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Michael Lee

@drinkycode.bsky.social

Making games in Pittsburgh and other places.

129 Followers  |  181 Following  |  28 Posts  |  Joined: 28.06.2023  |  1.9034

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Night in the Woods' publisher says TikTok is creating and running racist GenAI ads for its games without permission. https://bit.ly/4kKnB5L

20.02.2026 13:03 β€” πŸ‘ 900    πŸ” 279    πŸ’¬ 14    πŸ“Œ 80
a bunch of very specifically named hardcoded boolean fields in a single script representing the entire save state of the game

a bunch of very specifically named hardcoded boolean fields in a single script representing the entire save state of the game

"save systems should dynamically handle object IDs and automatically populate the serialized data of every object that requires save states, and then for dialogue progression it needs to-"

team cherry:
WRONG. 1400 hardcoded fields in PlayerData.cs

16.12.2025 16:35 β€” πŸ‘ 646    πŸ” 84    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 14

Wake Up Dead Man is just a fun whodunnit time. Give me all of these until Rian Johnson and Daniel Craig are retired.

15.12.2025 03:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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πŸ•ΉοΈ CorgiSpace is OUT NOW!

πŸƒ Break out of jail (a lot)
🐢 Be a pug
πŸ”ͺ Stab nazis
πŸ’₯ Fall off stuff
🌍 Terraform a planet
β›ͺ Drink various popes
πŸ„ Farm mushrooms

Check it out on Steam & itch.io!

12.12.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 152    πŸ” 38    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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CorgiSpace on Steam CorgiSpace is a collection of 8-bit games that have short legs on purpose. This anthology includes more than a dozen action, adventure, arcade, and puzzle games, and each can be thoroughly explored in...

holy moly, ok! we did it?? we made a collection??? it's the first 13 games, bundled up with unlockable dev notes, updated audio, some sneaky bug fixes, cloud saves, and Steam Deck support!! store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...

10.12.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 285    πŸ” 81    πŸ’¬ 17    πŸ“Œ 12
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We're excited to announce that LOK Digital is OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch!

lok-digital.com/switch

Featuring approachable mechanics and mind-bending gameplay, LOK Digital is designed by @letibus.bsky.social and @icedropgames.bsky.social and published by Draknek & Friends

09.12.2025 17:15 β€” πŸ‘ 51    πŸ” 23    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 8
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Angeline Era is OUT NOW!!!
πŸ”Every level hidden in plain sight…
πŸ—ΊοΈβ€¦ chart your own path through the world!
βš”οΈTons of thrilling combat, mysterious places…
πŸ‘Όβ€¦ and a soul-shattering story!
GET IT HERE!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

08.12.2025 12:08 β€” πŸ‘ 1332    πŸ” 629    πŸ’¬ 42    πŸ“Œ 62
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LOK Digital will launch on Nintendo Switch December 9th!

In this charming puzzler from @letibus.bsky.social & @raindrinker.bsky.social , learn world-changing words, master their mind-bending effects & help the LOK creatures thrive.

Play the demo and pre-order now
www.draknek.org/nintendo/lok...

05.12.2025 16:31 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 26    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 6

My annual "The Game Awards is the awards show the industry deserves" post.

04.12.2025 21:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Like so many other things in the world, games discourse just sucks right now.

04.12.2025 01:47 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Horror game maker accuses Valve of 'censorship' after its game about nude human 'Horses' is rejected by Steam: 'Lawful works should not be made unreachable by a monopolistic storefront's opaque decisi... Valve told Santa Ragione its game featured child exploitation. The studio says otherwise.

Steam, the go-to destination for childlike anime smut, is so worried about one scene in this art game that it isn’t even letting the developers resubmit it.

www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

25.11.2025 18:11 β€” πŸ‘ 106    πŸ” 22    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 3
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It's finally coming!!
On December 8th... I'm releasing my next game, Angeline Era!!!
It's a vast, 3D action-adventure where you travel across a country's unmarked overworld, with every level hidden in plain sight.
Please look forward to it!!
store.steampowered.com/app/2393920

17.11.2025 20:14 β€” πŸ‘ 906    πŸ” 339    πŸ’¬ 30    πŸ“Œ 28

48 hours for the signed version of Tunic: Design Works! There are limited deluxe editions!

