David Wesst

A replica of ark of the covenant from Raiders of the Ark with a man in a black and red Team Canada jersey standing beside it.

They even had the Ark of the Covenant on display. I left before they opened it.

All in all, a solid experience. Would do this again.

Screen above the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra that says "Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark LIVE in Concert. Welcome"

I'm pretty stoked for this.

I know a lot of people are looking for industry analysis during these chaotic times, so here’s what I’ve got

the joker is wearing a purple jacket and a black shirt Alt: the joker is wearing a purple jacket and a black shirt saying "And. Here. We. Go! “

Me vs Apples.

I have about four hours to make as much apple sauce as possible.

That moment when you realize the "bug with the framework" you've been triaging and assessing for the past two hours is actually just your game code using the framework wrong. 😅

#indiedev #gamedev

Album cover for Secrets from the Outer Wilds showing a picture of the in-game solar system and a tear on it with a hand drawn circle that has been coloured in.

Continuing the jams from last night (while staying awake to pickup someone from the airport) I am continuing my journey with the Outer Wilds.

Indie web coding, records, and a soda is a great space for me.

Vinyl album cover for Signals From The Outer Wilds, whose art depicts father-son friendly six eyed humaniod aliens looking at the stars with a handheld radio telescope in what appears to be an empty clearing in the woods. In the night sky you can see a broken space states and multiple planets and many stars.

Next up: Signals From The Outer Wilds by @andrewprahlow.bsky.social

This game might actually be the perfect game in my view. A huge part of that perfection is due to the music. Some songs still give me goosebumps or make me teary eyed.

Vinyl record sleeve with the album title yasunori mitsuda & millennial fair along with Japanese characters beneath it. The art work is gears, old time pieces, with a cosmic backdrop.

Record 1: @yasunorimitsuda.procyon-studio.com and Millennial Fair.

Love this album. One particular song gets me everytime. All the best feels.

- Listening to VGM vinyl records ✅
- Macbook Open ✅
- Exploring the Indie Web for inspiration ✅
- Drinking 0.0% foreign beer 🍻

Maxing out my hipster-class tonight it seems.

Let me brain do some creative free flow today. Feels good man.
Next-- Sapporo 0.0% and seeing where this idea goes.

Ultima VI The False Prophet big box PC game box showing the cover of the avatar with blonde hair stepping on the chest of a red demon with wings, keeping it on the ground.

Big box PC game box top cover off showing its contents, which is a black and white manual with the title compendium showing, which is the instructions for Ultima VI

Yes, yes. A very fine vintage, indeed.

I rewatched all the Mission Impossible movies over the past week and just saw the final one in the theatre tonight.

Here is my ranking:

8. MI 2
7. MI 4
6. MI 7
5. MI 8
4. MI 3
3. MI 5
2. MI 6
1. MI 1

That is all.

Screenshot of a debug build of the game ‘Kiosk’ showing a greybox 3D scene. The upper half displays a side orthographic view of a basic kiosk labeled ‘Skyway Kiosk’, with an orange character behind the counter and three green characters positioned nearby. All figures are capsule-shaped placeholders. The environment uses flat grey geometry for the floor and structure. The bottom half of the screen shows a top-down minimap view with green and orange dots representing character positions and a pink rectangle marking the kiosk’s interaction zone. The layout is minimalist, intended for MVP testing.

A bit of a pivot since the last post, but rather than aircraft I'm focused on the airports themselves. I am calling this project "Kiosk" for the time being, and as weird as it seems-- the design overlaps quite a bit with "Charter", but has a much smaller scope.

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday

That makes sense! Thanks for insight. I'll see you on June 5th. 😊

I feel these skeets deep in my soul.

a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is standing in front of a body of water . Alt: a stuffed monkey wearing a green shirt and overalls is standing in front of a body of water .

@pnpgames.bsky.social Did y'all sell out of Switch 2 game preorders or do you think you'll have some in stock on launch day?

Asking for a friend.

Lol. This was the first game I watched all year. I was...confused for a while there.

THEY DONE DID IT LEANNE! THEY DONE DID IT!!!!!!

A black sticker, with the text "It's Our Vote / C'est notre vote" on it with a bright green X on it.

Dear Canadians, go vote. It is important.

Early polling is open this weekend. Election day is coming up.

So please, go vote.

After doing some post game exploration in Blue Prince last night. I accepted that this is too much game for me and unless I want to end up like Charlie and start smoking, there is no way I will see it through to the end.

Kudos to those that do though!

We beat Blue Prince today.

Yet, we are not done with Blue Prince.

That how good Blue Prince is.

A small event space set up for a presentation or workshop. At the front of the room, a large screen displays “NMM New Media Manitoba – GameBiz Lab – Supporting the Next Generation of Local Video Game Studios in Manitoba.” Two standing banners are placed to the left of the screen. One is for North Forge's ElevateIP program, focused on safeguarding intellectual property, and the other promotes New Media Manitoba. Several rows of black chairs face the screen, and a small table with two laptops is set up at the front.

Yesterday learned more about the legal/business side of #gamedev at a local event.

Just a reminder to the other #indiedev folks that there is more to making games than just making games.

LOL-- well it turns out that animated GIFs don't animate if you upload them through the image function. 😓

Trying it again-- this time with the video actually playable!

(Thanks to @sam-aru.bsky.social for pointing it out to me)

LOL! Well then. I suppose I'll upload the video rather than a GIF. 😅

You learn something new everyday. 😊

Aerobiz - Wikipedia

For those that don't know what know what Aerobiz is, its a business strategy game from the 90's where you manage an airline. I played a bunch of it as a kid.

The song playing is the one that played when you opened a route in the SNES version of the game.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerobiz

Similar to the GIF from earlier for #screenshotsaturday, but put this together to remind me of some of my inspiration for this project. Putting this together put a smile on my face and made me proud of my work.

Any Aerobiz players out there? 😄🛫

#indiedev #gamedev

I love the idea of modern indie game box art. Every game should have box art, even if they are distributed without a box.

A greybox prototype of the flying game Charter. The scene shows a simple green terrain under a blue sky with a cylindrical purple marker labeled “Vancouver (YVR)” in bold text. A debug UI panel on the left displays flight settings, including origin (CYVR), destination dropdown, flight toggle, speed slider, and active camera selection. The player selects the destination to be CYWG and clicks the "Start/Stop" toggle switch, which triggers transition animation where white text and a line move into the screen stating "Prepare for Departure". The player adjusts the throttle control during the flight which changes the speed of the greybox aircraft. When it arrives at the destination city, the transition appears again with the text "Now arriving in Winnipeg".

Experimented with a plane rather than a sphere for the earth in the game, and now I can control the camera how I want to-- plus some transitions and a skybox for fun.

Focusing on finding the flow and feel for the game to get it towards a playable state.

#indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

I asked for a copy of WindowsXP for my birthday when I was still in school.

So yes. Yes I am that old.