kaikairos

i feel this in my bones.

maybe it's what made 7drl so great for so long

I think what’s important to understand about parenting discourse is that, as someone who doesn’t have a child, it’s obviously parents who are selfishly caring about their own needs over others. But if I ever have a kid, it will be childless people doing that.

Puzzle Depot on Steam A box-pushing, bug-squishing, post-apocalyptic adventure awaits you in Puzzle Depot! Challenge hundreds of meticulously designed rooms that carefully extend classic sokoban games with new and creative...

Steam Box Pushing fest is hours away, but I just accidentally our store page so the expanded demo for Puzzle Depot is now live! Now with TWO full levels! Into puzzles & pixel art? Insert call to action here!
#sobokan #indiegame #puzzlegame #marketingismypassion
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...

Happy Meat Island Thursday to all who celebrate

a desk skull and desk bird toy are pictured on paper. the paper gives each a speech balloon. the skull is saying "Happy Ash Wednesday" and the bird is saying "Chirp!"

a message from Baxter and Birdster

sadly, it was 3 days into 7drl when i realized it had started, and i already had a ton of objectively more important stuff planned for this week. c'est la vie

Twitch Twitch is the world

Live at www.twitch.tv/Kaikairos doing a 2.4 hour ZZT competition. Going to explain the plan briefly then attempt to execute on it in RECORD TIME with a SPEEDRUN CLOCK.

Twitch Twitch is the world

anyway that's what i'm now unreasonably committed to. i've got a lot of the main game board planned on paper and i'm going to go live at www.twitch.tv/Kaikairos SATURDAY 3:30 PM Pacific to briefly discuss my plans before jumping into my actual dev time with a live speedrun clock 2/2

2.4 Hours Jam (H125 circuit) A game jam from 2025-02-15 to 2025-06-08 hosted by Mean Girls Games. The Classic 2.4HoZZT is back! Welcome, and be prepared for a Jam-packed first half of 2025. This page will be home to not one, not ...

2.4 hours of zzt compo happening last weekend, this weekend and the next weekend. my plans incoming. i made the mistake of asking wil how much paper planning i could get away with and the answer was a lot. that he'd be delighted if someone preplanned their entire stream itch.io/jam/24-hours... 1/2

still utterly amazed by the number of times in the story of Morrowind's development you basically hear "and then I lied to Todd Howard about it"

i may have caught an inspiration

hey there @kaikairos.bsky.social!
I was here considering joining 7DRL this year, and went back once again to your delightful Endgame 437 from '21. What a neat game!
Anyways, glad you're here on bsky! hello!

thank you so much! i'm not as good at checking this thing as I should be, but I'm delighted to randomly come back to kind words about A Thing I Made!

good luck with 7DRL if you decide to enter. i'm a probably not this time around, but maybe the lightning will strike right before.

Slimegame Devlog 4: RAMBLING TIME Or, when I keep forgetting I have a post to write

also here's the previous post in which I gave a pretty rambling progress update
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SlimeGame Devlog 5: A New Coat Screenshots! And lots of design questions!

In this post I get to show off some screenshots and see if I trigger an existential crisis.

tag urself:
* Expert, Gamer, Idea-Haver
* Workhorse, Conversationalist

A Field Guide to Game-Development Discord Inhabitants In their natural habitat!

In a given game-development Discord, whether focused on an engine, a genre, or something else, certain “types” of inhabitants tend to emerge. Let us study five of them in their natural habitat.

SlimeGame Devlog 2: Tiles, Tiles, Tiles Also a demo plan!

Link to Devlog 2: Tiles, Tiles, Tiles
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SlimeGame Devlog 1: The Princess and the Powerup It's a block-breakin' secret-findin' hat-wearin' slimeblob!

Link to Devlog 1: The Princess and the Powerup
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NEW POST.This is a problem. is the slime-block tiles I’ve put in to replace the old ones. On some level they feel better, less viscerally disgusting (it remains to be seen if that is actually better). I also present the hopeful start of a solution.

kaikairos.substack.com/p/slimegame-...

excited to add e. partly b/c these cliches aren't afaik meaningfully significant to the metroid series, but thanks to indie patterns i can get rid of that example anyway should also prob say "commercial or mass downloaded game" because metroidvania month has a ton of ones

current project doesn't fit the above but it does technically fit
e. female protagonist , which while unstated, at least among indies, may in fact be the fifth metroidvania cliche plot point/device

what's the last Metroidvania you've seen that wasn't:
a. post-apocalyptic
b. "cyclically" apocalyptic ("age of x" vs "age of anti-x" plot pattern, Dark Souls/Rusted Moss for 2 examples)
c. some sort of mass 'undeading'/parallel 'hollowing'
d. "you are the bad guy and that's good"

Picture of the protagonist from an unnamed game project, a slime wearing a princess hat.

I was going to put the animated gif here but it didn't animate, so bluesky folks can get the OTHER art without reading the post first instead

A Glimpse at the Year's Project, and an Added Goal I've been bad at posting and developing. It's time to change both.

"I’m adding a New Year’s Goal my previous two. One goal was to get a game on Steam. Another was to say yes to scary (but good-for-me) things more. The third is now going to be to post here once weekly, attempt including a development update every two weeks."

My stupidest gaming hill to die on, and I do mean my stupidest, is that nobody has ever finished Oblivion's main quest. Show me speedruns. Tell me the tales of how long it took you to fulfill your destiny as hero of Kvatch. It's not real. It was a dream. Nobody beats Oblivion.

If your the sort of data hoarder who has held onto IRC logs from gaming channels from 2003 and earlier, do me a favor and search for “Metroidvania” and “Metroid-Vania” and let me know if you get any results.

The Coolest Tower Ever to be Seen in Moonlight A small retrospective on two strangely similar games by yours truly. Also, a Metroidvania Month update!

I made The Coolest in 2020, and almost three years later, I made Tower in Moonlight. These games ended up being incredibly similar. And also quite different. Here's how.

A Slightly Organized Outline of Last Week This time I’m listing things instead!

So the previous rambling update one was written almost all on my lunch ... This time I at least had the wherewithal to attempt an outline. And why not more or less outline the week?

A Rambling Update on the Last Week Gamejam gamejam gamejam gamejam gamejam gamejam gamejam ooohh let’s gooooooooo

Today's Kaikairos labs: I’ve got about 45 minutes to write this before my lunch ends and I’m back to work--and the post drops before my last break of the day, so I’d better get going if I want to make the quota.

(The post ended up being late anyway, but ignore that.)