WIP of some kind of modern Asteroids remake I'm working on, including black holes. As with most software projects, there is no spec.

I've recently been browsing The Home Computer Course on archive. org. What a great magazine this was, really well laid out, interesting and informative.

Please sign this petition: petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

I'm slowly removing all the AI generated images from my games. Only one game left, which unfortunately uses quite a few for the faces of people (it's a murder mystery).

In Stellar Forces (a Laser Squad remake) you can watch the playback of all your missions. Here's a playback of the classic The Assassins mission. Sterner is the big yellow circle! www.stellarforces.com

Sometimes the internet is great. I was reminiscing about an old very basic dungeon crawler I played from the early 90's, so I googled "msdos freeware dungeon", and it was among the first images. Dungeons of Drakklor!

Tesco Mobile:- 1. Send a message to all customers telling them their phone won't work soon because 3G is being turned off, even though their phones will work perfectly fine. 2. Profit!

Very suspicious why Google are constantly asking Android users to backup their photos to their cloud. It's almost like they want to use them to feed their AI machine.

Fame at last!

Top tip for being thought of as the best developer at your workplace: give very long time estimates and then complete your work sooner than expected.

So it looks like the C# ASP.Net annotation "DisableRequestSizeLimit" doesn't disable the request size limit. Great. I might start a blog on all the ways modern tech is rubbish.

What with Fujitsu Horizon, now this, and generally most IT systems being buggy, maybe we should go back to using pen and paper. Or call out crap when we see it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

I wish every programming language had built-in signals just like Godot's GDScript does. Having to go back to C# and pass references around from class to class is becoming tedious.

I generally only follow retro and gamedev accounts on Bluesky, and that's all I usually see. So why is my Popular With Friends tab full of American politics?

I'm having a go at recreating the text adventure "Inca Curse" as a roguelike. #zxspectrum #textadventure #indiegame

A 42Gb Overwatch update? Seriously??

GTA1 and 2 had LAN multiplayer. To save bandwidth, they only sent keypresses between machines — assuming the game state was 100% deterministic. That meant every game had to run in perfect sync, at the framerate of the slowest PC.

Pinterest has been around for years but I've still no idea what it is. Just a load of pictures?

Working on adding grenades to my secret-agent themed game The Hard. #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame

Just given Ship of Doom an extra layer of polish. #zxspectrum #textadventure #retrogamedev

Back on this PlayDate project. Graphics are starting to appear from pixel supremo @craigstevenson.bsky.social and I've started work on the robot interface sub game. The game is called Zyphatron. #zyphatron #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #playdate www.bitglint.co.uk

Working on a Rainbow Islands - themed level in Manic Destruction. #retrogaming #retrogames #indiedev #madewithgodot #gamedev

Remake moderne de l'Affaire Sydney (Sidney sur Pc) de Gilles Blancon, la suite du + célèbre L'Affaire Vera Cruz. Gendarme, cet auteur apportait sa patte avec un souci de procédure réaliste dans l'enquête.

Why do browsers still have a Home button?

Finally, the remake that everyone has been waiting for: The Sidney Affair! Starting with one witness and a few pieces of evidence, you must identify the murderer using the advanced (for 1987) Police Computer System. #retrogaming #indiegame #indiedev stephensmith.itch.io/the-sidney-a...

How many of you can relate to this image? #KevinToms #FootballManager #FACup #FootballGame #SportsGame #FootballSim #SoccerGame #RetroGames #RetroComputers #UKGames #ZXSpectrum #C64 #Commodore64 #Amstrad

It's a crime against humanity that Kung Fury 2 hasn't been released yet.

Manic Destruction now has a level editor. stephensmith.itch.io/manic-destru...

In case you haven't seen it, Saboteur in 3D. stephensmith.itch.io/saboteur-3d

TIL that there was a Double Dragon release for the 2600 in 1989. Who had a 2600 then?

Hurray, Microsoft is embracing Open Source! Oh, wait... www.theregister.com/2025/04/24/m...

The next episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That is out now! We take on the rotten genius of Roald Dahl in... The Witches: readthat.podbean.com

I recreated Manic Miner, but with more realism (sort of). stephensmith.itch.io/manic-destru...

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Why does Windows Explorer have Eject and Format options next to each other in the context menu?

Someone should remake Dictator (DK'tromics) but you play as Trump.

It's amazing that the big corps are happy paying billions to build datacentres for their AIs, but strangely don't want to spend a penny paying for copyrighted material.

Doing some gamedev and trying to decide if a weapon pickup should become the new selected weapon. If it's better than the current one? (but who decide which is better?) What if the player already has the new weapon but deselected it?

In this day and age, it shouldn't be possible to type characters faster than the computer or phone can show it.

Χωρίς ιδιαίτερο λόγο, έχω δημιουργήσει μια ελληνική έκδοση του Maziacs, που ονομάζεται "Λαβύρινθος". Φαινόταν κατάλληλο όνομα! stephensmith.itch.io/maziacs-3d

Ebay really have buried the option to actually get the money you've been paid sent to an actual bank account. For future reference: My EBay->Selling->Payments->Click on the White Arrow (which isn't even a identified as a link!)->Withdraw

Showing off the latest weapon in my new game "The Hard": A boomstick!

eBay have changed their terms of service and you're automatically opted-in for your personal data to be used for AI development and training. To turn this off, sign into your account click on the Hi (your name)! > My eBay > Account > AI training preferences and you can toggle off the permission.

Absolute 80s now seems to have just too many adverts. I'm slowly moving over to Heart 80s.

One of the less straightforward missions in Stellar Forces involves fending off Weeping Angels (yes, shamelessly ripped off of Doctor Who). It makes for an exciting game though.

I've just released The Hard - A challenging combat platformer! stephensmith.itch.io/the-hard

One of the great things about Godot is that if there's an issue on a non-dev machine (usually one used for customer demos), you can just copy the source and Godot onto the machine and debug it. Imagine doing that with something like Visual Studio.

Godot 4.4 launched last week to a great reception! We’re now preparing 4.4.1 to address regressions and ensure a smooth upgrade for all users. Help us test the release candidate and report any issues you encounter. godotengine.org/article/rele...