oh that's what that is

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

a thing that's always really bothered me about indie game world from the beginning is it's entirely dependent on connections and you have no idea if what anyone is telling you is true or not because there are very few people who care about your interests. cold take: unions and co-ops are necessary!

Playing games & trying to resist the urge to make clones of them tailored to my tastes instead of working on my own shit

I'm joining the war on meme culture on the side of meme culture

if anything happens and we ever have to jump ship on bsky i genuinely dont know how im gonna market my goddamn game because this is the only site it's ever gotten any amount of traction on

Way ahead of you! www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/...

IRL stuff is happening and will likely take my attention away from working on Prism Warriors until I get it sorted out. In the meantime, you can get the first game, Prism Indigo, for 30% off on Steam until October 6th. I might end up needing the money. store.steampowered.com/app/2927820/...

Hang in there, struggling artists

Floating-point math makes me want to bash my head against the wall, what the fuck do you mean 1-0.02=0.979999999999 absolute clown shit

"Yet Another Killing Game" has recently hit 150 Steam reviews, and is STILL maintaining a 99% Positive rating! Thank you so much to early and newer fans alike! 🥰 Check out this popular indie game while it is still 33% off! #YetAnotherKillingGame #Steam #SteamSale #indiegame

In other news, one hour until #ldjam starts. Working on something other than Prism Warriors will be a nice change of pace, and I haven't actually finished a jam game in a year now

Vice-capping Semenyo proved to be a masterstroke this week #fpl

It's crazy how many indie devs cut their teeth on Newgrounds, quietly one of the most important platforms in games history

I've probably said this before but it really is impressive how much content you can actually fit into TIC-80 Pro's limitations. Prism Warriors is only on track to use up about 50% of the available code size and it's not even particularly well-optimized.

Tell your favorite artists you love their work

IRL stuff is happening and will likely take my attention away from working on Prism Warriors until I get it sorted out. In the meantime, you can get the first game, Prism Indigo, for 30% off on Steam until October 6th. I might end up needing the money. store.steampowered.com/app/2927820/...

I'll say it again, Art is communication. "Create for yourself" really means "Create art that communicates who you are." And one sided communication feels terrible. Commenting on peoples art/creations can be scary, I get it. But COMMENT. COMMUNICATE. We want to hear it. I want to hear it.

A couple of times recently I've thought, "my game ideas aren't weird enough, I need to come up with a proper 'game for sickos'" and then I remember that Melody's Requiem is an episodic 8-bit neo-noir mystery adventure where you can seduce people into telling the truth through a rhythm minigame

This is the crime.

Today will have to be a lazy day, I woke up with a severe headache and brainfog and it's not going away

Created an important VFX for the final boss of Prism Warriors. I think it looks pretty cool but it's also a bit strobe-y, so the "Bullet Flash" toggle is being turned into a "Flashing FX" toggle that tones it down along with the bullets.

Every time you repost or quote repost and indie creator's project, you can imagine yourself as a hand in this gif

I have written up a checklist of what remains to be done on Prism Warriors. This is not necessarily in order of priority. I'm not expecting to get all of these finished by the end of my crunch month, but I will try to get as many of them done as I possibly can.

everything went downhill when they took porn off tumblr

I have five days of work across the next four weeks, and the requisite level of ADHD panic. Let the Prism Warriors crunch begin.

i feel like it'll never not be surreal having my game on steam

Nanoha my beloved

This time next week I'll be starting a 2 1/2 week holiday from work, during which I intend to make as much progress on Prism Warriors as I possibly can. I'm hoping to have a trailer and concrete release date by the end of it, but we'll see on that one.

Controversial opinion, but I think trans people should feel safe here on bluesky, and nazis shouldn't.

September 25th will mark 20 years since I joined @newgrounds.com, and I'm one fan away from hitting 1,000 fans there. I definitely need to do something to commemorate those twin milestones, but I don't know what yet.

Me except it's Umamusume

Tentatively settled on a nonograms game for my #pico1k entry. Unfortunately I've hit an early snag where the code I've written to calculate the clues doesn't seem to detect groups of cells that start at the first cell of that row/column, and I have no idea why.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Keep calling. It won't take my visa cards, it won't take my debit card. I don't own a credit card because I've had so many issues with them. This law can BURN!

Thinking about what my #pico1k entry for this year should be. I feel like Minisweeper is going to be a tough act to follow, but I'm not gonna worry too much about that otherwise I'll just paralyze myself and get nothing done. Best to just relax and keep it simple.

This is scary as hell, but for news coverage? This is a GIFT. "You can be banned for *buying* Game of Thrones." Send emails to journalists and news sites and communities you're a part of and talk about the dangers here. People are going to care about this a lot more when it's not just creators.

They should add Shergar to Umamusume and give her the world's worst sense of direction iykyk

Out of curiosity and autism, I did some calculations, and on 8 June this year, I turned 11,111 days old. Shortly after midnight on 15 September 2026 I'll turn 1 billion seconds old. Who says 40's the next big milestone after 30?

This is why I avoid talking about studios, games and products under Microsoft's umbrella, and suggest that you all avoid giving them money until there's some kind of change of management or major reckoning with this. Roping in the feds to crack down on anti-genocide sentiment among staff? Pure evil

Look what they did to Notepad. Shut the fuck up. This is Notepad. You are not welcome here. Oh yeah "Let me use Copilot for Notepad". "I'm going to sign into my account for Notepad". What the fuck are you talking about. It's Notepad.

oh the tumblr auto-flagging bot was EXTREMELY fucking terrible lmao

It would be REALLY funny if Visa suddenly got tips from thousands of people reporting every store that has ever carried an official Star Wars movie. Those are just jam-packed with 'non-consentual mutilation of a person or body part', which is apparently against the rules to distribute.