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Made a series of programs to fully automate Twitter/Bluesky marketing

Reactorcore — Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:08:27 +0000

I made a series of programs to fully automate Twitter/Bluesky marketing:

https://reactorcore.itch.io/web-link-collector-1000 (Collect links to your stuff)
https://reactorcore.itch.io/links-into-social-media-posts (Make those links into a social media posts spreadsheet) 3a. https://reactorcore.itch.io/automated-twitter-poster (Post them automatically from that spreadsheet, to Twitter) 3b. https://reactorcore.itch.io/automated-bluesky-poster (Post them automatically from that spreadsheet, to Bluesky)

Basically focus more on your projects, let the marketing happen hands-free, automatically, forever.

All programs are free and open source, but please donate.

Enjoy!

Collection of my game design articles that aim to create projects with infinite staying power and scalability

Reactorcore — Tue, 29 Jul 2025 08:49:41 +0000

I've written a lot of game design articles so this is a BIG collection of them.

I'm passionate about game design and in particular, trying to unlock the true potential of video game design to create projects that have infinite staying power, feel meaningful to play virtually forever, have enormous scalability potential where they can start humble and small and grow into something huge, yet do all this in a smart way that is sustainable to develop.

Obviously you take breaks and occasionally play other games for sake of variety, but you will keep coming back to these games in particular as your main game type of thing. But not to "replay" it, but to continue playing it because it actually supports that kind of infinite play.

Here's the list:

Games Are Need Satisfiers
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JIuPw_kcbazTQX1hFxcadtWpvKi5tzdFKAS_UhCwihE

Throwaway Games Are Band-Aid Approach
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1c9wKcBRcRfTSqCB--S1Ku8srhI4WFAG3_7iQLclssh0

Future Of Games, The Next Big Innovation
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12SoeTeaHkPPd9xF9koa4G1LZdSMrX9kd4jV7LkeoZhU

My View On The Universe, Life And Death (Part 1)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1mmytZ3GTENHpmYsCf74dMeJPNXCBrzIKKCXzSTLbBMw

My View On The Universe, Life And Death (Part 2)
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1x7K3maoEju4YL5KN4Av8ikxqzmlTvhmxetZgw8bt3Io

Forking Drives Innovation, Not Competition!
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1K9nu-s3mb8hqjHGBMGRPHWUutynIX_O45VIlfRX8-no

Why I Don't Play Competitive Human Vs Human Games Anymore
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AEL4GWYjHf8qOK0p_JG7hN2RIB0ogGXMOgNWE4psDfs

How To Get Started As A Complete Beginner In Game Development
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1su-KoRru0D2uiuaYyQ4Acu_o_uGY4TfV2Nx3LYYHAkU

How To Grow As A Game Designer. My Story and Biggest Epiphanies
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Uc7p3GZabPU6zD24DEFf0Yu_BF8AB6_7BkHGVElCiIw

What Really Is a Game Designer And How To Master This Skill
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qYeWOujm45B-8S0Ib6_1VmpAfSoi6UmBtcJ8O2nA46Y

Evolution of a Game Designer According to Common Knowledge, Which Isn’t Always Correct Knowledge.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WN99UKFgOvpaV5rKrm6XxGV005jEzthKMtxwMd78VnI

Additive vs Multiplicative Game Content And Why The Latter Is Better
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X46PJP9A6mNVZ4EZVNa80UCmH51aEBJ2jvXm51VBMBQ

Scope Creep Is Not An Enemy, You're Just Incompetent and Inexperienced
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dUnMhvgPTFoPFwaomh2T-dLzVyq59Deu_0r3MzPFXCI

How To Contextualize Narrative Within Infinite Metagames: Player-Run Services
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1MChlMPPABmEWdCfb-QRcsQcHiYoCithIXVCHAD5FgPI

Where Does Meaning or Motivation Come From In a Video Game? How To Make a Game Worth Playing?
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AYFUbO3hmwBmdKqWFoU1ACUezfcruUkU_r-x3pQrDUA

How To Set Up Pacing, Difficulty, And Progression Within An Infinite Metagame
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1qfdoKELsKZFnnuKf1vBz0xZ28GMzNjvJnATPgpe5fr0

GUEST ARTICLE - Exploitative Game Design: Beyond the F2P Debate
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tuL7hozHmT_5BlOeiu-lny7CWGfpWMf5zY2nHYk0t1U

GUEST ARTICLE - Loopholes in Game Design
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IfTJ38En4kQdV1wsF8WGel_noOwAzZ0bkaPREabJn8Q

BONUS:

Putting into practice all the lessons I've learned I've designed several game projects that put the above principles into practice:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JPWlM-HFjNbqURneNoCoziirAZWtM5KjxypLS83oyQc?

That document is HUGE but despite that it is not a game design document, they're just a pitch. The actual game design for those projects are notebooks and folders full of various information, inspirations, supporting materials and other misc tid-bits.

If you want to see what actual game design documents look like, you can access them by joining the Tier 6 patreon membership here:
https://www.patreon.com/c/reactorcoregames/membership

I made a GUI program to transcribe entire folders of audio and save 12x money

Reactorcore — Mon, 28 Jul 2025 16:13:30 +0000

I have a few hundred hours worth of audio I want to transcribe to text, but while Elevenlabs' Scribe v1 Speech-To-Text model is the best one in terms of quality, nuance and detail, their Web UI only offers one-at-a-time transcriptions, with slow speed.

And it turns out, if I use the Elevenlabs' API to transcribe, suddenly I get whopping 12.5x multiplier to transcribe my audio in terms of credits. That means on the Starter plan subscription I normally get 1 hour per month via their website, meanwhile via the API I'd get 12 hours and 30 minutes!

So I built this. Run the exe, choose the folder with my audio files in it, press Start and it will do the whole damn folder automatically, at turbo speed, while spending my subscription credits at a way cheaper, 12.5 times efficient rate. Massive money saved.

I made each transcription as useful as possible and made it automatically output 3 files per each audio; a TXT file for us humans, an SRT file for video subtitles, a JSON file with detailed breakdown of each word and audio event that can be heard in the file (including stuff like finger snapping, footsteps, sound effects, etc).

To celebrate the launch, you can get it 60% off between days 1.8.2025 - 15.8.2025 at:

https://itch.io/s/157701/elevenlabs-batch-transcriber-early-bird-discount

I build this with Claude Pro with a huge ass engineered prompt I made that took me several hours, plus more hours to tweak the GUI, output and other sensibilities of this program. Pretty happy how it came out.