The animated background of Harmonies Garden was created with the combination of two great tools: NodeToy and Svader. Read my last devlog to learn how I used them: itooh.itch.io/starseed-har... #gamedev #web #shader

Pro-tip Silksong : Pour ne plus galérer avec les pogo en diagonal, inclinez votre écran de 45°. 👍

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way) azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

Harmonies Garden alpha 0.6 is out, with two new secret endings! Can you find them? itooh.itch.io/symphonies-g...

After taking my time I reached today Lushfoil Photography Sim end credits. It was magical from beginning to end. What an incredible game! Amazing work @lushfoil.bsky.social

Harmonies Garden uses a lot of music based animations. In this devlog I explain how to use the Web Audio API to read the audio data and create dynamic visuals from it. #gamedev #webdev #JS #TS itooh.itch.io/symphonies-g...

Once again I went on a quest to find a good GIF recorder for Linux. After trying several one, it just appear that peek (despite being deprecated) is still the best one. Easy to use, but also the cleanest and lightest results, and with a scale option. None of the other tools were that great. #gamedev

We need to hold people accountable. That means real justice. The pursuit and dissemination of truth. Fair trials. *Punishment*. Restitution. Incarceration. We need to handle humans like humans. We can't think of people as less-than and use that to justify cruelty.

After I watched this show, I came away with the realization that no matter how grotesque or unconscionable an act a person commits is, they are still *human*. I can hate what a person promotes or stands for, but I can't consider them less-than- or non-human.

Reminding folks to watch the anime 86, which continues to be an incredibly relevant examination of the harms of dehumanization. We see a lot of this happen in class and race rhetoric ("these people aren't human, they're animals, they're monsters"), which they use to justify human rights violations.

Hey remember Owl House and how that show's not still going? Well Dana Terrace has a new show and it's out today!

A condition took away the use of my hands. Silksong helped me rehab them aftermath.site/silksong-hollo...

Hey, do you need virtual music instruments in your #Godot game? Then you should try Simple Sampler! An addon that only takes a few sample sounds to create dynamic instruments that can play any notes. I've just released v2.2.0, that now allows positional sound. #gamedev github.com/ClementRivai...

Was reminded of this interaction i had with a commission scammer 2 years ago where they were pretending they could make custom 3D models

Another web game you shouldn't miss: 1x111 by @abagames.bsky.social A collection of inventive and delightful tiny games. Think UFO-50 mixed with Wario Ware. Full of surprises, and actually pretty addictive. #gaming #videogame abagames.itch.io/1x111

Harmonies Garden alpha-0.4 is now released! With new improved visuals, including a lot of light effects. itooh.itch.io/symphonies-g...

And here it is, animated background using a shader! #gamedev #screenshotSaturday

Symphonies Garden is the first game for which I've developed dev tools, and it's pretty satisfying. They are very simple NodeJS scripts, generated by AI and then adjusted. I tried to find a compromise between a tool that won't cost much to make, but would save me time in the game making. #gamedev

And this is why you shouldn't name your level after a color. This was bound to happen eventually. But now the game looks pretty great! #gamedev

Once again I find out that I work better with #shader using a visual editor rather than code. This time I used Nodetoy, and it was quickly satisfying! #gamedev

“Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives.” walzr.com/IMG_0001 this is beautiful 🥲

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident" grigorylukin.com/2025/08/21/w... #Worldcon

TFW u open BlueSky and a bunch of ppl are vaguely posting about the same shit

Une idée de communiqué pour les journalistes français.

The UK speedran straight from porn to educational material in the regulation-to-censorship pipeline. We were warning people of this kind of thing but it happened faster than I expected.

"Every time you go through a door, you are presented with three options for the room ahead from the “draft pool”. It is this which sometimes gets Blue Prince labelled a deckbuilder, however it is anything but." Electron Dance starts some words on Blue Prince: www.electrondance.co...

Comme il fait beaucoup trop chaud aujourd'hui, je vous propose d'explorer des piscines. Celles-là font peut-être un peu peur, on verra bien. Voici un billet sur le jeu Pools de @tensori.fi. #blog #gaming #liminal #backrooms www.excursions-virtuelles.fr/posts/pools/

This is just what a video game looks like underneath the hood

Stacey has what is to me the definitive analysis of all this discourse on games and art:

I couldn't make a game of my own for the #GMTKJam, but I contributed to the music and audio of two games: Loop Floor, by DYLENOR dylenor.itch.io/loop-floor and Shape Fu Mi, by @heel.io heelio.itch.io/shape-fu-mi Go check them out!

I forgot how using a modular synth for sound design is satisfying. #gamedev #gmtk2025 (the tool displayed here is Bespoke Synth)

At what point can any UX designer approve this? Why in the comment menu? Why on top? For such a specific task? To what user need or persona does it exist? The only rule for these AI features always seems to be "Put them somewhere visible & unexpected to remind users that they exist".

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

How I brainstorm game ideas: - Find a simple concept - Imagine a musical score - Oh yeah those chords could make a great feedback - Then there could be drums on level 2 - And after that a sax solo! - *start jamming for 3 minutes* - Okay this was completely unproductive, moving on #GMTKJam #gamedev

people getting mad at Leaf & itch.io because it’s just one person working on it responsible for the livelihoods of gamedevs… as a dev that makes most all my revenue from itch, enough that i count on it as income: just stop. that site & that one person has done more for indie games than anyone here…

Shit @rusty.todayintabs.com nailed it www.todayintabs.com/p/we-need-to...

I published a new version for Symphonies Garden alpha! This one features a bunch of secret mechanics that players has to discover themselves. Feedback are still welcome! itooh.itch.io/symphonies-g...

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

transition music in a metroid sitcom

Mesdames et messieurs... À mon grand étonnement, Canal+ n'ayant pas réagi dans les 10 jours ouvrés suivant la contestation... LA VIDÉO EST DE NOUVEAU EN LIGNE \o/

Il n'aura pas fallu 2 jours avant de tomber sur une raison de reposter cette vidéo.

Aux devs sui s'inquiètent d'être remplacés par l'IA : pas pour tout de suite.

Refusing Tech Fascism error417.expectation.fail/406/tech-fas... “The idea of technologically mediated processes being beyond all regulation is inherently antidemocratic.” ~ recommended reading ~

wrote about how social media kills sex for @readlux.bsky.social lux-magazine.com/article/priv...

Teaching AI literacy. (GenAI is wrong A LOT. And even though people tend to think it saves time, we now have randomized controlled trials that show situations where it takes *more* time even when participants self-report it's saving them time.)

la clause orteil

CEO of Oreo Cookies: the oreo cookie is as important as oxygen

It’s all an orchestral jumble and it’s boring as shit. Mario is JAZZ. Mario is CHIPTUNE. I wish they’d instead leaned hard into big band + chiptune for the score. And Mario doesn’t need an original movie theme. Just dig into what’s there already.