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@brainfruit.bsky.social

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new game studio, growing up now, from @robdubbin.bsky.social and @garrett.bsky.social https://brainfruit.studio

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brainfruit! @brainfruit.bsky.social · 14h

we made a card-based party game that will bring you closer to your friends and frustrate your enemies. it's kinda like if letterboxd applied to everything and felt like apples to apples. campaign launches tomorrow, follow our page now to hype the algorithm!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

Coming soon: Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks

A play-anywhere fusion of Wavelength, Letterboxd, and Apples to Apples, for friends and strangers alike.

www.kickstarter.com

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brainfruit! @brainfruit.bsky.social · 4d

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sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · Aug 29

ahhh, one week of co-owning a smoothie bar with
@garrett.bsky.social! a.k.a the official
@brainfruit.bsky.social discord, where you can follow our work and play some stuff in progress. (especially relevant if you like trick-taking card games) the vibes are great, get in here! discord.gg/YPNKtnTQ4g

a cartoon brain and apple cavort next to a banner image for "smoothie bar: a brainfruit place" with a link to join smoothie bar, the official brainfruit studio discord. there is also a happy blender in the background with a mysterious puree inside whose color is a suspicious blend of the brain's and apple's colors

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brainfruit! @brainfruit.bsky.social · Jun 12

buabu believes!!

sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · Jun 11

an absolute joy to show tide breakers at likelike in pittsburgh last weekend. lively crowd of mostly non-games people who embraced the chance to work with/against each other. @molleindustria.org transformed his gallery space into a beautifully lit municipal crisis pressure cooker, just look at this!

a group of players, dramatically lit in their character colors, reacting to a situation in the 6p city council sim, tide breakers

a group of players perched before their microphones and voting controls, all dramatically lit in their character colors, regarding a tense situation while some chill spectators look on. the buabu flag is visible in the background

a tide breakers player facepalming as their group's run fails and the sea takes buabu

rob dubbin standing in front of a three-eyed character from the mural painted on likelike in pittsburgh

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brainfruit! @brainfruit.bsky.social · May 20

Pittsburgh, the fate of Buabu is now in your hands! June 6th!

Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · May 20

LIKELIKE Special Event: Tide Breakers

A city council sim for 6 players and a crowd by @brainfruit.bsky.social.
Save the city of Buabu from rising seas, or secure power and let it sink!

Co-creator @robdubbin.bsky.social will be present!

June 6
6-11PM
Pittsburgh, PA

likelike.org/2025/05/20/s...

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garrett miller @garrett.bsky.social · May 19

there were several times while making the brainfruit promo video where my ignorance of capcut created some real "magic moments". we left a lot of beauty on the cutting room floor!

screengrab of capcut, rob dubbin is highlighted in pink (a feature I had just discovered), gesturing at nothing

now I'm in the frame. rob is highlighted in a pink stroke outline, looking stoically forward. I'm sitting on his shoulders, somehow tinier. I was trying to figure out how to smush videos together

rob, wearing a hot, looking to his left at a different rob, who is being interviewed for a DIFFERENT promo video. this is how I looked upon first import, really wonderful stuff by computers here.

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brainfruit! @brainfruit.bsky.social · May 17

we love our sea defeaters

House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · May 17

First off (in no particular order) we have Tide Breakers!

Self-described as a city council simulation in a sci-fi setting, it's a beautiful mix between a branching narrative and a tabletop social game. Me and my group were the first to stop the rising tide! @brainfruit.bsky.social #indiedev #amaze

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brainfruit! @brainfruit.bsky.social · May 15

hello!!!

sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · May 13

friends, para-friends, some personal news: i've started a new game studio, brainfruit, with @garrett.bsky.social — we've booted it up with projects like our 6P city council sim TIDE BREAKERS and the fave-bots that swarm the posts i like on here. more soon! @brainfruit.bsky.social / brainfruit.studio

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