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Damien Crawford

@developerdamien.bsky.social

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Indie dev, witch; fae/faer. I've made a 99 character RPG, a game about retired adventurers, a fake MMO, and other things. Games at cannibalinteractive.itch.io contact: [email protected]

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 7d

Patch 1.3, the three year anniversary update for Purgatory Dungeoneer, is out now! The game's also 50% off (so currently $4.99) so it's as good a time as any to check out an RPG about retired adventurers!

steamcommunity.com/games/196301...

A turn-based JRPG battle with several enemies on the left and the player's party of five on the right. The selected enemy is the Cyclops Blackguard, who currently has five status effects with tooltips shown.

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 3h

Also again feeling odd about seeing so many people I haven't seen for 8ish years. The reason I try to make it to the services each time is because it's likely the next time that we meet will be because there's one less person above ground.

Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 3h

Went to my great-aunt's funeral today. Lived to be 85, and had recently celebrated her 65th wedding anniversary

Hard to imagine knowing someone that long, let alone staying together that long

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 18h

There's so many interactions like this, on top of the fun dialogue in the Demon Haunt that I'm really coming back around on this game

The base game I thought was okay, but Vengeance really adds just so much more, especially with combat. Genuinely one of the best feeling turn-based combats out there

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 18h

Then I got into another fight, found another Nekomata, started talking and she went "oh it's you, yeah I'm free now" and joined the party

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 18h

Like I tried negotiating with a Nekomata, and she was on her cellphone. I waited for her to finish, and she asked for some item. I gave it to her, and she immediately went "oh I'm getting a call" and left

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 18h

Playing through SMT V: Vengeance again and gosh, I do still think that SMT III: Nocturne has the better story and works great as an RPG with survival horror elements, but Vengeance just has such good demon dialogue and interactions

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 19h

Yeesh, hope you regenerate well!

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

I hope you can see this, because I am doing it as hard as I can.

adult swim retro graphics boxy pixel green alien flipping off earth from space, middle finger replaced with wordle result boxes resembling middle finger raised. character name is Ignignokt, in this scene he says what my post text says.

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Chris 🎃 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 1d

old internet cartoon detective mittens in cute hat with flower on it and speech bubble going down to quoted post, this character says meow meow meeoooww like how it's spelled in the quoted post.

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Ada Basilisk, Haunted Doll VTuber @comfybasilisk.bsky.social · 19h

thinking about Oscar Ishikawa again. He's an affable civil servant, has two glowing swords on his belt, and claims to be "two-time isekai champion of the world." he blinks out of existence mid-speech partway thru chapter 1, but shows back up after chapter 3, now with a third glowing sword

Ada Basilisk, Haunted Doll VTuber @comfybasilisk.bsky.social · Nov 15

characters from dream doll duelists (OC setting that eventually will be a game i'm working on with lily) in the style of gen 1 pokemon trainer sprites

been working on this off and on for awhile. Fun stylistic limitation. i will happily field any question about any of my OCs

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Josh Sawyer @jesawyer.bsky.social · 20h

Steve Buscemi, best known for his role as Test Tube in Abel Ferrara’s 1990 neo-noir crime thriller, King of New York.

Steve Buscemi and Giancarlo Esposito looking like cool dudes in King of New York

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Quake (Erin) @quakeroc.bsky.social · 23h

a negative buddha telling you bad things

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 1d

Up to 43 reviews on Purgatory Dungeoneer! Just 7 away from reaching Very Positive (and becoming my first game to do so)!

store.steampowered.com/app/1963010/...

A review on Steam showing "Recommended" from October 6th saying: Perfect balance of session size and depth that's rare to find in turn-based RPGs.

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jj skolnik @modernistwitch.myatproto.social · 1d

feel like we can do better than “man these guys are real fatsos” when talking about agents of state violence idk

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James GHOULizio @theswweet.blackskycomra.de · 1d

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

I know that ppl hate talking about traffic but it's at least one part of how you prove impact and how stuff still gets greenlit. If you're a big journalist or an account or whatever, it costs you nothing to share a big impactful story to your audience but it means everything to the journalist.

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ghostly gwen howerton @kissphoria.bsky.social · 1d

Man, if you're going to share a screenshot of the story and a screenshot of an X post of someone else sharing the story, just share the fucking link! wacobridge.org/2025/10/06/d...

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moni🐱 @yurifulmoni.bsky.social · 1d

how id react if i ever felt like im standing of the way of yuri too

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SPOOKYDEAD💀SKELEHEAD @mikeluckas.bsky.social · 1d

when I say "fuck newsom" this kind of shit is exactly why. Useless fuckhead.

LGBTQ Nation @lgbtqnation.com · 1d

Gavin Newsom vetoes gender education bill, declines to sign other trans protections - buff.ly/MTUAV85

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Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 1d

Also in the past five days it's gotten four Positive reviews

not bad for a three year old non-live-service game

Damien Crawford @developerdamien.bsky.social · 1d

Up to 43 reviews on Purgatory Dungeoneer! Just 7 away from reaching Very Positive (and becoming my first game to do so)!

store.steampowered.com/app/1963010/...

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BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW 🤖 @team.trinketstudios.com · 1d

BATTLE SUIT ACES OUT NOW‼️

Adventure through the stars with the found family of the Zephyr and uncover the secrets of the mysterious Relic suits. Play the Battle Chef Brigade team’s new heartfelt, dynamic card-battling narrative RPG NOW on PC, PS5 and Switch!
store.steampowered.com/app/2870530/...

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David Forbes @davidforbes.bsky.social · 2d

Whenever anarchism — or any idea more radical than the status quo — gets dismissed as unserious, it's worth remembering the current system runs on things like "we put all the money on a scam machine that tells rich dipshits they're god."

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 2d

"The hundreds of billions of dollars companies are investing in AI now account for an astonishing 40 per cent share of US GDP growth this year... In a way, then, America has become one big bet on AI."

America is now one big bet on AI

It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy

www.ft.com

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pocho @pochorm.bsky.social · 2d

#1000xRESIST
#fanart

I want to see the Healer's eyes...

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Aura/Moom @moomanibe.bsky.social · 2d

when I was defending itch I heard from a lot of - frankly to my shock - other queers who were like "it's a platform, platforms are the enemy" and until we're able to distinguish _as users_ the ways in which worker owned services aren't your enemy and deserve grace, we won't be seeing very many

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