Playing around with #Replicube.

I put a bit more time into my #picotron twin-stick shmup prototype.

My op ed, “Trump accepts bribe offer from Putin” was just published in the Kyiv Post. Please share widely. @hcrichardson.bsky.social @olgalautman.bsky.social @johnsipher.bsky.social @adamkeiper.com @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social www.kyivpost.com/opinion/68747 www.kyivpost.com/opinion/68747

Picotron now has Splore! This is a built in game browser that lets you easily download and run games from the forum - and view their source code 💾

In 2010, Australian parents realized that when their new baby is bored, in a restaurant or on a road trip, they don't have to entertain the kid, or interact with it at all. They can just give the kid their phone and it will be quiet for hours and hours. 15 years later - social media ban.

I made a photography table so I can take better photos of my miniatures. It's designed to work with natural light from a window. It uses A2 mounting board, some PVC piping, and 3D printed brackets. Reflective panels on the side provide fill lighting. www.thingiverse.com/thing:7192488

Very insightful piece on how our transformation into a post literate society is turning us into sitting ducks for enslavement by a tyrant. open.substack.com/pub/jmarriot...

Visualization of the effective potential in a 3-body system (1 large planet, 2 smaller moons). Real-time shader in #unity.

Working on hit effects for the player's laser. #picotron #shmup

A shmup needs shooting, so I added a gun. The effect is heavily inspired by the Amiga game Another World. I always loved the look of its laser. I haven't designed any enemies yet 😅 but the idea is the player can either shoot, or deflect with magnetic fields, but not both. #picotron #shmup #pixelart

Progress on my #picotron twin-stick #shmup. The plasma trail visual effect relies upon retaining the screen image and distorting it between frames, so I can't have a conventional scrolling background. To convey a sense of speed I've added random lines in the background and 're-entry' particles.

I've been painting the models from the Doom boardgame. Here's the progress so far.

NEW VIDEO! #eggconsole is a project I feel is important - making Project EGG's catalogue easier to access for us by putting some on Switch. But if you think they'd all be impacted by the language barrier, you'd be wrong! Here's a few picks which aren't! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvok...

This is a great new tool for PICO-8 developers. #pico8 www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJmQ...

Melbourne game devs, this is a great opportunity...

#ドット絵 #pixelart

My portrait of Peter Cushing as Grand Moff Tarkin was awarded first place in the Sci-Fi and Fantasy Busts category at the Australian Model Expo this weekend.

Wow, the writers' strike really hit Love, Death and Robots season 4 hard!

More cool features coming to Picotron and Pico8. Having these as built-in text options will save a lot of tokens for Pico8 carts!

I used #picotron 's color-table system to create semi-transparent magnetic field lines. The blending is similar to multiply, but with a hue-rotation. Color-tables are really interesting. Because you define every color combination manually, you can create unusual/novel blend effects.

I'm trying to get the plasma to form in ribbons, as if you're flying through coronal mass ejections on the surface of the sun. I'm not sure how I'll do a scrolling background to create the feeling of speed. #picotron

Hot, charged plasma. The dissolve effect is based on @werxzy.itch.io 's tutorial here: werxzy.itch.io/infinimoes/d... #picotron

Positive charges (pink) turn right in the magnetic field, negative charges turn left. I think I'll make this an 'escort' mission game, where you have to protect something. #picotron

Made a quick prototype for a game idea. It's a twin-stick shmup, but instead of shooting, the player projects a magnetic field, which can be used to manipulate and deflect incoming charged particles. I've just mocked-up the magnetic field visuals so far. #picotron #shmup #gamedev

Australian indie game devs - get paid up to $10k to make a 'microgame' for museum exhibition later this year. www.acmi.net.au/collection-p... #indiegames #gamedev

Whether you call them a shmup, stg, pew pews, navecitas, etc. Here is the starter pack you need to stay up to date on the development of games within this awesome genre.😎 Lots of spots left for those out there hiding behind the bushes like shy baby deer.😉 #stg #shmup #gamedev go.bsky.app/TC8tf1Y

3D printed busts. Before getting a 3D printer I mainly painted Warhammer miniatures and some model planes. But since starting to print models I've found I really enjoy larger-scale busts. Painting them feels more like portraiture.

Titanic & Icebergs model kit from Suyata. The kit comes with the seals and icebergs. I scratch-built the water base from foam card and aluminium foil. I used my TV for the backdrop to get nice reflections on the water.

The #battleaces beta is over, but I still needed to get my fix. So I 3D printed some units and painted them up for a table-top wargame.

Tetris Attack (called Panel De Pon in Japan) has a great scoring system, but it's a very fast game that requires a lot of dexterity. So I took the parts I liked from Tetris Attack and put them into Puzstel Storm, making it turn based. Tiles break after 5 swaps, giving you time to plan ahead. #pico8

I love the idea of "demakes" where you take an existing game and remake it to a lower specification. My first Pico 8 game was ChuChu Pico, a demake of Sega's ChuChu Rocket for the Dreamcast. It's one of my favorite multiplayer games and since Sega won't re-release it, I made it for myself. #pico8

First post going out to the ether with zero followers! 😅 Try my new game Ghost Wave. It's free, it's made with Pico-8 and it runs in the browser or on pretty much any device. monorail.itch.io/ghost-wave #shmup #pico8 #indiegames