2025 is ending Videogame of the year: Hundreds of Beavers Movie of the year: Blippo+ (note: If you ask whether Hundreds of Beavers truly counts as Videogame of the year - YES, because I watched it the first time this year)

So, that was 2025 (jesus christ, wtf?) But I wish you a happy new year no matter what!

Rack modules are on the way! Soon I shall do music with a proper modular system! modulargrid was essential for planning, but an essential piece of info that's missing about each module is "does it contain a CPU?" I'm prioritizing getting modules that wouldn't get me in trouble in the Dune universe

I've been thinking about Hundreds of Beavers every day since I watched it. Maybe I should just watch it again

wait I just spotted another "are games art" discourse I thought we settled this. Games are not art, but you can make it art with this neat trick Remember to set isArt to false on deinitialization. Otherwise your game unnecessarily consumes art energy when not running

Competition! The person with the most managers in their game wins! Anything counts as long as it's in form of code, and the name contains the word "Manager" Multiple instances only count once. I have 43

I'm looking for an animated pixel art gear ⚙ generator - just the outline. I'll add shading & texture to it myself Gears is such a mathematical shape that I feel it makes more sense to do the outline of it procedurally than drawing the pixels Tips?

Today I'm going to add synchronization output to my adaptive music software, so I can sync my Minibrute 2S sequencer (and in turn, my modular rack) to it! Fun!

When my modules has arrived I'll have 24HP of empty space remaining in my rack I'm looking for unusual modules that do something uniquely non-digital. Think "Error Instruments Mechanical Resonator" or "Gamechanger Audio Plasma Voice" Tips?

Gävlebocken!

Gävlebocken!

I've places my first rack module order! Fun! Most of my choices should be non-controversial, but I've made one decision that if it was code, would make the entire stackoverflow go "why would you want to do that?" So I shall not tell what it is before I have audio examples to prove it's cool

I've set up VCV Rack on my PC for all kinds of fun processing on the audio coming out of my rack It raises the question, why a hardware rack if I have software stuff To justify it, I think I'm gonna have a "no digital modules in my hardware rack" rule.

Anyone knows a good VST host that isn't designed to function as music creation software, but just realtime signal processing and recording? I'd like to monitor the input signal from the sound card with and without FX, and simultaneously record the wet and dry signal into separate wav files

Okay, for how long has Unity supported loop points in audio clips (as in, not looping to the beginning but somewhere in the middle)? Goddamn it, I find out in my very last Unity game

Merry Christmas! Tip of the day - when having a small bag of candy, and a similarly small bag of dog treats, and you've for some reason placed them next to each other... remember which is which when grabbing a candy

I still can't get over how funny Hundreds of Beavers is I don't think I've seen any movie with a higher "jokes per minute"

I've attached an eurorack case to my minibrute 2s and it's set up to be used with my computer, all ready to be used Only, I own no rack modules. The coming weeks I intend to change that. Which modules should I get? I've only settled on a wasp filter since it's a must-have classic

The goat finally got to see snow, though only a layer so thin, one degree warmer and it's gone in an instant

Wait, I almost forgot! Gävlebocken, from this morning!

At the cafe, the chill guitar music is lining up with the tonality of the ventilation system, which acts as a drone accompanying the music. It's beautiful I love unintentionally musical moments in real life

I should also add, every time you buy Hypnospace Outlaw, you buy one of the most amazing games there is! First impression may be that it's a joke based on late 90s internet, but the stories it tells in that framework is no joke. They're layered and beautiful!

I just saw Hundreds of Beavers. It's slapstick heaven, with some quite videogame-like logic!

