It's been a while. A while ago I thought that by now I will be implementing new units and game mechanics while actually I'm debugging AI and trying not to go crazy. If you ever wrote AI which people perceived good - I salute you. tinygenerals.com #indiedev #solodev

I got the MX Master 4 and it's a joke for a larger hand. It's like holding a small but heavy brick of soap. MX3 I can raise with 2 fingers, MX4 tries to slip away. The last sensible product I got from Logi is MX Vertical

I've got this problem for a while now: anytime I mention "AI" in the game context I need to answer/explain that I don't mean LLM/chat interface.

If I fail with tinygenerals.com maybe at least I will be able to productize the map generator. Added auto-generation, now also for fitting buildings to the map #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #tinygenerals

Linux was my first system for some time around ~15 years ago (Gentoo and Debian). I recently wanted to make a come back but got defeated by Ubuntu and Fedora. nvidia drivers, freezes, installer hanging. Guess skill issues.

And this Atari 2600 demo from Revision 2026 is insane! This is running on a device that has 128 bytes(!) of RAM! Deservedly won first place in the Oldskool Demo Competition 😄

The moment I am happy I picked JSON to store the maps in game and spent significant amount of time on building the map editor in tinygenerals.com. Now GeoJSON + short tweaking session and... 80x72 which is bit more than Civ1 - in your browser #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

Artillery - the king of the battle - felt overpowered in tinygenerals.com. It was insta-killing infantry so I added suppression. Just like in real life: part of the force is not destroyed but scattered and less effective. Currently the effect lasts for a turn. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

Why so serious? Have a turn playing the audio spectrum visualiser. #tinygenerals #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

TinyGenerals has a younger brother.

tinygenerals.com is now equipped with battle replays and in-game undo. So now you can watch every game and - soon - even share it with others. Or just undo that one wrong move which almost costed you the game. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #tinygenerals

Building units every turn can be tedious. Why not queue them up? #tinygenerals #indiedev #solodev #gamedev tinygenerals.com

The last time I felt so good was when I was considered "hot" on hotornot.com ~20+ years ago (yes, it also meant nothing) #tinygenerals #dadjoke #vanitymetrics

tinygenerals.com/blog/05-marc... Finally wrote the summary of February and plans for March. #indiedev #gamdev #tinygenerals

My fav screen for the past 12 hours

Recently I had a spike of new players in #tinygenerals. They started games but often dropped on the first turn without any movement. I thought they didn’t like it or didn’t know what to do. Today I tried the game on my old phone with slow internet and discovered the loading progress bar is broken 🤦‍♂️

Early version, no graphics yet and I don't know if I will manage to polish it but I made a simplified spinoff on one of the upcoming features for #tinygenerals and my hope is to make a version for the #commodoreamiga #amiga classic and AmigaOS/MorphOS/AROS. #gamedev #indiedev #retrogaming

Am I the only one getting confused by the choice of icons for the actions? #notion #uxui

I was missing a manager/updater for #godot @godotengine.org so I created a new one (and I totally neglected that there's likely 666 of them already). Should work across all platforms, has a TUI interface and #commodoreamiga related easter egg in settings. #gamedev github.com/tomaszstania...

I've been under the weather and progress on #tinygenerals and @postreads.co slowed down to a crawl. But new updates are coming for both. TG will get an update tonight/tomorrow, postreads "when it's ready". TG gets also an update of help portal with modding info. #indiedev #solodev #gamdev

If you are product people and use #AI to help you in your daily work I added skills which can be used with Claude or agentskills.io compatible agents which cover topics like product discovery, strategy, customer interviews and more. Check it out: github.com/tomaszstania... #productmanagement

My RTX4090 needs to be serviced so I decided to try out RTX5090. It showed me two things: my CPU (13700) is a bottleneck yet i get 300+ fps in 5k in Cyberpunk with RTX Overdrive but overall the increase is not "wow" enough to justify the price. Two: I don't need that power to run even local LLM/AI.

When Grammarly identifies text which might have been written with AI it proposes to rewrite it with... AI. Love it.

