Still playing with this, but going in no particular direction. It's just fun seeing the Melkhior's Mansion characters come to life on the PlayDate. #melkhiorsmansion #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

What I have working on Spectrum Next. 🤔Hmm... I think this might just be running a bit too slow, but at least I gave it a try.

Here's the BBC Micro version of Ultimate Play The Game's 'Nightshade' assembling from source code. This was recovered from Paul Proctor's original development disks. It uses BBC BASIC's built-in assembler to generate the executable. From a time when games were all written in machine code. #6502

Another project I'm tinkering with is a possible PlayDate exclusive Melkhior's Mansion spin off. Very early days, but it looks really neat on the actual device. #melkhiorsmansion #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

Zyphatron's teleport sequence is now complete. On this project I'm looking to complete features as I do them, rather than improve the features with subsequent iterations. Might work, might not. #zyphatron #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

Today I gave my little browser based Space Invaders clone a new lick of paint, just because! It looks a bit more authentic now. Free to play at bitglint.itch.io/retro-invaders #IndieGameDev #spaceinvaders #unity

Today I am mostly being once again crap at Underwurlde...wait...no...this isn't Underwurlde this is Undrium!? www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-1e... #ZXSpectrum #Retrogaming @ericretro.bsky.social

I don't normally play my own games that much, but I've found myself enjoying Undrium over the last few days. Download for free and have a go yourself if you haven't already. 🙂 bitglint.itch.io/undrium #undrium #gamedev #monogame #indiedev #pixelart #zxspectrum

Rosewater, my Wild West adventure game, has been out nearly 4 months and has been very well-received! But I also feel like it’s reached a fraction of its potential audience. If you can spare a repost and help spread the word, it would be greatly appreciated! www.grundislav.games/Rosewater.html

This is how battles look like in 🛡️G l o o m G a t e⚔️ #indiegame #playdate #1bit #gamedev

It's done! I have just released the Compendium version of #Elite for the #Acorn #Electron. This massively enhanced version of the original game contains pretty much every feature of #BBCMicro Elite, but on the Electron. Just add 16K of sideways RAM. Links in thread. #retrocomputing #retrogaming

Playing with some of the new tile graphics from @craigstevenson.bsky.social. Still far from the finished look, but coming along nicely. #zyphatron #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

Back on this PlayDate project. Graphics are starting to appear from pixel supremo @craigstevenson.bsky.social and I've started work on the robot interface sub game. The game is called Zyphatron. #zyphatron #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

I am working on speeding up #Elite on the #Acorn #Electron. It's going well. On the left is the original; on the right is my enhanced version. It's all down to sideways RAM and backporting faster code from the #BBCMicro and #C64 versions. More details in thread. (1/4) #retrocomputing #retrogaming

I coded this demo for RetroFest 2025 at the end of the month, using @ericretro.bsky.social 's Undrium tileset to recreate the original maze. It shows off VideoBeast, the new 8-bit video chip I'm working on, with multiple independent layers and sprites.

I've been on a game dev sabbatical in recent weeks to work on something a little different. It's a website for creating event countdown timers for, well, anything really. Just for fun. It's almost finished, give a go at: countingthedaze.com #countdown #event

If youʼre a fan of #retro #detective #mystery #indie games, drop everything and go play the “Blackford PI” demo. Itʼs important that @EricRetro sees that this project is worth finishing! P.S.: This isnʼt a point & click game; itʼs (as Richard himself claims) a solve ʼem up. 😄

Another closer video. Pac-Man on my stunt MicroBeast, using VideoBeast and a handy portable 10" display. The Z80 code includes all of the graphics and sprites and comes in just under 11kB. Thanks to @ericretro.bsky.social for the tile set. I need to draw a Pac-Man next!

I recreated Manic Miner, but with more realism (sort of). stephensmith.itch.io/manic-destru...

I finally got around to creating a simple static website with most of my free games and tools. Play my games online by clicking on the game's image, or visit the corresponding GitHub page. It also lists most of the places you may find me online 😎 0xc0de6502.github.io

Acorn Electron game WIP. Initial screen layout and spaceship movement. Will probably add obligatory stars in the background 😎 (the video may be smoother on Twitter: x.com/0xC0DE6502/s...)

