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Derek Yu

2 months

Didja catch the @dayofthedevs showcase after #summergamefest ...? Our fifty-in-one game collection - UFO 50 - is coming to Steam on SEPTEMBER 18! 🛸5⃣0⃣

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

My daughter's holiday wishes:

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7 years

The holidays are a time for reflection. @bfod

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5 years

I think video games are inherently absurd, but it's a strength of the medium. As a designer it's the ultimate freedom knowing your audience will quickly accept that eating a cooked turkey from the sidewalk will heal a grievous wound. They accept it because they see it's true.

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7 years

This Spider-Man game from 1990 has a pretty incredible health bar.

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3 years

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3 years

This is the new next-gen USPS delivery vehicle coming to your neighborhood by 2023

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

We have a date! #Spelunky2 is coming to Steam on September 29. Wishlist the game here to get a notification as soon as it releases: The walls are shifting once again...! 🍆

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

Hey, Spelunky fans! Unfortunately, I don't think we're going to get to release Spelunky 2 this year. Development is still going well and we're not far off target, but the density and detail of the game is demanding more time. Thank you for your patience.

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Spelunky 2 is OUT NOW on Steam!🍆 It's a game about surprises, close calls, hilarious mistakes, 💀curses and 🐶kisses, cavemen, falling too far, getting back up, making choices, making friends… it's about community! Thanks for all your support. Go play!

Spelunky 2 on Steam

Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of...

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

1. This is a really fun exercise! 2. If you're an indie dev making your first pixel art platformer or Metroidvania, consider that smooth animations are insanely time-intensive and much less important than overall art style to potential players. And SMW still looks beautiful imo!

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@Omegachainoboy

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🤣 #pixelart #Pixel #Retro #Nintendo #gameart

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Okay, #Spelunky2 is... out now on the PS4?! It's time to go to the Moon! 🍆

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Less than a week before #Spelunky2 launches on PS4! The price will be $19.99 USD. Can't wait for you to join us on the Moon for this brand-new Spelunky adventure! See you September 15th!

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

TFW you see the light at the end of the tunnel... #Spelunky2

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

7 years

Yes! Spelunky 2 is in development! Mossmouth x @BlitWorks x @strotchy . Coming first to PS4 and Steam. #Spelunky2

Spelunky 2 - Announcement Trailer

The sequel to the critically-acclaimed roguelike platformer Spelunky is in development and coming to PS4 and Steam! In Spelunky 2, the story deepens as more ...

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

6 years

IMO the hardest step for aspiring (commercial) indie game developers is learning to finish games consistently and efficiently - to move past game jams and prototypes but also avoid getting mired in a single project for years without end. It's a tiny sweet spot that's hard to hit.

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Doing a little tweaking to the enemy and trap generation in the first area of #Spelunky2 - starting to feel pretty good, I think! How's your Sunday going? #gamedesign

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Fans have been asking us to bring #Spelunky to Nintendo Switch for a long time, so we're happy to announce that BOTH games are coming to Switch next Summer! 🎉

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@NintendoAmerica

4 years

Stock up on ropes and get ready to explore the everchanging underground worlds of #Spelunky and #Spelunky2 from @mossmouth and @BlitWorks ! Both games are coming to #NintendoSwitch in Summer 2021! #IndieWorld

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

YES, Spelunky 2 releases on PS4 on September 15! Thanks to @PlayStation for the announcement and @Derek_Lieu for directing the trailer! From all of us - me, @BlitWorks , @strotchy , and @justinchans - thank you for your patience! IT'S COMING! #Spelunky2

Spelunky 2 - State of Play Release Date Trailer | PS4

At last, the adventure is about to begin! Get ready to go the Moon and meet the next generation of cave explorers - Spelunky 2 is coming to PS4 on September ...

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

3 months

Murderface @tokidoki77

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

The Steam store page for #Spelunky2 is up! By wishlisting, you'll get notified as soon as it's available! We're aiming to get the game out on Steam no later than a few weeks after our September 15th PS4 launch date. We'll have an update later this month!

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

One of the many things I'm enjoying about today: hearing experienced players say that Spelunky 2 is making them feel the thrill of being new to Spelunky again!

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

2 months

What... this is playground rumor level stuff. I love it.

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@HiFightTH

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How to Shin Akuma

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Overwhelmed! Needless to say, we're so happy #Spelunky2 is being well-received and we're excited for the PS4 release! It's slated for 8am PST in NA tomorrow and it seems to be rolling out across EU already! @BlitWorks @strotchy @LollipopRobot @justinchans @Derek_Lieu

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

Spelunky 2 and UFO 50 didn't quite make it out in 2019 but I wanted to release something before the decade ran out... so I rebooted my old #pixelart tutorial! I hope people find it useful! This will also pave the way for future #gamedev guides. :)

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Excited to reveal that @justinchans has been working with us on #Spelunky2 , helping us bring the characters, locations, and story to life with his beautiful illustrations! As a longtime admirer of his artwork, I was really happy we got the opportunity to collaborate on Spelunky!

