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I’m having fun designing these creatures after getting amazing pixel artwork done by @jarmesan.bsky.social This is Croakwise, he’s not really affected by sound or light-based attacks on account of their advanced age. Just like my grandpa, the TV is at a crazy volume and he doesn’t see very well.

I design my creatures on a wiki. I settled on an offensive/defensive matrix for move type effectiveness. Loads of creatures, loads of options to pick from. In the end I'll know what gaps my typing has, and I'll design creatures to fill that void. #screenshotsaturday

What keeps your device running? Probably the little software package of some unpaid developer from Nebraska (to paraphrase xkcd).

Me on Windows: "Ah, I just have to add it to my path env and my exe will be found from anywhere". Me on Linux: "xterm now uses my path because I changed .bashrc. I'll just get i3 to launch dmenu with a modified var, because I use LightDM and I can't figure out how to get the path var to propagate."

My game currently has 118 creatures, and I just figured if I spend 10 minutes configuring a creature that’ll add up to 20 hours of work. These creatures deserve more than 10 minutes of love a piece! Oh well, time is passing anyway, and I’ve got good tools to make good use of my time.

Since it's my 50th time round the sun, would you care to share my art around? That would be a splendid gift, thank you! 🥰 emilyhare.com #dragons #fantasyart #watercolour #creatureart #unicorns

I'd love to buy comics from Humble Bundle but its so messy. Downloading all content takes forever and hundreds of mouse clicks, issue 3 of 6 is in a different file format, some are zipped, some have internal IDs as a name, some issues don't include the issue number. Takes a day to organize the files

Chatted with @nimsodev.bsky.social at #Gamescom, a delightful fellow working solo on Shallow Pond. Very impressed by the quality of this platformer. Charming, filled with wonder. Sounds good? Go and wishlist Reposts more than welcome. This deserves love. s.team/a/2950750/

How do I create a Jira ticket for the world? Shadows are funky.

For a student project I made a game where you played against two AI. Team IDs were stored in a char_t, player was 0, the AI 1 and 2. My AI code would print debug information so I could inspect it. By coincidence the console showed code page 437 characters. These smileys showed up instead of digits.

Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI. It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us. Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning. So: Sharing time! 1/12

It’s cooler now, at only 33 degrees it’s very much survivable. I’m still not putting on a shirt, no not yet 😂

GTA5 running on a PS3 with 256MB RAM and 256MB VRAM. Try and boot an OS with those specs. Explain to me why a website easily pulls 100MB for showing text and the occasional image. Let Rockstar reinvent the web - oh, they already have! Give me eyefind.info, and I'll see you later on lifeinvader.com

Anyone know a tool for huge tilemaps on iPad? Ideally the whole world is in one map. Pixquare and Pixaki seem restrained on a maximum size, I could make vignettes and later make the world on PC but switching programs is a hassle. #pixelart #gamedev

In gamedev, we're used to sound coming from single points in space, but how do we handle sound coming from an irregular shape? In this article (with plenty code snippets), I go into details with the Point Cloud Sound technique I'm using for water and foliage: blog.runevision.com/2026/06/poin...

Solo dev recreating 90s style in C++, that sounds familiar 😂 Lovely article, enjoyed the section on color, and the asset pipeline. Sometimes it feels counter-productive to have Kinari render to a Gameboy-esque PPU but I’m holding on to idea!

I commission creatures for Kinari. Some design notes are more purposeful, others were rushed and uninspired. Luckily the artist knows how to convert both good and bad ideas into awesome sprites! Made by @jarmesan.bsky.social #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

I’ve been watching King of the Hill consistently for a while now. I’ve never seen it before but I love it. “Peggy Hill in Fortnite” was not on my bingo card, but if I ever start playing there’s nobody I’d rather be playing as

Question: how good would the Playdate be for someone who has a 3yo son? The device is appealing but the price is a bit steep. If I can justify it as a device for two people then it’s okay but we need suitable games. play.date

I really love reading public reviews. It shows a strange side of humanity. Today’s kind words were for a public park, 3/5 stars. Applauding the facilities, options, and ambiance. “My only complaint is that almost exclusively foreign neighbors use the place - a bit more diversity would be nice!” 😂