Refactoring my entire planet generation system, so it's finally time to say goodbye to this placeholder planet data I created months ago. RIP Cronk 530 - you served me well. #godot #gamedev

Just got round to my first Ken Russell film. I don't know what I was expecting but Oliver Reed throwing a stuffed crocodile at some plague doctors was not it. Pure maximalist chaos.

Oh man, those Photek breaks. Easily one of the best to ever do it. #musicproduction

Bluesky users discovering it's all made of paper

Last time I set up my original N64, I was wondering why it was becoming so flakey at booting into games. Then I had a flashback to all the cartridge tilting I did just to see tiny Pierce Brosnan get shaken AND stirred #n64

Great video on active listening, which I'm a big proponent of. With a little interpolation, this is helpful advice for beginners in any creative discipline (game dev too). There are endless important lessons, hiding in plain sight in the finished works you enjoy. You just have to look for them.

Nothing teaches YAGNI / KISS better than spending ages on a personal template / framework between projects, then seeing how much nonsense you end up simplifying or cutting out entirely when actually making a game with it #gamedev #godot

i've jumped through all of the hoops and can confirm that there is now one more tiny ant in Gaben's infinite indie dev ant farm #gamedev

here we go

Essential viewing for anyone who just sees jungle as ~futuristic PSX music~ and isn't aware of the deep cultural history behind it

Bunnings sell translucent colored powerboards and you can't tell me that the sockets and exposed circuitry don't look like 4 little aliens in a police lineup. Sadly they don't do it in atomic purple, which is a clear failing for the product designer tasked with getting those Y2K nostalgia bucks in

Just finished a long overdue sort through 6 SSD / HDDs. Deleted tonnes of flotsam, consolidated duplicates, purged rogue hidden files (looking at you .DS_Store) Shout out to the following: FreeFileSync (FOSS), Czkawka / Krokiet (FOSS) & TeraCopy (freeware) which run rings around MS offerings

Couldn't ask for a better birthday ballad. Thank you Aphex Twin

PSA for anyone who doesn't know: long before his acting career took off, Timothée Chalamet had a YouTube channel called ModdedController360 (self-explanatory). I want a film just like Marty Supreme, which tracks his journey to becoming the world's number one Xbox 360 controller modder.

Reminder to build your game and play it on other hardware regularly. Not just to keep an eye on compatibility / performance - but also because it feels completely different to experience your work outside of your dev space. It's like how music producers have the ritual of the car test. #gamedev

I've just been catching up on all the new features in BitWig Studio 6 and I gotta say, it's looking super nice. I've mostly been sticking around on Windows for Ableton (+ max4live) as I've been using it since ~2008, but maybe a new DAW (and long overdue return to Linux) would do me good!

Putting the Artemis II live streams on my second monitor while making a space game has been a real vibe. Was working on a tricky bug this morning and all the energy around the splashdown really helped carry me over the line #godot #gamedev

Tested out some new headphones by listening to the Ridge Racer 4 sound track while doing my weekly Woolworths shop. It took everything I had not to crank that trolley up to max revs and do a full on supermarket sweep, pedestrian grade shoppers be damned

Assigned a load of chopped up drum breaks to a multi instrument in FMOD which is intended to be for parameter driven mining sounds. Now my mining scene in Godot actually generates Squarepusher albums. There goes my afternoon!

One of the worst things about ADHD is that even if you get a task system to work for you, it inevitably becomes less effective as novelty fades. At brain melting point with current system, so I'm trying Codecks. I accepted long ago that no system is evergreen, so I try to keep it light and movable!

I tune out all game dev content which has a large sum of money in the title: "They could barely tie their laces, here's how their game made $189,000" "I'm allergic to art, here's how I made £227,177.00 on steam" I'm happy for you but the content that follows is usually complete waffle.

These 90s VR headsets are absolute chunks. It's now my personal canon that the Bent-Neck Lady from The Haunting of Hill House is actually just an early adopter of VR...

Picked up Road To Empress (Mandarin Chinese FMV game) on a whim as my partner loves historic court dramas. Just started playing together and it's an absolute riot. One of our very first decisions had us dragged to a dungeon to be branded on the forehead with a heated floral hairpin. Good start!

If I was working on a mod of this scale, I'd organise us using cryptic notes left at dead drops. And if that's running too smoothly, a fraught bi-annual meeting in a dark alley where we wear animal masks and communicate only through shadow dance. 9AM stand up? Gantt charts? Agile scrums? I'm out

Introducing Amiga Mode ➡️ itch.io

*slaps the hard drive, car salesman style* So, you can fit like 10,000 Godots in this bad boy...

