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Dissolving the past in the present in Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse Three years after the previous entry, Paranormasight: The Mermaid’s Curse proves again its keen understanding of detective fiction and awareness for individuals within society.

Oh hi, I wrote about Paranormasight: The Mermaid's Curse, its intertextual references, the blend between detective genres in Japan, and gender! 🧜‍♀️

library-past-present.neocities.org/paranormasig...

Kenran Butou Sai: The Mars Daybreak (Alfa System, 2005)

Ruina (Shoukichi Karekusa, 2008)

Dungeon Encounters (Square Enix Creative Business Unit 1, 2021)

Crimson Shroud (Level 5, 2012)

There are some teasers here towards future projects, including covering the writings of Ginichiro Suzuki and Shunichi Takanashi, and a zine (or at least some curatorial project) I’d like to do on abstract JRPGs.

Cube-based environment art (along with melos’s “auto-cuber” tool) allows for the efficiency and complex secrets-hinting of 2D tilesets combined with the benefits of 3D lighting and atmosphere. Large “EnviroChunks” with flexible triplanar materials quickly establish setting in the background of scenes. Gestural vertex colors quickly and beautifully define characters that pop against the environment and look good small or large onscreen. iNaturalist.org can be an amazing resource for game artists, featuring species id and many public domain community photos of life on Earth! Matcap materials are good for creating shiny or translucent objects while maintaining a simplified/stylized look.

Angeline Era is out NOW!!! ^.^ here's a breakdown of some elements and techniques I used to create the HUGE visual world of Era. Ultra-dense action and secrets meant a bigger focus than ever on visual clarity and communication! ⚔️🔍

See it in action!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

Angeline Era/Analgesic co-developer Marina is in Japan!!

@even-kei.bsky.social
We had a meeting on cold rocks on top of a mountain.

I dug into the property records, and RightStuf (the business entity) never owned the building anyway. Kleckner owned the building under a separate entity (pretty normal way to do this). Inclined to believe there were layers of misunderstanding in how this deal has been discussed in the community.

The Beastieball PvP metagame primer!! A document put together by @skarme.bsky.social with help from other members of the community, is a guide that helps new players learn some of the ins and outs of beastieball PvP, check it out!

Why chasing twitter's approval doesn't work The opinions you believe are universal are being fed to you by an algorithm designed to show you what you want.

Today's Load-bearing Tomato addresses the age old question:

"why don't the devs just [SOCIAL MEDIA OPINION]"

It turns out, "a lot of reasons", but if you never have to test your ideas, you never have to discover why they're not any good.

loadbearingtomato.com/p/why-chasin...

Save 25% on Horsey Game on Steam Collect Horses. Breed Horses. Race Horses. Genetically Modify Horses. Create a Horse paradise or just get rich!

Horsey Game is released at long last! Behold my magnum flopus!
store.steampowered.com/app/3602570/...

🚨BREAKING EXCLUSIVE🚨

The "Rightstuf" warehouse has been listed up for sale for about $5.7 Million

• This confirms that Crunchyroll has been leasing the building for $460,625 per year and never "acquired" the warehouse during the acquisition

• Their lease is up for renewal in 2030

Had a great discussion about a super underrated dreamcast classic. 2026 is gonna be a big year for beach gen and im excited to participate on it more

YouTube video by ToweryQuip The Samples of Jet Set Radio + Jet Set Radio Future

easily the best breakdown of this I've seen (maybe the best of all of these sample lists) and I'm back on the naganuma bandwagon. he's unironically one of the best sampling artists ever probably 😭 www.youtube.com/watch?v=laiw...

TR-49 is our best launch, ever, in 14 years.

I admit I'm surprised! Made in 9 months, mostly as an experiment to learn Godot, and an excuse to play with some actors. (And for me to do some acting.)

One thing I think IS cool: it's a "one-sitting" game. 4 hours; $7. No commitment required.

The Spire awakens once more in Steam Early Access on March 5, 2026! ⚔️

New characters, enemies, environments & more await you in Slay the Spire 2, the sequel to the iconic roguelike deckbuilder.

Will you attempt the climb alone... or enlist the aid of your fellow adventurers?

Cover of a self published gaming magazine called Freaking-Indie

Do you miss gaming magazines from your past?
I got you covered!

For the first month of my blog Freaking-Indie, I created a recap, in the style of a magazine!

This took quite some time and I hope you like it. I'd love to get feedback! :)
drive.google.com/file/d/1ZPbK...

kiwami 3 has already came and went, potentially sinking RGG in the process... we won't know until after STH comes out, but in the meantime I wanted to reflect on the original yakuza 3, and how much the series has lost some of its flavor since it came out. link below!

YouTube video by Monochrome Disposition Jewelry Master | Hard Mode Clear

I've become obsessed with Arika's Jewelry Master, an original puzzle game (albeit heavily inspired by Cleopatra Fortune) with the physics and advanced mechanics from their TGM series.
youtu.be/tUl3Wbu9nuY?...

👾 ANNOUNCING 868-BACK!
Dismantle capitalism one server at a time in this computer-hacking strategy roguelike game by Michael Brough!

Play the free demo in Steam Next Fest on Feb. 23rd!
Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3304110/...

scathing

You know this mike guy?

Legend of Zelda stickers are back up for sale!

Thanks to everyone who ordered stickers back in November! I am selling stickers again this month. Orders will be up for two weeks.

Size, price, payment, and shipping information is in the attached form:
forms.gle/E9Re74ksNpHz...

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ALL THESE YEARS AND I JUST LEARNED THAT THE AI COMPANION IN RE5 HAS A HIDDEN TRUST SYSTEM?

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Y'all. VOOT rocks.

HOV HOV HOV HOV HOV HOV

(scrolling Bluesky) I reject the premise. I reject the premise. Granted. I reject the premise. Not my fetish. Granted. I reject the premise. Funny. I reject the premise.

you're all going to look so silly when Highguard launches on January™ 26th, 2026 and is actually really fun to play

I released "BREAK 10", my Flash and DSiWare inspired platformer where you only have 10 seconds to complete each level.

A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:

www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...

I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.