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Paolo Pedercini 🥶

6 months

📰BREAKING NEWS: I made a new game The New York Times Simulator Select the news, edit the headlines, gain the approval of powerful friends, add new subscribers! Free | for browser | ~10 minutes

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Paolo Pedercini 🥶

@molleindustria

6 years

Me, absolutely twisted, coming home with a load of $1 pool noodles. Me waking up the next day with a room full of $1 pool noodles.

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5 years

The game art exhibition of my dreams is a gallery full of non gaming devices hacked to run Doom

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1 year

🧵Since @unity is becoming the worst digital landlord, developers could form something like a tenants' union, and jointly put forward demands like: - no per-install fees - no retroactive terms of service - no secret tracking - competitive revenue share - CEO Riccitiello must go

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1 year

The bouncing DVD logo

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Name an artist who NEEDS to perform in the Las Vegas Sphere. 🎤

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Paolo Pedercini 🥶

@molleindustria

6 years

I made some Aggretsuko fan art

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6 years

Updated graphics (last year it was "defund")

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6 years

An anti-battle royale / walking simulator in which you start with a group of friends in a small area and, as the circle expands, you gradually lose touch with them, too busy accumulating stuff and piecing together fragments of a story that doesn't make any sense

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@molleindustria

5 years

Every year, more and more CMU art students independently adopt @Adobe alternatives. I'm personally switching to Affinity and DaVinci. Hopefully soon we'll be able to drop CC as default toolset in our school and stop training lifetime renters.

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Paolo Pedercini 🥶

@molleindustria

5 years

Indie games are just modern remakes of classics

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Paolo Pedercini 🥶

@molleindustria

7 years

I made a city-building game that you play on/with my dog

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7 years

Earlier this fall, I asked my students to create a tiny non-digital game every day for a week. 63 of them were collected in a booklet with beautiful illustrations by @katierosepipkin PDF here:

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5 years

I don't feel bad about messing with the humans in Untitled Goose Game because I know they are all small-town Brexiters

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7 years

Imagine video game content ratings extended to gameplay

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Paolo Pedercini 🥶

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4 years

Preparing my assets for a PlayStation 5 release

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Paolo Pedercini 🥶

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6 years

I've got some retro propaganda for you

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7 years

Frank Zappa interviewed about videogames in 1983. Extremely thoughtful and progressive

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Paolo Pedercini 🥶

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7 years

hi twitter just dropping by to say that my first flash game from 2003 still runs perfectly on a browser but my html5 game from 2015 is broken due to some deprecated javascript i can't understand thx bye

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4 years

Flight Simulator recreated the world with satellite imagery and computer vision, prompting a global glitch hunt. I think a new game genre is born.

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@alexandermuscat

4 years

In Microsoft Flight Simulator a bizarrely eldritch, impossibly narrow skyscraper pierces the skies of Melbourne's North like a suburban Australian version of Half-Life 2's Citadel, and I am -all for it-

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3 years

This account documenting the state of the art of mobile games is a must follow

Mobile Game Hell

@mobilegamehell

3 years

Prrrrrrrrrrt 💨

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8 months

"I design video games"

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4 years

Infinite Pizza by @TocoGamescom - a trippy, fractal, pizza-themed shooter/dodger reminiscent of Super Hexagon. Strong contender for GOTY. Win | Free

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4 years

Tom Clancy's games have always been a bit fash but this new one is casting BLM as the bad guys, and you have to fight them with a death squad made of special forces and criminals? Timely...

Tom Clancy's Elite Squad Intro Video

This is what you see when you first open the game

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2 years

Game idea: ecoterrorist Shadow of the Colossus in which you fight bucket wheel excavators

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2 years

Unbelievable fundraising email. I love it.

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7 years

Yeah coding is pretty hard, but you know what's harder? 1. Everything involving humans, especially children 2. The construction or manipulation of physical objects 3. Gardening

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5 years

Any freelance graphic designer knows this is a dangerous gamble

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4 years

I spent some time in Roblox, a popular platform among children and teens that lets users play and create multiplayer games. Most of the games are free2play scams and obstacle courses but there are some fascinating titles as well [thread]

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6 years

There is a swastika hiding in the negative space of every tech company

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5 years

Folks, I don't want to sound alarmist but OSX Catalina will come out next month and it will kill all 32bit applications. I ran this quick check and it looks like it will cause the biggest mass extinction of games under the mac environment.

32-Bit Apps 'Not Optimized for Your Mac' No Longer Working on macOS Catalina

When macOS Mojave was announced, Apple warned that it would be the last version of macOS that would support older 32-bit apps. Apple has been phasing...

www.macrumors.com

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8 years

Sorry I was too busy lusting after the condo-dwelling leisure-class millenials and their possessions, what's the new Nintendo product again?

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I think indie developers are reluctant to talk about Roblox because its popularity is unfathomable. A glitchy obstacle course made by a 12yo kid can have hundred of thousands of CONCURRENT users at any given time...

