Due to the recent ongoing events with #discord, I have been looking at #fluxer as an alternative platform. It's quite interesting. I have created a community for Principia on Fluxer, mostly as an experiment for now. Join if you like Principia or just want to try Fluxer! You can join the server […]

OK actually here is a sneak peek of the current set of badges I have made. In addition to providing some much needed recognition for contest winners, I also want to be able to give recognition for those who have positively contributed to the game and its […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

User pages on the community site has seen a redesign, removing the ugly "general information" table and moving out the information that used to be contained there. You may notice a lot of empty space to the right on big screens. This will come useful for the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I made an account on git.gay a while back but never actually did anything on it. However I decided now to create an organisation on it and mirror the main Principia source repository onto it, so now Principia officially has a presence on git.gay! https://git.gay/principia/principia

The Gearbox is an elusive unused object in Principia from the game's very early development. Previously it would crash if you tried to place it down, but now I have fixed it to the point where it can now be placed down! ...It's still very buggy, and the […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The latest Principia building contest is now live, and the name of it is Crazy Circuitry! You have until the 2nd March 12:00 GMT to submit a level. https://principia-web.se/contest/3 #gamedev #gaming #foss #opensource #contest

Please donate to support my work on Principia and keep the community site running. https://principia-web.se/donate Renewal for the site domain is near, I was intending to move to another registrar but they've already sent an invoice for automatic renewal. My current registrar is currently […]

The new upcoming Principia building contest will be available at exactly 12:00 (noon) GMT tomorrow. See you there! https://principia-web.se/contest/3 #gamedev #gaming #foss #opensource #contest

There may be a new Principia building contest starting soon on Monday! Are you interested? Please express your interest so I don't embarrass myself if nobody shows up! :)) https://principia-web.se/level/1515 #gamedev #gaming #foss #opensource #contest

Please donate to support my work on Principia and keep the community site running. https://principia-web.se/donate Renewal for the site domain is near, I was intending to move to another registrar but they've already sent an invoice for automatic renewal. My current registrar is currently […]

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While the rest are scrambling for alternatives to #Discord, Principia has been one step ahead, developing our own independent chat platform integrated into the community site. ...It is an extremely basic AJAX-based shoutbox type chat. Yet it is somehow up and […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Wacky Waving Inflatable Armflailing Tube People! https://tube.fediverse.games/w/fdaYtX5TsHYRTLGiPSaPPu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chC6vpjRSI0 #Random #funny

Last night I pushed out an update to the Principia community site that merges the latest, most liked and most downloaded levels pages (both non-archive and archive) into one new page. That's six pages, combined into one now! This also means you can now sort by […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

The new Principia #YouTube channel has reached 50 subscribers! https://www.youtube.com/@principiagame This is still just a fraction of the amount of subscribers that the old Bithack YouTube channel has (~2.28k subscribers), which I unfortunately do not have […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Back in 2021 I made an iceberg image for Principia, full of references and fun trivia. I sent it in the Discord server back when I originally made it and it was mostly forgotten about, but now I rediscovered it after going through some old files. I've posted it […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Since we're far from ready to upgrade our libGDX to anything from this decade, I ended up just copying the SpriteCache class from libGDX 0.9.9 and monkeypatched it into a custom BetterSpriteCache class inside the Apparatus class namespace, applying the fix […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Either way, the decompilation is available on GitHub to build for either platform. Apparatus fans rejoice, things are finally looking up again. https://github.com/rollerozxa/apparatus-decomp #android #apparatus #reverseengineering #decompilation

While Principia is doing well nowadays as an open source project, Apparatus is still derelict abandonware. However there are still people who long for the original Apparatus and for which Principia feels too foreign. To each their own I guess, but honestly I also long for a version of Apparatus […]

Today I gave another go at doing a decompilation of Apparatus. My previous attempt was almost five years ago now and didn't go particularly well, but now I feel like I am much more experienced. After some quick fixing of decompilation quirks I managed to get it […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

This year will mark 15 years since the initial Android release of Apparatus, the predecessor to Principia, with the 1.0 version being released sometime in August of 2011. While looking quaint by today's standard, it was revolutionary in the space of Android […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Work continues on the new #DearImgui dialog backend that aims to replace the current #GTK dialogs on desktop. It is a more lightweight and portable GUI toolkit that is more suited for Principia, as well as being properly integrated into the game window […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

I registered a #Peertube account on the fediverse.games instance and the new Principia PeerTube channel is now live! Be sure to subscribe. https://tube.fediverse.games/c/principia I imported the first video from the Principia YouTube channel as a test and it seems to be working well […]

Any suggestions for #Peertube instances? I would like to set up a PeerTube channel for Principia, initially mirroring the content that I have uploaded to the Principia YouTube channel to make it available outside of Google's platform. In terms of storage size, the current collection of videos […]

I remembered the password to the YouTube channel and threw something together to showcase the new web version of Principia available on the community site: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpXj3zi9IFU #gamedev #foss #opensource #youtube

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Apparently Googlebot does not only execute JavaScript while crawling, but also WASM and considering they get far enough loading the game to also download levels from the get_level endpoint, I assume WebGL too. So now a swarm of Google crawlers have been playing […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Happy (late, or early, depending on your timezone) new year! I have published a new news article that goes over the recent Principia web port available to play levels in your browser now, as well as other additions to the Principia community site recently: https://principia-web.se/news/22 […]

Another batch of fixes have been made to the Principia web port today that are now live. One of the things I fixed was the rendering of LuaScript sprites, making levels such as this rendition of the beginning of Star Wars chapter IV fully playable in your web […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

This holiday I would appreciate it if you could donate (or boost this post). This December marks three years since the first release of Principia as an open source project. It also marks five years since I began hosting principia-web which has since turned into the main community site with the […]

I've heard Google has recently been backpedalling a bit on their original plans because of the almost universal negative backlash to the announcement, but I'm sure the "advanced app installation flow" they are introducing to install unverified apps will not be that great either. However I do […]

I received an invite to the early access to the Android developer console in my inbox yesterday, the one related to Google's new push to make developers verify Android apps that are distributed outside Play. Google had talked previously about providing a […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Principia's user data directory is moving! For Linux, this means that it is moving from the previous ~/.principia location (ugh!) to using proper XDG data directories - the default being ~/.local/share/principia (waow!). On Windows the directory has moved from %USERPROFILE%\Principia\ to […]

The Principia website has been intermittedly down for the past two hours due to the ongoing #cloudflare outages. I'm sure it'll be up soon again. #cloudflaredown

The stands for #fosdem 2026 was announced yesterday. Unfortunately Principia was not one of them, but I hope you will enjoy FOSDEM nonetheless if you are planning on attending.

Apparently the #amazon Appstore for Android shut down back in August of this year, with not a lot of fanfare. How is this relevant to Principia? Well, fourteen years ago back in July of 2011 the predecessor Apparatus was pulled from the Amazon Appstore, and a statement was published on […]