Ah, the simple pleasure of starting something new, little by little... #gamedev #recreationalprogramming

Am I already a concatenative programming nerd??? #recreationalprogramming

Today, while scribbling ideas for a programming language I want to make, I wrote: "any new word is a promise of meaning" I don't remember precisely what I meant by it, but it sounds very profound... so it must be a good feature for the language :) #recreationalprogramming

Small experiment in the making... #gamedev #puzzle #javascript

Nefer, in baked bun form.

Stateless puzzles? I prefer Stateful, or even Spiteful! youtu.be/36j6ytVIL-g #gamedev #puzzle #rustlang

I made a small 1-level puzzle game about recursive bubbles! A variation on the mechanics of Patrick's Parabox, COCOON, Recursed, etc. I wanted to explore letting you easily visualize and modify the nested structure of rooms. Hope you enjoy! :) patrickgh3.itch.io/bubble-sort

AI in all its glory

I recently started a new job (not related to gamedev, but it involves graphics programming), so I'll have less time for #gamedev, but maybe the quality of it will improve because I won't have the stress of being unemployed. Who knows...

I love Double Commander for many things, but my favorite is that "unlock" button right there

Simulation instabilities can be beautiful #recreationalprogramming #dlang #raylib

A wild PuzzLisp appears! www.youtube.com/watch?v=tXXM... Thanks @spiralganglion.com for the opportunity to show it, even in its current very WIP state :) #gamedev #feelingofcomputing

On this #WeirdWednesday I added a 'swap' command to spice things up: #gamedev #puzzle #lisp

this is getting out of hand

The corruption depicted in "House of Cards" seems so... civilized, comparing it with the current united states...

The three most difficult problems in computer science are cache invalidation, naming things, and undo for puzzle games #gamedev

I see the statement "I care more about game development than politics" as indicative of an impoverished mind, and also a bit stupid: the video game industry depends on policies that allow people to have free time and extra money to spend in games.

feature creep is fun sometimes #gamedev #puzzlegame

Testing GIF exporting for a little something something I'll present soon... #puzzle #gamedev

Gazillion dollar idea: A social network where instead of "likes" each post gets a score indicating how unique it is among all previous posts, using a mixture of informational entropy, Kolmogorov complexity, etc.

is @discord.com down or something?

80s voice synth in a 2020s game 🤖 The Robots in Reconfigure can speak now! If you grew up with C64, Atari ST or Apple II you know the voice. #godot #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/...

I'm experimenting with porting the generator from D to C (to make it more portable and standard, and to learn a bit myself) and discovered that the C version is roughly twice as fast than the D version. Either C compilers are more mature, or the port has many bugs :)

Indicating shapes with a sparkling border youtu.be/Mh2RglkN2X4 #gamedev #godotengine #puzzle #procgen

Remember when Donald Trump said: 'I Could ... Shoot Somebody, And I Wouldn't Lose Any Voters' ? He never intended to do it himself, obviously. Too much work. But his minions are more than happy to do it.

I don't agree with all of Jessie's tastes about Star Trek, but this video is a masterpiece. Those who complain that the series has "become woke" seem not to have understood a single episode of their favorite series. youtu.be/3HOzBtDUlbo?...

Thanks to my insightful playtesters (well, for now he's only one) I enhanced the level generator to avoid some frustrating situations in the game. It's now 10x slower, but it generates much better levels. Game design is tradeoffs all the way down :) #gamedesign #procgen

Number of puzzles per kind of crate I generated so far for my game. The distribution is a bit weird, but perhaps it's a "natural" consequence of the way they interact. 72037 Normal 30549 Bone 17268 Radioactive 12897 Heavy 10650 Sticky 10221 Fragile #gamedev #procgen

We don't need artificial intelligence; we need intelligent artifacts.

this is so impressive youtu.be/iu5rnQkfO6M?...

I'm a bit torn between two options: making the entire map before the player begins to play (like it's shown here) or let the player "create" the map, so to speak, only constructing a corridor and adding a new level each time (if possible) they open a door. #gamedev #godotengine

A rare example of fixing a bug with simpler code youtu.be/AEjp2Fd0C8g #gamedev #godotengine #procgen #puzzle

It was very exciting to show some of my puzzle games at the Quilmes Game Fest. I had a great time, and found several enhancements to add to my current project thanks to the testers :) #gamedev

I already smell the parody game "order of the stinking fart" or its variations

This game is genius! A lovely match of mechanics and theme.

I just realized that the saying in English is "...like the back of my hand" but in Spanish we say "...like the palm of my hand". I wonder what accident of history is involved here.

I just solved this puzzle to get access to Thinky Dailies! Try it out! thinkygames.com/dailies/

Small enhancement today: Better map camera movement using springs. youtu.be/nWCo4B9xgHE #godotengine #procgen #gamedev

PuzzleScript hostile takeover in progress! Just kidding; I love PuzzleScript. This will be a different thing, with a totally different puzzle-defining paradigm (I hope). #godotengine #puzzle #programming

Experimenting a bit with Godot's ConfigFile class to store save files. For release I'll use a faster and more compact binary format, but it's nice to have these readable save files for debugging. #godotengine #gamedev #puzzle

There's a new kind of stupid people! I call them "twicetupid". They are the people that ask grok something (first stupid) and then begin arguing with it when it says something that does not align with their ideology (second stupid). Usually MAGAs, and elon simps.

We are in the process of adding all the ThinkyCon 2025 talks as individual videos to YouTube! You can check this playlist to find them all as they get published: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Thanks to all the wonderful speakers for joining us!

Sometimes Game Design is about little epiphanies youtu.be/y0Sg9sg4f7g #gamedev #gamedesign #godot #procgen

Unpopular opinion (or perhaps not!): Individuality is overrated. Not only its importance but also its existence; we are far more similar than we realize. I value the feeling of freedom (even if illusory) more than feeling unique or original. #mondaymusing

@spiralganglion.com @jimmyhmiller.bsky.social @todepond.com I love the podcast! So many ideas dancing... An auditory bonus is that when Ivan and Jimmy are talking, I can imagine I'm listening to a secret Severance episode in which Mark and Dylan (respectively) talk about programming.

The other day I realized that -1 is the "i" of real numbers #math

PSA: if you need 64-bit integers saved/restored in Godot, don't use JSON, or if you need JSON, use strings instead of int values. #gamedev #godot

From victim to Karen in 1 tweet

My puzzle games are 30% off in the Itch Halloween Sale! (or only $18 if you buy the bundle). Share with your puzzle-loving friends! itch.io/s/165144/hal... #indiegames via @itch.io

The unreasonable effectiveness of Sokoban as a puzzle game design idea pump