Dom Camus

I'm speaking at ThinkyCon on Monday, and actually talking about programming this year! Also, there's a lot of other interesting-looking talks going on... Schedule: thinkygames.com/events/think...

Well, WOIM is indeed fun so far! I am a bit baffled as to why it tells me I should play with a controller. It is - as I would have expected - way nicer on keyboard.

This looks like fun!

When I was working at Volta XR I hit basically this same problem. Latency makes it tricky, too. Even if you replace (say) Twitch chat with some much faster way for the audience to interact, they're still interacting with what they're seeing, which is often 10+ seconds in the past.

"In my joke blog post (during my time at Unity) I invented the Semantic Game Builder Interface as a silly cautionary tale." Unity 12 years later: "At long last, we have created the Semantic Game Builder Interface from classic April 1st blog p- web.archive.org/web/20120501...

And this is not only relevant to AI. It's relevant to wanting to be good at almost anything.

And in the process, does it impart infinite kinetic energy to a bunch of other stuff, smashing everything in the level to bits?

I do like a good level editing tool... Maybe too good? Is it just me who'd rather play the game in this view? :-P www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3I0...

To celebrate the launch of He Who Watches and 13 years of Draknek & Friends, we've got a massive publisher sale event on Steam! All of our games are currently discounted, so have at 'em! Also, please check out He Who Watches! OUT NOW! store.steampowered.com/developer/dr...

He Who Watches by Danga Games is OUT NOW! 👁️🏹 To celebrate the release, we have a brand new trailer featuring solo developer Bobby Vanden explaining what the game is and why it's special. Watch below! Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1070500/... itch: draknek.itch.io/he-who-watches

Thing I'm really interested in but will never find out: How many highly successful commercial games secretly have trash tier implementations of most subsystems?

Why is it that oat milk in tea is really nice but making a latte with oat milk results in horrible, cursed swamp drink that I can't even finish? :-(

In response to the unprecedented number of game developers laid off this year, we have created a bundle on itch to benefit a Game Industry Hardship Fund, managed by @videogameworkers.bsky.social. More than 100 games for 10+ bucks! Please share widely and donate generously! itch.io/b/3802/game-...

Looking at this on Steam without having played it yet, I'm strongly reminded of the classic boardgame Diamant. If so, I'm excited to see what they've done with it.

Oh no, this is a disaster! I had long since concluded that physics in 3D games was so bad it should be used only as a special effect. But this... this one might be usable and then I'll be tempted! :-O

Clover's Quadrants is available NOW! It's a challenging puzzle game where your four directions of movement are also inventory slots. Check out the demo / buy the full game on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3191170/...

Re: Capitalisation of PascalCase names. The standard is to alternate capitalisation at random according to the degree of uncertainly. So, for example: * Use VideoKeyFrame 70% of the time. * Use VideoKeyframe 30% of the time. The time you save on thinking about this is worth the compile errors.

And... #thinkypuzzlejam6 has begun! This year's (optional) theme is: Locked Room itch.io/jam/thinky-p...

Added ability to embed scenes into scripts, because I can. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

...and how little of a typical game's budget goes towards that aspect.

Explain your @ Mine's a tarot card. In particular, it's the first of the major arcana. It literally means "juggler", but is sometimes a magician - a different kind of performer - and sometimes an actual wizard. Computation is just another kind of magic ("computer wizard"), so it's a play on that.

One week until TPGJ6! itch.io/jam/thinky-p...

Powerful new way to waste ten minutes using Unity: * Zoom in the game view to inspect some pixels. * Exit play mode. * Do some more dev work. * Enter play mode again, forgetting about the zoom thing. * Wonder where the actual f*** your in-game UI has gone. #protip #gamedev

Was at Voidspace Live on Saturday. Had a good time playing a range of interesting games. Missed @agaitcheson.bsky.social's show, but judging by my friends' comments it went extremely well! Also: "I will never see Pierce Brosnan quite the same way again..."

TFW ToString() isn't the one character integer representation you were expecting...

Just reached 100 signups!

Me on every dev Discord thread: "Undo systems are a solved problem." Also me: <spends three hours designing an undo system>

We have BIG NEWS... Schrodinger's Cat Burglar is OUT NOW! ⚛️ Brain-twisting quantum puzzles 👥 Play in both solo or coop 🔬Plenty of secrets and hidden areas 🎨Full cat customisation! store.steampowered.com/app/2111550/...

🎉 Aw yeaaah, Thinky Direct is back for 2026! Over 40 exclusive trailers for upcoming puzzle and problem-solving games! It's gonna be freakin amazing! 📺 Watch live on Thursday May 28 🕕 10am PDT / 1pm EDT / 6pm BST thinkygames.com/direct2026/

Me: Meh, there's been a lot of games like... Also me: OK, that trailer actually looks super fun! <instant wishlist>

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Thinky Puzzle Game Jam is back for 2026! #thinkypuzzlejam6 itch.io/jam/thinky-p...

LAUNCH DATE ANNOUNCEMENT! Forbidden Solitaire is officially launching NEXT WEEK, on April 30th! We unearthed a new trailer from the archives - an advertisement that originally aired in 1995! Wishlist on Steam and GOG: store.steampowered.com/app/3414580/... www.gog.com/en/game/forb...

I really should come up with a better naming convention for my methods. Currently I use -Async to mean both c# Task/await style threaded async and also things which do work and then call a callback. This gets confusing, since the two don't play nicely together. :-/

Ran into mention of this new www.indiepass.com thing today... ...can someone explain to me why this isn't a horrible idea? From my perspective the whole idea of indie development is to move further away from a winner-takes-all, race-to-the-bottom market, not towards one.

ANNOUNCEMENT: I will stop running "scheduled" Ludum Dare events in 3 years! "Scheduled" is the key word though. My hope is that leaders within the community can build something better, more welcoming, that honors our legacy. They've got 3 years to figure it out. You even get to study me. 😋 #LDJam

Best comedy code autocomplete I've had in a while. Honestly baffled as to how this gets offered as the best option.

Suits are bad at making game development decisions. Keith puts it more diplomatically than I would, but no punches are pulled here.

MISSING! HELP! I am looking for the playing card deck from GDC 2020! It was printed but the show was cancelled. I have heard rumors that they gave them away but I've never seen one and no one on GDC staff has a set. I'm in it and want to complete my set! Let's bring my card home! To me!

Grey Alien continue to be the people you should pay attention to for real, useful indie info.

This, plus the fact that GDC still being this big in-person international event feels terrible in 2026. Carbon emissions? Covid? Accessibility? (Quote posts are disabled on the OP. I hope it isn't rude to comment anyway, but maybe not since I'm just agreeing.)