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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends

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Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · Dec 18

Happy #WishlistWednesday! If you like hand-animated games with multiple playable characters and big worlds to explore, our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends may just be the game of your dreams! Please help us out by wishlisting it at: store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/...
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Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends on Steam

Little Nemo and his friends return for a hand-animated metroidvania adventure! Explore magical dream worlds with Nemo, the Princess of Slumberland, the mischievious Flip, and royal guard Peony as they...

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 10h

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 13h

Whoa?????

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 13h

Super NES - Nintendo Classics NSO titles added:

-Mario & Wario
-BUBSY in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
-FATAL FURY SPECIAL

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 13h

This is a heck of a post to see the semester that one of my animation students has said that they specifically want to work on prehistoric animals

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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 4d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 14h

I started How Pac-Man Eats, which does a good job of citing lots of different games from different periods. It does still do the Atari thing, but it made me think back to HOW MANY games studies texts have much more limited game citations (with a few actually misidentifying games)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 1d

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 1d

And if anyone is like “come on it was never that bad - I had to sift through A LOT of this kind of slop in the 2010’s curating the SAAM Arcade. People copy/pasting their academic papers into the “tell us about your game” field was the reason for the 300 word limit

Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 1d

They’re also terrible as models for serious/transformational games: “YOU ZAP THE SPACE INVADER BUT INSTEAD OF AN ALIEN, ITS CAPITALISM! DONT YOU GET THE METAPHOR?!?!” The asst. prof yells at you, beating you with the 120 page paper you must also read to understand the nuances of the “experience”

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 1d

Started on a new game studies book and I’ve gotta say…can we stop using Atari games as case studies? I love my Atari, but saying “we’re basing models for how to analyze all games based on this 1981 game with 1 mechanic” is why game studies utterly fails at actually grasping the medium a lot of times

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 1d

YES!!!

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 1d

Did you know I’ve got a starter pack of awesome people who make awesome video game books and magazines?

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Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 2d

Rebecca is a legend and needs some help. Consider donating if you can!

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Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 2d

Always fun to see stuff like this in games

Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 2d

My goodness…Danger Mouse was a delightful cartoon (introducing the kids to it…this WRITING)

two cartoon characters are standing next to each other in a room with a red telephone on the table .

ALT: two cartoon characters are standing next to each other in a room with a red telephone on the table .

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Jake Steinberg @jakesteinberg.substack.com · 3d

i think a lot of people like wikipedia more than they like stories

˗ˏˋuıʍʇdəəɹɔˎˊ˗👑King of the Reply Guys😺 @creeptwin.bsky.social · 5d

Okay, skip the therapy, straight to jail.

A post from Jay graber from 6 years ago

"Maybe my brain is internet poisoned, but I often don't try to read books linearly. Like, look, the book is there to serve me, not vice versa. I'm going to read it how I want.

I've appalled people by sometimes starting in the middle of fiction books. If the end was good I'll go back and read the beginning. There are so many books out there, I had to see if it was worth my time!"

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 3d

Listen, @burgerbecky.bsky.social is one of the greats. If you can spare anything at all, and you have love for this medium, I can guarantee she's in some way part of the games you love. Please help our industry help her out.

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Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 3d

either you hire natalie or you give me money to hire natalie

Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 3d

Reminder that I'm looking for work after being affected by layoffs at Giant Squid. 3D Environment Artist, or 3D Artist/Props; ideally a full time position. If your studio or somewhere you know has an opening, please let me know. Thank you ❤️
Portfolio: nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

Natalie Spitzel

Experienced 3D Environment Artist in the Game Industry Looking for full-time work

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 3d

I feel like I need to formally submit this one to @shakespeare.lol

Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 3d

Two households, both alike in dignity,
In fair Verona, where we lay our scene,
From ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean.

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Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 3d

Natalie Spitzel

Experienced 3D Environment Artist in the Game Industry Looking for full-time work

nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 3d

Also, you know, time/people/money

Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 3d

Students: “Professor, how do we make (points at cool thing from movie or game) that?”

Me: “Knowledge, practice, craft, and paying attention to the concepts we try to teach you but you always zone out during. Everything else is rote button pushing.”

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Ayo @darrylayo.bsky.social · 3d

Peanuts is the greatest comic of all time and yet we don’t need to talk about it this much. Krazy Kat is the other greatest comic of all time and we don’t need to talk about it at all. Moomin is yet a third greatest comic of all time and if you ever stop talking about it, I will trigger the bomb

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Jen McGowan @iamjenmcg.bsky.social · 3d

Live your life in a way that Dr. Jane Goodall doesn’t spend her last interview talking about how much you suck

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 3d

Trying to keep up with game release best practices is exhausting

Gavin Sheehan @thegavinsheehan.bsky.social · 3d

Since TGS 2025 ended, I have received 124 emails (so far) about games that will have a free demo at Steam Next Fest. At this point, having a free demo on Steam is no longer special. Almost everyone does them now. Something's gotta give!

#SteamNextFest #Gaming #VideoGames #indiedev #indiegames

John Madden gives his advice on what the next play should be to game developers who think having a demo on Steam Next Fest will improve their outreach in 2025.

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