Started Steamworks integration today! It was cool to see the game marked as "Running" in the Steam client for the first time

There will be a Brickstrike playtest this Sunday! Join the Extensional Discord server for full details: discord.gg/2HsSdv4AFS

Cool #gamedev thing for resolution testing! I installed a virtual display adapter and used Virtual Desktop on my Meta Quest to test what Brickstrike looks on an ultra-wide monitor. As you can see my main menu has some issues at a 3440 x 1440 resolution 😱

GDC x Boston Game Dev 2026 SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS OPEN 📣🍁 For the first time, Boston Game Dev is sponsoring GDC tickets + a curated selection of New England games to showcase at GDC. Apply using the link below ⬇️: P.S. If you have questions, send me a message! #gamedev #indie #boston

Today at Boston FIG! Got to demo Brickstrike at a big event for the first time!

Getting items ready for the Brickstrike booth at Boston FIG. Be there on December 7th! www.bostonfig.com/fest2025-hom...

Thanks for joining us for the last Demo Night of 2025 @ Aeronaut Brewing! What an absolutely incredible turn out 💀🪄

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Big news for Ace of Spades fans. New trailer from me just dropped on IGN. BrickStrike from @extensional.software youtu.be/nFlx7wok-VU?...

The Steam page & trailer for Brickstrike is now live! It's a little surreal to see my first solo project on the storefront store.steampowered.com/app/3758260/... #game #games #indiedev #steam #gamedev

The FINAL DEMO NIGHT of 2025(!!!) will be NOVEMBER 24 back at Aeronaut Brewing in Somerville! Come show that game you've been makin' one last time this year, and enjoy a crisp beer or some of that really good chicken karaage from that place all the way in the back www.meetup.com/bostongamede...

A sneak peek at the new main menu UI for Brickstrike! The logo is now animated as well. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #games #gaming #videogames

A sneak peek at the new main menu UI for Brickstrike! The logo is now animated as well. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #games #gaming #videogames

Just finished my digital showcase submission to Boston FIG @bostonfig.bsky.social ! Hopefully Brickstrike will be accepted and I'll see you there on December 7

Just finished my digital showcase submission to Boston FIG @bostonfig.bsky.social ! Hopefully Brickstrike will be accepted and I'll see you there on December 7

I just finished working on the new Brickstrike website! www.brickstrike.com The Steam page will be launching soon as well - as soon as I get the translations in and finalize the capsule art. So good things are happening 🎉

I just finished working on the new Brickstrike website! www.brickstrike.com The Steam page will be launching soon as well - as soon as I get the translations in and finalize the capsule art. So good things are happening 🎉

Join us at the Boston Festival of Indie Games in December for a day of family-friendly fun! We'll have dozens of tabletop games, card games, video games, and everything in between. Tickets are just $30 during our early bird phase. Get yours now! www.bostonfig.com/fest-homepage/

On Wednesday, August 13 I will be demoing Brickstrike at Boston Indies, held at the MIT Open Space from 6:00 - 9:00 PM. Hope to see you there!

They said it couldn't be done. (Made on a fiber laser)

Today I was going through old stuff I made in Game Maker in middle school to show my niece and nephew. Here's a short video of Pore (great name!) that I made because Spore wasn't out yet. My nephew now says that he wants to be a game developer when he grows up. They just got a Switch for Christmas 😆

New blog post today on progress in directed graph hashing: helbl.ing/From-Directe...

My take on VR adoption: you know how boomers are stereotypically bad with computers? That's going to be the current generation with VR headsets. Once all the gorilla tag generation grows up, they'll create a larger demand for VR tech #vr #games #gaming

This is an insane thing to write about game development. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/28/a...

First look at the medkit model with lid opening animation in Brickstrike! This will be an offhand item capable of healing yourself or a nearby team member. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #game #gaming

First look at the medkit model with lid opening animation in Brickstrike! This will be an offhand item capable of healing yourself or a nearby team member. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #game #gaming

I finally found the name for an interesting optical effect that I've seen used in some advertisements online: chromostereopsis. Maybe someone can come up with a gamedev use case? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromos... #gamedev #gaming

I finally found the name for an interesting optical effect that I've seen used in some advertisements online: chromostereopsis. Maybe someone can come up with a gamedev use case? en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromos... #gamedev #gaming

Desolus is now playable on Steam for the very first time as part of the #CerebralPuzzleShowcase! Go download the demo!!

