havchr - Norwegian Oslo based Gamedev

Been working on this one for a while, the Biomes 2.0 update is out now! 🤩🏂 Hope you all like the new zones!! 🙏 #IndieGames

You've been begging for it, and here it is! Announcing an exciting new product from Yarn Spinner Co:

🪐 Mass Effect 2 Save Importer for Yarn Spinner 🚀

Access everything about everything that players have done in the most important game of all time, straight from Yarn.

yarnspinner.dev/mesaves

#nintendoSwitch2 ,
I have one very big hope - revamped digital store - with seal of approval and that games has to pass quality control. At one point in time, it was good that we opened up for everyone to freely self publish . Nowadays, there is no value in this, because indies with great games […]

Hello all followers (not that many), but anyhow. I have bridged my gamedev.place mastodon account to bluesky - and please follow it : @havchr.mastodon.gamedev.place.ap.brid.gy
I like mastodon more, but most people seem to have jumped onto this ship - That account is my gamedev/english account.

Since it seems so many are on the bluesky-train, I need to bridge my mastodons and my bluesky somehow. I refused to go 100% bluesky based on prior social media going tits up at the will of corporations. Anyone got good tools for that?

I liked Animal Farm a lot better.

Just here to cordially remind people that heavily privately funded social media will turn and twist eventually. Fool me once etc, the second time - I ended up on

@havchr@mastodon@gamedev.place

havchr (@havchr@mastodon.gamedev.place) 654 Posts, 245 Following, 113 Followers · #gamedev that mostly creates stuff that is not up to par, but sometimes makes something worthwhile. Love 90's #rave piano riffs, making #food, #soccer and all...

you can find me on mastodon.gamedev.place/@havchr (english gamedev-focused mostly) , or oslo.town/@havchr (Norwegian account)

Blue skies, a dreamlike valley filled to the brim with silicone - all newcomers came like an exodus from the x. We should all just jump ship to something less venture capitalist-backed. Lets go back to the rock at appolo 440 - or, in other words, internet like it was meant to be - hosted everywhere.

Looking forward to launch, Ive been enjoying the demo on my steam-deckish lenovo go

3 Video Games You May Have Missed in January Skate City: New York lets mobile gamers pull off kick flips in Central Park. With its corkboard-pinned family tree, The Roottrees Are Dead makes sleuths of us all.

The New York Times featured Skate City: New York!
www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/a...

One of the most useful pieces of code I have created is the PivotAdjuster. It is a Unity tool, context click gameobjects in the hierarchy and move them around to make pivots nice. Please Enjoy!

gist.github.com/havchr/3fcbe...

Podcast-episoden kan høres her : spillmatic.podbean.com/e/spillmatic...
og igjen, takk for at dere kom på fest, spilte masse, og snakka om spillet vårt! 🥰

Jeg tror forøvrig min karisma er så langt unna reklamebransjen det er mulig å komme </introvert> 😆

Veldig gøy med Spillmatic på Skate City release-party , men en rettelse er på sin plass : Agens er ikke et reklamebyrå. Agens er et selveid selskap, med egen spillavdeling. Agens som selskap gjør mye forskjellig, men Agens Games, som underavdeling er spillutviklere, ikke reklamefolk ;)

I have a sense that Steam might be able to compete somewhat with switch 2, but it will be interesting to see. SteamOS is a very decent experience on a Lenovo Go(bazitte), and the steam store is magnitudes better than Nintendo’s e-shop.

Kulturkritikk for en ny tid Jacob Geller er en anerkjent videoessayist på YouTube med bred appell. Med utgangspunkt i dataspill får han millioner av seere til å omfavne dyptpløyende analyser der han boltrer i temaer som skrekk o...

Påmelding har startet for seminaret om spill- og kulturkritikk i Oslo 12-14. februar, med besøk av @jacobgeller.com! Panelsamtale på onsdag, visning av Geller-essays på torsdag og workshop på fredag!

frittord.no/nb/aktuelt/k...

Accidental Rennesance - OK, wholesome fun.
Accidental Nazisism - NOT OK! (also not really accidental was it... )

There was an old school top-down sci-fi shooter that was rats in mecha-balls, shooting, mazing in the maze and upgrading weapons and shit. Good inspirational reference.

But what you lament, happens in the comments - conflating the idea of a person being a skeptic and wanting a civil discussion with some vague online community of «skeptics that are assholes». We are so quick to label, pigeonhole and put in boxes. See a person for a person.

I was there for the first one as a 16 year old kid who had just learned how to program. I can honestly say, LudumDare is what got me into gamedev. Thank you.

The #LDJam and #GameDev community are the best. 💜

I had only started making my announcement that I was stepping away to "make money to pay scary bills", before the community stepped up to say "nah". 💜

ldjam.com/events/ludum...

I'm not ready to say LD2025 is uncancelled, but things are optimistic.

Skate City: New York is as dreamy as a week off in Manhattan A quick look at Skate City: New York, a dreamy skating game in one of the world's great cities.

EuroGamer did a feature on Skate City: New York!
www.eurogamer.net/skate-city-n...

YouTube video by Aras Pranckevičius Doom running in Blender Video Sequence Editor timeline

So... instead of doing anything useful today... I made Blender VSE timeline run Doom. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y2iD...

YouTube video by Video-Game OST HQ Bomberman Hero: Redial HD

Bomberman has the best game tune ever though ....

www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPb2...

Also - it is not «kickflip over the circle», it is «kickflip inside the circle». 👍

Try holding and releasing instead of swiping - it can yield better accuracy. This also helps when doing perfect tricks in pro skate..

Skate city 2 is out!!! It was so fun working on the first game and the sequel is packed with even more skate spots and tricks!

Also massive shout-out to Joar Renolen for helping out with the final touches on the SFX and all the sick tracks he added for pro-skate mode 🛹✨

The best mobile skateboarding game now has a New York sequel Kick, push.

The game I have been working on is finally out there : on Apple Arcade

www.theverge.com/24339211/ska...

the iphone app icons for animal crossing, balatro, final fantasy, good sudoku, monument valley 3, pokemon tcg pocket, puzzmo, skate city new york, and super marion run

current mobile gaming lineup