Vaida

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Designing things & making things 🌕 a bit of UI/UX @ Strange Scaffold 🌔 Edinburgh 🌓 https://vaida.me

a seemingly badly configured steam store bundle that says "Buy Uninitialised"
screenshot of Steam emailing me that The Mermaid Mask from my Wishlist has just released
brick game handheld, a vertical grey brick with a black-and-white screen showing tetris
screenshot of the previous post in the thread, but there's a cream and brown pixelated cat hanging out on the bottom-left of the screen.
Header: 1909, An Expedition Text: Little known to many is the 1909 expedition to reach the Geographic South Pole by an enterprising team of three Lithuanian explorers, and much is still unknown as to the exact details of what is detailed below. The notebooks of the crew have garnered particular interest in the conspiracy theory community, permeating into popular culture, though simultaneously being impossible to surface online. A select collection of the original entries are displayed in this museum. Browse at your own leisure, but please no flash photography!
a list of new features for the new GamesRecap website. includes various wishlisting, filtering and calendar features that make using the website actually more helpful and easier.
the definition of a word taken from etymonline.com: vicissitude(n.) "change or mutation within a particular thing, a passing from one state to another," whether regular (day and night) or not (fate, fortune); mid-15c.,
a low-poly spaceship flies around, there's a jupiter-looking planet as well as a larger ship in the scene. a red sun is also visible in the distance.
A mockup of a video editor-styled interface for Life Eater.
two DJs in front of a brick wall that's got a projector on it. there's a macbook with stickers on the table.
Preliminary book cover with a purple nebula background, that reads "As You Wake, Break The Shell - Coming This October" Description reads: As You Wake, Break The Shell (Book 1 of 2) A space story. A love story. A new pair of worlds to explore. Life on Fortune is hard. The atmosphere is poisonous, the planet hardly fit for life. But for its inhabitants, it’s home. Pilot Cora suffers from a rare and dangerous condition, brought about by her bond with Colibri, the alien animal she pilots to quarry vital water for the colony. If Cora seeks treatment, she risks losing her license, and her connection to Colibri forever. Then she meets Signy, a brilliant but reclusive botanist, whose bio-printed medicine is the only thing that can save her. But to do so, Signy must break the rules that govern their lives, risking her livelihood and the other colonists who rely on her for survival. As Cora and Signy navigate their balance of risk and trust, they are forced to confront what they owe to each other and to their community, and begin to question whether survival is enough. Told in alternating timelines, As You Wake, Break the Shell is a heartfelt and hopeful story of what it means to be human, and what it means to come together. Coming to the UK and the US in October 2026.
installer for the game, showing a lot of question marks and looking like it might hack me, but it's probably just compatibility settings or author's intent
a respectable score of 46.54/50
my handle is shown to be in the big blob classified as "video game industry professionals"
a warning message from Messenger stating that the desktop app is going away, that it won't be available after December 15th, and that you can just use the web version.
steam charts screenshot for the game, there's 946 players right now!
beautifully lit old venue (O2 Academy), golden red tones, with a strong focal point of Ethel, only a shadow against a bright backlight
a screenshot from the Obsidian release notes, that introduce Bases and provide some screenshots of the database view and card view.
a video recording a browser showing https://vaidap.itch.io/ being scrolled to the bottom and back up; it displays a gallery of itch.io games, with games categorised in collections
M&S Limited Edition Red Diamond Strawberry & Creme sandwitch
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four slightly rounded square tiles. each has a minimalist illustration of a space-related object, some more abstract than others: a satellite/radar, a planet and moon, a radio tower, a comet. the colour palette is dark blue for the background, with red and beige used for the foreground elements.
a notice about the project is attached to one of the barriers. it provides details on the project and a render of the intended final result. details are available in the linked site.
the repost screen on original poster's post, showing that quote posts are disabled
Screenshot of Steam's Popular Upcoming page, with TMNT: Tactical Takedown in 11th position
A poster advertising the space: Do you make tabletop games? Board games, card games, TTRPGs and more? Ancient Robot Workshop is a new creative space in Leith launching in May 2025. Prototyping, collaborating, learning, events, playtesting, and more. A space for professional and hobbyist Game Designers, Artists, and Authors who work on tabletop games. Find out more and say hello at https://ancientrobotworkshop.co.uk/
a screenshot excerpt from the article. it reads: "So here's my real hot take: focusing on immersion in video games is at the detriment of having them being appreciated as craft. Interesting games writing makes you pause and consider intentionality and authorship. Immersion, at least as its popularly used to refer to getting "lost" in a game, doesn't leave space for the pleasures of engaging with the gameworld as artifice."
the design is similar to the first image, but does not feature dotted lines representing park trails. the tree on the back side is sitting centered on the page, while in the original image it's placed along one of the trails.
the front and back designs for a flyer. deep green background, with yellow text. there are minimalist pine tree icons that decorate some edges. the flyer is entitled "trails & landmarks" and features several pins along dotted trails in the front and back.
a bitsy editor screen, with various tabs open related to tiles, colours, paint and a 3D preview of the scene.
A screenshot of the game Vampire: The Masquerade Swansong, showing the character in an area full of garbage on the ground, newspaper pages, and a lot of discarded packets of crisps.
a playdate handheld console on a wooden table, with the word clock screensaver on
Screenshot of a Morning Brew newsletter. The section header is a picture of a house in a cold area. It reads: When you and 25 of your homies are holed up together for months on end, you may develop your own accent— and that's not just the case at the TikTok Hype House. Recent studies show that researchers who live in Antarctica are acquiring a new accent and vernacular, providing insight into how other languages have changed over time. A study by phonetic experts at the University of Munich analyzed voice recordings of researchers based at a station on an island in Antarctica in 2018. They found: • Over time, inhabitants who started out with different accents began to pronounce certain vowel sounds in the same way. • The study also found an extensive Antarctic vocabulary, including "fod plod," meaning to pick up trash, "gonk," meaning sleep, and "doo," meaning a snow bike.
screenshot of two games in the steam basket, both 75% off. it's disco elysium and vampire: the masquerade swansong.
an automatic spotify playlist (daylist), entitled "recession pop demure afternoon"
a flight info panel from the KLM app. it shows departing and arriving airports and times, and displays "terminal M" above the arriving airport. there is no terminal info above the departing airport entry.
screenshot from the announcement email. it reads: As part of the Biome Collective Hapworks Takeover Arcadia is back on Saturday 2nd November 2024!
a black tote bag with a white spiral snake illustration. the top of the bag names the bookstore it's from, "Argonaut Books", but stylises it as "Booksssss" as a reference to the snake.
screenshot from the game, with some parts highlighted. it reads: i'm posting this from the domino club account because i feel like as a team of gamedev sickos, it's most representative of what i think is a Good Attitude to making games. creators in varying states of unhingedness and a sort of raw indulgent "yes i am into this and here is my game about it" delivery, whether in a sexual way or else a perversion for nonsexual topics and themes. honestly i'm kind of ruined on other games by it. making stuff as part of domino club has been a gradual realignment and commitment to being a gamedev sicko. that's the outcome of this manifesto: keep being a writer pervert and channelling the stuff i'm slightly too into, not pulling punches but going yeah. this rules amiright
a screenshot of google maps, showing a large concentration of black sheep coffees in a small radius in central edinburgh
a letterboxd review of megalopolis by the director, francis ford coppola. the review rates the movie 5 stars, and states: i am the director of this movie and i think i did a good job.