YO LOOK AT THIS SPACEBUN
WE GOT ONE
y'all are the best
weiiiird.... they should work fine for the arrow keys exactly as they're typed there
not sure if it counts numpad arrows and regular arrows as same arrows ...
ESDF is reserved for gamepad two, which would require a slightly different formulation ... something like btnp(1,1) instead of just btnp(1)
next year: leisure cards
FACT CHECK: my birthday was over a month ago, this post is blatantly manipulative
for my birthday i would love to get exactly 14 more reviews on my ludicrous game collection. it is $5 and has like 10+ hours of silly discoveries dished out in bite size bits store.steampowered.com/app/4044300/...
Work dumber not harder
I'm home and I've written a bit on my blog about post-GDC feelings:
meredithgran.com/gdc-thoughts...
Little bit of tool tinkering.
PSA for if you've been enjoying corgispace games and/or manifestos and were thinking about maybe cracking open #PICO8 yourself...
here's a short video showing how i start my games!
sprites, maps, and basic gameplay code in under 15 minutes ✨ www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWsj...
Finally digging into Corgispace (now 16 games) and it’s fantastic, obviously. UFO50 fans shouldn’t miss this.
I am so into almost any game that weaves good designer notes into the experience <sicko meme>
bsky.app/profile/adam...
oops its gorgeous
maybe this is malformed subscription tools or parasitic distribution agreements or aggregate-obsessed algorithms or out of control investment bubbles eating everything they can before they explode... the two things it isn't, is the people making the game, and the people playing the game
this horrendous layer of interfering filth in between, so desperate to correct creators and funnel players, so eager to restrict the shape and sound of beautiful things, so set on exploiting the basic way artists and their audience support each other, so horny for removing humanity, is the problem
heartened to see that in the face of historic layoffs, breathless desperate AI shilling, and the toxic intrusions of fascism, the global appetite for playing strange new games is not diminished, nor is the global appetite for making strange new games
audience and creators are too deeply joined now
also features one of the most incredible UI popups I've seen in a game
More tasks are always coming. Sometimes you just have to get out. 🏃➡️🏃➡️🏃➡️
👾 Play the free 868-BACK demo on Steam today!
Another new prototype in the theme of doing anything other than the bigger project I started half a year ago. #pico8 #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev
“The first method … requires a willingness to accept objectives which are limited by physical, logical and technological constraints, and to accept a compromise when conflicting objectives cannot be met. No committee will ever do this until it is too late.
From the same lecture the famous maxim “One way [to design software] is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.” But the essential and overlooked follow up..
Why Making Small Games is Important- this is my interview with @adamatomic.bsky.social, about his wild collection of pico-8 games called CorgiSpace. We explore how creating micro sized games is crucial to the creative vitality of the video game industry.
@finjico.bsky.social
youtu.be/wDU_FKKPqzw
The Best Games Are NOT Commercial #indiegames #gamedev #finji #tunic #nightinthewoods @finjico.bsky.social @adamatomic.bsky.social
Watch the FULL Interview: youtu.be/or84OQLWPJc
really obsessed with this designer lately, solomon's key is so weird and cool
"The midwest is a really weird rich place to tell stories, especially mystery stories. Time and memory work weird here."
Learn more about why we're setting our upcoming action adventure game, Usual June, in the (weird midwest): finjico.substack.com/p/an-intervi...
bonus points if you do this during the Q&A at my talk schedule.gdconf.com/session/corg...
if you see me at GDC it is literally 100% ok to greet me this way, even if i am in a meeting
This game is a mossterpiece!
(maybe my favourite pico8 game?)
VHOLUME is an upcoming parkour game set in a melancholic brutalist world. The demo alone already has an incredible atmosphere, can't wait for the final game.
