Spex130

OKAY IT'S DONE. Took a bit to close the loop but this year's Swordtember is COMPLETE! Big thanks to everyone who helped! You've got HUGE thanks in the credits! Made with 0% AI. I checked. You can give it a play HERE: spex130.itch.io/blades-of-sw... #swordtember2026 #swordtember #gamedev

Explore Dr. Slump (PlayStation) levels, maps, models, and it's timeless 3D Pixel Art in the browser! Dr. Slump (PS1) added to the library: Arale, Penguin Village characters and bosses, animations, levels with animated water, waterfalls, lava, moving characters, vehicles. #pixelart #retrogames #ps1

Oooh, seems like an interesting project! I've always wanted to make something like this myself.

RT if you don't use AI for coding

Starting a new project? Turn on and enforce the following right now: -sRGB for all rendertargets and source textures. -premultiplied alpha in both textures and blending. -fixed-point world time and world position. Retrofitting these after the fact is a giant pain. Learn from my (repeated) fail!

I've made 6 open-source @godotengine.org projects perfect for as a base for your first or next game. Completely human-made and easy to understand code & comments. All visuals and sounds included, CC0! kenney.nl/starter-kits

For those of you reading who have tried vibe code, or used claude code snippets even, etc; Its okay to just stop if you feel its wrong now, you dont have to double down. We aren't going to witch hunt. We just want a healthier industry continued to be made by Human beings.

Ebay started doing this a quite a while ago, unfortunately. The toggle to turn off AI training is here: accountsettings.ebay.com/ai-preferences

'Too Big a Risk' - Indie Dev Digital Sun Delays ReVamp Public Playtest over Potential AI Cloning Concerns

We've been testing our GBA engine and GBA PCB on the Analogue Pocket as it arrived today! It seems their emulation may still have some minor issues compared to real hardware regarding bus speed. When we run the PCB speed tests they pass fine on a real GBA but seems to fail on 2/1 speed on Analogue

If you're an #N64 Homebrewer/developer then check this out @kazeemanuar.bsky.social is hosting a competition focusing on making the most lush, beautiful and technically interesting water, with a $300 cash prize to the winner Check his video for details #homebrew #retrogaming #retrogaming #Nintendo

Well, this sure is depressing news Due to the massive influx of #AIslop creeping into the vast majority of #decompilation projects, the owner of decomp.dev has decided to sunset their website that gamers could use to keep track of on-going #decomp project :c A service that I, myself, used a lot

Our feature tutorial/artist for today is this wonderful FLAME PAINTING IDEA by @mitcher_meier! I LOVE how a SIMPLE SHAPE can BUILD & SUBTRACT, and in a few steps create something so FULL OF LIFE! This is such a brilliant starting point for AWESOME FIRE! #gamedev #illustration

'SEGASonic Bros.' - let's talk about it!

Super Smash Bros. For N64 Is Getting A Non-"AI Slop" Recomp, With 'Smash Remix' Support

Our new game ECHO WEAVER is out now! Get it meow! Available for PC/Mac, Switch2, Xbox, and Playstation. store.steampowered.com/app/2184080/...

About a month ago, powmia99 discovered a way to trigger arbitrary code execution fully standalone in Animal Crossing GameCube with nothing but a controller. This was confirmed by Cuyler and I to work on vanilla hardware and we now have a setup that makes it 100% consistent.

It's never too late to stop using AI. It doesn't matter what you're using it for, however much you're relying on it, you can stop. There's nothing it does that can't be replaced by other, better methods. You can always learn new skills, it's never too late.

Hey do you like Sonic Heroes? I do too, that's why I made a li'l game demo! Feel free to try it out! pyrokidsosa.itch.io/blazing-heroes #BlazingHeroes #SonicFangames #Gamedev

NOPE. Not done with the game. Tantalizingly close - like you can actually get to an end screen and get a score tally and there's like 8 enemy variants and all that But also to finish this tonight I'd have to pretty much burn myself out. We're gonna be healthy. I can sleep now and finish tomorrow.

Okay yeah today's the last day. Trying to powerbomb through what's left to make of the game. There's always so much more left than you think, even when you're "almost done" At least there's actually not much left to do. I hope. #swordtember2026 #gamedev

wanna know one of the dirty little secrets of how to make a cool science fiction set? this bad boy right here, the NFS 4 Freezer Spacer. this fucker shows up EVERYWHERE in scifi set design ceilings? check! floors? check! walls? check! tables? check! instant scifi vibe

Pet project: 1) Advanced PS1/N64 game extraction (+all animations). 2) Website where you can browse and compare models, textures, animations, FMVs, for preservation. Already have FF7, Mega Man Legends 1 and 2 and MediEvil fully ripped. #FF7 #FinalFantasy #FFVII #PS1 #PSX #RetroGame #N64

Our custom Sega Genesis emulator, built in Unity, now supports dynamic touch regions and widescreen, and the ROM still runs on original Genesis hardware. We're using it to bring Alpha Pairs to desktop, TV and mobile.

#swordtember2026 Haven't been up to nothing! Been getting some level design stuff done before implementing the finishing touches like bosses and game flow. This is our miniboss arena for the Rodent prompted design, from 2025. Said design is a beaver, so you gotta fight him on a tree ofc. #gamedev

Hey #ocarina students and educators. I couldn't find a free blank sheet music with ocarina staves, so I made one. It's free and fit for printing: carrion.0xpossum.dev/ocarina_stav...

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...

Fine, I'll do it myself.

N64 and PSX artists rejoice - my vertex/normal painter tool POLYPAINT is now (finally) live on the Unity Asset Store!! 🎊 Grab it 30% off for the launch week - I can't wait to see what you all do with it! assetstore.unity.com/packages/slu...

#swordtember2026 This is another Sword pickup I'm working on, and it's a special one. It's actually the first Swordtember sword I ever made, way back in 2021 - "Golden". Glad to finally be done with the sword spawning systems, now I get to have fun and make a bunch of stuff! #gamedev

#Swordtember2026 WE HAVE A SWORD USE ITEM And it's...not mine?? Yeah @inazumasosa.bsky.social has been helping with UI and since he ALSO did Swordtember 2023 he actually let me include one of his swords! So, meet Gurren D.Horn (Horn Sword), an equippable use item that drops ingame! #gamedev

...also, I coalesced everything into a blogpost I hope it helps more😆 andrea-jens.medium.com/creating-a-c...

VERY cool website I found, "Diatom Ravine" www.diatomravine.com Includes a Metroidvania search engine Found this because Demake86 has four hits from it on Itch :>