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Usagi Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-13 hosted by Brett Chalupa. To celebrate the release of Usagi Engine v1, let's do a casual game jam! This is a great way to try the engine out. The jam starts on ...

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#usagijam has officially started! The theme is: MOON Join the jam: itch.io/jam/usagi-ja... Join the Discord: usagiengine.com/discord Can't wait to see what people make!!

Usagi Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-07-03 to 2026-07-13 hosted by Brett Chalupa. To celebrate the release of Usagi Engine v1, let's do a casual game jam! This is a great way to try the engine out. The jam starts on ...

itch.io

Usagi v1.2.0 has been released! It has a lot of bug fixes, Intel Mac support, new sfx funcs, alpha params for drawing, and more! I tried to get things in as good a place as possible for the Usagi Jam starting tomorrow!! Full details & download: codeberg.org/brettchalupa...

I started a fun project for research where I'm playing through every PC Engine shoot-em-up in release order and sharing my thoughts on the Insert Credit forum. Currently playing Hany in the Sky, a weird and charming game from March 1989. forums.insertcredit.com/t/pce-stg-pr...

PCE STG Project

Exploring the PC Engine’s shooting game library in chronological order! NEC/Hudson Soft’s PC Engine console (released in Japan on October 10, 1987) is renowned for its sheer number of shooters, many ...

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Make Games for Playdate with Lua is on sale on itch for US$5.99 for the Summer Sale 2026 until Monday, July 6th! It's a great way to jump into learning Lua, game programming, and #Playdate game dev. brettchalupa.itch.io/playdatebook

Make Games for Playdate with Lua by Brett Chalupa

A fun introduction to game programming with Lua and the Playdate SDK

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working on Rev. 2 of the NEOGEAR caravan incorporating player feedback: wave-based spawns, increased player ship speed, 16x9 UI with gadgets, and less tanky enemies. it's feeling good! plenty to do over the next ~2 weeks

I wrote a bunch of new recipes for the Usagi book: quickstart guide, particles, scenes, level editors, collision detection, & more book.usagiengine.com/recipes/quic... (gonna take a break from the book writing for a bit)

I made a little template for Usagi games that I've been using. It includes basic scenes, some starter sprites by Kenney, particle system, and more codeberg.org/brettchalupa...

usagi_template

Quickstart template for Usagi Engine games, featuring scenes, helpful enums, itch.io deploy script, a particle manager, and more

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new usagi vid on the upcoming game jam, the recent book updates, and the new quickstart template I've been working on: youtu.be/PDBrbCqYYns

Join the first Usagi Jam, book updates, and a new quickstart template

YouTube video by Brett Makes Games

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Usagi Jam 2026 starts on Friday, July 3rd! Join the jam (itch.io/jam/usagi-ja...) for 10 days of diving into making games with Usagi Engine. Looking forward to seeing what you make! (Also, thanks to @omarudraw.bsky.social for the BunBun illustration used in jam graphic!)

Ben H. is writing a tutorial on making Asteroids with Usagi, super cool to see! ben-heil.com/blogs/usagi-...

I just finished writing the 2nd chapter of the Usagi book. We make a shoot 'em up in it. Enemies spawn in waves, fire bullets at the player, and we dip our toes into sound effects. book.usagiengine.com/02-shoot-em-...

wrote a bunch of recipes for the Usagi book today, like building dev tools, dev mode-only functionality, and advanced state and data usage: book.usagiengine.com/recipes/dev-...

I've given into the haters: an example on how to compile TS to Lua with Usagi codeberg.org/brettchalupa...

first chapter of the (free) Usagi Book is ready! we make a dodge 'em up in it where you dodge incoming circles, written for beginners as if it's someone's first game they're making! book.usagiengine.com/01-dodge-em-...

wow, @wuffmakesgames.bsky.social @petthepetra.com & co. made an incredible NES-inspired yoyo based platformer Mouse Go Roll! in Usagi Engine! wuffmakesgames.itch.io/mouse-go-roll really neat to see people making games with the engine

I wrote a little bit about why you might want to install usagi for your user vs putting the engine executable in your project folders: book.usagiengine.com/recipes/user...

designed the usagi engine book cover today and outlined the contents! feeling good and excited

"WE MUST STOP TREATING EVERYTHING WE MAKE AS A POTENTIAL PRODUCT" hit me hard

Mike Cook@mtrc.bsky.social · 2mo ago

I wrote a manifesto for making games, and (not) selling them, for #manifestojam illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

Really neat to see NEOGEAR -Summer Caravan '26- be in the top 4 most popular shoot 'em ups on itch today: itch.io/games/tag-sh... The feedback from people who play the game has been really positive, which is extremely gratifying and motivating.

NEOGEAR -Summer Caravan '26- has been released! It's a free, tight, 2-minute time-attack shmup. You play as Porter, a retired frame pilot, brought back into the fray to fight the rampant AI KAMI. Key art by Chromatic Arcana. Game design and programming by me. brettchalupa.itch.io/neogear-summ...

Usagi v1.1.1 has been released! It includes a performance fix for web, doc fixes, and some more character ranges when font baking. Get the latest version with `usagi update`. Then run `usagi refresh` in your projects. codeberg.org/brettchalupa...

Does anyone have any advice/guidance on how to find artists to potentially hire for sprite work? I in particular am looking for someone experienced in making shmup art, which has its own visual needs quite different from other games due to visibility being a top concern.

I've been working on a 2 min caravan mode for NEOGEAR. Goal is to release it this Friday!

Usagi v1.1.0 overview covering `usagi loveify` and some of the other changes and fixes www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSDi...

Usagi Engine's killing feature: Love2D Export - Usagi v1.1.0 Changelog Overview

YouTube video by Brett Makes Games

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Usagi v1.1.0 has been released, including `usagi loveify` to convert your project to Love2D, Linux ARM exports, debug function support, a whole bunch of bug fixes, and more! Run `usagi update`. Full details and download here: codeberg.org/brettchalupa...

I have decided that Usagi Engine will not accept AI contributions. I have also decided to move the project off of GitHub. The source code now lives on Codeberg at codeberg.org/brettchalupa...

usagi

Simple 2D game engine for rapid prototyping with Lua, featuring live reload and cross-platform export

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Really awesome to see the Playdate zine Cranko! (cranknockout.com) covering my Playdate book and doing a raffle for free copies!

sola-raylib v6.2.0 has been released with more Rust-y loading for some assets, a request_quit function,Windows build improvements, and SDL version fixes for Windows: github.com/brettchalupa...

Release v6.2.0 · brettchalupa/sola-raylib

BREAKING RaylibHandle::load_shader and load_shader_from_memory are now fallible (#51). Both return Result<Shader, Error> instead of Shader. raylib silently logs a warning and substitutes the defa...

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I set up an Usagi Engine discord channel if anyone wants to join it usagiengine.com/discord