This is a good image but one issue is people assume the scale is linear but it's logarithmic. For every game in the top tier there are 100 lvl 9. So on and so forth. Level 4 is achievable for most Devs Level 6 is very hard it's a big gap and most people don't realise how big.

Also if your curious about #godot #xr this is the week to jump in with the #gamejam running THIS WEEK itch.io/jam/godot-xr...

#Godot #XR update from @mux213.bsky.social and the Godot XR team. Also love the fact XR is now on the Godot frontpage. Hopefully it makes more people realise how great Godot is at XR. #1 OpenXR engine in terms of spec compliance and features godotengine.org/article/godo...

Godot has had XR support for around 8 years, it sometimes feels like our best kept secret, so we finally added a small segment to the Godot engine home page!

Godot XR Community Game Jam V theme announcement, geez what a mouth full :P, premieres in just over 10 hours: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecej...

Just saw Hail Mary preview at IMAX. The 70mm film projection is so good. Overall A+ adaptation, only have tiny niggles. Overall best possible adaptation and an easy recommendation to anyone who loves space or sci-fi 💜

My best strange bug was animations glitching out on a Wii title which was in dev pre launch. Animations glitches appeared seemingly randomly though only repo with multiple local players. No solid repo until someone noticed it was related to multiple controllers active and amount of audio played

My favourite web animated series has this wonderful video about the power of TODAY! Small steps, and honestly the best advice for living and perspective. Esp when you on a long term thing. youtu.be/k-n4sqNxmZY

Fully Mossed! Honestly a delightful game that proves art and craft. The video game equivalent of an award winning short story 💜

Augmental Puzzles is making its physical debut at the London Games Festival. If you want to give it a go, we will be on the show floor. Grab a ticket to New Games Plus and come say hi. flammablepenguins.com/augmental_pu... #LGF26 #IndieDev #AR

My pet peeve and personal OpenXR crusade. All runtimes should support XR_VIEW_CONFIGURATION_TYPE_PRIMARY_STEREO ALPHA_BLEND even if your headset doesn't have passthrough. Dev basically goes, no background OS can provide a default env. It's future forward!

The Macbook Neo looks like the modern version of the iBook which was "cheap" and all over the place. It shocking how little grunt 90% of users need. Not a mac user but with the way windows is going... well linux for me but yeah most people don't want that

Really chuffed with this. The pen was a big part of the original inspiration so welcome the support to do it justice. Was cool to see another Godot project in the top list.

Always look for the distraction. During the breakout of war. Oracle started running mass surveillance on all US citizens. Drey Dossier is doing some good stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TlY... #pol #ai #uspol

Back from Germany, and back to puzzles. Low key graphics programmers can get a bit obsessed with clouds because they are such cool expressions of chaotic systems and the fun behaviour of light. Makes me want to make poofy things 🤣

Been quiet this week with Nextfest but I can't wait to share next month's update. Had a rough start dealing with Godot pr bs but just putting off contributing back to main and focusing on our stuff. Progress feels great 💜

Showing people Augmental Puzzles on headset in person is great. They immediately "get it". The comfort first high quality, one hand controls and putting the puzzles front and centre approach especially on modern passthrough hardware is so cozy. #vr #mr

Been quiet cause mad buzy though I did find a bit of time to attend @AWSGameTech event at Epic London space. Honestly talks in this format with lots of standing room and space to move and chat with people is great. Caught up with friends. Small invite only events are great 😍

Augmental Puzzles I built cool puzzle engine which is generic and can work with wide range of puzzle types. We handset all our puzzles. Can solve, generate and human style guesses. Proper classic game ÅĪ programming which does use some cool stuff but ÅĪ is a toxic label even though it is that.

🚀 our 😎🕹️ with 🔢 on ♨️&🍖. It is 🧩🧠. Lately 👷‍♀️🧑‍💻 to 🛳️ the 🪾🚂 on 🅿️🚏5️⃣. Also 🆕🧩🎮 with 🔢⚫⚪ to make 🖼️ oh and 🐛🦶 🔥🐧🕹️ is 👍

Went to @gaemz.bsky.social last night Talked about Augmental Puzzles feedback system Really like the look of Goblin Mode gave me strong Neighbours from Hell Goose game vibes but that keyart. How have I never seen anyone make the G of goblin into a face before?! Other great stuff less shareable

Perf testing really hot code can be super counter-intuitive. Sudoku, calc row/col/box is easy math. For spot access, right call. Large data access patterns with vec opt loop unrolled code? Lookup table is actually faster. #gamedev

The biggest #gamdev career regrets I have are things I really cared about and really tried to push forward and was passionate about and for some reason or another it didn't happen and the worst part is I can't talk about it.

If your interested in tech but especially breaking new ground with it then I can highly recommend Kelly's Breaking Through Bytes is now available in audio. Give it a listen. #xr #metaverse #audio www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B0FV...

Hey Penguins, Hotfix update is going live today on all platforms. Fixed Daily Challenge collision bug stopping some players from accessing puzzles. Fixed VR Sky Shader for headsets without passthrough capabilities. Details: flammablepenguins.com/augmental_pu...

