Being on blusky always feels like arriving at a festival of fun, a party of the unabashedly creative, a good time.

Streamed today. Didn't say anything, fixing bugs (SUCCESS!) + planning out how to put another settings feature for accessibility (reading docs) Also listened to some of the songs I've composed in the last couple months, taking notes and finding a couple REALLY matched well with the gameplay #gamedev

One would think news of CalCompute would be making much larger waves than it has so far.

One of the most rewarding aspects of making games? Getting letters about how your games got them through tough times, or brought their friends and family together when they were apart. Making things that can do that? Magical.

Gamedev stream went well but it was completely derailed from the initial goal - critical bugs appeared that needed tidying up, and some unusual code issues happened in the areas I was play testing - unfortunately not the kinds of bugs I was looking for - the 😭 kinds that require immediate work.

Streaming gamedev on Twitch - now! (does promotion ever not feel weird?)

Streamed over 7 hours of #gamedev =) such good progress, and made some new friends! It always warms my heart that people do in fact get excited about what I'm making enough to subscribe! Got some good chatter feedback today too, some things to work on and others that confirm the vision! 🔥

Should have announced before going live, but did a gamedev stream today! +new OBS scripting working really well, shows off different angles of the scenes I'm working in automatically +got some good additional level details done + lot of rough QA that needed validating #gamedev #indiegames #twitch

Part Two Update! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #indiegames #soulslike #roguelike #screenshotsaturday #buildinpublic

Happy little moment this morning, finding a giant optimization (flag wasn't on) on some very old tech art used in a few places.

Just had to format and write a new partition table to a drive. Data - lost. It was an external HDD for an Xbox, so it wasn't exactly regular stuff. Upside, the games can all just be downloaded again. Thought the drive was gone entirely, but you know, I have a certain set of skills...

Take a break? #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #unity #indiegames

Made a couple more songs between yesterday and today :)

Secretly streamed on Twitch today doing level polish :) Here's a screenshot - hope you'll give me a follow! #gamedev #indiegame #sologame #soulslike #unity

It isn't every day a technology blog really excites me, when you've been around the block for awhile, like seeing old tools dressed in new clothing, it can be sometimes eye-rolling. But seeing the announcement of Advanced Shader Delivery does excite me because it genuinely brings value. Link below.

Went live briefly on twitch today - was testing some new hardware triggers, most of them worked as expected. One did not and put me in a blank category, how odd. The dev machine eventually crashed though. On the brighter side, very happy with the new look 😁

So I got this asset a couple years ago for Unity, and found out today the developer had discontinued development. They had made a better asset, and gave a free upgrade to everyone who used the former asset they discontinued. Nice!

🛎 Slideshow of screencaps collected over the past few months #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #lowpoly #soulslike #roguelike #videogames #gamedevelopment

🎨 just some art

humbly excited seeing my last youtube upload have the highest views ever for my tiny channel, five times the previous best (100 to 500)

Somehow I made it past the first neovim lesson

A short story update on what I'd been building recently. I'd love if you subscribed, too. Maybe I'll make it to 25! 💙 www.youtube.com/shorts/YYCoG... #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #solodev #buildinpublic

Do you ever customize icons for shortcuts, desktop folders?

In today's adventure of gamedev project build pipeline, I restarted a task that took 5 hours this morning to run through. Currently around hour 3 of it doing it again! oops

and now part five of the solution is ready, on to six which will take some more complex thought and seven will be to chain these together

hahahaha all that work and it is reporting a speed up ratio over 5.7 million

Still on a coding roll ~ now solution part 4 is built tooo~~

*works all night bridging three solutions together* it is worrrrkinnngg 🎉🎉😁

oh hey this new script is working great... out of storage. you do not have permission error...error ok, great (repeat for 2 hours)

Been working on rolling my own ci/cd and it is coming along so nicely! The amount of skills required to put all this together gets my head spinning sometimes. Learning a few new things too! #solodev #gamedev #swe #indiedev #buildinpublic

