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Tom White

@tomwhite.bsky.social

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Software Engineer, Dad and Playdate developer when I get time (not often). https://play.date/games/flinger/

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Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · 2d

Rob picks the ones that’ll get engagement

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · 5d

A playtesting build is available for Hyper Vector! If you'd like to give this rather rough version a go I'd appreciate any feedback!

#gamedev #playdate #indiedev #solodev

discord.com/channels/675...

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Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · 10d

Scrollability is hard! I went with scrollbars but not sure if they’re obvious enough, and the arithmetic is awful every time.

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · 13d

I can: £250

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hookland.bsky.social @hookland.bsky.social · 15d

The Sunken Bell is an unpleasant pub. Grim men, salt-scarred and edging mania, hold to its tables as if to let go would cast them adrift in some terrible storm. Even the local farm perries cannot compensate for what can only be called an atmosphere of doom. - Hookland Fruit Cider Pub Guide, 1980

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Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · 15d

Future definite article wife

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · 18d

This is so cool!

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · 19d

Hyper Vector is nearing public playtesting! I'm working my way through the game end-to-end personally first, and finding/fixing a lot of bugs and performance issues.

Device Info is my new friend!

#playdate #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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kazzycom/カジコム @kazzycom.bsky.social · 20d

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Megan Fox @glassbottommeg.bsky.social · 21d

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

erika @yeeeerika.bsky.social · Jan 13

i don't want to hear your most boomer complaint. what's your most millennial complaint?

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Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · 28d

I’d argue nothing tastes worse than a bad can of Surströmming, but to each their own.

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Sep 11

I’ve been enjoying watching development of this! Can’t wait to play it.

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Sep 7

Fewer updates on Hyper Vector recently, but that's because it's getting close to something play-testable and I've been head-down!

I'm down to a handful of blockers, I've invested a bit of time sorting out perf issues and it now runs smoothly on-device too!

#playdate #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

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Garth Marenghi's Catbus @hayao.lol · Sep 4

I will never apologize for a post

a drawing of Milhouse from the Simpsons but in the style of the Bauhaus movement captioned

everything's coming up Milhaus

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Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Sep 2

Now it's a bunch of individual sprites for each star, connection and pointer. It's mostly working although I still need to work on the new arithmetic for quest pointers, and I'm getting a few weird artifacts. Seeing only the neccessary parts of the map redraw is worth it though!

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Sep 2

Refactoring how the starmap is rendered. Previously it was one sprite with everything drawn onto it - which was eating fps as any kind of update involved a lot of work to run the draw method of the whole thing.

#playdate #gamedate #indiedev #solodev

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Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Sep 2

Bucket seats for lumbar support

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Aug 31

Hyper Vector is gradually filling out with more sound effects, the latest is for when you jump between systems. I added a new animation for it too, it feels a bit more like an event now!

#playdate #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

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Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Aug 29

“Stick on 1…”

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Aug 29

Klaxon etc.

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Aug 28

Alright Socrates

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Aug 25

Jensen Button

Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Aug 21

This is the way

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Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Aug 20

I use an M2 mba is my primary 😂 but making playdate games is not the most intensive.

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Tom White @tomwhite.bsky.social · Aug 20

There are some very good reasons not to use Apple stuff, but there’s simply nothing else like their M series chips.

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