Sketching out concept art for my #pico8 game in aesprite. Finally figuring out how to use tilemaps, they're super nice.

Put together a quick prototype of a #pico8 game that's been sitting in my head for a little while, block dropping game sort of mixing Othello/Reversi and Tetris attack. Fun even in this unpolished state.

Pico1K Entry submitted! Came in at 1020 compressed bytes in the end, and was a ton of fun to make. Check it out on itch at sizescape.itch.io/qball My high score is 348, let me know if you manage to beat it! :D Thanks @liquidream.bsky.social for hosting this jam! #pico8 #pico1k

Hitting up against the limits again for #pico1k. Added in a bunch the features that I wanted, and the game's starting to really come together. You can finally actually lose a run, and playing the game is cutting into my dev time, always a good sign. :D #pico8

Making good progress on #pico1k! Moved all of the sprite assets into code, smoothed the animations, and shrank a bunch of the logic code down, made it down under 1009 bytes compressed. Now time to enter my favorite loop--each byte I remove gives me more bytes to add new stuff in. :D #pico8

For #pico1k this year, started on a prototype of a weird idea I had: what would happen if you crossed qbert + jezzball? The resulting game is decently fun, and the very rough prototype came in at 1762 bytes, should be able to make it fit in 1k! #pico8 #arcade

Visited the SF Bay Model today, and this fine fellow is what the Army Corps of Engineers is trying to pass off as the sun.

Messing around with #pioc8 fillp constants is always fun for making these retro feeling demos.

Getting back in the #pico8 tweetcart seat, a bit of a sketch of an idea tonight, inspired by a demo I half-remember seeing, but can't find right now. I think it looks pretty neat.

?"⁶!5f101😐<" r=sin::o::for o=rnd(3)\1,128,3do for d=rnd(3)\1,128,3do pset(o,d,0)e=o-10n=d+21for f=0,1do i=t()-f/2if((4*r(i/2)+16*r(sqrt(e^2+n^2)/70-i/8)+3*r(e/(100+10*cos(n/9)))+cos(n/(31+6*r(e/10))))\3==0)pset(o,d,2-f) end end end flip()goto o #pico8 #tweetcart

Starting my next #crossstitch, maybe gridding on a 5 stitch count is overkill, lol

Finished, ironed and mounted! Procrastinated these last few steps a while, but it makes a big difference.

But who... or what is calling? #crossstitch

Finished my first 4 cross stitch kits and finally washed and ironed them! Happy how they turned out, but now what do I do with them? I probably should figure this out soon, since I already got more. 😀

Maybe extremely cold take? Pikmin 3's Mission Mode is better than story mode. The focused challenge and tight optimization loop is so fun.

Listening to NYT #HardFork top 100 tech rankings and it's absolutely deranged. Putting sundials and the Vine app on the same list? And somehow Juul is 20 ranks above boats?

Threw my journals from last year into Google's NotebookLM, and the generated Podcast is so positive, it's almost unbearable. Thank you, AI overlords, for being my own personal hype machine. ✨

Got an N64 Switch controller for Christmas, and dove back into Star Fox 64. I had forgotten how much this game jumps from easy rails shooter levels to absolute chaos, and it's a ton of fun. The N64 controller makes the all-range mode controls work so much better than the Switch controller.

I just completed all 25 days of Advent of Code 2024! #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com Great again this year, though I started late and was busy, so only managed to break top 1k 5 times. Puzzle 15 Part 2 was a fun one for stretching Sokobon-coding muscles, and makes for a nice ASCII visualization.

My Pokémon sprites based on Digimon's Vpets. Gens 1 to 4 covered. (Most popular work from Twitter) #pokemon #digimon #pixelart #art #BRart #ポケモン #デジモン #ドット絵

#gamedev thought of today, #pico8 strength is its ability to prevent scope creep, and make sure hobby devs can finish what they've started.

I used to overthink posts on the bird app. Probably should just start posting worse here.