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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex)

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Writer and game designer. Working on all sorts of stuff. Current projects: 🍔New Meat (https://store.steampowered.com/app/3458540/New_Meat/) 🌐Complexity Mode (https://www.alexlemley.com/complexity-mode) Check out all that stuff and more at alexlemley.com

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · Feb 20

🍔IT'S HERE!🍔

New Meat has launched on Steam! It was a long road to get here but it's finally arrived! Come play one of the most unique, story-focused indie roguelites you'll find this year!

Please share!

#Roguelite #Indiegame #Indiedev

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New Meat is a fast-paced horror-comedy roguelite about burgers, monsters and dead-end jobs. Survive five days of mayhem on the path to your first paycheck, meet a fun cast of extradimensional horrors,...

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 7h

NEW MEAT UPDATE: Here's your first look at the upcoming Halloween Mode update for New Meat! In addition to new mechanics in the dungeon, the whole restaurant gets a holiday makeover!

It's the most ghoulish decor $25 dollars at a thrift store can buy!

#indiedev #indiegame #roguelike

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 8h

But what if, to balance it out, it had MUCH worse graphics?

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 9h

Tales of Symphonia, which in turn was the game that broke me of feeling like I need to finish games I’m actively not enjoying, so I can’t really think of a more recent example.

lex luddy (ichiban appreciator) @lexluddy.xyz · 13h

What's the worst game you finished/rolled credits on?

(games media folks, it can't be something you were assigned to review; this has to be something you subjected yourself to of your own free will)

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Nezuyaki 🔜 Debut POSTPONED (TBA) @nezuyaki.bsky.social · 12h

✨ PlagueFest is 5 Days Away! ✨
Save the date & spread the word for the 5th anniversary of PlagueFest, my charity livestream event raising funds for @girlsmakegames.bsky.social ! Join in on 2 weeks of mayhem, and gaming culture fun on Twitch!

#charity #charitylivestream #nezuyaki #plaguefest

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 16h

All day my feeds have been

“BREAKING: Leaked internal documents show that Game Freak had all the bathrooms in their home office re-tiled between 2012 and 2014. The cost of this ended up 15% above estimates which directly caused the internal delay of Pokémon Battle Trozei for the 3DS by 14 weeks!”

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 1d

Development of the New Meat Halloween update took a turn tonight where now I’m REALLY excited to finish and release it.

You’re really going to see how modular this game’s design really is. I can just casually transform the game if I want to.

#indiedev

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 2d

“Modern Warfare 8bit Mode”

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 3d

So...yeah! The reviews are right. This is REALLY good!

I don't think I've ever seen a thoroughly mid game get remade in a way that genuinely fixes it quite like this.

They really did make the game they were clearly trying to make before, with a lot of lessons from Super Mario Odyssey added, too.

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 3d

"I love your jacket! It immediately reminds me of Michael Jackson!"

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 3d

I really shouldn’t be buying this many video games but also

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 4d

I feel like if you’re going to include people who never buy video games in your “How Many Video Games Do You Buy” survey, you also need to include people who funded the California Fire Relief Bundle and therefore bought 3000 computer games this year.

Kotaku @kotakudotcom.bsky.social · 7d

A third of players don't even buy one new game a year https://kotaku.com/how-many-games-people-buy-each-year-gta-6-madden-2000632641

Most People Barely Buy Two Video Games A Year, New Report Finds

That friend who only buys Call of Duty and Madden is the average gamer

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 4d

Just heard another “There’s no way to solve indie game discoverability” take on a podcast so legally I need to share this article I wrote again.

I’ll re-iterate this as many times as it takes.

#indiedev #indiegame

We Can Fix Indie Game Discoverability - Complexity Mode — Alex Lemley (dot) com

www.alexlemley.com

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 4d

Why is it that every time I see an article about how something is meticulously designed to brainhack you into subconscious obsession with biochemically-perfect dark patterns it’s always something I got bored of in a couple hours?

Aftermath @aftermath.site · 4d

The Assassin’s Creed series was a canary in the coal mine for our modern, engagement-obsessed world. @ckunzelman.bsky.social explains:

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 4d

Nezuyaki was the first person to ever stream New Meat though this very event last year!

If you’re a small horror #indiedev, sign up for this. She’s really cool!

Nezuyaki 🔜 Debut POSTPONED (TBA) @nezuyaki.bsky.social · 4d

🎃Video Game Submissions Wanted! 🎃
It’s that time of the year, Plaguefest, the 5th annual charity livestreaming event to raise funds for @girlsmakegames.bsky.social !

We’re looking for any #indiedev interested in showcasing their #indiegame live on stream!

🔗: nezuyaki.notion.site/205021b9de66...

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Nezuyaki 🔜 Debut POSTPONED (TBA) @nezuyaki.bsky.social · 4d

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 5d

New Meat Update: The Halloween update is now mechanically working. What's left is...

-Spooky Aesthetics
-The Reward You Get for Completing the Halloween Sub-Mission
-Secrets (One big one in particular)
-Playtesting

This is gonna be a good one, folks! I can already tell. #indiedev

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 6d

I think I'm just gonna not put this in the patch notes.

If you somehow notice that slightly fewer pots are spawning in the Halloween build of New Meat don't submit it as a bug.

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 6d

With the addendum "I literally only noticed this bug because I was making another random-spawning object and wanted to remember how I'd handled probability resets in previous objects I'd made, only to realize I never set the probability up properly in this one. This is almost entirely pointless."

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 6d

Some bugfixes are so obscure they're hard to even explain. Like "Fixed a bug where an object wouldn't properly reset its spawn probability on despawning which caused it to TECHNICALLY appear more often than it should have, but not in a way you'd really even notice as a player."

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 6d

Working on my own game, I really understand why Nintendo sometimes just says "additional fixes."

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Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 6d

It’s truly bizarre how cold 70 degrees feels in LA.

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 6d

I only play the really good Grinch games.

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 6d

I feel like this is more or less equivalent to coming upstairs and seeing your toddler covered in ants.

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 7d

Also I don’t know where you’re getting “price insensitive” from. Price wasn’t a part of the survey.

I buy Megabonk and Clover Pit for a combined twenty bucks in a single month. It’s me, the hyper-enthusiast, price insensitive gamer.

Alex Lemley (Rocketlex) @rocketlex.bsky.social · 7d

Like, is the number of people buying games decreasing, or is the number of people who can call themselves “video game players” because they bought one video game half a decade ago increasing?

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