Chuckulus ! WIP - Coming soon.... ish ! 😎

This never really got finished, but it's still quite usable. It's a modern browser based version of my old Spectrum Graphics Editor utility, for browsing and editing graphics in Speccy snapshot files. Available at bitglint.co.uk/sge #zxspectrum #spectrumgraphicseditor

"Steve, stop messing about"

Undrium is my tribute to Ultimate's love/hate platformer Underwurlde. I'm in the "love" camp! 😀 Free download for Windows PC, Mac and Linux from bitglint.co.uk #undrium #underwurlde #gamedev #monogame #indiedev #pixelart

A demo of my recent project, Blackford PI, is now available for Windows, Linux and Mac. It's a retro styled isometric solve 'em up type thing! Download from bitglint.itch.io/blackford-pi #blackfordpi #gamedev #monogame #indiedev #pixelart #isometric

Added more movement intelligence to the NPC robots in my new Playdate project, and also made the whole play area visible, just for testing, but it actually looks quite good. Might keep it like that. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

More work on the new Playdate project. Better player movement, rotation and animation. Also got the NPC robots moving around, all be it in a very basic way. All graphics are just placeholders. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

My new Playdate project is progressing well. Maps are created using the excellent Tiled. Rooms can be either small static areas, or larger scrolling areas. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

Lost track of how many YouTube videos I've uploaded in recent years that chart my game dev progress, so I've had a sort out and started using play lists. Subscribe if you like seeing this sort of shizzle... www.youtube.com/@bitglintgam...

Starting something new on the Playdate, hopefully it'll go places. Very early days though. Here's a rapid room change test to make sure I'm not leaking memory. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate

It's Richard's first project for the Playdate 👇 @ericretro.bsky.social retrododo.com/theres-now-a... #spaceinvaders

Melkhior's Mansion. A fast paced, action packed, isometric throwback to the classics of the 80's, in 15 glorious colours, hand picked from the infamous #ZXSpectrum colour palette. bitglint.co.uk @ericretro.bsky.social youtu.be/SI3vzCNtVQY?...

OMGOMGOMGOMG...! Up to 256 sprites *per layer*, from 8x8 to 32x32, 16 palettes, flip, mirror, window clipping, scrolling, sprite groups... ON A ZX Spectrum! (or MicroBeast, or RC2014 or any 8-bit CPU with a bit of addressable memory). @ericretro.bsky.social's graphics look amazing on VideoBeast

I've just released my first Playdate project, a little experimental Space Invaders clone called Retro Invaders. If you have a Playdate, and want some simple shooty fun then download it for free from bitglint.itch.io 😎 #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate

Hey @play.date, I'm trying to sign up for the dev forums but I never get the activation email. Help! 😬😀

My Playdate Space Invaders test project is nearing completion. Been adding progressive difficulty and power ups. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate

A demo of my recent project, Blackford PI, is now available for Windows, Linux and Mac. It's a retro styled isometric solve 'em up type thing! Download from bitglint.itch.io/blackford-pi #blackfordpi #gamedev #monogame #indiedev #pixelart #isometric

Overreact, my first mobile app launched for iOS today, featuring a collection of (somewhat frustrating 😆) button-based mini games! And a huge thank you to everyone who helped with testing and providing feedback! (Android coming soon, I'm just waiting on the review process) #ios #gamedev

My first project for the Playdate is nearly done. It's just a simple Space Invaders clone to learn the C API, but it's been really good fun to do. Love this device. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate

Working on dialogue system this week so not much new to show for #screenshotsaturday but here's a few recent screens.

Undrium is my tribute to Ultimate's love/hate platformer Underwurlde. I'm in the "love" camp! 😀 Free download for Windows PC, Mac and Linux from bitglint.co.uk #undrium #underwurlde #gamedev #monogame #indiedev #pixelart

Got myself a Playdate, it's lovely! This isn't a real project, just wanted to see what the awesome graphics by @craigstevenson.bsky.social look like on the device. #melkhiorsmansion #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate

Hi! #PortfolioDay I'm Fabi, I am an enviroment pixel artist (mainly) and I like drawing fantasy landscapes Currently available for work!

A demo of my current project, Blackford PI, is now available for Windows, Linux and Mac. Not sure what the future of the project is yet, just wanted to get to this milestone. Download from bitglint.itch.io/blackford-pi #blackfordpi #gamedev #monogame #indiedev #pixelart #isometric

Made some big tweaks to Wacky Warehouse Worker after some great user feedback. stephensmith.itch.io/wacky-wareho... #indiedev #madewithgodot #itchio www.youtube.com/watch?v=go3W...

There's a joy in hand-drawn maps..

Crazy lights demonstrating a reworked lighting system. Rooms are lit by static lights and entities can have many light sources for slightly more interesting shapes. It's 2D sprites, so it'll never be ultra realistic. 😎 #blackfordpi #gamedev #monogame #indiedev #pixelart #isometric