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20 July

Shoot for the moon, and you'll land among the stars. This is not. No more delays. August 24th, 2026. I'm on Twitch now twitch.tv/itsflannelbe... #indiegamedev #gamedev #solodev #indiegame

Reading AI output significantly hurts my brain. There is something in the way that a lot of models compose sentences that breaks my brain so quickly unlike real human output. Can we make it stop.

28 Aug

Maybe this is to on the nose? I have a lot of feelings about AI generated "art". #twitch #solodev #indiedev Streaming live now while I finish this level: fxb.gg/stream

24 Aug

Ooops. I left my Unity Editor on while idling. Working on some new Typing Stars levels now on twitch: fxb.gg/twitch #solodev #gamedev #indiedev #twitch

19 Aug

I'm dumb. I'm making another level. #sologamedev

18 Aug

How quickly excitement to release can turn into dread to release the game. A side project when there are just not enough days between work and parenting to get everything you want to do done and still sleep so you can show up the next day. #sologamedev #indiegamedev #twitch #steam #typing #gamedev

store.steampowered.comTyping Stars on SteamTyping Stars is a relaxing, typing speed and skill based game set in space. Improve your typing dexterity, race against the clock and beat your friends scores.

18 Aug

I finished, after way too long, and too many days in between without getting a chance to touch it, a new level with sfx and gfx. I have a few more ideas to implement quickly and then finish everything else up. You can play the demo on steam (and wishlist if you want to support me: www.fxb.gg/steam

5 Aug

I've got to give myself a little grace, but it's hard juggling family, work and a side project. I'm trying to finish a new level in Typing Stars and it feels like I'm making no progress when working on it between the cracks of time. I'm live on twitch right now trying to finish it. fxb.gg/twitch

5 Aug

Typing Stars is out in 19 days. I hope. Please wishlist and play the demo on Steam. store.steampowered.com/app/3316570/... #solodev #indiedev #twitch

30 July

Can I build a new game level in 2 hours? No. Not even close to 3. But refactoring my level and word logic has made it much easier to tackle challenging level ideas quicker. There is a lot to build in 25 days. #solodev #indiedev #devlog fxb.gg

fxb.ggitsFlannelBeard - Live on Twitch🚨2 Hours to build and ship a new level - 26 days left to ship a game. | Streaming software and game development.

29 July

Can I build a new level in my game in under 2 hours? Let's fine out on #twitch fxb.gg/twitch #solodev #indiedev

30 July

It's also incredible my inability to spell in the morning before my coffee. ☕

fxb.ggitsFlannelBeard - Live on Twitch🚨2 Hours to build and ship a new level - 26 days left to ship a game. | Streaming software and game development.

29 July

Can I build a new level in my game in under 2 hours? Let's fine out on #twitch fxb.gg/twitch #solodev #indiedev

29 July

The answer is no. I need another 2 hours to finish.

23 July

When you realize the AI is maybe not as friendly and willing to help you and your crew mates like you may have thought. Working through a refactor now so that I can add more levels to the game. Live now at twitch.tv/itsflannelbe... #indiegamedev #solodev #twitch #gamedev

20 July

Shoot for the moon, and you'll land among the stars. This is not. No more delays. August 24th, 2026. I'm on Twitch now twitch.tv/itsflannelbe... #indiegamedev #gamedev #solodev #indiegame

20 July

Embarrassing typo. (Or maybe I can blame autocomplete, AI's dumb sibling. This is not* This is it. No more delays! Let's fn do this.

8 June

Who said making games was easy? I'm live right now on Twitch twitch.tv/itsflannelbe..., making questionable decisions on scope and somehow making progress in the opposite direction. #indiegame #indiegamedev #gamedev #twitch #twitchstreamer #liveontwitch

The struggles of solo development on a side project. Tough week from a productivity standpoint, though I did manage to carve out some morning time and move things forward. #gamedev #indiegamedev #sologamedev #twitch

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I don't know if there is another strategy out of the loop. Maybe better sleep, earlier mornings? But I've struggled with that for 4 months. How are we even at the end of March? And it's not motivation. I'm genuinely excited to implement the final ideas I have to publish the game.

Maybe excuses, maybe this some mental spring cleaning, but dang it I'm doing my best. I'll keep streaming. Slowly chipping away at this. And I'm going to figure out this damn shader problem I'm having and it's going to loop dope.

The pattern lately: 30-40 minutes in the morning. Then I tell myself I'll pick it up after work, after dinner, after the gym, but I'm too busy and tired at night to get back into it. I'm glad I'm streaming on twitch, because I feel held accountable to stream daily and get some micro progress.

