Continuing experiments with new UFO50 mechanics. What if Kick Club had multi-ball and aiming assist? #ufo50 #kickblub #gamedev #picotron #pico8

Mac users looking to try out 868-Hack for the @secretlivesofgames.bsky.social series can ignore the 32-bit steam warning. It runs fine on my M2 Mac mini.

Increased the verbs for Bounder. Bounder can now dash, is forced to roll over some surfaces and can be launched like a rocket. Now I need to fix my collisions again... #pico8 #picotron #gamedev

More Bounder progress: slightly improved tileset, added collisions with "high" tiles and other entities. Player now respawns after death. Recreated the first level from the original (with one extra jump tile for testing because I still can't play this game). #pico8 #picotron #gamedev

More progress on Bounder, moved to Pictotron for an easier time of things. Added patrolling enemies. Movement doesn't feel quite right yet. Need to build some levels, new enemy types, and make it look about 100x less ugly. #picotron #pico8 #gamedev

Made some progress on Bounder. Our first enemy (a dart that fires at you) and our first special tile (an acceleration tile). I've come this far and realised I'm going to have to figure out how to get around Pico 8's vertical map height limit. #pico8 #gamedev

Bounder was one of my favourite games growing up. I was never any good at it. The ball animation needs a bit of work, but it's not bad, seeing as I manually recreated it frame by frame from a Bounder ZX Spectrum YouTube walkthrough. #pico8 #gamedev

Why not make a bouncing bucket that collects snow? Seems like a reasonable thing to do... #pico8

An attempt to find out whether Magic Garden is better with wrapping rather than walls. Answer...I'm going to have to implement everything to find out... #pico8 #picotron #gamedev #ufo50 #magicgarden

I'm realising that my goal here is to make a version of Velgress that I could actually be good at. #picotron #pico8 #ufo50 #gamedev

Charity shop find in a Dublin Oxfam.

Getting there...not perfect, but floating blocks can now be ridden. Blocks have mass, and enemies now patrol and can be jumped on. credit for player sprite: x.com/LuizGdeMelo #pico8 #picotron #gamedev

Ginger cat energy... #pico8 #gamedev

Figuring out block pushing and stacking was "fun". As in not very much fun at all really. #gamedev #pico8

Patrolling enemies taken down from above. #pico8 #gamedev

Dashes, wall slides, and rudimentary water physics. Credit ‪@achiegamedev.bsky.social‬ for tileset gamedev.stackexchange.com/questions/44... - for water physics #pico8 #gamedev

For no good reason, spent the day converting Celeste's map collision (and some physics) into an entity componet system for Pico8 #pico8 #gamedev

For no real reason: nervous, inquisitive, flocking birds versus an Arc Laser. #pico8 #picotron #gamedev

Flocking fun. Birds flock towards the player, but if they get too close, they will back away. They hate bullets.. Credit to this excellent tutorial. (converted from Java to love2d, then to Picotron). www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5l_... #gamedev #picotron #pico8

Inadvertently remaking Brotato while testing Picotron collision optimisation. #gamedev #pico8 #picotron

An endless runner prototype inspired by those dumb AI tests. #picotron #pico8 #gamedev

Media should spend the next month referring to Musk as president Musk. It will accelerate the inevitable fall out between the two.

Ported to Pictotron for a bit of every oomph... (sprite may or may not have been borrowed from Lotus Turbo Challenge) #pico8 #picotron #gamedev

It begins and probably ends around this point (where my brain doesn't understand the math). #pico8 #gamedev

Working on a Pico8 MCP server that can write and run Pico8 carts via Claude. Next, I'll integrate screenshot-taking so the AI can figure out if it did what was asked and make necessary adjustments. Not the worst snow globe in the world... #pico8 #gamedev #mcp #claude

More Claude/Filesystem MCP experiments. Claude is just writing code direct to my local filesystem, I'm not touching the code. #pico8 #gamedev #claudeai #mcp

Claude.ai plus MCP/Filesystem access has a lot of potential. This set of tasks was executed perfectly. #pico8 #gamedev #claudeai #mcp

More #pico8 experiments with a dragging-a-ball mechanic. How about Power-Drag-Snow-Clearing-Simulator? This feels very cathartic. (also needs optimizing by someone smarter than me, close to 100% cpu) #gamedev

There are multiple ways to de-make Splatoon... #pico8 #gamedev

Make Computers Big Again.

Heavy ball and chain physics #pico8 #gamedev

I’m thinking of setting up a support group for people whose hands don’t trigger hand dryers in wash rooms. People with hands that constantly turn them on and off are welcome too. Are you in?

Turns out I've been making a Don't Die Mr Robot de-make all along (with, as of yet, an inexplicable fire mechanic). I've added a dash to get you out of tricky situations. #pico8 #don'tdiemrrobot #gamedev

Watching the world burn, but not the frame rate due to spatial partitioning. #pico8 #gamedev

Earth, wind, and fire. #pico8 #gamedev

First post. I’m 51 and eating a trifle.