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i make games and music and other things! wishlist my game derelict star! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/Derelict_Star/ https://gate.itch.io/

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gate @gate.itch.io · 15d

My game Derelict Star is coming soon!

It is a platformer about exploring and navigating tricky spaces. I hope you love it as much as I loved making it!

Available to wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...

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melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · 14h

Finished this great cave story review / historical context of it amongst shareware, doujin, and modern indie: syslbnth.neocities.org/htxt/cave-st...

Which led to a 2013 post by @ellaguro.bsky.social on the game corrypt & the discourse around its "bad" graphics
ellaguro.blogspot.com/2013/08/the-...

From the corrypt post, quote:

It's hard not to see the magic in the game as some sort of allegory on human beings' never-ending thirst for more resources, and the irreparable damage it enacts on the environment. It suggests, especially taken with his other works like Vesper.5, that environments are delicate spaces that need to be accepted on their own terms in order to really be understood at a deeper level.

These greater themes seem to be absent in the little critical writing that does exist about his games they're not mentioned anywhere in the Wired article, nor in this detailed critical reading, which focuses solely on the mechanical aspects of his games. The strangeness and beauty of the environments become a marginalized backdrop to a game seen as only remarkable from a design perspective-something the game even seems to mock with its flat looking aesthetics and its big, square block pushing and its few mock-JRPG miniquests in the beginning.

From the cave story post, quote:

"What's more, as indie games improved dramatically in quality over the course of the ensuing decade, the technical skill floor lowered by the first wave of hits would get raised back up in the end. You could get away with pixel art and chiptune now, but it had to be the pixel art and chiptune of a professional. Tools would be released to help control the ballooning scope of new indie games-Unity, Unreal, GameMaker Studio, and the, like. [15] But somehow this would just move the goalposts further. When these were released, we didn't make Iji faster and more comfortably-we made Hollow Knight."

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gate @gate.itch.io · 13h

looks good to me!

gate @gate.itch.io · 1d

i have learned how to turn my self-critical lens off when i'm in the process of making a game but the moment i have to show it to someone else i empathize w/ their experience of it and that critical lens comes back. all i know how to do is notice it and any bad emotions it brings, and then move on.

gate @gate.itch.io · 2d

this is gorgeous june wow

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June Flower @juneflower.bsky.social · Aug 22

My lizardman game is out! It's free! Very happy with how it came out, if you give it a try let me know what you think of it. Most of all... enjoy swamps.
june-flower.itch.io/elbe
#gamedev

Elbe by June Flower

a life spend wading in drivel

june-flower.itch.io

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Liz Ryerson @ellaguro.bsky.social · 5d

legitimately don't know where i found this but this is great. perfect moody midi orchestra shit. this is what i wish oneohtrix point never sounded like tbh lol barchboi.bandcamp.com/album/feral-...

Feral Scape II :: Wolf Dragon .Midi, by Barchboi

26 track album

barchboi.bandcamp.com

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gate @gate.itch.io · 2d

holy shit yeah this rocks

gate @gate.itch.io · 8d

yeah this one is very legible in context i think

gate @gate.itch.io · 8d

wow bluesky just absolutely crushes images lol the artificating looks terrible

gate @gate.itch.io · 8d

i think this is my super small search one

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gate @gate.itch.io · 8d

i think aesthetically i agree (and my very small capsule is basically just the title) but there are some advantages to the busy one -- i think it sells the scope better. it also grew on me a bit when i thought about the DOS platformer vibes it gave off (small tiles, packed screen).

gate @gate.itch.io · 8d

so you would maybe prefer the even more minimal version someone suggested? (i do think the image is balanced better with a vertically centered title)

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gate @gate.itch.io · 8d

anyone with opinions on which capsule art they like better?

(same as last thread but i made the option b title pop more)

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gate @gate.itch.io · 8d

wow bluesky really crushes images; there's so much noise/artifacting!

gate @gate.itch.io · 9d

hello please enjoy a song called "Mystery" from my upcoming game "Derelict Star" thank you

gate @gate.itch.io · 11d

anyone know where i can get those indie game laurel hat awards?? i mean i don't want to call anyone out but SOME GAMES are hogging them all imo

legit award that says "good job gate you made a good game"

gate @gate.itch.io · 11d

ok @ivysly.com i'm starting to cook!! it's tough bc i'm still having to learn new enemies. rush of a game though -- all flow state

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gate @gate.itch.io · 11d

oo i love the colors!

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John @farawaytimes.bsky.social · 12d

Had fun poking around this collection again after some time away, it's really a new gold standard for "classic freeware dev doing a super-loved-on collection of their old games"

if you like VVVVVV or Super Hexagon or Dicey Dungeons you should absolutely check it out, some all-time classics in here

Terry Cavanagh @terrycavanaghgames.com · Feb 13

Presenting "Terry's Other Games"! A messy little collection of short games I've made over the past 20 years, out now on Steam and Itch! <3

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2824580/...

Itch: terrycavanagh.itch.io/terrys-other...

Save 10% on Terry's Other Games on Steam

Hi, I'm Terry Cavanagh! You might remember me from such videogames as Dicey Dungeons, Super Hexagon, and VVVVVV. Here are a few other things I've made over the years!

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Da Scary Rose @modernmodron.itch.io · 12d

if you like silksong, play sylvie lime
if you dont like silksong, play sylvie lime

sylvie.itch.io/sylvie-lime

Sylvie Lime by sylvie

I've become a green lime

sylvie.itch.io

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gate @gate.itch.io · 13d

"worse than hollow knight" - my brother-in-law
store.steampowered.com/app/3641010/...

Derelict Star on Steam

A precise momentum-based platformer that emphasizes exploration and navigation puzzles. Run and jump your way through a wide variety of obstacles and challenges as you explore an abandoned derelict fr...

store.steampowered.com

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gate @gate.itch.io · 13d

c# properties are basically this! can be a static value that you can switch for getters and setters later without the rest of the code knowing.

gate @gate.itch.io · 14d

please stop praying for my grandpa!!! you are making him too strong.

gate @gate.itch.io · 14d

maybe a late-game feature -- it does look really cool

gate @gate.itch.io · 14d

oh yeah casio is on a very high end of "i have played too many smw hacks and need something that makes me feel that accomplishment high again"

it's doing some v. interesting things aesthetically tho!

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