Back to what I know: #amrevising Doom and Discord, a SciFi/Contemporary Fantasy Mystery Thriller. Think Shatter Me, think Axiom‘s End, think Gideon the Ninth. It‘s got angry women, mothers, queerness. It’s got lies, betrayal, and consequences. It‘s got politics. It‘s got the apocalypse.

Ok, I think I will start posting book one on #RoyalRoad (and maybe #Wattpad?), see how the resonance is before diving into book two. 🤔

You have to support the projects you love with money. I am sorry we do not live in a world where that is not the truth.

Today’s newsletter reveals the unrestrained and wasteful token burn inside one publicly-traded company (Zillow) and breaks down the cold, hard truth that AI is - for hyperscalers, for AI labs, and for customers - simply too expensive to ever pay off. www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-too-expensive/

PSA: If you have a demo up on Steam, the "Download demo" button has recently been moved to the sidebar where it is barely visible. If you want to make it more visible, you have to go to Edit store page > Special Settings > Display demo download button as more prominent #gamedev #indiedev #steam

Why, of course inspiration for book two hits a year after I finished writing book one, and while I’m in the middle of developing a game. Go fuck yourself, muse.

Okay, I LOVE this. The monster taming rpg equivalent of a toxic partner.

I refactored the teleports today and they‘re sooo much better, architecturally speaking. Still a little messy, but it‘s not a jumbled tangle of code anymore, so that‘s a W for me. #indiedev #solodev #gamedev #godot #godotengine

She needed a second weapon more lethal than a broom, so I gave her a scythe—because it‘s badass and *not at all* because it meant fewer changes from the broom sprite. #solodev #gamedev #godot #indiedev #pixelart

Goosebumps. Volume up when viewing!

lol. lmao even.

made the ui colors for enemy and ally units changeable in the settings #GodotEngine #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev

Ugh, that hands-in-the-pockets walk. 😩 So good

Magical healing flower I sketched in between meetings today. Brew the petals and you’ve got a lovely healing tea 🫖 #pixelart #indiedev #gamedev #gameart

Some global node magic for you (and by you I do mean me): The state of all doors is now retained across rooms and scenes. If you open a door in one room, it is open in the other and vice versa! #godot #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

"If all the men were gone, who would protect you?" ...from what? From whaaaaaaat?!?

its my bday and we're going through a tough time financially. if you could spare anything via ko-fi (ko-fi.com/sharkhugseniko) that'd help my anxiety a lot or you can get all 4 of our games in a $19 bundle on itch (itch.io/s/186063/eni...) including award winning gay foxgirl SMB3-like kitsune tails

We've got doors that not only open and close, but also let you walk into another room! #godot #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

I don‘t know the temperature of this take, but here it is: The whole Vulcan persona is based on an irrational premise.

FFS I made another accidental sex toy! What the bollocks is going on?! This one is for a door so it goes up and down really fast, I don't think that helps matters.

Excited that Hilltop is going to be part of this event showcasing the evolution of Curse of Resthaven's visuals, alongside some other phenomenal Canadian developers and projects.

If you don‘t feel like you‘re in over your head, you‘re not learning anything new.

I'm looking for work. 21 years of experience. • any game art, isometric, top-down, side-scroll • stylized or realistic • characters, icons, key art, animation • Can build a style from zero or match yours • Big projects don't scare me • ex Minecraft DM here or email [email protected]

📢 CALLING ALL NONBINARY GAME DEVS! 📢 i'm helping run a steam sale event to showcase games made by nonbinary devs during the week of international nonbinary day! if you fit this description, fill out the form by may 18 👉 forms.gle/cx9AqFfPqzF9... please share & send to all your nb dev friends!!

I just liked some porn. Big whoop.

games are made by people with complex feelings and dumb thoughts and complicated relationships in different political climates with the urge to create and the need to play and we should want to see all of that in videogames

Elementallis by AnKae is a truly stunning Zelda-like 2D RPG, and I cannot believe this isn't already a massive hit. Let's see if we can change that! Repost this! buried-treasure.org/2026/05/elem... Help Buried Treasure with the resources to unearth these games: www.patreon.com/c/buriedtrea...

It's been a while since I posted some pixels. This is the dash animation. I don't know how it will translate into Godot yet. I'll probably have to play around with the speedlines some to get it to look good in-game.

When I started making this game, I had no released games before, no fame, and no social media following. Just programming skills. And now, without a demo or even a play test outside of my mom (soon though) I have over 1200 wishlists. That's pretty good confirmation I'm making something people want

Never let anyone talk you out of a quick 2 day game jam. Those 4 months will be the best 3 years spent releasing a commercial game of your life

Okay, I have no idea how to do these motherforking teleporters with anything resembling architectural principles in mind without breaking—well, pretty much everything. I give up. This will stay ugly. What. 👏🏼 Ev. 👏🏼 Er. 👏🏼 #godot

Maybe I should be a baker instead of a gamedev

Ugh, FINALLY. No more fiddly position offsets, no more spawning in mid-air. And, most importantly, no more being trapped in a never-ending teleportation loop. Now I just gotta make this architecturally sound somehow.

Nose or noes?

me, yesterday, working on simple scene transitions. #godot

Finally devving again! Aaaand we can teleport to another room! This one was a doozy... sometimes it's the simplest things. Now on to make it so we don't fall into an empty abyss when we do...

I haven‘t even really begun development in earnest so it‘s the perfect time to brainstorm ideas for the next game, right?

I just started Vindilis.

I‘m not saying I‘m only buying games from small indie creators from now on. But I‘m also not NOT saying it.

Enshittification is what happens when you go from „wouldn‘t if be cool“ to „wouldn‘t it be profitable“.

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

At least that many times.

We should all be more like God: Create something very dumb and stupid and then abandon it and let it do its thing.

Film you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Wars/Trek, HP, LOTR, Marvel.

Starting a new job doesn‘t leave much time for game dev. Who‘d have thought.

Also, since I got so 0 questions about it, I‘m seriously considering getting the Murena Fairphone.

Since no one was asking, I‘m currently playing The Messenger.

Someone please make a video essay about Mega Man's dominant hand.

I‘ve been checking out a new game, it‘s called day job and I hate it but I can‘t turn it off. I think it might be malware?

How about managers schedule a bit more time for meetings with women in them. That way, there's enough time for a man to repeat her ideas back to the room and gain emphatic agreement. Like, another ten minutes per woman should do.