Found out recently that the historic Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction is basically gone after 75 years. Them and several related sci-fi lit mags were bought up by some other group that has yet to publish an issue but hiked the sub price and reduced the yearly issue count.

new honey jars

I got some good work done on hit registration and item spawning today. I’ve been putting off the next devlog update until I have some more particles done. Should be soon.

Finally managed to finish the Silmarillion via Andy Serkis’ audiobook. Even with his incredible reading there were parts I didn’t completely take in, and I’ll have to go through it again sometime. Tldr there’s a few good tales and a lot of dry lineage and map talk.

Yet another problem caused by my poor usage of global vs local coordinates. They will be the death of me. It took a one line change in code to fix and took me 3 hours to find. But now lockon fully works as intended! Onward to combat

While building my Tau I listened to the audiobook and watched the two film adaptations of Burroughs’ Princess of Mars, a book I’ve known was influential but whose reputation is stained by Burroughs being a huge racist. Very inventive world for the time, mid/passable adventure.

Reworking the retargeting algorithm this week because I don’t know what I was thinking when I coded it wrong and didn’t test it enough and said “yeah that’ll do” for some reason.

Bone Fire Effigy's out now with a 35% introductory offer! store.steampowered.com/app/4089180/...

NEW FROM ME: Tiny Creature DRPG Game A creature-collecting first-person RPG menacingmecha.itch.io/tiny-creatur...

One day I’d really like to get back to the Mars game idea I was making concept art for. The 32bit spring cleaning jam starting up and my recent jump into a 40k Tau box got me thinking about that game again.

I have an upcoming Dungeon Crawler RPG called Scissors in Hell in cool steam event Dark Dungeon Days #DarkDungeonDays so I thought it would be nice to put together a new trailer... ...here is that very trailer:

Been watching Hercules TLJ (and some Xena) and it’s not bad. First couple seasons are rough, s3/4 have some great episodes. Side characters steal the show, so it’s no wonder Xena got her own. Interesting that Kurtzman/Orci who ruined Star Trek got their start with some Hercules episodes.

it's my birthday and I'm going to start posting some fan art of our favorite guy. Enjoy and more to come.. page 1..

Still plugging away at the prototype. I’m at another crossroads where I have about 50 things I could be working on but this week will be the busiest work week in a while and I’m taking a few days here and there to paint some minis. I’m feeling like streaming dev again. Maybe next week.

The Hypnagogia 1½ Demo is now... LIVE 🐀✨ Help Gogi navigate a ravaged, rodent-run dream city as he tries to find the cause of a new form of corruption in this prequel to 𝘉𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘋𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘮𝘴. Link to play free below ▼ #indiegame

that's annoying

In other dev news I now have moving platforms working, smoothed out the ledge climbing visuals, added a shadow decal, and setup costume and weapon switching systems.

I was replaying the old Beeknighted demo to see what parts I can salvage and wow there’s not much. I’m really glad I decided to restart from scratch because I’m astounded players were as kind about the controls as they were. I’ve learned so much and the old code is so bad.

My new game is Encroacher: Snakes It's a snake-tossing cryptic adventure coming 2026!

It’s going to be a few weeks of less attractive updates for Beeknighted. I’ve been fixing bugs and I’ll be focusing on the “juice” for a bit, facial expressions, particles, sounds, and such, along with prototyping some areas. Started composing a couple tracks too.

This is mega fucked up... and I hate the idea that this kind of stuff is going to get more and more prevalent as time goes on. Mass report garbage like this and know what you're buying before you buy it. This includes Steam as well.

I’m considering making one of those splash screens for my games that says something like “100% human made, no AI.” I kind of loathe the thought of even having to but the infection is so widespread that I want it clear that everything you see and hear is my own mediocrity, not generative excrement.

New devlog up recapping the new controls I’ve been working on for Aife: microtonalmatt.itch.io/beeknighted/...

I started greyboxing the beehive a few days ago and discovered a horrible issue with how placing the bee at a position other than 0,0 and 0 rotation broke the whole controller. Spent the last couple days fixing that dumb global/local coords mistake but now we’re good.

