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Jonah Warren

@playfulsystems.bsky.social

Game design prof. ♥︎s weird games and interactions. https://playfulsystems.com Full Body Games, Pangolin, Word After Word, Sloppy Forgeries, and Choppy Copies. Wishlist Sloppy Forgeries ⇢ https://bit.ly/sloppy-bs

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So good

27.02.2026 18:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

PSA. Do not sneeze with a bruised rib.

26.02.2026 14:14 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🚨 HUGE NEWS! 🚨

All Will Rise is now LIVE on Kickstarter! Fundraising has begun to bring our revenge fantasy against the powerful to life.

Want to try before you fund? All Will Rise currently has a demo on Steam too!

Kickstarter: www.kickstarter.com/projects/spe...

#IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

16.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 247    🔁 130    💬 8    📌 40

Congrats!

12.02.2026 13:09 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
34 Years Of Strandbeest Evolution
YouTube video by Veritasium 34 Years Of Strandbeest Evolution

Nice Strandbeests video! Great to be reminded these exist... it's a better world for it

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFaA...

06.02.2026 15:31 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

found 500GB AE cache folder derp

28.01.2026 02:45 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Never noticed the accumulation on the panel here

27.12.2025 01:06 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Totally—I'm sure it's different for different people.

I mean, I even enjoy graphic design, but I still put it off because I find it hard to switch gears.

And 💯 re:experimenting aimlessly. I'm really good at that 😅 What's hard is that, often, I don't even realize I'm doing it

19.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

This has happened so many times. 😬

I decided to make a post about it so maybe this lesson will stick in my head this time ‍😅

19.12.2025 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Then a few hours designing, I'll start getting into it and think:

"OMG THIS IS SO MUCH BETTER WHY DIDN'T I JUST SIT DOWN AND DO THIS EARLIER"

It's almost always just taking the time to explore a few options… after which, the answer becomes obvious.

19.12.2025 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

This is especially bad when working on something like ~10hrs a week.

A month will pass and I'll unconsciously fiddle with programming stuff, not addressing design decisions.

When I FINALLY realize I need to sit down something, I feel anxious starting… like I'm wasting my time not programming?

19.12.2025 14:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

The most challenging part of being a solo dev for me is knowing when to switch gears.

I get on these dumb kicks where I think: I need to get this done… I need sit down and program it! 💪 But! There's often some design ambiguity. So I just ignore those parts and do other things.

#gamedev #indiegame

19.12.2025 14:58 — 👍 10    🔁 2    💬 2    📌 0

I’m back baby

13.12.2025 01:16 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Such a sad day 8mo later 😭

06.12.2025 01:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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wtf is even happening

22.11.2025 02:48 — 👍 6    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction that product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer.

It is a peculiar hallmark of the American economy that you can produce a dangerous product and effectively off-load any legal liability for whatever destruction that product may cause by pointing to the individual responsibility of the consumer.

09.11.2025 03:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Def feels right

Captures the magic of the discipline

08.11.2025 02:25 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Echolocation

Love it! V Math-rocky. Reminds me of LITE
open.spotify.com/track/51Vs7K...

11.09.2025 17:30 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Watched Lord of the Rings and was guarding one daughter from the Eye of Sauron as she got something downstairs. Asked the other how I would defeat the Eye of Sauron. She said: "with your sigh of disappointment."

I do not wield it lightly

01.09.2025 02:12 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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🖼️ New Painting

The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David

A classic. I like this one! It's a nice balance. Not impossible, not too easy. I wanna do it again.

🙏 Wishlist ⇢
bit.ly/sloppy-bs

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #art #digitalart #screenshotsaturday

30.08.2025 15:55 — 👍 73    🔁 8    💬 2    📌 0
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William DeKooning from here:
deborahjbrasket.com/2017/11/02/a...

That'd be nice :D

15.08.2025 14:23 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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And the saw 😬

Mary Shelley vibes

14.08.2025 16:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Love the skeleton in the background here

14.08.2025 16:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Chemical Brothers spaceship, again from here:
edcyphers.com/2013/03/09/f...

#art #artist

14.08.2025 15:54 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Animal Collective from here:
edcyphers.com/wp-content/u...

#art #artist

14.08.2025 14:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Great one of Lucian Freud: www.theguardian.com/books/2022/s...

#art #artist

14.08.2025 14:06 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Love the open space in Monet's:
monovisions.com/vintage-clau...

#art #artist

14.08.2025 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Some great ones here:
www.demilked.com/art-great-fa...

Like this one of Ron Mueck.

#art #artist

14.08.2025 13:49 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 1
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Here's another (more famous, but a great photo)

#art #artist

14.08.2025 13:45 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0