Last couple day's gamedev adventure: dusting rust off of some server stuff, huge refinements to my note tracking system, new tech stack process to improve my quality of life a lot, and currently developing a more automated buildpipeline with my own tools! #indiedev #solodev #cicd #gamedev #wip

today's gamedev was full of "wow lots of work, looks like this solution is getting there" to "Oh no where did this showstopping bug come from" to "panic revert" to "somehow, figured it out" along the way got another fix in, glad I didn't give up in the face of the setback

❓ Quality of Life Experiment: Change CAPSLOCK to BACKSPACE on a machine that is only used for writing/notes. 🤓 After trial running it for awhile, can say it is a good QoL change. The travel time for the left/right hands/fingers just feels way better.

Composed 3 tracks in the last day and one of them I'm genuinely very pleased with! That special one for sure is going in the game! Even left it on repeat for awhile to make sure it was what I was looking for! 😁 #gamedevelopment #indiegames #solodev

Been at this system migration all day - my existing code solutions needed to maintain their functionality while I build and migrate an improved solution - one that is more flexible to solve some lingering technical challenges. Good news, first results are in - it is working! #gamedev #solodev

Woohoo, in today's adventure of game development: reviewing scripts fixed 47 warnings down to 23. Half of those 23 I'm just leaving in for now too, nice and tidy. Also found a bug referencing the wrong variable so we got a nice little bugfix in there too!

Broke some code yesterday morning, huge mistake. Had the gut feeling to take it easy - not burn the day - got up early with a fresh plan and mapped the issue and got it back to the working state! Discovered along the way two other bugs that initially made the issue feel like a monster but unrelated!

Which way? #indiedev #indiegames #pcgames #gamedev #solodev

Been expanding support for it yet ran into some issues, should still be able to get it working sooner rather than later :D A few edge cases and some unanticipated conflicts! Between coding support for this I'd been refining some playable areas, hope to share more soon! This week went by fast!

Had such a big gamedev win today - solving a huge issue with something broken for almost two years, that I really wanted in the game: Full menu controller support. The game's combat and everything else had it from the near beginning but soon the menus will support too!

Huge win today - I'll explain more later - have to move from this proof of concept quickly while this irons hot 🔥

Today's gamedev win: adding in support in the options menu for inverting vertical and/or horizontal camera. So all who love inverted sticks/mouselook, rejoice! I hope this delights you in some small way. #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #pcgames

⭐Did you know that greater than 34% Steam hardware survey users play above 1080p? 🎯 And that when combined with 1080p users, that accounts for a whopping 89.66%! (May, 2025)

Can barely contain my excitement over some of these new visual effects being created today and how they look composited together 🤩

Today in gamedev: crashed my pc using unlimited fps settings. 300 fps is cool until everything has to require holding the power button down! Also made a bunch of small incremental improvements!

Can you imagine, talking about egos? Sheesh! 🙄 Just kidding - come listen into a great conversation today (live now)!

The Outer Worlds is one of my favorite games, and it left me wanting more ever since. Seeing the coverage of Outer Worlds 2, has me excited, as a fan AND game designer. The attention to detail in the showcase for the variability in core gameplay (both narrative and combat) was masterclass!

🤐 my game brought to you by an INDIE SOLO DEV and ZERO of their friends (real and true) 😭but my friends like to break the game pretty often! Lets go, REAL INDIES! 👀 Do you like this level screenshot teaser? #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #videogames #indiegames #WIP #gamedesign

So much work being done - tiny polish here, content there, lots of code. Added features. Weird mini bug fixes. Visual polish. Gamedev as a solo is a doozy!

🤓 So awhile ago Visual Studio closed all my open tabs from the last year's worth of coding! 💢 (60+ scripts of interrelated systems!!!) Thought *I* broke something, turns out it was a bug, which thankfully was fixed yesterday. #unity3d #gamedev #software #coding #visualstudio #unity #swe