This popped up in my recommended and I'm having a lot of fun with it. Very good take on the maze gameplay, incorporating elements from throughout the series while also suiting what it's trying to do. pacmanforever.itch.io/pac-man-fore...

You know it's time to export the voice over when the project file is taking up the rest of your hard drive >n<

I'm giving myself the day off from screaming into my mic about how awful Shadow Labyrinth is. This video is gonna be wild.

I still have 5 pages of script to go

This will sound insane but I'd love it if there was an Amiga emulator on GameCube specifically designed to support the keyboard controller. That would be my exact brand of silliness.

mmm yes "strategic" combat

Finally finished the script for the Shadow Labyrinth video and Patrons can read it now. It's 23 pages. The longest script I have ever written.

Hurrican is still easily my favorite fan-game. Even by Turrican standards it is a well designed and quite intense challenge. It measures up nicely against the original games.

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As a holiday gift to my paid members on Patreon, I just posted my Amiga-styled shmup "Accorid: Reborn" ready to be downloaded. It will be included in Jack Razor 2's hub world upon that game's release. Hope you enjoy this sneak peek!

Me: "Okay, time to scale back on planned features so Jack Razor 2 gets done in a reasonable timeframe" Also Me: Yes, only ONE bonus arcade game in the hub instead of the planned two! I never was one to make things easy for myself

My 2018 Game Jack Razor: Distant Dimension is on sale on itch for $2.00 until 1/05/2026. Run, Jump, Shoot and Explore vast worlds in this love letter to classics like Turrican. #gamedev #indiegame apexsquaredstudios.itch.io/jack-razor-d...

At this point, I think it's wiser to split my next video "Pac-Man's Weirdest Birthday" into two parts, one for Shadow Labyrinth and the other for Pac-Man World 2 Repac. The SL portion blew out of control. After both are up, I'll combine the two. It'll certainly keep YouTube happy for once.

Oh man, that last video was exhausting. I should make a shorter video next. Wait... Pac-Man's 45th Anniversary is wrapping up, I should do a video on that. Well, we have two main games to cover this shouldn't be- (One huge rant about Shadow Labyrinth later) What have I done?

I will never have a place in the world

Pac-Man World Rally has a deceptively high skill ceiling. If you play your cards right, you can speed boost nearly perpetually. TLDR: Fun boost tech goes wheeeeeeeeeeeee

It's always weird hitting that spot in gamedev where the base game is largely there but the design and structure calls for so much to be put on top of it all. I'm definitely doing something smaller scale after JR2 is done so I don't go insane. #indiedev #gamedev

R.I.P. Rebecca Heineman (1963-2025). One of the industry figures I looked up to the most. From the crazy development stories behind her famous ports, to her advocacy, fan-made efforts and her own original work, she was a legend and a legend she shall remain. Her perseverance will be remembered.

And the award for sneakiest time clock goes toooooooo

Streamin some 5th gen games youtube.com/live/P3gnNdt...

Gonna do a 5th gen console stream tomorrow. At the very least, it will consist of PS1, N64, Saturn, and maybe even a little 3DO. I'd do Jaguar too if I could find a way for me to capture its RF signal using what I have but I wouldn't count on that.

The demands for exceptionalism in all areas of development in solo dev indie work has really turbo charged my perfectionism and has been contributing greatly to my autistic burnout. I wanna be able to keep making videos and games, but I also need to take it way easier on myself for my own health.

Doing an "Ace Mode" run of Rogue Squadron III and am loving how insanely hard the last section of Battlefield Hoth is under those conditions.

Something I love about older games is looking at them and trying to discern what movies the devs watched while making the game. It's something I wish we got to see more of, and I'm kinda shocked when I talk to other indie devs and they tell me "I don't really care about movies".

The video finally rendered CORRECTLY. Uploading it to Patreon now. Might take a while (it's nearly 10 GB) but at least I don't have to wait another six hours waiting for a hopefully functional video file again.

This video is killing me. I just spent the past 6.5 hours rendering this thing and it can't even play to the ending. The correct length is listed. It just STOPS well before it gets there. Oh well I'll just have to try later. Here we go again!!

Jack Razor 2 is a solo developed 2D Collectathon inspired by Amiga platformers like Turrican and Early 3D games like Super Mario 64 with hints of tons of others. #indiegame #platformer #gamedev

My next video is close to being done. It's just a matter of finishing one animated section and finding the time to render it (which considering the length is my primary concern). It'll be up for patrons first and on YouTube a couple of days after.

100% Completed Pac-Man World 2 Repac for the second time today. Went a lot more smoothly this time. Word of advice: make sure the way you're playing it minimizes input lag as much as humanly possible. Learned that one the hard way. Still though, fantastic game. Highly recommended.

I'm probably not going to get anything on the video done today. Had a really intense flashback that I'm seriously struggling to ground myself back from. I'm sorry.

I edited around 20 minutes of the next video in the past day or so. Only about 10 minutes to go. I'm rendering what I did today and putting it up on patreon. Between the first 51 minutes and now this, we're getting closer. Hopefully I'll finish the next couple of short animated sequences tomorrow.

I spend a year working on a video in what time I've had between jobs and working on Jack Razor 2 only to find my YouTube channel stripped of monetization because I fell below their metrics. Sucks, but it's still more sustainable revenue than making games... yikes, that's horrifying in its own right.

hell

Just beat Spooky the second time and I absolutely love how difficult Pac-Man World 2 Repac's post game gets.

I am enjoying the hell out of Pac-Man World 2 Repac. Seriously, get this when you can.

People: Pac-Man World 2 100% is too haaaaaard. Bamco: Alright, we made tweaks to make each run less all or nothing. People: Yaaaay Bamco: We also made 100% completion harder. Good luck. People who 100% OG World 2 in their sleep: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

This is mood

I'm not going to lie the past couple of months have been really hard for me, and it just seems to be getting harder. I'm hoping to finish the video I'm working on soon and I'm hoping to make progress on Jack Razor 2, but looking for more work takes priority. It just sucks how hard that is now.

Can you say a game is truly bad if it has a flying car eat a man? I think not. Checkmate.

Playing through Lair again because I need footage for a video and man does the Firestorm mission hit hard. The track that plays when you bomb "the armory" and on the results screen is absolutely haunting. That crescendo and melody at 1:30 is such a beautiful gut-punch www.youtube.com/watch?v=AiY9...

There being no official way to play Rogue Squadron 2 & 3 on modern hardware is criminal. Especially when they've remastered so many of the Star Wars games in that era, and when there's a finished Wii compilation/remix of them that's never been released. (1/?)

To play Virtual Boy games on the Switch/Switch 2 you need to pay $100 for an accessory that will become a paperweight once the subscription service ends. This is hilarious.

Video editing be like:

Solo Game Dev be like:

@xkhou.bsky.social 's reaction to the power of 'so retro'

AT LAST WE ARE FREEEE FROM THE CONFINES OF SHADOW LABYRINTH