Before getting back to work on proper gamepad support for Heat Retreat, took a moment to update my builder image to use the new Steam v4 SDK for #linux that I use to build #bevy #rustlang Not live on my quay.io repository yet pending more testing but code's up on GitHub: github.com/coast-wide-s...

Today marks 1 month exactly but Heat Retreat's shopping rework is complete* 🎉 Couple things I'll circle back to (eg, station wagon art I'm not super happy with) but it's all functional! Time to get back on that gamepad support.... #gamedev #indiedev #gaming #bevy #linux #pixelart

Plasma is going all Wayland After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive. Read the FAQ below to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE: blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/g...

A lot of code work since the last update, but got a lot of the edge cases covered now. Finished up replacing the placeholder textures too, and worked at fixing up the fuel & water assets (tried a different approach with the water, still not 100% happy with it) #indiegamedev #pixelart #bevy

The GAMES FROM VANCOUVER 🍁 Steam sale goes live Nov 21-30 with over 50 discounted games! We've partnered with @bbigames.bsky.social to present a digital showcase of talent from Greater Vancouver. Mark your calendar to snag a great deal and discover hits you might not have known were made here!

What a day for internet services, first Cloudflare, now GitHub 😆 But I'm going to capitalize on the situation to remind everyone: Heat Retreat (and all games I plan to make) are DRM free & don't require cloud connections. You buy it, you play it, online or offline. And no gen AI either 🎉

Getting closer to "done" for Heat Retreat's shop rework, starting to dial in the UX & replacing debug text with proper localized stuff. Did the fuel/water assets yesterday but not happy with them, going to work at a few other assets then circle back to those two #indiegamedev #pixelart #bevy

It is time for the annual State of Rust Survey! 📝✨️️ Whether you've just begun using Rust, are an experienced Rust user, stopped using Rust, or might use Rust in the future, we'd like to hear from you! 🦀 Available in ten languages and open until December 17th: blog.rust-lang.org/2025/11/17/l...

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Couple more WIP shots of Heat Retreat's shopping UI rework for #screenshotsaturday (it's still Saturday for me 😆). Still got more to do on it but pretty happy with how it's coming along - think it's safe to start working on replacing the placeholder textures #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #bevy

I haven't been using the #solodev tag lately and super excited to announce: I'm only _mostly_ solo now! Officially working with @rommygnacia.bsky.social 🎉 She's tackling audio & has made some amazing music for Heat Retreat, can't wait to start sharing more soon* (that's a #gamedev #indiedev soon 😅)

Feels good to see automation working flawlessly 🤩 Recent #rust compiler/Steam Linux SDK updates have all been detected, images rebuilt & uploaded to my repo at quay.io/repository/c... 100% hands free on my part. Feels. Good. (This is the OCI I use to build Heat Retreat natively for Steam #linux)

One thing I'm a massive proponent of when starting development on a new indie game... Getting the music and soundscape in ASAP.

Alright, think this is far enough along to show a little more publicly: the new (still WIP) shopping UI for Heat Retreat (complete rework of the old system). Big improvement in my opinion, just don't mind the horrible yellow/black placeholder textures 😆 #gamedev #indiedev #bevy #pixelart

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Valve announces a desktop machine and VR goggles, both powered by KDE's Plasma desktop. store.steampowered.com/sale/steamma... store.steampowered.com/sale/steamfr...

Still have a great rig, but #Windows is holding you back? Don't waste good #hardware. Kick it into overdrive with #Linux. #Gaming with #openSUSE + Proton means keeping your #games and your sanity. #Endof10 news.opensuse.org/2025/05/16/w...

Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark #Linux #LinuxGaming #Steam #SteamOS #SteamDeck

New #promosky Hi I'm Sam. I have cerebral palsy and play video games by tapping certain buttons with my mouth. Some games I enjoy. 🗡️Soulsborne 🗡️Metal gear 🗡️Final fantasy 🗡️Battlefield 🗡️Farming simulator But it's pretty much everything that isn't guitar hero.🙃 💖 Or 🔃 appreciated

Fedora Linux 43 is here! What do you get with this update? * New Anaconda WebUI installer on all desktop editions and spins * @gnome 49 and being Wayland only * Fedora CoreOS now based on bootc instead of rpm-ostree * Under the hood changes like RPM 6.0 * All your favorite versions of Fedora […]

Having a weird (to me) issue in #rustlang (Linux only): my build has suddenly stopped searching the local directory, so any .so blobs I'm dynamically linking to aren't being found. I can "fix" it using, eg, patchelf but I'm looking for a "correct" solution, any #rust people out there with some tips?

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New to #openSUSE or troubleshooting something? The openSUSE #Forums are your go-to place for #community help, tips and discussion. Explore, ask, and #contribute. forums.opensuse.org

Happy Birthday to us 🎂! KDE is 29! Today KDE is 29 years old and we are celebrating kicking off our yearly #fundraiser. Donate and make KDE's wishes come true. kde.org/fundraisers/...

After getting the scroll bar working, I've now got button (keyboard only at the moment) menu nav working! The code is horrific, but works 😅 One step closer to getting full gamepad (and Steam Deck) support working properly 🎉 #indiegamedev #bevy

youtu.be/wTl4vEednkQ?... It's also worth pointing out that the TPM doesn't add much in terms of security; anyone with a genuine need for a secure system aren't adequately protected, and the average user is equally well served by existing, non-TPM approaches like luks

Install #Linux today #Windows10 users. Your #computer still works, so install #Linux & get your maintenance & #security updates without signing up for a #Microsoft account. #Privacy #Endof10 news.opensuse.org/2025/07/23/u...

