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Julia Minamata

@juliaminamata.bsky.social

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Toronto-based solo game dev of The Crimson Diamond: https://store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/The_Crimson_Diamond/ Also Strange Scaffold pixel artist https://www.juliaminamata.com / Latest game: Chance's Lucky Escape (w/ Goloso Games), Playdate Season 2

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 5h

It's Crimson C'Tuesday! 8pm Eastern at www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery. Starting a new Mini-Maple Mystery background, more new mushroom photos, more Double Dragon, and more The Twilight Zone! Hope to see you there!

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Black Tabby Games (This is Tony) - Slay the Princess @blacktabbygames.com · 1h

anniversary stream in less than a week...

see you there

100 entries to go

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Levon Jihanian @forkfrenzy.bsky.social · 1h

Hi #portfolioday I'm Levon Jihanian, and art director and background painter for tv and feature animation. I'm looking for work starting in December!

A frog guy, or ask i like to call him, a ferg, and his giant bird companion with a goblins face, or ask i like to call it, a berg. They're in a muddy pathway next to a big wall.

Wirt, Greg, and Beatrice walking through a forest, haloed by a warm light. This is the key art from Over The Garden Wall.

A spooky river and fields. A sinister tower is in the distance, along with a red glowing moon.

A fallen tree in a grove. It has smashed a wooden shack. A path winds by.

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 22h

Aw that would be cool! For sure, I’d love that!

Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 22h

Ooh nice! I did some EGA demake screenshots of The Consuming Shadow a while back. Just mock-ups!

Side by side comparisons of the original art for The Consuming Shadow and my EGA demake mock-up. This one features a brick background and the UI. The player character is a silhouette holding a handgun.

Side by side comparisons of the original art for The Consuming Shadow and my EGA demake mock-up. This one features an office background with a water cooler and the UI. The player character is a silhouette holding a handgun.

Side by side comparisons of the original art for The Consuming Shadow and my EGA demake mock-up. This one features the driving section of the game. It’s a car interior and a mobile phone with the option to answer or ignore a call.

Side by side comparisons of the original art for The Consuming Shadow and my EGA demake mock-up. This one features an establishing shot of a town at night.

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Goloso Games @golosogames.bsky.social · 1d

I still can't believe the Inspector Waffles Plush exists and it looks so good! 🙀
Available on Symbiote Studios online store now!

www.symbiotestudios.com/online-store...

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iftechfoundation.org @iftechfoundation.org · 2d

Our microgrants program is back for a third year! This year again, IFTF is looking to disburse $3,000 to cool projects related to interactive fiction that could benefit from a little bit of cash. More details on our blog post!

2026 IFTF Microgrant Applications Now Open!

You can now apply to our third grant cycle!

blog.iftechfoundation.org

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 2d

I didn't do this every time! Like "Look at ladder" wouldn't return "The ladder looks like something to climb", but I tried to be mindful that if there was a more unusual verb I wanted players to use, I'd introduce it.

Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 2d

I did something slightly similar when writing the text descriptions and dialogue in The Crimson Diamond. The verbs and nouns in the descriptions were prompts for the player to use them, too! I actually wonder if the game could be playable with text only. 🤔

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PAUL CONWAY @doomcube.bsky.social · 3d

#ScreenshotSaturday. Can you solve the supernatural mystery of Blake Manor.

Launching on OCt 27th. Wishlist Now!

#Indiegames

👻 store.steampowered.com/app/1395520/...

#ScreenshotSaturday A man with spectacles standing at the bottom of a grand staircase

#ScreenshotSaturday 3 red comic panels. A strange panel is carved on a standing stone. A man's eyes are white with power.

#ScreenshotSaturday A woman stands agains a black screen. The UI highlights a pin on her shawl.

#ScreenshotSaturday A UI showing connecing pieces of information.

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🥖Kekeflipnote🥖 @kekeflipnote.bsky.social · 4d

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 5d

This is an adventure game, very sedate pace and hopefully easy on the eyes! play.date/games/chance... Full disclosure: I did the art 😀

Chance's Lucky Escape for Playdate

Chance, the luckiest dog in the world, is called to the rescue by the evil genius, Snowball. But on the way, to his misfortune, a tire on his car bursts. Stopped in the middle of the fast lane, pursu...

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Jess Haskins | The Game Editors @jesshaskins.bsky.social · 5d

Happening tonight at the NYU Game Center! I'll be joining a panel of local community leaders and moderator @timrattray.bsky.social to chat about supporting NYC's indie game scene. We'll also be getting a peek at the trailer for Tim's upcoming docuseries!

www.eventbrite.com/e/the-state-...

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 5d

Here's the Let's Play! I tried remapping the areas, which led me to discovered places I hadn't visited before. Jackpot! youtu.be/m9jJutydm40

Let's Play The Twilight Zone... in EGA! (Gigabit Systems, Inc., 1988). Part 3

YouTube video by Julia Minamata

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 5d

Latest VODs! Totally finished the little pixel art seaside house, didn't beat Double Dragon 1, showed more mushroom photos, and explored more of The Twilight Zone! Happy Crimson C'Thursday! youtu.be/R7b81gWYziI

Art Stream -- Making The Crimson Diamond... October 7, 2025

YouTube video by Julia Minamata

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Francisco González - ROSEWATER OUT NOW! @grundislav.games · 10d

It’s a great weekend to pick up the World of Vespuccia bundle: two fully voiced point & click adventures set in an alternate 19th century.

