I've overhauled my puzzle level generation so a level is now "grown" like cell tissue in a triangle tessellation. New elements can be inserted anywhere, and the whole level deforms to make room. This makes it easier to control topology and create paths that loops around areas. #ProcGen #GameDev

Have at least this much Iconoclasts stuff (not just Vita games) that I stupidly held on to for this long, but maybe there's still interested buyers or something, thatvwould be cool. We're thinking of ways!

Another helpful utility that should be integrated in Unity by default: Cast Visualizer! Visualizes raycasts, shapecasts and overlaps! Doesn't like when you remove colliders from the scene while it's running, but that's easily amended. assetstore.unity.com/packages/too...

Wonder what AI discourse would look like if big tech had the wits and humility to just go "this is an LLM, it's really good at associating and extrapolating representations of data" rather than "here is the next evolutionary step in intelligence, we don't know if it will save or destroy our species"

Sometimes I hate myself for the kind of gameplay ideas I have, coding this tumbling block physics with the screws was SOO hard But I'm happy that the block puzzles are getting more varied and better integrated with the platforming, pacing and all (game is ABYSS X ZERO, btw) #gamedev #lowpoly #axz

Can't decide whether I've succumbed to Maximun Cope since I'm playing on Deck or if I actually think Final Fantasy VIIR suits running at 30FPS

Warm welcome and a merry Christmas to the freshly arrived Xwitter diaspora, I think you'll find it much more agreeable here.

Cheap. Buy, please. 🙏 store.steampowered.com/app/393520/I...

Big ups to Animistic Beliefs for finally letting me hear phonk in a Barcelona night club

I should shower in a few hours thought: The Buddha was autistic

The Blond Beast but a Golden Retriever

If you ever wonder how and why Amazon managed to assert total dominance over online shopping, try buying something pretty much anywhere else and have it shipped to you. Amazon's logistics operation is clearly fucking amazing. Unlike literally everyone else in the biz, they actually deliver.

Play this game, it rocks

You know, it's only been a decade I've been using Unity UI, but for the entirety of that decade I have been able to rely on one thing: The fucking layout engine just doesn't fucking work, does it? Pop a ContentSizeFitter on something, and it just does some random shit. Then you write your own.

Next year we'll announce our new game 4 years in the making! While you're waiting, here's a first little preview of what's to come 🤜💥 Get ready for a story-driven action-adventure game in an open-environment, with non-stop drama and goofiness. 🎢 See you in 2026 with @arteinteractive.bsky.social !

Finally realized what irks me so much about the push-push-push to integrate AI in places like primary school education. Computing has been the most critical literacy for the last 30 years, and I never saw any kind of push for teaching kids how to use and program them to prepare them for the future.

Hate the game, not the players (Unless I'm winning at the game, in which case fuck you all)

Just wanna point out that I tweeted this 9 days ago and can thus be said to be firmly and thoroughly ahead of my time

Tech industry (and I include gaming and streaming services in that category) seems to be in a weird accessibility trap. Part of it is the demands of growth, everything needs to drive growth, which means expanding markets which means increasing appeal. The other part seems to be a war on meaning.

submitted my Quake level "One Need Not Be A House" to Quake Brutalist Jam 3, one of 50+ maps!! the mod will maybe release in a few weeks, after QA and bug fixes

Love how "mental health awareness" has turned into "the problem with the rapacity of capitalist exploitation of labour is that workers don't have enough access to therapy"

We're publishing Queens Domain! Inspired by Dark Souls progenitor King’s Field, it's a damn brutal and stylish retro-fantasy RPG DEMO OUT NOW - Fly with your Holy Sword - 50+ melee weapons - Eat delicious food - 100+ enemies, mini bosses & bosses to defeat - Explore a mysterious labyrinth island

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Shower thought: branching narratives were always slop

Pluribus kinda feels like it's about LLMs, doesn't it?

