common-or-garden Mads 🦆
Mads Mackenzie 💀 narrative game dev, mundane birdwatcher, sometimes cosplayer 💀 they/them, icon by Penta 💀 director @fine-fiends.bsky.social
- The Dear Hunter... are real!!
- whenever I work on Luminiţa scenes for Drac I have to listen to Sabrina Carpenter to put myself in the right mindset. to get the appropriate effect for her when playing the game, please play 'Taste' from a speaker in another room. thank you.
- Loot that drops when defeating me: • Hairtie (Low Elasticity) - 100% • Bird Photo - 90% • Novelty Socks - 90% • Eyedrops - 40% • Imported Raspberry Cordial - 20% • Phantom of the Paradise DVD - 10% • Crissaegrim - 0.5% • Hairtie (High Elasticity) - 0.1%
- put a scene in-engine I was desperately worried wouldn't work and it's... good? in fact all three of the high-stakes scenes I just put in-engine work well in the VN format? they're good? the game is good?
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- I've been trying to read/watch/play a lot of good highbrow stuff lately to make sure I'm in the right headspace for revisions but I think I overdid it and now I need to douse my brain in schlock or something to cool it off a bit
- locked in the last of the revised branches that allows you to do my #1 dream game thing in draculesti: if you choose to skip the romance in our romantic horror story you can now get a pure horror version of the story
- doing revisions on a sequence where I was like 'I'm pretty sure I got this structural idea from somewhere specific, but where...?' the answer was an anime I watched like ten times one summer when I had no internet as a teen
- our neighbours are having a party and someone is currently playing the flute loudly and badly by our shared fence. beautiful.
- Reposted by common-or-garden Mads 🦆A small but deeply meaningful local project - digitising issues of 90s Scottish trans magazine The Tartan Skirt so all of us can access them. It's a really modest fundraising target with a significant outcome, please share or contribute if you can!
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- reading an entirely unrelated book and it's full of Dracula references... I can't escape him.
- fixing up a couple of scenes I intentionally left for a later pass of the script and because it's all the stuff I had trouble with the first time around I've been fully in the 'I am so great/what am I even doooinnng' cycle this week
- Reposted by common-or-garden Mads 🦆we don't talk enough about how funny it is that in tokimeki memorial 2, you can press L1 during conversations to gamble on calling girls by a different name and if you fuck up and she hates it (because you two aren't close, etc), it worsens your standing with her in a completely avoidable self-own
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- Started playing Perfect Tides: Station to Station on the basis of people saying it's full of relatable undergrad experiences... and the first class in the game is about Adaptation (2002), which was the first film I studied in undergrad Mara Whitefish you're just like me for real
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- Did You Know there was a Resident Evil stageplay set in Western Australia. Because this is something I've just learned.
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- Given the news yesterday, I've seen a lot of speculation about the logistics of running events, and I wanted to give some perspective on the challenges of it in the current moment. madmacsfuryroad.bearblog.dev/the-1000-pro...
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- Reposted by common-or-garden Mads 🦆An update: Unfortunately Freeplay didn’t secure multi-year funding and is potentially looking at its last year of operation. We’re exploring what comes next & want your input. Read our full statement here: www.freeplay.net.au/survey2026 Help us decide our next step here: forms.gle/W4ZSns1bGCX1...
- fwiw, I wrapped work at Freeplay last month, so all comms at the moment are from the board! If anyone has any questions about their announcement, please direct them to the main Freeplay emails or fill out their survey.
- also, now that's said: I've finished work at Freeplay! Thanks to everyone who attended and enjoyed our events through Louie and I's tenure over 2023-2025. It was an honour to be trusted with it and I hope that the board are able to find a solution for something to continue into the future.
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