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Romain Macrรฉ

@romainmacre.bsky.social

๐Ÿ‡ซ๐Ÿ‡ท Works at Nitrome, lead Programmer on Shovel Knight Dig. I'll talk about game development and my side projects, notably space shooter Alexus 2040 (mobile). Currently working on deluxe version for Steam. https://fairlyavailable.com/

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Latest posts by romainmacre.bsky.social on Bluesky

I think the name 'Andor' plays a part, it's like they didn't come up with a name. And maybe the main character isn't seen as very charismatic, well I'm not sure about this one.

25.11.2025 10:31 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You lose the sense of what people are interested in, what they think, their opinion, you basically don't know anymore.

24.11.2025 09:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A sketch in watercolour and Indian ink at London Embankment with pigeons

A sketch in watercolour and Indian ink at London Embankment with pigeons

An older watercolour drawing from when I used to make frequent trips to sketch in London. This shows the Embankment with lots of pigeons, a pavement artist and a couple of Japanese young women on one of the benches. This was sold at an exhibition.
#art #pleinair #London #Thames #watercolour

22.11.2025 17:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11583    ๐Ÿ” 964    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 272    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

I love this.

22.11.2025 03:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I used the carve CD's.

21.11.2025 22:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Does anyone know of a Godot developer who might be up for a bit of contract work to help us on Lancer Tactics? I'm trying to get off of dotnet and to do so we need to convert its one line-of-sight algorithm from C# to a C++ GDExtension. Should be short -- just a few hundred lines of code.

18.11.2025 19:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 53    ๐Ÿ” 31    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

You have to consider how practical something is, so I have no problem with this. You don't want to spend more time than needed on something if it isn't worth it.
The only thing, you could change the lerp so it settles faster at the end (so you don't get to see small pixel rotation for long).

15.11.2025 19:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m the browser sometimes it doesnโ€™t launch when you pull the launcher. I shake the table a bit and it fixes itself

14.11.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This game is awesome and a *steal* at $3.99! โค๏ธ

14.11.2025 20:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 9    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

:) For me it reminds me of the PC in the living room, for 'multimedia".

14.11.2025 16:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Because I don't play many games, I tend to only play games for which I have an interest about the development, maybe I've followed the developer, talked to them. That's only occasional though. But they happened to be very indie games.

14.11.2025 12:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I think actual indie games basically don't exist for 95% of players, whether they say they like indie games or not.

14.11.2025 12:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same for me. The one pinball in this 'demo' could get you hours and hours of playing, you can always improve and understand more about that table.

14.11.2025 11:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

And when you play, all the nuances come back to you instantly, you know exactly where and how the ball is going to bounce!

14.11.2025 10:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Go for it!

14.11.2025 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Same for me! Not homework, but things I had to do.

14.11.2025 10:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Screenshot of Space Cadet pinball that is known for being packaged with some old version of Windows. Now playable in the browser.

Screenshot of Space Cadet pinball that is known for being packaged with some old version of Windows. Now playable in the browser.

I don't think I need this again at this point in my life.
But what a great pinball game it is.
dos.zone/microsoft-3d...

14.11.2025 00:17 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 365    ๐Ÿ” 37    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 19    ๐Ÿ“Œ 9

Yes Bubble Bobble on Atari ST was really good, well made in terms of graphics and gameplay.

11.11.2025 12:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Curtains The Clown on Steam Meet Curtains. An exiled alien clown in search of a home. While passing through a distant galaxy, he was forced to land when his ship's fuel cells ran dry. Now stranded in a far away world, Curtains m...

Curtains The Clown by @grimclownjay.bsky.social has released!

You can get it for the price of a cup of coffee and it is more than worth it (and I LOVE coffee)

Steam
store.steampowered.com/app/3766820/...

Itch
grimclownjay.itch.io/curtains-the...

#CurtainsTheClown #IndieGame #Recommendation

07.11.2025 09:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Well it looks like I missed it.
I bought this game in 1995. It was an interesting sci-fi adventure game that looks like an action game, with pre-rendered scenes with fixed camera, and real time 3D characters only. Lots of story and reading if you wanted to. Pretty ambitious game.

07.11.2025 09:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Maybe we lost a bit of clarity, but the lighting and level of detail really make the atmosphere come alive, especially when itโ€™s moving in the game.

#GameDev #PixelArt #IndieGame #Godscale #IndieDev #GameDesign #Lighting #DevLog

15.10.2025 14:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 21    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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WIP:
after some months without any progress i made some more work on bionator. i'm finally in that point in the game i can create levels that are just evil.
also fixed lots of stuff in the game and gave the main jump physics some tweaks.
Created more enemy types and a new boss.

03.11.2025 11:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 117    ๐Ÿ” 25    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I messed up. Launched page during autumn sale, missed Next Fest, got all assets wrong. But watching my tiny diver work melts all the stress away. Still love making it.

Finally steam page is live. Mind testing the wishlist button for me?๐Ÿฅบ
#indiegamedev #gamedev #godot #cozygame

09.10.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 60    ๐Ÿ” 13    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Tales of Lost Ages Vol. 1 is 50% off this week on Steam!

store.steampowered.com/app/2857070/...

Explore ancient ruins and dank caves in this anthology of short fantasy action-adventure games!

28.10.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

If you say DON'T do that, DON'T do that, people are not necessarily interested to follow the advice but if it's a contrarian opinion and they want to find out why.
It is pure engagement, it has little to do with actual development.

25.10.2025 21:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I'd say no less than $20 for sure, but not necessarily much more either. Between $20 and $25.

24.10.2025 23:01 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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End of the level #GravityStorm

The game is out on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3482870/...

Tags: #indiegame / #gamedev / #gamemaker / #platformer

16.09.2025 19:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 20    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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It may be hard to get the sense of scale when you can zoom out and see the whole map, so once in a while I pretend that I'm sailing on a boat! At a speed of 8m/s, it really shows how massive the world is. Here it takes 7 minutes to reach the shore.

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

19.10.2025 18:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 69    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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๐ŸŒ€_๐ŸŒ€
#pixelart #ใƒ‰ใƒƒใƒˆ็ตต

16.10.2025 01:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 445    ๐Ÿ” 67    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 16    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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So I made the smallest game I could.

This is sapito, a tiny daily classic roguelike, with a new level every day. Super simple, but finished! My plan is to keep updating it over time.

joaosdev.itch.io/sapito

Pixel art by @datagoblin.bsky.social and the whole game is inspired by 1 of their mockups.

20.09.2025 13:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 140    ๐Ÿ” 39    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

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