Turn the sound on! WIP: an #XR experience that translates sounds/music into colors that come out from your fingertips. It works with the microphone too, but I'll spare you from my singing in this video. For 12 Days of Sketchmas game jam Themes used: colors+beat #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Indie dev friends, here's my 2025 Financial Report for Dev's Games! A breakdown of my profits, expenses, costs, sales, wishlists, etc. for my indie game dev business in 2025! I also talk a bit on my approaches to sustainability/transparency too. Check it out: devonwiersma.github.io/Devs-Games-2...

On Christmas evening, I watched the 1979 movie, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century. I had not seen it before, only watched the TV show as a very small kid. Fond blurry memories of it. Watching it as an adult now, I can see it was really racist/sexist, as were many shows during that time. So... 1/

12 Days of Sketchmas, Day 1. Theme: "stocking". I used OpenBrush to turn my computer/monitor into a Christmas fireplace with stockings and a black cat. itch.io/jam/12-days-... #Sketchmas #Day #MetaQuest3 #OpenBrush #XR #AR #MR

12 Days of Sketchmas jams is coming up, starting on Christmas day. Always one of my favs. It's a relaxed no-pressure game/art jam where you get 12 themes and can mix them however you want or just do little experiments. Game jam: itch.io/jam/12-days-... Art jam: itch.io/jam/12-days-...

12 Days of Sketchmas jams is coming up, starting on Christmas day. Always one of my favs. It's a relaxed no-pressure game/art jam where you get 12 themes and can mix them however you want or just do little experiments. Game jam: itch.io/jam/12-days-... Art jam: itch.io/jam/12-days-...

You won't believe what happened on my coffee table. #FiveMinuteKingdoms #MixedReality #XR #MetaQuest3

Watch to the end to see BOSS MODE! I've finally recovered from the jam, and fixed the random crashes in Five Minute Kingdoms, and now the slingshot properly gives the powerup to launched units, making them extra fierce. 😠💢 #gamedev #XR #MixedReality #FiveMinuteKingdoms

Slept for 14 hours! Recovering from a month of focused ultra-intensive game jamming. It's hard to shut off after going so intensely, but I'm resisting the urge to work more on the game for now.

Here was the 3-minute entry video for the #XR #mixed-reality game I made for the Meta Horizon Developer Start Competition. I made the video at the end of an all nighter, so be warned. I was so exhausted that I had microsleeps with eyes open while editing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FYM... #gamedev

Timelapse of building a massive fortress on my kitchen table, w/ a death-defying bridge to the kitchen counter. I'll share more about the game after recovering from the death-defying ~1-month jam that ended today. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiP2... #gamedev #xr #mixed-reality #vr

Timelapse of building a defense for the Bonefolk Then testing it against a single Gourmound invader. (1/2) WIP for the game I'm making for the Meta Horizon Start Developer competition. Recorded on #MetaQuest3. #gamedev #XR #indiegamedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Secret Santa Jam 2025🎄 Write a letter to Santa🎅 Receive a random letter 📬 Make a game for someone! 🎁 December 5th - December 21st itch.io/jam/secret-s...

Building an outpost for the bone folk on top of my computer. WIP for the game I'm making for the Meta Horizon Start Developer competition. Recorded on #MetaQuest3. #gamedev #XR #indiegamedev

Building a fortress for the bone folk on my desk. WIP for the game I'm making for the Meta Horizon Start Developer competition. Recorded on #MetaQuest3 #gamedev #XR #indiegamedev

WIP: Open palm to show the palette of pieces. Grab a unit/defense and place it. This is what it looks like w/ about 300 units placed. Thankful for Unity's ECS/DOTS & Meta's spacewarp feature for making this performance possible. Recorded on Meta Quest 3. #XR #GameDev #HandTracking

WIP: I'm old & achy, but now I can grab things from across the room simply by wiggling my fingers at them! #XR #GameDev #HandTracking

Imagine a Game Jam… but in a Castle… That's Castle Game Jam! And for it to make its comeback in 2026, we need at least 100 reservations to make the event a reality, so if you would like to embark on a week-long Game Dev journey filled with whimsical fun, head over to www.castlegamejam.com #GameJam

WIP: More finger slingshot action w/ hand-tracking in #XR. Smoother and the rubber band conforms to the object being launched. Also there's fun sounds! #GameDev #HandTracking

Something really unexpected & spooky happened when I was recording a little demo video for some hand-tracked #XR interactions for finger flicking & sling-shot gestures on the #MetaQuest3. Watch til the end...

Something my friend David Snopek is working on, make sure you watch till the end because the first part of the video is looking at functionality we already have. Live editing in VR by manipulating objects in VR space. It's early days but has so much potential! www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_Vl...

I was cleaning/dusting my computer case, and from those droppings on my graphics card, I think a lizard might have been using my graphics card as its toilet! I hope it's been eating the bugs at least.

What's your number one personal game design principle? And even better - does it have a cool name?

