"Welcome to the Fantasy Zone!" Happy 40th birthday, Space Harrier! Released into Japanese arcades on 2nd October 1985, and blowing arcade fans away with even more advanced sprite scaling than Sega's first forays into it and an absolute riot of colour. "ARRRRGH!"

Cover illustration #art #pixelart

Bubble symphony pico8 screenshots. 128x128pixels, 15 colors #gamedev #art #pixelart

old album cover for Robots With Rayguns

I'm going into battle and I need your strongest pixelart mock-ups

New post... :) #gameded #indiedev #gameengine

I'm still very much in need of a project. I'm expensive and worth it

For some years, for me this was the BEST game at the arcades. Insanely difficult to master with the twin-sticks controller... but amazing as hell! #retrogaming #arcades #fightinggames

Oh hey, there are still 25 spots left in this pack! If you're involved with #GameDev in any way at all, I cordially invite you to leave a comment with an add request. #SoloDev #IndieDev #UnrealEngine #Godot #GameMaker #Unity #Coding #Animation #PixelArt #VoiceActing #Blender #3DArtist #VGM

I'm courious... is there a GenAI I can leverage to create a basic (but usable) 2D sprite-sheet? Not a simple pixel-arty single image. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

... time to add input recording/playback to my game-engine... I honestly can't tell if this is something that would prove useful, but I just think it would be fun to implement! 😆 #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

I don't often share my music, but here's a Pico8 chiptune cover of "Battle Field" from Golden Axe, to go with my Pico8 demake of Golden axe. castpixel.bandcamp.com/track/golden...

That's odd. I'm back talking about #mesa and #amd GPUs (on Linux, of course). I was using amdgpu with odd behaviours on some games. Switching to kisak's Mesa fixed the issue, but every game started to CRAWL. Unbearable. Switched back to AMD's and everything just works fine a fluid. 1/2

The year is 20XX... (intro to Nitronauts). The interesting thing here is the No-transparency fades! #gamedev #indiedev

Post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn't Nirvana or Pearl Jam

Are you a 2D artist with a vision? Can you translate concept art into scaleable assets? Do you like games that have a message and are loud about it? Come work with us! www.workwithindies.com/careers/serv... #indiegame #gamedev #gamework #workingames #2dartist

I need help. I there a fellow artist willing to invest a small amount of (paid) time to convert a flat-style logo for my open-source game engine to SVG? I don't think this would take more than an hour for someone skilled... #gamedev #gameengine #indiedev

During my August vacation, I read @johnromero.bsky.social "Doom Guy". It's so empowering to read others' endeavors! Some of the past id Software's feats are flabbergasting: making a SNES port in less than a month, w/o any prior knowledge of the platform? WTF!!! #gamedev #doom #retrogaming

Almost 30 years have passed, but DOOM's logo still stands the test of the time. Badass. Like Megadeth and Metallica logos. :) #gaming #videogames #retrogamig

Who remembers Ralf Brown's Interrupt List? Gosh, it seems ages since when I periodically downloaded an updated version of it from the BBS... #gamedev #retrocoding #msdos

hire me! I know what I'm doing 😊

That one time I made an entire promotional sports game for Unifi Malaysia, in 3 weeks.. Here's the Track event. I handled all art, code, game design, music and sfx. You run by tapping your index and middle finger on the phone screen! #gamedev

Oddly enough, the `amdgpu` distribution from AMD, to get proper support for the Radeon cards, is not that optimal. Switching to kisek PPA solves some breaking glitches with Minecraft. Also, the system chipset is better identified. No changes in performance, apparently. #linux #radeon #mesa

As usual, I'm a bit late for the party, but today I tried "Untitled Goose Game". Gosh, such a funny game! No walls of text to read, no dialogues, just plain fun. Worth the price! #gaming #indiegame

Jumanji as a brawler #art #digitalart #gamedev #pixelart

Rewatched this old GDC postmortem. So lovely. The passion, the dedication... ... that's why, many years ago, many of us were fascinated by video games and decided we wanted to code them. It wasn't "for the job", but for the fun. Then, it VGs became an industry... #gamedev #indiedev #gaming

Pac-Quest animated

Just a gentle reminder. I'm an 💯 amateur (astro)photographer, and I capture my images for everyone — no matter who you are, rich or poor, slim or fat, or where you live on this planet. My photos are for you, for all you, for free. 🌍✨ ...