Great report, doesn't feel actionable. Too much outside my control from short form video to gambling. Though some of it is in my control. Playing in the tiny puddle of VR feels like the ocean tides are massive and my biz choices have to just focus on the details. www.matthewball.co/all/presenta...

This game of For My Queen is still living rent free in my head @groundhoggoth.itch.io @5ftkaiju.bsky.social

Crazy week. Enjoying lazy sunday hitting small tasks. #Godot needed a better #XR screenshot for our feedback system. Small but useful change. We wrote one, shipped it, then ported it back as a PR for the community. Wrote a blog post: claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2026/02...

I do love a good #IRC client, people forget until quite recently Twitch chat was an IRCv3 backend (and the biggest IRC network in the world) So what is your fav client setup + bouncer for? Where are we with Netsplit these days?

With our steam launch yesterday I wanted to celebrate Valentine's Day. One of the advantages of all our puzzles being handset. So I made a heart shaped #sudoku for Augmental Puzzles daily challenge today. Also because I knew we would have new players it's a nice easy one. 💘

That mood when you push your first indie game live on steam on Friday the 13th for the meme. TBH: 13 is my lucky number 🪄🧹

LIVE ON STEAM store.steampowered.com/app/3389740/... Omg such a milestone we are live on the two biggie EA platforms now so it feels like we are OUT OUT. Also I set a 16x16 for today but I'm super chuffed for tomorrow's daily challenge as well. Thanks for all the support 🥰 #gamedev #godot #vr

While the new John Wick game looks cool it saddens me that its existence to avoid brand confusion has likely led to the delisting and attempted erasure of the more interesting earlier licenced tactical game by @mikebithell.bsky.social 😞

My networking advice for #gamedev Networks fail: 5sec/min/hours what happens to player YOU ARE NOT GOOGLE Design for low CCU "Microservices" have 1 node/db dep that makes them monolithic in practice Be creative, get data increase sample size Single box can do a LOT!

UK #gamedev the deadline is 15 Feb Part of London Games Week www.instagram.com/p/DUnMh14iAz4/

Why #godot makes go 😡 to 😍 Augmental Puzzles EA we want an ingame feedback menu, Best way ( Charlie convinced me years ago ). Problem OpenXR viewport capture for screenshots is busted. @mux213.bsky.social has potential fix but it's not merged and our engine is from older branch #gamedev

Building company between people, paperwork, process and every other problem. Never thought getting biz to shipping would be much more work than getting an executable into shipping state. Good news only setup company once and take care of it so it grows #gamedev

Lovely write up from Davide which is thoughtful, well written and interesting on his experience and journey with Modeller. #SDF #VR #Modelling dakrunch.blogspot.com/2026/01/the-...

For Augmental Puzzles we have a core game logic that is super step based. Makes sense for the puzzle logic nature of the game. Though I do think our branch of #godot is likely to move to 30Hz fixed step logic update with 90Hz interp late latch rendering ect... future #gamdev thoughts

Little features that I'm glad I can talk about now POST GAME REPLAY This little feature works because of the infinite* undo and multiplayer prep work. It was one of those nice to haves that I was really proud to get into the game. * memory allowing but effectively infinite #vr #gamedev

The 2026 Global Game Jam #GGJ26 was last weekend, so let's take a look at their historical data for engine usage. 📈 @godotengine.org is having a good run! #Godot is now firmly established as the #2 engine in game jams (correlated by #GMTKJam data), rapidly closing the gap with #Unity.

AAAAAARGH! It's finally out the first step in our puzzle collection is out today playable. Hope you all enjoy it <3

I'm so excited for today! Keep an eye on @flammablepenguins.com for our announcement this afternoon. #vr #gamedev #godot

Back from Contingency my fav annual #ttrpg con and I wrote a blog post (audio version included) on my thoughts. Had a great time, and some reflections on safety tools. claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2026/02...

Had some time on the Tube to expand on my thoughts on Netflix cloud gaming push from share holders letter and my history with low interaction broad scale gaming. claire-blackshaw.com/blog/2026/01...

Really interesting that Netflix is calling out Cloud games as a big 26 priority to shareholders. Atm the focus is on classic formats like Boggle, Pictionary, Lego Party and Tetris. Though IP skinned tie-in, board games and LIVE event based quiz stuff is a huge market.

Great interview with @yosp-jp.bsky.social on VR So happy he called out our Social VR work as a highlight. Our work on hand gesture driven emotion which was shared at GDC become a VRChat mod and now is the default emote system in social VR www.youtube.com/watch?v=9I9F...

Btw. Also why diagnosis (resource allocation) is some arbitrary line which gets redrawn. We all have needs and diagnosis is often just an agreed standard at which point resources are allocated. Some stuff is very clear cut, easy to test or cheap to treat. Other things like mental health are not.

I think a lot about how accommodation and diagnosis are about care and resources. Don't eat meat, have some beans. Pronouns, sure makes you feel good. Worship skydaddy sure wake us up with bells every Sunday. We accommodate you because we care a small kindness to get along.