DrMelon
@melon.zone
indie game developer, game optimization freelancer, and film photography freak
https://melon.zone
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https://melon.zone
[email protected]
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Skin Deep is your favorite immersive sim's favorite immersive sim. A quintessential distillation of the "problem solving"/"emergent intersecting mechanics" take on the genre, it's as hilarious as it is clever. Also it takes place in the Blendoverse, like 30 Flights of Loving/Gravity Bone/Flotilla!
Skin Deep on Steam
Skin Deep is an immersive first-person shooter. We got sneezing. We got things getting stuck in your feet. Stalk through a vast non-linear starship and sneak, subvert, and sabotage to survive in this ...
store.steampowered.com
December 13, 2025 at 9:47 PM
Skin Deep is your favorite immersive sim's favorite immersive sim. A quintessential distillation of the "problem solving"/"emergent intersecting mechanics" take on the genre, it's as hilarious as it is clever. Also it takes place in the Blendoverse, like 30 Flights of Loving/Gravity Bone/Flotilla!
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you should make placeholder graphics look incredibly shitty!! making a game is a long and complicated process and if you use ai to make placeholders that look finished at a glance you'll probably forget some of it, and then people will scour your whole game and you'll look like a fraud.
December 13, 2025 at 10:16 AM
you should make placeholder graphics look incredibly shitty!! making a game is a long and complicated process and if you use ai to make placeholders that look finished at a glance you'll probably forget some of it, and then people will scour your whole game and you'll look like a fraud.
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As much as I love buff badass lesbian Samus, I also really love the version of her from that one Super Metroid gag manga where she's this weirdo obsessed with round objects and hiding in small spaces
December 13, 2025 at 7:20 AM
As much as I love buff badass lesbian Samus, I also really love the version of her from that one Super Metroid gag manga where she's this weirdo obsessed with round objects and hiding in small spaces
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Spherical Dinner
December 13, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Spherical Dinner
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This is the way to do it.
The union is across the whole company.
This means leadership can't just fire a department, like we see with various QA groups being let go.
It's cross discipline, so true collective bargaining is possible, and 'solidarity' moves are feasible.
...
The union is across the whole company.
This means leadership can't just fire a department, like we see with various QA groups being let go.
It's cross discipline, so true collective bargaining is possible, and 'solidarity' moves are feasible.
...
id Software workers form wall-to-wall union in response to mass Xbox layoffs
id Software workers form wall-to-wall union in response to mass Xbox layoffs
Rip and tear until the contract is done.
www.gamedeveloper.com
December 13, 2025 at 12:16 AM
This is the way to do it.
The union is across the whole company.
This means leadership can't just fire a department, like we see with various QA groups being let go.
It's cross discipline, so true collective bargaining is possible, and 'solidarity' moves are feasible.
...
The union is across the whole company.
This means leadership can't just fire a department, like we see with various QA groups being let go.
It's cross discipline, so true collective bargaining is possible, and 'solidarity' moves are feasible.
...
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Reached 20% of my big needlework project! Absolutely the biggest art thing I've EVER done, already put hundreds of hours into it, starting in September and doing a few sections every day.
There's lots of errors and mistakes, it IS my first crosstitch ever, but its still coming along nicely.
There's lots of errors and mistakes, it IS my first crosstitch ever, but its still coming along nicely.
December 13, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Reached 20% of my big needlework project! Absolutely the biggest art thing I've EVER done, already put hundreds of hours into it, starting in September and doing a few sections every day.
There's lots of errors and mistakes, it IS my first crosstitch ever, but its still coming along nicely.
There's lots of errors and mistakes, it IS my first crosstitch ever, but its still coming along nicely.
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Despelote is one of my favorite games of the last few years. Documentarian and personal and unlike anything else I’ve played. Go run around as a little kid trying to make sense of the world in the shadow of the World Cup.
few more reviews for despelote to hit 500 and overwhelmingly positive 🙏🏽
December 12, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Despelote is one of my favorite games of the last few years. Documentarian and personal and unlike anything else I’ve played. Go run around as a little kid trying to make sense of the world in the shadow of the World Cup.
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“Muuuahhahh the japanese rpg… is well known for its excellent. There is a french rpg called expedition 33…. That recalls that same Japanese… excellence… *trails off*”
December 12, 2025 at 4:10 AM
“Muuuahhahh the japanese rpg… is well known for its excellent. There is a french rpg called expedition 33…. That recalls that same Japanese… excellence… *trails off*”
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really good npc dialogue.
It's a fake bear fur.
I hunt fake bears.
Please keep quiet about that.
I hunt fake bears.
Please keep quiet about that.
December 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
really good npc dialogue.
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It seems people want to ponder orbs—I mean learn about Matcaps! They're great for gesturing at complex lighting and reflections within a stylized art style. And as a bonus, no UV unwrapping! ^.^
December 10, 2025 at 11:40 PM
It seems people want to ponder orbs—I mean learn about Matcaps! They're great for gesturing at complex lighting and reflections within a stylized art style. And as a bonus, no UV unwrapping! ^.^
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Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
December 10, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Made a site comparing the sizes of living things :)
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
The great Julius Csotonyi spent 5 months painting over 60 illustrations for the site, no ai used
> neal.fun/size-of-life/
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SCAM WARNING:
Apparently someone is out there impersonating our studio and employees! Please be careful! We are *not* currently cold emailing people for playtesting anything.
