#bugdom

[lowpolyanimals]

Rollie Mcfly from Bugdom

[zombielesbean]

I was recently made aware of this silly lil game called bugdom, come check out me playing it!

[chdonga]

the biggity buck bumble

[emilypearsonart]

Bugdom!

[jame7t]

*Turns you into a bug*

enjoyed bugs stream :)

AWW Im a grub & if you let me in your soil i'll fuck up your plants baadddd

[balloonboyismyson]

Bugdom 2, anyone?

(Original)

[axcrazy]

Oh shit, this actually reminded me of a game I used to play in computer class as a kid, Bugdom.

Isopods for life!

the creator of Webbed (a super cute, 2D pixel puzzle platformer where you are a happy little jumping spider on an adventure to save her boyfriend from a big mean bowerbird) is working on a game where the main character is an isopod!!! it is yet unnamed, and the creator doesn't appear to have a Tumblr, so I'm spreading the good news here!

game progress and sneak peeks on Riley Neville's twitter!

[boberta]

bugdom was so cool. I actually really love how bugdom 1 and 2 were so different of games. The whole thing with the game felt like 'here's what it's like to be a bug! fight in the bug war' so when bugdom two was just a different bug in a different place I was like "WOW COOL" and immediately started thinking of what bug i would want to play as in bugdom 3.

The first game was really really fun to control with awesome physics based movement and such, the second game just had a lot of random toys for a bug such as knocking over batteries and surfing in a gutter and stuff. I think the best iteration of a bugdom game would combine these two strengths into one, having really cool bug's controls but also having a lot of random small things made into significant toys for you to mess with by virtue of you being a bug. idk

[zombielesbean]

hi I'm live!! its a bean bonus stream day I'm playing a funny lil game called Bugdom :3 plus also I'm gonna play more super mario sunshine later!! come on over and hang out with me!!

[therealvalkyrie]

did anyone else ever play bugdom as a kid???

[random-jot]

Well this has been fun!! I’ve loved reading everyone’s rambles and stories in the tags, truly fascinating stuff

I suppose there are things to address here. Firstly, yes, ALL of the above are things that apply to me, the op.

And THIS has been awesome:

Yes @hellogivemebees I DO dare invoke Bugdom, I am so happy there are others here who’ve experienced the majesty that is this game! My people!

Getting a fear of heights from this is understandable 😂 but for me it was the piranhas, those guys made me way more afraid of the water than Jaws ever did

And I honestly haven’t read any furry lesbian nsfw comics, so can’t comment on the accuracy of that comparison but it did make me chuckle 😸

[databuffer]

Ok but can Durandal's face screen run Doom?

Really funny thing to ask about a character from a macOS doom clone. But Nah, he can run uh [checks wikipedia] BugDom

[yonahsienna]

This Was Supposed to Be Fun

Or: WTF happened to the online Commons, and where do we go now?

Let me start by saying that I don't want to be a "content creator" or “online influencer”. I don't want to "optimize engagement" or “build an agile social strategy”. I don’t even particularly want to Start a Blog or Podcast. I just want to f#¢&!ng hang out with my friends and community online, and I feel like we should have The Technology to just do that by now.

Of course (infuriatingly) we did have that technology! I first connected to the World Wide Web in 2001 when I was ten years old. Back then, the whole family shared one computer, which I mostly used to play Age of Empires, Bugdom, and Oregon Trail. Connecting to the Internet meant that nobody could use the phone, so we would log on quickly (accompanied by a symphony of discordant whistles and beeps), check emails and/or MSN messages, and then pass the computer to the next person.

As our access to the Internet grew through my teens, so did the diversity of content we consumed, shared, and bonded over. eBaum’s World and Newgrounds hosted a plethora of simple, free webgames we'd play once we got bored with the handful my parents were willing to buy, as well as the first viral videos like Numa Numa and Star Wars Kid. We also connected in new ways with a growing “social web” — profiles on sites like Myspace and Livejournal and eventually the early Facebook were a way that anyone could have their own site on the web, a little virtual locker that you could decorate and fill up to your liking, and have your friends stuff with virtual notes.

In my late teens and early twenties, the Internet was mostly for research and keeping up with student government and clubs via long weekly emails stuffed with hyperlinks and attachments. It wasn't until I was well into my twenties that I got my first smartphone. At university, the only way to connect to the Internet “on the go” was to tweet my on-the-go thoughts by sending an SMS text message to Twitter at 21212. I also hardly used the social web anyways, other than for a quick dopamine distraction or break from long study sessions in the library. I had even deleted my Facebook account that I'd had since high school, since the campus coffee shop and bar served as more than enough of a hub for socializing, philosophical and political debates, and important announcements posted on cork boards or delivered by intercom.

