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Aquin (Michael)
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old programmer with weird game hobby
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I have the same bias even decades later. Obviously the new game I played the most this year was...

magmmlcontest.com/magmml3.php
Make a Good Mega Man Level Contest 3 - Info/Download
The biggest MaGMML game yet!
magmmlcontest.com
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Video I wanted to share. Someone used (I think?) a modified version of VHS-Decode to save the REBOOT master tapes, so we're gonna have an HD version of that show at some point.
youtu.be/L00jx-GH2w8
WE SAVED REBOOT
YouTube video by ReBoot ReWind
youtu.be
December 26, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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December 25, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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ATTENTION ARTISTS AND ANY ASPIRING PIXEL ARTISTS!!!

Aseprite is on sale on Steam!! It's a Pixel art program for art/animating and I highly recommend! (I have almost 700 hours in it!) It's $13 and a one time payment for an excellent program!!
December 25, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Well that's it Christmas is over
December 26, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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December 23, 2025 at 6:44 PM
This game makes me feel, as an adult, the way Alpha Waves made me feel as a kid. . . . I'm not sure that matters, but there it is.
store.steampowered.com/app/2111360/...
Save 35% on Extreme Evolution: Drive to Divinity on Steam
Evolution concludes in this expressive platformer. Movement is your power, transformation is your gift. Discover sites and evolve as you explore an organic underworld open-world, Earth looming in the ...
store.steampowered.com
December 22, 2025 at 8:55 PM
It's Go. And it's still Go, apologies to Doom 2 and MegaZeux.
Quote this with what you would have said your game of the millennium was on the eve of 999 anno Domini, and what you would say your favorite game is now
December 22, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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this feels downright disrespectful
December 22, 2025 at 8:03 PM
nuworm is another of so many great puzzlescript games this year, it's truly phenomenal:
cubestudio.itch.io/nuworm
nuworm by noa
Travel through 50+ puzzles and learn how to move.
cubestudio.itch.io
December 19, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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my steam wishlist might be a little too long
December 18, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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The Video Game History Foundation does incredible work, of which this is just one example, but let's also all agree that @philsalv.bsky.social is a goddamned national treasure
As part of our project to preserve the history of Sega Channel, we have recovered OVER 100 new Sega Channel ROMs, including the legendary lost game Garfield: Caught in the Act - The Lost Levels.

Read more: gamehistory.org/segachannel/
December 16, 2025 at 3:13 AM
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its that time again !! NEW GAME!!

✨ SUPER DUST SETTLERS ✨

🏜 Is it a sequel ?? SORT OF
🏙 Except the gameplay is totally different !!
🌳 THERE'S STILL TREE THO
🌊 Terraform random 16x16 maps using RESOURCE CARDS
📊 MAXIMIZE your ECO INDEX (or don't, i trust you)

adamatomic.itch.io/super-dust-s...
December 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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since other people are doing it, here's a 50 indie game recommendation thread (entirely separate from the 50 indie games i have enjoyed thread i made a few days ago, which is here - bsky.app/profile/ella...). feel free to mute the thread if it's annoying
New rule this year: If you post "Play more indie games" during the game awards, you are required to make a thread recommending 50 of them.
December 12, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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50 indie games i've enjoyed, inspired by @sylviefluff.bsky.social and @droqen.bsky.social

UFO 50
Ib
Stephen's Sausage Roll
Salad Fields
Yume Nikki
Mosa Lina
Future Unfolding
Environmental Station Alpha
The Northern Journey
Uurnog Uurnlimited
DUSK
Corn Kidz 64
Anodyne 2
Decarnation
Cruelty Squad
December 9, 2025 at 11:28 PM
I've read Cornelius Agrippa, and it's obvious these gamedevs did their homework. Although I can't confirm if a cucumber will roll off the table in the presence of olive oil.

store.steampowered.com/app/2885870/...
Strange Antiquities on Steam
Become the custodian of a store dealing in occult antiquities. Explore the quaint and gloomy town of Undermere, where strange goings-on and dark mysteries abound. Find and identify arcane artefacts, u...
store.steampowered.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I'm playing it, but uh... am I playing it??

store.steampowered.com/app/2134320/...
ENA: Dream BBQ on Steam
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
store.steampowered.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Play more indie games please: Hex Pivot, Covemouth, A Short Bike, Artillipede, Aha Alphabet, Hopper-1K, GlitchPick, Tactic Toe, URL Snake!, Triflectia, Boons of IIUIR, BLUEJEWELED, Dragonsweeper, Skeleton Gelatin, Undertoe, Knip Knop, Sacrement of the River God, Bee Magic, Solitomb, Slime Stretch,
New rule this year: If you post "Play more indie games" during the game awards, you are required to make a thread recommending 50 of them.
December 12, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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I featured the demo for Angeline Era in a video about 1.5 years ago (it had the 1 fish, 2 fish... 32 fish boss), but the full game just released and I'm really enjoying it so far. Rare that I play a game as delightfully playful and tightly designed as this.

store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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holy moly, ok! we did it?? we made a collection??? it's the first 13 games, bundled up with unlockable dev notes, updated audio, some sneaky bug fixes, cloud saves, and Steam Deck support!! store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...
CorgiSpace on Steam
CorgiSpace is a collection of 8-bit games that have short legs on purpose. This anthology includes more than a dozen action, adventure, arcade, and puzzle games, and each can be thoroughly explored in...
store.steampowered.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Y'all are doing top games lists already? You'll feel really dumb when you play Angeline Era and realize you missed one.
December 11, 2025 at 6:26 AM
I'm trying to picture Carl Sagan doing a sponsored ad read for Raycon and I can't do it.
December 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
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HEY if you have ever wanted to make a whole working #PICO8 ROM from absolute scratch, but weren't sure where to start...

just head over to www.pico-8-edu.com and i'll take you on a lil 15 minute tour that will have you up and running in no time! well, in 15 minutes 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsj...
How to make a game using PICO-8 | CorgiJam
YouTube video by Finji
www.youtube.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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A random youtube video just reminded me of a pair of genuinely great freeware gems - Vacant Ark and Iwanaga, a pair of very Treasure-inspired experimental freeware shmups from a developer known only as Buster who just kinda disappeared from the scene.

They are both very cool and hold up great today
December 1, 2025 at 11:00 AM
December 10, 2025 at 12:50 AM