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Successful Rocket Dog arcade launch on Saturday! You can play the game right now at @wonderville.nyc! Huge thanks to @kleeb.bsky.social for building the cab and @jfriedhoff.bsky.social for doing the side art (and a lot of the art in the game)!

The Rocket Dog arcade launch is in just a few hours! 2:30PM TODAY at @wonderville.nyc! An arcade double header featuring Rocket Dog & Waddle Throttle, with tournaments for each game! You can win custom keychains by @jfriedhoff.bsky.social who did the side art and the rave flyer menus in game!

This is tomorrow at @wonderville.nyc at 2:30pm! Come out out and play the new ROCKET DOG ARCADE MACHINE along with Waddle Throttle by @jcorace.bsky.social! We'll be doing tournaments and generally losing our minds! pools.events/event/LLkwap...

Hey NYC, my game / cabinet Waddle Throttle is launching at @wonderville.nyc alongside @andymakes.itch.io super cool Rocket Dog and we are having a party to celebrate on Oct 24th! Come on out !!! www.wonderville.nyc/events/dogs-...

The first #postcart exhibition is happening next month at @picopicocafe.bsky.social! If you'd like to join, submit a #pico8 postcart (300 chars) before 2026-11-15: www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/superblo... Each postcart will become a printed card that visitors can insert into a viewing machine to run it.

Proud to say that a song of mine is included on the soundtrack for this game! My music! In an arcade cabinet! Go check it out!

This year is a fun one! It's a tilt based controller, mapped to mouse inputs for easy game design. Feels weird to hold! As always, our friends at @arcadecommons.org are going to help us build a fuller installation for @magfest.org in January, so if you want to see your game at the fest get in it!

🍕🕹️ HELLO HELLO, it's time for an ALT CTRL GAMEJAM 🕹️🍕 itch.io/jam/get-tilted Join us this year and make a game for our motion-based tiltbox controller! This is our 3rd annual jam, and a great way to get started in alternative controller game design! No hardware experience required so COME ON IN

Thank you to all who came out to our Arcade Science event @movingimagenyc.bsky.social Open Worlds! We built circuits, playing games, and explored how the sciences inform play. Thank you also to our brilliant speakers, @mattfryed.bsky.social, @andymakes.itch.io, karimakes.com & robysoft.io!

Here I am talking about Rocket Dog with @arcadecommons.org at MoMI yesterday! The arcade launch will be at @wonderville.nyc Saturday afternoon! (photo by @construct.goblinmo.de)

Today's the day!

I have a song in this!!

I'm helping @arcadecommons.org with this event at The Museum of the Moving Image on Saturday! As part of a stacked lineup I'll be talking about using sine waves in games and art using examples from Rocket Dog to demonstrate, and the game will be playable after! movingimage.org/event/arcade...

At Video Sync there was a workshop where we all did still lives of our tech. Here’s my sketch of the Hypnogenesis console. Eagle eyed viewers may notice the @socksmagocs.bsky.social logo in this image!

The only problem with the plot of Purple Rain is that rock and roll has not been made illegal. This is a critical component of rock operas as demonstrated by 2112 and Kilroy Was Here (as well as the video game adaptation of Aerosmith's career, Revolution X).

Had a great time showing Hypnogenesis with @allenriley.com at Glitch N Games in Chicago last weekend! Here are a few pics of the game that @jrconduit.net took at Logan Arcade over the weekend!

Hard to image that Teach Your Children would have been nearly as popular a song if it had been about giving kids cigarettes.

It's happening! Rocket Dog is getting an arcade machine that will live at @wonderville.nyc !!! And it'll be joined by Waddle Throttle by @jcorace.bsky.social! We'll be having a launch party at Wonderville on October 24th. GET READY TO BARK www.wonderville.nyc/events/dogs-...

If you still haven't purchased PARTICLE MACE a decade in, you can now get my game along with a fun and new game, Particulitix by @workshopgeek.bsky.social, all for a FANTASTIC DISCOUNT! store.steampowered.com/bundle/89437...

Goodbye, Video Sync! What an amazing time! Hypnogenesis was played almost 400 times over the course of the weekend and was beaten exactly once! We'll be showing it again at Glitch N Games in Chicago next week!

