain having to manually investigate bc this is a thing i definitely want to be 100% human-made
does anyone have a favourite deck, esp one that ships to the UK?
does anyone have a favourite deck, esp one that ships to the UK?
finished watching Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man today, played through the Dispatch episodes that are currently out this weekend. going from banger to banger
November 10, 2025 at 11:04 PM
finished watching Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man today, played through the Dispatch episodes that are currently out this weekend. going from banger to banger
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my ThinkyCon 2025 talk about crankin out little games in my free time is up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGsl... includes a cute photo of Stegi ((un)official mascot of the corgispace manifesto)
My approach to making small games - Adam Saltsman (ThinkyCon 2025)
YouTube video by Thinky Games
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
my ThinkyCon 2025 talk about crankin out little games in my free time is up! www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGsl... includes a cute photo of Stegi ((un)official mascot of the corgispace manifesto)
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Today is the steam release day for the lovely Drill Bird by @mnniska.bsky.social and friends, it's just a lovely little game!
Save 17% on Drill Bird on Steam
Drill Bird is a cozy-yet-tense digging platformer where every trip underground counts. Play as a bird fallen from the sky, in search for powerful ores to hatch your Egg. Get home before night falls, u...
store.steampowered.com
November 10, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Today is the steam release day for the lovely Drill Bird by @mnniska.bsky.social and friends, it's just a lovely little game!
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dick cheney reminded me of this article. “Yeah, well, waterboard me if it makes him feel better. It’ll still take a week.” rest in piss etc
www.huffpost.com/entry/cable-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/cable-...
I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America.
A glimpse of the suburban grotesque, featuring Russian mobsters, Fox News rage addicts, a caged man in a sex dungeon, and Dick Cheney.
www.huffpost.com
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 PM
dick cheney reminded me of this article. “Yeah, well, waterboard me if it makes him feel better. It’ll still take a week.” rest in piss etc
www.huffpost.com/entry/cable-...
www.huffpost.com/entry/cable-...
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For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap:
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
Save 40% on Tactical Breach Wizards on Steam
In Tactical Breach Wizards, you lead a team of renegade wizards in kevlar through turn-based battles to unravel a modern conspiracy plot. Combine their unique spells in clever ways, or rewind time to ...
store.steampowered.com
November 8, 2025 at 8:59 PM
For about another 21 hours all our games are suspiciously cheap:
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
🕵️ Gunpoint is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/206190/G...
🚀 Heat Signature is 80% off! store.steampowered.com/app/268130/H...
🧙♂️ Tactical Breach Wizards is 40% off! store.steampowered.com/app/1043810/...
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anyway wwwobble.org is very cool - a Downpour-like but on the web. and it's Olivia Jack who's working on it! (she made Hydra). and she's got funding for it! so nice to see!
Wobble Web
wwwobble.org
November 6, 2025 at 12:35 PM
anyway wwwobble.org is very cool - a Downpour-like but on the web. and it's Olivia Jack who's working on it! (she made Hydra). and she's got funding for it! so nice to see!
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Q-UP is out NOW on Steam!
1. flip a coin on the internet
2. 50% heads, 50% tails
3. flip another coin
it's $8.99
... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips
s.team/a/3730790
1. flip a coin on the internet
2. 50% heads, 50% tails
3. flip another coin
it's $8.99
... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips
s.team/a/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,...
s.team
November 5, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Q-UP is out NOW on Steam!
1. flip a coin on the internet
2. 50% heads, 50% tails
3. flip another coin
it's $8.99
... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips
s.team/a/3730790
1. flip a coin on the internet
2. 50% heads, 50% tails
3. flip another coin
it's $8.99
... but more importantly it's $7.99 if you already own Unfair Flips
s.team/a/3730790
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Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.
Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Support Rockstar Workers Fighting Unfair Dismissals!
Last week over 30 members of staff at Grand Theft Auto VI developer Rockstar were fired en masse in a “calculated attack on workers”. The IWGB described Rockstar’s actions as ‘the most blatant and rut...
actionnetwork.org
November 4, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Rockstar union workers have set up a solidarity fund to help them survive and fight after 30 of them were fired in an attempt to destroy the union.
Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
Help them fight back! If you can, any little bit you can donate will massively help their efforts.
actionnetwork.org/fundraising/...
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Have recently been introduced to https://bookwyrm.social as "what if Goodreads was Mastodon" and this description is 100% accurate. I love this.
BookWyrm
Social Reading and Reviewing
bookwyrm.social
November 4, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Have recently been introduced to https://bookwyrm.social as "what if Goodreads was Mastodon" and this description is 100% accurate. I love this.
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Please wishlist if you haven't!
