Just a couple of weeks until the Aus govt's disastrous social media ban kicks in. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11... "We know this law will not be perfect" they keep saying, like it's an excuse for making a shitty law and letting us figure out the consequences in real time. #auspol #socialmediaban

Extruding the mountains of Mars in my #indie #space game Celestial Golf. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/... Full tutorial here: youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o #gamedev #blender

New devlog for my #indie #space game Celestial Golf. How I got NASA terrain data for Mars and used #Blender to convert it into a realistic 2D planet with dynamic lighting. youtu.be/is5ufFKHy7o #gamedev #godot If this looks cool, you can wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/...

"If your website used Cloudflare, you'd be having an outage right now, too!" Seems like a bad time to try and advertise your services. (I hit this last night; apparently Cloudflare was down across Australia.)

The devastation made to NASA by its Trump leadership during the shutdown is truly shocking. www.space.com/space-explor... #nasa #shutdown

Haha, this from the New Yorker is getting passed around the math dork community. I did a comic about this kind of thought a few years ago: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/commut...

Are you serious? The Australian government literally gave Reddit and Kick 36 days notice that they must implement AI-powered age verification or be banned in Australia. This is such a joke. #auspol #socialmediaban www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

🤦 Just realized after a year of #Godot I've been building mipmaps to get smoother texture downscaling but never actually turned on the texture filtering to use them. Here's how! (Along with a shameless plug to check out Celestial Golf store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/) #gamedev #indie #space

NASA is being gutted by the Trump administration and it seems unlikely it will be coming back. They say they're for space exploration but the real target here is science, specifically climate science. (A long read but eye-opening/watering.) www.space.com/space-explor...

I tried making the planets in Celestial Golf rotate but it did weird things with physics, so in the end, the whole universe rotates around a static body, as seen in this short. Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/... #gamedev #indie #space #golf

"Every tyrant tries to convince the public that support for them is all but universal and opposition is both dangerous and futile. Trump will keep saying that. But after No Kings, it will be even harder to believe than it was before." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social

How the Coriolis force affects the trajectory of the ball in my upcoming #indie game Celestial Golf. #gamedev #space #golf

Instead of rotating planets in my space golf game, I just rotate the entire universe around them. I had to learn about the coriolis force to correct the motion of the ball. Devlog: youtu.be/oMN8FqbpCw4 Wishlist Celestial Golf on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/... #indie #gamedev #space

On social media bans and going after kids instead of holding platforms to higher standards. #socialmediaban theconversation.com/as-social-me...

I don't want to alarm anyone but because of human-caused climate change, the trees are no longer capturing carbon... 🔥🔥🔥 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

This is becoming a huge problem. "Against ‘chat control’: we can’t eliminate child abuse by eliminating privacy" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Planning a trip to Mars in Celestial Golf! #space #golf #gamedev Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/... Watch the full gameplay video: youtu.be/BUJwSZhS30U

In this video, I'm showing a long-form gameplay video for my upcoming game Celestial Golf. How to get the golf ball into orbit, and then all the way to Mars! youtu.be/BUJwSZhS30U Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/... #gamedev #indie #space

Australia is basically about to ban all children from the Internet until they turn 16, and force all adults to give sensitive personal information to most major websites. Unprecedented government overreach. #auspol #socialmediaban www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09...

This comic feels particularly relevant today for some reason. xkcd.com/552/

I just signed Australian Parliamentary petition EN7799 to regulate Visa and MasterCard and stop them denying payment services to legal content they disagree with. (This is about them pressuring game stores to remove legal content.) www.aph.gov.au/e-petitions/... #videogames #censorship

What can you do with two hands? Find out, in Things You Can Do With Two Hands, a short VR experience I just submitted to the Godot XR Game Jam. Playable on web (native headsets or PC VR) or on Windows VR. mgiuca.itch.io/two-hands itch.io/jam/godot-xr... #gamedev #godot #vr

Further work on my Godot XR Game Jam submission. A VR game with the theme "it takes 2". #gamedev #vr #godot

Getting started on the Godot XR Game Jam. I've never made a VR game before, so it'll be an experience. The theme is "it takes 2". #gamedev #vr #godot

Posted a devlog for Celestial Golf, my upcoming space simulation game. How I designed the trajectory UI and the physics of orbits. Watch the trailer: youtu.be/wStF1nJSJFs Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/... #GameDev #IndieGames #Space #Golf

Just launched the Steam page for my solo indie game: Celestial Golf. Golf with realistic orbital mechanics around the solar system. Watch the trailer: youtu.be/2l6awjhjh7E Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3965730/... #GameDev #IndieGames #Space #Golf

Good that there's going to be an inquiry into the upcoming total privacy disaster for all Australians, created by a bipartisan rush job last year. Not sure what can be done about it now that it's the law. #auspol greens.org.au/news/media-r...

