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Dana

@danarama.bsky.social

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Slow runner and wimpy climber. Please give me doughnuts, coffee, and D&D. Code monkey by trade (he/him)

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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · Mar 10

I've released delve 0.3.3! This release once again focused on bug-fixes and polish, including some UI niceties that begin to drag its user interface out of the stone ages.

I did a little devlog danarama.itch.io/delve/devlog... and the github page is also updated!

#roguelike #roguelikedev

v 0.3.3

0.3.3 fixes a host of bugs and adds some UI polish. I'd guess almost half of all the git commits were just fixing poorly phrased messages, or messages that revealed information they shouldn't. I did f...

danarama.itch.io

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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, if I decide to make a new release after all it'll be available on itch.io!

Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 6h

I wanted my next release to be fully playable and winnable from start to finish but I'm thinking about doing a release soonish to get some feedback on the state of the early sections 🤔

Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 6h

I...I think my game might actually be kind of fun?

#delve #roguelikedev

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studio wtchcrft @wtchcrft.com · 9h

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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 1d

oh sweet! thank you very much!

Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 1d

I am at work and my pumpkin pie is at home

a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park

ALT: a man with a mustache is sitting on a swing in a park

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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 1d

whew! I love physical copies for graphic novels but even Split/Lip won't ship northwards :P

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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 1d

Are ebooks a better ratio of $$s for you?

No one wants to send your graphic novel to Canada :'(

Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 2d

I tried using a scroll of escape (which takes you out of the dungeon after a short delay) but the owlbear killed me before it kicked in.

Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 2d

...breathed its rum breath on me, which made me tipsy so while walking I staggered and fell off the bridge to the level below. Before I could find the stairs back up, I was attacked by a dire goat and an owlbear who grappled me...

Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 2d

I'm starting to see some of the complicated/silly interactions I want to have happen in Delve. I found an unexpected way to release a trapped prisoner from their cell. While walking around the dungeon trying to find them to get my reward for freeing them, I was crossing a bridge and a rum gremlin...

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Catarina @catarinaeusebio.art · 2d

Trying to shrug off my art block, getting back into some movie studies

#wall-e

Painting of a still from the movie Wall-e, where the little robot is shown up close, his big eyes staring longingly at the sky.

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Christine Love @christinelove.bsky.social · 2d

For one more day, my new book Star Sword Nemesis is 10% off its normal price of $5! On the edge of the solar system, a group of dreamers and believers in human transcendence fight against the tyranny of the Earth Sphere, to protect the Voyager 1 probe that NASA sent into the stars so many years ago.

Star Sword Nemesis by Love Conquers All Games

mecha betrayal girls love in distant space

loveconquersallgames.itch.io

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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 2d

I blundered into (what was for me) the perfect build in Hades 2 last night and got so much further than I had previously. I'm almost reluctant to play again because I will feel hobbled without it

Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 3d

So stoked to spend the afternoon eating a gigantic plate of brussel sprouts (and some mashed potatoes on the side) followed by an even more gigantic plate of pumpkin pie!

Happy Thanksgiving!

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Sam "The Candy Bimbo" Posnick @samposnick.com · 3d

Magicians work best late at night, and so do I. Another new one for the Major Arcana of the bird tarot.

I. The Magician

#birds

A mockup of a tarot card with an illustration of a red winged blackbird rising out of a bubbling chalice with pussy willow branches in front of a wine coloured backdrop.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 4d

seems like a non-insignificant percentage of rage against the machine's fanbase are young republican men driving SUVs bopping their head to anti-oil, pro-immigrant songs thinking the lyrics are about how they wish their suburban parents would get off their back

Tom Morello tweets: "Fascinating that all those “don’t tread on me” posers and their AR-15’s are nowhere to be seen and government tyranny is instead being opposed by a guy in an inflatable frog suit."

Someone named Manny replies: "@grok
why do some people say Tom Morello and band mates are RAGE FOR THE MACHINE and not against ?"

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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 4d

I reread Neuromancer this week and it still holds up great

Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 4d

oh god D: D:

Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 5d

I have questions about music but @marlayuriko.bsky.social has abandoned me to go on vacation with her family 😢

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Sam "The Candy Bimbo" Posnick @samposnick.com · Nov 3

Turns out I hadn't added these lovey birds to the Bird Tarot thread yet, so here they are again:

Tarot Card on wood floor of The Lovers, featuring an illustration of two pigeons forming a heart shape in a tree.

Tarot Card of The Lovers, featuring an illustration of two pigeons forming a heart shape in a tree.

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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 8d

I tried out LÖVE last November for like 2 weeks to make a little game and ever since, my iPhone automatically changes love to löve every single time.

But even after like 15 years of having a smartphone, it can't seem to learn to change Im to I'm

😐🙃

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Catarina @catarinaeusebio.art · 12d

It's still hot around here but I am hopeful, ok??

Template with mobile phones and a wallpaper of a ghost in a mug in them. The tea label says "Boolong Tea" and has a little skull. I'm so clever, I know. The mug itself has a pumpkin, flowers and leaves.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 9d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Dana @danarama.bsky.social · 8d

I hadn't heard of it!