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melos han-tani

@hantani.bsky.social

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Hello I am making video games like anodyne, angeline era and danchi days. Welcome to my Blue sky. PFP moro-q from danchi days email melos at analgesic.productions blog: https://melodicambient.substack.com/ they/he

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melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · Oct 18

Hello Bluesky!! I've finally made the move from Twitter. I'm a game developer who posts about the 3D and 2D games he's working on, like @angelineera.bsky.social (for action fans!) and @danchidays.bsky.social (for cozy fans!). If you like what you see, follow for more!

Anodyne 2: Return to Dust (3D/2D Adventure, 2019)

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🧚ANGELINE ERA!!👼🏼 @angelineera.bsky.social · 5h

hehehe... youll die

store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

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melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · 13h

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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West Coast Bride @lastyearsmodel.bsky.social · 19h

It's scary and impoverished out there for trans folks and I'm going to have to upend my life pretty soon. My wonderful friends and bandmates put this together to help out — if you can help in anyway, with a few bucks or a share, it would make this tgirl's life a lot easier

gofund.me/55321f9d3

Donate to Rent Help For Max, organized by Lila Wolfe

If you’ve spent time in Chicago’s DIY music scene, you probably know Max — a warm, welcoming and fundamen… Lila Wolfe needs your support for Rent Help For Max

gofund.me

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shoy's little quiet spot @shoyslayer.bsky.social · 2d

CYCLE is finally out.
Thank you for waiting.
store.steampowered.com/app/1947160/...
dvtzr.itch.io/cycle

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melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · 1d

Yeah the boos...it's all fear!!

melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · 1d

Bought some USA cereal for my return trip and. Was thinking about those nostalgia 90s/00s shopping Instagram reels and it's funny bc like.. most of that food still exists if you want it?? Cereal types have hardly changed. Lunchables are still there...just alongside protein foam and crumbl cookies

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melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · 1d

The catharsis of watching baseball is seeing the Phillies boo Otani for being good...and then Otanis team winning anyways HAHAHA I Love ⚾

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melos han-tani @hantani.bsky.social · 1d

I would be up to play!

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mogu @mogumu.bsky.social · 3d

our main character Hoshino in Danchi Days! her sprite, the first portrait and final portrait 💫

the first portrait is cute but I wanted to show more detail for expressions & clothing when you talk to characters 🥺
@danchidays.bsky.social