playing the Pulse playtest. It's really good. by @richardboeser.bsky.social & @ajkolenc.bsky.social

Today's daily is a short one again. Only two checkpoints, but a tricky start to get right.

Making a daily challenge system was the best and most dangerous thing we did with this game. Easy to spend too much time playing instead of working 🤪

Dubio is part of an awesome bundle of games you can play with just one button! Along with some great @smgstudio.bsky.social titles and #OneBtnBosses. Check it out here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/55413...

I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Simple but fun 🧩 Puzzle #677 🤔 16 guesses ⏱️ 2m 54s 🔗 alphaguess.com

Dubio has now been out for half a year. It seems that on Steam we are a bit stuck at 40 reviews. We'd love to pass that 50 mark as some oracles say it will please the algorithm overlords. If you've played Dubio and have an opinion, we'd appreciate a review. store.steampowered.com/app/2780790/...

Initial conditions: m1=33.2 m2=60.7 m3=82.4 (solar masses) v1x=6.043 v1y=5.619 v2x=2.209 v2y=1.004 v3x=-5.912 v3y=0.803 (km/s) x1=-14.0 y1=-8.0 x2=34.0 y2=16.0 x3=11.0 y3=-28.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in C Major – Bach

Made a simple procedural building script for our warp racer prototype, Pulse

We´re working on our next prototype called Pulse. An open world time-trial racer with randomized checkpoints.

Searching for the right mood for our next prototype.

Rift Riff is OUT NOW!! Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/... Buy it Try it Review it Repost the heck outa’ this!!1! … and here's a feature trailer explaining what I think is noteworthy about our tower defense game! youtu.be/ePCOuvXU-t0

We made a demo for Bandit and put it on Steam. It's like life in the wild west: hard and unfair. Also it has a leaderboard so that you can try and beat my score. Have a go and don't forget to drink your snake oil. store.steampowered.com/app/3693670/...

We’re onto a new prototype, and I couldn’t imagine anything more different from our last. From slow-paced 2D western shoot-em-up to warp-speed 3D sci-fi racer 🚀

This was so fun to put together. It's pretty damn hard too

Y'all need to check out the latest release from @kettel.bsky.social. It transforms the music from Dubio into a fantastic album experience, plus it has track names like "Peepuntpopkema". What more can you ask for? open.spotify.com/album/0ZzO3p...

How did every public bathroom get duped into installing this crappy motion-sensing nonsense? It had to be absurdly expensive to add all these electronics, and all it does is add a 50% fail chance to using anything. Legitimately baffled

If you haven't switched out of US- & billionaire-ran WhatsApp, I can strongly recommend Signal. Works the same, but doesn't benefit rich assholes. It's a super straight-forward switch. If you're already on Signal, consider making a donation for the cool rocket badge. It's a really cool badge.

I don’t understand how Loot Rascals wasn’t more successful. It has an incredible art style, a clever combat system, and a fun equipment minigame that stays fresh. @hollowponds.bsky.social did a fantastic job with this game and it deserves more attention

Lots of great games in here!

Will definitely stay curious 😁 @letibus.bsky.social @icedropgames.bsky.social @draknek.bsky.social

This was a nice notification to wake up to @draknek.bsky.social

I've been a LINQ defender for a while, so it's a bit painful to have to go refactor it out of many places because of the garbage it generates 😩

Mister Rogers never misses

went and wrote about gameplay loops :) blog.joeyschutz.com/the-case-aga...

I took this interview in the second quarter of last year, but I will say I'm fairly proud I managed to get the industry mantra of "shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less" into the mainstream press. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/26/a...

Dubio got a nice shoutout in the latest Thinky Third Thursday, alongside some great games

Game devs post your first shipped game and your last shipped game

⚠️ Big Announcement! ⚠️

The waterfall model (prototyping → pre-production → production → release → etc) is so incredibly incompatible with the reality of game development. Yet it’s taught at schools, used in pitch decks and game biz, used by producers for todos, planning, roadmaps, etc. Kill it with fire. 🧵 #gamedev

Less than a week! Dubio will launch December 13 on Steam, iOS and Android. The demo is already available on Steam in case you need to start rolling today. We've heard that putting this on your wishlist will bring luck. store.steampowered.com/app/2780790/...

And people say Windows isn't user-friendly

Listening to Wicked again (of course) and was reminded how blond jokes were so widespread in the early 2000s. Just really low-effort, unfunny stuff

Announcing: 🦆 A Waddleful Life 🐤🐤🐤 A sweet little game where you play as a duck raising ducklings. Wishlist now on Steam! #indiegame

I’m using Python in a production project, and I’m pleasantly surprised how far it’s come since I last used it. Type hints! Decorators! Lambdas! It’s almost as nice to work with as Typescript now

Did you know? Black Friday is named in honor of Rebecca Black, who invented Friday in 2011.

Cities aren’t crowded. They’re just full of cars.

Has Illustrator always been this crappy? Been using Affinity Designer for years and the sheer amount of friction Illustrator has in comparison is staggering. Even basic things like selecting objects is so finicky

Have been looking forward for a long time to adding this card to Dubio's Trello board : )

Thrilled that @playbalatro.com got a GotY nomination at the Game Awards. It’s been awesome being able to introduce it to gamers that normally only pay attention to AAA

I do really appreciate Valve's new rules here. If you're not ready to commit to what you will provide in a Season Pass - don't offer a Season Pass. Players are buyers, not investors. partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/se...

Starting to get push notifications from X just to recommend I look at some random tweet. Bluesky got them scared 😌

Figma has this great feature where you can “expose” properties from child components on a parent component. Really helps you make modular designs while keeping the convenience/clarity of a centralized edit location

In Bad North I wrote an AI system that was really nice to work with, but not very performant. It essentially mimmicked Unity's hierarchy: Each state could have a parent and children, and each state had an OnEnable, OnUpdate, and OnDisable delegate that anything could add to.

Today we released Bongo — our newest @puzzmo.com game and our first outside collaboration — with Seth Godin, renowned author, entrepreneur, speaker, and writer. A lot of people send me games they're working on, but Seth's was special for one very specific reason:

Has anyone been able to successfully use Unity’s automatic UI navigation? For me even on simple layouts it generates nonsense. Would be nice to at least have some aid for manually hooking this all up…

All the upcoming Game Awards Trailers compressed into one image

Dubio is getting close to its release. The game I've been developing together with @ajkolenc.bsky.social at a very gentle pace for many years now. It'll be available on PC, Mac, iOS and Android. Play the demo now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2780790/...