I made this a few months ago and I don't know why. www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUSY...

I don't want to put my games on steam cause I have no idea what Gabe Newel is going to do with the money... will he buy another yacht? will he build an army of AI super-soldiers to exterminate the poor? I don't want either of these things to happen.

its not ok to like fake wrestling.

decided today to add assignment-by operators to my scripting language (plus-equals, etc.) and the whole thing only took like 5 minutes, worked first try. Love when that happens.

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #rpg added stats & level ups to my Hacking RPG. Main influence for the stat system rn is System Shock 2, plan to add a bunch more stats to endure several viable, mutually exclusive builds. skill increases should be significant. e.g putting a few points into Vision:

my side project is taking longer than expected... maybe I should start a side-side project to get the creative juices flowing and then I'll go back and finish my side project so I can get back to working on my main project...

made a little bot that follows you around and fights for you. Also added some more sounds. spider webs now trap entities for a couple turns. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #pixelart #ebitengine #golang #programming #automation #turnbased

Just released the source code for my cellular automata Pong-like with Tennis rules made with #Godot #gamedev #indiedev arkanar.itch.io/love-love/de...

working on the re-spawn system. the player now re-spawns in their bed, sort of like a bonfire in a souls-like, except you can pick it up and move it to wherever you want. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #ebitengine #turnbased #programming #golang #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

Finally got around to releasing the source code of my minesweeper-like: Mines Over. made in #javascript using #phaser arkanar.itch.io/mines-over/d...

making progress on Do Not Get With the Program. added line numbers and tabs to the editor, a "charger" entity, that restores nearby allies energy and HP and some more effects for foliage, charging, etc. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #programming #ebitengine #solodev #pixelart #golang

added a teleporter for sending entities between zones. already hackable and usable by the player. Next step is to teleport in enemies as reinforcements, or batteries/healing items, etc. Goal is to have a somewhat believable ecosystem/supply chain #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #roguelike #go

Can now pickup and drop items. Enemies can drop on death. Added a new snow level with snow particles. new security system, cameras report the player's position to central computers which then give orders to enemies. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #programming #pixelart #turnbased #go #ebitengine

caught a case of writer's block so I'm trying a content first approach. Adding a bunch of stuff to the levels with hopes it will spur some ideas. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #pixelart #turnbased #golang #ebitengine

adding some effects to hacking connections, worked on UI. Made some changes to the scripting as well. for loops now use "@" symbol instead of "!". Functions now stored as vars, can be passed to other functions. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #ebitengine #golang #pixelart #programming

Intentionally designing a game to be addicting is unethical.

added support for arbitrary aspect ratios and gui resizing. was starting to think it was a mistake to do the UI from scratch, but its actually made it easier to rapidly iterate on these kinds of things. still need to fix this flicker tho... #gamedev #ebitengine #programming #indiedev

recorded some gameplay of my pong-like "Love Love", figured screenshots didn't do it justices. you can download Love Love for windows, or linux for free on my itch page. #indiegames #godot #gamedev #indiedev #itchio youtu.be/RXpfhskVR0s

started work on a follow up to my 7drl submission. Going for a lonely vibe. Hiding from the overseers in a cave with the only friends (and food source) you have left... #gamedev #pixelart #roguelike #indiedev #indiegames

just published an update to my 7drl submission "Stuck In Rogue". ended up being more of an 11 day roguelike. time to get back to work on my main project #indiedev #gamedev or maybe I'll do another jam... arkanar.itch.io/stuck-in-rog...

7drl reminded me how much better I work with a deadline. So, for my post-jam update I'm going to force my self to finish by tomorrow at 5PM. gives me plenty of time to put the finishing touches on Stuck In Rogue and enough time to check out #love2d before #lovejam2025 starts on the 14th.

finished my #7drl submission with a couple hours left. wanted to get a few more mechanics implemented but, I got bogged down with the UI. Still, I'm very happy with how it turned out. First gamjame I've finished in years. #gamedev #indiedev check it out here: arkanar.itch.io/stuck-in-rogue

I started last sunday around 7pm so that means just a bit more than 24 hrs left in #7drl been working on the interface, controls, etc. now I've got a day to make as much content as I can #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #roguelike

working on ai, visuals, combat, etc. for #7drl #gamedev #indiedev

let the robots fight amongst themselves. #7drl #gamedev #indiedev

never waste time on a task that can be automated... #7DRL #gamedev #indiedev

hack the dungeon. make any enemy your eyes and ears. #7drl #pixelart

keeping my scripting language, and in game virtual OS as its own package is really paying off. took hardly any work to integrate it into my #7DRL project.

started #7DRL last night. Making some good progress. #gamedev #indiedev

will probably start #7DRL tomorrow. I plan on using my scripting language from my main project but I found a major bug with multi-line map literals that needs fixing first.

reworked how lightning/energy generation works. still not quite there... but I think I'm headed in the right direction #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

added some simple syntax colouring in my games editor. Even just matching characters improves readability a ton. Next step is doing so basic parsing so I can color ids and literals. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #programming

just made it so in game scripts can save files to the game's virtual drive. this allows players to serialise data rather than having it stored in memory, where it would be lost if the script was replaced. also enables players to write code generators in game

made a youtube channel. to start I've uploaded a demonstration of my minesweeper-like, Mines Over. Check it out #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames www.youtube.com/watch?v=_vHB...

I hate loading screens. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

I think I'm going to do the 7DRL jam this year. I've had an idea kicking around in my head for a roguelike for a couple years but never got around to making it. Good opportunity to make a prototype. No idea what im gonna do with the theme though...

thinking about releasing my game exclusively in Esperanto.

moslty done with all the interesting parts of developing my game. Now its mostly bug fixes, optimisation, balance,setting up steam, making a trailer, and a lot of documentation/lore. I have a low tolerance for this kind of stuff, might have to make some tiny games to stay sane. #gamedev #indiedev

a factory in motion... #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #programming #indiegames #automation #golang

just realised I haven't needed to delete a corrupted save in like a month. feels good #indiedev #gamedev #golang #programming

added a builtin rand function to my game's scripting language. #golang #programming #indiedev #gamedev since the text editor uses scripts as config files, and the config is reloaded on save you can do stuff like this:

a few months ago I was watching a youtube video of someone watching a twitch stream of someone watching a youtube video. I was inspired, so I made this #comic #art

please check out this pong-like I made a couple years back #gamedev #indiedev #godot #pixelart arkanar.itch.io/love-love

copying and pasting to/from the clipboard ended up being way easier than I thought it would be thanks to a package I found, simply called "clipboard" #golang. next step is undo/redo #gamedev #indiedev #programming #automation

one button platformer I've been working on #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #pixelart

for some reason this was the first thing i thought of to demonstrate printing from scripts in my game... #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #programming

spent all day refactoring my factory game's scripting language to allow only interpreting N lines per frame. Mostly did this to prevent infinite loops from freezing the game, but now I cant stop thinking of the possibilities... in game debugger? virtual clock speeds? lots to think about #gamedev

you know what I'm getting tired of not knowing where things are #gamedev #indiedev #programming

lets pour one out for our colleague Jerry. He flew to close to a sword and got gibbed. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

total automation is within reach... #gamedev #indiegames #hashtag #programming