I know I probably sound like a stereotypical Millennial, whining about the “good ole days”, but I wanted to spend this time on memory lane for a reason. I think that no matter when you grew up, this feeling is probably close to universal: from the early 2000s to early 2020s, the Internet and social web seemed to just work. There were a lot of things wrong with the world, but the Internet was where we went to complain about other problems, not a source of them. But of course, even back then we were living on borrowed money and time. The virtual Commons we had grown comfortable in never actually belonged to us, the users. From the moment they incorporated, the big sites belonged to venture capital, who sold them out to the oligarchs, who sold them out to the fascists. We were never the customer, always the product.

Flash forward to 2025. The “big four” North American social media outlets (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok) have all been captured by the Trump administration. Smaller sites, like Reddit, Telegram, and Substack have long been a hotbed for bigotry and hate speech. Searches on Apple, Google, Microsoft, and even Pinterest are serving up LMM “AI” slop before authentic and unique human creations. Ads, suggestions, sponsored posts, and cookie pop-ups take up far more space than the content I came for. And if I ever want my family, friends, and community to actually see my updates, I either need to send them to each person directly, or market my posts not to them, but to an algorithm optimized not for users or even businesses, but shareholder profit. In parallel to all this: efforts to gather in person are cut at the knees by a lack of coherent and safe public health policies, the dismantling of Third Spaces and affordable public transportation, and the militarization of the police.

It is horrifying that exactly when the biggest thing we need for survival is to build and strengthen community, that the only accessible tools to do so, are hostile to our very existence.

Obviously this isn’t a coincidence. Every time we, the people, can talk to each other directly, we start getting dangerous ideas about the fact that the ultra-wealthy and hyper-elite are so few, and the rest of us are so many. Pamphlets facilitated the French and American revolutions, the telegraph and radio hastened the collapse of the Russian and German Empires, and Twitter fanned the flames of the Arab Spring. And here in America, The Powers That Be, Red and Blue alike, overwhelmingly want the American government in strict control over where and how we can communicate with each other.

And here I am, just hoping for a single F#¢&!NG site on the whole World Wide Web where I can just hang out with family, friends, and community that isn't owned and operated by literal fascists, kept behind a paywall, or too technical for our Elders to use. A comfy virtual coffee shop with announcement boards, conversations, the occasional performance, and a locker nearby for collecting memories and passing notes.

I don’t really know what the Takeaway/Call to Action is here. Yes, I’m already on Tumblr, Mastadon, and Bluesky, and would love it if we all continued to grow these kind of alternatives while divesting from profit-driven social "platforms". I’m still on Discord, Snapchat, and Signal and even have accounts on Loops, Pixelfed, Xiaohongshu, and WriteAs, in case the center of gravity ever moves over to those places. All of them still feel very "under construction" though, so I don't even know which (if any) I feel comfortable asking friends and family to "switch over" to. In the meantime, I'm just feeling lost, sad, lonely, and adrift; and wanted to share these musings with y’all. Just in case anyone has any advice you want to share, or are feeling the same way and want to commiserate.

xposted to Facebook, Tumblr, Medium, and WriteAs. God, I hate the Internet right now >:(

[mxalexwhat]

I wonder if Windows NT 4.0 would still allow you to run CD-ROM games on it?

Alice plays all of the Barbie games, like Barbie Rapunzel. Her favorite is Barbie Storymaker, where she's made little shorts featuring the office crew, but her most often played is Barbie Fashion Designer and she's dying to find a compatible printer to get the full experience.

Sam just started playing Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego. He loves it! He hasn't quite figured out that all the clues are puns but he's only just started so he'll figure it out.

Colin plays Myst and he fucking hates it, but he needs to complete it out of spite, and also the two brothers trapped in the books remind him of Chester and Norris.

Gwen doesn't have time to play PC games because she's actually doing her job, so she downloaded a sim on her home computer to play the original Age of Empires with the Roman empire expansion pack.

Teddy played Bugdom. Rolly polly babyoli :)

Lena pretends she doesn't fool around on the PCs, but she has every PC Doom title available and even created her own mods. She fucking shreds online and John Romero wants to meet her in person some day.

Somebody tried to install Worms Armageddon once, but the PC immediately spat the disc out all scratched up and completely unusable.

[bonsaitreehouse]

You just invented nb fairy Bugdom ✨

Second Twnkl Gft 2 is done, I'm gonna start making levels for this, the basics are at a place I'm p happy with rn