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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 1h

This is a good post about its specific subject and a great post about how to do anything cool on game production deadlines without having it get cut (being very intentional about where you drop the quality bar)

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 5h

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 2h

Please stay away from roads

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 5h

Six years ago, I wrote most of the Tragedian dialogue for Pathologic 2 in iambic pentameter. I'm back now doing the same for Pathologic 3. I figured it was helpful to write a guide on *how* I did it – in case I get hit by a bus and the team has to carry on without me.

azhdarchid.com/so-you-want-...

So You Want to Write Iambic Pentameter

In which I share the dirty secrets of the world's least useful skill

azhdarchid.com

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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 1d

I have worked with Laura a ton and there's no one more dependable. Completely hilarious and professional. Can adapt to anything. When I see an impossible narrative obstacle down the tracks I try to get Laura hired so the train doesn't derail.

Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Laura Michet @lmichet.bsky.social · 1d

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month.

Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

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Ryan McDiarmid @ryanmcdiarmid.com · 2d

In the interest of self-preservation I need to start reiterating: my current contract with KO_OP ends late Nov, and I'm looking for my next gig! I'm a game/narrative designer, writer, & generalist with lots of implementation experience in Unity, some in Unreal, knowledge of C#, Python, and more.

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priscilla 👻🚂🎶 SPOOKY EXPRESS @ghoulnoise.com · 5d

Do you love spooky? Are you a freak for singing saw? Are you scrambling to put together a playlist for your Halloween costume party? LOVE TRAINS? Are you secretly a ghost, ghoul, or goblin?

Pre-Orders are up now for the Spooky Express OST for #BandcampFriday

ghoulnoise.bandcamp.com/album/spooky...

Spooky Express (Original Soundtrack), by Ghoulnoise

25 track album

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suzanne @binarypartitioned.space · 8d

skin deep is on sale!! play our game about scrutinising warning labels and flushing your less-observant adversaries down the trash chute store.steampowered.com/app/301280/S...

Save 25% on Skin Deep on Steam

Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...

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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 8d

There's no way to convey sexual tension except by having two characters fall or be knocked over, with one landing on top of the other with their faces an inch apart. We've made a lot of fiction but that's the only technique that exists

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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 11d

Pretty good.... But I know there's a better way to break this economy and I'm determined to find it.

A screenshot of Story of Seasons: Grand Bazaar showing a 51 million morning shift.

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priscilla 👻🚂🎶 SPOOKY EXPRESS @ghoulnoise.com · 12d

youtu.be/WAHg0j0WZ-A

I just released this video for Oceans Of Yore! It was one of the earliest "radio" songs I did for Skin Deep.

Grendel had a wonderful voice and he put it to good use. I wanted to make this to celebrate the old man's legacy and create a little memorial. Captain Palanka forever 💜

Oceans Of Yore (Skin Deep Original Soundtrack)

YouTube video by Priscilla Snow

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 12d

My friend and industry colleague Heidi has received the devastating news that her partner can no longer fight off his cancer and must go into hospice. She will lose him soon and she is a good person who has already lost so much. Please consider helping her defray the costs and survive the aftermath.

Donate to Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story, organized by Heidi McDonald

I was a game writer at the height of my career - author, freq… Heidi McDonald needs your support for Ease the Tragic Ending of A Romance Writer’s Epic Love Story

gofund.me

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 13d

stupid red text in a fantasy font saying "ahh, is it 'motivation', as you say, or... perchance..."

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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 12d

I hate the red duke

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 13d

even larger, stupider red letters, saying "'Tis I!"

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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 13d

Motivated flippers can get it in the first hundred flips. It's about determination and intent. "Unfair" is a negative mindset holding you back from ten in a row.

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Jack de Quidt @notquitereal.bsky.social · 13d

in ONE stream, even knowing that this superstition-game would happen, austin and I: invented a demiurge called the Red Duke, wondered whether luck was being siphoned between each other/towards previous LPs by other people, started reading barthes, and started to wrongly suspect the game was broken

lincoln carpenter @lincolnhello.bsky.social · 13d

"But Unfair Flips isn't really about flipping heads, or incrementally upgrading your odds and income, or stacking combo multipliers for a jolt of post-Balatro dopamine.

Unfair Flips is a game about negotiating the temptations of superstition."

www.pcgamer.com/games/sports...

This $2 coin flipping 'non-idle clicker' is a one-button labyrinth of probability paranoia

20% is 20%.

www.pcgamer.com

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Kevin Snow @bravemule.bsky.social · 13d

Thank you <3

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Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 13d

TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. HEADS. TAILS.

Unfair Flips is OUT NOW! Flip the world's worst coin over and over as you try to get ten heads in a row!!

store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

Unfair Flips on Steam

A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?

store.steampowered.com

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jess @jessfrom.online · 13d

part the silliest gambling roguelike you've ever played, part meditative art piece on the perception of probability, 100% worth doing to yourself

Heather Flowers @hthrflwrs.bsky.social · 13d

TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. TAILS. HEADS. TAILS.

Unfair Flips is OUT NOW! Flip the world's worst coin over and over as you try to get ten heads in a row!!

store.steampowered.com/app/3925760/...

Unfair Flips on Steam

A non-idle clicker game about flipping a coin that hates you. Starting with just a 20% chance of getting heads, can you get ten heads in a row?

store.steampowered.com

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Michael Clemens @mclem.org · 19d

This is an agent of the US federal government, armed for live-fire combat against a modern army, slamming a passive and nonviolent female candidate for the US Congress into asphalt.

Then walking away without checking if she has injuries, with his identity concealed behind a black facemask.

shawn @mulchy.bsky.social · 19d

moments ago, ice agents again came out of the broadview detention/“professing” facility to escort a silver suv out of the lot.

one of the agents picked up and threw congressional candidate kat abughazaleh to the ground.