📢 Big thanks to Marcello at @turnbasedlovers.bsky.social for the Blades, Bows & Magic demo review article - check it out 👉 turnbasedlovers.com/overview/bla... ⚔️ #bladesbowsmagic #gamedev #indiegame #gaming #cardgame #game #videogame #cardbattler

TIL the #SteamDeck has no rumble hardware and instead uses the trackpad haptics to create a subtle vibration. Which means the bug I've been chasing is not actually a bug 🤣😭💀 #gamedev

Learned about make files, fixed some outdated code, added a new feature, and recompiled a new binary. Only to find there was an existing PR for what I was trying to do 🤦 At least I learned something along the way, eh?

Looks like #CloudFlare is down 😅 The number of times the internet has broke this year is concerning

Me: *clicks uninstall Adobe Creative Cloud* CC: Please login Me: Uh, sure CC: Oh and now plz update Me: Um, not sure I follow, but ok CC: Update failed Me: 💀

#SuborbitalSalvage is on sale for $5!

I take comfort in that, as a #gamedev, if I create a bug at worst players can't play a game. Unlike if I worked on say... #AWS where a bug could break the Internet 😅

Legacy project. No documentation.

Working on the last feature for the Steam version of #SuborbitalSalvage: achievements! Here's my rough list of silly names and objectives 😆 #gamedev

from peedee to PC... HEXA is now available on windows, macOS and linux!! #indie a hand-ported version of the really good hexagon-based puzzle game for #playdate, brought into the wonderful #love2d engine, with features like COLOR! and RUMBLE!?!? ⬇️ hundreds already love it, and now you can too. ⬇️

I forget that GIFs don't work on Bluesky, and it always tricks me because my draft post shows the GIF animating...

Quick demo of alt color palettes for #SuborbitalSalvage! Game won't auto switch over time as shown here, but is configurable in the settings. I'm open to palette requests as this is just a shader tweak 😄 #playdate #gamedev

@gamesrightmeow.com - it appears that tagging via SkyLight (ATproto short-form app) isn't working as I'd hope! Anywho, bear with me while I figure this out. And go check out Suborbital Salvage!! play.date/games/suborb...

Just submitted my entry to the #FallingBlockJam called Fall in Line: gamesrightmeow.itch.io/fall-in-line There's both Windows and #Playdate builds available!

Bits of polish and balancing. Tho I can't decide if the pillaring that ends most of my runs is a design problem, or if I just suck at my own game 🤔 #FallingBlockJam

Day 3: 𝕧𝕚𝕓𝕖𝕤. Tomorrow....some difficulty balancing 😂 #FallingBlockJam

Woke up with some fresh ideas that I think have made a big improvement! Video is playing at 2x speed because this was a rather long session ⏩ #FallingBlockJam

Day 2: I think I have a game? 🤔 #FallingBlockJam

I'm not yet sure what kind of abomination I'm making for #FallingBlockJam but there are blocks, and they are in fact falling!

While trying to sort out why a client's #Apple development team wasn't showing up under my account in XCode, I discovered that changing my preferred currency on my Apple developer account forces the backend to sync my available teams 😅😭💀 stackoverflow.com/a/77667105

Always wanted to explore the Small Web in beautiful 1-bit? Now you can! Meet Hopper, a down-to-earth Gopher & Gemini browser for #Playdate. Available today: tkers.itch.io/hopper

So begins the task of adding full mouse support to #SuborbitalSalvage for the Steam release. Normally an out-of-the-box feature I take for granted when working in an engine like Unity😅 #playdate #gamedev

Got an itch to do some late night coding, and knocked out a few tickets in the #Playbit backlog. Most notably: CoreLibs/object! #playdate #gamedev

This bundle supports Game Devs of Color, a nonprofit organization that uplifts and amplifies game creators of color. itch.io/b/3171/game-...

cloudburst, my newest #playdate app, arrives in catalog tomorrow! weather you like it or not

Today my team and I got told that we were made redundant, not gonna go into specifics. But yeah, I'm still in shock. I guess I'm a freelancer for the foreseeable future? I will make my commission price sheet this weekend. If you want to work with me as artist lmk in DMs 🫶 Here's some of my work:

#SuborbitalSalvage is on sale for 25% off as part of Augustravaganza!

