"Return to Yoshi's Island" by @kazeemanuar.bsky.social Is probably my most anticipated #retro project of 2026 It's also the only project I can think of that has morphed from a #romhack into a #homebrew game. Seeing as every single line of SM64's original code will be replaced #romhacks #retrogaming

greatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail

This game is INCREDIBLE. Bravo, Paul and Ben Wasson.

Cute new Frogger clone for the Apple II www.lasermego.com/a2sw/froggo

I finally got smart and quit writing weird formulas to get my composite color decoding to look right. Now I can load raw images into Affinity Photo, tweak the colors until I like them, and use those tweaks to create a LUT texture for a new color correction shader. Why did that take me so long?

🔭 Meteor Dust Image Credit & Copyright: Xu Chen apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap26011...

It's feeling like a whole new game

My cellular automation creation tool is nearing its completion!

I just discovered an incredibly cool rule for my cellular automation algorithm

i was a cannibal for the fbi, game over screen, amiga (1991) www.mobygames.com/game/29431/i...

The Great Gatsby for NES www.greatgatsbygame.com

This is the infamous PC demo, Area 5150, that can only run properly on an original IBM PC with a CGA card... ...running on an EGA card. #retrocomputing

Yesterday I started working on a live shader editor for #Godot, if that's something you're interested in, let me know! #gamedev #indiedev

ah, so UFO 50 is actually out of its mind

It’s marketed as an esports display but this is secretly an amazing choice for retro style games on PC and emulation like Mame with variable refresh rates. Very impressive showing.

Dark Souls mentioned

if these comes to the west im lobbying to mandate that theyre painted up in chris foss patterns

Today’s going well then. After all that, my hall ceiling has fucking caved in, taking fuck knows what else with it so I’ve got to get out of here. emergency team have sorted me and the youngest somewhere for tonight, eldest is staying at their partners. Well, that’s all gone very to fuck.

Fascinating! It's taken 40 years, but a group have found a faster shortest path technique than Dijkstra’s algorithm! #gamedev #indiedev #gamemaker #gamedevelopment www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-i...

What was the first "shared universe" of seemingly unrelated video games? I think it might've been Broderbund's "Bungeling Empire" universe, which tied together the hit games Choplifter (1982), Lode Runner (1983), and Raid On Bungeling Bay (1984) via back-of-the-box descriptions by Gary Carlston.

Realised I haven't posted this here yet: This is every possible numerically-balanced d20 layout. If you know a dice-maker please pass this on to them - it'll make their dice roll fairer on average. #Dice #TTRPG

I am looking into this, I've reached out to Steam directly, and I'm actively pitching stories on this subject of the platform's shaky moderation. If any other devs have experienced something similar with reviews and moderation, do reach out.

datamost programming books, print ad, imagery & caption (1983) archive.org/details/crea...

Discord wants to know how you feel about AI. Go tell them: discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Still proud of this Dredd piece I did for the Megazine about 15 years ago...

The Grand Rapids Press Grand Rapids Michigan Tuesday, December 9,1913

Drew Mario and Luigi from memory. How'd I do?

“So, I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell: ‘I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not gonna take this anymore!”

Ron Cobb, 1970

"Plays Like A AAA Native Release" - Super Mario 64 Gets A Dreamcast Port.

Hey MAGFesters! If you find yourself in the Indie Gaming section in the Atrium pop by to check out Diggy Diggy Mole! It's a new NES Metroidvania made by @novasplore.bsky.social, Eliot and myself! If you're not there physically you can try out a demo of the game at diggydiggymole.com

nice part of rulespace

It’s legitimately amazing how using a chatbot UI for your LLM has successfully gaslit whole swathes of the media into treating it as a verified source for news about itself.

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When you've worked in the game industry as long as this week's guest as a designer, programmer and SCUMM engine expert - you've seen some stuff! Let's chat with LucasArts and Humongous Entertainment legend Brad P. Taylor! @lardratboy.bsky.social youtu.be/z1ma0PBZGKw

Built a palette extractor that thinks like a curator, not a pixel counter. – Physics-based color repulsion – Auto-detects muted vs vibrant bias – Adaptive spacing to hit target count – OKLCh color space (perceptually uniform) Early Access: please break it! chipper-otter-d6c600.netlify.app

If one can believe in the passage of time, it's been 13 years since my brave little pooch did nothing in the face of chaos. Thank u for allowing him to burn. 🙆 🙇

I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice: www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1... I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.

Anyone else thinking about Tobor right now or is it just me again?

Lots of great design thought here.

We've updated our Card Game Graphics Pack with 95 new sprites, more than doubling the content. We added 55 new simple cards that are readable at small sizes, plus 40 new back sprites! #gamedev #gameassets

I've just released fully documented source code for The Sentinel as an easy-to-browse website. It's a lot more fun to explore than the GitHub repository, with cross-references, popups, indexes, statistics and more. Enjoy! thesentinel.bbcelite.com #retrocomputing #retrogaming #bbcmicro #c64 #8bit

Sprite stacking 101 🧩 #pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

I just released my video about the engine (and game) I've been working on. The engine is based on dynamic SDFs, and the video describes how it works and what it makes possible. Link in the reply! This is my first YouTube video and it took forever - please repost!

The video: youtu.be/il-TXbn5iMA