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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · Feb 22

found this in my notes, good advice for aspiring devs

Rules for Game Dev
1. The gamer is always gamer
2. Games aren't finished, only completed
3. Always keep at least one infinite loop in your game to trap malevolent spirits
4. Don't code the small stuff (it's all stuff)
5. Respect the seven axes of player motivation
6. A bad game is bad forever, but a broken game is right twice a day
7. It's not about who you know, it's about knowing who
8. Disregard the eighth axis of player motivation
9. You couldn't make Super Mario today. Try again tomorrow.
10. The game developer with the most victory points at the end is the winner
11. Do not acknowledge the howling skull

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Gretchen McCulloch @gretchenmcc.bsky.social · 1d

Higgledy piggledy
Timothée Chalamet
Has a name meriting
Endless design

Much like his forerunner
Benedict Cumberbatch:
Hexasyllabically,
Easy to rhyme

tweet from childish branzino @absflora:
timothée chalamet is the new benedict cumberbatch in the sense that you can say ANYTHING and we know who you mean. tiffany chevrolet. timpanogos charlemagne. symphony cabernet. jiminy castaway.

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 1d

I just told Kevin he was never going to forget this combo, then successfully hit the 11 in with the 9.

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Oh thank God, this bar is finally playing the Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 1d

Marjorie: The Gathering

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 2d

The end of Windows 10 support turned out to be solvable by just hitting a button in settings that says “don’t do that.”

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 2d

It's Sina. It took Kevin nine months to choose it.

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Aunt Mrgladys @mrgan.com · 2d

Doing some long-overdue cleanup on the English language this morning… "Carcinogenic" is now "cancerogenic." "Floor" is now "foor," the opposite of "roof." Complementary colors rhyme (red/gred, orange/blorange)

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 2d

I dunno, I was a 23-year-old dipshit and I managed to fix the payroll system in time for people to still get paid in January of 2000, which they wouldn’t have if I hadn’t. Y2K wasn’t that hard, IT people just did it because it needed doing.

dangoroff.bsky.social @dangoroff.bsky.social · 2d

The idea that there was a massive, serious threat but that every single company was able to fix every problem so that nothing went wrong seems a little unlikely.

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The Other Happy Place @theotherhappyplace.bsky.social · 3d

Bumper sticker that says
"My other car is legs."

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 3d

I had a dream that I was reading spoilers for a new Magic: The Gathering set and the important keywords listed for the green/blue draft archetype were “Chicago” and “Slowtit”

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 3d

Sticking my hand in a box whose contents are unknown to me, just to feel… something.

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 3d

“Baila tu cuerpa allegria Ray Fernandez. Heeeeey, Ray Fernandez.”

- us, 1996/7 when the Macarena came on and our friend Ray Fernandez was in earshot

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 4d

Hotel Transylvania?

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 4d

Too much gameplay.

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The Horror At Highrook - Out Now! @highrookhorror.bsky.social · 4d

Hey investigators! Just a reminder that "The Horror At Highrook" is currently 30% off during Steams Autumn Sale (The biggest discount so far!)
Why not pop over and treat yourself!
👻🌛🐈‍⬛
store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

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Scott Murderhouse @voxparlour.bsky.social · 6d

Taylor Swift announces next album title: The Queen in Yellow. She told Variety: "A few years back I came across this amazing play and I was so inspired. It's been living in my head for years. I even dream of it, of the city in the play."

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Tim Keenan @misfitsattic.bsky.social · 9d

👑 the Below the Crown Demo is now on Steam ♟️

Our nerdy love letter to Roguelikes, Chess, and Dungeon Crawlers is here:
🔸Take the Wizard King below in our procedural dungeons
🔸Spells, Upgrades, Bosses ...and Psychological Testing!
🔸Daily & Player Challenges
store.steampowered.com/app/4023520/...

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Christopher Livingston @chrislivingston.bsky.social · 7d

We joke about Steam reviews but sometimes they get their point across in a single sentence whereas it takes me about 1,800 words. Anyway, I made a quiz where you try to guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review. Pretty much everyone is is acing it. www.pcgamer.com/games/can-yo...

Can you guess the game based only on a blurb from a Steam review? Take our quiz and see if you score a thumbs up!

We're (overwhelmingly) positive you'll do great on this quiz.

www.pcgamer.com

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Duncan Robson @duncanrobson.com · 7d

My phone vibrates when I buy European DVDs from my friend the pope

That’s right I can I palpably paypal my papal PAL pal

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 10d

Uncle Buick

#TurnJohnCandyIntoACarByInsertingOneLetter

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 10d

Cuckoo (2024)
Speak No Evil (2022, not the remake)
The Night House (2020)
Pontypool (2008)

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 11d

This post reminded me that I also forgot to take out the trash before I got in bed, but I sleep in a tuxedo so it was fine.

Jeff Gerstmann @jeffgerstmann.com · 11d

Took my shirt off but it's garbage night and now I gotta put my shirt back on and THAT is the real garbage here, friends.

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Zack Johnson @zapjackson.bsky.social · 11d

Both of these are good.

The Horror At Highrook - Out Now! @highrookhorror.bsky.social · 15d

Just in time for spooky season The Horror at Highrook has teamed up with Deck of Haunts to offer a double dread filled bundle!
🎃🦇🕯️

store.steampowered.com/news/app/317...

Deck of Haunts - Announcing: Deck of Haunts & The Horror at Highrook bundle! - Steam News

What is better than a haunted house? Of course, two haunted houses!

store.steampowered.com

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Frank Lantz @flantz.bsky.social · 14d

We made a new game. It’s called Q-UP. It’s a coin flipping eSport. There’s a free demo! store.steampowered.com/app/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,...

store.steampowered.com

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