Decided to take a break from the Suborbital Steam release, and prototype a #Playdate game: a roguelike where you can only move in the direction you're facing.

Reminder that #Steam sales are also great for picking up soundtracks to your favorite games! I ditched Spotify this year and have been enjoying going back to curating my own music collection.

A real commit message from work today. I swear I'm a professional 🙈 #gamedev

After three days of trying to figure out why my builds weren't downloading from #Steam, they magically started working today. I have mixed feels 🥳😅😭🤬 Normally I'd still be trying to understand what happened but I think I'm just going to take the win today... #gamedev

#SuborbitalSalvage now has a coming soon page on Steam 🥳 Wishlist it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3687960/... Also in celebration of this announcement, the #Playdate version on Catalog is on sale for $6! play.date/games/suborb...

I've hit a milestone this week and finally got a build of #SuborbitalSalvage running on the #SteamDeck 🥳💃🎉 I suppose this also double as an announcement that #Playbit supports building #Playdate games for the Steam Deck 😁

I'm so thrilled that @cheymac.bsky.social enjoyed #SuborbitalSalvage 🥳

I've got 99 problems and #Unity is all of them 🤣

The 1.1 update for #SuborbitalSalvage is live on #Playdate Catalog! The most notable addition is an option to disable cat dialog for speedier restarts for those chasing a spot on the leaderboards. Also if you haven't bought it yet, the game is currently on sale! play.date/games/suborb...

Random customer service agent: what browser are you using? Chrome or Safari? Me: Neither. Agent: What? Me: I use #Waterfox. Agent: 🦗 I must have gone off their script 🤣

Today I discovered Aseprite's automagic outline feature...after manually outlining all of Suborbital's sprites for months 😂🤣☠️

Tune in tomorrow to watch some cool people at Panic play #SuborbitalSalvage on #Playdate! Also, please remind them not to feed the fish 🚀🐟😉

After a much needed break after launch, I've been back at it working on the 1.1.0 update for #SuborbitalSalvage. This update will be focused on some QOL feature, most notably, a settings screen with some request accessibility options!

Excited to watch fletch play some #SuborbitalSalvage today!

Looking forward to the XTRIS launch tomorrow 🚀

Not exactly a secret, but also not something I've talked about a lot: I've been working on a toolkit called #Playbit to make desktop and #Playdate games simultaneously from the same Lua code base. It's #OpenSource, and you can check it out here: github.com/GamesRightMe...

Absolutely loved this! For dialog being mostly randomized, I thought a lot of them were pretty well timed 😆 Also great tips for getting leaderboard topping runs - spin boosts are key! #SuborbitalSalvage #Playdate

Wanna join the rest of us and get yourself a fancy label? Check out the quoted post! 😊

It's time for the 12 days of XTRIS! I'll be counting down the days to the release with posts detailing aspects of the game, mini-interviews, and lots of peeks at the game! For today, be sure to go check out the trailer to get yourself in the mood: youtu.be/m9zJnn7-XwQ #gamedev #indiedev #playdate

I planted a new post in my #DigitalGarden about the startup crash in #SuborbitalSalvage! Hopefully this spares another #Playdate dev from a similar launch day experience🫂 gamesrightmeow.com/garden/df592...

For anyone who was affected by the startup crash in #SuborbitalSalvage, my apologies! There should now be a 1.0.1 build available to download that fixes the issue. Thanks for your support on launch day!

#SuborbitalSalvage is available MEOW on #Playdate Catalog! Test your piloting skills in this endless runner set in a dystopian corporate future! Oh, and please try not to feed the fish - your supervisor won't appreciate the policy violation. play.date/games/suborb... #indiegame #gamerelease #1bit

That exciting and terrifying feeling you get when your game launches tomorrow 🥳😅😬👀🙈🙏🚀