James Arbogast
arbogastic.bsky.social
James Arbogast
@arbogastic.bsky.social
Localization Engineer at SEGA. Aspiring indie game dev. Druid of Vista, CA. Cries easily. Very suddenly into gardening. Opinions are my own. 🎮 #Balatro #P3R #MetaphorRefantazio
Fulham FC and Philly sports fan sadly.
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Today I've reached my third year at SEGA! Here are the games I'm credited on (the ones at the bottom I did a small amount of work but still counts?). The industry DEFINITELY has its ups and downs playing a small part in making these games and working on an incredible team feels amazing.
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guys love to say “dude my balatro run last night was insane” then show you a screenshot like this
March 11, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Ah, yes, I remember playing Balatro 95 back in my dad's office
January 27, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"I Don’t Want To See It Fizzle Out” - Stardew Valley Creator On Why He Can't Give It Up. (Repost)
Feature: "I Don’t Want To See It Fizzle Out” - Stardew Valley Creator On Why He Can't Give It Up
"I feel like I could work on it for the rest of my life"
www.nintendolife.com
November 7, 2024 at 12:50 AM
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November 6, 2024 at 4:46 AM
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November 6, 2024 at 3:54 AM
I feel like my jaw has just been permanently clenched since the start of November.
November 5, 2024 at 11:42 PM
These all slap.
November 5, 2024 at 7:43 AM
I use this app Planta to record and take care of my plants. And I've officially hit my First Gen Plants number.
November 5, 2024 at 5:50 AM
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Calathea Oddish 🌱💚 #art #cuteart #pokemon #plants
November 4, 2024 at 11:12 PM
Early Access on Hades had slowed down for me a bit for a while. AND THEN THEY WENT AND ADDED A MINI MECH!!! The Black Coat is the coolest freakin weapon. I am back in! #Hades2
November 4, 2024 at 5:45 PM
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Proof it’s real
November 1, 2024 at 6:04 AM
Today I've reached my third year at SEGA! Here are the games I'm credited on (the ones at the bottom I did a small amount of work but still counts?). The industry DEFINITELY has its ups and downs playing a small part in making these games and working on an incredible team feels amazing.
November 1, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Same.
October 31, 2024 at 7:00 PM
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Happy Halloween! 🎃

Here are a couple of my favorite “spooky” Dragon Quest monsters
October 31, 2024 at 6:32 AM
ITS HAPPENING!!!!!! This is not a drill!
Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition announced for Switch www.gematsu.com/2024/10/xeno...
October 29, 2024 at 7:03 PM
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its insane to me that there's still a sizable subset of people that make the petty distinction between "video game music" and "real music", as if a composer's musical integrity hinges entirely on their proximity to mario
October 26, 2024 at 12:38 AM
I really need to uninstall Balatro from my phone. Too much temptation. But maybe one more turn...
October 26, 2024 at 3:43 AM
New game dev goal is to create a character cool enough to be on a Balatro card.
October 25, 2024 at 5:00 PM
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I made a pixel art upscaling/rotation algorithm called cleanEdge! It makes rotating pixel art as clean as possible

torcado.com/cleanEdge

I made a tool for it too! drop your sprites in and get some nice rotated or upscaled versions :)
October 24, 2024 at 8:20 PM
Hulkenberg is so dope.
October 25, 2024 at 3:39 AM
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I hate when you update something and it was working WAY better before that update.
And now this new update has just broken the thing
October 24, 2024 at 11:59 PM
Moving this from TW:
Still never gets old to see my name next to so many amazing people. Three years ago this project was passed to me to run the Loc tooling and three years later I am so astounded at what it became. I only played a very small part, but I'm still extremely proud. #MetaphorReFantazio
October 25, 2024 at 12:47 AM
I think it's time for me to admit that Hard Mode on Metaphor is too hard for my bad gamer mind.
October 24, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Seen some upsetting news regarding a JP game company wanting to utilize AI translation, and as a reminder:
AI does not understand character
AI does not understand culture
AI does not understand context

All this will result in is unusable translations and more work for those downstream.
October 22, 2024 at 5:58 PM