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

3 years

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@mossmouth

11 months

One of the painful truths about game development is that you can spend so much time on things that, at best, make no difference to players. At worst, you're actually spending time making your game less appealing!

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Hello! I'm here to inform you that #Spelunky2 releases on Steam in... 10 hours! 6am PDT! ⌛️

Spelunky 2 on Steam

Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of...

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

I always liked this image from Shatterhand. All the graphics in NES games are built from 8x8 tiles but palettes are applied to backgrounds in 16x16 blocks. If you slap a grid on it, you can see how effectively Natsume worked within this constraint. Almost looks 16-bit! #pixelart

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

2 years

🛸 Still working on it. #UFO50

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

I feel like "elegance" and "jank" (awkwardness, lack of polish) are just byproducts of one's approach to game design and it's the approach that matters more to players. Jank is often the byproduct of ambitious, complex, and innovative design. It can be unironically good.

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

Having lots of "magic hour" moments in Spelunky 2 lately! That's what I call the period toward the end of development where seemingly small additions/changes have a big impact because there's so much already in the game for them to hook into. Feels really good! :)

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

Even though Kojima is so heavily influenced by movies, I feel like he also understands the absurdity of games well... and wields it instead of trying to work around it. If you're "serious about being absurd" you can get the most potential out of video games.

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

The UFO 50 Steam store page is now up! Add it to your wishlist if you're interested in a 50-in-1 (!) game collection from the creators of Spelunky, Downwell, and Catacomb Kids. Steam will be our launch platform for PC! Release date TBA. #UFO50 🛸:

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Spelunky 2 is coming to Steam next Tuesday! Unfortunately, we decided not to release with online co-op enabled - that way we can improve it without delaying the release. The upside is that when we add it back, it will have cross-play with PS4! (...)

Steam :: Spelunky 2 :: Launch, Online Multiplayer, and Cross-Play!

Spelunky 2 releases on September 29 on Steam! Here are some updates on launch and our online plans (including cross-play!).

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

A fundamental problem with difficulty options in games is that there are many players between obvious skill levels. This means: 1. Players have to immediately make an important decision without adequate knowledge. 2. Players will continue to question that decision during play.

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

Now that 3d graphics are so realistic... I want to see the return of ridiculous video game UIs.

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

The cost of GDC and other conferences is partly why I'm aggregating my game-making knowledge online, in article format. Hard to beat the efficiency and accessibility of text and images on a web page! Still pretty sparse, but I plan on ramping up in 2021:

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

6 years

Here's the 32-color palette we created for #UFO50 in case you want to play with it! We're having a lot of fun with these colors! Shout out to @strotchy - we all contributed to the palette, but he was the chief architect. #pixelart #gamedev

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

7 years

What is #UFO50 ? UFO 50 is a collection of 50 games from 5 indie game makers: Coming in 2018.

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

6 years

I told my daughter about #Bowsette and she was VERY excited, so we had some fun making our own today.

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

6 years

We made great progress on #UFO50 this year! Can't wait to let everyone play these classic titles from an alternate dimension... thanks for your support and see you in 2019! #pixelart #gamedev

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

8 years

Probably enough internet for today...

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

🍆......👀

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

2 years

I will definitely admit that it's hard for me to clearly see and separate the jank of Souls games from the overall experience. And it's because when I'm playing I feel like I'm in a Katsuya Terada Zelda illustration come to life!

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

4 years

Friendly reminder to sneeze/cough into the crook of your elbow instead of your hands!

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

6 years

Spelunky 2 - Gameplay Trailer!!! And you'll have a chance to play a demo in two days at the Sony @PlayStation booth at #PAXWest2018 . See you in Seattle! ✈️

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5 years

Counterpoint: I feel like it's also important to know what non-devs think, unless you're only planning on making games for other game developers. If game devs held all the answers, then every game we released would be a critical and financial success.

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

1. Preparing for the journey. #inktober #inktober2019

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9 years

Needed a change of pace, so I did some TMNT #pixelart with the NES palette. http://t.co/850FvPqPWT

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

5 years

Alec has passed away. This post on the Night in the Woods subreddit covers what happened this week in good detail and with sentiments that I share. It's a terrible situation all around.

