Got back to proper development (after working mostly on internals). Three new potions added. Some minor mechanic changes. Boss rewrite is next... #roguelike #roguelikedev #pixelart #solodev

Learning VI-Keys. Took me 2 days to retrain my muscles, lol. Wanted to get a feel for what kind of buttons go well with it, but on yesterday's run 50% of the damage I took was due to wrestling with the layout, but after one night of sleep now things go much smoother.🥳 #ruinsOfCalaworm #roguelike

To properly celebrate Spooky Season, #ruinsOfCalaworm will go on sale from October 13th - 31st. Get it for $4.95 (38% Discount). 👻🎃🕯️🌈🦇🏮👹 ⭐Save the Date!⭐ #roguelike #indieGame

Are there any "normal' MARIO MAKER Maps, and how does one find them, lol? I mean Maps that aren't "My 1st Level Ever" or "Here's 1001 Discord Emojis puked across the screen, glhf."

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Danger Zones in #ruinsOfCalaworm are procGenerated. The regular Dungeon Tileset didn't have one yet, tho, so I just wanted to expand the codebase for future support, but went down the Rabbit Hole instead, and now here's a pointy Spike Pit (complete with death animation). 🪡🪡🪡💀 #roguelike

Keybinding Preselects are up and running. 😎 Tested it a bit, and realized that muscle memory IS a thing, lol, took me some time to adapt. But it's a cool feature to have on offer, for players with older/smaller Laptops.🫶 #ruinsOfCalaworm #roguelike

#indieGame #gameDev #soloDev If ur game runs fine and has no (gamebreaking) bugs, no one cares about quality of your code. Optimization doesn't have to look pretty, and Polish only refers to what players can actually see & feel. Sometimes a simple Global checkVar can save you 2 days of refactoring.

Praise for #ruinsOfCalaworm. 🥰🫶🤗

Woah, MINECRAFT Movie is surprisingly funny and well-written for the thing it's trying to convey. Lotsa low-key adult-targetted innuendo, certainly did not expect that, lol, and cast is having a blast, apparently. Pro-Creativity message is also legit. 🥰 Perfect sick-in-bed pastime, loving it!

Love this take. 🤗 Also stellar presentation (as always) by @juniperdev.bsky.social, and the reasoning totally checks out. #indieDev #gameDev

Bad Graphics Make Better Games, Actually

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Currently sick in bed (🤧🥴), so not working on the upcoming patch as much as I want to ... once it drops, tho, you can choose a Keybinding Layout from 3 PreSelects, two of which are Non-Numpad-based. The WSAD-based is courtesy to @altermox.bsky.social, who came up with a cool solution for diagonals.😎

Balanced and extremely based take on the "gameDevs are cooked" argument from certain AI folks. Also debunking the myth of the AAA-quality "one-shot" product. #gameDev #indieGame

It's time to talk about AI games...

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I still find it kinda daunting to watch others play my game, lol, but imagine my excitement, when just today I stumbled upon a playthrough compilation, that shows quite a few late-game mechanics and events.😮 Thank you 'Dungeon Plungeon'! 😎🤩🫶 #ruinsOfCalaworm #roguelike #lovecraft

I tried to dissect this obscure Lovecraftian roguelike - The Ruins of Calaworm

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Rayquaza, the Sky Guardian

I made a game for #pico1k ! Just click to jump on a lilypad, but time it well! :) you play here : benjamin-soul.itch.io/lily-leap #gamedev #pico8

there is some really organic material in here, but it's all enforced via 8 neighbor checks.

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Autumn in the hills F. Carmichael

a parasite not fit for the light #pixel_dailies #kiwi1bit #1bit #ドット絵 #pixelart @pixeldailies.bsky.social

i added one final thing to the CA generator- identifying rooms. so now it can make proper room data even though there's no concept of rooms in the process itself.

More Keybindings-related QoL-changes incoming, e.g. reminder in Tutorials and hints will show the actual prompt from your personal Keybindings, and not refer to the Default. Will also include at least 2 alternate layouts to select on a fly, for players without NumPads (e.g. VI-keys).

Back on working on next Patch for #ruinsOfCalaworm ... Warning for conflicting Keybindings currently pops up regardless, because of a lazy check, that does only compare buttonIndex, and not whether there's an actual conflict within the same gameMode. Thx @altermox.bsky.social for the reminder.🫶

Farland is an earthbound and undertale inspired rpg maker game about 6 people and an organisation killing the earth, with pastel and surreal visuals and a story driven plot Coming sometime 2027 #farland #undertale #earthbound #indiegame #indiedev #rpgmaker

German #fantasyFilmfest is over, and these were my 4 favorites: • CAROLINA CAROLINE - 🇺🇸 / Adam Carter Rehmeier • THE ONES WHO GRIEVE - 🇫🇷 / Quarxx • THE PLAGUE - 🇺🇸 🇷🇴 / Charlie Polinger • SPECIES (a.k.a. SANGUINE) - 🇫🇷 / Marion Le Corroller

For all game devs that are confused by the steam backend: here is a handy overview. We are fairly certain we got this one figured … #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegames

In 'Trending' I just noticed a topic called "Trump orders Canadian goods removed", and at first I read "Trump orders Canadian gods removed", and this didn't even seem weird, with the current timeline we're living in, lol, so why did I double-check, fr

Indie game dev is more than anything else, a test of resilience and commitment. Either you can stick to a project and constantly learn new things for years without seeing a penny, or you can't.

Tomorrow's the last day of Fantasy Filmfest, and I wanted you to know, that I've already resumed working on the next patch or #ruinsOfCalaworm. <3 Thank you, and have a nice week.

Known Issues (in v4.13.12.18)

Will be tracking all issues here from my personal play sessions - plus any complications that I've received reports of. Once they pop up here, chances are high that I've already fixed them in my local...

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I wrote a little beginners guide on #pico8 and #picotron math. It's a short read going over the most common applications of percentages, distance functions, linear interpolation, sin, cos and atan2. Big thanks to the PICO-8 community for giving me feedback on this! #gamedev #tutorial

Math for PICO-8 devs

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Maybe ... not let AI kill us all in 2030? Just a thought, thank you.