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@brainfruit.bsky.social
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new game studio, growing up now, from @robdubbin.bsky.social and @garrett.bsky.social

https://brainfruit.studio
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brainfruit.bsky.social
ewe won't believe what we're working on next
December 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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robdubbin.bsky.social
it’s no coincidence this incredible video of @minakimes.bsky.social playing starfriends with @pablo.show and @katienolan.bsky.social has the running time of a prestige drama, because there is a final twist that deserves its own for-your-consideration emmy billboard campaign youtu.be/EegAM-LuIFM?...
A Disgusting Betrayal, with Mina Kimes & Katie Nolan | PTFO
YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT
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December 6, 2025 at 6:27 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
Our friend Mina took the Starfriends to work this week.

Preorders are live now!

shop.brainfruit.studio/products/sta...
December 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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longpainter.bsky.social
Ruins of a farmhouse.
8”x8” oil on wood panel
Available on my website.
December 5, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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garrett.bsky.social
it's the last day of the starfriends campaign!

✨ grab a deck!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...

🤩 join our discord livestream later today!
starfriends.online/stream

🤙 message a friend that you haven't talked to in awhile!
[this one's on you]
Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks
A party game where you get into your friends' heads. Kinda like a blend of Wavelength and Letterboxd that fits into a deck of cards.
www.kickstarter.com
November 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
our friends at @kickstarterunited.org will be the VERY FIRST humans on earth (slash the galaxy??) to stream starfriends online. don't miss it!

10:30 pt/2:30 et TODAY
kickstarterunited.org Kickstarter United @kickstarterunited.org · Oct 27
We've got a Twitch streaming schedule for this week in addition to our virtual public picket lines. Follow us on www.twitch.tv/kickstarteru... to know when we go live and stay tuned for the Starfriends stream on Thursday with @brainfruit.bsky.social
promo graphic for our Twitch Streaming Schedule 10/27 Live Art and Union Chatter: 1:30 pm ET - 2:30 pm ET 10/28 D&D 5e One-Shot by Roll & Play Press: 1:30 pm ET - 2:30 pm ET 10/29 Live Gaming and Union Chatter: 1:30 pm ET - 2:30 pm ET 10/30 Starfriends Game w/ Brainfruit Studio: 1:30 pm ET - 2:30 pm ET
October 30, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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garrett.bsky.social
the friends have landed!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
our first printed proof of the printed starfriends game, photographed against a pleasant neon orange. this was actually a very haphazard photo taken with my iPhone while I propped the paper up with my other hand, but you wouldn’t know it because that’s cinema magic baby close up of the texture of the game cards. oh what’s that it says “⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️” and “game” on the cards?? wow if true close up of the box art .. we called this first edition run “starborn”
October 30, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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garrett.bsky.social
it was especially generous of Tom to carve out a little space for @brainfruit.bsky.social on Toylike! he makes *incredibly* cool games in both digital and analog realms, so keep clicking those hyperlinks once you get in there
October 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
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garrett.bsky.social
we're four decks away from hitting 5k in our kickstarter! we would love your help getting there today

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
two starfriends talking in front of a kickstarter dashboard screenshot. Bernacle on the left is saying "almost at $5k! what will you do with your cut?" and Discount on the right is replying "probably buy more starfriends decks"
October 22, 2025 at 2:06 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
starfriends is stretching even farther than the limited constraints of physical reality, journeying to the domain of the augmented - try it out now in tiktok!

vm.tiktok.com/ZTM54khCC/
October 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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garrett.bsky.social
I've never actually used tiktok but I am learning the language of its people

