This may be a long shot, but with Summerchin starting in about a month, I wonder how much closer to 2K followers on Twitch we can get before the event. If there is such a thing as "long-form streams" that try to be thorough and hopefully also cozy...I suppose this is what I'm aiming for at least.

Gentoo Rescue is now 1 year old! 🎉 I hate to do the announcement of an announcement thing, but *hint* Thinky Direct *nudge* is coming up 🐧 There's also a Steam announcement: store.steampowered.com/news/app/283... #puzzlegame #announcement #anniversary #indiegamedev

Ugh, this is actually sickening. I found out that a website used my voice to create an AI voice soundboard thing where people can generate words using the likeness of my voice. They linked it to my twitch. I found that other people are on here too. I submit a takedown request, but this is so gross

🎉 Yes, it's true! Thinky Direct is returning for 2026, with a whole new line-up of exclusive trailers and reveals for the most amazing thinky games. Keep an eye out for more info very soon! Puzzle sicko content creators and journalists, reach out! More info below 👇

When the translation is wrong, but still 100% on point.

Shout out to @fyda.tech for not only being the first person I've seen to beat the final level of ZENOMATRIX in the intended way, but for also solving the puzzle in a much "cleaner" way than than even me. www.twitch.tv/videos/27564...

Thank you to everyone who stopped by yesterday for the Eyemother's first appearance. I appreciate all the kind words and enthusiasm for this... weird thing that I poured a lot of work into! Despite some scuff, I still had a lovely evening. <3

Finally, after three weeks of work on a new avatar and one week of work on a new background, everything is now in place. A new form is arriving this week.

Can't set the duration of notes? Just arpeggiate to fill in the gaps. (This may or may not be real advice.) Herb coded a cool toy to let chatters play musical notes via his stream bot, and I had fun putting together a little bit of Europe's "The Final Countdown" to test it out.

#NicoDrawsEveryMon A chipper metal eyeball Magnemite for a chiptune eyeball artist, @fyda.tech! Thank you so much for the Ko-fi!

"If I wake up around 4am, I'll do exercise (which helps with sleep). Otherwise, I'll sleep." I may have turned my insomnia into a Xanatos Gambit. tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

And then I deleted the app.

Gentoo Rescue won Best Challenging Game! 🎉Thank you so much for the support from the community and @thinkygames.com 🐧 A new patch just went live, and it's 20% off on Steam to celebrate: store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/...

This is the kind of intrusive thought I get when playing video games (in this case, Hollow Knight: Silksong). Here I am, hours later, following through:

I just got a DM from someone that pirated my game. They said (paraphrasing) that with hindsight the game was absolutely worth the price, and were asking my preferred avenue for them to buy it (Steam vs Itch). I've gotten a lot of great DMs from players, but this one is probably my favorite.

Thinky Awards 2025 nominations have been announced, and Gentoo Rescue has been nominated for: 🐧 Game of the Year 🐧 Best Challenging Game 🐧 Best Puzzle Design Please go vote here: thinkygames.com/events/award...

I'm glad I decided to revisit Mario is Missing! for DOS. It has been delightfully cursed. This time around, I discovered that Luigi can take a photo at each of the historical sites. I was so tickled by the game's rendition of the Louvre that I had to make this...

The original games at the core of Order of the Sinking Star are: * The Heroes of Sokoban series: by @ostroffj.bsky.social * The Promesst series: by @nothings.bsky.social * Mirror Isles: by me * Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes: by me

I designed this as a new wallpaper. I took inspiration from Star Trek the Motion Picture and the recent Nodevember prompts. What happens to the cubes when we delete them? #b3d #blender

Marki is an incredibly sweet and thoughtful streamer who is thorough in his exploration of games new and old. He tackles the sorts of completionist challenges many people would shy away from, and does this in such a patient, calming, and pleasant manner that the time simply flies.

I'm back home just in time for the Twitch 2025 recaps. Phew! This was my 3rd year of streaming. Thank you for all of the support. This has been an exhausting year, and I am grateful for all the company, encouragement, and distraction while I tried to play some video games.

I made an NES-style cover of "Voyage, voyage" by Desireless. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8G2... #chiptune #nes

azhdarchid.com/against-metr... I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.

I wrote a DOS application on stream that demonstrates why the colors that make up the default VGA palette were chosen.

