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Alex Roberts

@helloalexroberts.bsky.social

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The game designer behind Star Crossed, For the Queen, Precious Little Animal, POP!, Hero Dog Saves Town, Our Time on Earth, Rat Trash Party, and more. helloalexroberts.carrd.co please send inquiries to helloalexroberts at gmail

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 3d

Living wage? What of the laughing wage. How much is the loving wage. Tell me that

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 4d

This is a story more compelling than all the prequels put together

Spence @spencethebence.bsky.social · 5d

Helped my brother buy a new car today and this was the only decoration the salesman had on the desk.

Can of Limited Edition Star Wars Episode 1 Pepsi with Anakin on the can. It is inside a protective glass case.

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 5d

i love to contribute

Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 5d

Also it's not half as horny as you'd expect. I appreciate this lady's work and she has a nice voice. But. There's something just slightly wrong, slightly sad coming off the screen here. Its existence speaks to the fact that loneliness has been a profitable business for a long time

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 5d

It's clearly a port of a CD-ROM multimedia thing intended for home computers. A collection of interviews, photos, music videos etc. Its cutesy UI elements make me miss CD-ROM as its own format/experience. Did that fad fail or did it just finish?

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 5d

I promise (myself) that I won't try to talk about every game, but the very next one on the list, Chisato Moritaka Watarase Bashi and Lala Sunshine, has me kind of compelled.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcEI...

Sega Saturn - Chisato Moritaka - Watarase Bashi & Lala Sunshine (1997)

YouTube video by The VideoGames Museum

www.youtube.com

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 5d

I like to ask myself, when I play these games, how they would have hit me in the mid/late nineties. And damn, this puzzle game and this little cartoon girl could have been my whole world when I was a kid.

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 5d

Surprisingly fun: Chibi Maruko chan no Taisen Puzzledama! It's like puyo puyo but with this girl (from a manga I'd never heard of) and little dancing bunnies. I am realizing on this journey that I am a total sucker for falling object puzzle stuff

screenshot of happy child in front of dancing bunnies

screenshot of gameplay 1 v 1 puzzle action

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 6d

Absolutely acceptable

Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 6d

I'm not calling for a Butlerian anything man I just think we should destroy any artificial assistant more complex than the 1984 Tomy Omnibot

Little plastic helper robot with a tray, like a plastic drink tray to literally serve man

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 7d

That shit works unfortunately can we be Finch friends

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 9d

When I see a movie with absolutely nothing to recommend it except the presence of Michelle Yeoh: Dude you GOTTA see this!!!!

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 9d

Definitely worth playing: Chaos Control Remix! A bit Panzer Dragoon-y, without the captivating hints of lore but with first-person swooping full motion video backgrounds. Apparently it is very short which must suck if you're good at shooters

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wYW...

Chaos Control Remix (JP) |4k60fps| Longplay (Sega Saturn)

YouTube video by Vault of console games

www.youtube.com

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 9d

Oh wow! Anjali being a fan of ftq is amazing, especially because... I mean come on. One of the Queen cards could just be a photo of her.

Party of One Podcast @partyofonepodcast.bsky.social · 10d

NEW EPISODE - FOR THE QUEEN WITH ANJALI BHIMANI
@sweeetanj.bsky.social @helloalexroberts.bsky.social

You'll dig this episode if you like: Dark fantasy, court intrigue, finding storytelling magic in the heart of the cards

www.partyofonepodcast.com/2025/09/29/4...

This Week on Party of One
FOR THE QUEEN

Feat. Anjali Bhimani
(Borderlands 4, The Twenty Sided Tavern)

The Queen has a difficult journey ahead. She has chosen her most loyal subjects. But can they be trusted?

And at the end of the day... can the Queen?

Now available
PartyOfOnePodcast.com

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 9d

Omg I would looove to have seen that live

Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 9d

If anyone ever calls me an award winning game designer please know they are referring to this screenshot. The screenshot is the award

Benjamin Gray @imbenvincible.bsky.social · 9d

Didn't tag you in this years ago, so I don't know if you ever saw it

"Gonna introduce a bunch of unsuspecting people to For the Queen"

It's a bearded guy named Alex looking pensively at a deck of For the Queen cards in a standard Nerd House with Nerd Shit everywhere

A tweet from the now-defunct Roleplay Retcon Twitter, replying to the previous post, that says "Just heard the For the Queen "OOoooOooOO" from the kitchen"

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 9d

Omg Ben that screenshot

Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

I'm also a huge fan of @amyhuang.bsky.social's Brave the Dreamer, which is about people who went to a fantasy land as children, connect on an Internet forum as teens, and then go their separate ways as adults. Melancholy, nostalgic, beautiful. chromegarden.itch.io/brave-the-dr...

Brave the Dreamer by Chrome Garden Games

Explore the tension between an enthralling experience from your youth and the tender life you've built in its aftermath

chromegarden.itch.io

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

And they co-created the first ever (?) DftQ game, about a group of friends reunited after a long absence: jennmartin.itch.io/reunion

Reunion by Jenn Martin

A Descended From the Queen game about coming back together

jennmartin.itch.io

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

Jenn also has a very cool game based on For the Queen called Dead After Dinner - it's a great example of nudging the complexity of FtQ up a bit (you have one stat, can customize the deck a little) in a way that, imo, invites further hacking :) jennmartin.itch.io/dead-after-d...

Dead After Dinner by Jenn Martin

a roleplaying game about a murder in the family...

jennmartin.itch.io

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

Omg please do! 🥰

Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

Oh neat, I do wonder about the differences when played side by side

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

Buh???? Details please! 😃

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Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

That is so cool!

Alex Roberts @helloalexroberts.bsky.social · 10d

See? Now I feel amazing! 😊

Camilla Zamboni @czamboni.bsky.social · 10d

Well, I use For The Queen every Fall in my Educational Gaming Lab! Groups of students enjoy your game every year - and I will make sure to share pictures after we play on Wednesday! :)