Speed running a November release on a game that I haven't thought of yet because it's just going to be me and Rockstar up there and I *know* our audiences don't overlap.

The sale is over so if you wanna support a #SoloDev you can still pick up Glyphscape for $7 ;)

Nobody has found the treasure chest behind the waterfall yet and I'm starting to worry.

Finally learning #blender and I don't know what took me so long. Having dealt with other peoples' models for so long it is so refreshing to have things exactly how I like them.

With all this talk of the #LegendOfZelda Remake I'm sure some folks would be interested in a LoZ-Inspired Demake. Glyphscape is like what would have happened if this chip shortage happened 40 years ago and never stopped! Who doesn't want that experience??

How else are you going to do it?

#DungeonsofFreeport v1.0.7 is out! Along with a few more bug fixes, dungeons are no longer experience-gated. The Freeport Hollows Delving Co. Ltd. will no longer stand in the way of fresh delvers attempting the almost impossible and surviving even the hardest of dungeons!

Just a reminder that Glyphscape is 20% off (good price) and the more people who play it, the rarer my "completed the game" achievement becomes. #RPG #Steam #Sale #Retro #NoAI store.steampowered.com/app/3103690/...

Another patch! This one is mostly improvements to various UI elements. I'm trying to be better about pushing these things out as I go, rather than sitting on a hoard of fixes. #SoloDev #ASCII #RPG #Steam #GameDev store.steampowered.com/news/app/310...

they should make fewer games about dudes with guns and make more games about lil mice with beds made out of sardine cans

little ASCII mouse

Glyphscape inventory be like

GOBLIN GAME

My lunch break activity was creating a texture for turning ramps into stairs. The normals aren't quite perfect, but it's good enough to sell the effect if you ask me. #goblingame #solodev

This place was cooler before all of the entrepreneurs showed up.

GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME GOBLIN GAME

Glyphscape has approached but never broken 1,000 wishlists, and all my work on the last update actually made the number go down substantially... c'est la vie. Happy #wishlistwednesday!

I really hate marketing so pls release me from this hell by buying Glyphscape at 20% off for a limited time (unlike my torment, which is unlimited)

I'm tired of making games just for me. My next game will be for no one.

Wow I just realized that I just barely hit my goal of at least 1 major update every 6 months. The actual update was on Monday but today is the 6 month anniversary of 1.0 releasing (🎉)

BIG Update to Glyphscape has released! Some pretty major changes in here. Please take a look! I'm very proud of this one. #RPG #ASCII #SoloDev #IndieDev #Update #Steam store.steampowered.com/news/app/310...

I don't normally do #WishlistWednesday posts but this is a special Wednesday. Version 1.1 (just released!) includes some major polish to the core game systems AND I have it on good authority that #Glyphscape will go on sale in a few weeks. #RPG #ASCII #Game store.steampowered.com/app/3103690/...

Of course I know Wario is evil but I always pick him because I’m able to separate the kart from the kartist

Still on track to have 1.1 out the door today! Just got one more menu to fix up, but everything else is quite stable.

YOU’RE LISTENING TO SISYPHUS FM, THE HOME OF NON-STOP ROCK

Wait, I thought Destiny was the game that made people miserable.

Making unapproachable art games is punk rock.

Why does anyone choose "game reviewer" as a hobby and then write stuff like "a five year old with brain damage could write better than most RPGs"? Do something else with your time. You're choosing this.

This has been the most productive bug hunting day of all time. Not in quantity, but in [severity] x [how long it's been on the backlog]. A few of them I was just hoping no one would notice, but I noticed some places where players would definitely notice. We're getting so dang stable. #RPG #ASCII

video games are about taking turns and selecting options from a menu

Really really hoping to get 1.1 out this week. Unsurprisingly it takes quite a while to run QA on a game like Glyphscape, but I believe I've ironed out all of the big issues. At this point the amount of things that *are* fixed in 1.1 has got to dwarf the number of unknown bugs. #SoloDev #RPG #Game

Well AFAIK everything is in place for v1.1, and now it's time to re-learn the new shortest path so I can test every class a few times before release. I will be unable to code next week, so I plan to spend the time gathering as much play data as possible.

Here's a quick and dirty mockup of an alternative ASCIIDECK layout that I have been considering. The current layout has a good amount of wasted space, and this layout should greatly reduce the amount of eye activity demanded. Looking left to right between panels gets tiring. #GameDev #SoloDev

A bird's-eye view of the entrance to the northern plateau. I feel like Jeff Bridges in Tron: Legacy!

Behold! Lunamin in 3D! I'm a bit surprised that the entire continent can be rendered like this while keeping a decent frame rate. In reality, the player will never need to see that far.

After some more visual fidelity it is becoming clear to me that the fantasy world that I created for #Glyphscape is in fact Just Florida. #SoloDev #Godot #GameDev

The fruits of today's labor: I was able to replace the placeholder data with the actual world data from #Glyphscape, so now it's just a matter of filling in missing geometry and textures! Then the final boss of the project - all of my forced perspective tricks have to be created for real...

Painstakingly re-building my library of 130+ world data defs by hand in Godot and thankful for years-ago me for making it relatively modular. Seems like a development detour but I do actually expect that porting my own game will expose where exactly I still have hard-coded data to pry out.

Returning to an old project this weekend - a system for rendering the world of #Glyphscape in 3D. Just for fun, but who knows maybe I'll make a first-person mode. #ScreenshotSaturday #SoloDev

Why is "don't reinvent the wheel" considered good advice in any context?? Wheels (literal wheels) get reinvented all the time. There are so many types of wheels.

New Exhibit:Play Curation 𝗖𝗲𝗹𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗮𝗹 𝗙𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗴 Curated by @farfama.bsky.social Cast your line into the cosmos. Decipher communications, draw divinations, and discover the myths of the universe. Games from @selkieharbour.com & @deconstructeam.bsky.social @geouug.com @polclarissou.bsky.social

the nicest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a small but dedicated cult following of kind hearted and politically shrewd weirdos & sickos that keep the fire going. the meanest thing you can wish upon an artist in 2026 is that their work gains a large online fandom

The soup dog had 3 dental chew shapes left this morning. I asked her "okay soup dog, will you choose your favorite, or save it for last?" She took all 3. Outplayed.

Some areas are getting aesthetic improvements in #Glyphscape v1.1, such as the addition of rapids in some streams, like this one in the mountains. #ASCII #RPG #SoloDev #GameDev

Forgotten Blood is a solitary journey through ancient ruins and the remnants of a long-forgotten empire, where every step uncovers echoes of a lost past. #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

Another comparison of what is to come in v1.1! A massive amount of new apparel items will be available to find. Hard to believe this is all still rendered in a text box. #Glyphscape #solodev #indiedev #ASCII #RPG

Here are some of my personal favorite pieces of new weapon arts in v1.1. No more procedurally generated blade/handle combinations! The art for each weapon will be unique to that weapon. #indiedev #solodev #ascii #RPG #Glyphscape

Here's a sneak peak at some of the equipment upgrades coming in #Glyphscape v1.1! Every piece of apparel and weapon is getting a fresh coat of paint, and many new pieces are being added. #indiedev #solodev #ascii #RPG

The first major update for #Glyphscape is coming along. Steam achievements, new equipment types, and over 150 new enemy types on the way! Unfortunately 1.0 saves will not be compatible with version 1.1. The good news is it's still at least a week out. #indiedev #solodev #rpg #ascii

Just started playing Arcanum and the opening cinematic screams "pre-9/11". Release date: Aug 21, 2001. By the skin of their teeth.