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Dugan

@tikipodltd.bsky.social

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Bafta nominated game developer and owner of Tikipod. Co-Dev and Publisher of Astro Aqua Kitty, Iron Crypticle, Aqua Kitty, Rock Boshers. Currently based in VIC region, AUS.

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · Nov 8

Hi new followers!

Here is a project I hope we can get moving again (was put on ice a year ago), and finish off sometime in 2025.
It's a Super CDrom System game for PC Engine!

Vid below shows a test level with temp artwork.

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 53m

just spotted a modern cd drive with pop up lid!

Shame Pioneer are getting out of the optical biz - this sort of drive lid would have been fab for the Analogue Duo

Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 1h

why are they betting so hard on this Ai dross?
Just think how all that money could be being spent instead

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The Spaceshipper 🚀 @thespaceshipper.com · 1h

I think that's not good, but I'm no expert. 🫠

Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · 2h

My latest animation of the global surface temperature anomaly, 1851 - 2025 (current through September).

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Barnaby Edwards @barnabyedwards.bsky.social · 13h

On his first day there, he makes friends with a funny student with a monosyllabic name and creates an enemy of a posh boy from a noble family.

Sound familiar?

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K Le Guin, written in 1968.

Funny where some authors get their ideas from, isn't it?

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 13h

when a terrible pun pops into your head, and you just have to follow through...

screenshot of the game robocop rogue city, renamed to robocop brogue city, with an image of robocop wearing brogues whilst petting a cat

Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 15h

David Lynch's Straight Story is on TV again, damn it's good

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René Otto @aceottorney.bsky.social · 17h

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

An image about the game developer's guide to publishing agreements feauturing otto the otter

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Alex Hanna-ween @alexhanna.bsky.social · 23h

I'm not an economist but seems worrying that the whole US economy is seven companies in a trenchcoat, passing the same $20 up and down

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 1d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

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Dr Kat Day (she/her) @chronicleflask.katday.com · 2d

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

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Please, just stop sending me AI videos of Dad. Stop believing I wanna see it or that I'll understand, I don't and I won't. If you're just trying to troll me, I've seen way worse, i'll restrict and move on. But please, if you've got any decency, just stop doing this to him and to me, to everyone even, full stop. It's dumb, it's a waste of time and energy, and believe me, it's NOT what he'd want.
To watch the legacies of real people be condensed down to 'this vaguely looks and sounds like them so that's enough,
, just so
other people can churn out horrible TikTok slop puppeteering them is maddening. You're not making art, you're making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings, out of the history of art and music, and then shoving them down someone else's throat hoping they'll give you a little thumbs up and like it.
Gross.

And for the love of EVERYTHING, stop calling it 'the future. Al is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be reconsumed. You are taking in the Human Centipede of content, and from the very very end of the line, all while the folks at the front laugh and laugh, consume and consume.

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ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ Milla Lorelei Mélomane 💙 ʕᵔᴥᵔʔ @britpoptarts.bsky.social · 2d

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Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.social · 1d

"The Mysterious Cities of Gold" french/japanese series (1982) for free on Youtube (worldwide / French+English dubs).
>> www.youtube.com/@MCO_Officie...

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Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 2d

Hmm, they don't make 1x cd burners any more do they?

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Jonathan C Slaght @jonathanslaght.com · 5d

super cool study found human artifacts in Bearded vulture nests, incl. "weaponry like a crossbow bolt and wooden lance, decorated sheep leather, and parts of a slingshot....a shoe made from twigs and grass is ~675-years-old." link to paper: doi.org/10.1002/ecy..... www.popsci.com/environment/... 🧪🌍🦉

Multi-generational vulture nests hold 700 years of human artifacts

Crossbow bolts, sandals, slingshots, and more.

www.popsci.com

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Johan Peitz - wishlist Icy Tower! @johanpeitz.com · 8d

picoCAD is 40% off on Steam right now!
👉 store.steampowered.com/app/2800590/...
#lowpoly #3d #pixelart

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 5d

Go get on this!
The original Dino run was awesome:)

Pixeljam Games @pixeljamgames.bsky.social · 5d

Less than 3 hours left for the Dino Run 2 Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pix...

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Pixeljam Games @pixeljamgames.bsky.social · 5d

Less than 3 hours left for the Dino Run 2 Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/pix...

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Modding Marius @moddingmarius.bsky.social · 5d

Cette Game Boy rentre sans hésiter au panthéon des plus belles que j’ai pu réaliser !
La coque est signée 𝗦𝘂𝗽𝗲𝗿𝗴𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗱, une vraie merveille 🥰

À l’intérieur : une 𝗗𝗠𝗚𝗖, la fusion parfaite entre une 𝗚𝗮𝗺𝗲 𝗕𝗼𝘆 et une 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗿, un mod créé par @mousebitelabs.bsky.social 👌

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 5d

Woo!

Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 6d

Yay, thanks

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Pictoplasma @pictoplasma.bsky.social · 6d

Pictoplasma heads back to London’s Royal College of Art for a full day character creativity conference!
Confirmed speaker: Moth, award winning studio embracing new approaches to create vivid animation – in harmony with the needs of each project.

info & tickets 👉 pictoplasma.com/london

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 6d

Is this a horror show in the same way as that US tinned whole chicken?

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 6d

Go go Nintendo, destroy the image thieving Ai

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Brandon Sheffield @brandon.insertcredit.com · 7d

Folks who create videos about games on the internet: I have questions for you if you'd be so kind. I'm trying to determine the relationship between traditional media and those who create videos about games and have never worked for the games press. Sharing is appreciated!

forms.gle/cG3BEkGqwuoh...

Games influencer press relationship query

I'm trying to determine to what extend people who create videos about games engage with "traditional" press as a source for what games to cover. Please only answer these questions if you are someone w...

forms.gle

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Dugan @tikipodltd.bsky.social · 7d

And YES - more animated avatars
Go grab em over on Steam store.steampowered.com/points/shop/...

And the game is on discount too, buy some kitty fun for yourself or a friend!

store.steampowered.com/app/1346390/...

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