I will be presenting at the MonoGame open hours today!

Simon even talked about the upcoming 2D shader tutorial during last Wednesday's AMA, 19th of November. Learn more and watch the effects that will be covered here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=sSHB... .

Getting back to my fish game with #monogame and #fadebasic. Adding more of the game structure with moves/score/upgrade pathways, extra moves and passive abilities. I have about 20 ideas for new upgrades... Happy vacation programming times. #indiedev #gamedev #staycation

Announcement!!! 📣 Globs is now free on iOS and Android. No strings attached: no ads, no in-app purchases, just a pure game from start to end. This was a learning project and we're proud of it so we're happy to make it free. If you want to support us, you can still buy it on Steam! #indiegames

I added a stencil pass to block out the snake character from receiving shadows, so it doesn't cast self shadows. It think it helps make the shadow effect less distracting. #gamedev #monogame #shaders

first half of the video is a vanilla stencil shadow approach; second half is using a box-blur + dithering shadow fall off. I think the new one looks way cooler. #gamedev #monogame #shaders

these shadow hulls are generating with vanilla #monogame spritebatch plus a custom vertex shader. Its an abusiv-- I mean, creative, approach! #indiedev #shaders #2d

Beep boop its yet another 2d lighting system in #monogame .

I finally finally did the thing graphics folk are supposed to do and hooked up #renderdoc to a #monogame project so I can see all the things! Very cool stuff!

Hey everyone! I’m helping organize Boston Game Loop 2025! Saturday, August 16th 9:00am - 6:00pm It’s really great and open to all level of game developers from Boston (and everywhere else)! Come join us! Tickets and more event info below: givebutter.com/BostonGameLo... #Boston #GameDev #Meetups

Battle Train launches tomorrow and my brain has no idea how to feel. This game has been a long dev cycle.. and I'm proud of it.. but also... it feels surreal that its actually -finally- done. Doesnt seem real.

working on #fadebasic langcore. I just had that fun experience where last night after hours of agonizing debugger, I had to give up my task and go to bed... And tonight, after 40 minutes and wildly different approach, my task worked like a charm. #indiedev #takeABreak And now I can re-assign arrays!

Join us for our 9th "Open Hours" AMA When: Wednesday 18th of June, @ 13:00 EDT, 17:00 UTC, 18:00 BST, 19:00 CET. Don't miss this one! Join via: discord.gg/V3gHh7um?eve... More details here: monogame.net/blog/2025-06...

An old level transition effect I did for Louie.

got some faux perspective going on in #fadebasic and #monogame for my random fish game. Thanks to the #godot shader article, godotshaders.com/shader/2d-pe... #indiedev #gamedev

🚨 GARBANZO QUEST v1.0 is OUT NOW! 🚨 after 3 years of development my first game is finally complete and available on steam and itch! i hope y'all have just as much fun playing it as i did creating it it would mean a lot to me if you all would help me share this! 💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnNu...

evil halloween music 🎃🤘🎸

The MonoGame Team is pleased to announce the 3.8.4 stable release. For a more detailed list of changes see our Github release page: github.com/MonoGame/Mon... Massive thanks to our 3, new, 1st time contributors. We're always grateful the community helps us make MonoGame Better.

I added some wave jiggle as a shader... Is it too much? #indiedev #fadebasic #monogame #gamedev

hooked up an auto reload system for #monogame shaders. This works by having a separate process file-watch the .fx files and invoke the monogame content builder. It works pretty well! Or, well enough for now!

MonoGame team is pleased to announce the preview release of 3.8.4-preview.7. More details about fixes here: github.com/MonoGame/Mon...

hooked up some code-reloading action for #fadebasic and #monogame. When I see the red border in monogame, it means new fade code has been compiled, and is ready to rock! #indiedev #gamedev

added some more spiff to my #fadebasic and #monogame fish matcher. Explosions and bounce easing functions, hoozah! #indiedev #gamedev

coding like its 2007 and I don't know how with #fadebasic ! This is using #monogame as the framework, and fade basic as the scripting language. The grid is a fixed length array and all the combo/animation is happening inline. #indiedev #gamedev #nostalgiaprogramming

working on something with #fadebasic and #monogame . idk what I'm doing, but its fun anyway. #indiedev #gamedev #confused

Join us tomorrow for our 7th "Open Hours" AMA When: Wednesday 23rd of April, @ 12:00 EST, 17:00 UTC/GMT, 18:00 CET Join via: discord.gg/monogame?eve... More details here: monogame.net/blog/2025-04...

