Marco Lizza 👾

I'm landing on Bluesky after moving from Twitter/X and investing a few years on Mastodon. I like Mastodon, but I also find it to be "less lively" in the #gamedev context, when compared to Twitter/X. I miss many of the user and their contents and, apparently, they mostly moved here. :)

Awesome remix by D4XX of one Huelsbeck's best tunes. #retromusic #chiptune #amiga #remixes

It's time for Tofu Engine to feature a nice and stylish boot-animation... ... of course I'm ending in creating a declarative-finite-state-machine interpreter and runner... ... over-engineering? Naaa... #gamedev #indiedev #gameengines

So... PHYSINT will be an Xbox/Microsoft exclusive? Darn, seems like I will buying an Xbox in the near future, then... :> #gaming #kojima #metalgear

Giusto qualche anno prima...

Almost 35 years have passed, and I'm still thrilled by the #demoscene magic.

New reading! 📖 I really would love a new book from @fabinou.bsky.social on Sega's arcade hardwares (Super Scaler?)!!! 🤖 #gamedev #retrocoding #capcom

Without saying your age, what is your favourite movie that came out when you were 20 years old

I've been struggled months in deciding the "best" name for the class that abstracts the audio sub-system in Tofu Engine. I settled with `Speakers` but never liked that... ... then, four years later, I had an epiphany: `Mixer` is the correct name. At last! 😆 #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

Oh, my. This is insane. It would have been a masterpiece, back then. #retrogaming #dragonslair #commodore64

Happy birthday, Linux! #linux #coding #computing

By the way, Tofu Engine already supports Mode7-like transformations when moving data canvas-to-canvas. However, Copperlist-like transfer is more efficient for a lot of effects. #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

One of the (IMO) coolest features of my game engine (namely Tofu Engine) is a copperlist-like programmable cancas-to-vram transfer. Now, I'm adding this feature also to canvas-to-canvas transfer. This will unlock a lot of cool effects! #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

I know that I'm totally biased, but when working to my game-engine listening to SID music just make the perfect background music... ... what are you preferred artists/tunes of the era? #gamedev #indiedev #chiptune

Almost ready with the vector class in my game engine, fixed here and that, also to optimize the operations. One more step done! I was working on the software renderer and I needed to have a break... :) #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

A piece of ancient gaming history: such great memories of those times! :D #gaming #gamedev #retrogaming

Is fixed-point math still worth using, today? New post mode13h.dev/is-fixed-poi... and new library github.com/MarcoLizza/l... #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

Playing "Dave The Diver"... gosh, it's so much fun! :) #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Is fixed-point math still worth and useful in 2026? Not as a geneal purpose approach, but when used in some specific (restricted) contexts... definitely yes. Devlog in the making on how I reconsidered its use in my game engine. #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

I'm currently playing Stellar Blade. Honestly, I nice game, very polished and classy. The Nier: Automata vibes are really nice (I loved Nier, back them). However, the gameplay is so dull... #gaming #stellarblade

I've optimize (yet again) my game-engine's roto-scaler. I'm baffled. Apparently very few information exist online on incremental inverse mapping and half-extent based AABB compuation. Or I'm simply at finding any of it! :D Time for a new devlog... #gamedev #gameengine #gamemath

It's always such a fun to watch someone dissecting how old-school games were implemented. :) #gamedev #retrogame #amiga

Looking for work. Worked on Minecraft. Available immediately for contract or full-time, illustration / art direction / visual development. castpixel.artstation.com DMs open. Boosts appreciated.

Reworking yet another piece of Tofu Engine. The Rotoscaler was implemented with a (partially optimized) per-pixel explicit inverse tranformation from the target buffer to the source one. Time to implement the incremental version I have in mind since a while... :) #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

I made a game in 3 days for #ldjam Fling a bat and explore levels using echolocation. Like billiards but weird. Let me know how it plays for you? Thank you! castpixel.itch.io/ping

Insanely awesome. As usual. #vgmusic #sidwave #mattgray

Working on a SID chip emulator, inspired by Nuked-OPN2 ym3438... just for fun, this is something I wanted to do since... ever. It occurred to me that probably already exists something similar out there. :P Well, let's ear how it works in my game engine... #gamedev #indiedev

She worked for WB Games... that's so cool! ( and the pixel-art is awesome, as usual )

Truly awesome art, here... #pixelart #gameart #gamedev

I truly hope in a future where the reference platform for gaming is Linux... ... and I try and contribute with my tiny game engine, which is a multiplatform Linux-first project. #gamedev #indiedev #gamingonlinux

This is what I personally consider Amiga's swan song. One of the last games I played before leaving the platform for good. Possibly the best shooter. #amiga #shmup #retrogaming

Anybody aware of a chiptune-like synth library? Something like DuinoTune/tinytune but still supported or more recent? #gamedev #indiedev #chiptune

Showcasing my phone guitar instrument Android app - midi out to your favorite DAW - auto chords (open/ barre/ power/ slash) - looper! - full pedal FX chain - 3 amp cabs - lefty mode,of course - ultra-low latency - very playable for live performing - hex keyboard out next week! #indiedev

Over the course of the last two months, I reworked my game-engine's rendering/graphics sub-system. I took notes during the process. Now the not-so-easy task to reorganize them and put it together... 😅 A devlog will follow soon enough. I hope. 😆 #gamedev #indiedev #gamenegine

Drop a teacher.

Putting up a new pixel art still. Feel free to tell me what stands out to you in the comments! Your feedback means a lot—drop a comment below. #IndieGameDev #IndieGames #PixelArt #GameDev #IndieGame #IndieDev #SoloDev

Another Single from Reformation 5: The Palace Main Theme #c64 https://remix64.com/news/another-single-from-reformation-5-the-palace-main.html

So... ... texture double-buffering and PBO ring implemented. The upload and draw phases of the rendering system are as detached as possible (for now). Now, on to reworking the transparency management to improve performance even more. #gamedev #indiedev #gamengine

Adding both texture double (or triple) buffering AND a decoupling PBOs ring-buffer has proved simpler than expected. No longer CPU x GPU stalls! Yatta! :) #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine

I'm heavily reworking the OpenGL backend of my game engine, once again. I want to squeeze performances and keep my software renderer. :D Current phase: adding triple-buffering, considering PBOs... #gamedev #indiedev #opengl #gameengine

I just learned my new favourite foreign word: smoutebollen. 😅

I guess I'll hang my keyboard on the wall and go and do something different, just like gardening... #retrocoding #c64 #demoscene

I could listen to Matt's songs and remixes all day long. I will do it! :D And you should too!!! #chiptune #synthwave #vgmusic

thanks for saying y'all like the interface. I *was* a UI artist at minecraft for a year and a half :)

I've released an asset pack containing essentials, it's 10kb with default UV texture and < 1kb without so please game engine makers: include this by default. (Open for suggestions to add more!) kenney.nl/assets/devel...