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Marco Buono

Marco Buono

@coreh.bsky.social

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🦀🇧🇷 Developer/Designer @prelude.ltda Working on VARG, a love letter the MS-DOS “boomer shooter” classics, loosely inspired by Brazil's most iconic UFO case, using #BevyEngine Wishlist it on Steam: http://store.steampowered.com/app/3363970/VARG

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Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Jan 29

Hey new followers! 👋 I'm a solo indie game dev currently working on an old-school FPS inspired by Brazil's most iconic UFO case 🛸

If you're into boomer shooters and have a moment, wishlisting it on Steam would mean a lot!

A love letter to the classic MS-DOS “boomer” shooter genre, in a setting loosely inspired by Brazil's most iconic UFO case. When your son goes missing, take to the streets in search of answers. Unrave...

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Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · 5d

it's enough sean

please let us pay for the updates

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Jul 1

I can hear the Goofy scream in my head

a picture of goofy on a ladder with the words once upon a studio written on the bottom

Alt: goofy falling gif

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Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · May 29

the cups evolved to look like this to fend off predators

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 26

"My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined" meme

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

tl;dr verification needs to have the same energy as “Sent from my iPhone”

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

A 🍅 button

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

that way verified people can make official statements, etc, and even attest their own identity upon request when needed (by posting, "hey that's really me" with the check). but they are require to present the same as "regular people" most of the time to get any meaningful engagement

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

Maybe have the verified status show up by default on the profile page, but not on posts, unless when posting the user checks an opt-in box for each post, every time, and posts that are “verified” cannot be liked

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

IMO you need to fight differentiation of status at the UX level, either by making verification seem “duller”, or by requiring sacrificing some functionality in exchange for it, therefore making it undesirable, unless absolutely needed

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

I don't think Bluesky will make the same mistakes early Twitter verification team supposedly did (handing off verified status to friends/people they liked, exchanging it for favors, etc) but people will always find creative ways to push the limits of policies, especially when status is on the line

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

To verify people, you must also unfortunately decide who is/isn't worth verifying. Unless your policy from the get go is clearly “everyone that wants to be verified can be verified”, (not feasible) it will become a status game around either meeting the criteria, or skirting them somehow

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

Yeah, it's unfortunate though, as other sites don't have nearly as much “horizontality” like Bluesky or Twitter. Instagram/YouTube/TikTok have comment sections, so there's already an intrinsic status asymmetry between content creator and audiences. Here we're all peers interacting at the same level

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

it has pretty much been bad from day one, way before the whole subscription thing, because of the status/vanity game... I'm unconvinced implementing with the same UX will promote better behavior/associations

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 19

I understand the desire for verification (domains can be spoofed and may be hard to understand) but I feel like adopting the verified “iconography” from Twitter is a mistake

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 6

Murder plot for a lactose intolerant.

Agatha Chocolats @agathachocolats.bsky.social · Apr 6

In six words or fewer, write a story about this photo.
#sixwordstory #WritingCommmunity #writing #prompt

Refrigerator full of cheese

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 1

a man with long hair is behind a glass with the words release me below him

Alt: Brent Spiner in the movie Independence Day being mind controlled by an alien, leaning in a plexiglass wall, saying "release me"

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Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Apr 1

#Bluesky character limit shrinkflation 🧐

a man in a suit is holding two cadbury creme eggs

Alt: B. J. Novak is holding two cadbury creme eggs, one slightly smaller than the other, (a sign of the tactic known as "shrinkflation") and saying "Judge for yourself, America"

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Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Mar 28

“Toon Link” is generally allowed to have more personality than his other incarnations. Going further in that direction could work, but I'm not really sure if this version relies too heavily on physical humor (facilitated by the proportions/art-style) in a way that wouldn't translate well otherwise.

Minish Cap artwork

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Mar 28

The hardest part is of course finding a viable personality that is iconic enough, fitting enough, and not plain insufferable. Existing attempts so far haven't been very good.

Screencap from the Zelda cartoon

Screenshot from CDi Zelda

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Mar 28

I don't really buy the argument that the “silent protagonist” trope is essential/inextricable to what makes the Zelda series so good, narratively or otherwise, or is a hard requirement for the level of immersion/self-insertion the games are known for.

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Mar 28

My unpopular opinion (?) is that Link *should* speak full dialog, and should have a fully fleshed-out, well-defined personality, in both the movie and in at least one mainline Zelda game.

Their (arguably) greatest game (BotW) was achieved precisely by subverting expectations of the Zelda franchise.

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Mar 25

“No Added MSG” 🚩🚩🚩

The Switch Effect @theswitcheffect.net · Mar 25

One of these is good soup, the other is bad soup. Can you tell which is which?

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Mar 25

Also it is backwards compatible, with a really large catalog. Assuming it can run existing games "better", this is already enough incentive to drive sales

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Mar 23

O 11 e o 14 você pode pular porque são online

Marco Buono @coreh.bsky.social · Mar 22

I would like the ability to hide posts that I can't reply from my feeds. 🦋

I understand why the feature is needed (harassment, flame wars, etc) but at the same time reading something I can't meaningfully interact with almost always feels like a waste of my time, and a bit of an unfair asymmetry.