Wander

Wander

@wanderbot.bsky.social

Actually Human. Indie Game Curator, Artist, & Essayist (He/Him) 🚫No AI https://wanderbot.carrd.co/

2,723 Followers 586 Following 953 Posts Joined Jul 2023
9 hours ago

We should do a whole post on all our approaches to story/gameplay beat maps and how that translated in creating a tool in Unity.

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2 days ago

Ambrosia Sky (halfway between a narrative and meditative game, a washing game, and System Shock 😁) is released in 2 parts.

The first is available, and it's neat. $15.
When the second part comes out, the game will cost $25. So you're getting a pretty big discount if you buy it now. 😎

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4 days ago

Huh!

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5 days ago

A huge aspect of this is the fact that most (all?) conservatives have severely reduced capability for empathy.

Either by choice or nature they will never understand that other humans are actual people with free will.

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5 days ago

The Oldest House is such a cool setting and aesthetic. A warped NY is cool, but kinda drab in comparison.

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5 days ago

You can’t fool me, you’re clearly a Team Rocket grunt!

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5 days ago
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Save 30% on THYSIASTERY on Steam THYSIASTERY is a dungeon crawler RPG featuring traditional roguelike and turn-based gameplay. Command a party of bearers of the Brand, drawn into a vast Labyrinth. Recruit while exploring the Labyrint...

I don't know why, but we're getting one heck of a Blobber renaissance this year, and I'm very here for it.

store.steampowered.com/app/3140180/... - THYSIASTERY came out today and takes all the best aesthetic notes of old school blobbers, but mixes it with some really fun dynamic character building.

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5 days ago

Looks like some kinda Gacha + Bong hybrid.

Which sounds extremely cursed actually.

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5 days ago
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Nova Drift: Now Available On iOS & Android YouTube video by Pixeljam Games

☄️Nova Drift is now out on iOS and Android!📱
www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPjl...
🔹iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/nova-...
🔹Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Lite versions are also available if you want to try before you buy. We also offer an itch build. [1/2]

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6 days ago

I am very blessed to be supported by Outersloth, they walk the talk on sustainable development for indie developers

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6 days ago

There was a Toy Story 4???

Why? 3 was a messy, but decent stopping point.

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1 week ago

I want to like that game, but Awaken Realms’ undisclosed AI use for their boardgames really soured me on all their associated products.

I can see threads of people saying FoA also uses AI for 2D art + possibly codex entries, but the sources on the Steam forums have been removed, so buyer beware.

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1 week ago

I just save myself the hassle and go to bed at 4. There is some indignation about that 4 am arriving too early though.

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1 week ago

It was really interesting being one of the only people covering Slay the Spire for the first month or so. It felt like one of those days where you know it's going to rain, hard, it was just a matter of when.

Ya'll have knocked it out of the park, twice, and it's incredible to see. Congrats!

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1 week ago
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Slay the Spire 2's concurrent Steam players just hit 179,456, the highest ever for any roguelike.

When StS1 first launched back in 2017, it had 193 concurrent players.

That's a 92,982% increase, meaning StS3 is on track to hit 166,861,777 concurrent players by 2035. 💪

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1 week ago

I had that happen with Minecraft when it initially launched. Bunch of friends got sucked into it above and beyond any other game (including MMO's) and I don't think I ever saw them again.

WoW is definitely the worst offender back in the 2000's, but I think some people will get sucked into anything.

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1 week ago

Its absolutely delicious (if a bit greasy)… but it’s also keeping me up past 3 am so I can make sure it cooks + cools properly.

Worth it.

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1 week ago
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I made 3 AM Corned Beef Split Pea Stew, it smells so dang good.

We made corned beef for reubens earlier today, and rather than throw out the dregs after removing the meat, I threw in split peas, carrots, celery, and potatoes, plus a tablespoon of bouillon, and kept it cooking.

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1 week ago

If anyone else is willing to share Steam Next Fest numbers, please reply to this post.

Let's normalize sharing reality and not "fake it til you make it" culture.

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1 week ago
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🌟 It's here! Mistpaw Ravine is now available on Steam!! 🌟

Build a home for magical cats, have them shoot lightning, clean their poop!

Get it now: store.steampowered.com/app/3735490/...

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1 week ago

With luck, most devs will make the switch and start supporting linux at launch too.

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1 week ago

this is true, but i do think its worth noting that pixelframe is likely pushing these generators out in order to draw traffic to their website, which is, in itself, pro ai. just because the font generator doesnt use ai doesnt mean using it doesnt support people that do

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1 week ago

Yeah, they’ve gotten considerably worse in the last 10-20 years.

Plus now that I’m older they give me hella bad acid reflux, so I avoid them like the plague.

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2 weeks ago

The entire millennial identity is being prepared and groomed for a version of the world that stopped existing by the time we reached it

we slammed into a horizon painted on a brick wall like fucking looney tunes

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2 weeks ago

Important to share because Mightreya does NOT disclose the use of AI on the Steam Game page at present.

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2 weeks ago

Facism cannot afford to let any of us be happy or we might start hoping for a better future.

It sucks.

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2 weeks ago

Word of advice to devs - if you plan to only have your demo up for nextfest, then take it down - chances are it's going to really hurt your coverage. There isn't a single creator I know that isn't basically in battle mode to handle the emails, much less sort through the thousands of demos on steam.

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2 weeks ago
Bud Askins from the Fallout TV show, reduced to a brain in a romba with a grabby claw.

Isn't that 1:1 the vault sideplot in the Fallout TV show? Where this one guy is so middle-manager-pilled that he wants to preserve/create a master race of managers... and ends up as a brain in an exceptionally stupid roomba?

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2 weeks ago
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Actually, the left is winning the AI debate But it does need to get organized.

The left is not "missing out" on AI. It's winning the argument. Americans worry about AI and dislike tech CEOs. They're mobilizing against data centers. They support regulation, even refusal.

Calls for the left to embrace AI are an effort to change the terms of the debate in Silicon Valley's favor.

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2 weeks ago
A fake PS1 cover with an illustration of Metal Greymon roaring at the sky with a tiny, cheering Wanderbot standing on its back.

So I started playing Digimon World 1 for fun + nostalgia and managed to get Metal Greymon as my first Ultimate. Dude was so tanky he cleared 80% of the game in the span of a few days, so I figured I should actually draw him.

Blue Metal Greymon > Orange Metal Greymon, any day, every day.

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