Ironically AI did bring about a Web 3.0. Unfortunately it's just a shitty low-trust dead internet.

My favorite part of Pluribus is how it mocks the hypothetical brba/BCS folks who tuned out because it's not in the universe lol

Mercator is OUT NOW on Steam! If you're a fan of history games or shopkeeping, it's gonna be right up your alley! Take a look at this great review video. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4PL... Get it on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3268870 #indiegames #historygames #shopkeeping #newgame

Mercator is coming out on Steam and itch.io on Nov 1, 2025, thanks all! youtu.be/2MC5JJnA09k

Great they juiced up everything in iOS 26 so now I can feel inadequate about my game animations while procrastinating.

Sorry for no game-related updates if anyone here is paying attention. Game is fully functional at this point, but running into some issues in the Mandarin localization. Hopefully will be out by year end.

Why did Pink Floyd produce only mid until the midpoint of Meddle and then suddenly begin exclusively producing peak?

Crazy that in 2025 entering the words "X birthday" on a day event in Google calendar does not automatically set the recur to every year.

What is the best Abbey Road song and why is it Maxwell's Silver Hammer?

Accidentally Ctrl+Z'd in Shotcut and crashed the entire app instantly. I love C++.

Mercator's almost done. It's quite bittersweet.

In my free time I've been playing a neat roguelike called Ancient Domains of Mystery that's years older than I am. I find medieval RPGs a little cliche these days but this one is great (plus it should be getting a pass anyway since it was early to the party)

STEAMWORKS

In case Valve has been stalking me I wanna say I'm mighty happy with the new steam page video player.

Pokemon BW and B2W2 are the Undertale and Deltarune of Pokemon.

My Microsoft hatred over the last few days still hasn't calmed down. I remember, maybe around 2018-2020, Windows 10 actually improving with things like WSL and Windows Terminal. Seems in 2025 there's been an about turn into enshittification and bloatware. Tragic. Will never daily drive Windows again

I just realized the three dots on the steamworks logo are supposed to be an abstract representation of the steam logo.

Having severe trouble cross-compiling to windows with Steamworks. I suspect this is entirely to do with Microsoft being crap and not letting people just download their stupid dependencies for the steam dll. Not sure though.

Super Mario Odyssey was 10 years ago today.

Another day as a Rustacean, another day of "failed to map object file: memory map must have a non-zero length"

Ermagerd, LET CHAINS!

Did anyone here end up playing my demo? Please let me know if there were any massive bugs I didn't fix.

In asset hell rn

I just read two books in a month and enjoyed it. Man I'm old now.

Y'ALL MY WISHLISTS DOUBLED YESTERDAY THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭😭😭😭 brewing falernian wine in my dolia to celebrate

There are so many parts of this I love: the mixture of agriculture and commerce(!), the ability to use social skills to influence your customers(!!!), integration of small scale exchanges with the macroeconomy (!!!!!). Ahhhhh!!!

A few new followers, so wanted to mention that Mercator will be a part of the upcoming June Steam Next Fest! It's a shopkeeper game about ancient trade from India to Rome and in between. Check out the trailer and the Steam page: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O1pp... store.steampowered.com/app/3268870/...

The brutal reality is that unless I download the reddit app I will be forced to read breaking news about Sabrina Carpenter on the browser version.

I can now control the color/lettering of the cape. You can even fish with it on, yay!

Testing some kind of cape reward

His smile and optimism: gone.

Getting Rome all set up to trade

Can you move to Canada even if you don't speak Canadian or nah

Looking forward to next fest. Don't have anything new to show but lots of post demo content work so that the full game can be released a few months later. Expectations low, and there'll likely be flaws I haven't noticed, but play testing has been positive.

I beg you to check out the "brand blunders" wikipedia article. It's the most hilarious thing I've read in months

Just ended a 4 day stellaris obsession (crisis got bugged) and coming back to work on my game... jeez fresh eyes really do look at everything differently.

I've finally begun working on Adulis, the port town of the ancient Axumite Empire in Africa, and the third location in my game. I thought I'd be getting to this one in November but uhh... lots of other game dev needed to be done first 😅

The year is 2073. The iPhone 85 just came out. And guess what: its keyboard is still hot ass

balatro ruined my productivity for 3 months and jimbo must now face the consequences

May I share a random touching moment I had playing Stellaris? I came across this piece. The mind races thinking about it but it's a strange feeling seeing aliens depicted as friends, even our rescuers, rather than enemies.

No new updates on the game yet because I've been slowly working on the most annoying yet necessary UI it's gonna have. The map is probably the biggest interface I've ever worked on in terms of sheer functionality. All this to move items and people around...

Someone tell me who reserved the word `type` in Rust so I can visit their house and say very kind things to them

What 0 consumer interest does to a mf

I think it's worth being a little sappy for this: Portal 2 literally shaped my childhood and is still my #1 favorite game of all time. If you haven't played it, play it or I'm coming to your house

Still have nightmares about pre observer bevy when I had to use 500000 EventWriters

Remembering a conversation I had a few months ago: "notwithstanding" is a dog water, F tier word. If I had it my way I'd nuke it off the dictionary.

Can't wait to switch back to intel which feels like 10 years behind for workstations thanks to current events.

Steam down? No steam goes up.

You can't really make a game about ancient international trade without... boats.

Probably gonna be switching up this account to my person (rudderbucky) once Mercator is done. I will continue to post (mostly) game dev content. Initially I didn't believe Bluesky was gonna last but I legitimately do not use Twitter almost at all anymore, so it seems like the thing to do.