You probably shouldn’t dig stra.. aaaah! Love seeing the progress on this project.

What I find beautiful about old technology are the places where it begins to come apart at the seams. Wobbly triangles on the PlayStation, tracking lines on a VCR. That sweet spot where ambition and constraint begin to have friction.

You ever get totally decimated by your child completely by accident? “Hey Dad. Do you remember when you were a kid? You know, back in the 1900s?”

If you’re an indie dev mutual of mine and I haven’t followed you back it’s not because you aren’t amazing. It’s because I’m _very_ bad at social media.

Happy to report the Spire has been Slain

If you ask me to fix up vibe coded software, my rate just doubled.

Yesterday, along with half of the entire company at Rec Room, I was laid off. While having a stable job in the games industry for seven year is rare, it is also bittersweet. I think the thing that I will miss most is working with so many talented artists and helping them shine.

Maybe not the first game that comes to mind, but I appreciate the deep cut Wikipedia.

I’ve so badly wanted to do one of these! I’ve purpose built my custom game engine for stuff like this. Is this the year?

Holy moly! @dan5sch.bsky.social has been COOKING

Here's an update on my small-voxel renderer, inspired by the look of games like Doom and Quake. The work I shared last year focused on handling simpler environment geometry. Since then, I've greatly expanded the scope of what I can depict in this art style. More info in thread.

The blurry pixel issue has been fixed!* Thanks to the infamous ericwa for pointing me in the right direction. *Only on Windows. 😭

Weird. Pasting images int Bluesky shows the preview correctly, but they show up black in the actual post?

LIMDE

Update on this: Burning my dev environment to the ground did thankfully fix things. So I'm back where I started. Progress? I am going to punt on updating to SDL3 because right now Mixer and Emscripten support just isn't where I want it to be.

Was tinkering around on my retro pixel perfect game engine yesterday and I thought something was off. Enhance... AAAHHHH. This is new as of my moving to Windows 11 + 4K monitor.

You have to save scum real hard the last two battles of Slay the Spire huh?

Post a screenshot of your first 5 Steam purchases and let Bluesky judge you. All this does is confirm to me I’ve been this way for a while. 🤪

My kiddos (7 & 9) have gotten into Magic the Gathering, so I made them custom deck boxes.

Woke up with a new eardrum. How’s your day?

Inbox zero folks look away.

@5pyr.bsky.social sorry for the belated follow back. Glad to see your beautiful work here. 👍

At an old school freeplay arcade with the kiddos.

You know what is great? Desmos graphing calculator.

Overheard between my kiddos last night: 9 y.o. - “I can’t wait to get a phone.” 7 y.o. - “Me either! I’m gonna put so much trash on my phone!”

I unironically love this style of texture painting. Doesn’t hurt that it was the fashion back when I started to learn how to 3D model + texture.

Sitting outside a pizza place enjoying a beer. I’ve been waiting on my pizza almost 30 minutes now because the AI that handles takeout orders is just making up times orders will be ready. #aisucks

A small demo for my game engine to prove out my mode 7 renderer. Also a good excuse for me to make some pixel art. #brassengine #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev

[NUKAGE.GIF] Made these guys for my custom game engine Mode 7 demo. I foolishly mocked up two more scenes, who should be next? #brassengine #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

Holy super scaler!

Finally done with this! I really liked the results. Picture minecraft, but it's an old computer RPG. #pixelart #minecraft #BRart #ドット絵

Checkout this beautiful mock-up! vini is crazy talented and super easy to work with.

Happy birthday Morrowind! 🎂 Here is a Vvardenfell transit map I made while watching a @rangedtouch.bsky.social charity stream.

Generative AI is a blight

A small demo for my game engine to prove out my mode 7 renderer. Also a good excuse for me to make some pixel art. #brassengine #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #gamedev

Hi Bluesky! I'm Chris, and this is my studio Wild Vector Games, hailing from New Zealand. I've been working on Orbifold, a co-operative FPS set in inverted spherical arenas. I'll be showing off more gameplay soon, so follow if you're interested! #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine #UnrealEngine5

@cado.bsky.social Listening to the most recent podcast and I think you are describing QBasic Gorillas? I loved this game also. It was the reason I wanted to learn how to write code.

*taps the sign*

Gutless is a great way to put this. My wife was also a federal employee living in WA state who lost her job for no reason. Literally overnight our family income was halved and my wife and children lost their healthcare.

It's a little overdue, but @joshuaskelly.bsky.social and I released Delver seven years ago! What even is time!? How does star dust think? Does the chaos of the universe just pop out a video game every once in a while?! Anyways we're super proud of this. store.steampowered.com/app/249630/D...

I was listening to a podcast when one of the hosts claimed most game assets have 7 - 10 LODs, sometimes 20. I turned off the podcast and immediately did something else.

Happy woke-up-early-to-buy-a-5080-but-didn’t-get-one day to all who celebrate.

Yes, absolutely! I have purchased some games just to reverse engineer the assets (and to support the devs of course).

Earthquake?

This rules. The sillier the speedrun, the more I’m into it.

Watching my kiddos play hockey under the stars in the northern Cascades is pretty amazing.

Seeing my engine on a CRT feels so nice!

This looks crazy rad! Also it's open source? And based off of the DOOM engine?!