my #fadebasic tooling in #monogame has support for shaders, custom render targets, sprites, transforms (which make assembling these cards waaaay easier), and yaaay its starting to feel like a real thing. #indiedev #gamedev

I'm super excited that I got to contribute to @monogame.net ! Rock on!!

more animation testing; this started as a flip book in real life; then I transferred it onto a single page with a light-table; then ran it through a code-process; then booted it up in #monogame scripted with #fadebasic. Its not the best, but I'm practicing! #indiedev #gamedev #2danimation #handdrawn

behold draft 2 of my my heart soldier guy. this is running in #fadebasic within #monogame, and I'm doing hand drawn animation by scanning paper in the real world. Spooky. #indiedev #gamedev (the last version wasn't a gif, oops)

trying a new 2d animation style... This is hand drawn in the real world, and scanned onto my machine. I'm using #naps2 to scan, because fuck HP. #paint.net for the cleanup, and currently just patching it together in #unity... I need to keep practicing :) #gamedev #indiedev

I took a shot at compiling #fadebasic for wasm and running it in a browser, and it mostly works! #indiedev #programming

Just ran `cloc` to find that #fadebasic has 33k lines of C#. And of that, 1.3k are unit tests. #indiedev #programming

Just released #fadebasic 0.0.37, which switches the memory address space to 64 bit instead of 32. Muwhahaha! #programming #indiedev

I'm finally working on a #monogame back-end for #fadebasic. This is the start of Phase 2! The first phase was building the language (fadebasic.com). The second phase is building a binding to monogame. The third phase is a mystery. #indiedev #gamedev #programming

added debugger attachment to #fadebasic so you can attach a debugger to script that you started from the C# SDK. Pretty snazzy for a scripting language! #gamedev #indiedev

My indie game for 15 seconds

website for #fadebasic is... drum roll... fadebasic.com SURPRISE .

... Surprise! #fadebasic is working and its available in a pre-alpha sort of way! I haven't even written documentation or made a website or whatever, but technically, the language can be used. github.com/cdhanna/fade... Holy moly. I was not expecting to get this done.

testing #fadebasic on my windows machine means I get to sit at my actual desk. I've got these under-mounted ps2 and xbox360 consoles hooked up to the second monitor. I need to use those more often... too busy #programming an #indiegame to play actual games. Tragic.

hooray for vanity metrics! #fadebasic has a non trivial amount of tests! Tbh for a long time I just left about 20 of these failing and I'd wag my finger and say, "bed test, you!" and then ignore them and do something else. But now I've WHIPPED 'em into shape! #gamedev #programming Not tdd, but close

We've added a Resources page to the site, which can be found here - monogame.net/resources/ .We will be adding more resources in the coming weeks & months. There's also an option for people to email us directly to let us know about resources they've come across or are working on.

working on the #lsp formatter functionality for #fadebasic, and coming to the realization that I need to do the formatting based on the token stream, not the parsed program. I'm grateful to the LSP documentation for the hint that the formatting result is a list of edits; not full src. #gamedev

added binary operators like XOR and such to #fadebasic

added basic ref-counting garbage collection and string interning to #fadebasic ! That was one of the last major scary items on the list! I'm sure I'll discover that the scary list is way longer than I think it is; but things are looking good! #indiedev #gamedev

how the heck do you release an LSP embedded in a vscode plugin. literally, how TF does one do this?

after agonizing between trying to create something new, or fueling the nostalgia train, I've opted to stay classic with #fadebasic and implement some garbage collection into the language. It has been a heart wrenching exercise, but a good one to focus the _goal_ of the project.... #gamedev #indiedev

don't give up! I just completed a task I'd left myself from 2023! Now in #fadebasic, you can do multi-line assignments! In 2023, I got assignments working and said, "GOOD ENOUGH!", but a year and a half later, I had been sufficiently annoyed I couldn't do `x = 3, y = 2`... So yay! #indiedev #gamedev

my test suite for #fadebasic is trending green. I added a bunch of edge case tests last night that are failing, so thats my todo for the rest of the week. Make it green! #indiedev #programming #gamedev

it doesn't look like much, but I've got support for most of the SetVariable feature in the DAP debugger protocol for #fadebasic. That means that the debugger is pretty much... ... done? Yay! Onto the next challenge (which is just the small task of memory management; h a h a h a) #indiedev #gamedev