sound art games

LLM assisted solo coding tip 1 : start by making a local git repo first, including all the documentation (using a Markdown system of your choice) and LLM control files for this project and regularly either commit by hand or make the LLM commit (every 2-3 hours)

This “I have hand drawn thousands of animation over the last 5+ years for my game” may actually not be the flex you think it is, that is you, doing what you want to do and maybe not what the game needs, if its just a hobby you make for yourself sure, if you want people to actually buy your game …

This one resited me so much, I am still not sure if I am happy with it

So Game Poetry game jam, web game, sure doable in Unity and Godot, but I also had some very specific ideas on sound, so web audio it is -> phaser seemed the best solution as a game engine here and then my friendly LLM suggested Typescript, sure lets learn a completely new tech stack on the fly

GB Studio’s adherence to the Gameboys 8x8 px tiles and 16x16 px sprites, means I can actually design them on my iPhone while commuting, Pixquare works pretty well for sprites but also larger tile maps, its good for training my imagination and lo-fi game art drawing skills

We are organizing our own industry conference: Gamespace! | 8. + 9. October 2026 The Gamespace Conference will bring together the international gaming industry in Zurich, Switzerland, for two days from 8 to 9 October 2026! FOR FUTURE ANNOUNCEMENTS SIGN UP HERE: gamespace.ch

SOME GENERAL TIPS FOR STEAM GAME DEMOS (from someone who has played so many of them) Note: These tips also apply to games in general! They're good tips!

Have been introduced to @gbstudio.dev it seems to be the right amount of restrictive and malleable to do some silly little games, when my brain is stressed out by my longer term projects, also music with a tracker, always a plus

Tested #Godot cutout animation & animation trees for my #ggj26 project, but I am seriously intrigued by the Polygon2D node & after watching a playthrough of „Another World“ by Éric Chahi seriously considering it, less sprites, more flexibility & possibilities, give me vertices and I get ideas

Neue Folge Hey! Listen! - Eine Stunde Games Musik. Heute wird es nochmal frostig, ich spiele Wintermusik aus Games - diesmal direkt auf Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/radiocorax/h... #games #gamesoundtracks #nintendo #playstation #japanesegamemusic #radio #radiocorax

Productive unproductive day today, had to rethink the term level, what is it in the context of my game, what work does it need to do, am I over complicating things?

Thinking of migrating my game dev laptop to Linux, its an old one and probably would not survive Windows 11. Also seriously who would want Win 11? The laptop still ok it has a pretty ok graphics card, my project is 2d, lo-fi and I am using mostly open source or OS agnostic small dev software anyway

Best of luck to everyone participating in the #GlobalGameJam this week, we're rooting for you 🍀 Don't forget to share your work and tag us so we can see what you’re building! #Unity #GGJ26 #MadeWithUnity @globalgamejam.bsky.social

GGJ 2026 is happening at @hslu-luzern.bsky.social, Jan 30 - Feb 1, everybody over the age of 18 is invited, newbies to professionals, board or card games, microcontroller, VR, AR, games made in Max/MSP or Excel or Powerpoint, just bring your curiosity #swissgames #ggj #ggj26

https://www.videospielgeschichten.de/sind-videospiele-zeitverschwendung/ #Dopamin #FriedrichSchiller #HomoLudens #Spielen #Spieltrieb

Playing "Small Spaces" think I missed my calling, anybody in need of an interior designer? Or game levels, same principles, elevations, line of sight, points of interest and color schemes

Why am I only trying this out now (because my brain is in evasive mode) but #sonicLab's #PolyNodes V2 is the ideal noise machine to listen too while programming

Told a couple from Berlin how I got to the middle of nowhere from the airport in Berlin, now sitting in a bus with handwritten station information to hopefully somewhere, where I can find a bus to near FEZ, wish me luck

If you're visiting Berlin for any of these events and are interested in synths I recommend checking out the new Synthesizer Museum in Kottbusser Tor, went there earlier this week and had a blast. Also I really want a Korg MS 10 or 20 now 😅 www.synthesizermuseum.info

Fun fact: if you're buying from a creator on etsy, you can reduce their etsy selling fees from 6.5% to 2.5% by ordering via 'shopname.etsy.com' instead of 'etsy.com/shopname' or searching from the main site. It costs you the same but the creator makes more

If I know any #colorblind people on here, could you tell me if these assistance filters are making the game visuals more readable for you? (2nd attempt with better filters)

In response to the Polygon and Giant Bomb news, I created an indie and worker-owned games media starter pack. I’ll keep adding to it, so suggestions and recommendations are greatly appreciated. Please share!

I'll be at Amaze in Berlin on May 14 and 15 with a first prototype of "brain before dawn" a casual bullet hell game, my sound artist self @dkah.bsky.social will be at Superbooth on May 9 and 10

The Swiss Game Hub opening party on Saturday was a big success and it was lovely to be there. If you didn't make it, here's the recorded opening ceremony 💖💖 www.youtube.com/watch?v=yluK...

What an impressive opening party at @swissgamehub.bsky.social ! Congrats and thank you to the organizational team and all the people who‘ve tirelessly worked behind the scenes to make such an event and huge crowd a reality!

My mood board is up, post cards I collected in the last decades, yes analog because sometimes I need to look up from my computer screen #swissgamehub #swissgames

The positive thing about working at a game dev coworking spaces like the #swissgamehub are surprise events, where you can meet old friends and make new ones without having to do anything

Actually I could just use polygon nodes for my avatar animations, it would probably make them much more malleable and since the avatar will be relatively small and simple (think Sword and Sworcery) that could actually work #godotengine #gamedev #cheatingonanimations

Todays think session was like I need this problem solved, and my librarian brain was like #godotengine has polygon2d nodes, so now the mathematics part of my brain is having a party thinking about what we could solve with polygons instead of sprites

One of the valuable tips for #godotengine was when @theonyan.bsky.social told me that there are signals

Just to reiterate following step-by-step tutorials will not help you make games, just copying code will not help you in the long run, don’t ask how, ask why and use your friendly LLM not to tell you how to, but ask if you understood concepts right or to give you alternatives

So today, next to mentoring a student, decorating my workspace, I managed to have a polygon change form and flying around in Godot, yes its not much but I am still getting to know my way around Godot and just following a tutorial mostly doesn’t help understanding, so I am poking around

Would you like to showcase your game at Fantasy Basel? The SGDA once again will have a booth at Fantasy Basel this year, promoting amazing games from Switzerland! SGDA members can still apply for one of the 10 booth spaces until April 13th, 2025.

On my way to claim my now fix desk at #swissgamehub, committing to actually doing this, at least I have the luxury to enjoy myself and not care if anyone wants this game, I will still try my best to make it a really good and fun playing experience

So have to write prototypes to test my assumptions, will also be a good exercise to learn about #godotengine and writing experimental prototypes is always a good idea

Still on my discovery journey of #godotengine, but there are also some game design decisions to be made, for instance do I want to spawn bullets or just place things in the level so that the player can see how much is left and have them fail, if the level runs out of things to hurl at them

Shader should be much higher on my list on ways how to solve things, especially vertex shader will probably make things much easier than anticipated, I just need to get into the right mind set

For our next game I'm looking for tranlators in French, Italian, Portugese, Spanish, Russian, Chinese and Japanese. Any recommendations? *It's not an immidiate request, yet. Translations will be in a year, but I'd like to calculate stuff better and have recommendations to work with.