PSA: Do you like indie games? For triple I to single lowercase i recommendations delivered in short, delightfully chiseled, deadpan reviews please tune in to @copyofnewfolder1.bsky.social !

Quadrilateral Cowboy is a game about doing cool heists in the far future of 1980. https://store.steampowered.com/app/240440/Quadrilateral_Cowboy/ [1/6]

PS: it works with proper archaeologists as well.

So I threw a second braincell at that project and found that we just need 1 or 2 Gemini calls. Not seven, Claude. Not seven. It is quite fun tho 🙂

Just found out that LEGO.com has a new minifigure configurator. It's cool but a bit tedious. I thought "they should allow uploading a photo". Then I remembered we live in the future, and I was able to basically one-shot the thing in Antigravity in under 2 hours. The app uses Gemini 3.1 Flash Lite.

Shadows over Loathing is a text-heavy turn-based RPG about solving mysteries in a Lovecraftian setting, that is actually just a vehicle for the writers to deliver lots and lots of jokes. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1939160/Shadows_Over_Loathing/ [1/5]

For this I made a little tool that posts on bsky/mastodon whenever I update a markdown file on a private GitHub repo. It's serverless, relies on GitHub Actions, and you can set it up entirely from your browser in 5 minutes github.com/t0mg/yodelog

Introducing @copyofnewfolder1.bsky.social an account posting short game recommendations, written by a friend. Mostly indie. One post every day. Check it out 🤗 Also available on Mastodon : mastodon.social/@copyofnewfo...

A couple of feature updates on How Long To Clear (t0mg.github.io/howlong) : 1) GOG support! It still relies on your Steam wishlist, but now also attempts to find the title on GOG to compares prices! Useful to spot sales. And I added a new chart in the Insights panel, of course.

@shortgame.fm thought of you. Might be useful in your line of work ? 🫡

Hey have you ever wished to be able to sort your Steam wishlist by time to beat, to help you decide what to play next? Me too, so I made this little web app with Antigravity. Check it out! t0mg.github.io/howlong/

J'ai le plaisir de vous annoncer "Ctrl + Alt + Art : Peindre le jeu vidéo" 🎨 L'exposition qui explore les liens entre peinture traditionnelle et jeux vidéo 🖼️🎮 Rendez-vous au musée des Beaux Arts de Dole du 7 mai au 27 septembre 2026 ! ➡️ www.galeriegamma.com/exposition-peindre-le-jeu-video

Abby! I think you'll love this new collection curated by CC11 that I just found in my mailbox. Let's get to work. @inkle.co

I don't understand how fast this was actually achieved but I'm very glad it did. Waiting for my order to ship now! www.inklestudios.com/kaleidoscope/

ANNOUNCEMENT: The Game Narrative Kaleidoscope launches this Wednesday! Over 100+ essays on the craft of game writing and narrative design; affordable priced. … AND we’ll also launch with the first two episodes of the podcast series, where we talk to the article writers about their craft.

My digital art frame project is complete! Kind of like 8 months or so ago, but now with the added feature of not even crashing anymore! I'll try to expand the middle part of this project video a little and share the code and project files as well 🦉

I got back to this and solved it! That 13" display draws too much current when displaying images with a lot of dithering. It needed a separate, beefier regulator. What threw me off for a while is that I was testing with random pics, and most worked. A bit more polishing and I'll share the project :)

Love is the enemy of slop. A nice, candid write-up for a cool project by @cannoneyed.bsky.social Coding agents are mostly fit for solo work right now, but they do bring so much opportunity to solo devs with the ability to summon tools and build creative pipelines. cannoneyed.com/projects/iso...

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Advantages of working from home. I pre-ordered this on Laced back in July and it arrived yesterday, just the perfect amount of delay to enjoy diving back in. Thanks for those LPs who came after. #expedition33

btw if you too are learning piano, can I remind inkle fans that this exists:

I've been saying TR-49 took 9 months to make - while this is basically true (we began after Expelled when live), turns out the first code was actually 11 months ago. It's here: gist.github.com/joningold/7c... ... and it's the basic ink for creating a text-indexed database. TR-49 grew out of this.

"Order and disorder." probably my last take at #genuary26, uses a 3D pathfinder to go from neatly ordered stacks to a random layout. #genuary2615 BTW, I'm available for freelance work (2 days a week for now). HIRE ME, I'm GOOD (& CHEAP! 😁) also ok with collabs, mentoring, Q&As, AMA...

I was lucky enough to contribute, in a small way, to a project that turned out to be my favorite inkle game to date. You are lucky enough to have not played it yet. If you are into narrative mysteries, do yourself a favor: don't read reviews, jump in as uninformed as I was. See you in 6-8 hours😉

There's a new puzzle adventure coming on January 21 from @inkle.co: "A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret." We've gotten to try TR-49 already... Let's just say you'll want to wishlist this one ASAP. #indiegames punishedbacklog.com/inkle-tr-49-...