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Derek Yu

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7 years

Day 30 of #inktober : Overwhelmed by the response to Spelunky 2! Thank you! <3 #inktober2017

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@mossmouth

4 years

@patrickklepek Don't feel like a traitor, Patrick!!! Play what you want when you want to play it... Hades is a wonderful game and I'm going to play more of it too! Spelunky 2 is built like a mossy boulder sitting in a babbling brook - it'll be there if and when you want it in the future. 🗿❤️

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1 year

I enjoy working in the Mariogue genre.

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@HardDriveMag

1 year

Metroidvania Fan Refers to Platformers as Mariosonics

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5 months

🛸Posted a small update about UFO 50 development on our Steam forums! It is looking like the game will be complete by the half year mark and we can plan for a release later in the year (after more testing and marketing, etc.). Also imo game is very fun?!

Development Update: Feb 2024 :: UFO 50 General Discussions

Hey, everyone! It's been a few months since the last update and I wanted to let you know how things are looking. The short answer is that we should have a complete game in a few months but are...

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Derek Yu

@mossmouth

2 years

10 years ago today, @StoryFort , @strotchy , and I released #Spelunky on Xbox 360! I made this drawing back then to commemorate the release. Of course, we got a lot of help along the way. Thank you to everyone who supported us on that journey!

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@mossmouth

4 years

The Steam version of Spelunky 2 will come out shortly after PS4! We'll need a little extra time to iron out online multiplayer on PC. Release date for that soon! After Steam, we'll look into other platforms. We are excited for as many people to play as possible. :)

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3 years

New indie #gamedev article up! What drives us creatively is sometimes what makes it hardest for us to finish our projects. I've taken some of the common hurdles I've encountered and categorized them through fictional "indie developer archetypes". 👉

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4 years

Hard to imagine anything melting my heart more than hearing the kid say she's excited about learning to read because it means she'll be ready for Animal Crossing when it comes out in March.

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@mossmouth

4 years

I'm going to #DrawDuringOctober like previous years, but just a little goblin every day!

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5 months

An adventure in every one of his drawings. Rest in Peace.

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3 years

A fighting game where everyone starts with the same weak character and you level it up in ranked online matches, picking permanent stat upgrades, special moves, and cosmetics as you go. At tournaments, each competitor brings their own homegrown fighter that they designed/leveled.

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6 years

Day 2 - Isometric #inktober2018 #inktober

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5 years

Thanks to @WithChrisNKeith , I found out what the "Sorry, I'm Dead" creature from Monster Party was likely inspired by: this 1988 toy from Bandai (who also published Monster Party)! The name of the creature is Torigaran, which I saw a Japanese fan translate as "Chicken Carcass".

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@mossmouth

4 years

These Shrek sprites are super charming! 😳 (Shrek: Hassle at the Castle for GBA)

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1 year

"It's fun to revisit the large, sprawling stages of this challenging barbarian platformer, as keen eyes and new abilities reveal hidden passageways. Inspired by Castlevania and Demon's Crest." 👍Derek Likes Odallus: The Dark Call:

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@mossmouth

4 years

The Spelunky community trying to subtly tell us that they're running out of stuff to do and need a new game to play...

MossRanking

@mossranking

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The most difficult run ever has finally been completed by Spelunky legend @Kinnijup_ ! Haunted Max Low% No Gold Hell !!! That's beating Yama after visting the castle, the worm and the mothership while using only your starting resources and not collecting any treasure! 😱😱😱

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4 years

Virtual Bart for the SNES has some extremely cursed sprites

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5 years

Indies making big games, small games, bestsellers, art games, 3d, 2d, pixel art, ASCII art, on every platform, redefining genres and creating new ones, making great Sonic, Zelda, and movie games, working alone and together, making tools, challenging the industry and each other...

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4 years

My daughter has been spending a lot of time making "Princess Adventure" comics lately and this one where Zelda invites Ganon over to play Smash cracks me up every time I see it.

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2 years

@TylerGlaiel Games in general have conditioned people to be anxious about "going the wrong way", "doing things in the wrong order", etc. Players are trying to read the minds of designers instead of just existing in the worlds. Because we overdesign, overemphasize beating games. Vicious cycle!

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5 years

You should, of course, play games however you like, but I will say it's super fun to get good enough at a retro game to eventually beat it without save states or credit feeding. You'd be surprised how exciting it is. Plus, you pick up on little details that you'd miss casually.

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5 years

Unfortunately, I feel like there's an inverse correlation between how complex, dynamic, and reactive an indie game's text boxes are and the chances of it being finished...

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8 years

Happy Father's Day! As a kid, I played through Zelda 1 with my dad sitting next to me, drawing maps.

