i really like weird health mechanics in games. i like how you could survive bosses forever in the old sonic games as long as you were good at catching your 1 remaining ring over & over

sketches

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Lily Cutesmith

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my social media feed is such that i only ever see the third-wave response to some argument i didn't know was happening

uchikoshi is happening

campfire sketches <3 the mokou is a panel from "night sparrow in love"

The 500 FINGER FILLET demo is OUT NOW!!! 500 STABS. 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...

ideally, i'd like to get really good at creating unique & memorable little games that take me about a year tops to build lol

campfire sketches <3 the mokou is a panel from "night sparrow in love"

give your characters freckles

what if she had an even bigger blade...

Gaziter@gaziter.bsky.social · last yr.

Fox with a blade 🦊

here is a sinister diagram

At some point I reached this

i am very terrified right now chopping it for animation but it ok, it will be worth it...

Art Fight 2026: Team Comedy The Sun Bleeds Gold Gawain for aishitehocchan

i had an incredible jambalaya in like March and i've been cooking it once a month since

I recently read through The Worlds of Yoko Taro, a compilation of interviews about his game development and writing. Something that was fascinating is how often he says "I don't approach my games to express myself or send a message, I just like making a spectacle, doing something unique."

now they can actually fight back

thinkin' about room of 1000 snakes

I updated my website to include some of the music I've made over the last year!!! I'm still very new to composing, but I think a few of my tracks are really nice, like "Ship Across a Diamond Sea" itsmelilyv.com/music

It's Me Lily V

A site by Lily Valeen, and your source for miscellaneous artifacts from the digital phenomena

itsmelilyv.com

inspired by lily i finally wrote my first blog post only 7 months into the year! i've got a whole bunch of these little gamedev brainworm things i'd like to write about, and giving myself an hour time limit to write the first draft was so nice knivesforcats.online/correlated-r...

Correlated RNG

Games that rely heavily on procedural generation often want their random number generators to be deterministic so that if given one single seed, each of your...

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lily valeen@itsmelilyv.bsky.social · last wk.

I've been wanting to write more short, off-the-cuff blogs for a while now, mostly about different niche game design concepts... i recall sakurai talking about his famitsu column, how he'd never spend more than an hour or so on a single article... i'd love to practice that kind of casual approach

I updated my website to include some of the music I've made over the last year!!! I'm still very new to composing, but I think a few of my tracks are really nice, like "Ship Across a Diamond Sea" itsmelilyv.com/music

It's Me Lily V

A site by Lily Valeen, and your source for miscellaneous artifacts from the digital phenomena

itsmelilyv.com

game design is when society agrees that the jump button should be A and then someone makes Mooncat

I've been wanting to write more short, off-the-cuff blogs for a while now, mostly about different niche game design concepts... i recall sakurai talking about his famitsu column, how he'd never spend more than an hour or so on a single article... i'd love to practice that kind of casual approach

you can tell i'm shaking off a depressive episode when i go from dead silence to making 10 disjointed tweets about game design

there's a million game design philosophies out there and i think they all have their place but mine is that video game bosses should kill you and make you hate them so that it rules when you kill them back and then you slowly look each other in the eye, sweating, bloody and say, "you're alright"

if you can beat a boss on the first try does it even feel like a boss?? won't they just fade from your memory immediately..? i guess that's fine. but consider: yunalesca is the only boss i remember from FFX and it's because she has 3 gimmick phases and starts with an unskippable 10 minute cutscene

talkative mushroom #pixelart

thinkin' bout hellshake yano