I made a little trio recording of a traditional English tune last night!🎶

After a bit of experimentation, I managed to cobble together a single-piston pneumatic engine out of Lego Technic! Here's a little video showing it off: youtu.be/0CEt63pBeRI

Simple Lego Technic Pneumatic Engine (No Modified Parts)

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I made a little Game Boy game as a present for my wife's birthday this year! I just uploaded the soundtrack to it: youtu.be/Uz_cO9KH2dQ

Original VGM - 'Hershel's Hide and Seek' (Waltz-style Game Boy music)

YouTube video by Soundole VGM Covers

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Last chance to get PicoTrains, my cozy train-network management game, for a dollar as part of the Steam Train Fest!🚂 store.steampowered.com/app/2849980/... #indiedev #PICO8 #indiegamedev #indiegames

Save 50% on PicoTrains on Steam

A retro-styled railway management strategy game!

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I made time tonight to record a tiny canonic clarinet trio🎶 youtu.be/DjKKra0AWzg

'Come, Companions' (Anonymous Round) Clarinet Trio

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My tiny PICO-8 train simulator, PicoTrains, is on sale as part of the Steam Train Fest! I'd love for you to check it out!🚂 store.steampowered.com/app/2849980/...

I went for a bushwalk with my brother around Bomaderry Creek today—what an incredible place to explore!

CALLING ALL LOW BUDGET INDIE GAMES‼️ We're gathering games interested in participating in a "Low Budget, Big Heart" Steam Festival! 💰Self Published, Self Funded 🤏Under ~50k budget 🚫NO AI if you're interested in the festival sign up here: forms.gle/cndDrEf4rxiL... rts appreciated :)

Low Budget, Big Heart Steam Festival interest form

We're looking for interested developers of low budget games to participate in our potential steam festival! Self published/self funded games are also welcome. If your game had a development budget ov...

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The last of my bass clarinet studies for a while—this is another spritely number from the McDowells etudes! youtube.com/shorts/OMYmz...

D. McDowells - Bassoon Study Book 1, No. 45 (on Bass Clarinet)

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Here's another bassoon etude that I recorded recently—this one uses the extended range of the bass clarinet quite effectively, and has a few tricky corners! youtu.be/mvEjGbkTxE8

Julius Weissenborn - Bassoon Etude Op. 8, Vol. II, No. 22 (on Bass Clarinet)

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Whenever I need to re-acclimate to the bass clarinet, I dip into the bassoon study repertoire! This poignant and expressive study comes from the McDowells etude book.

Steam summer sale! Wilmot Works it Out is 30% off! store.steampowered.com/app/2060590/...

Save 30% on Wilmot Works It Out on Steam

Wilmot Works It Out is a puzzle building game about completing beautiful images and using them to decorate the walls of your house.

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My #Pico8 journey started exactly 10 YEARS ago today, when I posted the following on Twitter... 📅 Thank you again @lexaloffle.bsky.social for creating such a wonderful, cozy space for us to play and create wonderful things! 🤓 PICO-8 re-ignited a passion for #GameDev that I'd lost since growing up ❤️

I don't watch the numbers much these days, but this is still a milestone worth appreciating! Thank you to everyone who has taken the time to listen to any of the stuff I've made. What a journey the last 17 years have been!

The ink ran out on my Canon printer, so now I can't use its scanning functions. Of course. Does anyone have any suggestions for printer/scanner brands which don't do things like this? The printer I used in the 90s was SO much better than anything produced in the last 20 years :/

Oh wow 🤩🤩🤩

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Here's the last of this season's recordings with the Sydney Conservatorium Clarinet Ensemble! I adapted @robbyduguay.com's beautiful brass quintet arrangement of 'The Legend' into a version for clarinet choir!

Here's the last of this season's recordings with the Sydney Conservatorium Clarinet Ensemble! I adapted @robbyduguay.com's beautiful brass quintet arrangement of 'The Legend' into a version for clarinet choir!

Deltarune - 'The Legend' (Sydney Conservatorium Clarinet Ensemble)

YouTube video by Soundole VGM Covers

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I really like making little games as gifts for people, and this year I'm going well-outside of my comfort zone for my wife's upcoming birthday—I've learned just enough to get something running on real Game Boy hardware! It's surreal and beautiful to witness my creations on this screen!

Here's another recording that I made recently with the Sydney Conservatorium Clarinet Ensemble—a spritely, jazzy little number by Richard Percival! youtu.be/zfQozDj6AII

Richard Percival - 'A Walk in the Park' (Sydney Conservatorium Clarinet Ensemble)

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My latest cover is the mysterious opening theme from Shadowgate on the NES, featuring the very fine percussion work of @vronmediamusic.bsky.social! I hope you enjoy what we've done with it! youtu.be/nyViMa9uQpA

Shadowgate - 'Title' EWI Cover (Ft. V-Ron Media)

YouTube video by Soundole VGM Covers

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Here's the first of several recordings that I made recently with the Sydney Conservatorium Clarinet Ensemble! 'Blue Silence', by Elena Kats-Chernin, is a moving work written for an art exhibition devoted to artists suffering from schizophrenia. youtu.be/C2z20MeFZc0

Elena Kats-Chernin - 'Blue Silence' (Sydney Conservatorium Clarinet Ensemble)

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Map Map is shaping up to be one of my games of the year! You use real cartography skills to plot locations on island maps—it's incredibly rare to experience puzzles with such open-ended solutions!

Last recording at the Con for the semester! This is Salviani's Oboe Etude No. 8, recorded with Ilaria Ramirez!🎶

My work with the E-flat clarinet has come to an end for the semester; I'm slightly more comfortable on it than I was about a month ago. As a fitting swansong to my time with it, here's the last etude from Colin/Bower's 'Rhythms Complete'!🎶

This is Double Dodge, my submission to #tweettweetjam 11, a game jam challenging entrants to write something using only 500 characters of code! It's playable in browser now—try your hand at playing two endless-runner-style games at once! soundole.itch.io/double-dodge #gamedev #PICO8

a windy day. #pico8 #chiptune

I'm nearly done with my E-flat clarinet work for the year—here's a little study that I think works quite well on that instrument!🎶 youtu.be/OHL-TqLzyLU

Jacques Lancelot - Study No. 10 from '20 Easy Studies for Clarinet' (on E-flat Clarinet)

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Got my #tweettweetjam #pico8 cart down to 498 chars! Had to sacrifice the track outline for a lap timer, but I think it was worth it.

Day 3 of TweetTweetJam 11! We’ve got four wonderful entries so far, keep them coming! Make a game with only 500 characters of code! itch.io/jam/tweettwe... #tweettweetjam #pico8 #gamejam #gamedev

I'm excited to make another game for #tweettweetjam, a jam challenging people to make something using only 500 characters of code! I fleshed out a proof of concept tonight; I'm very confident I can get this under 500 characters. I hope I can fit some nice presentation in too! #pico8 #gamedev