gonna start working on an intentionally insane philosophy for my next game. first tenet is: using more than four colors in your game is a vulgarity

LET'S GOOOO

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Hot Wax was kind of overwhelming for me at first, but something clicked after playing the "Penance" mode in the demo and it's very satisfying store.steampowered.com/app/3041750/...

every big tech company has a smoothie chef on call for guys who get six figures to show up and decide the add to cart button should be green and i won't rest until the weirdos making fucked up variations of chess on itch get the same deal

i think indie game devs should receive more funding but they shouldn't have to put any of that money towards unnecessary polish on the game. instead it all goes towards ice cream

in the final season of Star Trek Enterprise, the show enters my absolute favorite era of 3D cgi every establishing shot of an alien world makes me feel like I'm about to jump into a classic point-and-click puzzle game

trying out Love2D's built-in physics and it's definitely janky but it is always satisfying to play with a bunch of physics objects

Screen came for my little raspberry pi pico-8 station and it wasn't terrible to get set up!

wow you're so talented [remembering to focus on effort] uh, i mean,, it looks like this was really hard work for you, huh? i can see you really struggled here

they trained millennials how to use computers too good and napster basically flattened an entire industry. I think that's why they don't even want you to touch your phone's file system now, they can't let kids become that powerful again

I have a soft spot for physical media because I just enjoy the design of physical objects but if I'm being honest, in my ideal world we're not wasting plastic on endless piles of discs for every bit of media, we are making endless copies of DRM-free data across countless drives

Sony's entire games strategy has always been based on establishing some physical media standard that they own and collect rent on. This latest move tells me the PS6 is coming, and it it involves a new proprietary type of hard drive with a weird cable and transparent case or something

I think it would be fun to send people games on burned CDs in old netflix style mailers that inevitably arrive damaged

storage prices at an insane high, perfect time to stop releasing games on insanely cheap pieces of plastic

submissions are now open for the Life Wasting Games showcase! enter now to be featured among the emptiest grinds and dullest distractions currently in development

bsky is actually short for "baby sky." you have to verify you're a baby

the only video game you need is tetris dx on the game boy. if you are tired of playing tetris dx on the game boy you are tired of playing video games.

the plastic on the playdate crank gives a similar sensation to biting your fork, but the folding cover is soft enough to provide a very pleasant chew

much of what I've learned about timesteps in game programming is that there are lots of subtle ways to get it wrong and plenty of insane ways to try and get it right

Messing with my tiny love2d example projects again while I wait for the aircon repair guy. Made the asteroids window resizable, which looks nice since it's all vector drawing

when your game is Good

**POST FOR ART SCHOOL NERDS ONLY** so the gary hustwit brian eno movie on criterion was really fucking good

there's a weird thing in game dev circles where people ask you what you're working on and if you don't have a Big Upcoming Project that's currently consuming all your focus it's kind of awkward. I don't know man, I'm not Nintendo, I don't have a Dave Direct to present to you

I fear I have hit a ceiling

love to have Stubborn Bitch as my strongest trait, second only to Freak About Systems 😌

i don't ever want to play a Video Game by someone who's only made good choices

hearing "don't get into this industry" is disheartening for many, but please consider the youths who only get fired up when they are acting in opposition to an authority figure. someone has to tell them it's impossible or else they will never build up enough spite to prove the man wrong

you might have they'd your last giants ....be

best time in history to enjoy 2D games that are 30 megabytes

i broke down and interpolated all the drawing and it's pretty good ok

the cure for your social media ravaged attention span is to lock in and perform the snare drum ostinato part from ravel's bolero in its entirety first thing every morning but no one will ever do this

game developers must realize our only competition is real human relationships. if we can continue to erode those, our market dominance is assured

chat is it worth it to make my own controller with an arduino and whatever parts i can scrounge from the weird little shops in akihabara

I should make more playdate games

controllers have too many buttons. you can't even buy a controller with a gameboy style layout. they ran out of space on the front and they're putting buttons on the back now. they're addicted to buttons

i'm so sorry

moment of realization understanding the overlap of bdsm and linux users

guy who prefers old computer mouse with a rubber ball for "that analogue warmth"

more and more i believe posting is a sign of environmental poisons. if someone is too good at posting a health check team should be sent to look for mold and gas leaks in their home

driving myself insane trying to make love2d work with a fixed timestep without judder

the backdunes

they call it UI because that's the thing between you and I when we're online

rewatching halt and catch fire has me idly thinking about joining toxic yuri jam

"Enter a world of games that resist comfort" Sat June 20 13:00–19:00, 19:30~ Panel Discussion Sun June 21 11:00–17:00 I will be showing a Japanese version of SOLASTALGIA this Saturday and Sunday in Tokyo. Also at 7pm on Sat, me and Sivani will give a live reading and noise performance of the game.

maps! are fun to make