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senior software engineer, hobby game dev and artist ▴ working on a Pokemon-inspired roguelike ▴ he/him https://linktr.ee/dyl_byl

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Slay the Spire 2's concurrent Steam players just hit 179,456, the highest ever for any roguelike.

When StS1 first launched back in 2017, it had 193 concurrent players.

That's a 92,982% increase, meaning StS3 is on track to hit 166,861,777 concurrent players by 2035. 💪

06.03.2026 00:31 👍 2065 🔁 406 💬 32 📌 40

+2

04.03.2026 02:47 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Pokopia Font Logo Generator Recreate the colorful sticker-style typography from the Pokémon Pokopia logo. Features a custom font, rotating letter colors, green ditto blob background, and two special characters — the Ditto face (uppercase I) and the Pokéball O — drawn directly from the original title card.

While you wait for Pokemon Pokopia to release, generate your own custom version of the logo with the Pokopia Font Generator! Featuring a hand-made custom recreation of the logo font.

01.03.2026 06:55 👍 2820 🔁 730 💬 316 📌 5441

to be clear, I don’t think Browt is gonna evolve into a superhero. I started drawing a blanket, but since he’s an energetic chick, it also made sense for him to wear it as a cape and play pretend.

28.02.2026 03:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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I tried my hand at redoing Browt and Pombon. Not great but the real designs feel just a little lacking

28.02.2026 01:45 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I like all three starters, but I also feel like they’re too simple. Mainly this one and the bird. It’s like looking at old beta designs for some Pokemon before they got one final iconic trait added

27.02.2026 23:39 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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Burned Tower, Falling Leaves - Pixel 3D

Happy 30th Anniversary to all Pokemon fans, from a place of memory and legends!

#pixelart #lowpoly

20.02.2026 21:55 👍 304 🔁 108 💬 18 📌 2

Again, that’s every day

20.02.2026 18:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

“Relive the Kanto region”

What the hell do they mean, we’re forced to relive it every year like a PTSD episode

20.02.2026 14:23 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

16.02.2026 21:54 👍 7139 🔁 2588 💬 40 📌 45
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17.02.2026 17:54 👍 560 🔁 178 💬 14 📌 57

this post doesn’t answer the question Reb, maybe you’re reading it for the bit too

12.02.2026 14:06 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Update: Noodle seems to be fine. Nauseous with a small case of dermatitis around his mouth, but not as serious as we thought. Very thankful he’s okay

11.02.2026 21:19 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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My cat Noodle is sick today, going to the vet soon. Please send him some love

11.02.2026 18:00 👍 12 🔁 0 💬 3 📌 0

Does this apply even if we were “free tier” supporters that just upgraded to paid for the first time?

08.02.2026 15:50 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Since the Steam Deck screen would start black, would it make more sense to fade from black instead of white? Or even have the mouse enter by sliding up the black screen. That’d look slick on the OLED model.

30.01.2026 04:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 1

The only thing that would replace my Steam Deck LCD is a Steam Deck “2.0” with OLED, better battery, and mildly better performance on larger games. Until then, I’m using the OG every day, I love it so much.

12.01.2026 16:21 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

it’s crazy to me that people even fight you on this, it’s very clearly the intent in the designs

and even if someone doesn’t believe it, why would they remove all whimsy from their life to argue otherwise?

12.01.2026 15:08 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Depending on the mechanical complexity, some games in UFO 50 might be perfect for this. Very easy to turn brain off and play, unless you need something less with less active engagement

11.01.2026 17:05 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

he can’t, the children yearn for the posts

11.01.2026 01:34 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

gg Lucca, well played

10.01.2026 17:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

jumping into a giant pit in Tears of the Kingdom, day one. sure it was theorized, but I somehow avoided those theories. I was amazed at the scale of that game, and how Nintendo somehow kept that out of marketing.

10.01.2026 17:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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The LA REINA UPDATE is out now!

A new free Rival joins the roster, alongside a new monthly event, stage skin, plus PLENTY of balance changes. Check out the Steam post for all the details!

06.01.2026 18:53 👍 152 🔁 55 💬 3 📌 8
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2026 Is Going To Be The Year AI in Gaming Gets Super Annoying Gaming needs to be clear about how, and why, it's using AI

While not nearly the most important thing going on, I wrote some jokes about why this year AI in video games is going to be the absolute most annoying debate. Even more annoying than it already is. Just deeply annoying.

06.01.2026 14:55 👍 307 🔁 48 💬 13 📌 13

Ball x Pit is stellar, more people need to talk about it

01.01.2026 20:12 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

update, I’m stupid and just needed to use the ResourceSaver

01.01.2026 04:56 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My tactic for a while was to do just 30 minutes max of my side hustle, every day. Doing a little a day kept a “streak,” and I didn’t want to break that streak, which pushed me to keep it.
I’d work on it directly after I clocked out, to make sure I had some momentum.

29.12.2025 13:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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I totally understand people wanting to wait until beastieball is “1.0” to play it. I also don’t usually play early access titles.

My main worry at this point is that the game is already so complete and universally beloved, by the time we call it 1.0 i might accidentally make it worse somehow…

26.12.2025 19:29 👍 170 🔁 17 💬 10 📌 0

brother I gotta know, did you get into guilty gear or some shit

26.12.2025 13:53 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This week’s fresh game dev hell involves creating a save system. I thought it’d be easy - serialize some booleans and objects, write to a file, read them later.

Nested objects throw a wrench in it all, bloating my save time or making things too complex. I may need to write 20 custom serializers.

16.12.2025 05:30 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1