My partner is off work for the day because it's Good Friday. I'm forcing myself to work because I can't in good conscience celebrate Easter, when I don't believe in eggs.

The media as ever, putting a proverbial jack in the middle of the Overton window and turning the crank

Unrelated: professional mime moves their limbs in such a way that they appear to be trapped in an invisible box. It's uncanny! You really have to see it!

Reading the leaked Claude Code source is like overhearing the owner of a very large and disobedient dog that they have no control over: "No, down! Sit! Please don't leak credentials again or there'll be no walkies! No, don't bite that child! Claude! Clauudeeeee!"

I turned on the kitchen light late last night to discover a mouse running across the room at speed. I shouted in shock and in response the mouse jumped (~ 1 ft vertical), nailed the landing and then kept running. This has given me an idea for the perfect sport: Human-Assisted Mouse Hurdling

Tetris Effect: Connected is cool and all, but what I really yearn for is Tétrise Concrète: Étude aux Blocs

As someone who is making a 'space game', watching this Artemis II launch is giving me a bad case of the scope creeps #gamedev

So I just paid Valve US$100 to gain the privilege of throwing my slice of independently crafted computer entertainment in to their swirling miasm of crushed dreams and (checks latest trend data) paint drinking simulators. No going back now! #gamedev

I don't know what is going on this week but there are suddenly hundreds of screaming cockatoos in my area (not a pop-up ad) #birds #melbourne

Australian Magpies are really up there for unique calls. Always see a few on my morning walk before work and getting a little serenade is always a highlight. Such a beautiful and distinctive song. They sound like little avian dial up modems channeling a data stream we'll never comprehend. #birds

Chris Morris at his finest was operating at a level that I don't think any followers have ever hit. It takes a seriously deft touch to make satire that gets this silly without dulling the satirical blade but he always pulled it off, regardless of the target. Truly masterful and as relevant as ever.

Woken by birds outside your gaff in the UK? Good chance it will be a gentle experience. Woken by birds outside your gaff in Australia? All bets are off. It might be peaceful but if there are even a couple of cockatoos out there, it might as well be the fucking Nazgûl

I quite like how it died not with a bang, but a whimper. It wasn't even given the dignity of a flashy end: just shuffled off in shame, an abject failure.

A few snaps from Game Worlds at ACMI. Cool to see a range of folks of all ages down there enjoying and appreciating a wide range of games (classic and current). Made me very inspired to get back down the proverbial mine and work on finishing one of my many game projects

Went to the excellent Game Worlds exhibition at ACMI in Melbourne before it closes. Had a heated 1-v-1 against another over 30s fella on the 90s Team Fortress LAN setup for about 10 mins before we realised we were on the same team. Our realisation felt a bit like this...wait, are we both red team?

Truly beautiful writing below. This is straight in at number three in my personal rankings for cultural output concerning sharks, just below Jaws (1975) which holds strong in second place. The first? Vin Diesel's 1994 New York Toy Fair promotional video for Mattel's Street Sharks™ of course #sharks

There is no kitchen gadget you couldn't improve with a sound design rethink. Your microwave just nuked a meal into existence but still sounds less enthusiastic than a cheap bedside alarm in a business hotel. Rice cookers are way ahead of the game: jaunty chirps with real character. Accept no less.

One UI detail I absolutely love and don't see much (because it's all sauce, w/ no function): vector or pixel art cursors which animate their state transitions. A dot which becomes a crosshair? A box which transforms into a cube? A hand which morphs into a sword? Forget about it! #gamedev

I accidentally sent this to the optometrists instead of my regular prescription while ordering new glasses and can I just say, you're all looking very 'Return of the Obra Dinn' today #gamedev #techart #dithering

from here on out, this is what I will call my weekly meal prep session

Last night I accidentally talked myself into putting an embedded terminal themed Match 3 game in one of my sub-menus, as a way for you to process data 'chunks' into research xp. But the ASCII clear effects are too brain trickling and now I can't stop playing it to actually get back to work #gamedev

Jensen Huang claims NVIDIA has achieved AGI. The only way this is true is if they've made up a new definition: Another Gimmick Incoming (to) Avariciously Gain Investment (for) Astonishingly Greedy Individuals (from) Alpha-male Gooner Idiots. (this) Ammoral GDP Inflation (is) Actually Groan Inducing

Me when I can't resist polishing and adding visual flare to a feature that is incredibly early in development and probably won't even make it into my game... #gamedev

Game dev hack: make all your UI terminal themed, so you can siphon debug prints to in game panels for instant ~flavour~