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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean

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Infrequent YouTuber, fairly prolific poster, siaradwr gwael o Gymraeg. Likes indie games, board games, trad roguelikes, medieval history. https://linktr.ee/AlanWithTea He/him

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · Nov 2

An introduction for new folk, I guess

I play indie games, traditional roguelikes (DCSS, Angband, etc), board games, card games, tabletop RPGs

I have degrees in medieval history

I wrote unnecessarily verbose flavour text for a jam game once

Capitalism gives me the ick

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 13h

My favourite bit of the Higurashi intro - "I'll take you away, along with that finger" 😂

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Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · 13h

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!! 💖🎉

The nicest thing y'all could do for me (if you're so inclined 😊🫶🏾) is to share + signal boost our growing DnA Codex of Game Dev resources so it finds the folks who need it most

Contributions to the Ko-Fi also welcome as they help us devote more time to it amidst our projects!

Alanna Smith @alannamode.bsky.social · Jun 20

We’re gonna leave the games industry better than we found it 😤

Introducing DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library 🧬

📚 ongoing, always growing, digital archive for all
💸 COMMUNITY-FUNDED and freely accessible
🫡 curated + maintained by DnA Creative (us!)
dnacreative.notion.site/codex

DNA CODEX: The GameDev Library

DNA CODEX is a free digital GameDev Library built and maintained by DnA Creative - a curated and community supported digital archive for game development resources.

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 14h

I can't believe FlyKnight was earlier this year. It feels like I played it 5 years ago

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDp4...

Lunamoth's Minions

YouTube video by Michi VGC - Topic

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 15h

It's a source of minor but persistent distress to me that the only people making that 90s-to-early-2000s style of American melodic punk (more or less derived from Bad Religion) are the same people who were making it 25 years ago

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 15h

Ugh, such a good album

open.spotify.com/track/5hns2g...

Factory

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 15h

I have no idea why but this (and a couple of other songs from the same album) always has a sort of 'warm room with a fireplace on a cold autumn day' feel for me

open.spotify.com/track/0kqYjK...

Full On

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

Another spooky VGM for your Thursday. This one is an ominous piece from early in Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain

www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR-D...

Awekening to the World - Blood Omen : Legacy of Kain (soundtrack)

YouTube video by MasterSoundtrack

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

Rewatching one of my formative anime series for spooky season

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

Do you find that most things which people hype up as being amazing generally don't live up to the hype?

I remarked casually about that a few months back and the response suggested this might be a me thing.

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

Just thinking back on the good, but blandly named, The Quest

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 1d

Today's pick from my spooky VGM playlist is less playful and more actually slightly haunting. It's from Heartworm, a survival horror released this year

www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXh6...

The Archive

YouTube video by Knulp - Topic

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 2d

If you like this, check out @interjace.bsky.social! She's funny!

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

At one time I'd have gone biscoff too, but I feel a bit biscoffed out these days. Everything is biscoff, like when everything was salted caramel for a while.

So I think I'd go the pink one

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

You know I did a playlist of sunny VGM for the summer? I'm also doing a (much smaller) one for halloween/spooktime.

So here's one for today, from Shantae and the Pirate's Curse:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eSg...

Shantae and the Pirate's Curse - Rave in the Grave Zombie Island

YouTube video by Gamesost

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

I know this probably makes me a gremlin in thrall to the dark ruling abominations of the internet, but one of the things that slightly mitigates my slide into seasonal depression as the days shorten is my eagerness to see end of year summaries from stuff like Twitch and Steam 🤷‍♂️

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

Age of Empires II chaos yesterday

www.twitch.tv/interjace/cl...

Interjace - Tree carts

Watch Interjace's clip titled

www.twitch.tv

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 3d

"Fresh", sealed copies of Super Mario RPG actually have a unique title screen. This screen is lost permanently on that cartridge after playing and saving just once, and can not be restored without tinkering with the cartridge or waiting decades for the save battery to run out.

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

In my head for days

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

Wings of Kynareth

YouTube video by Jeremy Soule - Topic

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

Happy birthday! Don't worry, 30s are good

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

While I was checking the figure (it is roughly 20% at the national level) I found this horror story: "54% of U.S. adults read below the equivalent of a sixth-grade level"

(From here: www.thenationalliteracyinstitute.com/2024-2025-li...)

MORE THAN HALF OF ADULTS CAN'T READ AS WELL AS AN 11 YEAR OLD

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Night Signal Entertainment @nightsignalentertainment.com · 5d

1995's Forbidden Solitaire infamously included a segment featuring the implements of witchcraft, further stoking fear and controversy from parent groups.

💚Wishlist Forbidden Solitaire: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

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AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

The console ports still play well and keep the essence of what Syndicate is. Yes they're cartoonier but I think people get excessively hung up on that

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

You know, I agree. They're far too complacent.

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

This is exactly my issue with "the worst that can happen is they say no" 😅

AlanWithTea || The Indie Ocean @alanwithtea.bsky.social · 3d

Some random game recs:

Hellish Quart - relatively authentic sword duels
Death Crown - minimalist, vicious RTS
Hylics - dreamlike RPG with a surreal aesthetic
Technotopia - narrative city-builder