A bit in a rough patch lately, and I prefer silence (and some boosts) over random rants and negativity. I hope ti be back posting something gamedev related soon.

Twists are a pretty interesting subject to me. Overall, my stance would be that while twists by themselves are cool, at their core, they should be about reframing the story. Something about the world, a character or the very narrative was concealed, but what exactly does this new knowledge mean?

When NOKOMA will be out on Steam, all the versions will have the full and some content: - Puzzle mode with 150+ levels - Arcade mode - Daily Puzzles - Daily / weekly missions Can't wait to reach that milestone! 😍 #indiegame #gamedev #gaming #ios #android #steam #puzzlegame #cozygame

Really proud to announce that I have partnered with Pimoroni to bring A LOT of my font designs to Badgeware!! Can't wait to see them live 🦝💛

Here's some cute bounding box functions for 2D shapes. A longer list here: iquilezles.org/articles/bbo...

Hey y'all, I'm looking for my next role! - 💻 Staff/principal Software Engineer or DevRel - 🧰 Mostly focused on JavaScript tech stacks - 👨🏻‍💼 I'm also open to moving into management - 🎮 Bonus points if it's #GameDev or adjacent If you know of something, my DMs are open. ❤️

Unpopular (?) opinion: I kinda like the new bluesky icon.

making games is great because you can make a source file called "caves" and it's all algorithms for generating caves.

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

Well, I lied. Having optional pickup items for each level means you need a level select screen to replay levels. Also, no more total play time but per level complete time. And the level select grid dictated that the game will have 30 levels total 😬 #GameDev #GetKeyOpenDoor #ScreenshotSaturday

Dustgrave's Revelations Update brought improved visuals to many locations. Still, our representation of a marble quarry is just people smashing rocks with pickaxes, because who really knows what people actually do in a marble quarry? #indiegame #indiedev #RPG #marble

Thank you for this checkbox, @vscode.dev

A big reason proc gen feels so different to AI in spite of superficial similarities is exactly this!! Proc Gen systems reflect the interests and creative preferences of the tool makers, whereas AI is catch-all sludge that reflects no specific point of view. It’s not remotely the same!

That awkward #GameDev #UI moment when you carefully design a screen only to realise in the end that you forgot to add a back button... 🤦

A plea for help. 🙏 One of the lead playtesters of Blue Prince, Iggy, has polycystic kidney disease and has only a few months to find a living kidney donor. His story, contact and donor information can all be found on iggyland.org Please help us in sharing his story and getting the word out.💙

Hey, #ADHD #GameDev folks out there, I'm curious: what's the worst kind of task for your kind of brains? To me it's commenting and documenting code, just thinking about it my mind simply runs away somewhere else.

"What he knew, in short, was that fascism was not over, and that the right would metastasise, returning in a new form to claim power over a populace stupefied by the tawdry blandishments of capitalism. Was Pasolini wrong in his predictions? I think we all know the answer to that."

When someone has standards, you know you can trust whatever they put out in the world.

people keep asking about modability and (aside from gui reskinning) i now have an answer block game uses an entity component system so i've made a json file for entity templates to easily create entities. so if nothing else you'll be able to mod the game by editing this #EniBlockGame #GameDev 🎮

a VCR-like font for a Halloween game, eh? Classic... You can use TAPE! (from my 40 fonts sale) 📼 itch.io/s/158296/40-...

Finished my next #Hacktoberfest PR - 3D FPP example with movement and camera control for Defold: #Defold #gamedev #indiedev #3D

There's a lot of vodeo game OSTs that I love, but this one... I could run through brick walls listening to this. youtu.be/xAD9qf-M_WQ?...

