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Crazy Taxi is the perfect arcade game. I'm here to argue why. youtu.be/Eu_Y9C5JFhE

Researching Crazy Taxi for an upcoming video, found this article from The Guardian from 2025. Iiiiinteresting.

Star Fox. What IS it? Should you even bother playing it? Here, watch this and find out. youtu.be/GMfjxVT_T7w?...

Hmm.

I can't do screenshot Saturday this week because I'd be showing you something you're really not supposed to see. 👀

One of the most boring considerations of #gamedev. Are you ready? Being in an options/pause/something menu and pressing 'B' (or equivalent) so the options cursor goes straight to 'Back/Exit/Whatever'. Fun. Times.

Silly string? To me, it's just string.

Yellow paint for railroading in contextual environments in game and level design? Very unrealistic.

Plus it is clearly a car racing event between characters. Nobody is going to agree to take part at all if Sonic says "well I'll just RUN, then!" are they?

I love designing just a normal classic medieval fantasy setting with locations like; the abandoned ruins of a castle, a lonely old library, and big giant evil lazer that turns you into dust #indiegame #gamedev

I have a mandatory office attendance day on Monday for my normal boring day job. Anyway... #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

This is one of those things that was really boring and dull, but it needed doing, so now it's done, and I never have to do it again. Thrilling, I know. #screenshotsaturday

Question. Did anyone ever develop a PSX emulator that wasn't primarily concerned with accuracy, and instead lets you do things like "skip loading times because it's running on a PC"? Or was that never anyone's consideration?

Everything said in that quote sounds like a flipchart talking to a PowerPoint presentation in a board meeting for sleeping millionaires.

Disney reportedly explored acquiring Nintendo in 2016 and were given a flat out rejection. (Watch more: Side Scrollers)

Arbitrary gradual progress unlock system is in place. I think we're nearly done, y'know. #gamedev

You ever get a Captcha that makes you think "oh damn, AM I a robot?"

You're right, you probably should've started that Thing when you were younger. But you can't now, can you? So start today, before you come back at 50 regretting it again.

Jfc you people. This is fucking Nifflas. He made Knytt, Nightsky, so many things that WERE what "indie" was before most of the people you idolise or know about now even started. And this is what he gets for posting enthusiastically about *game design*. Children. I swear to god.

Oh no. Are the guys who made OutRun 2006 still employed? If not can we just fund a new studio for them, please?

Sort of philosophical question for you. Does an ENTIRELY free game (not freemium, no IAPs or any of that garbage) need a trailer? #gamedev

WHAT. I, uh. Yeah. Yes. Please. Yes to this. Yep. Oh yeah.

Got myself a little global achievement system working. I am now convinced all those "Press Start" title screen achievements over the years are teams who were working out how achievements worked. Because that's what I did (more or less). #gamedev

15 seconds of my Indie game. #gamedev

This is what The Future should look like. I will not be taking questions.

Mmm. No. Sanitised white minimalist boring design and something that had Lots of Money and absolutely no cultural impact at all. That's the day the future died.

Is it... Is it coming back? Is the RIGHT ERA coming BACK?!

I wish TVs and movies would go back to playing ringtones when a phone rings on screen. The very authentic always-silent vibration noise makes me think my phone is ringing.

Most games are not "for everyone" and trying to design or target them that way makes them dull beige stale soup.

Humblebrag but I'm searching for old crappy cheap laptops on eBay because I need to work out some "minimum specifications" and everything I own is beastly. #gamedev

Question. Is it acceptable to internally hold AAA and indie games to wildly different standards? Not just in graphics or scale, but also in features, options, 'boring bits'? Things like remapping controls, graphics settings and yes, even accessibility options? Or is it an "ALL GAMES" thing?

Sorry but it helps that DeepSeek actually sounds like the name of a futuristic AI. OpenAI sounds like a nerd making a shopping app. DeepSeek sounds like something you'd put in a Terminator movie. Which isn't GOOD, but it is COOL.

There's a place in my city called St. Chad's, and there's a low quality digital road sign for it which reads like it says SAINT CHAOS and now I want to start a metal band.

How I arrived on Bluesky

...why?

Here's Azulie, a 90s MS-DOS inspired platformer I've been (very slowly) working on where you play as the titular character Azulie, a cute little blue blob guy who's on a quest for adventure! #screenshotsunday #indiegamedev #indiedev #azulie #platformer

"Sonic had a rough transition to 3D" Your mom had a rough transition to my mattress.

Things I am going to regret saying: I THINK level 2 is done. #screenshotsaturday

I've never BOUGHT Balatro. I've never PLAYED Balatro. I am SURVIVING Balatro EXISTING because I would PROBABLY get ADDICTED. Thank you.

One of those very, very rare moments where someone has mentioned their ideal studio for an IP revival, and somebody else has actually done it. "Y'know who'd make a good Ninja Gaiden game? Platinum." Come on. You know you can *hear* somebody saying it. Probably me.

AI should turn up your volume when it plays a song you love but haven't heard forever because it knows you're gonna go "oh yes, banger." Case in point.

Games?

Construct and GDevelop would break your brain.

Grant Kirkhope was talking about the possibility of a new Banjo game. I don't think it IS possible, I don't think a 'big' studio (Nintendo exempt, obviously) has the mentality to make a game of that era anymore. Those people don't exist in Corporate gamedev, they're indies now.

I give Valve and Steam a lot of good faith space to fuck up, because nobody's done/is doing what they do on PC, at the scale they do, that regardless of the issues is doing so much GOOD for so MANY people. They screw up a lot but there isn't a playbook to work from. They're writing it as they go.

This is what people aren't getting. Absolutely nothing will stop GTA6 being successful. It is the highest profile game in the next few years by a HUGE margin. What WILL be affected (because it always is) is everything that thinks it can be LIKE GTA after that. Because nothing ever can or is.

Little showcase video of where we're at: - Momentum based 'steering' physics so you have to 'turn' as you move. Does a good job of leading to a low barrier of entry but high skill ceiling, where you can achieve a very satisfying 'flow state' - Turbo adjusted/balanced - Flashier, more FX #gamedev

What do you do to finish developing a game? Whatever it takes.

Do you obsess over how NOT RANDOM you are when "randomly" placing objects in a scene or are you normal?