davemakes🔶

davemakes🔶

@mixolumia.com

indie gamedev in japan • mixolumia • executive golf dx • core fault

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I'm Dave, sometimes D, they, indie game dev near tokyo, nonsense poster, abstract geometry appreciator, mixolumia creator, indebted to lesbians, secret ui/ux contractor, bleep bloop musician

small thing but I got sick of seeing youtubers using uncharged Playdates as decoration, but I didn't want mine just displaying the clock on the lock screen, so I wrote a little audio visualizer for fun

was going insane trying to solve video judder on my living room linux box, installing all sorts of drivers and video codecs, looking up repositories and entering commands, and eventually figured out it was because my tv was set to "game" mode instead of "movie" mode

I wasn't against the New Audacity (except that logo, yeesh) but when I put it on my mac it decided to associate itself with EVERY media file. Double click a video? Yeah you wanted this in your minimalist audio editor, right?

apparently powershell is so slow at removing big directories that it's faster to make a blank folder and use robocopy to mirror it onto the thing you want to delete. windows is amazing

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you can really tell which system was invented to be used via a slow-printing teletype machine and which was invented by people who got kicked in the head by a horse once a day

every bash command on linux is blplk -avqPmr o7 . ~/ every powershell command on windows is Please-Mister-Computer -Could-You-Kindly-Do-Me -This Favor ".\"

when you're drunk and feeling for the opening in your boxer briefs at the urinal but all you find is smooth unbroken fabric in the no-fly design

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always happy to hear someone has enjoyed playing my, uh, steam page. that's what i do this for i guess

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Hi davemakes, I saw your game. The concept destroyed my hopes and ruined my marriage. I've abandoned all pretense that any future point in my life will contain joy, or even relief from misery. Sharing my suffering is my only goal. I'd like to offer an opportunity to integrate with Polymarket,

every email you get as a dev starts out with a perfunctory sentence to display some familiarity with your work. this one could use a little more effort

got one the other day that made the transition thusly: I saw your game. It looks like a neat concept. Now, on to business.

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being a dirtbag indie game dev means my finances are in shambles but on the bright side I haven't had to touch JIRA in years

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while you port and emulate games, I ported Jira to my PSP

i'm at the point where i'd believe you if you told me windows 11 had a vulnerability because the taskbar was written in php

before we begin, did anyone here lose eighty billion dollars wrapped in the hollowed husk of a once thriving industry? because we found the husk

This ninth video covers: Game jams, Pico-8 cart size, reference type variables and using them for state, circle-circle collisions, getting an angle with atan2, escape characters and control codes to customize the way strings are printed, storing huge numbers, and saving high scores.

I let my android phone update and they have shrunk the icons???? compare this older screenshot (left) to my phone now (right) I already hate that everything has to be in a circle but whyyyy do we also need more padding around THE ACTUAL RECOGNIZABLE ICON PART

being a tech nerd in japan is terrible because the more times you visit the junk section at hard-off the more your apartment begins to resemble the junk section at hard-off

[searching through bins of busted old game consoles] wow these would go great in my bins of busted old game consoles