Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends
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Award-winning gamedev. Animation/games Associate Professor. Level design author. SAAM Arcade founder. Making Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends: https://store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/Little_Nemo_and_the_Nightmare_Fiends/
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Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends on Steam
Little Nemo and his friends return for a hand-animated metroidvania adventure! Explore magical dream worlds with Nemo, the Princess of Slumberland, the mischievious Flip, and royal guard Peony as they...
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Happy #WishlistWednesday! If you like hand-animated games with multiple playable characters and big worlds to explore, our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends may just be the game of your dreams! Please help us out by wishlisting it at: store.steampowered.com/app/2229030/...
#2Danimation
#2Danimation
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BANJO KAZOOIE - Freezeezy Peak / MARIO 64 - Snowman's Land
November 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
BANJO KAZOOIE - Freezeezy Peak / MARIO 64 - Snowman's Land
Getting tired of constant video game remakes. Get new ideas or start doing the remakes with Muppets. Standard Muppet movie rules apply (1 human character and the rest are Muppets)
November 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Getting tired of constant video game remakes. Get new ideas or start doing the remakes with Muppets. Standard Muppet movie rules apply (1 human character and the rest are Muppets)
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“.. Three years into the generative-ai wave, demand for the technology looks surprisingly flimsy.
“.. the employment-weighted share of Americans using ai at work has fallen by a percentage point, and now sits at 11% ..”
@economist.com
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
“.. the employment-weighted share of Americans using ai at work has fallen by a percentage point, and now sits at 11% ..”
@economist.com
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
November 29, 2025 at 9:35 PM
“.. Three years into the generative-ai wave, demand for the technology looks surprisingly flimsy.
“.. the employment-weighted share of Americans using ai at work has fallen by a percentage point, and now sits at 11% ..”
@economist.com
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
“.. the employment-weighted share of Americans using ai at work has fallen by a percentage point, and now sits at 11% ..”
@economist.com
www.economist.com/finance-and-...
And I loved this game
For those worried about too many cutscenes/voiced character dialog in a Metroid game, go back and play Prime 3 (like I just did). It's shocking that every 10 mins you're talking with someone or getting radio calls. Not sure why IGN and other outlets seemed to just forget that?
November 29, 2025 at 9:17 PM
And I loved this game
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The X-Files is genuinely a timelessly good show, because when not focusing on overarching conspiracy plot, they would really just focus on a single concept and quite crucially, it would cast an incredible actor to center the episode around who would be utterly god damn captivating to watch.
November 29, 2025 at 6:19 PM
The X-Files is genuinely a timelessly good show, because when not focusing on overarching conspiracy plot, they would really just focus on a single concept and quite crucially, it would cast an incredible actor to center the episode around who would be utterly god damn captivating to watch.
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Maybe this is cheating for #RandomGameSaturday but I want to show it off. The Analogue 3D looks so goddamn good in 4K with all the filters and it's not made by an arms dealer.
November 29, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Maybe this is cheating for #RandomGameSaturday but I want to show it off. The Analogue 3D looks so goddamn good in 4K with all the filters and it's not made by an arms dealer.
It’s #smallbusinesssaturday! If you like storytelling games you can play with a party, check out my card game, La Mancha! Battle your friends one minute and declare love to them the next with quotes from books of chivalry! On sale at:
www.pfbstudios.com/product/la-m...
#tabletop #literature
www.pfbstudios.com/product/la-m...
#tabletop #literature
November 29, 2025 at 7:04 PM
It’s #smallbusinesssaturday! If you like storytelling games you can play with a party, check out my card game, La Mancha! Battle your friends one minute and declare love to them the next with quotes from books of chivalry! On sale at:
www.pfbstudios.com/product/la-m...
#tabletop #literature
www.pfbstudios.com/product/la-m...
#tabletop #literature
A forgotten curiosity of LCD gaming is Tiger STIX, super compact LCD games with unusual control mechanisms. In this one, Shark Bite, you would propel the shark by moving the yellow end forward and backward, and steer the shark up and down by twisting the other end, trying to avoid trash and eat fish
November 28, 2025 at 2:22 PM
A forgotten curiosity of LCD gaming is Tiger STIX, super compact LCD games with unusual control mechanisms. In this one, Shark Bite, you would propel the shark by moving the yellow end forward and backward, and steer the shark up and down by twisting the other end, trying to avoid trash and eat fish
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this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
November 26, 2025 at 2:59 AM
this is not our customer service number. it’s just my voicemail inbox.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
you’re welcome to call. i hope you do.