Something I feel I was better at early on in my dev than now is having locations without a game mechanics purpose Back then I would add a place to discover, just because what that place feels like to see. Today I feel I need to justify it mechanically I need to destroy that idea in my mind

For my adaptive music thing, I managed to set up a google form with 256 questions. Now I'm stuck, I can't figure out how to give the viewer 16 random questions out of those 256 and only ask them to answer those

I have an idea for a new music algorithm! Tricky thing is, I have to determine how bad or good all numbers are from 0 to 255 I wish bluesky had polls so I could run 256 polls, one for each number

I think we should have a game jam to settle the discourse. Winner is selected at random but is permanent, and get to decide if the title is father, mother or parent of indie games. The title must be respected by all

Goat! Also got interrail days left so I randomly got onto a train to Falun. I have no idea what's in Falun but let's find out in an hour

At a cafe! There's a stream of Gävlebocken on youtube where I can see the goat! Nice!

I think it's time to do videogame and film of the year! Videogame: Blippo+ Film: Blippo+

I have three days on my interrail pass, and just 5 days to spend them I need to go somewhere :O

Anyone knows how one would make a script that can take a document on Google Sheets, save it as a tsv file (google sheets can export to this nicely already), and place it in a particular folder on my hard drive? Having to do it via the website takes a minute, 1 minute x hundreds of times = hours

I'm at a cafe next to the goat. Maybe I should show my dog to everyone watching the live stream of the goat on the way out

BÈÈÈH!

I've been watching a lot of Mario Marker troll videos over the last years and I've started to incorporate a lot of game design from it into my own stuff Often not even for trolls (tho I do put in a few), but how to play with expectations, and not always giving the outcome I'm telegraphing

Random reminder that the last game I released is free - I teamed up with @1neila1.bsky.social and also @agaitcheson.bsky.social did a cool thing in it, and you can download it! It's golf meets platformer meets... shenanigans?

A quite from Adventure Time will forever live in my head: "Sucking at something is the first step towards being sorta good at something" It breaks my heart when people say "was this made by AI?" as an insult when they think something non-AI is bad Making bad art is good and should be celebrated

Why is there a Street Fighter movie and why is the trailer so good? No, genuinely, this is one of the most effective trailers I've seen. It just promises "they will fight - a lot"

Dog and goat!

I'm making a bunch of complicated refactors and I have too few problems and things work first try and it's really bothering me I do know things aren't supposed to work first try This is like one of those movie scenes where someone goes "It's quiet... TOO quiet"

Check it out! I can spell it. "Koyaanisqatsi" First try! I didn't even have to look it up! (no, I genuinely still didn't look it up before pressing Post, there's a chance this is an embarrassing post)

It's official! IndieCade selected me as this year's recipient of the Bernie DeKoven Big Fun Award. I was over the moon when they told me 🥲 Bernie's work is foundational to so much of the work that inspired me, so to be considered a part of what he began is the most incredible honour 🧡

Writing easy to understand even when solo coding is important, because you are simultaneously coordinating with your past and future self, making sure you're all are on the same page. Yes, you're a time traveler! How cool is that?

I left my phone home, it was on 3% and needed charging So, today you get a laptop webcam picture of Gävlebocken I just captured from a cafe. I'll get you a fancy picture next time, promise!

Keyboard customization code. Starts implementing a way to retrieve key and button pairs from string identifiers. Until I spot these two lines and realize I already did exactly that at some point already.

Time to open VS 2026 for the first time. I deselected "copilot" during installation. Place your bets, will I be able to disable all AI features quickly, or will I uninstall 2026 today?

‪Do you know the videogame/music making thing ODDADA? I made a bunch of songs with it, and now I've put them all on Youtube ODDADA is on Steam! Link: store.steampowered.com/app/1627870/...

After programming for so many years, I've learned there are no "rules" that makes any code goo Almost every rule have an anti-rule. Like "Don't repeat yourself"'s anti-rule is "Bad abstractions hurts the code more than repetition" So if rules are just guidelines, how to know when to do what? (1/2)

Input customization menu! I need a symbol for "key is unassigned". I want to avoid using a word because localization reasons. However, if I use "?" or "X" players will think it's assigned to the ? or X keys The symbol can be anything I can draw. Color is 1-bit and undefined