Check this out! It’s going to be so good! bsky.app/profile/arca...

We're putting on a great event @movingimagenyc.bsky.social, including arcade games, circuitry lessons, and talks by @andymakes.itch.io (Rocket Dog, PARTICLE MACE), Nick Santaniello (HOVERBURGER), @mattfryed.bsky.social (MASSIVE), and Kari Setsuko Love (karimakes.com). Come through!

Last day of Video Sync today! So many amazing projects here. It's a real joy to be showing Hypnogenesis alongside all this amazing stuff. If you are in Minneapolis you should absolutely pick up a ticket for today! videosync.xyz/minneapolis2...

I'll be in Minneapolis showing Hypnogenesis at Video Sync this weekend! I've never been to a video art event & I'm hype to see cool things and get asked questions about the video feedback in our game that I won't know the answer to because @allenriley.com isn't there! videosync.xyz/minneapolis2...

Hey remember the cool cabinet sketches @jfriedhoff.bsky.social did for Rocket Dog? Well she finished them up. Side art + marquee + console! I am in love with them!! You can see more of her design process & all the cool stuff she makes over at www.tumblr.com/jane-dump #rocketdog #indiegames #arcade

Hey remember the cool cabinet sketches @jfriedhoff.bsky.social did for Rocket Dog? Well she finished them up. Side art + marquee + console! I am in love with them!! You can see more of her design process & all the cool stuff she makes over at www.tumblr.com/jane-dump #rocketdog #indiegames #arcade

The most 38-year-old thing about me is how excited I got just now when my partner asked me "what makes something shoe gaze?" In my defense, the album art for Loveless really does do an amazing job of visually describing the genre.

So cool to see the game I'm working on with @allenriley.com on Killscreen! www.killscreen.com/a-video-synt...

Play it here! gamedevbrook.itch.io/dog-walker-a... This game started as a demake of @andymakes.itch.io's Particle Mace, but I still had half of the space left and just kept adding more features.

Dog Walker Bungee Allergy is self-explanatory, but very tricky to play. Managing your own movement while swinging around your dog (without sending them out of bounds, or into yourself or others) isn't immediately intuitive. I didn't do any playtesting before releasing it. #pico8 #pico1k jam

Killscreen did an article about Hypnogenesis, the video synthesizer game I made in collaboration with @andymakes.itch.io

Something nobody told me about my hernia surgery was that the mesh they put in me frequently sets off airport detectors, so about 50% of the time my crotch lights up bright red and they take me aside for a “sensitive area pat down” that requires a manager to be present.

The demo for MUTAGEN is out NOW! 👾 Explore a lush, interconnected alien ecosystem that reshapes itself each time you die. Absorb mutations from your fallen kin to reach new areas and adapt to your surroundings. Find your own solutions, and unearth the planet's many secrets. #gamedev #indiegame

I genuinely love that Mickey's Dick Smasher was ahead of the curve on trans inclusiveness.

Been getting really into yearning lately

Starting now! bsky.app/profile/did:...

Speaking of Hypnogenesis, @allenriley.com brought it all the way to the Games & Demos Session at Foundations of Digital Games 2026 in Copenhagen this past week! Thank you to Dooley Murphy for curating!

This starts at 4pm EST! I've really enjoyed the Headless Blood Idol community showcase streams and I'm hype as hell that Hypnogenesis is going to make an appearance bsky.app/profile/head...

SUMMER ~🌄~ SHOWCASE M * E * L * T * D * O * W * N ( SATURDAY, AUG. 15TH ) ( 1 PACIFIC / 4 EASTERN ) WE GOT HOT VIDEOART, AND COOL VIDEOGAMES FEAT PAST CGS SETS && 2026 GAME SHOWCASE! 🎉multi-community event! meet some lovely new people & discover new art together! twitch.tv/summershowcasemeltdown

A 6 digit two-factor code? Get off your high horse.

I’m always clicking buttons online and on my computer

The GDoCExpo 2026 full schedule is out NOW! 🙌🏾 Four days, Sept 22–25, online - 38 sessions, 40+ speakers for our 11th year. gdoc.events/2026schedule In-person watch parties are back in NYC, LA, Rochester, and Portland, with more to be announced! #gdocexpo2026 #gamedev