Alex Lemley (Rocketlex)
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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex)
@rocketlex.bsky.social
Writer and game designer. Working on all sorts of stuff. Current projects:
🍔New Meat (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3458540/New_Meat/)
🌐Complexity Mode (https://www.alexlemley.com/complexity-mode)
Check out all that stuff and more at alexlemley.com
Okay.
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 AM
This has always kind of been my feeling about Astro Bot games, not that I really have anything against them for it.

With the most recent one in particular, I walked away from it saying "I've never seen a game be so perfectly and expertly crafted while offering absolutely nothing new to its genre."
December 17, 2025 at 4:09 AM
I mean…”most fields” except all forms of media.
December 15, 2025 at 8:21 PM
But also…
December 13, 2025 at 7:10 PM
That said, my next project is going to involve a lot of working with artists, and I imagine the “drinking a can of soda is easier to render than eating a bag of chips” trade-off is something I’ll be doing even in that small-scale context. Hell, I made compromises like that just working on my own.
December 11, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Year of the Egg
December 11, 2025 at 4:38 AM
This caught my eye because “the point of something being rare that you have to grind for is that it’s RARE and you have to GRIND for it” is actually a concept I’m wrestling with for my unannounced 2026 game project.

Let’s just say probability is a core theme of that game.
December 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
They don't.
December 10, 2025 at 5:13 AM
God I’m just imagining how Flipper Flop is going to play out.
December 9, 2025 at 12:21 AM
The shadow in New Meat isn’t a reference. It’s canon to that world.

There’s a Princess easter egg in Hero.ROM but I don’t even remember exactly how to access it.
December 7, 2025 at 11:28 PM
(Look for something new near the very end of the dungeon.)
December 7, 2025 at 9:38 PM