Tanya X. Short

Steal, sneak and persuade your way through the simulated city of Fortuna.

🏛 Watch the new gameplay trailer and sign up for our Alpha playtest: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...

it's not SO hard to get off spotify... and however hard it is now, it'll be harder in another year or two. I mean, no consumption is ethical etc, but there are definitely viable alternatives. I find everything just fine on Tidal and they apparently pay musicians an average of ~4x more. just sayin.

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We have a big Streets of Fortuna announcement during this show. Watch for us!

yo techbros we already discovered immortality, it's called plastic, enjoy your eternity as a lich made of petroleum dumbass

the water's fine ya'll welcome to the low fidelity jungle

I really need to put more time into this positively wild game.

Get in here animators specifically on fighting games

Hey friends! Unfortunately we are delaying our Switch release til January. Port isn't perfect yet, & given Qud's long dev timeline, what matters most to us is releasing the best possible ver of the game, even if it means a delay

We're confident on the Jan timeline, so we'll see you on Switch soon

my headcanon from now on is mythril is always rose gold unless enchanted to look otherwise

YouTube video by Interactive Fiction Technology Foundation NarraScope 2022: Narrative Tools of Boyfriend Dungeon

If it was me, this is the talk that is the most potentially relevant, but I don't know! I refuse to watch my own talks so it's hard for me to say 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j1F...

sorry to hear it man! sounds haunted

A video game called Arcane Eats featuring an anime style chef cooking with magical ingredients in front of a horde of fantasy characters, is being promoted as part of the Cozy Quest event hosted on Steam November 17-20

Arcane Eats is part of #CozyQuest25 on Steam!

Maybe a Chef-minded roguelike deckbuilder will satisfy your cravings? 🧑‍🍳 🍳 ✨

You can try the demo now! store.steampowered.com/app/3528960?... #games #indiegame

Coming soon: Realis A new tabletop roleplaying game by Austin Walker

Surprise, we're getting pretty close to the final version of REALIS!

ICYMI: I've been making a TTRPG about mystical moons and living spaceships and sentences that can kill you. A preview is available now (see my pinned post), but the full version draws near!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/cru...

I have many thoughts on verisimilitude and simulation and sandbox RPGs, but very few about the unpleasant taste "immersive sim" seems to leave in my mouth

Rian Johnson recently admitted to giving this a hard no and the internet is rioting??? Kate you're too powerful

WELL ACTUALLY Caves of Qud would win Best Sim / Strategy Game because it came out in December 2024 (so it's eligible) and has a 91 💅

It'd be more uniquely correct to say "led by the developer of Fit For a King" but I suspect that's not as meaningful to the broader Bluesky audience

Streets of Fortuna on Steam Use your wits to survive the generated chaos that is living in the Streets of Fortuna megasim. A free-roaming sandbox RPG about growing from street rat to a tradesman, a priest, a smuggler, an alchemi...

I heard I can @pitchyagame.bsky.social still so here I am #pitchyagame !
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Streets of Fortuna is a megasim sandbox RPG. Survive if you can in a Constantinople-inspired city - start as a street rat, then live your life? From the publisher of Dwarf Fortress: store.steampowered.com/app/2946850/...

ok idea for a new strategy, if someone wants to sell you on AI, just have them fix the mental health crisis first so it doesn't kill people, which will require them to fix the income inequality, and then you know maybe at that point we can have a real conversation about the costs and values

I love that English escalated déranger when they imported it from French. It makes it perfect when French people apologize for being a few minutes late as derangement, so sorry to derange you

Save 15% on Ambrosia Sky on Steam You left. Now they’re dead. Ambrosia Sky: Act One is an immersive sim about exploring an asteroid colony devastated by a mysterious contamination. Survive and harvest strains of aggressive alien fungi...

I'm gonna GO to SPACE, she said
I'm gonna POWERWASH their SOULS, she said
I'm gonna BEFRIEND the FUNGUS, she said

and then she did! Happy Ambrosia Sky launch day! (the above may or may not reflect your play experience, consider it fan fiction)

store.steampowered.com/app/3580160/...

Lovely introduction to game design, distilling decades of thinking by Raph and many others.

I can't wait to discuss it in my classes.

Game design is simple, actually So, let’s just walk through the whole thing, end to end. Here’s a twelve-step program for understanding game design. One: Fun There are a lot of things people call “fun.” But most of them are not u…

Game Design is Simple, Actually: "fun is basically about making progress on prediction" and the nature of good problems

www.raphkoster.com/2025/11/03/g... by the enlightening @raphkoster.bsky.social

spoken from experience, it sounds like

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perfection

the church of the subgenius had the concept of the third nostril, through which you perceived pstench

now we're talking sense

humans, man

third eye: mystical, intriguing, perceptive, spiritual

third ear: the idea you could just NOT hear god or spirits when 'sensitive'/Chosen/etc seems silly so tbh having deeper 'hearing' makes more sense than deeper 'seeing', but we would die before drawing an ear on someone's forehead