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Electron Dance
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Words on videogames. Video essays on videogames. Ex-Thinky Games streamer-in-residence.

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I could play Slice & Dice forever with this lad
A Curator in Slice & Dice who has Rampage with Steel and Self-Shield bonuses.
January 10, 2026 at 4:01 PM
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Game Development
A screenshot showing the text: THE END Start Again
January 6, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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In this Choose Your Own Adventure, you can go to bed or... implement that game save feature.

YOU HAVE SELECTED THE BAD ENDING: YOU ARE NOW PERMANENTLY TIRED, FOREVER

A screenshot showing the options 'Begin' and 'Load Saved Game'
January 5, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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Last reminder that I posted the 34th Crashbook last week. You can find it here: www.electrondance.co...

SCREENSHOTS SHOWN: Routine, The Killing Stone, Thousand Hells: The Underworld Heists, VHOLUME
ROUTINE: First-person perspective in a gloomy environment. The silhouette of a robot is in front of the player, who holes up astronaut-gloved hands, gripping some device, which has a display showing the robot ahead of us. There is a suggestion of threat. THE KILLING STONE: There is a yellow orb on the far left and a black orb on the right. Health indicators give the left participant 12/20 and 19/20 to the right. There are figures standing on a small strip in the middle of the screen, which seems to be part of an ornate table. There are blue cards below the two characters on the left and red cards below th two characters on the right. Various runes float in the air above the. THOUSAND HELLS: THE UNDERWORLD HEISTS: Text runs down the left side, culminating in dialogue choices for the player. On the right is a fuzzy visual of some kind of walking castle. VHOLUME: We see a gloomy gap between two brutalist buildings, joined by a pipe and a few cables. Another building is in the background. A tired glow shines from unknown origin in an open corridor on the building on the right.
December 30, 2025 at 3:03 AM
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'Tis Christmas and I offer a Crashbook to read. Twenty-seven games I spotted but have not played. Are they good or are they not so good? That is the question Shakespeare once mused. The unplayed games are here: www.electrondance.co...

SCREENSHOTS SHOWN: Oeuf, Prophet Margin, Katanaut, Keeper.
OEUF: A speckled egg sits high above a valley of some sort, beside a tree. Aside from the egg, A aesthetic is very Minecraft. It is raining. PROPHET MARGIN: Colourful map showing lots of towns or sites of importance connected by coloured routes. There are a lot of icons and numbers everywhere. The bottom left of the display shows a series of cards. KATANAUT: Aboard a spacecraft or possibly in a SF base of some kind, a figure in old Asian-style garb and a staff is bathed in the light turquoise glow from a terminal. The figure stands between two others. The night sky, or space, can be seen outside the room. KEEPER: What looks like a crumbling lighthouse on legs stands in the middle of the countryside. There is a house on a hill behind the lighthouse. A bird flies in the air.
December 29, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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Another day, another Crashbook. This is a joke, of course, as I haven't posted a new Crashbook for months. But here it is: www.electrondance.co...

SCREENSHOTS SHOWN: Cadence, Caput Mortum, Denshattack!, Horsess
CADENCE: A puzzle game of some sort. Isometric view of a puzzle involving isometric tiles. Some are grey, some are teal and others are tan-coloured. There are chevrons rippling across many of the grey tiles, but others have yellow lines instead. A cat sleeps on one tile to the far right. CAPUT MORTUM: Late 90s FPS aesthetic. A cobweb strewn hall, with pillars either side. Overhead is a curved roof that is painted to look like the night sky, yellow stars against a blue blackground. A hand is visible at the base of the view. Double doors await the player at the far end. There are ornate lamps hanging from the ceiling. DENSHATTACK!: A bright yellow carriage rolls across a neon yellow track over water towards construction scaffolding or possibly a car park, in the distance. There's a psychedelic mix of colours across the screen, with magenta and cyan dominating. Glowing cherry blossom fills the screen, coming from sakura trees either side of the waterway. HORSES: A man sits across a table in a black-and-white first-person perspective. He stares at you with piercing eyes which are overly bright considering his face is in shadow. You both have a plate of food to eat. It is not clear what is on the plate; it may be meat. The location appears to be some rundown kitchen.
December 29, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A week ago I posted the latest Crashbook containing 27 games I haven't played. Today, I actually post about it on social media. Find them all on the site here: www.electrondance.co...

SCREENSHOTS SHOWN: 9 Kings, Apparatus Examinus, Archrebel Tactics, Blippo+
9 KINGS: Isometric view, pixel-aesthetic citybuilder game. Several buildings and fields have been built on green, grassy land, peppered with fir trees. It is Year 31. There are three cards at the bottom, labelled Midas Touch, Archer and Soldier. APPARATUS EXAMINUS: Haunted PS2 aesthetic. In a brick room with a black stone, perhaps altar, in front of us. The room is bathed in purple light from the windows at the sides and also the archway beyond, although the image we can see through them looks like a series of shiny, concentric rings. ARCHREBEL TACTICS: 2D pixellated game. A craft sits in the middle of a clearing, around which there are rocks and green trees that look alien. A number of figures stand around the craft. A minimap squats to the top right. A description of the objectives are listed below. Along the bottom, all of the characters at your disposal are shown. BLIPPO+: Looks like an excerpt from a television programme. A well-dressed woman is seated and looking at us. FMV. There is a description at the bottom indicating this is 'SMALL TALK' 'LISA DUO' 'Gidget makes Small Talk with her boss'. It is featured on the BPS, Blippian Public System.
December 29, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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This Christmas I made a short twine that needed my two children to coordinate a search for infrastructure id codes eg. lamp post, a bridge. The reward was the final Xmas present (the board game Diatoms).

