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master of none http://ivansafrin.com currently working on: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2886700/Star_Scum/ .. and another secret thing.
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

This muthafukka really doesn't take a bad shot.

gamers absolutely refuse to read a sentence longer than 3 words

by the way these are literally the exact same dumbass motherfuckers, not like them, the literal exact same fucking guys, saying government is inefficient and you should cancel it to give them all the governments money so they can provide you services instead

is a good system always easy to explain?

i drew almost 200 cards in the past few weeks and my hand hurts

So, I'm really in need of work right now, things are though here. I do programming and game design, mostly with Unreal and C++, but can adapt if necessary. Anyway you can check my stuff here: tubazef.com #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevjobs #lookingforwork

Happy Valentine's Day

auroflame seedling 1907 strawberries, painted by deborah griscom passmore, 1908

if you live in NYC, dont forget to change your voter party registration to Democrat by tomorrow if you are registered under a different party so you can vote in the primaries and vote our ghoul mayor the fuck out of office

there are 2634 games in the upcoming Steam Next Fest; all on the verge of being imminently released, most of them polished, well designed games that have been worked on for years by a team of people. and most of them will never be played by anyone because nobody has the time to play this many games.

made a little gameplay trailer :)

Spore Spitter timelapse

new game announcement: Tryhard is our upcoming sports RPG about managing an underdog rugby club in New Zealand! "wishlist now on steam" etc: store.steampowered.com/app/3443270/... website: tryhardgame.com idle in our discord: discord.gg/qRUZQQX5Tz

If you live in NYC, you have until Feb 14th to register as a Democrat so you can participate in our closed primaries, and vote Eric Adams out. According to @thecity.bsky.social, "unaffiliated independents outnumber Republicans in every borough except Staten Island" vote.nyc/page/party-a...

ever draw a really nice circle?

humanity's only hope is that some flappy bird clone will find its way into the manhunting drone obstacle avoidance code slop in the AI wars

Bippus Plumbing Co. Bippus, IN

Usual June, the game we're making, is really freaking pretty ya'll. 😍 Follow along at @usualjune.bsky.social & wishlist on Steam! #usualjune #indiegame #indiedev

starting to get there, visually

i made a little trailer for my game

You could be the next featured pico-8 developer to be on our custom pico-8 cabinet! submit your game to tinyurl.com/Pico8CabinetSubmission by Feb 23, 11:59pm EST Don't have a pico-8 game? send this to your friends who do! Chosen game will be up in our arcade from March 1 - June 1 #pico8

Block Koala 2: Revenge of Flamingus, but it's just 50 more Block Koala levels

i made a little trailer for my game

i didn't realize that buying the government meant they would just literally buy the government. makes sense, in retrospect.

It was an honor to have @chasestrangio.bsky.social on the show today to talk about the fight to protect trans folks under the Trump administration. Trans rights are the civil rights issue of our time, full stop. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GD7I...

Forest world is coming along! #bighops

its so hard to explain to my dog that i need to eat more than him because im bigger

been thinking a lot about Usenet lately with all of the recent disillusionment in corporate social media. it's wild to think that we used to have a decentralized social network that worked since before the web (that a lot of people still use).

wizardry: tale of the forsaken land / ps2 racjin, 2001

This is so goddamn funny

nothing like watching people realize in realtime that the AI research field is academically unified and all the AI grifters in the US are just running with the money

hey everybody! in the last 4 months, i went into a UFO50-inspired frenzy and made 6 #PICO8 games. so far. it's been really fun. and they have downloadable carts linked from each page if you want to see how they were built. some are CC0 / public domain too! adamatomic.itch.io next game in february...

you love to see it

Davinki Resolve??

what would you say a good game trailer length is?

New dithering method dropped I call it Surface-Stable Fractal Dithering and I've released it as open source along with this explainer video of how it works. Explainer video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPqG... Source repository: github.com/runevision/D... #gamedev #vfx

first time Factorio player but make it real

man i love making videogames. making a game by yourself and making the engine, writing, art, music and doing the game design scratches every single part of what it means to be human and it feels so good.

danielben.itch.io/dragonsweeper really enjoying this - minesweeper meets desktop dungeons - seems IMPOSSIBLE at first, but quickly becomes a really tractable puzzle thing, very cool !