Zane

@handcrushe.dev

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diy games maker, ludomancer, serial kidder 📍boston ✌️he/they

puzzlin’ gardens!, by soulware, XenoZane
A rug of the character BB from Anthology of the Killer
Benny Feldman @Feldfrog Children would be so jealous if they knew about all the stickers we have in dive bar bathrooms 4:45 PM • 8/13/22
merlin the cat licking his paw
here is an alien
realistic mario face caption: THIS WILL BE GRAPHICS IN 2013
most games are about killing dudes. Given the right context, killing dudes is very cathartic. why shouldn’t that be true for killing ideas, assets, code, features, etc? throwing things out doesn’t have to be a bad thing. it’s part of life. when I started learning in adulthood how to cook, I threw tons of food away. maybe because i made something inedible, or i bought too much and it went bad. over time I began to develop a positive relationship with throwing food away, because it meant I was cooking. after a short period of grieving the cool new thing I won’t be using in a game anymore, I find it easy to focus on the positives. there are plenty of advantages to cutting out a feature in a game. the most obvious and practical is that you reduce the workload for yourself. lower workload means you can spend more time on the stuff that really matters. consider all the loads of clusterfuck games that did release and still suck because they couldn’t reign it in and focus on the Core Vision.
Stacks of cassette cases on display at boston festival of indie games. The cases have the titles "Explo" and "Grenadier" on the front, with "The Bomb Split" on the spine.
how should i kill the bunny with fairness? how should i kill the bunny mercifully? how should i kill the bunny kindly? how should i kill the bunny desirably? how should i kill the bunny so the bunny knows how to do better next time? how should i kill the bunny so the bunny knows it's the bunny's fault? how should i kill the bunny morally? how should i kill the bunny? how? how? how?
zane (NON-glooby) — 10/1/25, 12:00 PM you know how all the online dictionaries like to do a word of the year? my prediction for 2025 word of the year is slop
A cassette case in front of a screen playing my video game Explo. On the cassette says Explo and Grenadier, with 2 figures being launched by explosions.
A wormlike creature snakes around a circular play area. Several other abstract creatures are nearby.
A DS case for a game called “mother 4 welcome back to another world”
Death screen of Spelunky, showing the boss Olmec dying, the door to hell open, and a spider. The spider has knocked me into lava just before I could get through the door.