Welp, this does not bode well for Australians on Bluesky, or indeed on any social media platform that doesn't have the resources to implement satisfactory age verification. #auspol (It was never about protecting kids...) www.pcgamer.com/gaming-indus...

How I used a MIDI editor to make levels for my #GMTKJam 2025 submission, Practice Makes Perfect. youtu.be/sZ9JOvC1HuM Play the game on Itch: mgiuca.itch.io/practice-mak...

I made a rhythm/musical platformer in 4 days for #GMTKJam 2025. Check it out: mgiuca.itch.io/practice-mak... I have been getting into the music composition side of #gamedev lately so it was really fun to be able to work some of that into a game. Art from @kenney.nl's wonderful Jumper Pack.

A small aside: it would be great if some of the most important public communications in history did not have random words 'quoted' and in ALL CAPS. THANK you.

As a long-time em-dash enjoyer, I'm not happy to read stories that in 2025 if you use one, people will assume AI wrote it.

Full comic here, along with bonus panel: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/darwin... #smbc

When you buy a game on Steam it should offer to automatically uninstall the demo of it. Just went through my installed games list and found a half dozen demos still installed alongside the full versions of those same games.

Incredible scene: the president of the United States has his aides explain to him what is in the paper he's about to sign, then he signs it. They could have the president sign absolutely anything they like.

Happy 99th birthday to the man who gave voice to the wild. 🎉 Sir David Attenborough, thank you for a lifetime dedicated to the natural world, and for sharing its story with wisdom, wonder, and grace. You've inspired generations to fall in love with nature.

👏 Trade 👏 deficits 👏 are 👏 not 👏 losses 👏

My gosh, four of my top games from last Steam Next fest are releasing in the next ~week: - Skin Deep - April 30 (my pick for best game of SNF) - Conquest Dark - May 1 - Drop Duchy - May 6 - Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall - May 8

So this clown is basically able to manipulate the entire global stock market up or down at his will by announcing he's adding or removing tariffs. 🙅

I did my first Ludum Dare Jam! ldjam.com/events/ludum... Didn't get a lot of time to work over the weekend but caught up last night (trading sleep) and am pretty pleased with the result. I love making my own music and I'm pretty happy with this one. #ludumdare #gamedev

Well time to spend some saved daylight.

Pocket Casts (which I paid for in a one-time purchase some years ago) just helpfully popped up a message saying it organized my podcasts into folders (not "do you want this?" but "I've just done this"). Cool, I click OK and am then shown a $65/year subscription if I want to keep the folders. Wtf.

I worry that this incident will give regular people the idea that #Signal is an insecure messaging app, when in fact it's very secure for you and me and dissidents, it just isn't appropriate for national security. Also encryption doesn't stop people reading your messages if you add them to the chat.

I tried to make a game that lets the player discover the mechanics for themselves. But it might just be a bit too frustrating to have to do science experiments to learn a game? I discuss this dilemma in this new video youtu.be/ti5ZKHQrW_s #gamedev Play it here: mgiuca.itch.io/two-lives

Just posted an updated video comparing all four versions of #Myst, including the new #Rime age that was just added to the latest version of the game. @cyan.com thankyou so much for this wonderful surprise! youtu.be/PuST-sIVyeQ

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... Australia's media bargaining laws were always a filthy piece of work designed to redirect revenue from tech companies to old media companies. Hey Musk maybe you could take this up with your new buddies at Fox News - after all, they wrote these laws! #auspol

I wrote this nearly four years ago: www.reddit.com/r/myst/comme... "The new generation of #Myst players will not have access to #Rime ... but it will (hopefully) be patched in as a DLC in the future, and then they'll have the same thrill of discovery that us old timers had." 2 days... @cyan.com

I didn't think this was coming... The Myst remake from 2021 was always missing the last bit from the earlier remakes. Now it will finally be complete. #myst #rime

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I have been using 4.4 since the early dev builds and there is so much improvement here across the board. My favourite (and the reason I switched to dev channel in the first place): in GDScript you can now specify dict type parameters. #GodotEngine