Toby Alden
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brlka.com
Toby Alden
@brlka.com
game dev & DJ
made youhole.tv and mixtapegarden.com
mellymelon on discord
they/them

📝 blog: brlka.com
🎲 games: brlka.itch.io
🎹 music: brlka.bandcamp.com
💿 mixes: mixcloud.com/brlka

🎧 listening thread: bsky.app/profile/brlka.com/post/3l72csvasqa2o
wow, seriously incredible. kudos!
November 26, 2025 at 12:00 AM
true!! punishment is the og faller... i remember playing that in high school and getting a headache lol
November 25, 2025 at 11:58 PM
you should post this to the itch.io page!
November 17, 2025 at 9:01 PM
real real excited for this one
November 17, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Reposted by Toby Alden
ELBE "A Life Spent Wading In Drivel" 🦎by @juneflower.bsky.social
damp exploration rpg about a masturbating lizard in poison swamp. wildly beautiful handdrawn fonts

june-flower.itch.io/elbe
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Reposted by Toby Alden
HOLDING IT 🥛by @brlka.com @paellagenius.bsky.social
a lush high-concept precision platformer, where you play a tiny baby meeting his girlfriend's parents for the first time. Funny, pretty, well designed, perfect itch game

brlka.itch.io/holding-it
Free / hours (its hard)
November 17, 2025 at 5:03 PM
10+5 is the best time control imo. enough pressure to keep a brisk clip but you can deliberate when you feel its worth it
November 17, 2025 at 12:41 AM
wow!!! pretty sure this is the new WR, congrats ✨
November 15, 2025 at 11:01 PM
this is also why i'm anti-design document... it's kind of like writing up a list of all the extracurricular activities your unborn child will take lol. it's fine to have a one-page outline to give you a little structure but anything past that and you're just procrastinating
November 15, 2025 at 7:45 PM
game design youtube essays always insinuate devs should or do create w/ deliberate intent but your work will have more capacity for wonder and discovery if you play around & experiment & are in conversation with your game as it emerges rather than rigidly dictating it. the process is symbiotic!
November 15, 2025 at 7:40 PM
vid is my pb (and current wr) of my game flower visit brlka.itch.io/flower-visit
flower visit by brlka
Visit a friend
brlka.itch.io
November 15, 2025 at 10:00 AM
take my driving challenge cowards brlka.itch.io/car-artist
November 14, 2025 at 6:24 PM
the worst part is i'm totally susceptible to it even though i enjoy nothing about it
November 13, 2025 at 6:47 PM
(also ironic it's hosted by chess.com whose business model relies on this exact grift lol)
November 12, 2025 at 7:34 PM
the tl;dr of it is any sales pitch aimed at improving at something usually hinges on lies: that you are already training hard, that training is fun, that traditional methods aren't effective, that you can "tick something off once and for all", that you need to spend money at all, etc.
November 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM