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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games

@peterpunk.bsky.social

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Made Roller Drama 🛼, Football Drama ⚽ , Becoming Saint 😇 (vidgms), Eutopia 🍄 The Game 🐄 Vietato Innamorarsi ❤️ (theatre), 30 applied vgs. Making Revolt! Clueless, intense fever dreams. I'm with the Ciompi's in Florence. He/Him 🌈 See https://open-lab.com

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · Jul 15

Becoming Saint is now available on Steam, with discounts, bundles, and also a *supporter edition* with high-res funny assets, some of which decorate this announcement release thread - so get that! 😝 Thank you all for playing and hopefully leaving a review on Steam! 😇

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 27m

Thanks!

Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 1h

What happens when in games we stop putting players at the centre as heroes? Rethinking heroism, control, and what winning means in games in my new Substack post:

peterpunk.substack.com/p/the-dissol...

The dissolution of the hero(ine)

Experiments with player and power representations in games.

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 1d

Netflix's Six Kings Salm has such a Black Mirror aura... 😅

Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 6d

Imagine being so toxic on Steam to write a negative review of this: store.steampowered.com/app/1425980/... 😅

Stone Simulator – Just Be a Rock on Steam

Stone Simulator is a meditative idle game where you live as a rock enduring endless seasons and absurd events. Survive storms, unlock quirky achievements, and observe a serene, ever-changing world. Pe...

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 6d

Too complex even for nerds imho. Dropped and came here, its ok.

Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 10d

😬😅😂😇

Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 10d

We got the green check on Becoming Saint for SteamDeck!!!

Firesquid @firesquid.games · 11d

Becoming Saint is now playable on #SteamDeck! ✨

Convert the heretics from wherever you wish: store.steampowered.com/news/app/264...

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 14d

Becoming Saint now in Steam's Autumn sale 😇🚂 #SteamAutumnSale

Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · Jul 15

Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 16d

Tonight in Palermo - a participative theatre piece I co-designed, Vietato Innamorarsi at Mercurio Festival

Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 19d

This is a making-of video for Becoming Saint, quite detailed and also we discuss indie game production, notions of history, and creating meaningful games, among other topics. Thanks to the amazing @d6learning.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT... @firesquid.games

Becoming Saint: An Indie Tale of Creation with Pietro Polsinelli

YouTube video by D6 Learning

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 20d

Even browsing Twitch itself for games (as opposed to just following a curator) is a nightmare 😅

Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 20d

This! This! This is so on point and important!
(I find Nintendo shop visibility totally dysfunctional too btw)
@jon.inkle.co any suggestion for a solution?

Jon Ingold @jon.inkle.co · 20d

Seems to me that the fact that interested people can’t find games they find interesting and maybe don’t even know they exist is (a) obvs true so dunking on it is dumb and (b) a massive fucking problem for the artform that the corporate sector of the industry has no interest *at all* in solving

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 20d

By the way, Becoming Saint is now in Steam's Autumn Sale: store.steampowered.com/app/2643010/... @firesquid.games

Save 20% on Becoming Saint on Steam

Choose your doctrine and preach across medieval Italy in this real-time strategy roguelike. Gather your diverse cast of followers, venture out to convince and convert new believers, conquer towns, and...

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · 20d

Today! Making of Becoming Saint, covering research for the art, history, settings, and the evolution of mechanics, incremental narrative design, and the dissolution of the hero(ine) 😇

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D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · 28d

Find out what went into making indie medieval sainthood simulator/RTS *Becoming Saint* in a live discussion and Q&A with @peterpunk.bsky.social!

Join us on the 30th of September on YouTube for a #gamedev deep dive: www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT...

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D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · Sep 19

Becoming Saint: An Indie Tale of Creation with Pietro Polsinelli - a live discussion with game designer @peterpunk.bsky.social; join us on the 30th of September!

The event will be streamed on YouTube: www.youtube.com/live/G5zYhdT...

Get a reminder via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-s...

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · Sep 19

Get our beautiful & bizarre medieval, heretical & rebellious game Becoming Saint - now with 20% discount on Steam!

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · Sep 19

When you organize an event, write down the fucking address. Just write it there, where you describe who is speaking, what is happening. Also put it when you are quoting it. No its not the organization address, not always. JUST WRITE IT DOWN, damn it. 😅

Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · Sep 16

This week I’ll be a bit around:

Thursday 18th Bologna “Heritage Game Farm” www.culturabologna.it/lang/en/even...

Friday 19th Prato “IVPRO Days off” ivipro.it/it/notizie/s...

Saturday 20th Milan The Game by Trickster-p www.bttfproject.it/the-game/

Sunday 21st Milan Zona Warpa, zonawarpa.it

😝

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Anthony « iamleyeti » Jauneaud @iamleyeti.bsky.social · Sep 12

I'm doing this very cool course in November! Writing short stories to prototype game narrative!

D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · Sep 8

Are short stories narrative prototypes for video games?

Veteran game writer and narrative designer @iamleyeti.bsky.social certainly thinks so, and will be teaching you all about *Prototyping Video Game Narratives with Short Stories*.

Lessons start November 24 📝 www.d6learning.com/course/proto...

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · Sep 11

We’re working on 4 games at the same time, what could go wrong?

😇 Becoming Saint - portable compatibility

✊ Revolt of the Commons - strategy turn-based medieval communism

♠️ Rome City Of Cards - win debates in the Roman Senate

⚽ Football Matches - manage crazy matches with a match-3 mechanic

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · Aug 31

Saw this wonderful Argentinian movie El Jockey by Luis Ortega that tries to be as crazy as life is 😍 www.youtube.com/watch?v=-C5R...

KILL THE JOCKEY Trailer (2025) Úrsula Corberó

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D6 Learning @d6learning.bsky.social · Aug 28

Entertaining notions of sainthood? Well then, join @peterpunk.bsky.social on September 30 to discover what actually went into 'Becoming Saint'.

👉The making-of will be streamed on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5zY...

👉Secure your handy reminder via Eventbrite: www.eventbrite.com/e/becoming-s...

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M Lupetti @mlupetti.upandpunch.red · Aug 25

In my monthly videogame review column for art magazine @artribune.bsky.social: Becoming Saint (@peterpunk.bsky.social), The End of Gameplay (@droqen.bsky.social), Time Flies (@playables.net, @panic.com), Vile: Exhumed (@dirtlord77.bsky.social) and Wheel World (@messhof.bsky.social, @annapurna.com).

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Pietro Polsinelli 🔜 Football and revolution games @peterpunk.bsky.social · Aug 24

Psychotic bathtub (again) store.steampowered.com/app/2517080/... by @psychotic-bathtub.bsky.social

Militsioner store.steampowered.com/app/1373530/... by @tallboys.bsky.social

Add them to your wishlists!

Psychotic Bathtub on Steam

Have a psychotic episode in your bathtub. Argue with a rubber duck, flood your bathroom and drown jesus. Find your very own ending – or all of them.

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