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she/they, girlthing 20something game dev programmer by necessity. trying to get the hang of this posting thing. profile picture by @thewaether.bsky.social

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I uploaded this game I made in 15 minutes to my friends server and they thought I got hacked

01.12.2025 01:41 πŸ‘ 871 πŸ” 205 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 19
Casey Edwards β„’M
@ComposerCasey
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NOTHING SPECIAL?! I think the phone call went more like "as you know Vergil is an extremely important and beloved character of this franchise. He needs a song to match."
Me: **sweat nightmares and pulling my hair out for weeks**

Kubilay @resonmon β€’ May 29, 2021
@ComposerCasey
Capcom: We need you to make another song for another character.
It doesn't have to be anything special.
Casey Edwards: Gotcha!
Casey Edwards: Bury the Light

Casey Edwards β„’M @ComposerCasey Follow ... NOTHING SPECIAL?! I think the phone call went more like "as you know Vergil is an extremely important and beloved character of this franchise. He needs a song to match." Me: **sweat nightmares and pulling my hair out for weeks** Kubilay @resonmon β€’ May 29, 2021 @ComposerCasey Capcom: We need you to make another song for another character. It doesn't have to be anything special. Casey Edwards: Gotcha! Casey Edwards: Bury the Light

Every time I see those stupid β€œit’s just a silly game the song didn’t need to go that hard” memes I’m always reminded of Casey Edwards describing making Bury the Light for Devil May Cry 5

07.03.2026 18:43 πŸ‘ 1584 πŸ” 653 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 20
dropdown box with a selection of durations from 1 to 4 hours in 5 minute increments. there are 17 choices visible, starting from "2 hours 40 minutes" to "4 hours"

dropdown box with a selection of durations from 1 to 4 hours in 5 minute increments. there are 17 choices visible, starting from "2 hours 40 minutes" to "4 hours"

that one guy going "i code everything with llms its the future bro" really explains this dropdown menu in the 'go live' feature (which i otherwise think is pretty good)

07.03.2026 05:04 πŸ‘ 293 πŸ” 82 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 3
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more early counter strike vibes

07.03.2026 23:36 πŸ‘ 28 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

"humble bundle featuring a harry potter game supporting the ESA" is like... wow! I can get a side of FLAMING garbage with my garbage? I can fund a "charity" that actively advocates AGAINST game preservation _and_ jkr at the same time? wow! not in a million fucking years

07.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 615 πŸ” 231 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 3

there's a real "the customer is always right" sort of performance of faux humility around design decisions. you won't always know /why/ something hits a certain way or not, but you /can/ always look at feedback and go "does this fit our mission statement?" and simply say no to it.

07.03.2026 05:48 πŸ‘ 27 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Apropos of nothing, Gunpei Yokoi's "Lateral Thinking with Withered Technology" ideology might be a real good idea for developers to embrace in an era when hardware is getting stupid expensive for stupid reasons.

07.03.2026 04:44 πŸ‘ 29 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

A friend of mine who runs these things always repeats something to me along the lines of "Playtests and Research isn't for telling you the right thing to do, it's to confirm to you that your assumptions are correct and that your intentions are getting through to the players" and that's stuck with me

07.03.2026 05:13 πŸ‘ 708 πŸ” 182 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 5
Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads

I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness.

I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

Hieroglyphics with translation texts below them that reads I made my body evolve through my own effectiveness. I am the one who made me. I built myself as I wished, according to my heart.

Just reminded myself how hard the ending of Coffin Text Spell 714 goes

07.03.2025 10:06 πŸ‘ 6344 πŸ” 2379 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 100

there's a constant background radiation of ableism on the internet these days that makes it very not fun to use. never know when i'm gonna stumble across someone casually being incredibly cruel about autistic people, either implicitly or explicitly

06.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 857 πŸ” 273 πŸ’¬ 9 πŸ“Œ 0
a parody of that windows 12 """""""news"""""""" story going around from tech4gamers.com claiming windows 12 is real, releasing this year, and my friend

a parody of that windows 12 """""""news"""""""" story going around from tech4gamers.com claiming windows 12 is real, releasing this year, and my friend

i only get my news from the finest of websites, and folks, its bad

04.03.2026 06:53 πŸ‘ 870 πŸ” 200 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 7

i'm terrible at platforming but the world and characters ive seen in the screenshots make me so interested in seeing what's going to happen

05.03.2026 20:14 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

thank you for all the love on this!!!!! 🫢🫢🫢 lifelinetheworld

05.03.2026 15:58 πŸ‘ 155 πŸ” 28 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A third of the way through the Anachronox demo, the player encounters a
hulking alien merchant. β€œMy sorrow runs deep,” the merchant, whose name
is Demonstrare, says. β€œI will only exist for the short duration of this demo.
I do not exist in the full version.
β€œWrite the company. Tell them that you want me in the full version.”
What Demonstrare, even with his curse of self-awareness, did not
anticipate was that if anyone did ask Ion Storm to bring him over to β€œthe
full version,” it wouldn’t have mattered. The demo shipped on a disc stuck
to the cover of a PC Gamer β€” where it shared space with now-forgotten