Please drop links to anti-transphobic primers here. Well sourced articles, patient and kind explainers, etc. Things for someone to read who hasn't read into it too much, might not know any trans people, isn't online much, but has been sent e.g. transphobic petitions or news articles. Thank you!

A book from the 19th century that depicts the Rhine Valley by creating an impression of three-dimensionality and spatial distance. @MasayukiTsuda2 #globalmuseum #books #travel #19thcentury

prototyping a weapon which gives you a limited ability to hit enemies to the side and behind without losing you forward firepower (at the cost of some immediacy)

tfw the autogenerated end of year photo highlights vid includes your dealer's price list

"In this haunted gallery shooter it's the impressive stage variety that grabs your attention, but what keeps you coming back are the titular special shots that cover the floor in juicy point items." 👍Derek Likes Silver Bullet by @1ccgames.bsky.social: store.steampowered.com/curator/4057...

why can they not just fix it

😶‍🌫️ Remecarving: or, Forgettings a collection of 829 computational poems, each depicting the gradual algorithmic *forgetting* of a sentence found in Wikipedia that exhorts the reader to remember last-minute entry for NaNoGenMo 2025! github.com/NaNoGenMo/20...

AW-right so 9 month Rider experiment halted in favour of VS26 and I gotta say that I had forgotten to what extent inline editor windows are critical to my workflow, and I didn't realize how much I missed them until I started fucking around with them again and being reminded just how cute they are

お地蔵様が見守る秋色満開のお庭𓈒𓂂𓇬

Japan's best stop-motion studio isn't loud about it. But the quiet charm of its work speaks for itself. We're exploring the specialness of dwarf studios in this issue: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/inside-dwa...

Feels slightly unreal to be able to say: BIRDCAGE is out now! I hope you check it out, hope you enjoy it. We're really proud of this thing.

Haven't posted in a while, but here's a little assortment of clips from Bat Galaxy.

Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics. I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.

I wonder if other endtimes had these ... periods of overt frivolity? Like, when Edward I launched his final crusades, was he doing a Muskian pwning the muzzies shtick? When the Medicis lost their shit, did they goad defeated enemies into paying for tacky fucking palace extensions?

And this is exactly why "code that works" is not necessarily good code. Good code can be read. Expect it to be read by smart and creative people who probably have better things to do than figure out what x means in this context and what grftxtbndcf means in another.

Day of Trans Rememberance. I'm not dead because I've lucked out. 3 or 4 times so far. So I'm here, remembering the trannies you did kill. "Trans women are women" is a backwards, meaningless, empty, oppressive motto. Most people don't believe it anyway. They think we're failed men... (1/4)

Happy Birthday the Big Man, here he is in ma studio, peak alan mooreinception, wearing an alan moore T-shirt whilst watching alan moore in VR playing Fuckup From my Illuminatus Trilogy VR experience... 9barbarmyarmy

This is Sektori! A twin-stick shooter I've been making (and documenting the journey) since April 2021. And it finally launched TODAY on Steam, PS5 and Xbox! Here's a fresh launch trailer, all shares highly appreciated. More game info in replies. #indiegame #ps5 #xbox #steam #indiedev #gamedev

So Sektori is out - basically roguelike Geometry Wars. I took an early code on holiday with me in October and played nothing else for the whole week. Utterly electrifying. store.steampowered.com/app/2105620/...

Rebecca Heineman doesn't have much time left. If you can, please donate for her and her family to make end of life arrangements. One last kindness we can offer for a legend of the games industry and loud and proud trans woman: www.gofundme.com/f/help-rebec...

First trailer for "We Are Aliens" japanese/french animated feature film by Kohei Kadowaki (2026). A crowdfunding campaign has just been launched in Japan to support production. motion-gallery.net/projects/NOT...

Does all this mean that the Watkinses are actually heroes?

Escape the tribal mindset and accept that synthesis is the only valuable outcome of political processes as such because it propels the expansion of the understanding of what is possible and how to populate that space with the broadest possible range of what is human challenge Difficulty: Exegesical