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Michael Gruar

Michael Gruar

@mgruar.bsky.social

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He/him (or they) Independent Game Developer, Software Engineer, Littleton MA Bike/Ped Advisory Committee, Father of 3, American and British (sorry), among other things. https://linktr.ee/lunarchippygames #gamedev #indiedev

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Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · Oct 20

Pinned Post: Hi all, I'm Michael, and I'm working on Iron Village, a cozy pixel town builder game - with trains! store.steampowered.com/app/3011060/...

(Also a heads up, this is a personal Bluesky account. Just be warned following me will include much more mundane posts as well!)

Iron Village on Steam

With the help of your railway, build houses, farms, warehouses, and more to create your village. Trade what your people make for other resources and gold to grow your village into a prospering town, a...

store.steampowered.com

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 18h

Also need to put "low performers" in scare quotes there, at least half of the time it's just whoever is a convenient scapegoat

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 18h

Ok, but now you've just made me want them more

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 1d

I'm normally against the death penalty, but

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Brad Lander @bradlander.bsky.social · 2d

Can we at least give Canada a break on the tariffs now?

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 2d

As a proud New Englander I hate to admit it, but you're probably right

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 2d

Bluesky has very clearly decided to go on the tech bro side of the tech bro/tech nerd divide

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 2d

Agreed otherwise though, at the very least California basically operates as its own country, and it even has its own border checkpoints. (Agricultural Inspection checkpoints, but still.)

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 2d

I think you do have to draw the lines a little bit more broadly because of the Central Valley. It's where most of California's food comes from, and with the housing crisis these days, a not insignificant part of the workforce lives there.

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 2d

Took me waaay too long to notice those zombies

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 5d

Hell, I think a Northeastern US country could do fine on its own (with open trade and much more open borders of course). Although an expanded EU that becomes an Atlantic Union could be good too.

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Morgan M Page @morganmpage.bsky.social · 5d

All the people with taste are broke, all the people who lack taste have the money, and making anything requires bridging the two in the dumbest ways possible.

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 5d

If it makes you feel any better, that's the prevailing media narrative here in the US as well 🙃

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Alfonso 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇵🇸🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @springsteen81.bsky.social · 6d

Miércoles

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 5d

That would be so cool, fingers crossed for you!

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 6d

Occasionally my oldest son (7) will bring up Roblox and we're just like nopenopenopenopenope, play literally anything else

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 6d

Congrats! Motorsport Manager is one of my favorite games, I'm really excited to see "race team management" become a genre.

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 6d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 7d

A new dev diary, this time about a concept I made up (that probably already exists): Semi-Automation!

lunarchippy.games/2025/10/27/d...

Also, the biggest teaser of project OY yet!

#IronVillage #ProjectOY #devdiary #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #townbuilder #citybuilder

A screenshot from the development of Project OY, an unannounced game under development. A naked & bald pixel art character (well, implied nude) is standing inside a boxy train car, visible from outside the front windshield.

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Chris 🍂 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · 8d

the week starts now where your usual time offset between US* and other countries that do DST will be off by an hour, because countries that participate don't even change on the same dates

*except most of Arizona, Hawaii, US territories but for half the year they'll be shifted if your place does DST

Chris 🍂 DevPods.gg gamedev community @chrisdeleon.bsky.social · Mar 10

look I know it'd be easy to just let it go now that we're on the other side of it but guess what that's exactly how this charade has gone on for so long we simply cannot let them continue getting away with this

deranged meme text with badly edited sloppy inconsistent fonts and messy images. gives conspiracy theory vibes. title:
stop doing daylight savings time
• clocks were not supposed to be changed
• years of time lies yet no real-world use found for pretending it's a different hour
• wanted to be offset by an hour ? we had a tool for that: it was called “cross a time zone line"
• "yes please give me an hour that doesn't happen. please give me the same hour twice" - statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged
look at what daylight savings have been demanding your respect for all this time, with all the calendars and clocks we built for them (countries that do it can't even do it the same date or every state)
illustration shows US and European clock changes are different dates and also that Arizona doesn't do it even though the rest of states in US around it do.
“hello i would like international and interstate clocks to be a different time zone adjustment at random times of year please" they have played us for absolute fools.

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julie gourinchas @literaryfey.bsky.social · Jun 19

"I asked ChatGPT" "I asked Grok" ok well I asked Gandalf and he said he has not passed through fire and death to bandy crooked words with a witless worm

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Gravel Influencer @gravelinfluencer.bsky.social · 9d

Things in Massachusetts are not as bad as they are in Chicago, but ICE is in our communities. The stories you see on the news don't accurately reflect the daily terror ICE is inflicting on immigrants. Please consider donating to or volunteering with LUCE.

Also, save their number: 617-370-5023

LUCE Immigrant Justice Network of MA

www.lucemass.org

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Jjinandtonic @jjinandtonic.bsky.social · 9d

Smug MA “it seems my superiority has led to some controversy”

Michael Gruar @mgruar.bsky.social · 10d

Ooof, too real. I probably would've talked myself into selling Iron Village for $5 if it weren't for my partner talking me out of it. $8 was more or less a compromise.

Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 11d

Solo devs and very small teams often have this inherent cringe about the idea of making people pay $20 or $10 or even $5 for their little game and I can't emphasize enough how much you have to grab that cringing impulse within yourself and strangle it to death

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Bruno Dias @brunodias.bsky.social · 11d

Solo devs and very small teams often have this inherent cringe about the idea of making people pay $20 or $10 or even $5 for their little game and I can't emphasize enough how much you have to grab that cringing impulse within yourself and strangle it to death

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haunted mentions @makeitsnow.bsky.social · 12d

free line for democrats to use on the white house shit: donald trump has done what the flight 93 hijackers couldn’t