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robertcarlson.bsky.social
Professional programmer and aspiring writer recently turned solo game developer. Designer of "The Amateur Deity Society": https://store.steampowered.com/app/3241070/The_Amateur_Deity_Society/
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If you don't know what to do right now to support devs, write a review on every game you loved last year. Just a thumbs up and one sentence is enough.

Shot in the dark, but if any indie devs are looking for a programmer, writer, or both and they can't afford an established professional, hit me up. If you want to try my game to see what I can do, I'm more than happy to send anyone a copy. #indiedev #gamedev #jobhunting

Didn't get the job, but at least the company got back to me quickly.

Just had my first serious job interview in about 10 years. Took over six months of applying to places. Hopefully if it's a similarly long time until the next interview, it's for the preferred reason

Friends, we are ONE week away from our charity stream for @nokidhungry.org ! It should be a grand ol’ time and I hope to see you all there! #vtuber

The Video Game History Foundation’s digital library is now publicly available in early access form. The library includes promotional material and more than 1,500 out-of-print magazines. www.videogameschronicle.com/news/the-vid...

I'm so sorry I can't stop laughing. OpenAI, the company built on stealing literally the entire internet, is crying because DeepSeek may have trained on the outputs from ChatGPT. They're crying their eyes out. What a bunch of hypocritical little babies. Cry more, freaks. www.ft.com/content/a0df...

I don't play many open world games since my instinct is to do All The Things before I advance the story, so I tend to get burn out on them. FF7 Rebirth feels like it's striking a balance for me in terms of how much stuff there is to do before the only thing left is continue the main quest.

Okay I'll admit I burst out loud laughing at this one

Crunchyroll has had a data breach Change your password ASAP You’ll have to sign out and click the forgot password link because you cannot change the password while you are logged in

kayin.moe/quality-of-l... Wrote a bit about some issues I have with out the term Quality-of-Life gets thrown around. Not that I'm against it's use, but I think there are some assumptions we make about QoL changes that aren't true. 🗨️ replies will appear as comments under the post!

My dad, who went to every Washington home game for half his life, stopped caring about our local NFL team when I was a little kid. He was THAT disgusted with previous ownership on every level. Jayden Daniels got him to care again this year. That's why tonight's win is so special to me. #HTTC

If you think “writing in video games is bad” I automatically assume you’re ignorant to a wider spectrum of games. Tell me next about how blockbuster movies aren’t high art. How booktok books and harlequin romances won’t stand the test of time.

Their "better eShop" lists our This Way Madness Lies as "Shovelware." The Switch version of This Way Madness Lies has an 89% critic rating on Metacritic.

Was very glad to catch most of these streams, it was a lot of fun! And many thanks to @twistedallegory.vtubers.social for finding the typos that will be fixed in the next update, lol.

🔴LIVE NOW🔴 www.twitch.tv/twistedallegory What are we? Some sort of amateur deities??

if you see this post, your actions are: - if you have a spare buck, give it to Wikipedia, then repost this - if you don't have a spare buck, just repost your action is mandatory for the world's best source of information to survive

Hearty thanks to the player who took the time to leave a review for TADS on Steam today. Don't know if you're reading this, but I appreciate you.

ATTENTION: I am starting a charity bundle to benefit victims of the Southern California wildfires. Game (and other) makers, please submit your projects so we can do some good. There is a call for submissions of projects through the 18th, please share widely! FAQ below: itch.io/jam/californ...

🔴LIVE NOW🔴 www.twitch.tv/twistedallegory Time traveling and dimension traveling with The Amateur Deity Society again! Will we kill Tyler? Will we finally learn who Kinpaðrig is?

Work on revising my game's scripting language continues. Conditional statements are now written in infix-notation instead of prefix-notation, which I can't believe I put up with all through development. Always pick "easier to write in" over "easier to implement." #gamedev #solodev

#agdq2025 having a live band to do the music for Crazy Taxi is a high point. Just, brilliant.

Unique turn based combat system where you use abilities and then have to gaurd to replenish them, only 19 hours so doesn't overstay its welcome, and a God tier OST, one of my all time favorites

Information for free meals for anyone fleeing LA and going south

Been getting stuck on outlining my next game's story, so I'm taking a break by attempting to de-jank the scripting language I threw together for my previous game. Should be worthwhile even if I scrap the story ideas and start over. #gamedev #solodev

My game's had plenty of post-launch typos to fix, but I think my favorite is "chuch bulletins." Kudos to @twistedallegory.vtubers.social for spotting it on stream. #indiedev

I encourage folks to tune into this. Promises to be a fun time for a worthy cause.

Been thinking a lot about the shaking cursor in UFO 50's "Night Manor" and how it never fails to add tension, unlike most input-based "life or death" sequences in point-n-clicks. Since it rarely plays out the exact same way twice, you don't get numb to it nearly as fast. #gamedev #pointandclick

GUESS WHO'S BAAAAAACK!! First stream of 2025 and we are playing The Amateur Deity Society! Be a dear and say hello? www.twitch.tv/twistedalleg...

So pumped to see UFO 50 at #AGDQ2025 . Can't wait to see which ones are part of the run