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Danny Day

@dislekcia.bsky.social

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IGF award-winning game developer. BJJ purple belt. Retired online community leader. Inline vert skater in a previous life. Gifted kid to adult ADD pipeline. Leftist, feminist, antiracist, anticolonialist South African. he/him

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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · Nov 13

Short Intro:
Hi, I'm Danny Day, a game designer/programmer/bizdev. In 2005 I accidentally started South Africa's largest game development community. I built QCF Design in 2007, we won an IGF award for Desktop Dungeons in 2011.
I talk about BJJ often and inline skate so well that I met Tony Hawk.

Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 23h

Smashed buy on BALL x PIT as soon I got the release email! Loved the demo and very keen to dive into the full game. store.steampowered.com/app/2062430/...

BALL x PIT on Steam

BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resou...

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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 1d

Are they planning to have it be such a relief when they announce this that some people decide to travel to the US anyway?

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Free Lives @freelives.bsky.social · 1d

Terra Nil OST Vol 2 is out now on all platforms 🍃

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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 1d

They've finally figured out what Xsolla actually does, instantly transcending the conference to the next plane of business.

Aerial_Knight @aerialknight.com · 1d

So without trying to dunk on them I just really wanna know what's going on with gdc because I'm confused

Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 1d

You didn't want to synergize your future collaboration opportunity alignments towards a mutual success future in which something something give us money? Why ever not?

Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 1d

I assume it means that times are really hard when random 30 yr game design veterans are braving the confusing waters of discord to offer to wow our plebeian global south game dev community socks off with a Q&A session. Oh, you're shilling a Udemy course? How many views on that? ... right.

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Ash & Adam's Games (Play the Existential Treads demo!) @ashandadamsgames.bsky.social · 2d

Check out the demo of our top down action/tower defense/settlement builder mashup Existential Treads during #SteamNextFest!

You won't regret it! But even if you do, whatever! Check it out!

store.steampowered.com/app/3580340/Ash__Adams_Existential_Treads/

#indiegame

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doctober @docseuss.bsky.social · 4d

GUESS WHO'S BACK

BACK AGAIN

DOC'S BACK

TELL A FRIEND

That's right. It's time for part 3 of the FPS series; this time, a lot of assorted thoughts on what makes for good enemy design. This one was fun as hell to write.

docseuss.medium.com/building-a-b...

building a better first person shooter part 3: enemy mine

So! First, we talked about a specific subgenre of first person shooter, loosely starting with Unreal and Half-Life and dying off around…

docseuss.medium.com

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Super Friendship Arcade @superfriendshiparcade.co.za · 3d

🇿🇦Anyone here from Cape Town and into indie games?
We're hosting an awesome pop up arcade!

Come join us for:
🐱 Homemade indie games!
🐸 Weird alt controllers!
🐶 Awesome people!
🐯 Loads of high fives!

18 Oct at Makers Massive - home of CT Game Dev!
Tickets available on Quicket:
qkt.io/P5YI6m

A bright and colorful poster for the event. The main text reads: Super Frienship Arcade. Sub heading: Indie Games and Alt Controllers.
The date and location for the event are: 18 October 2025. Makers Massive, Homecoming Centre, corner of Buitenkant street and Caledon street, District 6 Cape Town

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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 3d

Why are they like this? Surely fans are rather important?
I think reinstalling drivers works, but only until I unplug the thing again.

Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 3d

Smashing Pumpkins clearly not wanting to be there.

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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 3d

Mine has now only turns its fan on during a reboot, hibernation or complete startup means no cooling at all until I force a reboot. Love this for us.

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Bold Politics with Zack Polanski @boldpolitics.bsky.social · 5d

Solidarity with all trans and intersex people having their existence debated every time a tv host hasn't done their prep and can't think of any more questions

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Zoë “Baddie Proctor” Quinn @unburntwitch.com · 6d

Never forget the core thing funding the sheer scale of the spending spree of AI investments is primarily due to the turborich wanting to solve the “problem” of having to pay wages.

Alan Baxter @alanbaxter.bsky.social · 6d

"Put simply, only the extremely wealthy appear to be benefiting from all of this."

Bank of England Warns of Impending AI Disaster

The Bank of England has sounded the alarm, warning of an intensifying risk of a "sudden correction" due to an AI spending frenzy.

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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 6d

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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•Anti-capitalist meme pebbler• @seizethememez.bsky.social · 8d

They sell us individualism because we can't defeat them alone.

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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 9d

Kid (8) found Desktop Dungeons: Rewind on my backup PC over the weekend. Read every single piece of tutorial text, especially fond of the puns.

Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 10d

You'll wish you had started BJJ earlier.

essencesimmone.blacksky.app @essencesimmone.blacksky.app · 13d

Those who are 35+, what advice do you have for people just entering their 30s?

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Mario von Rickenbach @mariov.ch · 10d

Uh oh. Pocket Boss will be out THIS WEDNESDAY (October 8)!
pocketboss.ch

Really looking forward to share this with the world. Finally I've done something to please the shareholders.

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Erlend Grefsrud @erlendgrefsrud.bsky.social · 11d

If your ideology isn't concerned with egalitarianism and normalizing a high quality of life for the average person, what's the point of your ideology?

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evil matt @windows98support.bsky.social · 12d

Turns out, 6 months was optimistic

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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 13d

Nice, you can lose tasks across three different systems now.

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Tony Gowland @tonygowland.bsky.social · 13d

Good morning from Unity, I guess. If you’ve released a Windows/Linux/macOS game in Unity recently, might be worth patching unity.com/security/sep...

Security Update Advisory

A security vulnerability was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, and macOS operating systems. Unity has provided fixes that ad...

unity.com

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Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 13d

Aha! That makes sense. I remember our letter labels being PQRS TUV WXYZ, but the words-as-phone-numbers thing never really kicked off here.

Danny Day @dislekcia.bsky.social · 13d

Apparently this is the "standard US rotary dial"... Why is there no Q?

Or Z? And what's with how the letter order randomly changes? How do you know which letter you're selecting after the switch?