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Adrian Sandoval

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He/him. Game dev professor @ Drexel U/UArts, IGDA Philly Chair, Lead designer for Little Nemo & the Nightmare Fiends, Cake enthusiast. Opinions my own. http://www.adriansandoval.net

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Mother absolute banger from @shineyezehuhh.bsky.social

10.03.2026 19:23 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

One of the most difficult parts of #LearningGodot has been accepting that

- Beating your head against a problem for hours & getting nowhere
- Accepting that you're not fixing this today & walking away
- Coming back the next day and solving the issue in 8 minutes

Is a normal part of the process.

10.03.2026 13:16 πŸ‘ 165 πŸ” 21 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm not built for self-promotion and hate doing it, but also I saw this was a Thing that Happened and got emotional. πŸ₯²

09.03.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
World Design for 2D Action Adventures from Chris W. Totten and Adrian Sandoval on a table at the GDC book store inches away from Steve Swink's excellent book Game Feel

World Design for 2D Action Adventures from Chris W. Totten and Adrian Sandoval on a table at the GDC book store inches away from Steve Swink's excellent book Game Feel

Hey friends at GDC: @totter87.bsky.social and my book is at the book store! Go take a look if you're there. Or get it here if you're not at GDC: www.routledge.com/Level-Design...

09.03.2026 20:01 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Also a real good choice, though! Awakening has always just been the platonic ideal Zelda game for me.

06.03.2026 16:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Also if I dug a little deeper, Fallout: New Vegas absolutely would have been on my list. It's one I keep installed on my computer so I can go back to it any time.

06.03.2026 05:57 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Chrono Trigger's been my favorite game since I first played it when I was eleven, haha.

06.03.2026 05:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

And also nine favorites of mine from my9games.com.

06.03.2026 05:32 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 6
What's New in Game History? | MAGFest 2026
What's New in Game History? | MAGFest 2026 YouTube video by MAGFest Too

Hey, our panel from Super MAGFest 2026 is up! Hear me, @lainenooney.bsky.social, and @kendraserra.bsky.social talk about the last year of news in the field of game history! Hot opinions, deep cuts, and something Laine calls "Weird Take of the Year"

04.03.2026 22:43 πŸ‘ 18 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

Reposting because I think Cosmic Chaos will probably delisted from store fronts in a week.

I'm really proud of our work on this one! And even if the gameplay isn't your cup of tea, the performances by the amazing cast is worth the price of admission! Dana Snyder is a great Mxyzptlk!

04.03.2026 21:39 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@totter87.bsky.social and @adriansandoval.net can tell you all about a Little Nemo video game that kicks butt!

04.03.2026 04:45 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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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‘ 6345 πŸ” 3179 πŸ’¬ 81 πŸ“Œ 308
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Perfect Tides at Four - Meredith Gran Perfect Tides was released 4 years ago last week on February 22nd, 2022. I didn’t quite get it together to write this post at the time, but it was

It's been 4 years since the release of the original Perfect Tides. I wrote down some feelings about it on my blog:

meredithgran.com/perfect-tide...

02.03.2026 17:38 πŸ‘ 143 πŸ” 40 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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The Secretive Company Filling Video Game Sites With Gambling And AI After being sold to Clickout Media, sites like GamesHub, The Escapist, Videogamer, and others have added gambling and casino stories and AI content

Grateful to @aftermath.site for giving me the time of day amid the Ongoing Unpleasantness.

Read the article. It's important.

aftermath.site/gameshub-cli...

02.03.2026 16:52 πŸ‘ 251 πŸ” 85 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 4
Altered Beast: β€œRise from your grave.” This whole thread makes more sense if you’ve ever seen I Saw The TV Glow.

Altered Beast: β€œRise from your grave.” This whole thread makes more sense if you’ve ever seen I Saw The TV Glow.

If you’d like to chip in to help me recoup recovery costs like the one week hotel stay, it would mean a lot if you donated to my transition fund:

www.gofundme.com/f/help-kate-...

26.02.2026 14:00 πŸ‘ 41 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1

Our whole industry is getting wrecked by this nonsense. We've got AI reviews on metacritic now. The "reviewer" even has a chat-gpt created avatar, as you can see here: bsky.app/profile/mark...

26.02.2026 18:46 πŸ‘ 259 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 0

*psst* i have the secret to save the world
Bring back Linda Ellerbee and stop making all the pre-k aspirational career shows for doctors and cops and start making them for journalists.

25.02.2026 17:37 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2
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Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends on Steam Little Nemo and his friends return for a hand-animated metroidvania adventure! Explore magical dream worlds with Nemo, the Princess of Slumberland, the mischievious Flip, and royal guard Peony as they...

Hi! I'm Adrian, working on Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends, a hand-drawn platforming adventure game based on the legendary newspaper comic from Winsor McCay with a group of other awesome devs! store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/...

25.02.2026 14:11 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

hey, want to not watch the liar in chief and instead watch me and my friends talk about turtles and raise money for the Trevor Project? we're going live real soon!

25.02.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 107 πŸ” 23 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If you want to experience this game for the first time, don't want to deal with grinding but still want a little bit of tension, my recommendation is:
-Turn on battle enhancements for random encounters
-Turn it back off for boss/major story battles.

You will have a great time.

24.02.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Demonschool does this... kinda! Our backgrounds ARE full 3D, but for most of the overworld gameplay, we have a fixed camera angle... if there are no moving lights, we can cache the world to a texture and treat the whole world as an impostor, essentially doing runtime 'pre-rendering' i guess.

22.02.2026 21:46 πŸ‘ 555 πŸ” 94 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 1

This is one of the two larger titles I’ve worked on.

Well, if folks were waiting until it went on sale for a more reasonable price, here you are: 90% off.

(I don’t get anything from sales except knowing the game isn’t forgotten.)

21.02.2026 19:27 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

folks: we're serious. We got 3 hours to meet our minimal budget needs for another year of ROMchip. Wanna help?

www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

πŸ‘‰ Text a friend who loves games.
πŸ‘‰ Post the stream link
πŸ‘‰ Drop into chat and make it lively
πŸ‘‰ Raid us if you’re streaming
πŸ‘‰ Give direct: donate.romchip.org

22.02.2026 01:17 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 27 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The real spicy take is directly following LTTP is Zelda 1 and 2, and it's not even close. (Caveat: still need to finish Majora's Mask)

22.02.2026 01:06 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Link's Awakening, Skyward Sword (yea I said it), Link to the Past

22.02.2026 01:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Our friends at @romchip.bsky.social are hosting an all-day stream to raise money for their video game history journal! Lots of great content over the next 7 hours. Hang out with us!

www.twitch.tv/romchipjournal

21.02.2026 23:01 πŸ‘ 53 πŸ” 19 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Of the projects that I've worked on previously, this is the one I'm most proud of, so it makes me sad to see it start to fade away and become less accessible.

21.02.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DC's Justice League: Cosmic Chaos is delisting in March buff.ly/Ay2px0s

$3.99 on Steam buff.ly/BQvBK0Q
US eShop buff.ly/HgTbbsc
Xbox buff.ly/kFlaO7G

Switch $14.39 Target buff.ly/gucUaak #ad

21.02.2026 15:30 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 18 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 11

I still need to play it tbh but it does have Talking Time dna! @lakupo.bsky.social

21.02.2026 15:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Second favorite in the series (right next to VI)! It's weird and comforting in all the best ways

21.02.2026 13:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0