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deranged indie dev. “culturally literate". unbearable. kill on sight my game: https://bsky.app/profile/yancygame.bsky.social

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keep fighting, blessed stranger

12.03.2026 22:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

cave story rap to raw happiness 1 to 1 lossless conversion

12.03.2026 20:17 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

When phrased as “the market right now has room for 6000~ish games that pull in money. Can I make it into that 6000?” success in game dev feels plausible at our scale

for AA devs these numbers look dire / worthless, and AAA’s live in a completely different world. They have their own stats

12.03.2026 19:31 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I felt similar asymmetry to the general reaction to these stats

Valve not releasing a more detailed breakdown makes it difficult to come away with almost any conclusion. But from the perspective of microdevs like you and I, these numbers aren’t offensive

12.03.2026 19:27 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I’m not sure I even agree with the premise that the FGC wants to be mainstream.

12.03.2026 19:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

excruciating

12.03.2026 18:55 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I would really like to see this statistic broken down by studio scale. I want to know, of those 5863 games, how many were made by
- AAA Developers
- AA Developers
- Indies
- Micro Studios
This would grant a LOT of perspective on the feasibility of proposed changes to Valve's business model

12.03.2026 02:23 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I love that floor texture and those sunbeams, really strong vibe here I agree

11.03.2026 21:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Not a single day goes by that I'm not driven to the brink of howling madness by:

A: Videogames being at their most diverse, creative and overwhelmingly numerous as ever.

B: The gaming press being utterly gutted by vulture capitalists, leaving fewer people than ever to try and understand it all.

11.03.2026 17:10 👍 921 🔁 213 💬 6 📌 9
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11.03.2026 16:54 👍 1600 🔁 559 💬 13 📌 39

ur a menace

11.03.2026 17:02 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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11.03.2026 00:07 👍 208 🔁 34 💬 2 📌 0
Extra Stage
Sister of Scarlet

If it was able to do,
I would like you to challenge.

Gods Knows...

Extra Stage Sister of Scarlet If it was able to do, I would like you to challenge. Gods Knows...

I'm sorry ZUN there's no fuckin way I can do that shit

11.03.2026 01:22 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

i drew my new enemy as a cute girl also

10.03.2026 23:38 👍 13 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0

I don't like that the pinned post for YANCY on the other account still uses the old art I did! I updated it and made it nicer but the older one where Yancy looks like a munchkin is still cached

10.03.2026 23:20 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Sure you all agree now, but you’d better not scurry when “weirder” means speaking in poems and asking uncomfortable questions

10.03.2026 22:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I think I need to get weirder

10.03.2026 19:26 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

found out yesterday the kitchen girl who takes over my station when im on break has been making every chai dirty

09.03.2026 23:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Remilia Scarlet is actually an awesome boss fight wtf
15 year old shmup failure olive was missing out

09.03.2026 21:07 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The Spectacular Accident That Started the US Navy's Biggest Mutiny
The Spectacular Accident That Started the US Navy's Biggest Mutiny YouTube video by Tor's Cabinet of Curiosities

great video, important story, big recommendation

09.03.2026 20:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Gunpoint is so good

I still use the Hammerhead Snark frequently

09.03.2026 18:46 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

so much of the game modding experience is trying to figure out the hidden thread, the secret logic, behind vanilla art assets (so you can make yours match) only to gradually realize that everything was inconsistent, sloppy, done by their own two hands. because they had deadlines (and you dont)

09.03.2026 07:36 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 2 📌 1

yeah if your goal is to filter out these situations a built in time limit is probably ideal lol

09.03.2026 06:19 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

admittedly I don't think my approach is something I'd recommend to almost anybody

09.03.2026 01:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

When I ran my booth, I didn't use a built in time limit, because I found that longer play sessions were more valuable for my game than short ones. If someone wanted to sit down for over ten minutes, that's a big win for me, because so many folks are repelled by my very niche game lol

09.03.2026 01:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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The biggest revelation of replaying pokemon FRLG is that there is an actual storyline where blue had such a good time hanging out with the french staff of the s.s. anne that he gained a new catchphrase and would go on to study abroad in kalos

08.03.2026 04:37 👍 1692 🔁 478 💬 15 📌 6
Post by Stephan Geering

Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn’t conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.

Post by Stephan Geering Challenge for those who are very confident that Claude isn’t conscious: Explain how human consciousness works.

aw yeah. panpsychism time

07.03.2026 21:39 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Really captivated by Touhou 6 in a way I haven’t been since I first played it as a teenager. The bullet patterns are so mesmerizing, there’s so much gorgeous video game culture present here

07.03.2026 13:39 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

going from The Talos Principle to Hyper Demon to Eversion to Touhou 6 has been reminding me why I love video games

07.03.2026 13:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

to be honest I really don’t like repost based social media in general. I yearn for a return to the personal webpage

Bluesky was the first one that sank its hooks in me. We’ll see if I wind up regretting this later / soon

07.03.2026 13:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0