"Seasons" playlist, just for kicks feat. Cassius, Silvetti, Phoenix, The Blue Nile, Cocteau Twins, XTC, The Style Council, Chicane, Tears For Fears, Lifeformed, Josh Rouse, Guillemots, Prince, Merz music.apple.com/gb/playlist/... open.spotify.com/playlist/601...

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When devs talk about what stack they use, I’m not sure this is what they had in mind. 😅 #indiedev #gamedev #web #wii #mac #linux #dreamcast

In 1989, Bubble Bobble designer Fukio Mitsuji (MTJ) wrote a sci-fi skit about the "Rip-O-Bot": a machine that generates games from a prompt, at the press of a button, putting designers out of work. Sound familiar? His response is even more relevant today blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/08/02/g...

TIL: David Guetta was behind "I Gotta Feeling" by Black Eyed Peas! 🤯 My world has been rocked. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSD4...

The Black Eyed Peas - I Gotta Feeling (Official Music Video)

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"Autumn Tactics" by Chicane www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKaY...

Autumn Tactics

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These dry roaster peanuts say they are best if used by 2059. That's great for the cockroaches that will live on after the end of the world.

More music shared DNA... "Save Me" by Say When! (1987) www.youtube.com/watch?v=MAMS...

☆ Say When! - Save Me ☆ 1987

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In 1989, Bubble Bobble designer Fukio Mitsuji (MTJ) wrote a sci-fi skit about the "Rip-O-Bot": a machine that generates games from a prompt, at the press of a button, putting designers out of work. Sound familiar? His response is even more relevant today blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/08/02/g...

Never gets old. "Discovery" by Daft Punk (2000) record.club/releases/alb...

Discovery (2001) by Daft Punk

Discovery is the second studio album by the French electronic music duo Daft Punk, released on 12 March 2001 by Virgin Records. It marked a…

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The SNESDev Game Jam 2026 just started: itch.io/jam/snes-dev-game-jam-2026

SNES DEV Game Jam 2026

A game jam from 2026-07-31 to 2026-11-14 hosted by SNES-Testberichte, Kannagichan & Svambo. 3 months • Build your own SNES game • Make SNES history Introduction After last year's SNES DEV Game Jam was...

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I implemented a design system in my game, BELTRUNNER, which is only 1300 lines of code! HUD text with the same intent always appears at the same y-pos and in the same size, with three distinct sizes creating additional hierarchy. An easy way to make your game UI feel more consistent and solid.

matt sephton@gingerbeardman.com · 6d ago

I've published a BELTRUNNER game design postmortem on my blog: blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/07/30/b... ...which includes the thinking behind the core design, gameplay reveal, stepped level progression, teaching the player how to play without a tutorial, power-ups, scoring, and much more!

Risograph printing at Play Play Play Press

This is the Jinks logo, itself a little game written in 138 lines of Jinks! Read more at: jinks.gg

Silo leaves me so conflicted. On one hand I'm all in for the scifi story. On the other hand it feels so low budget. Acting is substandard on the whole. I'm hoping Neuromancer will be better!

My little version of Breakout written in Jinks is now running at a playable speed on Sega Dreamcast. Optimisation FTW! #jinksgg @jinks.gg jinks.gg

matt sephton@gingerbeardman.com · last wk.

Just for kicks here's Breakout in Jinks running on Sega Dreamcast! Swift → WASM → C → KOS With all that abstraction it runs at 2.8 fps 😅 BUT the fact that it runs at all is a minor miracle! Also tested on a real hardware via GDEMU #jinksgg jinks.gg

I've published a BELTRUNNER game design postmortem on my blog: blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/07/30/b... ...which includes the thinking behind the core design, gameplay reveal, stepped level progression, teaching the player how to play without a tutorial, power-ups, scoring, and much more!

BELTRUNNER: game design postmortem  ⌘I  Get Info

Last week I shared a look at an arcade-faithful version of Asteroids to demonstrate the totally new way of making games that I’ve been working on. It’s calle...

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Here's BELTRUNNER on Nintendo Wii! swift → WASM → C → SDL2/GX Incremental DOL builds make testing quick and easy in Dolphin, and in HBC on real hardware. Much optimisation means a rock-solid 60fps for this game! #jinksgg @jinks.gg jinks.gg

matt sephton@gingerbeardman.com · last wk.

My game BELTRUNNER is out now! gingerbeardman.itch.io/beltrunner Kinda like Asteroids…or is it? The game was built using Jinks, also by me, which is a totally new way to make games. Game ~10 KB Engine ~0.5 MB Total Web Bundle ~2 MB #gmtkjam #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

Here's BELTRUNNER on Nintendo Wii! swift → WASM → C → SDL2/GX Incremental DOL builds make testing quick and easy in Dolphin, and in HBC on real hardware. Much optimisation means a rock-solid 60fps for this game! #jinksgg @jinks.gg jinks.gg

matt sephton@gingerbeardman.com · last wk.

