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Making games and other bits. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ช https://james.poole.ie Wishlist Wee Boats to go boating at a miniature scale! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3578080/Wee_Boats

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Bevy's Fifth Birthday Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!

We are using the Bevy Engine to make Wee Boats. ๐Ÿฆ

The engine turned 5 years old on Sunday and the creator gave us a lil shout out in his birthday blog post! Nice surprise to get of an afternoon!

Cheers @cart.work and @bevy.org! ๐Ÿค˜

#bevyengine #gamedev

bevy.org/news/bevys-f...

12.08.2025 16:40 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wee Boats on Steam A chill multiplayer boaty honk game!

store.steampowered.com/app/3578080/...

11.08.2025 19:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wee Boats has spent a few days rolling around in the Debut Festival on Steam!

I couldn't find the game for the life of me through the festival page but a wee gang of people seemed to find it so thats cool!

More bits to come over the next while!

#gamedev #boats #steam #cozygames

11.08.2025 18:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The world isn't ready for such a gaming station!

23.07.2025 17:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's unreal, love these kinds of projects

22.07.2025 18:59 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Another good job done on working on everything that isn't actually important for the game

#gamedev #arduino #maker

22.07.2025 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 24    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That's good driftin

14.07.2025 16:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Give Me Strength (Original Soundtrack), by Laura Ryder 8 track album

lauraryder.bandcamp.com/album/give-m...

Laura released the fantastic soundtrack on the bandcamps @lauraryder.bsky.social

01.07.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Give Me Strength. by James Poole A game about struggling to make things and other thoughts.

jamespoole.itch.io/give-me-stre...

01.07.2025 21:09 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Almost 4 years ago (ha??), @lauraryder.bsky.social and myself released a little game Give Me Strength. Was going through the hard drive there and found old bits from it.

Im still v proud of it and it seems to still run!
You should give it a go!
tis on the itch

01.07.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Wait a sec, let's hear him out!

22.06.2025 19:08 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We brought Wee Boats to Spillkonventet in Oslo! ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ด

I bounced about the stage for a bit pointing frantically at lil boats!

#gamedev #indiegames

22.06.2025 13:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Coming to a cex near you!

14.06.2025 21:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Wee Wheel is back with battle scars! Ready for spillkonventet next week!

13.06.2025 18:49 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We brought a demo of Wee Boats to a boat party on the local legend of a boat, Epos!

Always fun having it out for people to play! ๐Ÿคฉ

The party became too much for our poor wheel and she's become injured. We will just have to rebuild stronger and wheelier than ever!

#gamedev #arduino #bevyengine

28.05.2025 18:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Wee Wheel electronics have come in for the masking tape hospital.

They're getting ready for another run out tomorrow where they're going to be thrown into a boat party!

You can do it little wheel! Think sturdy thoughts

#arduino #maker #electronics #tape

25.05.2025 11:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Rogue demos on the grass! ๐Ÿ˜„

20.05.2025 12:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wee Boats out in the wild in Berlin!

@lauraryder.bsky.social @brentendo.bsky.social
@amazefest.bsky.social

#gamedev #steam #bevyengine

17.05.2025 18:41 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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An early look at onlining in Wee Boats!

#gamedev #indiegame #wholesomegaming #bevy #rust #boat

10.05.2025 21:23 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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You donโ€™t owe anyone a perfect game. Let it be rough, small, even a bit weird - what matters is that it has a soul๐Ÿพ

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #godot #firecat

25.04.2025 18:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 23    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We got a lil logbook goin on!

#gamedev #indiegame #wholesomegaming #bevy #rust #boat

03.05.2025 21:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 32    ๐Ÿ” 9    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wee Boats on Steam A wholesome, multiplayer boating world to discover secrets and surprises in the ocean. Chat and honk to your heart's content! Wee Boats is an act of self care!

store.steampowered.com/app/3578080/...

26.04.2025 05:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Wee Boats! โ›ต

Wishlist on Steam and you'll be honkin' in no time

Tell a friend! We appreciate it! ๐Ÿ™

#gamedev #indiegame #boating #pixelart

26.04.2025 05:43 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 25    ๐Ÿ” 8    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The Steam page for Wee Boats is almost ready! Lets get this show on the road!

#gamedev #letsgoboatin

21.04.2025 12:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Recreating an Image with Raylib

james.poole.ie/notes/190320...

Fixed link

21.03.2025 22:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Recreating some photos of Starlings as a lil notgame using #raylib! (We're looking nothing like the pictures yet!)

Writing bits about it here: james.poole.ie/notes/190320...

#GameDev

21.03.2025 19:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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We are working on a game called Wee Boats! For it, we have made a custom Wee Wheel controller out of papier mache! I've wrote a lil piece about it here: james.poole.ie/notes/wee-wh...

#gamedev #bevy

27.12.2024 00:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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