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Coals "Zusty" "Karla" Zimonja

@coals.northsky.social

Indie games long-timer. A Good Narrative Collaborator. Dramaturge. Currently on something unannounced. Previously on Dr. Katz, Home Movies, BioShock 2 & Minerva's Den, Gone Home, Tacoma, and Wanderstop. Invite me to play TTRPGs!πŸ™‡

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you are indeed right

05.03.2026 17:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

oh hell yeah!

05.03.2026 17:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
[gamepad emoji] What Does a Game Designer Actually Do?

By now, most of us have played a game. [...more]

[gamepad emoji] What Does a Game Designer Actually Do? By now, most of us have played a game. [...more]

05.03.2026 17:15 πŸ‘ 251 πŸ” 53 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5

aaahhh I really want this but I couldn't find a copy!

05.03.2026 12:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

There are 4 different people from #YEG working on this TTRPG anthology of Trophy incursions! :D Me, @lackingceremony.bsky.social, @premeemohamed.com, and @orthopraxy.bsky.social! Supporting small indie press games means supporting local!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

04.03.2026 17:40 πŸ‘ 14 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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The entire print run of classic SF punk magazine β€˜Damage’ is now online! Ryan Richardson is one of the United States’ foremost collectors, archivists, and dealers of punk rock records and ephemera, as well as being the Internet saint who created free online archives of Sta...

The entire print run of classic SF punk magazine β€˜Damage’ is now online!
dangerousminds.net/comments/the...
'Ryan Richardson is one of the US’ foremost collectors, archivists, & dealers of punk rock records & ephemera, as well as being the Internet saint who created this free online archive.'

15.02.2026 06:24 πŸ‘ 83 πŸ” 36 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Introducing the <Low Poly Rat Jam>!

Team up or go it alone - submissions open 6 - 22 March.

No ranks, no prizes, only a promise: I will play and review EVERY RAT GAME.

itch.io/jam/low-poly... #ratjam #gamedev #lowpoly #lowpolyratday

03.03.2026 10:27 πŸ‘ 230 πŸ” 110 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 17

I even miss having to manually place lights to simulate bounce and reflection! there was so much expressiveness there.

03.03.2026 16:06 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
A dramatically lit low-poly subway level that you would never suspect was built from a single extremely clever texture sheet

A dramatically lit low-poly subway level that you would never suspect was built from a single extremely clever texture sheet

Reminiscing now about my first job as a game developer, when lighting was so expensive we couldn't even pre-bake it.

We made a single texture sheet with a lit side on top, a shadow side on the bottom, and a gradient in between, and placed all our shadows by hand with geometry cuts and UV mapping

03.03.2026 15:22 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
A color portrait of Hollywood actor Donald Sutherland, circa mid-1990s. Lou thinks Sutherland’s 90s work is crapola. The early stuff is where it’s at. Sure, M*A*S*H gives you some idea of Sutherland’s potential. But it’s Klute and even more so, Don’t Look Now, that still chills Lou when he thinks about it. Dianne can’t even watch it. She refuses. So Lou watches it by himself, late at night on VHS, again and again.

A color portrait of Hollywood actor Donald Sutherland, circa mid-1990s. Lou thinks Sutherland’s 90s work is crapola. The early stuff is where it’s at. Sure, M*A*S*H gives you some idea of Sutherland’s potential. But it’s Klute and even more so, Don’t Look Now, that still chills Lou when he thinks about it. Dianne can’t even watch it. She refuses. So Lou watches it by himself, late at night on VHS, again and again.

SUTHERL1.BMF

03.03.2026 02:17 πŸ‘ 40 πŸ” 9 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

William S Burroughs predicted this, I knew it

02.03.2026 22:28 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

fuckin wordsmith over here

01.03.2026 21:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Ruin: An Anthology of One Shot Incursions for Trophy A collection of 14 new incursions for Trophy Gold and Trophy Dark.

If you're a fan of the material I've written for Trophy, then you're in luck: more of it is available as part of this collection of incursions.

I contributed a 3-set Trophy Gold scenario set in a fallen hot springs that has both a cult AND frog problem.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/fir...

01.03.2026 18:37 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 7 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 2

Sure

28.02.2026 03:54 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a crop of an ad for ritz crackers with chocolate on them, featuring a horrid little ritz mascot. it has tubular black shiny arms and legs, which are supposed to be distinct from the chocolate, I think? the hands are posed such that it's really hard to tell they're hands, or what position they're in. they're edge-on to the camera, so you can't see their shape well. also it's wearing little fucking red converse.

a crop of an ad for ritz crackers with chocolate on them, featuring a horrid little ritz mascot. it has tubular black shiny arms and legs, which are supposed to be distinct from the chocolate, I think? the hands are posed such that it's really hard to tell they're hands, or what position they're in. they're edge-on to the camera, so you can't see their shape well. also it's wearing little fucking red converse.

look at this unconscionable little shit

28.02.2026 04:07 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Influential Italian artist and graphic designer Franco Grignani

#FrancoGrignani #GraphicDesign #Graphics

30.04.2025 01:20 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

who knows

28.02.2026 03:15 πŸ‘ 13 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 1
Cover for SURVIVING MACHINE PARTS set at 50% off aka $4

Cover for SURVIVING MACHINE PARTS set at 50% off aka $4

For no good reason, I’ve put my #mothership #ttrpg module on sale until the end of the month.