My game BELTRUNNER is out now! gingerbeardman.itch.io/beltrunner Kinda like Asteroids…or is it? The game was built using Jinks, also by me, which is a totally new way to make games. Game ~10 KB Engine ~0.5 MB Total Web Bundle ~2 MB #gmtkjam #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

🕹️ FM Towns 📚 Technopolis 1989 08 👤 @ahatla2

Got my first seahorse emoji fan mail 😍 Thanks to Yamandu Roos, NL blog.gingerbeardman.com/2026/07/17/l...

Years in the making, I finally have a working prototype of my Camera GBD-M2 (previously shared as Game Boy Camera M2). A sequel to the Game Boy Camera M1, this new redesign uses original Game Boy Pocket & Game Boy Camera chips into a camera-like shape roughly the same size as the Ricoh GR III.

Here's BELTRUNNER on my Anbernic RG 35XX H! Swift → WASM → C → SDL2/GLES2 (MustardOS) Testing builds is quick and easy over SSH! CRT shader is also ported 😎 Still a little optimisation work to hit a stable 60fps. #jinksgg jinks.gg

Here's BELTRUNNER on my Anbernic RG 35XX H! Swift → WASM → C → SDL2/GLES2 (MustardOS) Testing builds is quick and easy over SSH! CRT shader is also ported 😎 Still a little optimisation work to hit a stable 60fps. #jinksgg jinks.gg

Just for kicks here's Breakout in Jinks running on Sega Dreamcast! Swift → WASM → C → KOS With all that abstraction it runs at 2.8 fps 😅 BUT the fact that it runs at all is a minor miracle! Also tested on a real hardware via GDEMU #jinksgg jinks.gg

The 3rd backend for my game engine Jinks is… raylib! Thanks for making it so easy @raysan5.bsky.social 1. Metal (macOS, iPhone, iPad) 2. WebGL2 (browser) 3. raylib (macOS & more targets soon!) All running the exact same Jinks game file 😎 #jinksgg @jinks.gg jinks.gg

matt sephton@gingerbeardman.com · last wk.

My game BELTRUNNER is out now! gingerbeardman.itch.io/beltrunner Kinda like Asteroids…or is it? The game was built using Jinks, also by me, which is a totally new way to make games. Game ~10 KB Engine ~0.5 MB Total Web Bundle ~2 MB #gmtkjam #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

My game BELTRUNNER features alongside a @frankforce.bsky.social game–what an honour! gingerbeardman.itch.io/beltrunner

BELTRUNNER by gingerbeardman

Kinda like Asteroids…or is it?

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Microsiervos@microsiervos.com · last wk.

Dos juegos modestos y muy adictivos que demuestran otra vez que la simplicidad basta para pasar las horas y ejercitar los reflejos | #juegos | www.microsiervos.com/archivo/jueg... | por @alvy.bsky.social

Managed to top my own local high score table in BELTRUNNER after a glorious hour of play! #gmtkjam #gamedev #indiedev gingerbeardman.itch.io/beltrunner

matt sephton@gingerbeardman.com · last wk.

My game BELTRUNNER is out now! gingerbeardman.itch.io/beltrunner Kinda like Asteroids…or is it? The game was built using Jinks, also by me, which is a totally new way to make games. Game ~10 KB Engine ~0.5 MB Total Web Bundle ~2 MB #gmtkjam #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains merz-uk.bandcamp.com/album/merz

bjork@golgo13.bsky.social · last wk.

Post a perfect album from the 90's that isn't nirvana, soundgarden, pearl jam, or alice in chains

Here's BELTRUNNER running on a Cyberdeck, looking like we're in an alternative Universe where vector games won and bitmaps were relegated to history. Thanks to Jason Morley for sending it in! gingerbeardman.itch.io/beltrunner

matt sephton@gingerbeardman.com · last wk.

My game BELTRUNNER is out now! gingerbeardman.itch.io/beltrunner Kinda like Asteroids…or is it? The game was built using Jinks, also by me, which is a totally new way to make games. Game ~10 KB Engine ~0.5 MB Total Web Bundle ~2 MB #gmtkjam #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

My game BELTRUNNER is out now! gingerbeardman.itch.io/beltrunner Kinda like Asteroids…or is it? The game was built using Jinks, also by me, which is a totally new way to make games. Game ~10 KB Engine ~0.5 MB Total Web Bundle ~2 MB #gmtkjam #gamedev #indiedev #gametech

matt sephton@gingerbeardman.com · 2w ago

My IDE just told me my game's theoretical max score, live! This is BELTRUNNER, my entry in #gmtkjam 2026, and the first released game built with my new multi-platform engine #jinksgg a totally new way to make games #gamedev has never been this focused & fun #screenshotsaturday