Just as a reminder, I am a professional game programmer with over twenty years of experience, and I am looking for work. I specialize in implementing gameplay systems, user interfaces and tools. I think my work on Ultima VII Revisited demonstrates my skills well.

I’m NOT excited and I’m NOT thrilled. I’m honestly scared to share this, but I’m not a coward. I have to show you what you helped us create. None of this would have been possible without your help, and we can’t finish it without your support www.launchgood.com/1948 youtu.be/D4qh1FAPEUo

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

Announcing our first public 🫧DEMO🫧 You'll be able to try it out during 🌊Ocean Fest🌊 (18-25 May) Visit our Steam Store Page for more details! #indiegame #gaming #videogame #indiedev #gamedev #oceanfest

Pixar's Mortal Kombat.

Speaking of my recently-shown side-project, a little gameplay! While the game is largely a VN, it also has dice mechanics! Here we see a "climbing" challenge: the player must succeed at three consecutive rolls to "climb" to the top. A failure drops them to the bottom #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGame

A little more progress on the editor for my side-project: It now allows one to specify "regions" that define background-images and music for one or more story-nodes. #GameDev #IndieDev #VisualNovel

✨Quote repost your art that has stars!✨

My books are now available from the cool independent bookseller Microcosm! Also, Thera-pets card deck is back in stock again yaaaaaay.

An AI understands *nothing* It’s good at making it look like that it does. Like a cheating student There’s a mendacity at the core of all chatbots

I've been wanting to make a little visual-novel/gamebook as a side-project. Something inspired by Fighting Fantasy!📖🛡️⚔️ I have an old NaNoRenO project as a base. The main issue is how to design a sprawling, branching narrative... So, tonight I spent a few hours making a little editor! ^_^

I've been wanting to make a little visual-novel/gamebook as a side-project. Something inspired by Fighting Fantasy!📖🛡️⚔️ I have an old NaNoRenO project as a base. The main issue is how to design a sprawling, branching narrative... So, tonight I spent a few hours making a little editor! ^_^

I have a strange question gamedev friends. We've been having talks of game preservation for awhile. What can I do while building my game to make it easier for myself in the future for preservation? Any best practices? I don't even know where to begin

I just got back from seeing "The Mummy". A really good movie, that, I feel! I very much enjoyed my time with it! ^_^ There were a few points that I wasn't a fan of, and some elements that were fairly standard-seeming... but there was a lot more that was interesting, intriguing, and engaging! ^_^

If you're thinking about using gen-AI to "write" books, this 🧵 is for you. I’m a highly experienced editor who’s been in the biz a long time. Recently I’ve had manuscripts come to me where the author has used gen-AI – not for writing, I’ve been assured, but for “structuring” or "organising"

Ladies and Gentlemen, I am pleased to announce that the 0.2.0 version of Ultima VII Revisited, the Trinsic Demo, is now available for download! Check the new features and download from the official website! www.u7revisited.com

You know what I kinda miss from older games? Weird text-files. "Do not readmes" and the like, with micro-stories or philosophical musings or just arbitrary thoughts from the devs. They were a neat little bonus to discover after installation.

Our All Fonts Pack is back on sale at 90% off! 🔠 1200+ Human-Made Font Styles 💹 Commercial use in unlimited projects ⬆️ Free updates as we make new fonts ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack #gamedev #fonts

Sometimes, I find, it helps to set aside a problem and return to it later And when that does help, when returning to a problem with fresh eyes (and perhaps a little more experience) results in a solution to something that previously had you stumped, that can feel good, I find ^^ #GameDev #IndieDev

And the third is this: 🧩"Adventure" games (the point-and-click sort) are not named for being adventurous. They're named in the same way as "Roguelikes": after a seminal entry in the genre. That being Colossal Cave Adventure--or "Adventure" for short.

I have three. The first two are these: 🧟"Wights", now famously undead, only became so due to a misreading of Tolkien's "barrow wight". The word originally just meant "being" or "thing". 💀"Liche" isn't a made-up fantasy word. It's an old word for "body" or "corpse". See the extant word "lichgate".

Well, it looks like I'm likely going to talk to my country's consumer-protection people. Yay. :/

"Adults who offload thinking to AI lose capacity they built. Children may never build it at all." www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-...

