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James Broderick

@formosus.bsky.social

Irish in South Korea. Assistant Professor of Computer Game Design. PhD in Computer Science. Gaming, anime and kpop fan.

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We have a stream schedule for tomorrow! Hope to see you there!

27.11.2025 11:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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27.11.2025 04:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I have it on my TBR, I hear so many people recommend it!

22.11.2025 04:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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A new blog post, in which I ramble about the process of directing a 400,000-word narrative game (along with 7 other writers) over a 5-year development period...

www.psychicsoftware.com/2025/designi...

10.10.2025 15:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Auditions closing on Aug 20th for 25-year-old Seรกn ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿณ

Would love it if we got more Irish folks auditioning and please do feel free to pass on the word to your acting pals!

#castingcall #ireland #irish #voiceactors #voiceacting #audition #castings

17.08.2025 21:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 20    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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The big news of the day isโ€”Strange Scaffold got a front page spot on Steam! Itโ€™s our first-ever publisher sale!!

You can get EVERY GAME weโ€™ve ever made for 60 bucks and I did a bunch of work on the gradients and colors to make it all look pretty!!! Ahhh!!!!
store.steampowered.com/sale/strange...

13.08.2025 19:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 714    ๐Ÿ” 227    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 28    ๐Ÿ“Œ 24
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Valve has now certified The Necromancer's Tale as "verified" on the Steam Deck! As a big fan of the Deck, I put a lot of work into this so it's great to get through this rigorous review process.

store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/...

#SteamDeck #RPG

06.08.2025 21:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Congratulations! I have it purchased and am looking forward to digging in when I get a chance ๐Ÿ˜‰

18.07.2025 03:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Save 10% on The Necromancer's Tale on Steam A story-rich gothic RPG. Master the rituals of an ancient spellbook. Raise an undead army to march against your enemies. Commune with the realm of the dead & struggle with your descent into madnes...

The Necromancer's Tale released today! It's a story-rich RPG that I've been working on for over 5 years(!)

store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/...

The game is set in an alt-history 1733, with the player getting sucked into black magic and necromancy.

17.07.2025 20:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 54    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

not going to quote-dunk because i don't think the person deserves it

if you want more 'toby fox' developers there needs to be a support system that catches the 99% of people who will not make the next undertale

failure needs to not be catastrophic to finances for success to be possible

02.07.2025 21:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2205    ๐Ÿ” 559    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 17    ๐Ÿ“Œ 19
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We are now taking requests for pre-release Press Keys for The Necromancer's Tale, ahead of its launch on July 17th.

๐Ÿ™ RTs much appreciated! ๐Ÿ™

Please complete this short form:
forms.gle/ogJbKenHYpwx...

02.07.2025 11:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The cool Irish grey is so nice to come home to.

01.07.2025 10:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Necromancer's Tale #PitchYaGame - HP Lovecraft meets Disco Elysium in this necromancer origin story. Deep narrative, politics, ghosts, and raising the dead.

Releasing July 2025
store.steampowered.com/app/1315320/...

06.06.2025 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I've entered about 20 lotteries to get a chance to buy a Switch 2 here, I appreciate that the lottery system is great for countering bots and scalping, but boy does is stretch out the unknown waiting time.

15.04.2025 10:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I appreciate Nintendo trying to combat scalpers, but NSO subscriptions being the qualifier really screwed me as someone who mostly buys and plays single player games for Switch.

02.04.2025 22:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I was brainstorming some game ideas last night that were getting me excited and let me tell you whatever game I make next is going to be absolute dogshit

17.03.2025 21:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4750    ๐Ÿ” 320    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 96    ๐Ÿ“Œ 17
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Save 90% on Undertale on Steam UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.

UNDERTALE is on sale for $1.

If you're a bluesky user who hasn't played this game - now is the best time to join the other 99% of people on this website and pick it up.

store.steampowered.com/app/391540/U...

13.03.2025 22:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30248    ๐Ÿ” 11327    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 598    ๐Ÿ“Œ 688
Solitaire โ€” LocalThunk I have cited a few games as inspiration for Balatro in the past, but I wanted to talk about one in particular that hasnโ€™t been mentioned much that arguably is the most important. I think if I had som...

Look at me I'm a real dev now I have an ugly blog

Here's my first post about solitaire

localthunk.com/blog/solitaire

27.02.2025 01:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1765    ๐Ÿ” 126    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43    ๐Ÿ“Œ 10

After an appeal from my publisher, Balatro has been reclassified by PEGI from 18+ to 12+

This is a good step from PEGI - bringing nuance to their ratings criteria that used to be 18+ or nothing. I hope this change will allow developers to create without being unfairly punished

24.02.2025 17:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5308    ๐Ÿ” 675    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 52    ๐Ÿ“Œ 31

What'd you geeeet

15.02.2025 03:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It's not a holiday without an airport pint (breakfast optional)

02.02.2025 00:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Fruits of Summer Been working on this track all summer, hence the name. I didn't mean for it to sound so much like

Soundcloud is telling me i've been posting music for 12+ years :O

85 individual tracks over that period.

I wanna get back to it badly.

This was one of my first "oh i actually like this?" songs, even if it's very Sims-like. 12 years old this one, I was 20

soundcloud.com/terracorrupt...

23.01.2025 13:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I never completed it, but the writing for some of the side stories was just so good

18.01.2025 13:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My new gaming pipe dream will be Lost Odyssey or Eternal Sonata getting a remaster. Those games deserve better than being trapped in 7th Gen.

18.01.2025 12:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It was phenomenal, hitting with Weight of the World and Kaine back to back got me good ๐Ÿฅฒ

11.01.2025 11:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Nier Orchestra Concert having canonical Automata content is such peak video games, I love it.

11.01.2025 10:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'm hoping to get started on Metaphor now soon, I've heard so many good things! Though part of me wonders if I will regret this when we get the classic Atlus "Metaphor ReFantaziLoaded" in a year or twos time and I need to replay to get the true ending...

10.01.2025 05:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"So in the TERRIER-VERSE he's alive, but in the PUG-VERSE..."

08.01.2025 14:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

FF7 Rebirth was a great and wild experience, but now I have to wait who knows how long with all these questions!

08.01.2025 06:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's a powerful lineup, I've just finished Intermission and gotten started on Rebirth, though I'll play some small games on the side at the same time!

28.12.2024 13:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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