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Alex from LWS Studio
@longwintershadows.com
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solo indie game dev, etc, etc.

https://blog.longwintershadows.com
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Fake spot lights added - vibes increased by 300%
#Szrot #Lowpoly #PS1 #PSX #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart
December 1, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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Today!!

DC KO 2

And

ABSOLUTE BATMAN 14

BOTH out right now…

If you check them out, let us know what you think! And thanks so much!
November 26, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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until we return, paradise interred
November 28, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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i know WHY this is but that just makes it even more of a kick in the pants lmao
November 28, 2025 at 3:28 AM
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Looking for past Garfield Macy's balloons. Found a new reaction image
November 27, 2025 at 6:36 PM
The analogy I always like to make is imagine if every piece of literature had to cater to those who are new to reading or don’t know how to read. In that scenario, it would’ve been pretty much impossible to develop the medium to its current level, to experiment and push the boundaries
I'll keep saying this over & over - nobody got into shmups to play novice modes. They got into them because they saw Hibachi, Larsa, an Ikaruga double play or something like that. Devs gotta be confident & have a punk attitude & spend less time thinking about novices

bsky.app/profile/elmo...
Some modern STGs are conscious of possibly being anyone's first arcade scrolling shooter, and bend themselves into knots trying to be an entire genre tutorial before being their own identifiable game.

As ever, make the games/music/videos/writing you'd want to enjoy, and others will enjoy it too.
November 28, 2025 at 12:00 AM
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Suggested for Me
November 30, 2024 at 10:59 PM
I went insane after reading this article: www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

Loved the slack notification polling part lmao

Here’s Theo’s great video about it youtu.be/1piFEKA9XL0?...
Anthropic admits that MCP sucks
YouTube video by Theo - t3․gg
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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It's so fucking funny that the Cowboys spent 1 trillion dollars on a stadium that blinds their receivers

Moreover, ICE must be destroyed
November 27, 2025 at 10:23 PM
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wahhhh this is actually a good analogy
ChatGPT’s signature writing style is everywhere now, and I hate it. It reminds me of when we tried mixing all the beverages at the soda fountain in middle school. We didn’t actually create the perfect drink, we just made a cloying monstrosity that lost everything good about its constituent parts.
November 27, 2025 at 7:57 PM
Fact
maybe this is a hot take, but playing eight $10 pieces of dogshit with friends on steam is often a more fun/memorable experience than most $80 games
November 27, 2025 at 10:39 PM
God I hate AI so much youtu.be/ThUNhjblo24?...
"we are not enron"
YouTube video by voidzilla
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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For someone who hates socialism he sure loves being publicly owned
Hey all. If you would like to see this morning's interview with Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim, I have attached a YouTube link below.
Thank you for watching.

youtu.be/s9Khl0T_BEA?...
Vancouver mayor stands by city's budget
YouTube video by CBC British Columbia
youtu.be
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Turns out, austerity means we can’t have nice things
You can like or dislike fireworks, enjoy the post-show exodus from downtown or abhor the crowds, but the Celebration of Light is probably the biggest event that celebrates Vancouver's Vancouverness.

Traditions die, but this one hits bigger than most.
Vancouver's Celebration of Light fireworks festival cancelled indefinitely | CBC News
Organizers of a public fireworks festival, which has brought millions of people to Vancouver's English Bay over the past three decades, says it can’t go ahead without long-term government and private-...
www.cbc.ca
November 26, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Last day to add your voice to the most opposed city budget in Vancouver history!

ABC's slash-and-burn budget harms the whole city, including:

-the Equity Office
-Climate and Sustainability Department
-Britannia Community Centre
-Vancouver Public Library
-Parks Board.

All to help the filthy rich.
It's our last chance to stop Ken Sim's plan to slash city services to give a hand-out to the super-rich.

Send a letter to City Council to join your neighbours in fighting back:
votecope.ca/stopsim
November 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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this is such a depressing read. studios are happy to exploit the labour and creativity of women & queer people & poc but then turn around and sacrifice them to a baying mob of bad actors who they believe are their core audience. did we learn no lessons from gamergate?
November 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
The new ONP (Tranquilizer) is so good, it’s so emotional and magical, man. Probably among my favourite albums this year, along with Bicep’s latest. We’ve been eating really good lately ngl
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 AM
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Oh wait! Figured out how to get rid of the garbage Gemini button in Chrome:

- Right-click
- Unpin

Gone!
November 22, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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F1 is pain
November 21, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Brush Burial: Gutter World is OUT NOW.
it's a lite immersive sim with tightly interconnected levels, a melee combat system based on positioning and counterattacks, and almost a hundred cosmetics to unlock.
you can get it on Steam, and play the demo there as well.
November 19, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I've been cooking something...
#godot #indiegame #gamedev #solodev #fps
November 20, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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Testing
November 19, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Another layer to this joke is that all games in the picture also have pretty average turn based combat by the genre standards, not the best
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 AM
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Gonna be careful with the visibility
November 8, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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Demonschool is OUT NOW!

It's time to dive into a critically-acclaimed new-style tactics RPG, where motion equals action!

Available on PC, Mac, Linux, Steam Deck (Verified), Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox!

store.steampowered.com/app/1900250/...
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 PM