One thing that is still missing in my #expedition33 run is reaching level 99. It seems doable with less than 1h of farming. Not bad, considering that most RPGs take DAYS to achieve that. :) ( oh, and I also need to acquire all Monoco skills... this will be long ) #ps5 #gaming #jrpg

<< We are getting ready to release Lua 5.5, the next version of Lua. >> ( from www.lua.org/work/ ) Oh! What an expected and appreciated surprise! :) #lua #gamedev #gameengine

Amazing... #amiga #commodore #pixelart

I'm setting a new objective: over the next two months, I'll be writing tutorials on how to implement basic effects using my game engine. They will serve as both documentation and to determine if additional features are still missing and need to be implemented. #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

One of the best Amiga tune *EVER*, in an awesome remix #amiga #chiptune #retromusic

Fight on the frontlines of the Future War as Commander John Connor in Terminator 2D: NO FATE! John can upgrade his plasma rifle with 3 ammo types, including the Homing Plasma. These bullets lock onto & home in on enemies, so you can run & gun without worrying about aiming!

Ooooh! I got my BlitzBasic copy from the same (imported) Amiga Format issue, back in 1993! What a lovely trip down memory lane! #gamedev #indiedev #retroprogramming #amiga

I'm halfaway through Act 2. I can accept the (minor) glitches and lack of polish here and there... ... but the gameplay starts to feel dull at a certain point. The game has a nice (albeit messy) plot and is definitely worth playing, but I agree with those that think it has been largely overrated.

I haven't updated one of the (statically compiled) libraries I use in *Tofu Engine* for a while. To be precise, for almost a year, since I did extended modifications on it and I wasn't willing to face the pain of the merge process. I'm doing it now. What a pain. #gamedev #indiedev #gameengines

I was chatting with a fellow dev, telling him that (to me) regular expressions seem underappreciated and should be used WAY more frequently. He insisted that he prefers writing specific lumps of code, instead, and judges them "not so useful". I'm shocked. #codinghorrors #gamedev #programming

dev log #15 - try luxe now! As we continue to wrap up our goals for a wider release we're happy to note that you can try luxe already! Read all about it in dev log #15! luxeengine.com/dev-log-15/ #gamedev #createwithluxe #luxeengine

I ask this innocently: does it make sense to use an NVIDIA card with Linux? Every time I've dealt with an NVIDIA card, even recently, it's been more trouble than it's worth. I wonder if anyone consciously chooses NVIDIA, even on Linux. #linux #gpu #pcbuild

This Classic Ghostbusters Game Is Getting A Fan-Made Remaster. (Repost)

Let's see if it holds to my expectations... #ps5 #goty #jrpg

Almost twenty years old, but still amazing. #amiga #demoscene

#Gaurodan is out! The 2013 game has been completely redone to fit my current vision of traditional arcade game design. It's denser (more levels but less overall length), with better pacing, mechanics and a proper scoring system. Music by @gryzor87.bsky.social ♫ Info and downloads at locomalito.com

Operius DX, our mind-bending arcade shooter, launches on Steam (and itch) in just 2 DAYS, on May 30! Yes, for real this time! And for all you console fans, it's coming out on the Nintendo Switch on June 2 as well. Hey, better late than never! Good thing Switch 2 is backwards compatible.

Got a (really cheap) used Radeon WX-3100 for my workstation, so that I can finally replace a mid-range NVIDIA card. Linux NVIDIA drivers are so uncollaborative! #linux #gpu #pcbuild

I don't think I really miss that time (~35 years ago) when the Arcade machines represented the state-of-the-art. It has been nice and memorable, indeed, but this left most of us gamers with an unquenched sense of satisfaction. #gamedev #retrogaming

We released Wolfenstein 3D on this day (May 5th) in 1992. Here's a local television news report about it. What an amazing time that was. #wolfenstein #gamedev #retrogames

All right, then. Switching to SPNG from STB proved beneficial. Performances are identical but with SPNG only a row-wide intermediate buffer is required. Not a dramatic improvement, but those kind of pedantic optimizations I like the most. 😁 #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

Today, I was recalling that one DARK period of videogaming, in the mid/late '90s, when 3D was rapidly becoming a reality and everyone was jumping on the bandwagon. We still hadn't a clue on how to port a 2D game to 3D... some efforts were absolutely atrocious. #gamedev #retrogaming