Owen Goss

Owen Goss

@owengoss.com

Canadian indie game designer/dev. Half of Milkbag Games: Fivefold, Kickoff League, Disco Zoo, FutureGrind, Sidewords, SantaCraft, and others. Amateur potter. (he/him)

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Ontario folks: don't forget to vote in your municipal election today! Polls are open 10am-8pm. Your municipal government affects so much of your day to day life, so have a say in who they are!

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I’m sad that the Teasmade — the alarm that woke you up with a nice cup of tea — isn’t really popular anymore. Why can’t alarms be nice? Who honestly prefers a dream-rupturing klaxon of misery to start their day? I feel like society might be better if we all woke up to something pleasant

Sometimes you spend an afternoon hiking and thinking about the grandeur of nature and how incredible the universe is. Other times you spend an afternoon troubleshooting a laptop that won’t turn on only to discover the screen brightness was set to 0.

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I know, I know. The Repository might sound too good to be true, but I promise you it's EXTREMELY REAL! Free (downloadable) pitch decks and design docs submitted by some of the best to ever do it!

verticalslice.newsThe Repository - Vertical SliceAn educational collection of freely accessible video game design documents and pitch decks submitted by generous studios, publishers, and investors.
Kitfox Games 🦊@kitfoxgames.com

Some folks asked if the docs on the repository at @verticalslicenews.bsky.social were legit. Yes indeed! Read em and weep! Er, I mean, learn. Yeah. More to come, maybe! Probably! www.verticalslice.news/tag/reposito... (If you're waiting for An Announcement, it's coming soon, ~4 more hours..)

The great thing about having a 3D printer is encountering a problem (e.g. I need an adapter to connect a light to my tripod), spending 15 mins in CAD, 45 mins printing, and I have a custom part I need!

Spent my morning trying to track down an audio recording issue with my microphone. I use a blue yeti and it was cutting out at low volume. A few years ago I disabled all the audio processing bs Logitech was doing in the G Hub app to fix a similar problem.

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I don't want the mic driver to try to make my mic sound better. I will do that in the software I'm using the mic with. But that only works if the mic actually sends all the audio to that software!

Anyway, if you use a blue yeti mic and use it for actually recording audio, you might want to consider uninstalling G Hub. If anyone needs me, I'm going to go live up a tree.

Spent my morning trying to track down an audio recording issue with my microphone. I use a blue yeti and it was cutting out at low volume. A few years ago I disabled all the audio processing bs Logitech was doing in the G Hub app to fix a similar problem.

I spent hours today troubleshooting and the only remaining potential cause was the G Hub app, which said none of their audio processing was on. I uninstalled G Hub and now it WORKS FINE. WTF Logitech?! Why was it even touching the audio input? Just leave it alone, please!

It’s cool when your kids get older and start to like some of the same stuff as you. One of my teenage kids and I went to the Phoebe Bridgers concert in Toronto last night and it was something else. Great show.

I’ve been to a lot of concerts, but I’ve never been to one like that, with so many people so emotionally invested in it. 10,000+ people screaming along with all the lyrics. What it must feel like to perform to that.

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Fivefold is a good time. Recommended if you like Sudoku but fancy trying something fresh.

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Our full app version of Fivefold is now available! Fivefold is a Sudoku-inspired game where the rules change every puzzle. It's a free download, NO ADS, tons of free puzzles, and a puzzle pack if you want more. That's it! iOS: apps.apple.com/us/app/fivef... Android: play.google.com/store/apps/d...

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We’re making a scrabble tower defense game! Every word in the english dictionary is a unique tower ARROW pierces enemies PUNCHES knocks them back

I was playing around with a dithered RGB shader, and swapped out all the green pixels for white ones, and got this. The wild thing is there are only black, white, red, and blue pixels in these scene. The orange, yellow, and green are an illusion! The 2nd image is a close up of the "green" sphere.

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I’ve been slowly working on this interactive ceramics projects for a few months now and I finally have a working prototype. Park the car in the driveway and the light in the house turns on! There’s more than needs to be done, but I’m excited that it works!

I’ve been slowly working on this interactive ceramics projects for a few months now and I finally have a working prototype. Park the car in the driveway and the light in the house turns on! There’s more than needs to be done, but I’m excited that it works!

Trying to figure out how to get into Toronto for a thing on a friday evening, and google maps estimates the driving time as "1 hour 20 minutes to 2 hours 40 minutes". I would take the train, but it doesn't run late enough to get home. This is why I hardly go to Toronto anymore. :P

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Our game Fivefold is coming to iOS and Android Sept 29th! Fivefold is a Sudoku-inspired game where the rules change every puzzle! You can pre-register for free on your app store to be notified when it's available fivefold.ca/app/

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We made a full app version of Fivefold, coming soon!

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Our game Fivefold is coming to iOS and Android Sept 29th! Fivefold is a Sudoku-inspired game where the rules change every puzzle! You can pre-register for free on your app store to be notified when it's available fivefold.ca/app/

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I've been playing this every day for a couple months; it's a very nice, quick puzzle

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Our game Fivefold is coming to iOS and Android Sept 29th! Fivefold is a Sudoku-inspired game where the rules change every puzzle! You can pre-register for free on your app store to be notified when it's available fivefold.ca/app/

Our game Fivefold is coming to iOS and Android Sept 29th! Fivefold is a Sudoku-inspired game where the rules change every puzzle! You can pre-register for free on your app store to be notified when it's available fivefold.ca/app/

Fivefold has a ton of easy puzzles you can play completely free. If you want harder puzzles, there's a huge puzzle pack you can buy. The game has no ads, even if you're just playing the free puzzles!

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Kala Paint is out! I'm @olawson.bsky.social , professional artist for 15 years, then game dev, now wrote the painting software I wish I'd been using all this time. GPU-run creamy brushes, no subscription, no gen AI crap, hand-coded with ideas from artists in our Discord, and more added weekly!

I should have mentioned in the post, but it's another pico-8 game. :) I'm having a lot of fun making tiny little games in it!

It sure seems like the big game publishers want the Hollywood studio way of working (i.e. hire a team of people to make a project, then they all go away when it's done), but without the unions and residuals.

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excited to announce my new game 'Maybe... I'll go to the beach' 🏖️ it's a small spatial programming puzzle game inspired by Cellular Automata, CellPond (TodePond), MarkovJunior(mxgmn) more info below <3

The variety of zelda reactions in my timeline is pretty funny. My only experience with Ocarina of Time was hearing my roommate play it in the next room every day after work for weeks. So for me, OoT will always be: Hup! Hup! Haa! HiYAAAA! Hup! Hup! Haa! Haa! Hup! HiYAAAA!