It worked great, was fun watching live video feed of my daughter running around the streets 😂
Computer display which reads: ROLES. Designate one player as the RELAY and another player as the RUNNER. The RUNNER will explore the external environment for identification codes. The RELAY will enter these codes into the test program and confirm to the runner whether the input has been successful. Please assign the roles and then continue to the test.
December 27, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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Grudge match with @vfig.bsky.social #DavesWordGame
Electrondance at 166 points VFIG on 165
December 24, 2025 at 9:59 AM
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Last reminder that I wrote a short post on the bite-sized DAVE'S WORD GAME. "So far I’ve never scored a full board, but I have scored a board minus one. This is the way."

In fact, I have scored a full board since posting the article. HA.

Read: www.electrondance.co...
Leaderboard showing ELECTRNDANCE in second place with 200 points.
December 21, 2025 at 3:41 AM
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Joel's words on DAVE'S WORD GAME. "Five minutes of picking out words you like morphs into fifteen minutes of headshotting critical targets with laser precision because you give the FULLEST of fucks, plotting not just the next move, but the next move beyond."

Read here: www.electrondance.co...
A grid of letters
December 20, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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On Dave's Word Game from @bearwaves.com: "There’s nothing like miscalculating and finishing a row, seeing your hard work at assembling a 4×4 strike vandalised with renewed letters, like so much GRAFFITI."

A few more words on the subject can be found here: www.electrondance.co...
Leaderboard showing 'ELECTRNDANCE' in second position at 200 points.
December 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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"You got the six-letter word HOUSES? Nice, have six points. You got the six-letter word ZYGOTE? Nice, have six points. Oh, you sweated over it? Nice, have six points. You think you deserve more? Nice, have six points." I wrote about my current daily crush, DAVE'S WORD GAME: www.electrondance.co...
A grid of letters.
December 20, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Yup, 255 passages now, almost at the magic number of 16²
A monitor showing a Twine application. There are almost daily copies of a story called The Secret. It is currently 255 passages in size.
December 20, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Well @vfig.bsky.social I guess this is how it's going to be going forward, forever trumping my WISDOM with your OBSTINATE words
December 20, 2025 at 8:52 AM
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So I finally finally cleared the board in Dave's Word Game and I've managed to achieve a score worse than yesterday's towering 200, this is unfair and I demand emotional reparations
Grid of letters which has been reassembled into the word "FESTERS". This will clear the board when selected. There are seven words left to go and 18 points scored so far.
December 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Well this sucks, what the fuck, letters

Dave's Word Game coming soon from @bearwaves.com - find words, get high score from line/block clearing. As much about geometry and planning ahead as word searching.
A grid of letters where many of the letters are horrors such as W, Y and J. Make a high scoring word out of this, you absolute ass, says the game.
December 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Back in the home town, a few minutes of nostalgia before the vape shops come crushing in
A blue sky over a grey river. A church reaches in from the left. A hill haunts the background in the right. Wales 2025.
November 29, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Never underestimate Ozymandius
Panel from Watchmen graphic novel where Ozymandius says: "Do it?" "Dan, I'm not a republic serial villain. Do you seriously think I'd explain my masterstroke if there remained the slightest chance of you effecting it's outcome?" "I released the budget thirty five minutes ago." Ozymandius has OBR written on his chest.
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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I've been writing down a list of all the changes to the game I make each day because I've been at this so long that I am starting to forget whether I did something not. I'm also putting changes down by date so I feel the weight of progress being made.

All spoilery stuff blurred.
A largely blurred out changelog for a game. 15/11/25: The tray: separators are not quite symmetrical somehow The tray: slightly wider than the standard twine view – when it appears at the end of exodus-f it slightly tw 17/11/25: Music & Sound FX instead of audio C5: sara doesn’t introduce her name for all gretings AV must involve “climbing up” onto motorway William is driving a van. 18/11/25: EXODUS title screen
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Last call for my little review of the brilliant Spooky Express, a follow up to one of my favourite puzzle games of all-time, Cosmic Express.

Words for reading are on other side of this link: www.electrondance.co...
A grid with rails across it, upon which is a short one-carriage train whose engine resembles a skull. There are three graves, two coffins while two zombies are waiting to be picked up.
November 7, 2025 at 3:19 AM
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Guess what I've written about this week?

"I’ve played Spooky Express for nearly 20 hours because the hard puzzles are *hard*."

The rest can be found here: www.electrondance.co...
An empty grid which has a short one-carriage train whose engine resembles a skull waiting on its border. There is one grave, plus a zombie and a small boy are waiting to be picked up.
November 6, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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"While Spooky Express is an algorithm-building game, it gives off the vibes of a puzzle roguelike."

I put down some words about the latest from the Draknek & Friends stable: www.electrondance.co...
A grid with rails across it, upon which is a short one-carriage train whose engine resembles a skull. There are two coffins, two vampires and a small boy waiting to be picked up.
November 6, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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"This isn’t just Cosmic Express returning with a cool, black cape."

I wrote about Spooky Express from the team at @draknek.bsky.social: www.electrondance.co...
A grid with rails across it, upon which is a short one-carriage train whose engine resembles a skull. There are four graves, a zombie and a small boy waiting to be picked up.
November 6, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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debugging is awesome, i've been staring at the same bug for 40 minutes

i've realised my error: i need to stare even longer
A green web page covered with pink Twine tags such as <tw-hook name="monolith">. Prominently, near the bottom is the yellow text "Knock the door again?"
October 13, 2025 at 9:42 PM