A third of the way through the Anachronox demo, the player encounters a hulking alien merchant. β€œMy sorrow runs deep,” the merchant, whose name is Demonstrare, says. β€œI will only exist for the short duration of this demo. I do not exist in the full version. β€œWrite the company. Tell them that you want me in the full version.” What Demonstrare, even with his curse of self-awareness, did not anticipate was that if anyone did ask Ion Storm to bring him over to β€œthe full version,” it wouldn’t have mattered. The demo shipped on a disc stuck to the cover of a PC Gamer β€” where it shared space with now-forgotten

titles like Throne of Darkness and The Corporate
Machine β€” four months after Anachronox itself had
been released, and three months after Ion Storm’s parent
company had shut down the studio.
Demonstrare never made it to Anachronox. And while
twenty-five years later the game can run on modern
hardware, the demo does not. Demonstrare is gone.
Recently, I asked Richard Gaubert, the writer of
Anachronox, if the developers ever heard anything about
Demonstrare.
Gaubert didn’t even remember the character.

titles like Throne of Darkness and The Corporate Machine β€” four months after Anachronox itself had been released, and three months after Ion Storm’s parent company had shut down the studio. Demonstrare never made it to Anachronox. And while twenty-five years later the game can run on modern hardware, the demo does not. Demonstrare is gone. Recently, I asked Richard Gaubert, the writer of Anachronox, if the developers ever heard anything about Demonstrare. Gaubert didn’t even remember the character.

Here is a little bit of @duncanfyfe.net's afterword for "How Can We Bear to Throw Anything Away?"

05.03.2026 15:23 πŸ‘ 431 πŸ” 66 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 3

still thinking about. Organisms.

04.03.2026 21:08 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

Hi hello just QRPing some info abt this coming in from the other site. This news is fake, it was a hallucination.

04.03.2026 13:56 πŸ‘ 3212 πŸ” 2018 πŸ’¬ 83 πŸ“Œ 226
the lounge area from half-life's office complex, in the alpha 0.52 build

the lounge area from half-life's office complex, in the alpha 0.52 build

Waterway from Cave Story in footage of a very different looking unreleased prototype. Quote (at this point named Curly Brace) is being followed by Sue, who has a snorkel.

Waterway from Cave Story in footage of a very different looking unreleased prototype. Quote (at this point named Curly Brace) is being followed by Sue, who has a snorkel.

today's aesthetic: the one area in a game that survived a development reset mostly unscathed

04.03.2026 18:01 πŸ‘ 156 πŸ” 41 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

big part of the artistic process for me is reverence. everything i make i do so with care and intention because the act of making it is itself the art. the act of making the game is as important or more important than the end product. it’s ritual and meditation for me. it’s cleansing.

04.03.2026 14:05 πŸ‘ 17 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

never been a fan of these internet meme terms for aesthetics since some of them gain purchase but they're never very useful in an art historical or historiographical way

27.02.2026 16:39 πŸ‘ 72 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
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treat for myself this week was picking up valkyrie saga which im rlly enjoying so far!!

04.03.2026 09:18 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

a lot of very serious people are reacting to a headline published by a website called "tech 4 gamers" no one has heard of before that just rips off a rumors piece in pcworld. it would be completely trivial to manipulate this information environment

04.03.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 142 πŸ” 33 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0
a piece of paper with scraps of various photos cards and other things laid out in the shape of a few paragraphs

a piece of paper with scraps of various photos cards and other things laid out in the shape of a few paragraphs

A wordless RPG containing the instructions for the creation and destruction of itself, which were then followed to the letter (Mixed Media, February 2026)

03.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 2

the fucking freesound lady scream sound effect

04.03.2026 00:28 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A compact, low-profile anthro dragon robot with a very blocky head and blue armour panels.

A compact, low-profile anthro dragon robot with a very blocky head and blue armour panels.

An updated version of the same character, now with more mechanical greebling and stripes of vibrant fuchsia.

An updated version of the same character, now with more mechanical greebling and stripes of vibrant fuchsia.

a third version, with longer limbs and a more upright posture.

a third version, with longer limbs and a more upright posture.

i should get deeper into my ocs some time.

featuring: autistic nonbinary dragon mechanic who steals and salvages military hardware to make themself new robot bodies

03.03.2026 23:47 πŸ‘ 64 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Highguard and the Rot - Wavelengths The official Highguard account on X β€” an app best known for harboring Nazis: Today we’re sharing difficult news. We have made the decision to permanently shut down Highguard on March 12. Since launch,...

wrote about highguard

03.03.2026 22:31 πŸ‘ 79 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 7

iunno. it feels like this game’s fate was foreseeable the moment it was pitched, but money people want a single cash cow, and gamble in hopes that players will entirely ditch games they’ve spent hundreds or thousands of hours in in favor of the hot new thing.

03.03.2026 23:18 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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01.03.2026 17:09 πŸ‘ 2822 πŸ” 1030 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 12
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We've freed Cookie's Bustle from copyright hell. Here's how. | Video Game History Foundation We've stopped a persistent copyright troll who was trying to impede our work. Here's everything we learnedβ€”and how we beat them.

BREAKING: We've freed Cookie.

Following an investigation by VGHF, Ukie and Web Capio have suspended DMCA takedowns for Cookie's Bustle on behalf of Graceware, SL.

More info:

03.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 6292 πŸ” 3166 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 308
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m9 beretta for a quake engine game me and wife are working on together :3
#indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #pixelart

03.03.2026 13:33 πŸ‘ 198 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

sure you should check the food bowl and all but riffing is typically a sign that you're housing your writers in an overstocked tank. you're going to need a bigger enclosure and/or to rehome some writers. otherwise they'll get their plots tangled together and form a "writer king"

03.03.2026 03:17 πŸ‘ 75 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0