I moved my project archive to a remote machine which has worked wonders fkr my electricity bill but now compiles take aeons. Boooooo.

Remembering my friend Alex, who passed away a few years ago. We never got to finish our project, Red Forest- and he never got to finish Pub Crawl. I'd like to honour him and finish Pub Crawl when times allow, until then I'll build my synth and watch you lot make great stuff!

Holy crip my crapto! I'm not big on crypto but had some stuff floating around. Had.

Me: "I haven't said or done anything weird today yet and it's nearly 3pm!" Me at 3:05pm: *Makes loud fart noise* What's even funnier is that my colleagues don't bat an eyelid at it anymore.

"That was 2 weeks ago, I am a different person now!" My eldest, 9. Funny thing is at this age 2 weeks can actually make a massive difference so she's not exactly wrong.

Me: I'll move everything off the cloud! Also me: Uses cloudflared for external access Also also me: Damn.

I had a strange dream. I was in a Haussmanian building in Paris. It had been burgled. Jean Reno was there and I got into trouble for interrupting the set only to have Reno apologise to me when I figure out how the burglar got in via the top floor of the building. We were chums after.

Someone mentioned an enhanced Revs experience. I've been using Revs as a test for my emulator. The game works but no audio and unhandled interrupts end up throwing the games palette code out. None of that is needed to proceed though since those are the "enhance" targets. Hmmmmm......

Oh man, CD ROMs are really changing the gaming landscape. Gonna need an upgrade for this one.

You legend!

Youtube app: History shows thumbnails. Youtube kids: a link to a page of a link to a page of vid urls with no thumbnails. My kid saw something upsetting but won't tell me what, and the kids app is doing nothing to help...... Parental controls are ill-thought-out- an afterthought. Do better.

Tried to join Scratch to help my daughter on a school project but their filter finds my name offensive....

Problem: Main PC is a beast that won't sleep due to reasons (Silly sleep blocking software.) Solution: Powershell script monitoring inputs, then forcing sleep 5 minutes after the broken processes go idle. Works a treat but it's a total duct tape situation. Duct tapse, woo-oo!

This looks like a quacking game!

I'm grumpy enough at Microsoft and happy enough with my Steam Deck to consider getting the new steam machine. In fact, I very nearly bought a new mini PC and have now put that on hold.

Moving my services off my monster home PC to appropriate dedicated machines has meant what was 140w 24/7 is now 10-25w 24/7. That's an estimated savings of £30 a month! I didn't need to be idling a 5950x and rx7800xt just to process home photos and a website.

I tried to use Copilot to optimise my synth but it declared that the best implementation of my algorithm is just to return 0. No output, no artifacts I suppose..... It even tried to reason with me! Absolutely *useless*.

You hear rattling chains and whimpering echo throughout the bloodied hall. You steel yourself for the journey ahead. 💔Wishlist Forbidden Solitaire: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/...

AI do suck balls though. Badly. (And it's getting worse)

Sat down for a lovely chat with @clert.bsky.social over @eurogamer.bsky.social To talk about my games and how I'd like to keep making and improving them sustainably. To step away from the launch, meme and hype driven madness that has taken root in games. www.eurogamer.net/as-viral-hit...

"accidentally doing a murder" for some reason kills me. In a good way.

*sing* When you break your sub-woof-er there's DUCT TAPE! WOO-OO!

Broke my subwoofer installing it. Final step of the day. Ahhh cack!

Get this if you haven't. Revisit this if you have. I was surprised by how much is there. Fantastic game!

@falconeerdev.bsky.social Your remaster of the Falconeer bought me back to the game and I honestly never realised how much is here. This world you've created is fantastic!

precious bsky followers there is a halloween sale goin on the owch itch page right now... everything bundled for $4.20, you know the deal. the games are very good. this is 10S FOREVER (which is also on steam) and there are 5 other games in the bundle. i shalt post them below itch.io/s/163491/a-v...