Finally got scrolling working! That was... painful. But it's one necessary step closer to getting button (ie, gamepad) menu navigation working properly. Here we have mouse scroll wheel, click & drag, click on the track plus drag, and WASD to navigate! #indiegamedev #bevy

Been stuck on getting menu navigation working for Heat Retreat but took a break to chip away at my art backlog - so got something new to show for #screenshotsaturday And this particular state also has working menu navigation so WASD keys will let you cycle tabs/buttons! #indiegamedev #bevy

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month. Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

Hey #Windows users? No need to buy a new #laptop. Just download #openSUSE Leap 16, burn the #iso image, #install and your #hardware will be ready for action. #Linux #Endof10 get.opensuse.org/leap/16.0/

Bevy 0.17 is out now! It features Raytracing, Improved Observers / Events, UI Widgets, Rust Hotpatching, Light Textures, DLSS, Tilemap Chunks, Web Assets, Reflect Auto-Registration, UI Gradients, Raymarched Atmosphere, Virtual Geometry BVH Culling, and more! bevy.org/news/bevy-0-17

It's a thing of beauty when automation works; Steam just released a new version of the Linux SDK runtime & my auto updater successfully detected the release, updated & rebuilt my Rust compiler images then pushed them out to my repository! 100% hands off 🥳 quay.io/repository/c...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=5O6t... good discussion in this about Linux distros & gaming on Linux, definitely worth a watch

Gamepad support is going to break me 😩 I put this off for far too long so now I'm knee deep in refactoring every single menu & UI button in Heat Retreat just to get keyboard menu nav working. #indiegamedev #solodev

present me is *very* mad at past me right now; going through and trying to 1) figure out a design on how to navigate my UI sensibly using kbd/gamepad buttons for each menu state and 2) go through the entire codebase and implement all the necessary components and logic reworks to make this stuff work

Vancouverites and visitors - @vangamegarden.bsky.social is this weekend! Check out the many cool artists, devs and games, including GRIDHACK! Did I mention it's free entry? #YVR #GameDev #IndieGames

blog.rust-lang.org/2025/09/18/R... New Rust update, and perfect timing too - just got some automation up & running for my Rust + Steam Linux SDK integration image! Now, whenever there's a new Rust or Steam SDK release my image will be updated & published at quay.io/repository/c... #rustlang #bevy

Haven't been active on socials with kids sick, back to school madness & birthday parties, but progress is being made on Heat Retreat! A little late for #screenshotsaturday but here's a some of the new updates to the travel scene (in 21:9 this time, doing some ultra wide testing) #indiegamedev #bevy

Microsoft just pulled a classic bait-and-switch tactic by ending free #Office licenses for NPOs. 😡  Don't let Big Tech lure you into their platforms with "free" offerings. Open source alternatives like Linux + Tuta put YOU in control. ✊ Because you deserve better. ❤️  👉 tuta.com/blog/microso...

I don't have the proper words to say more than this now but I was just laid off. My role at Giant Squid is being eliminated. If your studio is looking for an environment artist, please let me know ASAP. I have 5+ years of experience. thank you

Not too much new visual stuff to show for #screenshotsaturday since I've had my DevOps hat on for the last few days, but here's a work-in-progress shot of the hatchback dashboard #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #pixelart #indiegame

Also got #linux native builds compiling via Steam's runtime container SDK for #rustlang + #bevy and I've open sourced my Dockerfile in case anyone else would find it useful (no image uploaded to any registry - yet) github.com/coast-wide-s... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

Milestone last night: first build successfully pushed to Steam! Took some figuring out since I'm doing this 100% from #linux with no automagical packaging or GUI's. Still got some work to do though, my asset packing needs a complete overhaul 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Haven't been on social media much, juggling too many things so took a brief hiatus. But had a big win today, finally got the station wagon speedometer (and fuel gauge) working! Had to dust off my geometry & trigonometry to do it too 😂 #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #bevy #pixelart

Well this sucks, guess it's time to attempt to migrate to gitlab again... which I'm not thrilled about. Always hated that MS owned GitHub but GitLab has consistently been painful to use; last attempt their migration tool was broken & I gave up after it had been down for over a month 😒

Today is Bevy's fifth birthday! As always, I've used this as a chance to reflect on the past year and outline my hopes and dreams for the next year of #bevy: bevy.org/news/bevys-f...

First pass at getting the travel state "food meter" in! Simple low/med/high visual for fresh & canned food ("high" fresh & "medium" canned here); for more detail players will need to pull over & check supplies. Visuals need tweaking, but so far so good I says #indiegamedev #solodev #pixelart #bevy

VILE: Exhumed may be banned for sale, but I refuse to let that stop people from playing the game. It’s now available, for free, at WWW.VILEISBANNED.COM Please share the site, share the game, and fuck anyone who tries to control storytelling and expression.

Just caught up with all the overnight requests and there are 42 open spots still available. When this one fills up, I will be doing a sequel! #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #GameAudio #GameArt #GameDesign #Godot #UnrealEngine #Unity #Blender #Gaming #IndieGames