Jay (Pockets)
@jaylewisartist.bsky.social
He/Him, Artist/Writer, Númenórean.
Designer for film & stage, Gamedev, Kiwi
Community Mod for BHVR Interactive - Blight: Survival
Designer for film & stage, Gamedev, Kiwi
Community Mod for BHVR Interactive - Blight: Survival
Tate and Logan getting their asses beat within days of each other is one of the best things to come out of the shitshow that is 2025
December 21, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Tate and Logan getting their asses beat within days of each other is one of the best things to come out of the shitshow that is 2025
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i will rag on anybody using an LLM for placeholder text when lorem ipsum has been here for sixty years
ragging on a top game studio for using LLM placeholder text is maybe not the most efficient use of time with all the fires currently burning
December 17, 2025 at 10:02 PM
i will rag on anybody using an LLM for placeholder text when lorem ipsum has been here for sixty years
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We've started up a new Discord server where we'll be posting about GO PHISH development and sharing sneak peeks! It'll also be the first place to hear about future playtests. If you're excited for GO PHISH, you should join! #indiegame #indiedev discord.gg/8KxSYJ4AUp
Join the COSMIC SOUP GAMES Discord Server!
COSMIC SOUP GAMES is an independent game studio based in Aotearoa/New Zealand. WISHLIST GO PHISH ON STEAM! | 14 members
discord.gg
December 14, 2025 at 11:22 PM
We've started up a new Discord server where we'll be posting about GO PHISH development and sharing sneak peeks! It'll also be the first place to hear about future playtests. If you're excited for GO PHISH, you should join! #indiegame #indiedev discord.gg/8KxSYJ4AUp
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God, I have so many things to say on this topic, but it all comes down to understanding two main things:
1. Art history
2. Art application
All these games that have a broad techno-fantastic art style with glowy bits are drawing from a very shallow well in both columns.
1. Art history
2. Art application
All these games that have a broad techno-fantastic art style with glowy bits are drawing from a very shallow well in both columns.
Oh my gosh I’ve been waiting for people to wake up to this for so long.
These games feel like prime examples of “we don’t know what we actually want but our design doc is full of words like aspirational, dynamic, epic and fresh” that weren’t cancelled mid-development.
These games feel like prime examples of “we don’t know what we actually want but our design doc is full of words like aspirational, dynamic, epic and fresh” that weren’t cancelled mid-development.
December 15, 2025 at 4:28 AM
God, I have so many things to say on this topic, but it all comes down to understanding two main things:
1. Art history
2. Art application
All these games that have a broad techno-fantastic art style with glowy bits are drawing from a very shallow well in both columns.
1. Art history
2. Art application
All these games that have a broad techno-fantastic art style with glowy bits are drawing from a very shallow well in both columns.
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We've been working really hard on this indie game, it's fun and addictive and also a little bit dark and narrative-y. If you could spare a wishy that would be delishy.
Thanks also to @frostygamesfest.com for letting us announce in the showcase!
Thanks also to @frostygamesfest.com for letting us announce in the showcase!
We're so excited to properly announce our first game, GO PHISH! A tense, exciting rogue-ish debtbuilder based on the classic card game Go Fish!
WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM!
store.steampowered.com/app/3909150/...
#indiedev #indiegame #steamgames #indie
WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM!
store.steampowered.com/app/3909150/...
#indiedev #indiegame #steamgames #indie
GO PHISH on Steam
Go Fish or go homeless. In this rogue-ish debt-builder, pay your rent by phishing a target in a supercharged version of the classic card game. Crack your victim’s password in a dynamic dialogue system...
store.steampowered.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:21 PM
We've been working really hard on this indie game, it's fun and addictive and also a little bit dark and narrative-y. If you could spare a wishy that would be delishy.
Thanks also to @frostygamesfest.com for letting us announce in the showcase!
Thanks also to @frostygamesfest.com for letting us announce in the showcase!
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I am immediately all about EVERYTHING Go Phish seems to be doing.
It's like CloverPit, but you play Go Fish while phishing people in order to pay your rent as the walls of your apartment slowly close in on you.
Yes yes yes yes yes.
It's like CloverPit, but you play Go Fish while phishing people in order to pay your rent as the walls of your apartment slowly close in on you.
Yes yes yes yes yes.
We're so excited to properly announce our first game, GO PHISH! A tense, exciting rogue-ish debtbuilder based on the classic card game Go Fish!
WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM!
store.steampowered.com/app/3909150/...
#indiedev #indiegame #steamgames #indie
WISHLIST NOW ON STEAM!
store.steampowered.com/app/3909150/...
#indiedev #indiegame #steamgames #indie
GO PHISH on Steam
Go Fish or go homeless. In this rogue-ish debt-builder, pay your rent by phishing a target in a supercharged version of the classic card game. Crack your victim’s password in a dynamic dialogue system...
store.steampowered.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:43 PM
I am immediately all about EVERYTHING Go Phish seems to be doing.
