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Streaming now!

How about a stream today? I've decided to go back to Twitch, and I'm going to try out Bloodthief. Today at 5pm GMT, in about four hours from now. www.twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

I have it on good authority that both the interviewer and the interviewee here are portrayed by imposters. And the only reason the authorities look the other way, the interviewer has stolen the interviewee's identity, and the other way round. Let this be a lesson, kids. Don't impost. Stay in school.

Here's a video in which I had a chat with @pacbilly.bsky.social about his new creative endeavours on SubStack. Go watch it! Also subscribe to him. Mostly that, but also watch this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_La...

I'm doing an audience participation Choose Your Own Adventure story for Novel November, and you're all invited to help decide which story to tell. sammcdavid.substack.com/p/novnov-cyo...

Did I give my video a clickbaity title for the sake of promoting clickage? Absolutely. Am I ashamed? Not nearly as much as I ought to be. youtu.be/InzC7fFaSRY

Every so often, someone drops a hint that they've read my YT video descriptions. Most folks make videos to make videos or to make money. I make them chiefly for what's written beneath. If you're a subscriber, are you among those who read them? You'll know why I ask soon enough. youtu.be/hZLQddQieGY

With the current Steam sale, the game I worked on is practically free. But hey, if you don't have it and it seems like something you'd like, be one of the first three to hit me up in the DMs while it's still on sale and I'll gift it to you. store.steampowered.com/app/1362780/...

My last stream! (for probably quite a while anyway) Starting very soon! www.youtube.com/live/Wo97li6...

I'm starting a new job soon and this will mean some changes on my channel. I don't know what my output will be like going forward. I go into more detail in the video, but the upshot is I'm not going away for good, but it might be a while. Thank you everyone! www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P_L...

How about a bit of Frontier? Starting in about 25 minutes www.youtube.com/live/-4pwK15...

More Stellaris in about half an hour www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBLA...

Gonna play some Stellaris in about 20 minutes www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBud...

Gonna stream some Noita in about 20 minutes www.youtube.com/live/Y_khiYN...

It's been ten years since we learned of the untimely death of Laffer35, a valued member of the retro gaming community on YouTube. Remember Laffer35. (I used to do these on Twitter, but we don't go there any more)

Tomorrow at 6pm GMT I'm going to see if the new fangled Faster FTL drive in Elite Dangerous is all it's cracked up to be. Also I'm trying out streaming on YouTube rather than Twitch this time, and we'll see how that goes. youtube.com/live/pfIg7R9...

Me when I solve any programming task

Based on this (obviously somewhat biased) poll, I am going to try streaming on YouTube on Tuesday next week (the 14th) at 6pm GMT www.youtube.com/@JimPlaysGames

Live now

Getting back into No Man's Sky on stream in about an hour www.twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

What the actual fuck? This truly is the anti-reality timeline isn't it?

If @sarahjaneavory.bsky.social isn't the best C64 dev working today, I don't know who is. I mean, just look at this. Just LOOK at it! youtu.be/-koBt0Bman8

Here's a long rambly video where I talk a load of waffle about the year 2024 and just things in general. While playing some Oblivion. www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3l_...

Yesterday's Christmas Amiga stream was a lot of fun. If you missed it here's the recording. Merry Christmas! 🎄 www.youtube.com/watch?v=BYf9...

Live in just under an hour

The Christmas Amiga stream will be this Saturday at 5pm GMT. Hope to see you there for some festive Amiga nonsense! twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

The Christmas Amiga stream will be this Saturday at 5pm GMT. Hope to see you there for some festive Amiga nonsense! twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

Game devs, post your first shipped game and your latest shipped game. Left: Solitaire on Amiga (1995), Right: Shadowhand Solitaire on PC (2024)

This kind of crap is why people hate AI. It has its place as a tool but it NEEDS human oversight FFS

What's your ultimate technology fantasy? Mine is an implant that can mute all sound coming from my ears (including tinnitus) so I can have some guaranteed peace and quiet + restful sleep. Also with an option to play sound from any digital source like music so I don't go mad from the pure silence.

I've open sourced another palette tool. This one takes any photo/image (or batch of images), a palette and outputs an indexed PNG equivalent. Optionally, Floyd–Steinberg dithering can be applied. HTH! github.com/davidwdev/fr... #gamedev #solodev

Gonna stream some No Man's Sky in about an hour www.twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

New #DevLog for Fire All Weapons! In which I discover the folly of not writing proper comments and documentation in my game code. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZC_...

I'm going to stream my first experience of No Man's Sky in about an hour twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

Amiga stream begins in 5 minutes! www.twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

Starting a new series, playing The Crimson Diamond by @juliaminamata.bsky.social, a delightful text-parser adventure game with authentic EGA graphics. I've been enjoying it a lot and I hope you'll join me on this pseudo retro adventure! www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4ZR...

Tomorrow I'm streaming SKALD: Against the Black Priory, a retro style RPG with modern turn based gameplay. It looks awesome and I can't wait to try it! Will be streaming at 5pm BST at twitch.tv/jimplaysgames Link to the game's store page: store.steampowered.com/app/1069160/...

In about an hour on stream I'm going to play Minicology, a survival game set on some tiny blocky planets www.twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

I made productivity software instead of working, and then I made a video about it instead of working. I've made the a dynamic pomodoro timer, because I wanted it to exist and now I can use it and start working again! Details in the video www.youtube.com/watch?v=I9wn...

Tomorrow at 5pm GMT I'll be streaming @hiddenasbestos.bsky.social's Thunder Helix. That's also the day it releases into Early Access. It's a retro-style low-poly 3D helicopter sim. If you remember Gunship 2000 this should be familiar. Looking forward to trying it! twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

I'll be streaming some Barony in about an hour. It's been a while since I played it and I want to try out the new hat update. It has new hats, and other stuff twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

Going to stream a bit of Elite Dangerous in about an hour. Just a chill asteroid mining stream while I test some new stuff and get back into the streaming thing www.twitch.tv/jimplaysgames

Something a little different here. I made a pomodoro timer with music and ambience from Stellaris. I often work with Stellaris music on so I made this, and I thought if anyone else might get benefit from it then awesome www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvkI...

New Dev Log for Fire All Weapons in which I talk about what I've been working on, what the general shape of the game will be and how to reach a stage of having the first playable alpha of the game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTy-...

Oh yeah I guess I should also do an introductory post. I'm Jim and I play games and make videos or streams of that. I also make games. Slowly.

Taking a look at Oaken, a roguelike, turn-based strategy card game. It's gorgeous and has some great tactical depth. Check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0X0...