I am so excited for this <3

30.10.2025 18:38 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Reminder: Spooky Express is OUT NOW!

πŸš‚πŸ§ŸπŸ§›
Take charge of the only rail service willing to carry the undead passengers of deepest, darkest Trainsylvania.

Steam: s.team/a/3352310
itch: draknek.itch.io/spooky-express
iOS: apps.apple.com/app/id673842...
Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

22.10.2025 23:00 β€” πŸ‘ 185    πŸ” 96    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 21

mariners won

11.10.2025 05:07 β€” πŸ‘ 2183    πŸ” 253    πŸ’¬ 60    πŸ“Œ 15

Mariners thank god

11.10.2025 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Hes the Gallant at least to the other guy’s Goofus.

18.09.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Family Circus Sunday comic.

13.09.2025 19:28 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Finji is hiring a Community Assistant Finji is seeking a Community Assistant to assist with managing, designing, and elevating our community Discord server.

The folks at @finjico.bsky.social are hiring a Community Assistant to help shape their vibrant Discord community!

πŸ“ Remote, Part-time (U.S. only)
πŸ’¬ $25/hour, 15-20 hours per week
🚫 Strict no-crunch policy

‡️

25.08.2025 16:28 β€” πŸ‘ 60    πŸ” 34    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
Illustration of various Finji characters in the woods!

Illustration of various Finji characters in the woods!

Finji is hiring! πŸ”Ž

We're looking for a Community Assistant to work with our fun & friendly Discord community!

Learn more & apply: bit.ly/finjicommunity

21.08.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 474    πŸ” 145    πŸ’¬ 5    πŸ“Œ 5

The ending (and similarly with The Substance last year) is one of the great "you have to watch this with a full theatre audience" moments.

10.08.2025 05:06 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

09.08.2025 13:58 β€” πŸ‘ 11969    πŸ” 1986    πŸ’¬ 81    πŸ“Œ 22
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πŸ’ Whoa, what's this?!

UFO 50 is available right now on #NintendoSwitch!

#UFO50 #IndieWorld

07.08.2025 14:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2051    πŸ” 567    πŸ’¬ 49    πŸ“Œ 82
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🚨 ANNOUNCEMENT 🚨
After 4 years of work, my solarpunk game finally has a title, a trailer, and a Steam page!

Wishlist... Future? No Thanks!
πŸ‘‰ futurenothanks.com

29.07.2025 15:36 β€” πŸ‘ 822    πŸ” 189    πŸ’¬ 21    πŸ“Œ 32

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation.
After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

Most experts acknowledge that a takeover by artificial intelligence is coming for the video game industry within the next five years, and executives have already started preparing to restructure their companies in anticipation. After all, it was one of the first sectors to deploy A.I. programming in the 1980s, with the four ghosts who chase Pac-Man each responding differently to the player's real-time movements.

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

29.07.2025 02:10 β€” πŸ‘ 7829    πŸ” 1285    πŸ’¬ 417    πŸ“Œ 1134

It is an extreme bummer that the guy who provided one of the most adopted creative commons music libraries for the internet is now an AI bro

26.07.2025 20:25 β€” πŸ‘ 282    πŸ” 107    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 1

Also worth noting: Jenny Jiao Hsia's autobiographical opus Consume Me, which won the Grand Prize at this year's Independent Games Festival along with a few other awards, is also delisted in itch search (but also has a searchable Steam listing)

24.07.2025 02:29 β€” πŸ‘ 562    πŸ” 235    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 14

I did not care for Fred Armisen's Cranky either.

14.07.2025 05:35 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
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Burn in the USA
Celebrate independence by playing independent games about the land of the free.

Friday July 4th
7-11PM

LIKELIKE, Pittsburgh

likelike.org/2025/06/25/b...

27.06.2025 19:48 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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the pittsburgh pirates are out of town for the entirety of anthrocon.

the MLB has negated andrew mccutchen's annual superhuman "furries" tweet performance.

pittsburgh sports fans can't have shit in 2025.

04.07.2025 00:07 β€” πŸ‘ 634    πŸ” 187    πŸ’¬ 13    πŸ“Œ 20

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