Okay.

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."

I mean…”most fields” except all forms of media.

But also…

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.

Year of the Egg

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.

They don't.

God I’m just imagining how Flipper Flop is going to play out.

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.

(Look for something new near the very end of the dungeon.)