25 Feb

I hope people enjoy playing my silly game. Typing Stars is a part of Next Fest and there is a demo available to play now! store.steampowered.com/app/3316570/... #nextfest #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #twitch #steam

24 Feb

It feels surreal to see Typing Stars on the main page of Next Fest. It never feels real, and it's scary to put something out into the world, but it's going to become real soon. Wishlist on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3316570/... #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #steam #nextfest #typinggame

24 Feb

I also stream most of all the game development on Twitch, if you're interested to see me pull my hair out during the crunch. twitch.tv/itsflannelbe... #twitchstreamer #twitch #gamedevelopment

25 Jan

I've been trying, and struggling to tell a story without spelling it out. This post wasn't originally about this. I started working on this as tanks rolled into Ukraine, now I'm watching executions on the streets of US. There is a deep undertone of anxiety and anger throughout... #indiedev #gamedev

24 Jan

fk it we're doing it live it's embarrassing not being able to spell words wtv - typing stars live march 8? 🫰 #gamedev #indiegame #fml #twitchstreamer twitch.tv/itsflannelbe...

21 Jan

Some days feel like death by a thousand papercuts. Spent two hours solving overlapping transparent game objects causing additive opacity. Using shader voodoo thanks to Claude, I got it working. Back to building this weird little typing game...

13 Jan

Progress feels slow at times, but it's progress. Adding new end game animations with some flavour text for world building. Trying to finish by Next Fest. Help. Live now twitch.tv/itsflannelbe...

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27 Oct 2025

Clover Pit trolled me hard last time on stream. www.youtube.com/shorts/6BEOu...

13 Oct 2025

I NEED CHAT TO CATCH THE TURKEY!!! twitch.tv/itsflannelbe...

10 Oct 2025

My face when Unity in the morning. twitch.tv/itsflannelbe...

8 Oct 2025

Send me your Game Jam games to play on Stream. I need some fun content for 31 days of streaming! fxb-calendar.vercel.app

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6 Oct 2025

We're deep into 31 Days of Streaming. Creative name. I'm live every day this month. Come hang out on stream and suggest your stream ideas. fxb-calendar.vercel.app

1 Oct 2025

Live Now! Sora 2 released. Give me your most unhinged prompts to try. Day 1 of 31 days of streaming.

30 Sept 2025

Chat gets weird sometimes. I'm live RIGHT NOW over at twitch.tv/itsflannelbeard

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22 Sept 2025

If you follow me on Insta you can get a sneak peak of my upcoming YT short. I honestly have no flipping idea what I'm doing to grow my audience, or create shorts, or just content creation in general. Like my code, I'm throwing spaghetti at the wall. www.instagram.com/reel/DO7AmZh...

22 Sept 2025

The last 5% is kicking my ass. The technical debt in one of my main game classes is slowing me down and making changes difficult. But we're getting closer to finishing the boss-level sequencing.. almost. Hang out while I wrestle with my poor coding decisions live RIGHT NOW twitch.tv/itsflannelbeard

23 July 2025

I'm back to working on game play after spending way too much time building a diegetic menu system. I've had this idea for a ship moving minigame since the beginning, but I haven't been able to make it fun. There's a lot to do but I'm testing out a simpler typing movement mechanic. #gamedev

23 July 2025

The changes are based on feedback from people who’ve seen the game, and that kind of input is incredibly valuable when you're building solo. That's one of the things that makes streaming game development so fun for me. Come join the community on twitch. #gamedev #indiedev #typinggame

6 May 2025

The Twitch Game Dev community is excellent for the immediate feedback a solo game dev receives. Here's an updated version of yesterday's work with the explosion. It is not confined to the computer monitor in-game instead of the whole screen. Thanks for the feedback @moonizz.bsky.social

5 May 2025

The last 5% of any project is the most difficult. It's easy to build a prototype, but small things like these little asteroid explosion animations add that professional touch needed to ship a game.

pcgamer.comTyping Stars is meant to be a relaxing 'straightforward game that helps you master typing speed and accuracy,' but it just completely stresses me outI feel like I'm back in school.

7 Mar 2025

I just found out that Typing Stars was written about over at @pcgamer.com. That's freaking cool. It makes my day knowing that random people are finding and enjoying this silly game I've made. www.pcgamer.com/games/typing...

26 Feb 2025

Slack outage. Me:

24 Feb 2025

Today, I worked on the leaderboard on stream. Updating the fonts and adding more names. It's wild to think that over 100 people have tried the demo and scored on the leaderboard. I hope to update the demo soon so everyone can keep playing as we ramp up the finishing touches on Typing Stars.

20 Feb 2025

How do I curate my feed so I just see cool game development gifs and videos?