Some of my fav signs & costumes at the #NoKings rally in Honolulu today. 🚫👑

"Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated. Children come home from school to find their parents have disappeared." - Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Results for the 4th Godot XR Community Game Jam are in! Congratulations to @andyman404.bsky.social for taking the top spot. itch.io/jam/godot-xr...

The hypocrisy from Trump's FCC Chair is staggering but unsurprising. It should be clear by now that to MAGA, protecting freedom of speech was always secondary to wielding the power to punish anyone who questions this regime.

I made this protest sign back in April. Now it's September, and late night hosts are being silenced for being critical of the regime. In America, we've now arrived at the point where the government decides what you can laugh at.

Here's Wiener Wobble Dog Park! It's the XR hand-tracking game w/ stretchy wobbly daschunds I made for the #GodotXRGameJam September 2025. [Free, Meta Quest 3 or Desktop VR with hand-tracking]: andyman404.itch.io/wiener-wobbl... #GameDev #IndieGameDev #Godot

WIP: stretchy soft-belly physics for the finger controlled wiener dog in #XR for the Sep 2025 #GodotXRGameJam. #GameDev #IndieGameDev #Godot

WIP: using finger tracking to control a wobbly stretchy wiener dog in #XR for the Sep 2025 #GodotXRGameJam. #GameDev #IndieGameDev #Godot

I'm on day 22 of COVID-19. I've finally started getting better and recovered a lot the past 3 days. Still have minor coughing and sinus discomfort, a lot of tiredness, and headaches. And now, a lot of difficulty sleeping. Stay safe out there, everyone! 😷💉

I'm on day 15 of COVID-19: I thought I was getting a little better, but last night I had the worst coughing attack I've ever experienced. Chest aches. Sinus headache and nose waterfall. Waiting for call back from doctor. Stay safe everyone! 😷🦠

I'm on day 9 of COVID-19 today. I've lost 5 lbs of body weight so far and have done so much deep abdominal coughing that I think I'm starting to see some 6-pack abs on me. Stay safe out there everyone.

Day 7 of #COVID gave me an even more suitable voice for a sad tired raccoon who’s just barely holding it together. Here's "Home Is Where The Trash Is", the VR hand-puppet game I made for the Sizzling Shrimp VR Summer Jam 2025: andyman404.itch.io/home-is-wher... #GameDev #IndieDev #VR #XR

My wife and I finally caught COVID-19 for the first time after all these years. Fever and sore throat.

WIP 1 - "Home Is Where The Trash Is". This is a VR hand puppet game I'm making for Sizzling Shrimp VR Summer Jam. Turn on sound to hear me introduce the game through the raccoon! #VR #XR #HandTracking #gamedev #IndieGameDev #Raccoon

Here are my stray cat friends from Kakaako Waterfront Park: I call them Fatty, Darkness, & Toupee. Fatty usually just likes to lounge around on the ground. Darkness is so soft to rub. Toupee will stretch out for a good long rubbing and meow at you if you stop too early. #Honolulu #Kakaako

Using OpenBrush to quickly iterate/prototype a raccoon for the Sizzling Shrimp VR Summer Jam. Going to make some mischief and cause some unhappy campers. #gamedev #openbrush

Seriously, why tf does this sugarcane drink list horse hooves in the ingredients!?!?!? No drink should have horse hooves in the ingredients list. I hope that is just a mistranslation. 🤮🐴

Finally home after about 2 amazing weeks in Japan! Somehow, it felt like a lot longer. It was good to take a break from the computer & the 24/7 US news cycle. We walked soooo much, but ate very healthy meals, and were able to find good vegan options. Bonus: almost all of my houseplants survived!

In Tokyo, there is a park with a name which translates to "Sudo Park". I just had to go there. It's where all the super users hang out. #linux

Life-sized Gundam statue in Tokyo! Huge and so realistic. Look at the size of the humans standing near it for scale! 😯

So happy! 😊 My wife & I visited the Meteor store in Tokyo. It is the home of the annual My Famicase exhibition, the inspiration for the "A Game By Its Cover" game jams, one of my favorite yearly game jams.

For my fellow vegans, if you ever go to Tokyo, make sure you book a meal at Veganic Monkey Magic. It's very special and delicious.

Still some ways to go, but the cat is out of the bag. It's finally happening!

#NoKingsDay protest rally in front of the State Capitol, in Honolulu, Hawaii. There were so many great protest signs today.

One of the toughest parts in making this was figuring out how to make these bugs climb properly. They can climb anything that's touching the ground, including other larva. They propagate the "groundedness" to each other with an expiration time for that groundedness. #gamedev #indiegamedev

One of the toughest parts in making this was figuring out how to make these bugs climb properly. They can climb anything that's touching the ground, including other larva. They propagate the "groundedness" to each other with an expiration time for that groundedness. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Here's "Writhe & Shine", the #VR game I made for #VRJam 6. Guide your larva swarm to eat & grow. For Windows OpenXR & Meta Quest 3 [free]: andyman404.itch.io/writhedine #GameDev #IndieGameDev #XRGameDev #Quest3