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Interesting, there's been a lot more activity on this site than there usually is lately. So, do you all like snapdragons?

New Wizarducks demo update out on Steam! Finally. store.steampowered.com/news/app/276... did a big update to the steam demo, featuring a visual overhaul, some new levels, a new spell, fixed a bunch of bugs, and some other stuff

whatever disappointment your life may be, take solace in the fact that you've never had to be ratio'd by Merriam-Webster

all right, let's finally talk about JavaScript in #GameMaker youtu.be/2qUEJM3mQVM

I tried recording a video about JS in GameMaker, I'd say it's going pretty well

There was a period when Nora was in middle school when she was obsessed with Pi and could recite it to 30 digits and so of course when she saw this strip she knew what she had to do.

I finally released the tile tag thing I wrote for Wizarducks. #GameMaker #gamedev github.com/DragoniteSpa...

In Mario Kart Wii, asphalt is slightly shiny, reflecting a band of light ahead of the player. This is implemented cleverly by leveraging something that the Wii is already doing, allowing it to not need to use any sort of additional lighting or post-processing.

of all of the "who asked for this" tech i've seen in the last four years, a recap of the last 15 seconds takes the cake

Hey GameMaker gang we're cooking up more stream plans and we'd love to do a Q&A answering as many of your questions as we can. So fire over your questions and keep your eyes peeled for the stream announcement!

i think i've changed my mind about being nice online. i might go as far to say that as people who care about knowing how/why things work, we're ethically obligated to go out of our way to remind sloperators that we are, in fact, better than them at everything

This is three states more than he should have.

my bug reports for the new backyard baseball game are starting to get a little out of hand

aperture science, "we do what we must because we can"

it's a very normal day in the wizarducks discord discord.gg/CEbUGga5ZW

empirical evidence that game devs should go outside more often

though i'd do a little thing and it accidentally turned into a 45-minute video on binary operations in gamemaker www.patreon.com/wizardragon/...

and this is why it's important to learn math

older games often have a display centric approach to real-time rendering, like, painting lighting into object textures was very common, or straight up using photographs as textures this lets you take very direct control over the look! modern rendering is different (short thread)

playing some of the new Backyard Baseball game today youtube.com/live/mRR81n8...

This is Hina, Sasha, Momo, and Kikko. They just got in line behind their turtle friend. Not sure what the line is even for, but man is it moving slow. 12/10 for all (IG: yokokikuchi_ks)

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

i think a lot about why generative AI feels qualitatively different from most other New Technologies in the last 50 years, this is probably why

let's play around with the GMRT 0.20 beta youtube.com/live/2yC0TnK...

i'm heading out for magstock tomorrow morning and i have not started packing yet, ama

100% positive that using this thing will initiate some kind of sidequest

wait a minute when did that happen

here have a video on LTS 2026 and all that entails youtu.be/HWbph_xyP2g

GameMaker LTS 2026.0 brings SO many feature additions, performance upgrades, stability improvements and bug fixes. It's a big update so we hope you're excited to check it out. Read the full blog to find out more! 🔗 gamemaker.io/en/blog/lts-...

@dragonitespam.bsky.social, @tabularelf.com, @nkrapivindev.ru and I got to talk about the future of @gamemaker.io with @russellkay.bsky.social for 4 hours(!) today. We covered the recent spring update and other exciting #GameMaker features on the horizon with GMRT. www.youtube.com/live/bnCplHA...

pleiospilos nelii is attempting to flower

Some areas in Paper Mario feature a rim lighting effect that is achieved in a manner that is extremely simple for the surprisingly effective results it produces, being simply shifting around a shadow copy of the sprite.

📢 Join us for a big ol' GameMaker Update blog as we detail what's coming in 2026 and beyond! LTS updates, GMRT languages, source available, upcoming extensions, GM CLI, and a whole new dimension... 👀 🔗 gamemaker.io/en/blog/upda...

The cherry tree outside my window is so pretty

“this album just came and went” “remember this month old game?” PLEASE. let art live and exist!! forever!! what a miserable way to live, to bounce from new thing to new thing, rapidly consuming art as trends and not allowing yourself to fully experience a story and reflect on it as it settles

A comparison of the colors used in the textures of various Rainbow Road tracks in the Mario Kart franchise.

The Best Tool trophy for GMRoomLoader just arrived last night! There's something special about holding a physical object as the result of work that only ever exists on a screen. Thank you to everyone who voted, and to the @gamemaker.io team for making this happen! #GameMaker

Time for some more Find Matt's Cats youtube.com/live/BGPdDbg...

In Super Mario 64 DS, giant characters normally cannot crawl. However, reading a sign pounded halfway into the ground forces the character into a crawling pose. When giant, this results in the character's giant posterior completely blocking the entire screen.

Satellite Pollution xkcd.com/3225/