AndyMakes

Hell yeah

You wouldn’t be saying all that if you played Ecco the Dolphin for like 30 seconds

Prototype arcade console coming to an Indomitable Rocket Dog near you soon!

Huge thanks to @socksmagocs.bsky.social for designing and fabricating!

If you need a thing built you should hire him!

A collage of three Max Tundra LPs: "Some Best Friend You Turned Out To Be," "Mastered by Guy at the Exchange," and "Parallax Error Beheads You"

It's Bandcamp Friday! May we humbly suggest picking up the trilogy of perfecto LPs by Trombone Champ collaborator Max Tundra?... maxtundra.bandcamp.com

laptop with the hypnogenesis title screen and a hand-written piece of paper explaining the controls

Hypnogenesis at Wonderville the other night!

photo of a page from a book with an abstract ASCII pattern and source code on top

Bad Quarto just put out Run Run Run, a collection of code poem where the source code and output fit on a single page.

Here is a photo of my contribution: A Map of Possible Spaces. It's a single line of Node!

You can get the booklet here: badquar.to/publications...

#generativeart #creativecoding

Bring it to open VCR night at Wonderville and just pop it in!

What do you mean the *only* card you need is the ace of spades?

That’s the best one.

July 29th 7PM Playtest Night is EVERY last Tuesday of EVERY month at Wonderville! Come to Wonderville to playtest in production games! If you're a developer, bring your game! No signups required.

I'll be bringing Hypnogenesis to Wonderville tonight!

A bit more Hypnogenesis footage. Another level with feedback & level design by @allenriley.bsky.social

Peering through the noise is a key game mechanic. This might look completely impossible to parse, but it's easier than you might think while still remaining challenging.

#gamedev #generativeart

Mastercard: Sex Work is Work. End Your Unjust Policy. Mastercard's new policy unfairly targets the adult content industry, making sex workers more vulnerable, especially Black trans women. It must be stopped.

Easy easy petition to sign to put some pressure on mastercard: action.aclu.org/petition/mas...

If you're upset about queer creators having games delisted on Itch and steam, this is a 30 second thing you can do.

WHY? On July 2025, Steam, a popular storefront to purchase games on PC, and itch.io, a storefront that sells games, comics, tools, resources and much more, have recently delisted several NSFW games, after the group Collective Shout published an open letter to payment processors such as Visa, MasterCard, PayPal, and more. As a result of this letter, payment processors have strongarmed Valve and itch.io into enforcing restrictive new TOS policies on what kind of content their platforms can host and sell. Visa, Mastercard, Stripe and Paypal have been censoring free speech and legal business on the internet for TOO LONG. Their most recent targets are Steam and Itch.io, but they have also been pressuring websites like Pixiv, Patreon, Fansly, Onlyfans and MORE for years, applying draconian standards for what kind of adult/pornographic content platiorms and their users can host and sell. If we as consumers and creators want to regain ground on this issue, we have to make our voice heard. HOW? BOMBARD THEM WITH PHONE CALLS Collective Shout, the organization that lobbied to have Steam and Itch.io change their TOS, did so with only around 1000 phone calls. Visa and MC have backed down from pressuring Onlyians to remove adult content entirely due to public backlash. Clogging their phone lines for an extended perlou, over a mont at the absolute least, will almost gudrantee that these compantes will at least have to pay attention to the backlash. this list is not exhaustive. but some contact points for the 4 targets are: 1. VISA: (US + Can): +1 [8001-847-2911 US option selection for operator: 1-1-2 or 1-1-3 2. MASTERCARD: (US): +1 (8001-307-7309 US option selection for operator: 1-1-2-2-2-1 Phone (outside US): 1-636-722-7111 3. STRIPE: (Headquarters): +118881 963-8955 (France): +33 805-11-19-67 Stripe: complaints@stripe.com 4. PAYPAL: (US): +1 (888)-221-1161 (outside US): 1-402-935-2050 Customer Service: +1 (877)-569-1116

Cheat Sheet v.2

nothing from the prior version is incorrect, but ive made it a little easier to read, plus included a bit more helpful information

imgur link: imgur.com/a/wWaLY2i

more comprehensive info can be found here:
stop-paypros.neocities.org
yellat.money

MAKE YOUR CALLS!!!

Whole lotta Sabbath in this house this week.

It's hard to overstate just how monumental those first 5 albums are.

A few years ago I made this little net art about my favorite riff of all time (Sabbath Bloody Sabbath) and I have no idea what if anything I'll ever do with it.

It feels like a fitting tribute to Ozzy Osbourne today so here it is: andymakesgames.com/extras/black...

RIP

Hypnogenesis isn't ~just~ interactive video art. It's also a nasty arcade game, so of course @allenriley.bsky.social and I added a high score screen.

#indiegames #gamedev #generativeart #videofeedback

a rough translation of the final sentence: “Since AFP was founded in August 1944 we’ve lost journalists in conflicts, and have had wounded and imprisoned co-workers, but none of us have any memory of having to watch a colleague die of hunger.”

A vision of video feedback hell appearing at the end of Hypnogenesis.

@allenriley.bsky.social deigned all of the video art and levels (which are synonyms in this game!) & I worked on the engine.

We had an amazing week working on the project, which uses Video Waaaves to emulate feedback.

#gamedev

Yeah I'll ask copilot...

ask it to "got to hell"

Nobody is saying anything about how lame it is to have a kiss cam at your concert

An anthropomorphized arcade cabinet stylized to look like Mega Man, featuring the logo for Super MAGFest 2026, with the text "MIVS and Indie Arcade Submissions are OPEN"

TODAY IS THE DAY!
SUBMISSIONS FOR THE 2026 MAGFEST INDIE ARCADE AND MIVS ARE OPEN NOW THROUGH 11:59 PM (eastern) SEPTEMBER 2ND!

super.magfest.org/apply/

Two wonderful and alluring men sitting on either side of a CRT that says "HYPNOGENESIS"

Out in California with @allenriley.bsky.social working on our feedback game, Hypnogenesis!

6 reviews for my little arcade game in ~24 hours: really really lovely. i'm sure that seems tiny but i was just hoping to reach the 10 review Discovery Queue threshold *someday*

if you like a game, leaving a review (even just a few words) is HUGE. something i need to get better about doing myself

It’s the first season I’ve watched but I loved it

happy to rewatch this strange stock footage-live action-hand modeling-CGI trailer I made for @andymakes.itch.io and remember that I snuck a pallas' cat meme in there 😺🤌

hey another game i worked on (to a much smaller degree) got a big update today! ⚔️

my friends and i have been playing it again recently and the game whips man. conspiring on Discord is just so natural and fun when you've already got all your buds on there. give it a gander

Huge thanks to my collaborators:

@runningjump.games & Nick Santaniello: website
@chriscariot.bsky.social‬: art
@dustmop.bsky.social: backend help
@trashpandaqc.bsky.social: the trailer

All the rad folks on the @arcadecommons.org Discord helping me test!

As always, these things are a group effort!

⚔️Skirmish Society v1.05⚔️
is out 🚨TODAY🚨!

Huge updates to 🗳️voting events🗳️!

If you like Diplomacy or Subterfuge and have not tried my Discord-embedded war-game, now is the time to check it out!

Free to install on your server!

skirmishsociety.com

#wargames #indiegames #indiedev #strategygames

A wonderful, handsome, clever man wearing a beautiful Dyebreaker t-shirt in front of a charming british countryside

Throwback Thursday to when I ran a 10K in the rolling hills Bovey, England in my Dyeduds, passively advertising killer arcade games to middle age golfers

Didn’t even realize I was rocking the shirt today! Auspicious!