If you hadn't heard the news, Puzzle Depot is now OUT on Steam! Solve sokoban-style puzzles with surprising mechanics and object interactions! store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/... 📦🤖 🪳 #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #puzzlegame #puzzledepot

TIL ( allenchou.net/2013/12/game... )

ok this is a fun problem; let's implement and benchmark on livestream some stuff :) twitch.tv/increpare

Scooter

strange jigsaws v. good

Had a fun geometry problem last night to optimize - given all the vertices of the egg (in local coordinates, that you know in advance), and it's rotation, to find the lowest point (y-coordinate). Here's the slow version of the code - how would you optimize it?

not my game, but also has eggs!

artisinal quality settings - just low and high, but I do things like adjust the fog so you can see further when the outline shader is disabled, along with other tweaks. (can't figure out how to totally turn off anti-aliasing for some reason...)

graphics quality options: ugly / slow

Broke: play when you want to play. Woke: play every day to keep up your streak. Bespoke: stream yourself playing every day so that your viewers don't lose their viewing streaks.

"Ex Ovo Omnia" - "everything from an egg", positing that every creature must come from an egg (even before mammalian eggs could be observed). Here we have Zeus holding an egg hatching a great variety of creatures.

Today: Mostly happy I can align the splash logo with the player spawn position, and also gently persuaded to try tweaking the particles on the title screen.

Someone asking on youtube how I simulated physics in the sausage game, so here's an illustration from the archives I can link ... (the sausage game builds up a graph of the situation and then tries to apply a state machine to it to resolve the forces) #stephenssausageroll

godotshaders.com/shader/apple... lol

Shaving a second off loading time by not checking for impossible overlapping geometry when loading files. Glad I profiled!

I wanted today for #oeufgame to tart up the title screen, without it becoming the design equivalent of a purple passage - I think dynamically loading the world in the background might be an ok balance of janky and fancy?

Clickbait simile of the day: "He has more money than sense."

I drew an egg every day for october #eggtober

John Carmack "In C/C++, making almost every variable const at initialization is good practice. I wish it was the default, and mutable was a keyword." JGSL (juicy game scripting language): no variable assignment, only tweens.

Seemed like a good day to finally port this to desktop: vectorpark.itch.io/egg

It's all about the details innit

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

It's done! Silly #oeufgame controller. (Thanks to @mrlucagames.bsky.social and @robinwobbles.bsky.social for help with construction).

Grammatical hints that cite very miscellaneous analogues have charms. (In this case it's for "magni Iovis et deorum nuntium curvaeque lyrae patenten" - [Mercury], messenger of great Jupiter and the gods, and parent of the curved lyre)

1) *let's do a pause screen* 2) *wait that needs a settings screen first* 3) *needs control rebinding* 4) *mm should implement mouse support for menus* 5) *need language/selection+localisation* 6) *actually implements pausing* 7) *pause-menu camera control (hat tip to @sophieh.itch.io )* #oeufgame

Coming in Spring 2026: Oeuf, a 3D physics platformer where U egg. Wishlist innit. store.steampowered.com/app/3831080/...

Watching a twitch stream of someone with a good voice who reads old handwriting (here a diary I think). Really good format - if sometimes he can't make out a word chat offers suggestions. Very wholesome.

Slowly does it...

It's that time of year again www.youtube.com/watch?v=67oE...

i love drama

What are these for? 🤔

Hanging out with @robinwobbles.bsky.social qtoday who was helping me with some electronics :)

Hanging out with @robinwobbles.bsky.social today who was helping me with some electronics :)

Affected or simple location names? I'm leaning towards simple...

While doing input rebinding menus is dreadfully painful in a multitude of ways, @godotengine is doing very well at left-to-right -> right-to-left reflowing (please bear with all of my arabic text as being placeholder). It's nice having RtL be more or less free!

The hardest problem in game development, still unsolved, is the design of a reusable Settings/Input-Remapping menu. 🫠

UI trap of the day

On second thoughts I will stay with the system cursor I think 🙃

From the annals of collaboration tales: When Lewis and Short wrote their Latin dictionary, Short worked starting from A, Lewis going back from Z. Lewis ended up doing Z to B.

I appreciate the two scales on my circle-cutter.

Testing things out...

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Sorry can't make the meeting I'm working on unit tests.

Niche product of the day

Eggification, 1/5

Setting up the steam page, doing my best to not categorise it as role-playing game (pun works better in german, where it's just 'roll-game')

now streaming - playing with the trackball set to rotate the ball 1:1 rather than apply forces (aka totally different control scheme, an interesting challenge) twitch.tv/increpare

Ok we have liftoff! (Still have to tweak the controls a lot, and wait for more parts before putting it together properly)

utiazulay.itch.io/swordswallower is good wholesome innovative platformer (I'm late to the party it seems!)

Better starting room: cosy basement or fall-to-your-doom-balcony basement?