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Mads Mackenzie ๐Ÿ’€ narrative game dev, mundane birdwatcher, sometimes cosplayer ๐Ÿ’€ they/them, icon by Penta ๐Ÿ’€ director @fine-fiends.bsky.social

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new tag yourself just dropped

06.03.2026 07:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 788 ๐Ÿ” 251 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 43 ๐Ÿ“Œ 250
cloud, soldier 1st class, who was definitely at the nibelheim incident

cloud, soldier 1st class, who was definitely at the nibelheim incident

you right now

06.03.2026 06:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I got the basic PAL version of it that had the difficulty turned up, and it was the game that really taught me to knuckle down and commit to learning a combat system even when it felt impossible. After that, finding a copy of the Special Edition with Vergil was such a great payoff!

06.03.2026 04:36 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

difficult...!

honorary mentions: Misericorde (which wasn't an option), Metal Gear Solid 2/3/4 (couldn't pick a favourite of the three), and FFVII

06.03.2026 04:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
van helsing, dark clothing and hat, shadowed face. background is inside church. text box: bless me, father, for i have sinned.
icon is telling the player to press a to proceed.

van helsing, dark clothing and hat, shadowed face. background is inside church. text box: bless me, father, for i have sinned. icon is telling the player to press a to proceed.

van helsing, screenshot, game boy advance (2004) www.mobygames.com/game/66012/v...

31.01.2025 08:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1121 ๐Ÿ” 346 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 11
Blood moon

Blood moon

moon's haunted!

03.03.2026 11:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 11 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
It's Pickle!

It's Pickle!

Pickle!

25.02.2026 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

there's one of these ginger ones in my local park and it has a beautiful pink iridescent stripe on its neck

I call it Pickle (because it reminds me of pickled ginger)

24.02.2026 13:18 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If any of you don't know the Melbourne Megagames crew and ever want an intro, let me know! Nellie and the other folks there all design games as well as running them, and they can probably help with resources on how to get started

24.02.2026 09:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

send me your coconut pancakes ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘

22.02.2026 00:01 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

there was a week one year where someone got a bet going to see how many teachers they could convince to play The Hannah Montana Movie in class, and I don't know how far it spread, but I personally watched it in three classes that week

otherwise, we watched The Miracle Maker a lot

21.02.2026 00:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

like when you have a whole flashback sequence where the player characters go 'nobody can know of our forbidden love! we have to act like we don't know each other!' in lieu of developing any chemistry between them. something has gone wrong, i think?

20.02.2026 16:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

just played through a game that whipped out both a surprise 'the guy and girl who barely interacted were deeply in love the whole time' and an 'ancestral doomed yuri curse upon your house' twist in the last half hour and i feel like the latter was bait they threw in to make me forgive the former

20.02.2026 15:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
'Yes. No. Oh God. What are they doing here?'

'Yes. No. Oh God. What are they doing here?'

when you write some narration that, incidentally, captures how you're feeling about the scene you're working on

20.02.2026 03:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

happy birthday! ๐Ÿ”๐Ÿฐ

20.02.2026 02:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Save 10% on Key Fairy on Steam A hand-drawn, pacifist, folkloric, bullet-hell. Grapple and dance around monsters to collect their shattered stars, weave your way through twisting paths, encounter strange folk, uncover ancient magic...

Key Fairy is officially released!

Buy it, lest ye be slain!

store.steampowered.com/app/2878580/...

19.02.2026 03:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 108 ๐Ÿ” 68 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 9 ๐Ÿ“Œ 21

VicScreen and ScreenAus in Aus have some similar prototype funds too! (and possibly other Aus states, just blanking on them rn)

19.02.2026 01:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Plus, Bram Stoker had a mummy novel, The Jewel of Seven Stars, where the protagonist is a reincarnation of an ancient Egyptian queen, so there is a little bit of ground for loaning the 'heroine is a reincarnation' subplot to Dracula as a combination of Stoker's works

18.02.2026 23:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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we immortalized the SEAGULL PIT into our Video Game ๐Ÿ’Žโœจ

#seagull #pit #gamedev #indiegame #indiegames #indiegamedev

17.02.2026 19:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 53 ๐Ÿ” 17 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3

SEAGULL PIT FOREVER

17.02.2026 23:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

look deep into knuckles' eyes and tell him you don't believe in his pyrotechnic wares

17.02.2026 14:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

oh my god i remember now. i'm so sorry Mads of Last Year. you had faith in me and i failed you. i need to pattern a different centre front panel.

17.02.2026 14:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

as Mads of Today, my most hated enemy is Mads of Last Year Who Did Not Write Any Notes On What They Were Doing With This Craft Project I Want to Resume. How could they do this to me.

17.02.2026 14:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thank you microscopic wasps!

17.02.2026 02:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i am here. persona 3.

17.02.2026 02:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

is
is that better?

17.02.2026 02:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

ari i am an unbelievable dot hack sicko. 'even read the weird spinoff manga'-tier commitment to the dot hack life.

16.02.2026 12:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

new .hack... some kind of ?aida?-infested kite+aura... blackrose has cool new armour... we're so back

16.02.2026 12:33 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

WHAT

16.02.2026 12:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 10 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

solid entry into the 'most pointless use of a leafblower' competition: a guy leafblowing the side of the highway in rural victoria

16.02.2026 01:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 9 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0