Robert Vinluan

Consume Me (2025)

One more Halloween costume. TROBBIO!!! 🌪️🌪️🌪️ #Hollowknight #silksong

The band RV (Robby, RJ, Rob, Bobby, and Roberto) dressed up as the members of the Saja Boys (Baby, Mystery, Jinu, Abby, and Romance) from KPop Demon Hunters

One thing about being in a boy band is that there was no world where this wasn't going to be my Halloween costume this year

Yoooooo this character in Silksong is Filipino

An illustration of a person in a Hornet costume helping a child in a Knight costume keep their balance.

Happy #silksong day! Here's a picture I drew for Inktober back in 2021

Merry Silksong Eve

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WAIT ME TOO

Here's an announcement trailer for my new game, Sticky Hands! Play it at the link below 👐🙂

Today’s Strands puzzle has a special theme! I’m so thrilled to have contributed to this wonderful team effort 😊. Check it out when you get a chance!

Here's an announcement trailer for my new game, Sticky Hands! Play it at the link below 👐🙂

A new rule: slap when two cards in a row are the same rank.

The beginning screen where players learn how to slap.

Player 1 successfully slapped and earned 5 points.

Game complete! Player 2 scored 112 points.

More screenshots!

Sticky Hands: A new game from Robert Vinluan

A rules screen explains when you should slap: -slap when a 5 appears -slap when two cards in a row are spades -slap when two cards in a row are hearts

A gameplay screen shows the scores at 30 to 10. The King of Spades is on the top of the pile.

Player 2 has slapped and successfully earned 10 points.

NEW GAME ANNOUNCEMENT!

There aren't enough 2-player-1-phone games so I made one. It's called Sticky Hands and it's about slapping cards faster than your friends.

Play it at this link! 👇👇

sticky-hands.com

This is ominous

I have some big news to share:

I’m hosting a Science Game Show in NYC!!! 🧪🤹‍♂️💡

You can join us to see what Our Findings Show at
👉 OurFindingsShow.com 👈

Hi! Anyone want to playtest my upcoming game?? DM me! You'll need a phone and a friend 🙂

Teasing something #2

This is the best description I could come up with for how it feels to play Blue Prince

Jack of clubs card depicting two hands holding sandwiches.

Queen of clubs card depicting two hands holding golf clubs.

King of clubs card depicting two hands spinning records on a turntable.

Clubs

Big Thoughts: Blue Prince May 2025 Part 1

I wrote about Blue Prince and how it's amazing and how I hope it spawns a bunch of games like it

open.substack.com/pub/robertvi...

Jack of hearts card depicting two hands touching.

Queen of hearts card depicting two hands doing the finger hearts gesture.

King of hearts card depicting two hands signing a treaty.

Hearts

Jack of spades card depicting two hands giving the rock devil horns.

Queen of spades card depicting two hands holding hand trowels.

King of spades card depicting two hands pointing finger guns at each other.

Spades

Games in New York Games set, published and designed in New York

We're on Steam today (feat. me making a fool of myself) with the GAMES IN NEW YORK sale: a whole lot of games made or set in New York! Have you played Despelote yet? Crush House? Immortality? Getting Over it with BFOD? Beglitched? Ape Out? Norwood Suite?
store.steampowered.com/sale/GamesinNY

Jack of diamonds card depicting two hands wearing baseball gloves.

Queen of diamonds card depicting two hands with fancy nails and jewelry.

King of diamonds card depicting two hands with a signet ring and goblets.

Diamonds

Playing an instrument is simply parrying notes.

Square Theory The story starts in Crosscord, the crossword Discord server. Over 5,000 users strong, the server has emerged as a central hub for the online crossword community, a buzzing, sometimes overwhelming, som...

New blog post! At the intersection of language and... abstract math

aaronson.org/blog/square-...

Just hit a new PB in my outfit compliment any% speedrun (guy in my elevator as I was leaving my apartment said my sneakers were cool)

The rank 3-10 cards in a deck of playing cards with different layouts for the design of the card centers

I don't know when playing card layouts were standardized but I had a lot of fun making these which I find to be a lot more pleasing

Finished The Lemurian Phoenix last night; the Golden Idol games seriously do not miss. Was delighted by multiple breakthroughs I unlocked by remembering a simple recurring theme: nothing in the Golden Idol universe is actually magical.