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The Onion @theonion.com · 5h

Belt Looks Weird On Child

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Ben Bertoli! @radishgames.com · 18h

Working on a feature for Design Room right now and it covers one of the most unique game designers I’ve ever researched. Even had a chance to sit down with them. Stay tuned 👀

Design Room @designroom.bsky.social · 2d

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We are live! Welcome to Design Room, a new independent games media site.

• We specialize in oral histories like the Final Fantasy 7 and Street Fighter 2 ones I (@mattleone.bsky.social) did at Polygon
• Our first big story is on Shadow of the Colossus: bit.ly/4hjwz8n
• See more: designroom.site

Design Room

Video game oral histories

designroom.site

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Laura Verdin @weenietowne.bsky.social · 22h

If you're wondering, "wow who designed that cute Ralsei bento box and Spamton shorts?" I am here to tell you that it was I!

Fangamer @fangamer.com · 1d

Our new DELTARUNE launch features everything you might need to cook for yourself and your friends: A cute bento box, a high-definition Kiss the My Ass apron, and a pair of lounge shorts decorated with little angelic Spamtons.

Available now: www.fangamer.com/collections/...

A photo of a DELTARUNE bento box with a cute illustration of Ralsei dressed up as a chef on the lid. The lid is a light orange checkerboard pattern; the box itself is a very light turquoise that's reflected on Ralsei's glasses and frying pan.

A photo of a white apron with the phrase "Kiss the My Ass" on the front in basically the same typeface used in DELTARUNE.

A closeup photo of a pair of black lounge shorts. There's a heart pattern separated by clouds; an illustration of a cherubic Spamton with wings and a halo is lying or sitting on the clouds in various poses.

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nina milkwalkermoto 🎃 @spacecoyote.com · 1d

I designed a creepy shirt for UFO 50 based on "Night Manor!" I hate mushrooms so I took psychic damage drawing this
www.fangamer.com/collections/...

A black long-sleeved shirt based on "Night Manor," part of the "UFO 50" games collection. Purple and teal inks depict a vignette of the game on the front with the text "Night Manor". Teal inks on the sleeves say "Night Manor" on the right, and depicts mushrooms on the left

The front graphic, isolated. Text says "Night Manor." A monstrous man with some kind of supernatural fungal skin infection brandishes a bloody meat cleaver. A terrified eye is reflected in the back view mirror of a car. A large full moon illuminates a big mansion in the dark. A screaming corpse covered in mushrooms sits in an old clawfoot bathtub behind tattered shower curtains. A creepy doll of a little girl sits in the corner with a blank expression. The silhouette of a figure covered in mushrooms peeks through the mansion window. A car with a smashed front end drives through a dark forest road.

Close-up of the right sleeve that reads "Night Manor" in teal ink.

Close-up of the bottom of the front graphic, specifically the corpse in the bathtub, the doll, and the car

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chess!! @videochess.world · 1d

feast your eyes........ you can now wear the apron i pixeled for susie in deltarune chapter 3. my very first fangamer merch contribution... And What A One !

Fangamer @fangamer.com · 1d

Our new DELTARUNE launch features everything you might need to cook for yourself and your friends: A cute bento box, a high-definition Kiss the My Ass apron, and a pair of lounge shorts decorated with little angelic Spamtons.

Available now: www.fangamer.com/collections/...

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 1d

yeah, lots of regions in the world where it can and does just get mixed in. back when we made Shirtness, cotton from Uzbekistan was typically farmed with government-backed slave labor, and it was very hard to avoid. good news is that apparently that changed a few years ago, so.. progress!

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Luke Schuler 🎃 @lukospicturehouse.com · 1d

Bringing back #OrphanMemories for the spooky season, here's some Halloween memories you forgot you still remembered. Part 1/?

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Mato @clydemandelin.bsky.social · 3d

Today is #IndigenousPeoplesDay, so I hope you'll play my work-in-progress game demo about #Choctaw language and culture:
tomatogame.itch.io/halito-tomato

OR if you'd just rather read about the backstory instead, it would make me very happy:
halito.tomato.game/about/

Thanks for your time! YAKOKE!

From the About page for my game/blog - there's a lot more on this page, so please check it out sometime!

From the game - there's not much to the game right now but the Nanih Waiya burial mound is at the center of it all

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Paul 🎃 Remnant Controllers @remnantcontrollers.bsky.social · 2d

My shirtness is still going strong!

Ness' backpack from Earthbound sits over "shirt-ness" from Fangamer.

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 2d

this was our first fully custom shirt! woven from turkish cotton that was dyed to the exact blue+yellow colors we requested – in the process of overseeing this i learned a lot about shirt blanks and manufacturing (and how prevalent slave-labor is in the global cotton supply chain)

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 2d

the 3 most common print types:

TOP: waterbase – soft print, might begin to fade after a few years

MID: plastisol – long-lasting, but ink is usually very thick. starts to crack and eventually flake after a few years

LOW: print on demand – cheap garbage, fades/flakes after a few washes

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 2d

we actually own and operate our screen printer – Forward Printing – because they do some of the best printing in the business. one of the first (and best) domestic printers i ever found with the patience and skill to use waterbase inks + discharge agents to dye the prints right into the shirt

Jean-Baptiste Zeller @esurnir.bsky.social · 4d

I don’t know how @fangamer.com find their T-shirt supplier. But out of all the merch I ever purchased, the dye used in their T-shirt prints are the most long lasting dyes I’ve ever seen. Had many tshirt just fade out over the years but theirs has just stayed alive forever. How?

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 3d

cleaning up the kids toys, *almost* missed @meeellla.bsky.social’s calling card

sylvanian cat toy with incredibly small tattoos and a piercing. this was mixed in with like a dozen other toys so i did a double take and had to dig it back out to take this picture

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 3d

email [email protected] and they’ll look into it for you 🫡

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 3d

lightner merch off the table, but for other plush we’re certainly looking at our options~

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 4d

we've worked with bandai namco to make some cute crane game goodies~

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 4d

is this loss

Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 5d

this guy gets it! a @meeellla.bsky.social creation, naturally

Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 6d

YO thank you again for that - i got it home safely, now i just need to listen to it! it’s actually right behind that otgw soundtrack, which i basically use as my queue

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L @banalplay.bsky.social · 6d

You can always tell people who didn't work their way up through real jobs and manage based on the dumbest ideas they've heard of other terrible bosses doing.

Oliver Darcy @oliverdarcy.bsky.social · 6d

Here's the full memo.

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 6d

“religion should appeal to the hearts of the young”

easily one of the best lines written that entire decade

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 6d

got the Z 20th anniversary vinyl, totally reasonable price and a beautiful cut

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 7d

🤔

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Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 7d

gat dang

Reid Young @reidman.bsky.social · 8d

very cool and fun ludum dare concept by @cassowary.me – i'm no game designer but as a UX/UI guy I love it when someone plays with language, labels, etc

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