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5 years

Oh NOW you wish your university had not closed its Second Life campus back in 2009

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8 years

I modded my Google Cardboard to absorb my liberal tears while I'm experiencing the plight of the poor and the displaced

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5 years

🌹Democratic Socialism Simulator🌹 Play as the first socialist president of the United States! Can you redistribute power and wealth while addressing the climate crisis? OUT NOW! Windows, MacOS - $5

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4 years

Pittsburgh's Sinkhole Bus has been dethroned as best public transportation disaster art after exactly one year

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Rotterdam metro train went tonight through a stop block and ended up over an artwork, creating an even more interesting artwork

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2 years

Meta announced Microsoft Excel for VR and I'm actually delighted because I've been collecting images of immersive spreadsheets for almost 10 years

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@molleindustria

5 years

when i look at a marvel movie poster

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1 year

Every year my students become more and more computer-illiterate due to the intentional obfuscation of file systems, smartphones, Apple, and cloud based apps. Tired of complaining, I just started teaching them basic file management:

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4 years

🧙‍♂️New Release🐉 Rules & Roberts - a fantasy roleplaying game to learn Robert's Rule of Order. Story-driven, easy to learn, progressive, educational, excruciating (occasionally), short (maybe), and FREE! Print & play PDF

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5 years

I'm staying at this hip artsy hotel that has writings all over the place. They are supposed to be witty but I read them as eerie environmental storytelling.

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@molleindustria

6 years

I love when high-brow critics play their first indie game, get mind blown, and feel compelled to write the most generic piece, oblivious of decades of game criticism/discourse

The Baffler

@thebafflermag

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If a videogame is art, what kind of art is it exactly?

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7 years

you can ditch the switch entirely tho

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1996 magazine ad for Quake

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I'm so sad that the VR hype is over and I've never got to use this slide in a presentation

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6 years

Incredible procedurally generated landscapes by Lingdong Huang https://lingdong-.github.io/shan-shui-inf/

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4 years

card game idea

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📽️New(ish) Release Steven Spielberg's Director's Choices An interactive movie made with bootlegged footage from a terrible '90s CD-ROM. Starring Quentin Tarantino, Jennifer Aniston, Penn and Teller.

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@molleindustria

7 years

Uh oh @pghDSA let me make some signs for Labor Day

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8 years

Mind blown by Wick Editor: free & open source Flash-like editor for HTML5 games and animations

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5 years

My partner is playing Žižek in a local theater production so I'm hearing her rehearsing stalinist jokes and sniffing neurotically around the house and so on and so on. I'm afraid this is going to affect our sex life.

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10 years

I made a browser extension that replaces the “What’s happening?” question on Twitter’s text field: http://t.co/sLbzVXG9U4

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2 years

In the last couple of years I've been working on an open world comedy game set in a utopian future. Picture an ecosocialist midwestern GTA, with dialogues instead of car jacking. It's a big project and it's still very rough, but stay in touch for updates.

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7 years

I'm opening a little gallery/arcade in Pittsburgh devoted to indie, arty, and experimental games. It's called LIKELIKE. Here's the website and the first Valentine's-Day-themed show. @likelikearcade

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5 years

Attention: all the revenues from Democratic Socialism Simulator will be donated to the Bernie Sanders campaign. Starting now, until we win. #NotMeUs PC, Mac, Linux, Android - $2.99

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1 year

🍃The Green New Deal Simulator is out 🛠️ Achieve zero emissions and full employment before it's too late! Free ~30 min Links below...

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In my lifetime, I don't think I've ever witnessed such a blatant and unchecked violation of human rights. In Gaza entire neighborhoods are being leveled, journalists, schools, hospitals and ambulances targeted. White phosphorus, forceful displacement, supplies and aid cut off...

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6 years

Yearly reminder that TurboTax and H&R block spend millions in lobbying to keep tax filing complicated so they can profit from "making it easier" for you

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Polish nationalists burning Facebook flags. *I expect to see this picture in every academic presentation related to globalism and alt-right.

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5 years

Soon Apple will require every macOS application to be "notarized". This is going to impact all developers who don't use Xcode, don't distribute through the App Store, or wish to upkeep old software. I wrote a guide to help you through this absurd process

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I'll wait

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It's unsettling. It can make you question spending years and years crafting single player experiences for an oversaturated market.

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@unity Unlike the galaxy of broke and atomized Adobe renters, game developers have more leverage: they can threat to stop using Unity, file lawsuits like class actions, lobby for anti-trust attention, involve publisher and platforms, cancel enterprise subscriptions...

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Jelly Mario (beta) by @schteppe - the best thing that ever happened to videogames

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You don't hate 2020, you hate capitalism

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Aaron Marcus, Cybernetic Landscapes (1971-1973) *screenshots from a FORTRAN program running on a PDP-10

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I'm reading the proposal submitted to Unicode for this one and it's a very compelling argument

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New in iOS 14.2: 🤌 Pinched Fingers

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🍃New Release🍃 LICHENIA: a city building game for the Anthropocene. Featuring generated graphics by @everestpipkin free/browser | 10min+

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Game developers, animators, and authors are sharing their compensations with the hashtags #PublishingPaidMe , #GameDevPaidMe #AnimationPaidMe This is a big taboo in industries without collective bargaining. An important step toward recognizing and erasing wage gaps.

