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The Tax Collector Man
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · Jul 21
We’re making another videogame! It’s called Pharmakos, and you can already read about it. Go ahead. It’ll be our little secret.
withentrails.com/2025/07/21/p...
Pharmakos Development Log – Eins
The first development log for Pharmakos, a new game from the creators of Q*bert and Chiaroscuro Imago.
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · 3d
the internet forum i run (impromptu.zone) mostly doesn't get posted on much, but when someone does make a thread sometimes there's 10 thoughtful interesting replies. what a vibe.

you are welcome there for a noncorporate internet hangout experience
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Gmad @gmad.bsky.social · 5d
now opening up a low poly commission slot! if you need a vrchat/vtuber model, or a model for your game, send me a message!
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 6d
alas... the pilgrimage never ends (until somebody runs a normal website that all my friends use)
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 6d
how stupid to start fucking around with your users when they have almost nothing meaningfully tying them to your service. you may as well make something while concurrently telling people to pound sand if they use it
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 6d
guess we're getting off this website next. i will probably be on various forums if you need me
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · Jan 3
Good news everyone: my recently released video game INFLUX REDUX is NO LONGER on sale! You can buy it now for full price! store.steampowered.com/app/867150/I...
InFlux Redux on Steam
InFlux Redux is a high-def remake of the 2013 ball-rolling puzzler InFlux, built on a new engine with improved graphics and physics. Roll through a series of beautiful environments filled with elabora...
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Gmad @gmad.bsky.social · 6d
first go at a flying npc in unreal, it's not so bad... though it is functionally a manhack
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 8d
once had a dream about a nameless game where you stood in front of your car in the middle of the night. the goal was to determine if a man was hiding somewhere you couldn’t see. you knew you lost if you got in the car and then your vision went black. there was no noise. i think about it sometimes
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 11d
went through the trouble of bringing karl marx into the 21st century so he could play disco elysium, but everything i feed him makes him sick and he won’t stop coughing. hoping we can work out these kinks soon
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 12d
the task of making a very unusual city for our game has fallen upon me. get psyched
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 12d
on this i've really enjoyed writing different kinds of propaganda from distinct sources and periods of time. there's stuff that's genuinely earnest and well-intentioned next to stuff that's a little poisonous and it's slightly more opaque on which is the bad one. fun details to scatter in the world
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 12d
we've done three games in unreal and every single one has the default roboto shit up until you tell us to get rid of it. traditional cycle of easy wins
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 12d
the in-game version of this will be somebody scribbling on every T.A.P.W.A.T. signature so that it reads "TAPWATER"
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 12d
the best part of designing a space is imagining an inept organization operating within that space and fucking it all up. this is my fav joke so far
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 12d
the task of making a very unusual city for our game has fallen upon me. get psyched
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Isaac Chotiner @ichotiner.bsky.social · 15d
New Interview: www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 16d
lovecraft protagonists spotting an elder thing: Getting major “Necronomicon” vibes from this…
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 16d
rereading lovecraft is so funny because i guess everybody from weird cranks to popular scientists have read the necronomicon. it’s at least as popular as The Adventures of Pinocchio
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bakoon @bakoon.bsky.social · 17d
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irony_tower @ironytower.bsky.social · 17d
Crushing the Buddha in a game of astapada three times in a row and he goes home to meditate, fists clenched, adding it to the list.
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 17d
prevented from attaining enlightment by playing too much silksong
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 17d
it's so cool that a list of games from 2500 years ago is still totally comprehensible. imagine how much longer human beings have been playing "i'm thinking of a number between 1 and 10"
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 17d
most of these are still bangers if you're a really bored kid at summer camp
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The Tax Collector Man @coolgoblinzone.bsky.social · 17d
this is my favourite wikipedia article
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Joe Wintergreen @joewintergreen.com · Nov 4
gmad'n'tax are what you'd call up-and-comers, future big deals in the "weird thoughtful game" space. in 10 years when you're like "oh yeah chiaroscuro imago i played that the week it came out" people are gonna be like "dang this person had their finger on the pulse i better listen to their insights"
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Gmad @gmad.bsky.social · Oct 31
Out now! Chiaroscuro Imago - a short, narrative-driven horror game about bugs, faith, and honey. Find out what happened to the moths. 🐝📞🍯
howling-stars.itch.io/chiaroscuro-...
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