I'm trying to recreate Deactivators as a top-down 2D puzzle game... #gamedev #indiedev #zxspectrum #c64 #godot www.youtube.com/watch?v=780l...

What is the point of a TV channel like Channel 4 bring up films in their search results that you can't actually watch?

Getting warnings in Whatsapp that my Google storage is 50% full and backups are in peril. Oh noes!! Only 7Gb space left!!! Anyway....

Time Squad update! Someone went and actually sent me some cash for this game, so I've been morally obliged to add new features: Grenades, 3 difficulty levels, a level selector, and an extra level! stephensmith.itch.io/timesquad

What if I told you there's a kit with 62 modular clothing models to create your own characters? All textured, rigged and ready to use! This kit, along with all my other fantasy sets are 25% off! itch.io/s/167495/fan... #gamedev #indiedev

The next episode of Eleanor & Alasdair Read That comes out in a week! Please remember that, at the time of recording, Kier Starmer was Prime Minister and our hilarious remarks made sense.

I've released an early version of TimeSquad! to garner opinion as to whether it's a good game or not. stephensmith.itch.io/timesquad

You'll miss the BBC when it's gone...

Another AI fail. #godot #godotengine

I'm currently working on this single-player squad puzzle game "Time Squad". Work as a team with yourself by rewinding time! #madewithgodot #indiegame #indiedev

New level alert for The Black Hole: Expanding Asteroids! It's like pest control in space. stephensmith.itch.io/the-black-hole

Always fighting among friends about whose turn it is to play #JetPac? 🤨🙄 Fight no more: 'Multiplayer Jet Pac' will take you all on simultaneously. 🤯🍻 More #UPtG here: wwwSabreWurl.de @stevecsmith.bsky.social #UltimatePlayTheGame #RetroGaming #RetroGames #8bit #ZXSpectrum #Jetman

I've just released my second recreation of a classic Artic text adventure game: Inca Curse! stephensmith.itch.io/inca-curse

New game released: The Black Hole stephensmith.itch.io/the-black-hole

I propose replacing all AI with children paid to browse the internet and then argue with each other as to what the answer is, and then responding. Far cheaper and probably more accurate than AI.

This is not an Asteroids remake, honest.

I wonder if anyone not rich enough to take YouTube to court will also get a payout if their account has been incorrectly suspended? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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