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Pat Holleman

@patmakesrpgs.bsky.social

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Freelance RPG director, writer, designer. (Quartet, My Familiar, Threads of Time, others.) Author of the Reverse Design series of books: http://thegamedesignforum.com/books/books.html

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Something Classic @somethingclassic.bsky.social · 3h

find someone who thinks about you like Cordelia thinks about Alexandra

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 4h

This remains a classic read. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Mario, Not So Super at Forty

Decades of the running, the jumping, and the smashing the bricks with the head takes its toll. Sorry, Princess, it’s spinal-fusion time.

www.newyorker.com

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Kingdoms of the Dump @kingdomsofthedump.bsky.social · 27d

Kingdoms of the Dump releases November on Steam!

wishlist now to help us out for launch
store.steampowered.com/app/2159270/...

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 1d

a woman is giving the middle finger in front of a blue background that says " fact "

ALT: a woman is giving the middle finger in front of a blue background that says " fact "

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Something Classic @somethingclassic.bsky.social · 3d

Name this monster.

"Quartet" is available on all PC stores!

#QuartetRPG #JRPG

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 2d

Wait I can do better.

"So, in this anime..."

Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 2d

"Guess what I watched, this weekend!"

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 2d

"it's not exciting enough" ⚰️

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Something Classic @somethingclassic.bsky.social · 3d

tag yourself if this is you

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 4d

You should read Gideon the Ninth. She *definitely* has played it.

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 5d

That would be interesting. Especially with the auto-haste perfume.

Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 5d

There's almost nobody my ninja corps can't kill in one turn. Even if they're sporting shields and capes.

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 5d

I'm kind of blackpilled on poaching now that I know a ninja with brawl has more power-per-strike than any sword lower than Excalibur. To say nothing of the speed.

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Something Classic @somethingclassic.bsky.social · 5d

Form up!

"Quartet" is available on PC!

#QuartetRPG #jrpg

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 6d

Everyone on British Bake Off who tries the full puff instead of the rough puff goes home. But they keep doing it.

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 6d

This would have made 2025 the absolute peak of hotly-anticipated indie releases. (What with Hades 2, Hollow Knight and Haunted Chocolatier.) What, no Terraria 2?

Great year to release Quartet... we totally crushed that one.

(TBF only half of those games were actually announced before August.)

Jason Schreier @jasonschreier.bsky.social · 6d

On Monday, Yacht Club Games delayed the much-anticipated upcoming game Mina the Hollower.

On Tuesday, I visited their studio and saw the game. It made for a rare glimpse at why a video game gets delayed and what "polish" actually means.

This week's column:
www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Why 'Mina the Hollower' Was Delayed

Yacht Club Games hasn't given a new release date, but the delay shouldn’t be more than a few months

www.bloomberg.com

Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 6d

It's weird, because Japanese books and movies are *not* like this. Think about books like Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki, A Thousand Cranes or The Key. Or films like Hanabi or After Life. They're characteristically Japanese in the way they leave so much UNsaid, but strongly implied.

Tyler Mire @tylermire.bsky.social · 6d

What's with every modern rpg scene having the same 2 lines being said 20 times? This is tedious

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Kingdoms of the Dump @kingdomsofthedump.bsky.social · 12d

trash bags not included

kingdoms of the dump coming november
wishlist now, dumplings ~

store.steampowered.com/app/2159270/...

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 7d

Happy Yankees Get Bounced in the Divisional Round, to all those who celebrate.

Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 7d

New dialogue in old scenes. However, WotL had cut scenes, as well. Wiegraf at Mileuda's grave, for example.

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 8d

Squeenix said they'd restored 30-40% of cut story content in their press campaign. The text definitely reads like Matsuno's later work, in Ogre Battle and FFXII. Just... too much of it for my tastes.

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 8d

I'll be honest. If Ramza had talked this much in the OG, I might have found the whole thing very tedious.

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Andy Walsh @englishscribe.bsky.social · 8d

OPPORTUNITY Lead Writer - CDProjekt - US

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Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 8d

I've always excluded Hiromichi Tanaka from this theoretical position because he was in the proper position to cut down the Xenogears script, and chose not to.

Pat Holleman @patmakesrpgs.bsky.social · 8d

The "restored" wordiness of FFTactics scenes confirms a hypothesis I've had for a long time, which was that Hironobu Sakaguchi had the final cut on most FF scripts during his Squaresoft tenure. Between this and the huge amounts of cut dialogue in FFVII, I think it's clear he was a relentless ax-man.

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