davemakes🔶
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indie gamedev in japan • mixolumia • executive golf dx • core fault
Big Walk is $14.99 on Steam (25% off launch discount) buff.ly/Va9EUWE US eShop buff.ly/oVQzDIh included on US PS+ Essential buff.ly/ceyvWXX
The 500 FINGER FILLET demo is OUT NOW!!! 500 STABS. 20 MINUTES TO ESCAPE. A horror roguelite about stabbing yourself in the hand 500 times to escape a deadly trap. Can you make it out with all your fingers? Or will you bleed out on the table? store.steampowered.com/app/4973880/...
if i was a games podcaster i would write an intro like Big Walk or Small Talk? We gawk at what House House touts as 'Scout with your Spouse' sim
I've shared my educational toy, Number Lab, on the Pico-8 BBS for anyone to play with. A simple illustration of 8 bits! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=158...
Falling Block Jam 2026 is now open for sign-ups! For just over a week in September, let's hack together our own ideas in the classic arcade puzzle genre. #FallingBlockJam itch.io/jam/falling-...
Falling Block Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-28 hosted by davemakes. Falling Block Jam celebrates the combination of blocks and gravity in video games. Think Tetris, Puyo Puyo, Panel de Pon, Dr. Mario, and L...
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I'm mostly excited for the Neuromancer show because I don't have any attachment to the book. Even if it's a bad adaptation I can just watch it like
rewatching Who Framed Roger Rabbit and realizing Christopher Lloyd is a Bloodborne boss. He even has a second health bar in the final fight
Falling Block Jam 2026 is now open for sign-ups! For just over a week in September, let's hack together our own ideas in the classic arcade puzzle genre. #FallingBlockJam itch.io/jam/falling-...
Falling Block Jam 2026
A game jam from 2026-09-18 to 2026-09-28 hosted by davemakes. Falling Block Jam celebrates the combination of blocks and gravity in video games. Think Tetris, Puyo Puyo, Panel de Pon, Dr. Mario, and L...
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Video #2 in my series about how to program games in Pico-8 for total beginners is up! We talk about tables, random numbers, for loops, the modulo operator, and other stuff that leads to ultimately making a scrolling star field with a spaceship that shoots bullets. www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1E5...
Stars are just data - Learn Game Programming in Pico-8 #2
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I probably won't need to explain bitwise stuff for a while but I did throw together a fun toy
Looks like the CD cover for an early 2000’s techno album. #MusicSky
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
obsessed with the font on IKEA's clam chowder packaging. this is what's in the freezer on the Nostromo
Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:
well I tried to use bsky's subtitle feature on that little video and it just got absolutely mangled huh
I think programming concepts are better explained with cute cartoon bugs sharing cookies, how about you
there's subtle storytelling in Picard's standard order of "Tea, Earl Grey, Hot." The ship computer is basically at a point where it's conversational but he uses it the way it might've functioned in the past, more of a command line with specific, ordered arguments, and he prefers it that way
hii i made 130 game sfx over the last few days, i put them up on itch for free and u can download them and use them in ur games if u wanna (pwyw no min/commercial use okay/attribution not required but welcomed) avoset.itch.io/synthetic-so...
now I’ve seen The Odyssey, here are my thoughts: - CGI was incredible - love how they mixed myth into a modern story - not sure why everyone was yellow - I don’t think they had denim overalls in Ancient Greece - or goggles, come to think of it - Odysseus’ obsession with bananas is NOT canon
movie night is fun but it's expensive to get a decent tv stand and seating for everyone and then you're all crowded around the tv... the solution is no couch, projector towards the ceiling, pillows on the floor, everybody lies on their backs looking up