Mark Johns
@doomlaser.bsky.social
Founder of Doomlaser. Building games, tools, & systems ■▧▲▴◂▵◥◉◈☶♫ https://doomlaser.com /// http://doomlaser.itch.io
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Back in the days of the wild west, everything was much more rudimentary and raw. Drinking water had bits in it, shoes had holes in them, and computers only had 8-bits of processing power. With limited...
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Put a bit of work into our early indie game wave metroidvania, Space Barnacle. For technical reasons, it used to launch in a tiny window. No longer. Crisp new full screen on boot, otherwise its the classic version! get: doomaser.itch.io/spacebarnacle #indiedev #metroidvania #gamedev
Put a bit of work into our early indie game wave metroidvania, Space Barnacle. For technical reasons, it used to launch in a tiny window. No longer. Crisp new full screen on boot, otherwise its the classic version! get: doomaser.itch.io/spacebarnacle #indiedev #metroidvania #gamedev
I'm very happy to announce that I am an artist on @subvert.fm , a co-op music platform that just launched! I have published my latest release exclusively on the platform, a #soundtrack to @doomlaser.bsky.social 's #indiegame #fps GUN FLESH - check it out at www.subvert.fm/null-band/gu...
Some more polish work on this segment of the mines- added the secret room (nothing in it yet), @jordizzle.bsky.social added a death frame for the Knobhoblin, made subweapons always force the goblins away from you so you don't accidentally fling them toward yourself, etc!
Here lived the Cardinals (🐦)... #gamedev #indiegame #memamorkin
it's kinda fun zooming all the way out on big screens while editing
ok we're getting somewhere now. i have the verbs partially set up and bound. theoretically, if you have an item which has its description written, it should be able to display it now...
Road Rash (1994) opening cinematic for 3DO, PC, and other platforms #GameHistory #videogames #Soundgarden #hellyeah
Here's an attempt at creating a "cracked lava field" sort of tile. The orange is brighter than it's supposed to be according to the game's palette rules, but I'm thinking that this could potentially be a case where it's worth it for an emissive lighting effect. #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
Made an introduction & career retrospective video for a conference. I think it turned out pretty well If you're wondering who I am, what I've worked on, & what I think of the future of AI API tech—from both the US & China's frontier labs: watch! youtu.be/gDvfKxK81XU #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
Mark Johns / Doomlaser Introduction, Career Retrospective + The Future of AI
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Made an introduction & career retrospective video for a conference. I think it turned out pretty well If you're wondering who I am, what I've worked on, & what I think of the future of AI API tech—from both the US & China's frontier labs: watch! youtu.be/gDvfKxK81XU #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames
Mark Johns / Doomlaser Introduction, Career Retrospective + The Future of AI
YouTube video by Doomlaser
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I picked up a quilted Super Mario Bros. NES Mario at a craft & maker store on Saturday. It's pretty cool! Was on sale for $2.50 USD! 🍄🎮 #gamedev #indiedev #nintendo #Mario #videogame
Found art I made at age 9: DEMO CHEMO. It was about a flagrantly unsafe chemical plant/nuclear reactor that also sold food to the public. My 4th & 5th grade gifted teacher, Mr. Elrick, was cool—he hung it up behind his desk for 2 years. #indiedev #worldbuilding #gamedev #retro #darkhumor
Found art I made at age 9: DEMO CHEMO. It was about a flagrantly unsafe chemical plant/nuclear reactor that also sold food to the public. My 4th & 5th grade gifted teacher, Mr. Elrick, was cool—he hung it up behind his desk for 2 years. #indiedev #worldbuilding #gamedev #retro #darkhumor
In this fun video, I talk about Tap Tap Revenge, which was written by a small team including Jonatan 'cactus' Söderström, Kevin Coulton, @gte.bsky.social Steve Jobs played the game at a keynote. We did videos for Daft Punk, Justice, Coldplay, etc www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1_9... #indiegame #gamedev
Tap Tap Revenge Fan Comments + Context about Disney acquiring Tapulous, Hotline Miami, Sega
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Recently discovered I can do large-scale sprite animation in Blender
huh. I have a Grokipedia page: grokipedia.com/page/Mark_Jo... I wonder if it was 100% AI-written? There must be some human oversight, right? I do not have a Wikipedia page yet #gamedev #indiedev #AI #LLM
Mark Johns
Mark Johns is an American video game developer best known as the founder and lead engineer of the indie studio Doomlaser, with notable contributions to mobile gaming including engine programming for t...
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In 2011-2012, my studio, along with @adamatomic.bsky.social, @pietepiet.com & @dannybstyle.bsky.social, built the iPhone game for the first Hunger Games movie, launching alongside the film on March 23, 2012 10 million players within days www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHIU... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame
We built the iPhone game for The Hunger Games movie here: Doomlaser West II
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In 2011-2012, my studio, along with @adamatomic.bsky.social, @pietepiet.com & @dannybstyle.bsky.social, built the iPhone game for the first Hunger Games movie, launching alongside the film on March 23, 2012 10 million players within days www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHIU... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame
We built the iPhone game for The Hunger Games movie here: Doomlaser West II
YouTube video by Doomlaser
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I just asked Gemini 3 Pro—which I pay for—to generate an .srt file of subtitles for a new video I just finished. It made up the entire thing. It just fucking made it all up. Nothing had anything to do with the audio in the file. It just lied. #AI #LLM #MachineLearning #GenerativeAI
Holy shit. Kanye West apology letter in The Wall Steet Journal. He is finally admitting that he has bipolar disorder. This is a huge step forward for the man. I have been a fan of his ever since The College Dropout. It takes courage to come out and share your weaknesses so publicly. Wholesome.
🔧 FREE demo of Ratcheteer DX on Steam today! Check out this Link to a golden era of video games and Awaken your nostalgic memories of top-down action-adventuring. Full game is out March 5 on Switch, PC, and Mac. (Your demo save will transfer to the full Steam release.) ⬇️ s.team/a/3908650
While researching this I found out there's a 1997 WAD that actually uses that limit for something. In MAP19 of Hell Revealed, you start in a room with a bunch of PE who can't attack bc the map already has 21 LS, but once you get the item on the room, all of the LS are killed and they start attacking
started this thursday night, managed to get it done (except audio sigh) tonight... keep an eye out for it later this week tho. got that "i am a genius / oh no" kind of fun
i made it so equipment can change the color of your character. i thought it would be nice to have a little expressive bandwidth in text mode.