Games that allow you to switch to creative mode: 100% in their favour but I'd like to be able to "lock in" to prevent the temptation to "just do this 1 thing"- Every time I do that I break immersion. To be able to switch off this switch mode feature on game start would benefit me. Anyone else?

"I'm so glad the kids check the time before running around the house shouting in the morning!" Said me from an alternate dimension! ... le sigh ...

Bring the thundahhh, Snuggsy!

Working on SturdySynth. Turns out I was using I2S wrong and discarding half the signal, so now I can run at 96khz up from 65khz with plenty of power to spare whilst removing aliasing. I might add a couple more oscillators for better saw/string sounds! No memory left for more channels though....

Rudimentary Oxygene part 4, on my home made "SturdySynth"! Managed to get it to connect to Windows too. 5/6 channels used- but no acoustic sounds yet. Oh and the drums sound like an old console :D

I'm still here, working on my emulator and my home made synthesizer. Now with 6 synthesis algorithms and multi channel midi support on an esp32. I have optimised the shizzle out of this thing! No idea if the video will work, guess we will see when I hit the button... about...... now!

I have been removed from the Play Store and somehow all my current IDs are out of date. So now I have to go fork up for a new passport!

in 2009 I knocked up an Android wallpaper in 24h. No knowledge. Code was atrocious. Sold it for 50p but because Droid was brand spanking new it made more money than games I worked on. 9 years later I got a bunch of refund requests from people who bought it back in 2009 because it stopped working.

Dear developers, This is a polite reminder to not store graphics settings in Steam Cloud. With Love, Steam Decks across the world.

Things I need to get back to: 1) Produce and sell hardware synth units, release firmware for free on github including VST/CLAP plugins 2) Release a small game (Maybe the Beeb game in SturdyMachine?) I've released more products than I can count over 10 years but none *for me*. It's been too long!

Oh, the spam bots have appeared. That's disappointing.

@mikebithell.bsky.social FYI Tron: Identity is the first game in a long time that has me already wanting to replay. Job well done to you and your team!

"Dad, when are we getting Windows 7?" Well.... That wasn't a question I thought I'd hear my 5 year old ask. "Why do you want Windows 7?" "It has a cool logo!" It's funny because he has no idea what Windows actually is, he just saw the logo and liked it.

I *forgot* my Amiga when I moved out of my first flat. Straight up left it behind. I don't think I can ever be forgiven for this.

Made some progress on Apache Canyon over the break, it now has sound effects with different sounds for bullets/missiles/powerups and proper explosions :) I've also added some variables in to allow difficulty tweaking for level progression. I've tested "very hard" values and its suitably difficult.

Lots of yellow paint posts today. I put some out for my kids but instead of tidying up, my kitchen became yellow. I don't know if they're hungry or just didn't know what yellow paint is for.

Just testing out this classic game design trick (yellow paint) on my Steam page:

"Would you agree the previous advert was relevant to you? Absolutely not, no, maube, yes, absolutely yes." .. Where's "I didn't watch the sodding thing and have no idea because I don't want to see adverts." Is that not a useful metric or will that just show how in effective you are being?

It's Sunday. Why not relax with one of our card games or match-3 games? They are on sale on itch. greyaliengames.itch.io

"I'm old, I remember DVDs!" ... What did I just hear!?

My daughter started a prank war with our Elf. Result? Our elf shaved part of my head in my sleep.

Turned my old PSR550 on yesterday to a loud BANG! The PSU exploded so hard it took the outer casing with it. Guess some old caps gave out Whew. Didn't need to buy a new power supply though as I have a box of adapters that I've carried with me since moving out of my parents house 20 years ago.

Me: "I'll fire up my synth, I need to code in some more midi parameters." Synth: *Powers on* Also synth: *Extremely loud fart noise followed by powering off* Two things: 1) Dangit. 2) Don't implement your volume in software to reduce components, your ears will thank you.

My 4th game actually came out in 2006 but in 2011 we got it ported to iPad (and iPhone, Android and even Xbox!) by @damiensturdy.bsky.social Also we added 50 more levels, got it localised and called it Holiday Bonus GOLD.