Nioh 3 demo was great

Got ledge/wall climbing in a rough draft state

Finally got climbing animations finished and tweaked a few other animations. I’ll post a video once I’ve got climbing in engine. Got sick and lost my voice this week so I’ve been slacking on dev and just gaming in bed

Got rudimentary swimming working today

Still a little rough but I've got a start on strafing, dashing, vertical/horizontal attacks, charge attack and jump attack

I’ve been making a bunch of small tweaks to things in the Beeknighted prototype. Adjusting animations, playing with speeds and timings, fixing bugs as I discover them. I’ve got strafing implemented now though it still needs work. All basic attacks are in and I started ui/menus. Video update soon.

Metroid Prime 4 thoughts: when it’s being MP, it’s very good-great. When it’s doing anything else, it’s middling. There’s about 5-8 hours of really great game packed into a 20-30 hour playtime. The desert would have been 100% ok if the crystal grind wasn’t mandatory and it was treated like SotC.

Organizing a game jam at @hauntedps1.bsky.social Can't wait! more info on 29th! #Davidlynch #Lynch #gamejam #lowpoly

I got to do vertex color for some custom modded Crash Team Racing levels this year as part of a team, and now that the tracks have finally been released I can show off my contribution! Here's a before an after of Arcane Garden and Kong Dungeon:

New devlog up detailing why Beeknighted went on hiatus and a recap of what I’ve been up to these past few years: microtonalmatt.itch.io/beeknighted/... Also I finally got around to uploading TOFS from Madvent 4 as it’s own page: microtonalmatt.itch.io/this-ones-fr...

Jolly (spooky) season is here! Madvent rises again! More micro horror games for the holidays! (Linkbelowwwwwww!)

"Madvent simply refuses to die." Appreciate the Madvent 5 dev team for continuing this mad event. It's no small feat to organize and ship on time! Since I didn't Direct this round, I'm excited I get to dive into a Madvent mostly blind!

WIP on the controls. Still lacking particles/sound effects/etc. so it's lacking a bit of punch atm but it's starting to take shape.

Basic movement including walking, running, jumping, flying, crawling, and dashing have all been re-implemented. That leaves strafing, swimming, climbing and a few other odd states left before I can begin working on combat and items. Video update soon.

The next Beeknighted devlog on itch (new camera part 2) is not going to go up for a little bit because now that I’m done with the first animation pass I’ve started reworking the controls. Also gifs still do not work on itch atm. Maybe I’ll put up a shorter devlog on something else in between.

Hey y'all, I'm trying to survive the last few months of development on 500 Cal, so I'm looking for work. I can do character models, UI, logos, character design, cover art, music videos, consulting, whatever the hell you need. Dm me or email at [email protected]

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Finally watching Enterprise. Finished season 1. Definitely a lot of very rough looking episodes even for the time and a lot that just kinda don’t go anywhere. There’s a few really good ones, and I generally like the crew though it feels like they kinda forgot about Travis. I like Archer a lot

Got my parents’ Mac SE up and running. Against all odds the 40 year old original floppy discs actually still work. Shadowgate, Uninvited, Deja Vu I/II, and the Hitchhiker’s Guide all still working and playing.

all this talk about ai psychosis reminding me that I sorta made a game about it a while ago. Its called "Remember Places?" maybe check it out if it interests you, its p short and simple

👽 Our ShroomJam 2025 game is now LIVE 👽 For the last 7 days I have worked tirelessly to bring this 2.5D shoot-em-up to life! Play as Gnorts as he enters the twisted realm of Grey Leno and puts a stop to his show once and for all. ▼ Play for free on itch now ▼ sodaraptor.itch.io/gnorts-vs-th...

Really missing Godot 3’s drag and drop asset pipeline rn

Illusory's Wall's debut album, Polychora, is out with cover by me! (link to music following, it's rad creepy dungeon synth!)

Almost finished with round 1 of bee animations - all the primary movement, sword, and injury animations. Then I’ll get the controls tightened up and round 2 is swimming, climbing, and special actions, maybe a weapon or two, and I’ll be ready to start remaking the demo again. Still a ways off though

More attack animations

💥Rematch with the First Demo Boss, only with all the new mechanics and additions online! 🐐🔥 Oh yeah! I'm feeling it!!! #gamedev #lowpoly