#tinygenerals got a new landing page. The starting page for the game is no longer a list of rooms, and with that I think I migrated all the pages to shadcn and can start building a design system for the future. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev tinygenerals.com

Not yet auto-tiling and no proper graphics, but finally worked on the new roads implementation. Previously roads were tiles like forest point. Now road is an overlay/modifier - it modifies the terrain values. Railroads and rivers likely coming soon #tinygenerals

I... I.... lost. Yes, I gave AI the chance to exploit my position - didn't push early for resources, allowed it to gain economical upper hand and... it used it. Recently I spent time on #ai in the game. it's far from perfect but can be a challenge. #tinygenerals #solodev #gamedev #indiedev

Trying to be serious to write a better AI for the game. Wrote myself a debug overlay which shows the influence map and decisions by AI - transitioning to behavior tree for easier debugging and maintenance. (e.g. current AI is too passive - heals too often) #tinygenerals #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

I'm sorry Hans, but there is only one true Dune soundtrack www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvDd... #amiga #dune

What is he thinking of... #tinygenerals #indie #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

I think it starts to look decent visually. What do you think?

Do you remember onboarding in Panzer General? In Civilization 1? I grew up in the 80s, my first games were pirated copies - no instructions, usually in a language I was not good with (English). If I were unlucky, I could get a game in German or French (hello Transarctica) #imold #gamer

New version is coming up soon. tinygenerals.com #indie #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Created www.indiedb.com/games/tinyge.... Screens there are from local development, which should be online in the next couple of days. #tinygenerals

Just a small detail to wrap up the night coding #tinygenerals

TinyGenerals two factions face to face. Alliance heavy rocket launcher vs Federation assault tank. Slow progress on units and terrain pixel art - I hope to replace placeholder units and terrain graphics until end of February #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #tinygenerals

Made a summary of development of tinygenerals.com in January and outlook on developments for February. tinygenerals.com/blog/04-janu... #gamedev #solodev #tinygenerals #indiedev

antirender.com finally useful application of AI.

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I had a block and burnout but got back. Working now more on the mobile experience. Changing battle screen. Was vs Is. Looks better? #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #tinygenerals

Making games should be as fun as playing them. #tinygenerals just got a working (?) chat and I decided to do something fun (at least for me). When adding AI Bot to the game, they also send a message to the chat... You may need to be my years old. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev tinygenerals.com

In @postreads.co I initially integrated Auth0.com. Unfortunately the free tier is too limited for my needs and the project is too low key to use the paid version. It blocked me when developing the mobile version and browser plugins. So I started the migration - progress is good and soon to be done

First drawn building in #tinygenerals

And managed to write off one of the points I wanted to do in January for tinygenerals.com - login/register/link with Google and Discord will soon make it's way to production. Just need to test a thing or two. #tinygenerals #indiedev #gamedev

Nobody expected this. futurism.com/future-socie...

I did this already before Christmas as an alternative to the mobile/desktop app but it took me until today to fix the errors and make it compilable. @postreads.co reader in terminal? I don't know but there will be signs.

While TinyGenerals won't be (likely) a true 4X as the eXploit part will not be so robust, one of my strong inspirations and nostalgia which drew me to start building is Colonization from 1994 which I played on the Amiga. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtPh... #tinygenerals #retrogaming #gamedev #amiga

@petersome.bsky.social gave me this interesting idea. Updated water tiles behavior. The water "waves" towards land mass. Making slow progress on the maps editor #tinygenerals #gamedev

Haven't yet fully decided if I like it or not , but deep water now animates. #tinygenerals. #solodev #gamedev #indiedev

Migrating my RSS reader (postreads.co) to next.js. Retrospectively I delayed it for too long. Especially in the context of building a mobile/desktop app and even the already existing progressive web app. #rss #postreads

Some days ago I made an entry on my Facebook and now I rewrote it and started a devlog for #tinygenerals - tinygenerals.com/blog/02-ai-j... - on some of the explorations on making an interesting, competitive AI and hopefully a playable online game. #solodev #indiedev #gamedev