Jack

Jack

@jackturps.bsky.social

making games

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Jack reposted

It's Good!!!! One of my favorite pico8 games thus far. More like a pico8 sculpture

Jack@jackturps.bsky.social

made a lil game this week where you grow trees play it here (: jack-turps.itch.io/sprout #gamedev #pico8

hot wax is my favourite falling block game, get excited!!

Lorraine🍬@lorandbehold.bsky.social

🔥 HOT WAX is coming out on Oct. 29th!! 🔥 🕯️ Place candles. Light a wick. Burn it all down. ⛓️ Build chain reactions, then keep them running. 🧩 A fresh take on falling block arcade puzzlers. Wishlist (and try the demo!) at s.team/a/3041750 💖 #screenshotsaturday #pixelart

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Little video

Teeg (but spooky)@teeketch.art

"A procession of spirits follows in tow, as the Pumpkin King paces and prances through fields they sow. Giving lost and scared spirits a purpose and face, all children of the patches now, a new home in this place." Patreon postcard art for October 2026 patreon.com/teeketch

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still figuring out drilling holes ended up being very hard on performance, so i'm going with a tile based approach. Which will also could open up fun opportunities like caves. squidgod's LDtk tutorial was very helpful. Really fun building a level in another piece of software #playdate

noodling on a character for a #pico8 platformer, is it obvious that i just played super mario world for the first time lol

Jack reposted

New blog post: How I Design Original Arcade-Style Games Arcade players kept telling me that Hyper Bun Buster's game mechanics felt arcade-like, despite it not playing like any existing arcade games. Here are some tips if you want to design arcade-like games too. duckberet.com/blog/how-i-d...

duckberet.comHow I Design Original Arcade-Style Games - DUCK_BERETHow I designed the original arcade-style game mechanics in my game Hyper Bun Buster: Rocket Hammer Action

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if youve known me for any length of time you have heard me bemoan the death of flash and with it the flash game ethos. i’m currently playing love eternal and this game is exactly the sort of thing i was talking about. long live the action puzzle platformer

burnt myself out on it earlier this year getting a qbit that was way to hard for me but im back on the main line now and maaaan this game is something else

i have a low tolerance for wandering so id kinda assumed the mystique of exploration games was inaccessible to me having exploration as an undercurrent in such a dense, thoughtful platformer has suspended me in that mystique for like 30+ hours tho, its unreal

wrestled back the WR today, sub 1:00 is so close i can TASTE it

Jack@jackturps.bsky.social

made a new game a witch has cast you into a cursed cave. escape with the help of subterranean critters jack-turps.itch.io/love-me-not #pico8 #gamedev have fun ((:

Jack reposted

folks you can dip your toes into the biggest, deepest, fastest brough-like of all time right in your desktop browser, right now hatch some quality schemes and let your mind boggle at how wild even the tip of the iceberg can get !!

Finji@finjico.bsky.social

You can now play the 868-BACK demo on web browser! 👾 finji.itch.io/868-back 868-BACK is a computer-hacking roguelike strategy game inspired by dungeon crawlers—but the dungeons are computer servers, and your weapons are illicit software tools!

Jack reposted

hoooollly shit OpenAI is very evil i mean you knew that, but this is a new kind of way you didn't know about. you gotta read this whole pdf and just skip the math parts. but in case you don't, here is the pull quote.

Micah Warren@micah541.bsky.social

cloak and dagger navier stokes cims.nyu.edu/~tristanb/st...

wrote some stuff about the level generation and its different relationship to novice and expert players

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Jack@jackturps.bsky.social

made a new game a witch has cast you into a cursed cave. escape with the help of subterranean critters jack-turps.itch.io/love-me-not #pico8 #gamedev have fun ((:

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fantastic!!! ive been excited for this ever since i saw your teaser clips, and it did not disappoint! at first i found the eager re-generating to be a bit frustrating, but after playing several runs i came back around to liking it. very fun!! we'll see how long this time stands haha

thanking #pico8 for the constraint of pixel art lol

Jack@jackturps.bsky.social

made a new game a witch has cast you into a cursed cave. escape with the help of subterranean critters jack-turps.itch.io/love-me-not #pico8 #gamedev have fun ((:

a while back my grandad crashed a drone into the top of a very tall tree me and my brother spent like 3 hours trying to get it down with ropes and pulleys and shit, not knowing if it was possible eventually we got it, and now we laugh about it all the time Mosa Lina is a lot like that (:

Jack@jackturps.bsky.social

Mosa Lina: the thinking friend’s slop