216-361-6772.
Indie game development is like this part of Thanksgiving, but drawn out over years
November 27, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Indie game development is like this part of Thanksgiving, but drawn out over years
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landed "quixotic" in a word game, but I didn't win - which felt apropos
November 27, 2025 at 12:24 AM
landed "quixotic" in a word game, but I didn't win - which felt apropos
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Narrative design is seen as "expendable" because it's not "top-level game design", says BAFTA Breakthrough participant Cara Ellison. But narrative is "the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up."
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
BAFTA Breakthrough profile: Cara Ellison
"Your game's story or narrative, even if it's not a traditional narrative, is the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up"
www.gamesindustry.biz
November 26, 2025 at 9:45 AM
Narrative design is seen as "expendable" because it's not "top-level game design", says BAFTA Breakthrough participant Cara Ellison. But narrative is "the thing that actually keeps people picking the controller back up."
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
www.gamesindustry.biz/bafta-breakt...
This game is so delightful (Glover on N64)
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
This game is so delightful (Glover on N64)
This
I'm going to give you the best secret I know to cooking amazing turkey or chicken or beef or any meat at all.
Ready? Write this down.
Cook to temperature, not time.
Get an instant-read digital thermometer, and use it. If you don't own one, you should get one.
Ready? Write this down.
Cook to temperature, not time.
Get an instant-read digital thermometer, and use it. If you don't own one, you should get one.
November 25, 2025 at 10:25 PM
This
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It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
It's weird to not only have lived through an information revolution but also now living through its undoing, all within less than a generation.
Good morning to my fellow comics/animation nerds who know who this dinosaur is (and everyone who doesn’t because why not)
November 25, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Good morning to my fellow comics/animation nerds who know who this dinosaur is (and everyone who doesn’t because why not)
Important to remind yourself during your Analogue 3D hype that this WAS still gaming’s awkward puberty into 3D era
November 25, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Important to remind yourself during your Analogue 3D hype that this WAS still gaming’s awkward puberty into 3D era
I’m getting jazzed for MAGFest, listening to @retronauts.bsky.social, featuring @nadiaoxford.bsky.social and @atariarchive.org talking about the PROTOMEN! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
The Protomen Acts I & II
Podcast Episode · Retronauts · 11/24/2025 · 1h 26m
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November 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
I’m getting jazzed for MAGFest, listening to @retronauts.bsky.social, featuring @nadiaoxford.bsky.social and @atariarchive.org talking about the PROTOMEN! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r...
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We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
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The story about people holding electronics longer is interesting. My Steam Deck is years old and I still love it. I used a Pixel 8 and don't even know what the newer models have added and don't care. There's no reason to upgrade. No one is making anything different or cool.
November 24, 2025 at 10:11 PM
The story about people holding electronics longer is interesting. My Steam Deck is years old and I still love it. I used a Pixel 8 and don't even know what the newer models have added and don't care. There's no reason to upgrade. No one is making anything different or cool.
Saw this coming a mile away, also rest assured that Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends is totally AI-free. Flip wanted to express his thoughts on AI in-game, but we couldn’t allow that much swearing without torching our ESRB rating #indiedev #indiegame
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’
“We can produce results that meet our quality standards without its assistance.”
buff.ly
November 24, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Saw this coming a mile away, also rest assured that Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends is totally AI-free. Flip wanted to express his thoughts on AI in-game, but we couldn’t allow that much swearing without torching our ESRB rating #indiedev #indiegame
Perfect Dark is incredible on the Analogue 3D
November 23, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Perfect Dark is incredible on the Analogue 3D
NINTENDO SIXTY-FOUUUUUUUR!
November 23, 2025 at 12:22 AM
NINTENDO SIXTY-FOUUUUUUUR!
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Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.
July 18, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Gargoyles, grotesques, and corbels reading books are my favorites.
Once again, I am generally very non-alarmist with game content. My kids have played old Doom and Mortal Kombat. DO NOT LET THEM HAVE ROBLOX
If we have a kid we are absolutely forbidding Roblox. I know I will inevitably cave on a number of other stupid things all their little friends are doing, but this is a hard line in the sand that no amount of screaming will change.
Oh my god that is the worst possible answer
November 21, 2025 at 9:01 PM
Once again, I am generally very non-alarmist with game content. My kids have played old Doom and Mortal Kombat. DO NOT LET THEM HAVE ROBLOX