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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 4d

i also find, while watching gameplays, that it takes me out of the experience. the flat lifeless voices don’t fit the game, which is by contrast chock full of the life and love the team put into it. i really hope human voice actors is something possible down the line.

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 4d

sorry if this question is confrontational - it’s a bit of a point of frustration for me that holds me back from being able to recommend this to people in good faith.

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 4d

i’m super excited to give it a shot! a question, if you don’t mind - i’ve seen a few posts from you about your dislike for genAI. are you looking to move away from the ai voices in arc raiders? or is that not something within your control.

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 4d

russian squidward be like “hi spongebob”. sorry i’m bad at impressions

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 4d

they should make indie games but with huge teams of people. that’d be neat. also they should name it after the sound you make when you stub your toe real bad

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 7d

they should replace the ender dragon with cthulhu cause he’s got loads of HP and he loves to craft

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 11d

sick as hell art for the expansion done by my partner @jayisaway.bsky.social btw!! look at it!!!

some tiles sit atop the hot streak betting slips. the tiles include two portals, a cracked block, and a referee that looks suspiciously familiar.. (it looks like me)

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 11d

youtu.be/cw4UKe3pjJ8 i have made another video! this is a review* of HOT STREAK by @perryjon.bsky.social & @cmyk.games.

*i may have designed an entire expansion for the game. i don't know what this means for its review status. it's a weird weird one. enjoy!!

PUT IT ALL ON FISH (HOT STREAK review)

YouTube video by tim!!!

youtu.be

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 11d

dan through

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 11d

“have you ever considered pronouncing your last name differently”

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 13d

for the past few days, my mutuals tab has not allowed me to refresh since @marcelineleiman.bsky.social’s announcement regarding her new game, Phantasmic. (which you should check out! looks real neat!) and it seems she is an expert in magic, as she has cast all my mutuals into the shadow realm! help!

a screenshot of my mutuals tab, showing Marceline Leiman’s post about a new button shy release designed be her: Phantasmic. the post includes an image of the game surrounded by some cards from the game.

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 19d

important

Ricky Haggett @rickyhaggett.bsky.social · 20d

A knitted pink-headed guy in a green jumpsuit stands next to a blue knitted cat on a white radiator.

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 21d

is good! i should really get back to it

tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 23d

absolutely chompin at the bits for arc raiders. ravenous style. so freaking excited. gotta get videos out by october 17 cause i’m never doing anything else again

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 25d

i think most people store board games like this. i think this is a normal way to do it

a tower of board games, about 1.5 meters tall, arranged in order from smallest to biggest, with the biggest games at the bottom. it consists of 22 games, and bohnanza stands proudly at the top

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 26d

sharks exist, in real life! woah!

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · 27d

this will be my treat to myself if i can get the video out before the end of the month

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · Sep 16

i have been working on my review for hot streak for so unbelievably long that CMYK have put out ANOTHER racing game that i absolutely love the look of. i swear i'm not putting that review copy to waste guys i'm sorry

CMYK @cmyk.games · Sep 16

Announcing MAGICAL ATHLETE, the only game where you can race a baby against a banana:

www.cmyk.games/products/mag...

Magical Athlete

Magical Athlete is a chaotic racing game where anything can happen. Recruit a team of absurd racers—Centaur, Egg, Rocket Scientist—then just roll your die and move that many spaces. Except each racer ...

www.cmyk.games

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · Sep 11

AND IT WAS LOOM

DVC Games 🔜 PAXU @dvcgames.bsky.social · Sep 11

We are playing Rosetta: The Lost Language in our Discord like ye olden days and Jerry made a meme of Tim getting sucked back into the puzzle-y word debate even though he was trying to go to sleep in Australia. I printed it out as decor.

I missed playing this game so much.

Meme where Tim tries to go to bed but then realizes he has a different guess for Rosetta.

Printed meme on the window of the DVC office.

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Amabel Holland @amabel.bsky.social · Sep 9

The Aurora Plastics Corporation, later Aurora Products, was known for their slot cars and licensed model kits. But the publication of a board game would change everything.

youtu.be/TH3QT05C25w

SKITTLE: the board game series that destroyed its publisher

YouTube video by Hollandspiele

youtu.be

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · Sep 4

posting “no fucking way” and “that was crazy” occasionally just so people think i keep up with sports

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · Sep 2

i’m so serious when i say that i believe a large amount of advertisements for ai are made to secretly be anti-ads on purpose by the creatives who make them. all of the apple ai ads, but a few in particular, make the main character look like a genuinely horrible person and it can’t be accidental

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · Aug 27

i don’t have much to be proud of australia for, but comedy might be our most valuable export. have you seen Chess Ham from Sam Campbell? (his youtube channel is set up to look like “McDonald’s Comedy”. he has 0 affiliation with McDonalds.

tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · Aug 21

i think 🎲✂️ means “game design” but when i see it posted i read it as “dice chops” a la “getting your chops”

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tim!!! @timfactorial.bsky.social · Aug 21

not to say there’s no skill involved of course. i just think it’s cool that game design is a space involving a lot of guesswork. there’s no formula you just kinda guess and check. you can get better at guessing but no matter how good you are you’ve gotta guess

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