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Gundam Wing episode 1 if it had the Hathaway needle drop
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Check out these 4 things we did to help Mina navigate precarious platforms precisely in Tenebrous Isle. 😱
We are taking jumping mechanics to the next level making the experience fun for players and mice!🐁
🎮What are some of your favorite top down game mechanics?
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esteban retweeted
May 9
Pikmin creatures as Hieronymus Bosch paintings
— a thread 🧵
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Perfect little game 💯
Moss Moss: Moss the world and find secrets (PICO-8).
noelcody.itch.io/moss-moss
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Back by popular demand, I’ve revived my little game design newsletter! First up, a selection of notes I took while at GDC last week. Featuring insights from Donkey Kong Bananza 🍌, Silent Hill f 🐺, and an AI sermon that backfired 🌝
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esteban retweeted
20 Apr 2023
Instead of displaying the frame rate as a number in debug mode, Super Mario Strikers uses an "FPS Smiler" that dynamically adjusts its facial expression from green and smiling (high FPS) to red and frowning (low FPS). Below is footage of how it looks when the game undergoes lag.
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esteban retweeted
9 Dec 2025
Art Director: Shichirou Kobayashi | 小林七郎
Anime: Nobody's Boy Remi | Ie Naki Ko | 家なき子
Year: 1977
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3 Oct 2025
Whoa
3 Oct 2025
Due to the unique way Super Mario Bros. stores its maps, its level designers were at the mercy of the decorative hills and bushes when placing bottomless pits. While the pits can be placed freely, the decorations are non-negotiable and dictate the level design.
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7 Sep 2025
Good level
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22 Aug 2025
Go check this out
22 Aug 2025
“My #Famicase Exhibition LA” is being held in LA, USA until August 31st. Open from Friday to Monday. If you’re in LA, come check it out!
&& Gallery
instagram.com/andand.gallery…
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9 Aug 2025
This is how you sell me on a short film I have never heard of in just the three opening shots
First up, something you might not have heard of...
Hotori: Simply Wishing for Hope!
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15 May 2025
probably the best youtube video I will see this year
29 Mar 2025
My biggest video yet: A 4,000 year-long 100-minute history about real-life political violence shaping the underlying basic mechanisms of an entire genre of games we take for granted today.
Kriegsspiel: How Napoleon Accidentally Invented Strategy Games youtube.com/watch?v=s6Am1Gjr…
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3 Apr 2025
Gonna be flying for twelve hours sure hope America doesn’t enter the Cool Zone while I am gone
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esteban retweeted
20 Mar 2025
To those of you at #GDC2025, check out two Penny talks today!
1:30pm - Jazz Platforming in ‘Penny’s Big Breakaway’ by @estebanthinks
3:30pm - Building ‘Penny’s Big Breakaway’ with Beef, a New Programming Language by @HunterBridges
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16 Mar 2025
I fucking love Ultraman
16 Mar 2025
oh my god the one from the next episode is even better
Hideki Go is an absolute madman
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9 Mar 2025
Lots of cool talks at GDC this year……. Maybe there will even be one on Penny’s Big Breakaway…… Maybe there will even be two
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