I know wishlists are fake but it looks like we're hovering right under the threshold of being shown on the main Upcoming Releases page tomorrow so maybe not fake?? who knows but I want to make another game so wishlist please
s.team/a/3730790
I know wishlists are fake but it looks like we're hovering right under the threshold of being shown on the main Upcoming Releases page tomorrow so maybe not fake?? who knows but I want to make another game so wishlist please
s.team/a/3730790
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,...
s.team
November 3, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Please wishlist if you haven't!
I know wishlists are fake but it looks like we're hovering right under the threshold of being shown on the main Upcoming Releases page tomorrow so maybe not fake?? who knows but I want to make another game so wishlist please
s.team/a/3730790
I know wishlists are fake but it looks like we're hovering right under the threshold of being shown on the main Upcoming Releases page tomorrow so maybe not fake?? who knows but I want to make another game so wishlist please
s.team/a/3730790
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Introducing the SuperStation one. An open-source PS1 FPGA gaming console that supports original games, memory cards, and controllers. Load games from a disk or a backup. Region free. Supports all MiSTer FPGA cores, including N64 & Sega Saturn.
Learn more: retroremake.co
Learn more: retroremake.co
January 26, 2025 at 1:02 AM
Introducing the SuperStation one. An open-source PS1 FPGA gaming console that supports original games, memory cards, and controllers. Load games from a disk or a backup. Region free. Supports all MiSTer FPGA cores, including N64 & Sega Saturn.
Learn more: retroremake.co
Learn more: retroremake.co
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I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
This is a very impressive PS1 game by @eliasdaler.bsky.social running on SuperStation.
November 2, 2025 at 11:50 AM
I just want to put this out into the universe.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.
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Plaintext Distro will be at Edinburgh Zine Fair tomorrow, Sunday 2nd November, with our full catalog available! Check out the additional info here: sites.google.com/a/typewronge...
#edinburghzinefair #ezf2025
#edinburghzinefair #ezf2025
November 1, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Plaintext Distro will be at Edinburgh Zine Fair tomorrow, Sunday 2nd November, with our full catalog available! Check out the additional info here: sites.google.com/a/typewronge...
#edinburghzinefair #ezf2025
#edinburghzinefair #ezf2025
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folks it is time for game #15 !!! i am proud to present!!
✨ LIL KOBOLD'S BIG STEW ✨
adamatomic.itch.io/lil-kobolds-...
🐸 big. ass. OVERWORLD
🍄 TONS of puzzles
🧿 nasty little shortcuts dont worry about it
🧪 absolutely will NOT save your PROGRESS
happy halloween !!
✨ LIL KOBOLD'S BIG STEW ✨
adamatomic.itch.io/lil-kobolds-...
🐸 big. ass. OVERWORLD
🍄 TONS of puzzles
🧿 nasty little shortcuts dont worry about it
🧪 absolutely will NOT save your PROGRESS
happy halloween !!
Lil Kobold's Big Stew by Adam Saltsman
Help a little kobold make a really big stew.
adamatomic.itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 3:12 PM
folks it is time for game #15 !!! i am proud to present!!
✨ LIL KOBOLD'S BIG STEW ✨
adamatomic.itch.io/lil-kobolds-...
🐸 big. ass. OVERWORLD
🍄 TONS of puzzles
🧿 nasty little shortcuts dont worry about it
🧪 absolutely will NOT save your PROGRESS
happy halloween !!
✨ LIL KOBOLD'S BIG STEW ✨
adamatomic.itch.io/lil-kobolds-...
🐸 big. ass. OVERWORLD
🍄 TONS of puzzles
🧿 nasty little shortcuts dont worry about it
🧪 absolutely will NOT save your PROGRESS
happy halloween !!
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some very good folks have orgainised a Game Manual jam starting in two weeks, one of the most beautiful lost art forms itch.io/jam/game-man...
Game Manual Jam 25
A game jam from 2025-11-14 to 2025-11-28 hosted by hatimb00, boshi's place, mariopartygod & Nichole Shinn. ________ ____ ___ ___ _____ ___ ___ ____ ___ __ __ ____ __ / _____// __ // _ ´_ // __ / / _ ´...
itch.io
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
some very good folks have orgainised a Game Manual jam starting in two weeks, one of the most beautiful lost art forms itch.io/jam/game-man...
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We did it: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is now playable in French, Japanese, & Simplified Chinese!
