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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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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · Dec 18

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/...
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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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Adrian Sandoval @adriansandoval.net · 2d

Hey folks, @totter87.bsky.social and I will be going over some of the topics we cover in our 2D level design book for the Philly IGDA meeting tomorrow tonight! The event will be hosted via Zoom (and I'll be live at Drexel for in-area people) and you can pre-reg here: bit.ly/IGDAPhillyMo...

Hybrid event: In-person and Webinar
Drexel Excite Center
3401 Market St., Philadelphia PA
Open to the public

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Natalie Spitzel | Looking for work!! @nat-the-dev.bsky.social · 2d

An image in the style of Dark Souls "Noun Verbed", which I have altered to say "Maya corrupted my autosave"

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Turfster @turfster.bsky.social · 2d

"Code is the documentation"

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 2d

I’m just really impressed that it got through 80’s Nintendo of America censorship!

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 2d

True: not mutually exclusive

Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 2d

Me: “that one type of enemy is surely a magic elf, and those bottles it throws are potions…oh…”

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Dmitry Grozoubinski @explaintrade.com · 3d

This is an exact encapsulation of why I moved to Bluesky.

No amount of handwringing in the Atlantic about how I owe some eternal Promethean suffering to the discourse is going to make me stay on a site I hate, that stopped doing anything for me professionally years ago.

Well – no. Bluesky may or may not be, as one centre-right friend who felt unwelcome put it, “self-righteous island”. But the idea that’s why we went is nonsense. That I’ve largely stopped posting on a site that’s done more to shape my career and social circle than the rest of the internet combined is less about avoiding rival opinions (I love arguing with people who are wrong!) than with the fact the site simply became unusable. It stopped generating the things (good jokes, interesting debate, clicks) I wanted; it became extremely good at generating the things (racists, pornbots, racist pornbots) I did not.

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yeah - was very worried about those at one point

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 4d

And quicksand

WholesomeMemes @wholesomememe.bsky.social · 4d

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Alex Kanaris-Sotiriou @kanaratron.bsky.social · 4d

After playing through Silent Hill f, I figured it was time to return to where it all started...

The original Silent Hill video game for the PlayStation 1 running on an old CRT tv

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 4d

#screenshotsaturday, I suppose (got a family function today, so this will do!)

Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 5d

Post a mage!

(A rough test animation from an upcoming trailer for our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends!)

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 5d

Post a mage!

(A rough test animation from an upcoming trailer for our #indiegame Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends!)

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Supper Mario Broth @mariobrothblog.bsky.social · 5d

In Yoshi's Island, a cave background sparkles, but only when Yoshi moves. This is achieved in an inventive way by making many 1-pixel "pinholes" in the background through which a field of stars is visible. The parallax motion shows the stars intermittently, creating sparkles.

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 6d

Dude

Winter Burrow by Pine Creek Games @pinecreekgames.com · 6d

Somehow the problems of the world seem a tiny bit smaller when you’re playing a cozy, survival game about a mouse trying to make it through the winter 😌🤍

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 6d

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Giovanni Colantonio @marioprime.bsky.social · 6d

Whoa?????

Wario64 @wario64.bsky.social · 6d

Super NES - Nintendo Classics NSO titles added:

-Mario & Wario
-BUBSY in: Claws Encounters of the Furred Kind
-FATAL FURY SPECIAL

www.youtube.com/watch?v=13ie...

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 6d

This is a heck of a post to see the semester that one of my animation students has said that they specifically want to work on prehistoric animals

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Rebecca Heineman @burgerbecky.bsky.social · 11d

I’ve started a GoFundMe to help with my cancer battle gofund.me/6850175a3

Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 6d

I started How Pac-Man Eats, which does a good job of citing lots of different games from different periods. It does still do the Atari thing, but it made me think back to HOW MANY games studies texts have much more limited game citations (with a few actually misidentifying games)

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Brendel @brendelbored.bsky.social · 8d

I truly don’t get the appeal of podcasts having to be video now. Podcasts are at their very best when you’re doing something else, working out or playing videogames etc, and no good podcaster has ever been someone who should be shown on screen that’s just not how that works. It’s a goblin job.

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 7d

And if anyone is like “come on it was never that bad - I had to sift through A LOT of this kind of slop in the 2010’s curating the SAAM Arcade. People copy/pasting their academic papers into the “tell us about your game” field was the reason for the 300 word limit

Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 7d

They’re also terrible as models for serious/transformational games: “YOU ZAP THE SPACE INVADER BUT INSTEAD OF AN ALIEN, ITS CAPITALISM! DONT YOU GET THE METAPHOR?!?!” The asst. prof yells at you, beating you with the 120 page paper you must also read to understand the nuances of the “experience”

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 7d

Started on a new game studies book and I’ve gotta say…can we stop using Atari games as case studies? I love my Atari, but saying “we’re basing models for how to analyze all games based on this 1981 game with 1 mechanic” is why game studies utterly fails at actually grasping the medium a lot of times

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Chris Totten - Little Nemo and the Nightmare Fiends @totter87.bsky.social · 8d

YES!!!

Aidan Moher @aidanmoher.com · 8d

Did you know I’ve got a starter pack of awesome people who make awesome video game books and magazines?

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Old DeuTaranomy 🧶⚒️ @kindofstrange.com · 8d

Rebecca is a legend and needs some help. Consider donating if you can!

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Donate to Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer, organized by Rebecca Heineman

I’m Rebecca Ann Heineman. The very first video game champion, creat… Rebecca Heineman needs your support for Help Rebecca Ann Heineman Fight Aggressive Cancer

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