Today I started using the new Unity UI toolkit, and imo it's now a superior experience to the old game object based UI. The new toolkit is XML/CSS based, and it has a really slick visual editor. Unity has successfully entered the jQuery era! #unity #gamedev

Coding protip: if you aren't sure how a specific class or function should be used and can't find any guides, forum posts or blogs online, search GitHub for the name and filter by the appropriate language. This usually gives at least a few open source usage examples. #programming #coding

After nearly a decade of development, I am very excited to finally announce Desolus! Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfV...

A first look at grenades in Brickstrike! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegames

The 'deprofessionalization of video games' was on full display at PAX East https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/-deprofessionalization-is-bad-for-video-games

In 2023 I wrote a blog post about a protocol for signing and validating human written text. Today I saw yet another online thread about people wringing their hands about the inability to detect AI written text. This is a huge problem in education at the moment! helbl.ing/Written-Proo... #edtech #ai

It seems that the "magical game networking stack" that I blogged about a year ago now actually exists. The whole idea is to make networked multiplayer games as easy to make as split screen multiplayer games! Accomplished with tight integration with a custom DSL easel.games helbl.ing/The-Magical-...

Just started watching Foundation and it's obvious they didn't consult a professional mathematician for their bit on psychohistory. One of the main characters is supposed to be a prodigy mathematician too... If only I could finish my proofs by doing some random manipulations on floating holograms.

This weekend I'll be showing off Brickstrike as part of Somerville Open Studios! Then next week another demo night - Boston Indies Pre-PAX Demo Night at the MIT Open Space. I won't be going to PAX, but I will be going to some afterparties on Thursday and Friday. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

We’re one week away from Boston Gamedev Week, so we thought we’d make a thread to talk about everything we’ll have going on! Okay here we go 🧵 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Hey bsky! We're Boston Game Dev, a community nonprofit supporting the local game development scene. We help groups big and small run meetups, jams, demo nights, lectures and more. Watch this space for more news about what we have coming up! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

Brickstrike and Extensional Software now have websites! We're indie game developers based in the Boston, MA area. www.brickstrike.com www.extensional.software More to come soon, including the Steam storefront and trailer. #gaming #gamedev #indiegames

git tip: when I'm working on a branch that has significantly diverged from main, I first merge main into the branch. This allows me to fix merge conflicts while allowing other people to update main. After testing, I then merge the branch into main. 95% of the time this results in a fast-forward

I have now opened alpha testing for my upcoming game Brickstrike. Think multiplayer Minecraft + Guns! If this sounds interesting to you, join the Discord. I am looking to gather footage for a trailer. discord.gg/2HsSdv4AFS #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #gamedev #game #videogame #indiedev

Smooth first-person aiming is something that I've had in Brickstrike for a while. My approach for many years was to keep a running average of the mouse delta from previous frames and apply that. This led to the aiming feeling "floaty" and imprecise. #gamedev #unity

Dependency injection via the inspector in Unity is pretty common, but it doesn't work if you have prefabs that need references to scene game objects. One pattern that I've been using to workaround this is a quasi-singleton strategy. #gamedev #unity

This coming week I will be in San Diego for the Workshop on Binary Analysis Research (BAR), presenting some work that I did for DARPA AMP! www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss2025/co-...

I've been using Linux extensively for work and some personal projects recently and I must say it has a long way to go to be usable by the average person. There's tons of instability around OS upgrades, firmware upgrades and hardware drivers.

Another successful demo night for Brickstrike! People seemed to really enjoy the game ❤️ The number one takeaway from tonight was to have an actual web presence, including a Steam page. All of that is coming soon, I'm still in the process of setting up an LLC and business bank account.

Tomorrow night I'll be demoing Brickstrike at Boston Indies Demo Night! The event is located at Aeronaut Brewing Company near Union Square. More info here! www.meetup.com/bostongamede...

Mapping ranges is something I do so often in game and graphics development that I often wonder why it isn't a standard library function. Lerp and inverse lerp are in the Unity math library, but map range, which is a generalization of both, is not! rosettacode.org/wiki/Map_range