It's like CloverPit, but you play Go Fish while phishing people in order to pay your rent as the walls of your apartment slowly close in on you.
Yes yes yes yes yes.
It's like CloverPit, but you play Go Fish while phishing people in order to pay your rent as the walls of your apartment slowly close in on you.
Yes yes yes yes yes.
Playing with some stuff
December 9, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Playing with some stuff
Horses is so tame that all of the nudity is censored.
Its worst crime is being weird and uncomfortable. It's not even graphic outside of the general themes present.
The time I spent watching my friend spitefully play it over Discord was spent laughing hysterically at the close up chewing scenes.
Its worst crime is being weird and uncomfortable. It's not even graphic outside of the general themes present.
The time I spent watching my friend spitefully play it over Discord was spent laughing hysterically at the close up chewing scenes.
Despite the controversy, Horses is only shocking if you're unfamiliar with the history movies, theater, literature, or basically any art form that does not have stats. aftermath.site/horses-indie-g...
Horses Is Tame
Horses, the indie game that is too scandalous for either Valve or Epic, is only beyond the pale if you're not familiar with any other art form.
aftermath.site
December 6, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Horses is so tame that all of the nudity is censored.
Its worst crime is being weird and uncomfortable. It's not even graphic outside of the general themes present.
The time I spent watching my friend spitefully play it over Discord was spent laughing hysterically at the close up chewing scenes.
Its worst crime is being weird and uncomfortable. It's not even graphic outside of the general themes present.
The time I spent watching my friend spitefully play it over Discord was spent laughing hysterically at the close up chewing scenes.
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writers artists
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
🤝
criminals santa claus
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
🤝
criminals santa claus
March 28, 2025 at 1:49 AM
writers artists
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
🤝
criminals santa claus
🤝
getting our best work
🤝 done at 2am 🤝
🤝
criminals santa claus
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Someone commented on our YouTube channel just a single word: "hacklatro". We didn't set out with Balatro as a goalpost when we were deciding what game to make. We just thought it would be interesting to see what it would be like to layer new gameplay mechanics onto Go Fish! #indiegame #indiedev
December 1, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Someone commented on our YouTube channel just a single word: "hacklatro". We didn't set out with Balatro as a goalpost when we were deciding what game to make. We just thought it would be interesting to see what it would be like to layer new gameplay mechanics onto Go Fish! #indiegame #indiedev
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recent work, let's see how the video compression on here treats it😂
December 17, 2024 at 9:19 PM
recent work, let's see how the video compression on here treats it😂
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Desecrated Grounds
Acrylic on panel (original sold)
Acrylic on panel (original sold)
November 13, 2025 at 1:47 AM
Desecrated Grounds
Acrylic on panel (original sold)
Acrylic on panel (original sold)
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I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
October 28, 2025 at 10:23 PM
I legitimately didn't know they were competing with Steam and it's crazy to me that they burnt so much money on what sounds like something with very little (or wildly misguided) market research.
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Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this
The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤
The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤
October 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Good News folks, you CAN now in fact, play this
The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤
The free demo for Legend of Khiimori is now available on Steam for everyone. Check it out, give it a try, tell a friend. Show everyone how much you want horse games 💪❤
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There is a brave knight within u ⚔️
March 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
There is a brave knight within u ⚔️
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The bees have discovered Brutalism
September 29, 2025 at 3:52 PM
The bees have discovered Brutalism
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There's still more I want to do on this piece but for now it's done. Here are some better looks at each archway
September 18, 2025 at 9:19 AM
There's still more I want to do on this piece but for now it's done. Here are some better looks at each archway
Arches of the Web - The three realms from a novel I've been toying with for a couple of years.
#art #dnd #fantasy #worldbuilding
#art #dnd #fantasy #worldbuilding
September 18, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Arches of the Web - The three realms from a novel I've been toying with for a couple of years.
#art #dnd #fantasy #worldbuilding
#art #dnd #fantasy #worldbuilding
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September 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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Hollow Knight costume design
September 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
Hollow Knight costume design
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A Rascal sister site has launched: @roguesite.bsky.social
Former-Polygon writers have gotten together to launch a worker-owned video game journalism outlet (with a little rascally help).
If you mourned the loss of one site, celebrate the birth of another, and support the people making it happen.
Former-Polygon writers have gotten together to launch a worker-owned video game journalism outlet (with a little rascally help).
If you mourned the loss of one site, celebrate the birth of another, and support the people making it happen.
Rogue joins the worker-owned journalism crew
Congratulations, it's a website!
www.rascal.news
September 2, 2025 at 8:13 PM
A Rascal sister site has launched: @roguesite.bsky.social
Former-Polygon writers have gotten together to launch a worker-owned video game journalism outlet (with a little rascally help).
If you mourned the loss of one site, celebrate the birth of another, and support the people making it happen.
Former-Polygon writers have gotten together to launch a worker-owned video game journalism outlet (with a little rascally help).
If you mourned the loss of one site, celebrate the birth of another, and support the people making it happen.
August 9, 2025 at 3:14 PM