borb 🐌 wishlist EMUUROM

somehow i'm feeling like this is neither the european speedrunner assembly NOR the european space agency

man, the new machinae supremacy album is banger after banger

looking at the GDC talks for this year and this kinda sums it up, huh

Angel's Egg poster

we went to see Egg

ha! i'm at over seven years already. :')

uh oh

also, i'm especially happy you got a thing DONE, doubly something that a) resonates with people and b) you're proud of!

i know what it's like to work on forever-projects to no end....

which kinda piqued my interest in the first place :D "surely it cannot..."

(it indeed could.)

*berserk's, not berserker's, obviously

At the end of all this, I can be nothing but happy. I leave this project without a single regret. <3

Love to see it!! Thanks for making art that made me uncomfortable, somehow in a more unsettling way than the reference point you mentioned earlier, berserker's end of golden age did... it's so much harder to disassociate when you're in the shoes of the, uh, perpetrator!

also LMAO THAT FINAL PAGE

"Be messy and have fun" aka be more like Symphony of The Night.

Does it need RPG levels and loot?
Does it need the reverse castle?
Does it need the confession room?
Does it need the hidden moves?
Does it need the gargoyle?

No, but also yes.

Don't just over-design your game, over-over-design it.

i mean i know i SHOULD make smaller games. and yet. megalomaniac multi-year projects is what they always come down to :D

maybe the next one, i lie to myself.

yeah i had no idea you could stand on the horse etc when i played it as a kid

ahhh the stairs walk wobble animation was already good, only better by knowing it's just ImageDissolving between three images

fair point, but also:

making games like that is super exhausting and time-consuming

this way of thinking will let me cut me some slack. there definitely will be many neatly-fitting elements - but not ALL of them have to be like that!

exactly how we like it!

also brb replaying MD because somehow i completely missed there's a MAP FEATURE.

i mean... in some ways, emuurom IS in that 10%. but i've noticed this kind of essentialism can result the game being too sterile, too "perfect". less like an inhabitable space and more like a... game :D

"If a game is only essential areas, then the player won't assume anything but the essential exists. In a weird way, a bit of waste becomes economical, because the world a player images will always be bigger than the world you can provide."

for real tho. i have a tendency to try to make all game elements fit together like a neat interlocking 4D puzzle. in this idealized version of the game, everything is "essential".

obviously this is a bad habit. i should let myself to add in weird unrelated dead ends!! neat design is overrated!!

EXCUSE HOW MANY PAGES-

dropping everything to read this right. now.

kayin.itch.io/md-design-book The DESIGN BOOK is out and I swear to god itch store page links look worse on bluesky than anywhere else! It's SFW so if you didn't wanna play MD because the content wasn't your thing, you can ignore the warning at the start and give it a read!

it's only natural!

but juuuuust a bit

somehow i'm still making new music for emuurom

"TOY STORY II: a sequel to Toy Story" by splendidland. two bell shaped clay figures of warriors are standing.

i've made a new comic called "TOY STORY II: a sequel to Toy Story".

härregud tämmösiä on olemassa!! sopivasti ostinki jo pitsantäytteet viikonlopuks

still no built-in 2d pathfinding... instead, this bullshit!

Super Metroid (but a bomb chases you and you die if you touch it)

Sonic modding scene: "We modded Sonic Mania into an entirely new game"

Mario 64 modding scene: "We backported the newest 3D Mario's gameplay & levels into the first 3D Mario"

The Super Metroid hacking scene in 2026:

a two panel comic of a person eating cake next to a larger cake. one labeled "the artist" says "aw man. that guy's cake is way better than me". the second panel is labeled "the outer wilds fan" and the person eating the smaller cake is being accosted by a person who says "dude you need to play outer wilds. don't look up anything just play it dude"

this too

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling