So, “Order of the Sinking Star” by Thekla was just announced, which takes several small free games (two of which are mine) and gives them a major graphical upgrade and mashes up their rulesets. I haven’t been very involved but it’s a great concept and looks cool.

Hey! Do you like kanji variants?

Hironobu Sakaguchi, recently, on his X account, has been posting an absolute treasure trove of design docs and promotional materials from early games. These are early design docs from Final Fantasy 3.

Angeline Era is OUT NOW!!! 🔍Every level hidden in plain sight… 🗺️… chart your own path through the world! ⚔️Tons of thrilling combat, mysterious places… 👼… and a soul-shattering story! GET IT HERE!! store.steampowered.com/app/2393920/...

Japan is just the best I'm sorry I'm so easy.

I made my living room in pixel art. Well, the view from the couch anyway.

I did an MCU boot camp some months ago. One lab was about drawing a cross on the screen but once I got it rendering pixels I was like... How could I not immediately make a little dungeon crawler? Did I already post this? Anyway it rocks so screw you.

I added some conveniences to ease development. Being able to step through the ROM and observe the effect of each instruction will help a ton. Also, it is using an actual ROM now instead of a toy program (I haven't implemented the bootROM yet but I think that's my next project).

Oops! I started working on a game boy emulator in c compiled to wasm (because I want wasm stuff on my Github so that I can get wasm jobs, but also because emulator!). This is the CPU state after running a tiny test program that copies a tile into VRAM (and a primitive busted visualization of VRAM).

There is something truly remarkable about Generative AI. Several years in this revolution, half of the US GDP dumped to make these tools free, and i can't think of a single generated artifact, text, image, sound, video that had a significant cultural impact.

Discover the World (@sylviefluff.bsky.social, @brlka.com) "Sylvie enters yet another world in this turn-based RPG platformer. Collect items, fight battles, and destroy the tyrant." Free - Windows, Mac, Linux: warpdoor.com/2025/10/27/d...

Ooh, Lordy, my trouble so hard Ooh, Lord, my trouble so hard Don't nobody know my troubles with Skong Don't nobody know my troubles with Skong

Announcing…tomorrow. 👀

I am Thrilled to be chilling and platforming around Lost Verdania. I want more games to embrace this juxtaposition of chill vibes and zero chill platforming.

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Normally I'd say Spiders Georg for the culture, but since somebody likely beat me to it have this runner up.

📢NEW GAME BOY COLOR PRE-ORDER CAMPAIGN Rosemarie, an alien princess from the planet Nimola seeks genocide on the evil monsters who killed her mother and people. A Metroid-like by @starlab.bsky.social Only 25 pre-orders required to launch production ➡️ www.homebrew-factory.com/game-boy/160...

I finished watching Hikaru no Go last week and now I guess I'm implementing go for the game boy!? It's much easier than learning to play go well! #gameboy #homebrew

Also (gosh I'm cranky) games take too long to load. They should start immediately.

I was just in a video game store and it occurred to me: it doesn't really feel like the Switch 2 is out.

I was delighted to find a cute little art book in my copy of Rime. Tequila Works must have been geniuses, even giants like Nintendo and SquareEnix haven't been able to consistently put a little book inside their game boxes.

Absolutely bonkers to see itch, at worst, awkwardly scrambling to fix things and be met with a million "fuck you stop lying you evil piece of shit"

on the payment processor situation from someone with experience in fintech… voidfox.com/blog/payment... “I guess I'm asking for some understanding, both of Itch's position, and the entire landscape, before declaring them at complete fault and dumping them in the sewer with all the other bad actors.”

This is one reason you should target a 50 year old platform, rather than writing your game in a big engine. Unity is never going to be able to deploy on as many platforms as game boy can.

best thing I've read on the itch situation yet. remind me to mull over these thoughts again in the future harmonyzone.org/blog/posts/t...

lots of people saying that itch "capitulated without a fight" need to remember that payment processors are literally fucking demons who will say "hey you're fucked now by the way" without even a single thought. there *is* no "fighting back" against this. it is literally "do what we say or die"

I'm on the front line of organizing against the payment processors and navigating communication with itch who is responsible for the livelihoods of devs like me. itch is now signal boosting folks in the community organizing against visa and mastercard and is looking into actions behind the scenes

What's worse, making adult games unsearchable, or losing itchio completely? Focus your anger at Mastercard and Visa, sign the petition, share it around action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

everyone blaming itch here needs to get some perspective bc it is very obviously the fault of payment processors and collective shout. i doubt a company that hosted a massive amount of queer/nsfw media is thrilled this is the situation they’re in

Is the anger justified? Abso-fuckin-lutely! Now, redirect it! Make the payment processors pay for their insolence! bsky.app/profile/monr...

I stand with @itch.io. This sucks, it sucks especially for LGBTQ devs who's games have been wrongly delisted, but this is an existential threat to a site that has done so much for indie devs and I believe itch is going to do the right thing in the months to come.

I talked to @halfrobot.com about what credit card companies have been doing to Itch and the impact that could have on the future of games www.404media.co/credit-card-...

I gave a talk entitled "Intro to Assembly For Everyone" at @fullindie.bsky.social last month! It's an intro to z80 assembly that is intended to get YOU curious about how lovely and easy z80 assembly is. #gameboy #homebrew www.youtube.com/watch?v=3avw...

📢Big news from Homebrew Factory! You asked for it, and it’s finally here:
 Game Boy and Game Boy Color support is now live! Launch a pre-order campaign, or go straight to production. And we have a brand new Fulfillment by Homebrew Factory service. ➡️ creator.homebrew-factory.com

This is the beeeeest!!!

Ah yeah, I can relate. I picked up origami and I think it was for similar reasons. It's nice to be able to whip out a square of paper anywhere, any time, and fold something cute. I think I'd really enjoy pottery, too, but needing to go to a special place with special equipment is a lot.

This is a good counter-argument to "Designing for a Sense of Mystery and Wonder" and aligns nicely with the resolution problem. Who hasn't wanted to make a world? If we just hide our ideas in an interesting enough way, will they become interesting ideas? blog.runevision.com/2021/02/desi... #teog

Kill gameplay

i made a video of me talking passionately to da camera about kill gameplay, the end of gameplay, a little bit about the droqevers. it'll premiere tomorrow (15h from now) if you want to watch it with me & others? and when it ends, The End of Gameplay will be released. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH45...

The End of Gameplay is out RIGHT NOW! My masterpiece. A pixel art adventure through my mind, broken by kill gameplay 🔪 love, droqen store.steampowered.com/app/3120040/...

The Deluxe version of My Friendly Little Island for #gameboycolor is now released on itch.io 🥳🥳🥳 playinstinct.itch.io/my-friendly-... It's $3 to download the ROM. But it can be played entirely for free in your browser 😊 Hope you'll like it 🏝️ #gbstudio #gameboy #gbdev #retrogaming #indiedev

I did it! I posted 3 pages in April! My goal is to get to 4 pages a month! So here is your new comic BOOP! (Reposting = Helps me keep doing this for a living.) (Commenting what you think of the page = Makes me feel all zoomie and seen.) www.goblinscomic.com/comic/page-9... Also, I love you!

When you see this, post a vampire.

Cataphract OI: #RPGMaker spotlight #Retrogaming #pixelart #indierpg

Escape From Brant Rock. Work your way down the floors of this mysterious tower while learning about the strange events surrounding it. I felt pleasantly overwhelmed while playing, enough so that I ended up taking notes. It is an "Escape Room". starseermyla.itch.io/escapefrombr... #gameboy #homebrew

I channeled my obsession with small file size into a rant about the futility and wastefulness of pursuing "realism" in videogames. Enjoy! letterclub.games/2025/04/19/b...

Many have tried, but few succeed. Incredible!

if you're one of the folks who've followed me lately off an rm dev starter pack, you should know that i released a short(ish) experimental rpg just last month. it's about digging for cryptic secrets and accruing arcane knowledge so you can do worm stuff (murder) tunditur-unda.itch.io/prophecy-sec...

I was at Full Indie recently with my games and I decided to make manuals to go along with a few games from the valley.