Get it for 50% off (only $4!) and find out if you can Survive Machine Parts.

(Shares appreciated πŸ™)

Available here: emosludge.itch.io/surviving-ma...

26.02.2026 18:22 πŸ‘ 44 πŸ” 20 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

THIS IS WHAT SAM ALTMAN WANTS TO TAKE FROM YOU

27.02.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 12991 πŸ” 4880 πŸ’¬ 34 πŸ“Œ 37
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Capcom art team is feasting

27.02.2026 05:08 πŸ‘ 2676 πŸ” 480 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 85

glad you're out there propagating juffo-wup, bud

27.02.2026 03:05 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

they are the worst! I've removed everything made of wool from my apartment and they're _still here_

26.02.2026 22:52 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

this is what happened to me with clothes moths, and they will indeed win one day, I'll be the one flying out of their wallet

26.02.2026 22:14 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
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26.02.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a buff, naked Walt Disney, with a weird little Mickey on his shoulder

a buff, naked Walt Disney, with a weird little Mickey on his shoulder

a screenprinted Ween poster someone made that shows someone looking up, in a graveyard, at a giant ghostly figure of a woman. it's printed in medium and dark blues on a lighter blue paper

a screenprinted Ween poster someone made that shows someone looking up, in a graveyard, at a giant ghostly figure of a woman. it's printed in medium and dark blues on a lighter blue paper

an image that says "Wishing you a normal New Year," but the "o" in "normal" is replaced with a mouse

an image that says "Wishing you a normal New Year," but the "o" in "normal" is replaced with a mouse

someone squirting a box of... milk tea? into their eye, excitedly. The lighting is really canonical 2000s bathroom mirror digital photo -style. This may be a person whose livejournal I used to follow?? damned if I can remember their name, was it like Elise or something?

someone squirting a box of... milk tea? into their eye, excitedly. The lighting is really canonical 2000s bathroom mirror digital photo -style. This may be a person whose livejournal I used to follow?? damned if I can remember their name, was it like Elise or something?

26.02.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

it's very bad, haha

26.02.2026 21:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a small image of a guy in black with a big skull head holding a chainsaw, which is dripping blood.

a small image of a guy in black with a big skull head holding a chainsaw, which is dripping blood.

screenshot of a Brad Neely short, showing a guy with white hair and a beard sitting at a booth under the banner LOVE FILTH

screenshot of a Brad Neely short, showing a guy with white hair and a beard sitting at a booth under the banner LOVE FILTH

a model sheet for the Klaus Nomi character in Venture Bros, showing his cool sonic attack hitting Hank (who is just there for scale, but he looks like he's blissfully unaware)

a model sheet for the Klaus Nomi character in Venture Bros, showing his cool sonic attack hitting Hank (who is just there for scale, but he looks like he's blissfully unaware)

reportedly: the official Sesame Street alphabet

reportedly: the official Sesame Street alphabet

more 2012 internet images (I am refraining from posting the lolcats &c, just shaking my head sadly)

26.02.2026 21:19 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

he's so good!!

26.02.2026 15:44 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
a posterized image of Clarence Boddicker from RoboCop, holding a shotgun, with Bitches Leave in a cursive font placed around it. Did I make this in 2012? it SEEMS like something I would make.

a posterized image of Clarence Boddicker from RoboCop, holding a shotgun, with Bitches Leave in a cursive font placed around it. Did I make this in 2012? it SEEMS like something I would make.

a promo MST3K image that reads 'NOVEMBER 5, 2007 - THE 'BOTS ARE BACK! MST3K.COM

a promo MST3K image that reads 'NOVEMBER 5, 2007 - THE 'BOTS ARE BACK! MST3K.COM

a tiny screengrab of Scotty saying 'hello, computer' to a mouse from Star Trek 4

a tiny screengrab of Scotty saying 'hello, computer' to a mouse from Star Trek 4

a photo of someone's tramp stamp that reads I'M GONNA KILL YOU, RAY ROMANO in Copperplate Gothic

a photo of someone's tramp stamp that reads I'M GONNA KILL YOU, RAY ROMANO in Copperplate Gothic

here's some images from a 2012 backup folder

26.02.2026 15:39 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I LOVE THESE FUCKING GUYS

24.02.2026 20:56 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0