Simon "Darkside" Jackson

Open Hours is today 16:00 UTC (17:00 BST), be there or be square as we announce more streaming and a fantastic guest takes the stage and starts to take shape!

#MonoGame #GameDev

YouTube video by MonoGame MonoGame: September 2025 AMA - Vulkan; Our Upcoming Back-End

During our last AMA @thomas.flying-oak.com from Flying Oak Games gave us an update on the upcoming Vulkan back-end.
Watch it here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTr....
Watch our AMA playlist here - www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZTr...

Google 16kb checker for Android Builds Google 16kb checker for Android Builds. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

If you are tackling with the Google 16kb policy updates, here is a script to help.

gist.github.com/SimonDarksid...

Based on a Unity project, but should be usable for any Android apk build.

Instructions included in gist.

Hope this helps others as it has been a real pain diagnosing.

YouTube video by MonoGame Check out our upcoming 2D Shaders tutorial.

Our new 2D Shader Tutorial is nearly ready. Watch this short to find out what sort of things you'll learn, to enhance your game -
www.youtube.com/shorts/OHNz-...

Yikes, what did Jetbrains do to tick off Unity?

Just what I want to see on opening a NEW project, in the LATEST release using a Unity DEFAULT template.

Up your game Unity, seriously....

To celebrate the 3 years anniversary of the game we’re givng away 3 keys of the game om the platform of ur choice 🧀✨

To enter just reply "squeak"

Winners will randomly be selected and announced on sunday at 3PM EST!

Tell me you used it correctly, then I'll listen up 😂

More guns than people…

Is it freedom or a national death cult that keeps growing?

They have identified the person in charge of escalators at the UN:

everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet!
messenger.abeto.co

dipping a toe into shaders

Before I make any VR interaction, I always "act it out" first, in my head and in game.

It lets me analyze motions / events, which helps me decide on formulas, effects and other implementation details.

Here's me pretending to drum.
🐧🥁

#GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Indie Devs! Do you want to make some noise about an upcoming release? Could be a demo, could be the full game, I don't mind!

We're going to be giving upcoming indies some room on the UK Twitch homepage in November and all I need now are the games!

Reply below and let's talk.
#indiegames #indiedev

This is hilarious. Even the Dutch are way ahead of us in seeing how bad things are in the United States with Donald Trump running amok and corporations capitulating to fascism.

But, then again, the Netherlands has experience with being taken over by fascists.

That's my evening sorted 😊

man rolling rock up hill how it started how its going

Super early look at Kenney Creator, my new modeling software for indies. It'll feature many blocks and tools to create any sort of model - aiming for a Q1 2026 release! ✨

"Step into the vortex! LesCrafteurs' swirling portal in Unity blends mesmerizing Shader Graph visuals with seamless teleportation, creating a captivating gateway to another dimension. #Unity3D #GameDev"

Saturday just turned up and wants its beer.
Sheesh, this never stops 😎

Modern Python 😂

If even a fraction of these games put more thought into creative design to make new features using the budget they spend in making another game for the playable ad, it would be something.

The devs are working hard for sure and I feel for them as they have to feed their families somehow.

Yeah, it's sad how some markets, especially mobile, that have degenerated into carbon copy slop.
Then made worse by overhyped fake marketing to get user numbers up, but not gain players. One launch and you see it was false and uninstall.

Lot of parallels to games. Suits waste profound amounts of money trying to will the industry into a consistent repetitive slop machine when, as with all entertainment, the only consistent rule is that inconsistent, original and good is the way of maybe getting a hit. Maybe.

That is sooo yesterdays news...

Welcome to Friday 😊

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#Blender #B3D #RetroGraphics #80s #HUD #UI #Wireframe

I finally finished my deep-dive article on DOGWALK, like I promised :D
All about making a playable character in Godot with a choppy animation style! Plenty of visual examples & code snippets! Took quite a while to put together.
studio.blender.org/blog/playabl...

#b3d #godotengine #gamedev