Update 0.8 for DustGrave, the #Sandbox #RPG I'm working on at @innervoid-int.bsky.social, is out! This is a huge update, with a juicy changelog and a lot of blood, sweat and tears by the whole team. Give it a try! store.steampowered.com/news/app/239... #GameDev

*proceeds to set fire to pc*

The site should be accessible again. Unfortunately our host's DDOS "protection" is to just turn off our site. They were unable to do anything to restore our services during the ongoing DDOS attack so we did an emergency migration. Tell us if you see something wrong

Hello @gameengines.bsky.social, I would like Unity, Defold, MonoGame and Custom engine labels, please. Thank you.

I will say that nothing is more baffling to me than the industry standard that we teach developers about publishing by having them listen to talks and panels by publishers. It's like fiscal responsibility taught by a loan shark, privacy taught by Google, or human rights taught by Israel.

I also feel like gen AI is an existential threat to the scientific mindset, because it trades truth for convenience. You cannot find truth by just remixing words; you have to actually test ideas in the real world and remember the results. Generative models do neither of those things.

Still true.

Well, #GetKeyOpenDoor is feature complete (minus audio). I have the list of gameplay features to introduce to the player, to be sorted. Now I *just* have to make the actual levels... 😅 #GameDev #MadeWithDefold

I totally get the tug of war between "must do best practices and sensible biz dev stuff" and "just want to make this thing my way". I have that struggle all the time. Ultimately I think the reality may lie somewhere in between. Also tbh, I feel differently about these things on different days.

Wow! How did I miss this? Looks great!

"alice when are you going to stop milking the fucking pronoun tweet for yet more horse game attention" absolutely never, these assholes shouted every slur imaginable into my inbox for weeks afterwards, the least I can do for revenge is to continue making fun of them and profiting off it

TNG rewatch is going well.

Wanted to express my feelings towards socials, lately, with a 6 panels comic but I can't draw to save my life. So I thought "what the hell" and used my Actual Incompetence and drew it anyway with stick figures, using pencil, pen, paper and some pastels from my kid's stash. It's awful and I love it.

Just bought this. Please share and contribute if you can.

In Italy various port workers unions are blocking, sending back or delaying weapon shipments coming from other countries and directed mostly towards Israel, and I think that's heroic.

started making a #FallingBlockJam game but I've run out of time and energy, so please enjoy this little window into what could have been!

Also, finally found the time to implement these little flame pickups in #GetKeyOpenDoor #GameDev #MadeWithDefold

Wanted to express my feelings towards socials, lately, with a 6 panels comic but I can't draw to save my life. So I thought "what the hell" and used my Actual Incompetence and drew it anyway with stick figures, using pencil, pen, paper and some pastels from my kid's stash. It's awful and I love it.

It's always inspiring to see what the #defold community creates. Here's a horror game scene featuring real-time lighting and clustered rendering: #horrorgame #indiedev #gamedev #madewithdefold

Have I ever mentioned how hard this soundtrack slaps? youtu.be/9pQuLiK_nbc

I wanted to add some simple collectible to #GetKeyOpenDoor but I didn't want the classic coin, so I opted for a small flame in style with the game. Damn, drawing animated flames is hard... This one isn't great but will do for now. #GameDev #PixelArt

"Political violence" is a term that exists to suggest a moral distinction between "violence against politicians" and "violence by politicians" - so that one can be condemned while the other can be normalized. Obviously, no such distinction exists in reality: violence is violence.

God I love procedural map generation. Once I get my hands into it, it's really hard to stop 😅 #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

Going to a Steve Hackett concert on sunday, so I'm beginning a Genesis only musical diet. Yes, I'm old, why you ask?

Sigh. Yes, survivor bias. No, don't quit your day job, especially these days. But yes, if you have the urge to create, by all means, NEVER GIVE UP!

another few shots of the new outline tech #GameDev 🎮

Ok, this is fascinating but... excuse me, what? youtube.com/watch?v=7dNJ...

One lingering aspect of this LLM stuff, even after it collapses, will be the knowledge that many of my peers don’t make things to enjoy the making, but to enjoy the having made. I just assumed everyone really dug climbing that mountain too. Nothing noble about it, no judgement, just a lesson learned