It's got enough room for me & the whole squad ⚔️

Unreal Tournament 2004 is now available for free. ...well, I mean, you probably could've grabbed a GOG offline installer out the back of a truck earlier, but NOW it's Official/Legally Free and has the in-development community patch packed in for ongoing support. www.oldunreal.com/downloads/ut...

Made some creepy new critters today.

I hit the button ✅😭🐸 🚨BIG HOPS is OUT NOW🚨 Get it on Steam | Switch | PS5 for just $17.99 with our 10% launch discount! #indiegames #nintendoswitch #ps5

Starting a play through of Xenogears, a classic PS1 god killing RPG. It’s been… maybe 25 years since I last played it?

Happy to announce that Jinja's Garden is live today on Apple Arcade 🥳 I've spent the past 2 years at Sago Mini working on this. If you're an Arcade subscriber (or are looking for an excuse to be) then please check it out! apps.apple.com/ca/app/sago-...

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

We Canadians can't turn down an opportunity to tell you about Téléfrançais and that creepy pineapple. I'm sorry about that.

Life should be just making little videogames and drinking coffee.

Another holiday Linux activity: made an AirPlay Receiver for some old bookshelf speakers using a Mini PC with Lubuntu and Shairplay! github.com/juhovh/shair...

Happy first day of winter holidays, let’s celebrate by installing a Linux.

Sago Mini published an article talking a bit more about Jinja's Garden 🪏🪴❤️ sagomini.com/article/intr...

🌷 📢 New Game Announcement 📢 🌻 Finally I can talk about this: Jinja's Garden was announced yesterday! It's a cozy gardening adventure by Sago Mini launching on Apple Arcade next month! It's a fantastic intro to cozy games for kids 3-6 (and beyond.. my 7 yo loves it!).

Excited to connect with more of our fellow Ontario game studios + devs, so we put together these Ontario Game Devs starter packs! go.bsky.app/8jZjEfP go.bsky.app/7FjqDhQ Give them a follow! 🎮🍁

Did another game jam! This time with some work friends. Check it out here: ryanmiller.itch.io/bark-heroes BARK HEROES

Last minute news!!! Revertices is gonna be at Toronto Games Expo this weekend! 👁️ You can Play the Shapes, you can say hi to our business moguls, you can get a little bit of hand-made merch! 🟢♦️🔽 We're at table 44 in the indie dev showcase ! #TGE2025 #IndieGames

Continued work on my turn based battle system. Added a bit of UI, thought this really needs characters and animations soon! Got the Healer brain to work (heals allies below 50%) and the defend + counter attack feature (without infinite counter loop) 😅 Fun stuff!

Making a turn based RPG battle system today. I've never made one more simple than just back and forth attack/health turns and wanted to give it a shot!! It's just text so far but it supports multiple combatants, turn order/amount from speed, and even a few enemy AI profiles.

Flow (2024)

I can’t think of anything better to do on a holiday apparently

Realized today that it would be kind of trivial to make the tile editor work at runtime, so I did that. Should I do a level editor or is this just a horrible distraction??? Yes!!

"Ryan are you going to patch all your game jam games on your itch page?" Uh, look over there - a bear! **runs away**

Then of course I thought, oh, I need to patch Fossil Hunters too! But wait.. it was made with Unity 5.6.7 -- arguably the best Unity version of all time 🤣 So whatever, it's safe, it was always safe. Check it out too, why don't ya: store.steampowered.com/app/690150/F...

Just patched Fire Tonight on Windows + MacOS to address the recent Unity vulnerability, which helped me remember about this game I made with Reptoid Games back in 2021! It still holds up as a great short+sweet little thing, and it's on sale for almost free. store.steampowered.com/app/1188900/...

By baking data directly into a texture, through different channels, you can drive position, scale, and rotation of other elements, unlocking flexible, procedural control for unique effects with optimized performance #UnrealEngine #GameDev #VFX #RealtimeVFX

A little rest for Shakra and Hornet the hardest part of Silksong is deciding if I draw or play

It's not 40 degrees celsius outside anymore, I'm drinking PSLs, kiddo is going back to school and it's ever closer to Halloween. Hell yeah, bring on autumn!!

Happy to say that I'm now rocking @bazzite.gg on my Desktop and Handheld PCs 😎

Let’s play a game, which Unifying Receiver is this keyboard paired to? “None” is unfortunately a possibility.

Happy 3rd Birthday to @ontariogametesters.com!! We've just wrapped our best year yet. Grateful to be working with such great testers, game studios and games! Here's to many more 🥳

Spent some time on dialog sequencing today. Added an ID system to link scene objects to scriptable objects, making them easy to reference in dialog etc. Also some quality of life stuff: a quick “Add Opposite Dialog” shortcut and hid extra params in foldouts.

Unity Devs: How do you organize your scene hierarchies in Unity? Talking about Environments/Props. I don't really want to group everything. Do y'all use those scene hierarchy plugins that make fake folders? Do you make =====NPCS===== header gameobjects? Something else? TELL ME!

I've decided to keep both dialog bubbles and the text box. Figure they'll be useful in different contexts. That's enough time working on Dialog UI, time to get back to ... gameplay? art? level design? 🤔

Made a stem for the dialog bubbles 💬

Working on a 'bubble' version of the dialog player UI. I got positioning + screen clamping working. Next up will be the 'stem' graphic and placement. Maybe some padding.

We ran a randomized controlled trial to see how much AI coding tools speed up experienced open-source developers. The results surprised us: Developers thought they were 20% faster with AI tools, but they were actually 19% slower when they had access to AI than when they didn't.

Ok don't get too excited, I put together a graphics settings screen. Contain your excitement!! It is only a menu screen.

planning ahead: you must survive through '25 absorb the kicks in '26 keep on devvin' in '27 dire straits in '28 this is fine in '29 stay sturdy in '30

I didn't think I could like Microsoft less, but here we are.

Why am I making things in Godot now? It's pretty cool actually. Much improved from the last time I tried it. I gotta get back to Unity so I don't restart this project again 😖

NEW: EA CEO Andrew Wilson was paid $30.5 million in cash and stock this past year, up about $5m from a year ago Since the U.S. requires companies to compare CEO pay to employee pay, I made an EA pay chart To make it work, I had to make it VERY TALL Take a look: www.gamefile.news/p/ea-ceo-and...

I moderated a panel at XP Game Summit a couple weeks ago, which was a really rad event! They just recently sent some cool photos 🤩

It's been a little while! I have been adding a health bar, as well as items and food that you can eat to heal. There's a whole Item Manager / ID / Pooling thing too, but that's hard to show in a video.

Oh, finally got respawn working properly too!

Put together a simple scene loader + transition + checkpoint saving setup. Now we can wander between scenes with the right entry/exit points, and even load into a save game in the right place.

By popular demand, we've launched a 'device catalog' section on our website where you can see what we've got to offer. Cool feature: You can expand a foldout below each group of devices to view their bench mark scores and better understand their differences. ontariogametesters.com/devices.html

Anyone else headed to XP Game Summit? I'll be there repping @ontariogametesters.com and on a panel with the @interactiveontario.com Indie Superboost Committee, talking about the indie balance between creative and business realities. See you there ... ?

🚨HUGE News🚨 🐸BIG HOPS is a froggy platformer with deep movement, fresh tongue-gameplay, where you use powerful veggies to grow paths forward! ✨Free demo out NOW 🎮Coming to Nintendo Switch 1 & 2 in Q4 2025 💰Our publisher dropped us, so we're KICKSTARTING (links below)