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jdag.bsky.social
JDAG
@jdag.bsky.social
Game dev with a penchant for funny little guys. Was @johndaguerra on twitter

You might know me from:
Cobalt Core 🛸🚀
Investi-Gator 🐊🔎
Sunshine Heavy Industries 🚀🌟
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i don't really like to give creative advice so much anymore, but i hope i can at least encourage other creators to stop writing under self-inflicted disney s&p
November 24, 2025 at 7:28 AM
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October 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Demonschool (2025)
November 22, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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my most compelling reason for why ai shouldn't be used in animation i that i want to see freaky shit made by the whackiest perverts imaginable
November 21, 2025 at 7:02 PM
AI "assistants" are everywhere and it makes me want to throw something. They're all useless and they're all designed to handle the user instead of actually being any sort of useful service
November 21, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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you must continue to love the world even when it feels like too little of it loves you back. dogs and cats like you. animals outside can be befriended. some people are nice.
November 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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campbells condensed lcl
November 16, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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Put me in the Evangelion soup. I could handle it
November 7, 2024 at 9:31 AM
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friday soapbox: as a designer, if you want something to be a skillful action for players, and you want growth in this skill to be very deep/meaningful, then you need to also let players be bad at it. sometimes horrendously bad. players hate this pain, and designers often want to mitigate it away.
November 14, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I wanna see the stats on Price Is Right wins. The last player has to win way more often, right??
November 12, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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I revisited my "Trees Hate You" project. I'm just continuing to come up with new ways to get bullied by foliage. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #ragegame
November 8, 2025 at 6:25 PM
IGF judging ends early next week, but I was away on my honeymoon for like 80% of the judging period, so I've got some catching up to do 😫

I'm still at 21 games rated, but most of those are just games I'd already played this year. Gotta try some weirder niche ones!
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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testing some ideas out! based on concept by @koboldscrossing.bsky.social!

#Blender3d #b3d
November 5, 2025 at 3:56 AM
I wonder how many tabs I've closed in my life
November 4, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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January 8, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Huge AI button gets added to Notion. I ask the AI how to get rid of the button. It's unable to help. Useless
October 21, 2025 at 3:12 AM
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October 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
they should invent time travel, but only for food expiration dates
October 19, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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October 18, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Shouts out to Wife
October 17, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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December 19, 2024 at 12:38 AM
Wonder how people would've felt if Silksong had a dedicated combat zone that gave you infinite shards, to get good at using red tools... Feel like it would've been divisive
October 16, 2025 at 6:16 AM
picturing the related game mechanics and grinning. Is this:
- an Ape Escape situation and you control your sword with the right stick?
- tying weapon speed to stats, and you have to make a "slow swing" build?
- turnbased? Go X turns without attacking?
- how long you spent in the battle menu???
Entry 14
October 15, 2025 at 8:23 AM
I'm like a pokemon, in that I also gain Experience when I eat a Rare Candy
October 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
do you think AI bros ever used Smarterchild. would their heads explode if they tried it
October 9, 2025 at 11:13 PM