Was playing BUDD's 2023 demo again and it's wild just how much snappier the current version is - Screen transitions and textboxes are way faster now - Eris accelerates and slows down faster - Cutscene skipping is faster - Attacks that kill enemies don't completely halt your momentum anymore

Playing thru what we've got of BUDD again, making a huge checklist of the things that bother me, and gradually chipping away at them one by one

The deal has returned. Summer sale, that is.

Entirely coincidentally finished watching the Matrix trilogy and binged TADC yesterday, so I guess the vibe rn is transgender metaverses

Dungeon Gals is 10% off as part of the Games For Pride sale! There's a lot of really cool stuff as well in this sale, and it's all put together by AAPI in Gaming! aaaand HAPPY PRIDE 2026! Dungeon Gals: store.steampowered.com/app/2864880/... Games for Pride: store.steampowered.com/curator/4504...

There are times I'll get to the final boss in a game and I'm kinda glad it wasn't a clear??? The nerves were off, the vibes were rancid, and there were a lot of really stupid deaths.

It's wild to me that there are all these AAA sequels and remakes spending so much time, resources, and manpower paying lip service to these smaller scope retro games that took a fraction of that time to be made in the first place

I like to think they invented Rank just to mess with people using save states and rewind 20-30 years later

Picked up a bunch of random shmups from the Steam bullet fest and in a pretty good mood now, I think! What I love about arcade games is that even you only play them for 30 minutes and don't even want to try going for a clear, you'll still have a great time.

Gonna fight some streets!

HYDLIDE, HYDLIDE II and HYDLIDE 3 are all on Steam now in their original unaltered PC-8801 original selves, in case you want to check out a piece of important JRPG history. 1) store.steampowered.com/app/4555540/... 2) store.steampowered.com/app/4555570/... 3) store.steampowered.com/app/4195970/...

Technically we could use our tablet to draw pixel art in aseprite, but the flipside is that the keyboard shortcuts we use for making sprites are totally different from the ones we use when drawing in Krita, and I know that'd be a massive headache

Shockingly, holding a fire button down for nearly a month straight isn't good for your hands

I feel like I should like Treasure games more than I actually do?? In my head they make these really cool games that push the hardware they were designed for, but playing them I'm usually just "yeah that was alright" and I can't think of any game of theirs I really thought more than that of?

tanuki woman

Vampire hunter halfling (patreon reward)

I am the real bug princess now

The absolute TERROR I feel being able to make it to the last stage of a game with 2 lives left, and knowing I've been able to beat that stage on 2 lives in practice. Getting the clear doesn't even matter at that point, the whole journey is worth it for that thrill alone.

I'm starting to get nightmares that take the shape of AI slop, just this soup of sights and sounds detached from any meaningful context

you know what fucking month it is

❄KULA DIAMOND❄ it's her birthday! #kof

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxeo... Another replay! I love fantasy zone :)

I swear it's always the most throwaway runs that get the clear

People putting danmaku in non-shmup games know there are more patterns you can do than circles of bullets, right?

The really annoying thing is that you can't just remove things from your life that make you miserable, you have to replace them with things that are a better influence

There's a lady I can't seem to get off my mind~

It's funny how your skill level is inversely proportional to the amount of lives you're carrying at any given moment Any advantage I get early game is completely negated by my own arrogance

Last spells in Imperishable Night are kinda awesome? I love the idea of really hard optional spell cards that the game doesn't expect you to clear for survival's sake, but it'd be Really Cool if you did. This extends to Last Words too but I'm too scrubby to even think about doing those rn

This was supposed to be a silly little warmup doodle, how did Blender get involved

I feel like I've slept on Imperishable Night way too long Usually when we're in the mood play a touhou it's either EoSD, PCB, or MoF, but for some reason we never went back to IN much (it's awesome)

I kinda wish more demos weren't afraid of being placed a bit further into the game The first level makes sense because that's usually where the tutorial/onboarding is, but I just wanna see what the game looks like when it hits its stride

touhou project :)

playing shenmue right now and I feel this game rewiring my brain chemistry in real time

You can tell when a shmup dev has someone who's a pervert for large machinery on the team and when one doesn't but tries anyway

I'm really sensitive when it comes to the specific technical quirks game engines have? You can talk about the design of a game as much as you want, but the way the game functions on your machine is as much a part of the art as the game logic is, imo

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBtB... Super Freaks 1 Ultimate Edition 4.0 is being worked on! Here's a preview of the upcoming Anti Freaks Story. Fill your Rage Meter with yorbs and violence against Kranibots, and fire yourself in the air with your Rage Rocket ability!

NiGHTS Into Dreams guys 🙂 #nightsintodreams #nights #sega #segasaturn #fanart

There are a lot of people that really believe they need validation on what a good "beginner" game is instead of just trying a bunch of stuff they think looks cool and seeing what sticks

I kinda wish auto-bomb were a separate thing from the easy mode in a lot of newer shmups? It's kinda lame to me that there's like an entire mechanic the game tries to shove under the rug, and it's forced on you if you want the easier patterns

bullying game maker devs that leave GMLive in the files

quick 15-ish minute doodle i had a sudden idea for

Several years ago, I commissioned @rabbitlegs.bsky.social to drew Nadine as a maid. I don't think we've ever posted it here before but I think it was for Maid Day in 2024!

A butler is a kind of maid, right? #メイドの日 #MaidDay

I forget if I posed these here

I like these maids I think

Got the EOSD normal 1CC last night............ (I guess depending if you count a 5 lives start as a 1CC, but you still unlock the extra stage so w/e)

you have to be free and put your fetishes in your work so that you one day get a dm from someone like i loved your game here is fetish art of your characters. and its your fetish. and its awesome

kayin.moe/dungeon-gals Okay played and wrote about @doricdream.bsky.social's Polycule Puzzler Platformer DUNGEON GALS. A just... wonderfully loving, queer as heck game.

I'm trying soooo hard not to be a cynical grumpy little baby about video games rn but it's Tough

Excited to see these two pals in action, this is totally how they act in game... right? This specific thing happens? For @engineerkappa.net #Koja'sArt #artfight Artfight: artfight.net/attack/92213... Full Size: kojanue.omf.social/art-fight-1s...