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
October 17, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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plante.bsky.social
Goldeneye
October 17, 2025 at 1:54 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
we made a starfriend for the festival 🧡
October 16, 2025 at 10:10 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
the starfriends have been on a journey for millions of years, but it only took 7 hours for them to find a home with you ✨ grab a deck or incept the campaign into your friends dreams today!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
two starfriends greeting a new, glowing yellow starfriend. the glowing one has text that reads "funded in 7 hours!" and the other two, floating in space under the "starfriends" logo, are saying "that's like nothing" "we are eon's old"
October 16, 2025 at 4:35 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
there’s no easier way to acquire friends in 2025! starfriends is live now on kickstarter!! ✨
robdubbin.bsky.social sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · Oct 15
Looking for a party game that combines social deduction with the pleasant absurdity of rating animals, films, and the weather on a scale of ★ to ★★★★★? And it's just a simple deck of cards? AND it's live on Kickstarter now?!?! Guess what, STARFRIENDS has launched! www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks
A party game where you get into your friends' heads. Kinda like a blend of Wavelength and Letterboxd that fits into a deck of cards.
www.kickstarter.com
October 15, 2025 at 10:26 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
we made a card-based party game that will bring you closer to your friends and frustrate your enemies. it's kinda like if letterboxd applied to everything and felt like apples to apples. campaign launches tomorrow, follow our page now to hype the algorithm!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/bra...
Coming soon: Starfriends: The 5-Star Game About What Everyone Else Thinks
A play-anywhere fusion of Wavelength, Letterboxd, and Apples to Apples, for friends and strangers alike.
www.kickstarter.com
October 14, 2025 at 5:50 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
two starfriends characters standing with a Kickstarter United logo, who is... also a character! welcome to the club, friend
October 10, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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robdubbin.bsky.social
ahhh, one week of co-owning a smoothie bar with
@garrett.bsky.social! a.k.a the official
@brainfruit.bsky.social discord, where you can follow our work and play some stuff in progress. (especially relevant if you like trick-taking card games) the vibes are great, get in here! discord.gg/YPNKtnTQ4g
a cartoon brain and apple cavort next to a banner image for "smoothie bar: a brainfruit place" with a link to join smoothie bar, the official brainfruit studio discord. there is also a happy blender in the background with a mysterious puree inside whose color is a suspicious blend of the brain's and apple's colors
August 29, 2025 at 6:04 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
buabu believes!!
robdubbin.bsky.social sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · Jun 11
an absolute joy to show tide breakers at likelike in pittsburgh last weekend. lively crowd of mostly non-games people who embraced the chance to work with/against each other. @molleindustria.org transformed his gallery space into a beautifully lit municipal crisis pressure cooker, just look at this!
a group of players, dramatically lit in their character colors, reacting to a situation in the 6p city council sim, tide breakers a group of players perched before their microphones and voting controls, all dramatically lit in their character colors, regarding a tense situation while some chill spectators look on. the buabu flag is visible in the background a tide breakers player facepalming as their group's run fails and the sea takes buabu rob dubbin standing in front of a three-eyed character from the mural painted on likelike in pittsburgh
June 12, 2025 at 2:36 AM
brainfruit.bsky.social
Pittsburgh, the fate of Buabu is now in your hands! June 6th!
molleindustria.org Molleindustria - Wishlist FUTURE? NO THANKS! @molleindustria.org · May 20
LIKELIKE Special Event: Tide Breakers

A city council sim for 6 players and a crowd by @brainfruit.bsky.social.
Save the city of Buabu from rising seas, or secure power and let it sink!

Co-creator @robdubbin.bsky.social will be present!

June 6
6-11PM
Pittsburgh, PA

likelike.org/2025/05/20/s...
May 20, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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garrett.bsky.social
there were several times while making the brainfruit promo video where my ignorance of capcut created some real "magic moments". we left a lot of beauty on the cutting room floor!
screengrab of capcut, rob dubbin is highlighted in pink (a feature I had just discovered), gesturing at nothing now I'm in the frame. rob is highlighted in a pink stroke outline, looking stoically forward. I'm sitting on his shoulders, somehow tinier. I was trying to figure out how to smush videos together rob, wearing a hot, looking to his left at a different rob, who is being interviewed for a DIFFERENT promo video. this is how I looked upon first import, really wonderful stuff by computers here.
May 19, 2025 at 2:28 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
we love our sea defeaters
houseonthebailey.bsky.social House on the Bailey @houseonthebailey.bsky.social · May 17
First off (in no particular order) we have Tide Breakers!

Self-described as a city council simulation in a sci-fi setting, it's a beautiful mix between a branching narrative and a tabletop social game. Me and my group were the first to stop the rising tide! @brainfruit.bsky.social #indiedev #amaze
May 17, 2025 at 2:08 PM
brainfruit.bsky.social
hello!!!
robdubbin.bsky.social sincerely, rob dubbin @robdubbin.bsky.social · May 13
friends, para-friends, some personal news: i've started a new game studio, brainfruit, with @garrett.bsky.social — we've booted it up with projects like our 6P city council sim TIDE BREAKERS and the fave-bots that swarm the posts i like on here. more soon! @brainfruit.bsky.social / brainfruit.studio
May 15, 2025 at 1:35 PM