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Has anyone just had enough and routered a spot for their drawing tablet to be flush into their desktop?

Today I'm fully aligned and justified in doing whatever that thing is called where text goes down to the next line if a word goes over the specified width of a column. Hoping to wrap that up quickly.

Hello! If you want to keep up with the latest Canary videos, there's a place! #gamedev #indiegamedev www.youtube.com/channel/UCY7...

Game programming notes. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Consider a programmer looking at code they themselves wrote a year ago, now having to identify and fix a bug. They have to rebuild the mental model of what is going on, which is easier if they have already had a mental model of what is going on.

New preprint! @marentierra.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social & I have been working on what CAIL means to showcase & propagate the idea of thinking very differently to tech industry norms on "artificial intelligence" Towards Critical Artificial Intelligence Literacies doi.org/10.5281/zeno... 1/

Oh, and I added some sound effects, and made the microwave explode. I need to add a timer though? youtu.be/cfyc_v9wvYk #gamedev #indiegamedev

I started working on quests/tasks today, beginning with a rough UI and a Task struct. I'm thinking I'll end up integrating it with Actions and maybe creating some scripting code to make the stories more dynamic? We'll see! #gamedev #indiegamedev

I don't want to spam my comic readers with my video game ranting, so I set up this new thing so I can share the status of Canary and talk about how I am scaling this game development mountain. buttondown.com/jimkersey/ #gamedev #indiegamedev

I don't want to spam my comic readers with my video game ranting, so I set up this new thing so I can share the status of Canary and talk about how I am scaling this game development mountain. buttondown.com/jimkersey/ #gamedev #indiegamedev

For what it’s worth, I’m not using AI to make Canary. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Hey gamers, did you know that game developers share updates about their upcoming games on Saturdays using the hashtag #ScreenshotSaturday‽ Check out the Screenshot Saturday feed for the inside scoop on new indie games!

I thought I'd write a simple Roguelike... 2 years later, still not done, but I can say I've learned a ton about C and what it takes to put a game project together. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Happy Wednesday! I uploaded a state-of-play video for my game Canary. I'm feeling pretty good about it! #gamedev #indiegamedev #roguelike #roguelite #fallout youtu.be/MGlpqcfXUv8

Not sure why I didn't do this before, but I added like 5 lines of code and now I have this handy mouse tracker so I can line stuff up. But maybe if I wrote some decent UI code I wouldn't need to nudge stuff around so much. #gamedev #indiegamedev #c #sdl

Antlion cone of death

Today's a great day to support some creators. Writers and artists and creatives of all sorts: reply with a link to one of your works. And feel free to tell us about it. Everyone: let's check through the replies and buy some creations and support some human beings.

Robots! Anyway, yeah, I'm at the point where I need to make more monsters.

Arise! 🧙 #indiegame #pixelart #GodotEngine #turnbased #RPG

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For all of the new people who have either followed me or looked at my profile: My name is Ten, and yes, that's my actual first name! I write game reviews online and I'm always looking for new #indiegames to review! If you're a #gamedev and think your game would be fun to review, let me know!

Wasn't really feeling it this morning, but this afternoon I dug into building the in-game CanaryOS (I hope there's no real CanaryOS). #gamedev #indiegamedev

Trying to make the fog of war less abrupt, I think I might need to do some pixel-level logic, and maybe a dedicated screen buffer... I was going to work on exploding microwave ovens today, but I thought this was going to be easy. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Don't do any of this.

Doors! youtu.be/DbhcRAUACAY?... via @YouTube #gamedev #indiegamedev

So many new enemy types!! 😱 #RETROGAMING #Castlevania #indiegame

Now there's another game on Steam called 'Canary'? Does it even matter? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Anyway, I see it's time to update the screenshots... #gamedev #indiegamedev

Updating the door technologies, among other things. #gamedev #indiegamedev

A lot of code is hiding behind this video... I'm using @aseprite.org to generate the spritesheets and .json files for animations, but I didn't want to pull a whole json library into my code so I'm parsing the .json with Python to create text files with just the data I need. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Not me confused about why the color picker isn't working without realizing I'm trying to grab a pixel on the transparency checkerboard. 😐

Happy #screenshotsaturday! Whatcha got! I'm playing around with color palettes and pixel sprites, also fixed a bug that I didn't know I had where the walls were perpetually shadowed.

Bodyguard Detail

easy isometric pixel art is still coming... with a ton of new features! create anything with easymetric soon on @aseprite.org

New prototype for my horde shooter up on Itch, now with some actual UI! Try it out and let me know what you think :) Link in the reply ⬇️ #gamedev #indiedev

"Programmer art" #gamedev #indiegamedev #aseprite Trying to decide between 64x and 32x pixel sprites, my art background is screaming for higher resolution while my programming brain is begging me not to over complicate things.

Alternate graphic experiments for the roguelike I'm working on #gamedev #indiegamedev

Alternate graphic experiments for the roguelike I'm working on #gamedev #indiegamedev

Good morning! More from the archives.

Hello! Here's a Canary video update showing off some stuff that took a while to code. Progress! #gamedev #indiegamedev youtu.be/BCVEGsSNyBw

My new game #NetDive is out now! It's a very experimental SHMUP flavored incremental game about an AI prompted to learn what makes a human human. #gamedev #indiedev

Anyhow, hey, good morning! Go make that comic you feel like making!

I make comics. Do people read my comics? I don’t know. I just know I’m a guy who makes comics. #comics #webcomics

Messing around with colors, etc. Going for something more 'readable' I guess? #gamedev #indiegamedev

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Felt important to me to have a companion in the game, and adding it showed me a lot of assumptions I'd made about how fighting should work. Still more work to do, but dog dispatched its first enemy! #gamedev #indiegamedev (dog is the gray Maximilian-looking guy on the left)