Solve 5 cases in Lamplight City

Travel across the frontier with your posse in Rosewater

Both games for <$20!

store.steampowered.com/bundle/50641...

Save 29% on World of Vespuccia Bundle on Steam

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Lukasz Kowalczuk @elkowalczuk.bsky.social · 5d

I did Caves of Qud illustrations for an article in Wyrd Science Magazine and I will share the f out of them.
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Until I will do some new Caves of Qud illustrations?

Wyrd Science Magazine @wyrdscience.bsky.social · 5d

More interiors from the new issue to feast on. Here @rossignol.bsky.social speaks to @jfg.land & @unormal.bsky.social about their epic @cavesofqud.com

@elkowalczuk.bsky.social supplying all the wonderful art here

Get your copy now at shop.wyrd.science

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 6d

Done for the night! Thanks www.twitch.tv/ps_garak for the raid! I finished another Mini-Maple Mystery background, showed some treaures (including this Small Toby Lord Nelson creamer) and the last Ontario-grown strawberries! Raided @songbirder.social, playing Ogre Battle! Happy Crimson C'Tuesday!

Screencap of my livestream, with "Happy Crimson C'Tuesday" handwritten across the bottom. A screenshot of Gold Rush (Sierra, 1988) is in the background. There's a speech bubble containing a work in progress of a Mini-Maple Mystery background, EGA colours, double-wide pixel. Shows a two story building with a facade, wooden siding painted white, on a hill overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Small Toby Lord Nelson Creamer, bought at an antiques market for $10 CAD.

VanGo Farms Ontario grown straberries. Two 1 litre cardboard containers.

Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 6d

Live now, it's Crimson C'Tuesdayyyy! Come hang out and let's do pixel art and look at photos of mushrooms and play games! www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery

a_maplemystery - Twitch

Solo indie dev of The Crimson Diamond! I also stream EGA games, particularly EGA adventure games. Based in Toronto, Canada!

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 7d

It's Crimson C'Tuesday! 8pm Eastern on Twitch! Antiquing treasures, new mushrooms, EGA pixel art, and more The Twilight Zone! Hope to see you there! www.twitch.tv/a_maplemystery.

✨The Crimson Diamond is 20% off on Steam store.steampowered.com/app/1098770/... and GOG! www.gog.com/en/game/the_...

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Francisco González - ROSEWATER OUT NOW! @grundislav.games · 7d

So I’ve been working on my next adventure game. This is the first background image I’m sharing.

I figured I might as well earn the inevitable comparison to Monkey Island 😈

A brick cabin on a beach with several old boxes and barrels around it. In the background is a lighthouse.

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 8d

Neither is Pixem! 👓🍦

Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 8d

I actually haven't seen it! 😅 Should I?

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Julia Minamata @juliaminamata.bsky.social · 8d

Pixem the ice-cream-cone-headed-alien may or may not have been inspired by Michael Douglas' performance in Falling Down. 😀

Strange Scaffold @strangescaffold.bsky.social · 8d

"...you'll see where I cashed out midway through. This baby rode the lightning at critical health for half its lifespan."

- A recent post by a dev in our internal Discord.

Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator is out in 2026!

An alien child, green with large dark green eyes, has multiple alien creatures wearing suits scrambling up its head. Atop the babies head, where all the other aliens are reaching, is one alien holding a briefcase of cash. "Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator" is written next to the baby. Behind that text is a stock ticker arrow that has moved up and down but, at the end of it, is pointing up.

A furry looking baby floats in space. Beside them , text reads...

1 Pursued Night School
2 Survived a Suicide Mission
3 Punched Commanding Officer
4 Re-Drafted Into Service
5. Failed to defuse exposive

To the right of the baby is a stock chart, showing a good trend of growth on the investments made. Text by this chart reads

Baby Value
Invested Stock

Avg. Stock Price: 278
Avg. Sale Price: 335

Below it shows that after trading stocks on this baby the investory made 1427 and are now invited to continue.

Most of the screen is taken up by a line graph, charting the rise and fall in stock price of a babies life. At this point, thay are 46 and the line has had a big dip. Above the graph in red text in a box with arrows pointing down it says "Bitten by Horse". Which is, what has happened to the baby at this point of its life. The baby is called "Pollo" and the extra information to the right of this chart tells us they are "unwell". Which adds up, having being bitten by a horse. Who among us could claim to be at their peak post-horse bite? You? Well, honestly, I want to know your story. Did you develop powers? Did the collected germs in the horses mouth actually counteract some viral agent that had just recently hit your veins? Or were you just having such a bad time that the horse biting you was actually the best part of your day? Seriously, let me know!

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Meredith Gran @meredithgran.com · 8d

The updated demo for Perfect Tides: Station to Station is available now ahead of Steam Next Fest! We're getting ever closer to the full release in January! store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...

Perfect Tides: Station to Station on Steam

A point n' click sequel to Perfect Tides about the momentum and whiplash of young adulthood. Explore the big city through 18-year-old Mara's eyes. Collect items, nurture ideas, and experience complex ...

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