Oh boy, there goes nothing. Wish me luck with this one. If I ever was hoping for a run to be accepted into an event, it would be this one. Fingers crossed. Would be also my first GDQ event and probably the only one I will be able to attend in the next years. One can just hope😔

Was a banger day, played bomb busters with friends and had simply a good time. Got sadly drenched in the rain today tho haha.

Today is 🎈 and 🎂 day.

The chances to go to an in person GDQ event suddenly have increased drastically. I will try to submit a run and get into the event. Would be a dream coming true, especially considering the current situation across the ocean making it kinda impossible for me to travel to a GDQ event otherwise.

For research purposes, I am looking for some game recommendations that are similar to classic 3D Zelda games (OOT,MM,TWW,TP,SS). What other games had a similar formula? I am aware of Darksiders, Okami and Dungeons of Hinterberg and a few Indie titles, but I would be happy to hear about more games.

People love to call 2014-2018 the "golden age of speedrunning" but honestly the community around speedrunning is so much better now. I do not miss the GDQ Cringe Compilations and anti-SJW grifters that took up so much of the conversation. Glad that stuff is mostly dead.

Building a complex player controller has been the most challenging software engineering task ever. There are so many things to take care of. It truly is mindboggling. I also should have planned it better. Means I (or someone else in our team) will have to rewrite it at one point.

In light of recent news...

Lol apparently my reddit account got pwned and I never noticed it. I also never got an email. Must have been a leak somewhere in the past. Oh well, lets see if I can get the username at least back.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=_df3... The results of analysing 100 threads from a single account that were done in the last 72 hours - if you're a speedrun.com moderator, be aware of this user! #speedrun

Psychonauts Any% Derust + Teststream https://www.twitch.tv/matse007

I guess if I ever wanted to make a N64 game, I know what tool to use now haha. This is so cool! github.com/HailToDodong...

The push for AI is the reason currently for all types of shortages. You might have heard about the increased costs for PC components such as RAM, GPU's, SSD's now also HDD's and some CPUs. But for all the data centers there is also an increased demand for aluminium and copper for cooling.

The AI bubble RAM crisis is caused for non-existent problems by non-existent money for a non-existent infrastructure to meet non-existent demand to make non-existent business and will utterly destroy real business based on real demand and real infrastructure built with real money for real problems.

As for my own #PortfolioDay, Im still chugging along with my more recent work under NDA but always happy to share my work from 9 years ago! My latest personal work was running the Timmy Day 2025 event which involved several months of environmental art & animating cinematics for a large stream event.

Oooh my first #PortfolioDay! Hi! I'm Gina, a brand new Freelance 2D/3D Artist (thank you layoffs) and I'm just looking for some support and networking! 🐌 ✉️ www.linkedin.com/in/ginavoerde/ 🖼️ www.artstation.com/rainbowrat 🔴 www.twitch.tv/rainbow_rat_...

Hi #PortfolioDay! I'm a concept artist with 5+ years of exp working on videogames/mobile games, I've worked with both AAA and indies! Currently I'm working on mobile games in Berlin. I always love to connect with new artists and people! 🫡 ✨ ⭐ marinapapetti.com ⭐ artstation.com/marina_papetti

Heyo #Portfolioday I am a small artist who draws characters and tells stories for fun💫

Hi #PortfolioDay 👋 I'm Johanna, a German game programmer/generalist. Worked on lots of small games with various people which you can play on my itch page at matse007.itch.io I also worked on shaders in Godot, implementing my own version of a customizable cel shader and customizable sobel outlines.

A bit of an odd post but my university (Augsburg, Germany) is looking for a new professor for Game Design and 3D-Design. They are also looking to increase the amount of female professors. karriere.tha.de/Professur-fu... Applications are open till 16.01.2026 Maybe this is interesting to some people.

Ill start tracking games that I completed in 2026 this thread, stealing the idea from @keyinred.bsky.social I managed to finish Pseudoregalia earlier. Neat little game sadly a bit short. Very good movement and a banger soundtrack. Can just recommend it for anyone who likes platformers+metroidvanias

I have never ever thought that I would eventually write young adult fiction as part of studies. But it surprisingly is fun. I have forgotten how much I loved writing and reading books in the past. That love started to be rekindled again. Probably also the reason why I gravitated to YA as a genre.