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3 years

Omigosh, #Spelunky2 is coming out on Xbox and Game Pass tomorrow. 😮

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@mossmouth

5 years

I feel like this should be studied in film school.

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please please please watch this

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3 years

🗿 Spelunky and Spelunky 2 are both OUT NOW on #NintendoSwitch ! Let's go!!! Our launch trailer, by @Derek_Lieu :

Spelunky and Spelunky 2 - Nintendo Switch Launch Trailer

Spelunky and Spelunky 2 are OUT NOW on Nintendo Switch - in North America, Europe, Australia, and Brazil! Join the Spelunky family and their friends in excit...

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@mossmouth

2 years

Players feeling anxiety because they can clearly see a manufactured choice between "collectibles" and "story content" is... a good summary of the kind of video game design I'm not fond of.

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not me having a nervous breakdown any time a video game has two paths and i don’t know which path leads to collectibles and which path leads to story content that might prevent me from going back and getting the collectibles rip

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Famine from The Binding of Isaac! @edmundmcmillen asked me what I wanted to draw for his giant card game expansion and I said gums and teeth would be fun! 🦷 Love all the different styles being used on these new cards! Kickstarter:

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Spelunky 2 is out now on Steam and PS4 with online multiplayer! Thank you all for your incredible support so far! We're grateful to have such an awesome community of players. 🍆: #Spelunky and #Spelunky2 are both coming to Nintendo Switch in 2021!

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5 years

Yay, the Spelunky Collector's Edition (PC/PS4/Vita) is now available at @Fangamer ! Very happy with how this turned out, so I thought I'd do a bit of an "unboxing" thread and go through the components and some of the fun details!

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2 months

🛸Hello! #UFO50 will be part of this @dayofthedevs Summer Game Fest showcase - JUNE 7. Keep your eyes peeled!

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Day of the Devs: Summer Game Fest Edition is BACK ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ Tune in June 7th directly after the @summergamefest showcase for sneak peeks, w-w-w-world premieres, hot news, and some of the BEST and BRIGHTEST indie games around!

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8 years

Day 6 of #inktober2016 : The Dooming of Isaac. #inktober

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6 years

Pixel art seems easy because it's less, right? What makes it difficult is that it feels like you can get it "perfect". A lot of pixel artists are perfectionists and it can make finishing games hard. There's also a lot of craft involved that most people aren't attuned to.

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4 years

Posted an update on Steam to thank everyone for a great launch and also talk about the work we're doing (or are planning on doing) after release! Online, Dwelling, localization... a lot of this pertains to PS4, too, of course! #Spelunky2

Steam :: Spelunky 2 :: Thanks for a Great Launch! (Update)

It's hard to believe that it's already been two weeks since Spelunky 2 came out on Steam! Here's what we've been up to...

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I think this kind of comparison (Hakkenden to One Piece) is important to understanding art. Art from the past wasn't made for museums... more often than not it was created to entertain the people of that time. We need to connect classic art and contemporary art like this more.

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@HokutoAndy

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Minosuke Bando II (lineage to Mitsugoro Bando III) has performed Nausicaa, Naruto, One Piece kabuki! When asked if performing modern manga adaptions is different, he replied something like no, Edo classic Hakkenden was the One Piece of the era, the tradition continued on alive.

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Ready!!!

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Today's #SummerGameFest live show will be immediately followed by an hour-long @dayofthedevs with tons of great indie games (in addition to many in the live show!), and then @devolverdigital Direct. It's all on the same mega-stream of gaming news!

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6 years

Day 27 - Tank #inktober2018 #inktober

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3 years

Since #Spelunky2 has been out for exactly a year today, I thought it'd be fun to share this little drawing I made during development to show @BlitWorks how Olmec was meant to work:

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7 months

2024... time to make some games #UFO50

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6 years

🛸 #UFO50 will be at #PAXWest2018 this August 31st thanks to the wonderful @IndieMEGABOOTH (the coziest part of PAX imo)! The entire lineup of 50 games will be available to play this time around, so stop by and check out our fun cast of characters!

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6 years

thank you for the warning, avast

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6 months

I'm definitely one of those players who prefers smaller, more densely interesting spaces with no fast travel. When I teleport around too much I start to lose sense of how the game world is put together. It's like being in a dream and becoming aware that you're just dreaming.

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Dragon's Dogma 2's director didn't want his game to rely on fast travel: "Travel is boring? That's not true. It's only an issue because your game is boring."

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7 years

Getting lots of requests for Spelunky on Switch! I have a Switch, it's awesome. Definitely want to put something on it.

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@mossmouth

5 years

My Father's Day card is us playing Dragon Quest Builders and slimes 😭💘

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