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On a journey to get reacquainted with my creativity!

I like to make: games (digital and non-digital), puzzles, and interactive fiction

#GameDesign #IndieDev

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DAY 1 - Intro (Fandom Snowflake Challenge)

I found this cool hashtag/challenge and I have been wanting to post more on mastodon, and really just be more open/social in general.

I like making games, digital experiences, puzzles - that kind of thing! It has been years since I've gotten to seriously work on anything though, because most of my free time is spent as a caregiver. Professionally I am a web developer!

In addition to that, I'm a dad and I am affianced. I love pokemon, sherlock holmes, building legos and gundam models (gunpla), and reading (mostly fantasy novels, occasionally scifi).

#SnowflakeChallenge2026 #introduction

Lately, life has been too busy for digital game making unfortunately. So I've fallen back to an old fascination: puzzles!

I've always enjoyed making medium-easy logic puzzles, stuff for people who are puzzle curious but think they will be bad at them.

I've got a pretty good beginner meta-puzzle I've been working on for a few days. Feels good to have a project again.

#puzzles #logicpuzzles #metapuzzle #puzzledesign #puzzlemaking

A huge thing missing from my life, something I've resolved to change in 2026, is community. Being social. For various reasons, IRL socials are sort of out of the question right now.

Today I thought "I have this mastodon account. I suppose I could start using it more." But it seems as though many posts are simply shouting into the void. Is this generally a problem across mastodon? Or just the reality of social media?

I know there are hashtags, maybe that's the ticket?

Is this meandering post with no clear point of view or call to action just part of the problem? Who's to say 🤷🏾‍♂️

My city's library system is having a used book sale - and there are SO many people here! Perhaps reading isn't dying as much as previously feared.

These five iconic video games illustrate a colorful fantasy of the United States as envisioned by Japanese creators.

Read more in Five Japanese Games Set in Fantasy America: https://sidequest.zone/2025/02/10/five-japanese-games-set-in-fantasy-america/

Five Japanese Games Set in Fantasy America - Sidequest

These five iconic video games illustrate a colorful fantasy of the United States as envisioned by Japanese creators.

Sidequest
👀 #TIL Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
#ElizabethMagie #Monopoly #Landlord
HT Tumblr.com/soberscientistlife
My indie game for 15 seconds
#gamedev #indiegame

"For the linguists or grammar folks (or anti-grammar-folks, honestly): Realis’s sentences are much more straightforward than the ones I tend to write... The game seems to play with semantics more than syntax, which is to say it works with the truth or meaning conveyed by a sentence, rather than the mechanical structure by which the sentence conveys it. This is all a long way to say: if you don’t like words but do like stories, you might still like this game."

Read more: https://sidequest.zone/2025/01/29/gygo-variety-hour-realis-is-here-and-i-love-words/

GYGO Variety Hour: Realis Is Here, and I Love Words - Sidequest

In this month's Variety Hour: Zora gets overexcited about Austin Walker's new TTRPG Realis and Polygon can't always read the TTRPG room.

Sidequest

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a declassified World War II-era CIA guide to sabotaging fascism in the workplace has become one of the most popular free ebooks on the internet:

https://www.404media.co/declassified-cia-guide-to-sabotaging-fascism-is-suddenly-viral/

Declassified CIA Guide to Sabotaging Fascism Is Suddenly Viral

The World War II-era "Simple Sabotage Field Manual" is full of steps that office workers can take to resist leadership.

404 Media
Hi, I'm a Matt, a solo-dev working on this tiny building game. Here's a sneak peek of the things I worked on today... 📷
#gamedev #indiedev #unity #madewithunity