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Sorry tweeps, I'm really not feeling the 140 character limit these days...

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The state of the industry: dark-suited Amazon vampires lecturing on where to put the button to trick gamers into buying virtual bullshit

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BREAKING: Leonardo da Vinci's painting auctioned for about 7% of what Candy Crush was sold for.

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@house_house_ can you confirm that all the humans in the game are canonically Tories?

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🐝🐝🐝 NEW POST 🐝🐝🐝 I played all the bee-themed games ever and I reviewed them according to their realism.

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Here's my traditional Games Of The Year list focused on overlooked / political / experimental indie games: 💫 Top 2017 Games That Waste Your Time Properly 💫

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I'm completely blown away by Storyteller! Clever, surprising, and incredibly polished. It's not an easy design concept. I played the first prototype 15 years ago and it's telling that in all this time nobody else managed to make anything like that.

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Many financially successful studios use the engine, and together they are much bigger than Unity. *if the idea of a union sounds weird applied to companies, think about the US farmers who recently won the right to repair their John Deere machinery united under their association

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6 years

The #MAGABomber van is basically Fox News: The Immersive Experience

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2 years

Last semester I taught a class centered on real-time 3D, modeling for games, and immersive environments. All the material is here, including project files and many hours of tutorials: Some final projects:

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Back in my days mass layoffs happened due to plain greed and mismanagement. Now it's all: children stopped buying hats on Fortnite and the Fed is keeping interest rates high so Saudi Arabia backed off from an investment and therefore Bandcamp, the only good website, is fucked

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This semester I taught a class titled NO MORE VIDEOGAMES. It focused on playthings at the edge of gaming: virtual environments, procedural generators, playful software... All the course material is here:

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My grandpa, back in Lombardy, died of COVID-19 last week. My grandma tested positive but she'd been released from the hospital to make room for more at-risk patients. My dad is in isolation with a fever. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS: There is no shortage of toilet paper there! 🎉

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It turns out the Indiepocalypse is not going to be triggered by too many people making cool games but by my old dude C̸͕̕Ä̵̝́P̴̣̓I̴̊ͅT̷̠̈́A̷̼͂L̷̖͂I̶̧̛S̷̮͆M̸̪̀

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Interestingly, the previous trailers suggest a rather generic, cartoony setting. Did Ubisoft just tack a piece of copaganda last minute to create some buzz?

Tom Clancy's Elite Squad: E3 2019 Mobile Game Announcement Trailer |...

Watch to find out more about Tom Clancy's Elite Squad, a new mobile game!Sign up now on the official website: www.elitesquadgame.com to unlock an exclusiveGh...

www.youtube.com

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In my new virtual world you can choose to be anything you want, as long as it's some kind of fucked up salamander

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Historic! The bundle for racial justice and equality raised well over 2 million dollars. A collection of 700+ games can be hard to navigate so I'm going to post some of my favorites in this thread:

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*Pastoral game fantasies are the mirror image of militaristic game fantasies. They respond to opposite psychological needs but both function by removing (instead of putting into play) the messy, problematic, boring, frustrating aspects of gardening and war

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TWO HUNDRED FIFTY THINGS A GAME DESIGNER SHOULD KNOW A selection of my favorite submissions. Thank you all for contributing!

Two Hundred Fifty Things a Game Designer Should Know

A crowdsourced list.

250things.molleindustria.org

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Bright, like its animated counterpart Zootopia, is 4th dimensional Capitalist Realism: there's magic, orcs and elves, but somehow we still end up with today's LA. All timelines must lead to an inescapable now, so we can fantasize about minor improvements to the status quo.

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The rise of AI systems based on large amounts of scraped data is a further argument in favor of a Universal Basic Income. UBI not as a poverty relief but as compensation for collectively produced value that has been captured, synthetized, and resold as service.

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Happy International Workers' Day!

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Game developers, take a break from hating on Musk and Zuck, and loathe Unity's Riccitiello for a bit. He's also doing his best to make the world a worse place.

Bloomberg

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After leaving EA a mess, Unity CEO John Riccitiello turned mobile games into a lucrative advertising wasteland. Now he’s betting his company’s future on the metaverse (via @BW )

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The first @p5xjs assignment I give in my digital media foundations class is a sound reactive portrait of a classmate. These characters are entirely drawn with code:

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I completed my gliding in Sable. Aside of the incredible art, I really liked the writing, and the minimal signposting. It's a game that takes open world exploration seriously, as an intrinsically rewarding activity, and I'm all for it.

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Since the discourse is still raging, at CMU School of Art we've been teaching AI generators for a while. It's great, as long as you encourage students to use these tools as... well... artists, and not as lazy art directors. 🧵

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Assignment: design a playground game with these constraints

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Regarding Pokemon Sleep: I recently talked about the evolution of videogames as a movement to capture new spaces and slices of time. The bedroom/sleep is the logical next frontier for monetization and data extraction

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Classic 2013 artgame "Bubsy 3d: Bubsy visits the James Turrell Retrospective" has been restored and remastered

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