PLUS it's on sale on every platform too 🥳
⭐ Steam: bit.ly/CS2Steam
⭐ Nintendo Switch: bit.ly/CS2NOA
⭐ PlayStation 5: bit.ly/CS2PlayStation
⭐ Xbox Series X|S: bit.ly/CS2Xbox
PLUS it's on sale on every platform too 🥳
⭐ Steam: bit.ly/CS2Steam
⭐ Nintendo Switch: bit.ly/CS2NOA
⭐ PlayStation 5: bit.ly/CS2PlayStation
⭐ Xbox Series X|S: bit.ly/CS2Xbox
October 31, 2025 at 4:19 PM
We did it: Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector is now playable in French, Japanese, & Simplified Chinese!
PLUS it's on sale on every platform too 🥳
⭐ Steam: bit.ly/CS2Steam
⭐ Nintendo Switch: bit.ly/CS2NOA
⭐ PlayStation 5: bit.ly/CS2PlayStation
⭐ Xbox Series X|S: bit.ly/CS2Xbox
PLUS it's on sale on every platform too 🥳
⭐ Steam: bit.ly/CS2Steam
⭐ Nintendo Switch: bit.ly/CS2NOA
⭐ PlayStation 5: bit.ly/CS2PlayStation
⭐ Xbox Series X|S: bit.ly/CS2Xbox
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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 :)
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
October 30, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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 :)
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 :)
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hey im doin a game design talk !!
I KNOW ITS BEEN A WHILE
ive been collecting my thoughts on the last year of making little games again, what i've learned, what's been fun, how to do a lot with a little and so on
thinkygames.com/events/think...
I KNOW ITS BEEN A WHILE
ive been collecting my thoughts on the last year of making little games again, what i've learned, what's been fun, how to do a lot with a little and so on
thinkygames.com/events/think...
Day 1 of ThinkyCon 2025 · Thinky Games
Puzzle design, art, development, production — learn about every aspect of crafting thinky games.
thinkygames.com
October 29, 2025 at 9:59 PM
hey im doin a game design talk !!
I KNOW ITS BEEN A WHILE
ive been collecting my thoughts on the last year of making little games again, what i've learned, what's been fun, how to do a lot with a little and so on
thinkygames.com/events/think...
I KNOW ITS BEEN A WHILE
ive been collecting my thoughts on the last year of making little games again, what i've learned, what's been fun, how to do a lot with a little and so on
thinkygames.com/events/think...
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Starting a 2025 Q4 thread of not-evil* jobs in tech or using tech skills, which I'll reply to add to as I find new cool things over time
*or minimally evil, as this is often the best we can hope for in these troubled times. Assessments based on nothing but my own vibes
*or minimally evil, as this is often the best we can hope for in these troubled times. Assessments based on nothing but my own vibes
October 21, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Starting a 2025 Q4 thread of not-evil* jobs in tech or using tech skills, which I'll reply to add to as I find new cool things over time
*or minimally evil, as this is often the best we can hope for in these troubled times. Assessments based on nothing but my own vibes
*or minimally evil, as this is often the best we can hope for in these troubled times. Assessments based on nothing but my own vibes
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It's that time of year... 🍂
🎃 The Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2025! 🎃
This year we can support up to 800 players at once in this seasonal pumpkin carving MMO!
This year's update comes with new areas and new secrets to find.
Hope you don't mind if I re-use the trailer from last year! 😅
🎃 The Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2025! 🎃
This year we can support up to 800 players at once in this seasonal pumpkin carving MMO!
This year's update comes with new areas and new secrets to find.
Hope you don't mind if I re-use the trailer from last year! 😅
October 16, 2025 at 7:40 PM
It's that time of year... 🍂
🎃 The Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2025! 🎃
This year we can support up to 800 players at once in this seasonal pumpkin carving MMO!
This year's update comes with new areas and new secrets to find.
Hope you don't mind if I re-use the trailer from last year! 😅
🎃 The Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival is BACK for 2025! 🎃
This year we can support up to 800 players at once in this seasonal pumpkin carving MMO!
This year's update comes with new areas and new secrets to find.
Hope you don't mind if I re-use the trailer from last year! 😅
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Every year a few of us get together to raise money for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity, in a few days we'll be doing it again for 2025. Please check out our campaign page at justgiving.com/page/teamche... and donate if you can - it's an incredible charity that touches a lot of people's lives.
October 15, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Every year a few of us get together to raise money for Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity, in a few days we'll be doing it again for 2025. Please check out our campaign page at justgiving.com/page/teamche... and donate if you can - it's an incredible charity that touches a lot of people's lives.
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...when they tell you your game needs more polish!
(get my fonts, they support 15+ languages)
itch.io/s/158296/40-...
(get my fonts, they support 15+ languages)
itch.io/s/158296/40-...
October 10, 2025 at 2:22 PM
...when they tell you your game needs more polish!
(get my fonts, they support 15+ languages)
itch.io/s/158296/40-...
(get my fonts, they support 15+ languages)
itch.io/s/158296/40-...