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Game Dev (UK) 👾1-Bit Games 📝1-Page RPGs 📣 Barefoot in the Snow OUT NOW! 🕹️ https://rhubarb-games.itch.io 🚫AI shite

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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · Apr 25

📣📣 OUT NOW! 📣📣

Barefoot in the Snow 🦶❄️

👾 1-Bit Gothic Horror Story
💻📱 Play in browser
⏰ Length: 5-10 mins
💀 Multiple endings
👻 Talk to ghosts
💕 FREE

Please enjoy and share with your pals.

#GameDev #1Bit #PixelArt #IndieGame #Bitsy #Gothic #Horror

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Barefoot in the Snow by Rhubarb

A short gothic horror tale.

rhubarb-games.itch.io

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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 2h

This evening, we watched night 1 of Sumo at the Royal Albert Hall on iPlayer. Properly getting into it as we enjoyed Sanctuary on Netflix, earlier this year.

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nina milkwalkermoto 🎃 @spacecoyote.com · 5h

I designed a creepy shirt for UFO 50 based on "Night Manor!" I hate mushrooms so I took psychic damage drawing this
www.fangamer.com/collections/...

A black long-sleeved shirt based on "Night Manor," part of the "UFO 50" games collection. Purple and teal inks depict a vignette of the game on the front with the text "Night Manor". Teal inks on the sleeves say "Night Manor" on the right, and depicts mushrooms on the left

The front graphic, isolated. Text says "Night Manor." A monstrous man with some kind of supernatural fungal skin infection brandishes a bloody meat cleaver. A terrified eye is reflected in the back view mirror of a car. A large full moon illuminates a big mansion in the dark. A screaming corpse covered in mushrooms sits in an old clawfoot bathtub behind tattered shower curtains. A creepy doll of a little girl sits in the corner with a blank expression. The silhouette of a figure covered in mushrooms peeks through the mansion window. A car with a smashed front end drives through a dark forest road.

Close-up of the right sleeve that reads "Night Manor" in teal ink.

Close-up of the bottom of the front graphic, specifically the corpse in the bathtub, the doll, and the car

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Mark Jarrell @markjarrellart.bsky.social · 6d

Myself most days..

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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 6h

I’ve had the track ‘Charlie is My Darling’ from the Judero OST stuck in my head for over a week now…

juderosoundtrack.bandcamp.com/album/judero...

Judero Soundtrack, by Talha & Jack Co

85 track album

juderosoundtrack.bandcamp.com

Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 7h

Been to a Turkish barbers for the first time today. Got a hair cut and beard trim with a straight razor and hot towel after.

I look the business if I do say so myself!

Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 12h

Singing corned beef to the tune of Call Me by Go West.

Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 12h

I like the art on this one

ZXVintage40 @zxvintage40.bsky.social · 13h

Random inlay: Underworld - The Village/Orpheus Ltd (1985) https://spectrumcomputing.co.uk/entry/10369/ #zxspectrum #retrogaming

Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 12h

Bought this one at the height of PS2 oddities, Horror and Suda 51 was all the rage.

Pure shite!

It’s not even a so-bad-it’s-good experience just tedium, puerile fan service and it’s not a bit scary.

Suffered it to the end but thankfully made a tidy profit, selling it to some poor sod on eBay.

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PlayStation Park @playstationpark.bsky.social · 1d

A Japanese commercial for 'Siren' on the PlayStation 2.

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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d

6 adventurers struggle to identify mysterious shoe-like items found in the dungeon until they go to the tavern and allow a Bishop to inspect them closer, only to confirm they are in fact shoes.

Screenshot of Wizardry The Five Ordeals on Nintendo Switch

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Matt McMuscles @mattmcmuscles.bsky.social · 1d

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

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ULTRA💀BLAST @ultrakillblast.bsky.social · 1d

GHOST WANTED (1940)

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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d

youtu.be/xRjI3J__2c4?...

Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d

I’m also just enjoying it until they tune it to a point where they either abandon the game because it’s not profitable or they spoil it with intrusive lootbox stuff.

Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d

Everybody should read more for pleasure.

But that isn’t to say that it’s noble, or your new personality or performative for social media, or you should keep count of how many books you read in a year.

You don’t count how many telly programs you watch in a year do you?

Don’t be daft!

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 2d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d

I’m really enjoying the new Skate as it’s “FREE” . Love the map. I have no compulsion to engage with lootboxes or do any goals. Just find a spot and do what I want. Ideal.

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Keith Stuart @keefstuart.bsky.social · 1d

Sometimes as a writer it is important to really test yourself - to take risks, to break out of your comfort zone and do something radically new. With this in mind, I have written a nostalgic article about a Sega game

www.theguardian.com/games/2025/o...

Space Harrier at 40: how Sega’s surreal classic brought total immersion to arcades in the 80s

As they flew above Yu Suzuki’s innovative, psychedelic 3D landscapes combating space dragons and alien rock monsters, the moving arcade cabinet would physically involve players in the action

www.theguardian.com

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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 1d

Good morning team!

Shokupan French toast with bacon and maple syrup - Pink Lane Bakery

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Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 2d

Wizardry 44th anniversary sale on Steam buff.ly/FvRdujj

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increpare @increpare.bsky.social · 2d

Ok we have liftoff! (Still have to tweak the controls a lot, and wait for more parts before putting it together properly)

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Paperback Paradise @paperbackparadise.bsky.social · Oct 31

Book cover for Pet Cemetery featuring an angry cat’s face hissing as a silhouette of a man stares off. Text and title read:

I just
FED YOU
Stop yelling at me...

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ʟᴜɪs ʜᴇʀɴᴀɴᴅᴇᴢ ⚡ @beetlenaut.bsky.social · 2d

I have yet to play a single PS5 game. I have no felt compelled to even buy a ps5 yet, the library has been so meager

and I say this as someone who bought a ps1, ps2, and ps3 with fervor. they're making hardware so advanced that no developer can live up to the specs, because they don't provide tools

VGC @videogameschronicle.com · 2d

Both PS6 and the next Xbox are planned for a 2027 release, according to separate reports.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/ps6-and...

PS6 and next Xbox console are both aiming for 2027 release, separate reports claim | VGC

Both companies are reportedly planning to release their next-gen consoles within two years…

www.videogameschronicle.com

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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks to this video I discovered a great quality of life feature hidden in the menus that animates your movements through the dungeon instead of snapping to the next tile. Makes it less disorientating.

youtu.be/NsIv6ukuFzw?...

This Option Will Change How You Play Wizardry: The Five Ordeals

YouTube video by Tea Leaves

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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 2d

Playing some Wizardry: Five Ordeals, which I believe is a collection of some Japanese Gaiden games and some fan made scenarios.

It’s a VERY barebones Switch port of the PC game but it’s also just great to have something like this available on Switch.

Map screen of Wizardry: Five Ordeals on Switch

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Boo-barb @rhubarbgames.bsky.social · 2d

Just had a look at some Pokemon Legends: Z-A leaks and I have to say, every mega evolution looks dreadful. They look AI generated.