🚨⚠️ Release Date Disclosure! ⚠️🚨 TRAILER: VIDEO EVIDENCE, see below. Please watch, assimilate and share. DESIGNATION: TR-49 GENRE: NARRATIVE DEDUCTION / AUDIO_DRAMA DATE: 21st JANUARY PLATFORMS: iOS / PC / Mac / Deck This is what we know, so far.

GLSL Web CRT Shader I’m releasing my GLSL Web CRT Shader as open source. blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/01/04/g... Have fun with it! 😎

Make a Bond film casual BlackEye

I also learnt that the ill fated Amiga CD32 was announced in that very Science Museum (and that it was "popular in Europe", for some definition of popular I suppose).

Monkey Island (🐒🏝️ for short) randomly spotted today in a London museum... ...Twice !?! - 🐒🏝️ 2 Special Edition is playable in the Power Up exhibition at The Science Museum - 🐒🏝️ 1 is part of the very serious Pirates exhibition at the National Maritime Museum (right next to Sid Meier's own Pirates!)

Can't stop tweaking Tinytron 🤗📺 - fixed longer videos support - jpeg files + slideshow mode with customizable timing interval - unique AP SSID (useful for workshops!) - updated doc: V1 rev boards, non destructive cable mod 🙏 @onemore.bsky.social for your contributions! t0mg.github.io/tinytron

⚠️ TR-49 -- an archive of books that don't exist ⚠️ We began investigating through a simple prototype - before we built the machine. The "game" has moved far, far beyond this now. But the old prototype is "playable". You may find it revealing. ❗ www.inklestudios.com/tr-49/pinboa...

Yes, build one this weekend! 🙂 Also did you know it supports screen mirroring and has a cool web UI ? Watch the presentation video I apparently made way too late :)

I found out why the Tinytron assembly video has 10x more views than the demo video :) hackaday.com/2025/11/30/t...

Made a showcase video for my Tinytron project :) youtu.be/HspYfg55T3A

Great looking edu-ish 80 days-ish gone, love the idea.

@atomic14.bsky.social hey Chris, just wanted to say thanks for all your content, and in particular your ESP32-Tv series which served as the basis for my Tinytron project: t0mg.github.io/tinytron/ Cheers !

I don't know if I'll ever beat the amount of over engineering I've put in the Jackal project. This ain't it for sure. However, this one is my most over-engineered GitHub repository so far: - auto firmware build on push (both OTA and factory ones) - auto website deploy on push (GitHub pages)

Introducing : Tinytron 📺 A TV Combi desk toy with a 1.69" display that plays videos from a microSD or a remote computer over WiFi. Project costs under 30€ and can be built in less than an hour, 3D print included! ⚡ So... who are you going to gift one to? 🤗 Files & docs: t0mg.github.io/tinytron

My next pet project is hiding on my desk. Can you spot it? Wrong answers only.

I'll be hosting a panel at Adventure X about how I took it when Jon thought of me for voicing a pedantic character with a french accent.

Today is the day to tell a strange story. The long version we'll tell later, but the short version is this. In an attic, in his late great-uncle's house, @jon.inkle.co found a locked trunk. It took twenty years to open. Last summer he did. Inside was a wiring diagram, and a stack of books.

okay, seriously: if we were to corral this, would anyone be interested in contributing? Here is the google form: forms.gle/m2V4j4cDvwNu...

I just want to put this out into the universe. If you are a homebrew developer of a GB, GBC, GBA, NES, SMS, MD/Genesis, N64, or PS1 game with a free version or a free demo of you game, I’d love to ship it with SuperStation as a physical or digital demo disk.

Code here github.com/t0mg/midi-re...

🎹🔴 Twas oddly difficult to find a free, web based MIDI recorder + player for my spouse's piano sessions. So I made t0mg.github.io/midi-recorder 100% from my phone with Gemini (AI Studio + jules.google.com), GitHub, svgomg and inline editing. A bit of a meta experiment, with a tangible outcome 🎶

Hear me out: a highly accurate fiction film set in the 1990 Atari/Amiga coding scene. No mainstream producer would produce that. But a crowd of nerds just might. - "Where do I sign", you ask? - fr.ulule.com/demo-par-ale... Sure it's in French but if you contribute enough there will be subtitles 😏

I asked Gemini to decrypt the redacted tagline in @mrsambarlow.bsky.social's Project D (store.steampowered.com/app/2640200/...). The response is obviously hallucinated (there is no such text in P.T.) but I'm very puzzled by how eerily specific it feels given that I gave zero context. Kinda spooky!

After Expelled came out we looked around for our next project, considering mechanical successors to Highland, 80 Days, Heaven’s Vault… … and settled on a design that looked “simple”, has a completely new-to-us-anyway loop and narrative architecture. It wasn’t simple :(

Made a lil puzzle treasure chest for an event. An Arduino monitors 8 reed switches under the lid, triggered by the 🧩s (plywood top + MDF mid layer to hold a magnet + iron-on edge banding). When placed in the expected order a tiny servo unlatches the box! Nobody noticed the Easter egg tune though 😛