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common-or-garden Mads 🦆
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Mads Mackenzie 💀 narrative game dev, mundane birdwatcher, sometimes cosplayer 💀 co-director @ Freeplay 💀 they/them, icon by Penta
The location for No Good Deed looks so similar to the Stone Wave Cliffs in Clair Obscur that I was ready for it to pan over to Gustave at any moment
November 19, 2025 at 10:20 AM
You might think, 'obviously it'll be bad, there's no way that material could work on screen'. And you'd be right! But in ways you can't imagine!
November 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
i like the idea of you watching decades worth of anime in secret for years and then dropping a novel-sized stack of notes on all your thoughts afterwards
November 19, 2025 at 4:47 AM
the other flavors are different shapes! for instance, pizza shapes are trapeziums
November 19, 2025 at 1:59 AM
Furthermore - and the thing that really helps it deliver its killer ending - the charm enriches the flavour of the horror! It's a game about sunk cost fallacies and trying to realise a sweet dream at the cost of the world around you. It rules. Play Crow Country.
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
this is a reminder that if you like horror games and missed Crow Country you should give it a shot, it's the perfect balance of a charming bright throwback setting and a genuinely unsettling story
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 AM
ohhh Chicken Crimpy my love I have missed you so much since The Diagnosis, but even coeliac disease could not part us forever
November 18, 2025 at 7:53 AM
you know. how sometimes the chicken is crimpy?
November 18, 2025 at 7:42 AM
'renfield... i am aware we hired you to write a legal document, however, i would be most curious to read your thoughts on agency and gender in horror, thirty years on from clover's foundational work, 'men, women, and chainsaws''

'well, dracula, it's not my area, but if you insist...'
November 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
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are there any labels for what the rolls are, or are they just a random jumble?
November 18, 2025 at 12:02 AM
sometimes you say 'i guess we're exploring this theme', and the thing about exploring is, it's not really exploring if you know exactly where you're going with it, so you've just gotta let it go where it goes.
November 17, 2025 at 2:10 PM
writing ambiguity sucks and is frustrating because i always reread it and go 'ok but will my audience be asking the wrong questions or the right questions about this'

it is ambiguous even to me!!!!
November 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
making video games is great!!!!! it's good making video games!!!!!!!!!!!!!
November 14, 2025 at 5:39 AM
renfield knows what TRULY matters
November 14, 2025 at 3:37 AM