v buckenham

@v21.bsky.social

hello again made (and continuing to make) downpour.games, a game-making app that anyone can use also i have a website: v21.io

i was on TSLOG! talking about Helix, which i reckon has the same great ethos of luring you into taking just one more risk as Brough's broughlikes, but smoothly realtime.

The Secret Lives of Games@secretlivesofgames.bsky.social · 21h ago

All Systems Brough - HELIX We're joined by @foddy.net, @iznaut.com, and @v21.bsky.social to discuss this classic spiral-action shmup-like about staying alive, the 8th game in our yearlong coverage of @smestorp.bsky.social's wide-ranging catalogue. secretlives.games/all-systems-...

We need to get a handle on how this "coding" thing is creating addiction patterns. Some of my friends spend their nights and weekends on it. It's getting in between them and their families and social lives. They're even defining other people's worth solely in terms of how much those people code??

raided my cache of old stickers and decorated my laptop. now, I have a strict no logos policy for my laptop, which rules out most videogame stickers. but two snuck through - can you identify them?

laptop with stickers on it

then he lands, and the feet nudge-right logic stops running bc he's not falling. and so his right-side pixel nudges him out *left* again. but if we've been sucked in enough that the head pixel can now bonk, we can generate more "falling" frames and get sucked in further:

another video production fact for you today: every episode of Friends shown on British television was played back 4% faster than it was filmed (for framerate conversion reasons)