Looking for work. Worked on Minecraft. Available immediately for contract or full-time, illustration / art direction / visual development. castpixel.artstation.com DMs open. Boosts appreciated.

Name a video-game that you've completed more than six times! I don't think that I've counted, but if it's any game, then it's surely Quest for Glory III: Not only multiple playthroughs, but across four character-classes, and multiple for at least two (three?) of those...

PLEASE HELP: What game is this from? This was used as a painting in the Painterly Pack for Minecraft, so it's *probably* an NES/Famicom game, but I can't find a source. Please share this around so we can solve this mystery. Search engines are absolutely worthless now. This is driving me nuts.

Happy #WorldBookDay! Did you know there are over 300 books to read and download for free in the Getty Publications Virtual Library? From books on antiquities to books on sculpture, there’s something for everyone. New books are added regularly! Start your art book collection: gty.art/443oqhx

There were like 20,000 games released on Steam last year Hundreds more console exclusives You can play whatever you want You don't HAVE to play anything ❤️

Every so often, I am sorely tempted to sit down and make a video-review of Raven Software's ShadowCaster.

There is no amount of money, oil, or gold that is worth more than having bees, trees, and clean water.

🎵 Spider where, Spider where, Hiding away somewhere here, Runs away, Out of fright, Dashes free, Late at night, Look out! There runs the spider there! 🎶

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So @farisattieh.bsky.social, who dreamt up House of Hikmah, sent this to me with a big crying emoji and it's so cool to see the game ripple through media. It does leave a glaring hole - I do really wish Western media, who control Metacritic and all that, would hold more space for non-Western stories

i don't know whether to be proud or terrified of what we've created for #worstvnjam2026 derpychocho.itch.io/stupidhorse-...

the indie space is so rich right now but people are only exposed to the wildly lucrative edge cases. this year we're looking to showcase more games that expand peoples idea of what an ‘indie game’ can be

A bit of world-lore here: What you see in this minigame represents an early stage in the development of games in the setting. Maybe not their first experiments, but perhaps something akin to "Pong" in our world. #MoonsInCrystal #Metroidvania #Lore #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

A bit of world-lore here: What you see in this minigame represents an early stage in the development of games in the setting. Maybe not their first experiments, but perhaps something akin to "Pong" in our world. #MoonsInCrystal #Metroidvania #Lore #IndieGame #GameDev #IndieDev

I suspect it likely that when there's an interactive technology--even if magical--someone will make a game for it.🎮 So it is here, appearing as a minigame! 🌖"Moons in Crystal" is an isometric fantasy "space" metroidvania.🔮 #MoonsInCrystal #Metroidvania #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev

Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

I suspect it likely that when there's an interactive technology--even if magical--someone will make a game for it.🎮 So it is here, appearing as a minigame! 🌖"Moons in Crystal" is an isometric fantasy "space" metroidvania.🔮 #MoonsInCrystal #Metroidvania #IndieGame #IndieDev #GameDev

Okay, time to hang out the shingle! Need a programmer? One who has seen and done everything? One who specializes in game development but has also done work in the medical and consumer electronics industries? Look no further!

Word of mouth is huge for indie devs, plus you get to force your niche obsession onto your friends!

To all here who observe it, a happy Easter to you! ^_^ (And to all others, a happy weekend nevertheless! ^_^)

DIY! One disadvantage of a digital game collection is that you can't browse it easily or tactily So what I've done is to get a binder, stick my collection drive inside, and then print and ring-bind into it cover-art of the games! I can then just take down the binder and flip through what I have!

DIY! One disadvantage of a digital game collection is that you can't browse it easily or tactily So what I've done is to get a binder, stick my collection drive inside, and then print and ring-bind into it cover-art of the games! I can then just take down the binder and flip through what I have!

It's a lovely feeling in game-dev when an old component turns out to be useful in the building of something new that it wasn't intended for. ^_^ This brought to you by my "map" class becoming a central part of a little minigame that I'm making for "Moons in Crystal"! ^_^

It has begun. A replay of one of my old favourites--Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers! ^_^ And oh, that music still holds magic for me! <3

Be careful what you name things, fellow devs. Don't, for example, unwittingly give an object the same name as another object that, in code, is identified by name and then hidden--and then spend absolute ages wondering why the first object is inexplicably vanishing... ^^;;;