We will *only* contact you via our official email domain "@mobiusdigitalgames.com".
Apparently someone is out there impersonating our studio and employees! Please be careful! We are *not* currently cold emailing people for playtesting anything.
We will *only* contact you via our official email domain "@mobiusdigitalgames.com".
December 10, 2025 at 8:09 PM
SCAM WARNING:
Apparently someone is out there impersonating our studio and employees! Please be careful! We are *not* currently cold emailing people for playtesting anything.
We will *only* contact you via our official email domain "@mobiusdigitalgames.com".
Apparently someone is out there impersonating our studio and employees! Please be careful! We are *not* currently cold emailing people for playtesting anything.
We will *only* contact you via our official email domain "@mobiusdigitalgames.com".
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🕹️ YOU ARE NOW ENTERING CORGISPACE 🕹️
CorgiSpace is a new collection of 8-bit games with short legs on purpose! This collection by Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman includes more than a dozen action, adventure, arcade, and puzzle games, and it's OUT NOW!
Get it today on Steam and itch.io!
CorgiSpace is a new collection of 8-bit games with short legs on purpose! This collection by Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman includes more than a dozen action, adventure, arcade, and puzzle games, and it's OUT NOW!
Get it today on Steam and itch.io!
December 10, 2025 at 7:30 PM
🕹️ YOU ARE NOW ENTERING CORGISPACE 🕹️
CorgiSpace is a new collection of 8-bit games with short legs on purpose! This collection by Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman includes more than a dozen action, adventure, arcade, and puzzle games, and it's OUT NOW!
Get it today on Steam and itch.io!
CorgiSpace is a new collection of 8-bit games with short legs on purpose! This collection by Adam 'Atomic' Saltsman includes more than a dozen action, adventure, arcade, and puzzle games, and it's OUT NOW!
Get it today on Steam and itch.io!
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The question itself contains something interesting as well, with Labour MP Chris Murray saying:
"Having met Rockstar, they failed to reassure me they are following employment law and I share concerns about union busting."
"Having met Rockstar, they failed to reassure me they are following employment law and I share concerns about union busting."
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
The question itself contains something interesting as well, with Labour MP Chris Murray saying:
"Having met Rockstar, they failed to reassure me they are following employment law and I share concerns about union busting."
"Having met Rockstar, they failed to reassure me they are following employment law and I share concerns about union busting."
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🪱🪱🪱Wirm is out right now!!!🪱🪱🪱
Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...
Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...
December 9, 2025 at 9:42 PM
🪱🪱🪱Wirm is out right now!!!🪱🪱🪱
Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...
Please enjoy this new trailer voiced by my 2-year-old son, then go buy the game on Steam!
store.steampowered.com/app/1934870/...
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I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies…
December 9, 2025 at 7:50 PM
I drew way too many fonts for the game Time Flies…
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"Grand Theft, not wage theft": Rockstar protest in NYC draws tech workers, members of multiple unions
aftermath.site/grand-theft-...
aftermath.site/grand-theft-...
December 8, 2025 at 11:54 PM
"Grand Theft, not wage theft": Rockstar protest in NYC draws tech workers, members of multiple unions
aftermath.site/grand-theft-...
aftermath.site/grand-theft-...
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i need to get more mysterious
December 8, 2025 at 11:15 PM
i need to get more mysterious
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it works!!!
September 12, 2024 at 5:28 PM
it works!!!
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The golden hare from the Masquerade treasure hunt puzzle book by Kit Williams ended up selling for £82,550 (over four times the initial estimate)! news.justcollecting.com/masquerade-h...
December 8, 2025 at 11:49 PM
The golden hare from the Masquerade treasure hunt puzzle book by Kit Williams ended up selling for £82,550 (over four times the initial estimate)! news.justcollecting.com/masquerade-h...
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People were asking if there’s Solitaire behind the dark patterns and… not really? It’s more dark patterns - the Solitaire framing gives them a bunch of unrevealed cards they can determine the value of as needed to either make you win (feels good) or lose (forcing you to spend money to keep going)
December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
People were asking if there’s Solitaire behind the dark patterns and… not really? It’s more dark patterns - the Solitaire framing gives them a bunch of unrevealed cards they can determine the value of as needed to either make you win (feels good) or lose (forcing you to spend money to keep going)
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In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025
December 8, 2025 at 3:20 PM
In case you were wondering what it’s like to boot a free to play mobile game in 2025
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Through many years of iteration and no regulations, we managed to distill the perfect sensory stimulation designs that are literally just Fisher Price toys for susceptible adults except every time you hit a button it charges your credit card. There's not even a game in there anymore.
December 8, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Through many years of iteration and no regulations, we managed to distill the perfect sensory stimulation designs that are literally just Fisher Price toys for susceptible adults except every time you hit a button it charges your credit card. There's not even a game in there anymore.
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New blog post: "interest sources", contextual NPC interactions, as deployed by me in @sleightofhand.game and other things. Here is one way that you, too, can keep your code from ballooning while actively encouraging your design aspirations to balloon
www.joewintergreen.com/interest-sou...
www.joewintergreen.com/interest-sou...
December 8, 2025 at 5:33 AM
New blog post: "interest sources", contextual NPC interactions, as deployed by me in @sleightofhand.game and other things. Here is one way that you, too, can keep your code from ballooning while actively encouraging your design aspirations to balloon
www.joewintergreen.com/interest-sou...
www.joewintergreen.com/interest-sou...