Here is my attempt at a cover of "I Like Chopin" by Gazebo. (I've been waiting for a typhoon to finish passing through; there is still an "extremely heavy rain advisory". I worked on this over the past two nights with the intermittent roar of rain against the windows.) #chiptune #nes

Ten games to get to know me. 👁️

jagriff.itch.io/witch-cauldron It's out for FREE! #puzzlegame #platformer #metroidbrainia #metroidvania

New Megabat track just dropped! soundcloud.com/observerherb... Wishlist Megabat on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2429230/Megabat/ Also check out FydaTECH's music: soundcloud.com/fydatech

My 5th annual birthday album is out now: 20 tracks of NES-style chiptune music composed for just 4 audio channels. Waveform visualiser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHX6... Bandcamp: fyda.bandcamp.com/album/fortun... #chiptune

As someone that watches/listens to a lot of twitch streams, this comment hits really hard.

Today, I put the finishing touches on what will be my 5th annual NES-style chiptune album, to be released one week from now. Making these albums has been a personal and primarily symbolic ritual for me. I am glad to close out the series with (what I feel to be) my strongest work yet.

NEW MODEL DEBUT tonight at 5:30 ct! Silent Hill Downpour after twitch.tv/orminthebox

I'm not even 1/3 of the way through this game and we've all nope'd out.

ZENOMATRIX is finally available on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3080910/... #ZENOMATRIX #gaming #horror #puzzle #videosgames #indiedev #indiegame #indiegaming #release

Tomorrow (August 11) at 1pm Pacific... I will be joining the lovely @cursev.bsky.social on his stream to play through the "ØDE" DLC of Morkredd, a co-op physics-based puzzle game where shadows are lethal! Time allowing, we may also try out some UFO 50 multiplayer games.

I spent over an hour tonight working on a pixel art portrait. I sent it to a trusted friend (thank you, trusted friend!) and they suggested that I use dithering, since I had a lot of harsh lines (with just a 4-colour palette). I'm a dummy. I FORGOT DITHERING EXISTED AAAAAAAAAAAA

And here's some more. Wishlist the game here: store.steampowered.com/app/3080910 #ZENOMATRIX #Unreal #gaming #videosgames #indiedev #gamedev #photomode

It'll happen to you! youtube.com/watch?v=BGrf...

Tomorrow (July 7) at 1pm Pacific... The thoughtful and well-spoken @observerherb.bsky.social will be joining me on Twitch for Bread & Fred. I am certain that this will be a calm and relaxing time with absolutely no overthinking, hubris, or falling all the way down to the bottom of the mountain. 👁️

Anna's description of how it feels to (not) exist outside of one's creations and activities caught me off guard... because to some extent this resonates with me greatly.

Got home yesterday and told myself I'd get through my to-do tasks after a short nap. The "nap" ended up being 7 hours long. 🫩 I did get through those tasks... albeit between 5am and 8am. Time to try and catch a couple hours' worth of winks.

Only a few days before I head home. I haven't finished a single track all month. I've had visibly suboptimal streaming conditions, almost no reliable undisturbed time, a sleep pattern in shambles, and no more than 4 hours of energy at a time. But the life stuff has progressed. More in November.

A regular streaming schedule has been unfeasible, so I am trying something new: putting two possible times on the schedule, setting alarms for both, and seeing which one I'm awake enough to stream at. If this ridiculous idea actually works, it may become the daily(ish) norm for the next 3 weeks.

Three decades away from my birthplace have made me an awkward foreigner. I am very fortunate that this place is friendly to foreigners.

Since I am still a person who posts photos of plushies... dang it, this Jolteon was too perfect.

Gentoo Rescue is out now: store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/... Thanks for the love and support everyone has given. I hope the game brings you as much joy as it has me! There is a 10% launch discount that will run for 2 weeks until June 5. #indiegamedev #puzzlegame #solodev #sokoban #metroidvania

I think this year's birthday album, if it happens, will be the last one. It would be a good number to end the series on. I don't intend to stop making music; I just want a more flexible release schedule than "once a year with 20 tracks every time," and I want to branch out into non-chiptune.

Make sure your RPG battle transitions, scene composition, and attack animations are at least as cool as this Taiwanese DOS RPG from 1995

Tonight, after about a month of work, I have completed my preparations for a new set of 3D animated backgrounds for my streaming setup. While I don't expect a perfect deployment, the stakes are low (this has always only been a personal project) and I'm just glad it's done. #Blender #3dart

My first attempt at making something without following a guide in #blender and it was the #apeescape ape. It was really fun!