Happy new year everyone! Im not creative so I just wish you all a great 2026.

I finally took my time to full nuke all of my Twitter. Good riddance.

In May, Twitch deleted 100K speedruns among millions of other videos. With the help of ArchiveTeam and @archive.org we saved these speedruns and 500K+ other popular Twitch videos. My search tool for viewing these archives is now live! archive.speedrun.club

So my apartment got flooded, and how has your Saturday been?

Bits & Bops released! Getting perfects everywhere https://www.twitch.tv/matse007

Decided to finally get this achievement today in Silksong. Surprisingly almost every boss was first try haha.

Man this is so rough. Today a harddrive randomly failed on me. I had a few projects on there, luckily pretty much everything backed up. Tho I lost a few files that I forgot to backup on a frequent basis. I should really get more backup drives and build myself a small NAS or something.

the ✨whimsical✨ stickers I was commissioned to draw for this update 😊

Jellyfish!!

Maximum Metal EE Hunt https://www.twitch.tv/matse007

Maximum Metal EE Hunt https://www.twitch.tv/matse007

new gun I made for the Maximum Metal update

Well I guess stream time tomorrow, time to hunt that EE.

You tried to stop him, but were your efforts enough? #MaximumMetal

Bad timing for a dying PC I guess. I think my PC is starting to reach the end of its lifespan and the prices for RAM are crazy. Dont think I am able to afford a PC with these prices. Its frustrating because I need one for my studies, so idk what to do here. 300€ for a RAM kit is crazy.

I had this literally a year ago already, guess I have to spam support tickets to get a human to look at this lol. So yeah, I am banned on discord, everything is read only and all my accounts got hit. What the heck?

Im honestly a bit frustrated about the fact that GSA is hosting their speedrun summit even at the exact same weekend as Flame Fatales. I researched it a bit and the event itself was announced quite a bit later than Flame Fatales. Kind of sad to see really.

Nuclear Throne update 100 is launching for free on Steam on December 5th, bringing you: - C-skins for all 13 characters. - Custom difficulty mode. - Localization, 60+ fps support & many more quality of life features.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZSi... - Farewell to Timmy Day 2025...also known as Timmy Day 3. (Yes I purposely misled with the 2025 thing, it continues the lore in subtle ways hehe...) See you again, someday, somewhere, space boy (and space cat). #TimmyDay #AHatinTime

So for Timmy Day I made a rotcore shitpost golf platformer game (wow thats a mouthful). If you want to play it, its available in the browser and on Windows/Linux. Go get golfing: matse007.itch.io/timmy-golf Also curious to see if you manage to 100% the game.

Holy shit this is so peak. I love modding

#TimmyDay2025 Is now LIVE. Let's have some fun guys. Thank you all for the support. Let's do this!!!!!! 😎🌀 www.twitch.tv/jakiekun

Pretty excited. Got something cooked up for it as well ;)

I cant put it into words really but the new ESA merch shirt looks so uncanny. It genuinely looks AI generated. There are so many elements that are usually results from genAI or genAI tools and not cleaned up properly. I sincerely hope that it is just a human error but I fear they actually used genAI

Also one last thing before I head to bed, I never had to worry about audio normalization before. And as I have quite a lot of sfx in my game, I had to do a lot of audio normalization. And I really have to learn how to make music eventually. And finally learn how to use a DAW properly.

Man I cant wait to show you what I got cooked up for Timmy Day. Its truly magnificent how much effort I put into this shitpost fangame that is quite a lot of fun. See you at the stream.

Actually curious, are there any musicians/composers out there who do commisions? I genuinely dont know where to get started and how you approach music especially in a fangame situation. I have 0 idea how expensive stuff like that gets. When i was looking for music, I found nothing that I could use.

I wish i could make music, especially as I worked on my entry for Timmy Day I knew what type of music i wanted but I am Just lacking the skills to make the music :(