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Amicable Animal - CRT7 demo out now 🦝🏳️‍🌈
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Created #SOLAS128, working on #CRT7. Try the demo: https://bit.ly/CRT7Game | Part-time lecturer, part-time Scottish BAFTA winning game developer! He/him
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Upfall is OUT NOW – totally free!

Burst bubbles to progress upwards, but be careful to dodge the glowing hazards in the depths!

🎨 20+ customisations
🎮 Controller support
🔊 Creepy reverb
🦾 Accessibility options

Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...
Itch: amicableanimal.itch.io/upfall
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Hey folks, I often do posts calling for indie developers to link me their games so I can signal boost them. Today I want to do something similar for all trans creatives.

If you are a trans game dev, artist, writer, streamer or YouTuber, reply here with a link to your work. Only one rule: no GenAI.💜
November 20, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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The Running Man is really good fun. Big, kinda dumb, but knows exactly what it is.

It's also not subtle about it's themes of useless out of touch execs, police brutality, and politicians caring more about the media then the populous... And you know what? Fucking yeah, more of that please 👌
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
The Running Man is really good fun. Big, kinda dumb, but knows exactly what it is.

It's also not subtle about it's themes of useless out of touch execs, police brutality, and politicians caring more about the media then the populous... And you know what? Fucking yeah, more of that please 👌
November 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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before asking "how's that project going??" to any creative, just assume it's going like this
May 12, 2025 at 4:11 PM
This argument that "AI is like the internet" is just horseshit. The internet was open! Anyone could setup a website or start a business. Then companies like Google spent the last 10 years ruining it for profit and now are telling us that products they SELL are the same as what they destroyed.
November 18, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Execs are trying to muddy the waters around Gen-AI as a ‘push against all AI’ because they hear the unified dissent and they want to crush it via division. Don’t let them. Say it louder. Every time you see a statement like this, push back harder. Let them know you see them exactly for who they are.
"Surely there's a middle ground here?" The CEO of Helldivers 2 studio Arrowhead says people "jump to extreme takes" when debating generative AI, and that there needs to be more nuance in the discussion.

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/surely-...
‘Surely there’s a middle ground here?’ Helldivers studio CEO says people ‘jump to extreme takes’ when debating GenAI | VGC
“This is such a trigger point for big parts of the games industry today”…
www.videogameschronicle.com
November 17, 2025 at 3:29 PM
I want to document my experience of teaching Unity 6 this semester because I'm so tired:

1. Open hub. Close pop ups advertising random events at me and complaining about my free licence expiring
2. Go to start a project. It tricks me into a cloud project so I have to tell students to change it
November 15, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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Not gonna lie this latest Upfall review really made my week 🥲

It's true I do care immensely about the vibes, thank you so much for noticing!

We're just *five* reviews away from getting a Very Positive rating on Steam if you want to review a free game too?

🫧 store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
Wait wait wait. What do you mean 'unknown planet'? Who the flip named it then?
November 14, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Lol, what the actual fuck are they thinking? Who plays a Metroid game to have talkative NPC companions?

I play Metroid games to get away from talkative wankers in my real life.
November 14, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Initial responses to the Sushi Cat Legacy Collection are completely positive. 100%. Nothing but good things! Pretty crazy! It would be great if this stayed true at 50 reviews (and beyond).
November 14, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Not gonna lie this latest Upfall review really made my week 🥲

It's true I do care immensely about the vibes, thank you so much for noticing!

We're just *five* reviews away from getting a Very Positive rating on Steam if you want to review a free game too?

🫧 store.steampowered.com/app/3570280/...
November 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Valve just announced three new pieces of hardware, nice! I was asked to do the 2D animation for the announcement video and for the website: store.steampowered.com/sale/hardware

Look at em go!

@valvesoftware.com @steampowered.com #Steam #SteamFrame #SteamMachine #SteamController #Valve
November 12, 2025 at 7:33 PM
It's really intriguing to see new Steam hardware. The Steam Link was one of my favourite bits of tech for absolutely years.

Tell you what though, that new Steam Controller is giving me hand cramp just from even glancing at the pictures.
November 12, 2025 at 8:01 PM
I've had applicants at university open days, on multiple occasions, tell me that they can't access online books they've been assigned as required reading because of the Online Safety Act.

It's such a badly implemented policy and 16/17 year olds are going to punish Labour so hard if they get to vote
The British government admits it is now monitoring VPNs use by UK residents. Regulator Ofcom has contracted with an AI-powered surveillance service to detect the number of citizens using VPNs to evade the Online Safety Act.

The UK tech minister has said a VPN ban is on the table.
Exclusive: Ofcom is monitoring VPNs following Online Safety Act. Here's how
Ignoring VPNs risks creating ineffective laws, but tracking them threatens people's privacy
www.techradar.com
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Microsoft broke PlayStation controllers on Win 11 in a recently update. This upset me because Upfall does some fun things with them...

Now, however, I'm happy to say that my usual understated neon has been reinstated in an update!

👉 store.steampowered.com/news/app/357...

#GameDev #IndieDev #Free
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Microsoft broke PlayStation controllers on Win 11 in a recently update. This upset me because Upfall does some fun things with them...

Now, however, I'm happy to say that my usual understated neon has been reinstated in an update!

👉 store.steampowered.com/news/app/357...

#GameDev #IndieDev #Free
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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today I shall be mostly drawing messy watery things ✨
November 10, 2025 at 2:31 PM
OH! So I wasn't imagining it a few weeks back, Microsoft really did fuck up PS4/5 controllers in an update and Rewired had to update to *checks notes* not use Windows Gaming Input because it was misreporting *checks notes* their main competitors controllers.

Ahmmmmmmmmmmm.
November 10, 2025 at 11:59 AM
Welp without thinking I just said "aww no I crushed my big baps" very audibly in my local supermarket... which I'm pretty sure means I need to move now.

How is your morning going?
November 10, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information"

They want people to assume this means game info or assets.

But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to:

'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"
November 7, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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I'm joining this protest outside Rockstar North in Edinburgh today and if you're nearby, we'd really appreciate your support. After what happened with my colleagues under Leslie Benzies (of former Rockstar "fame"), and now this, we really need to fix this industry!
(also come meet me! 😉)
November 6, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Yahoo! I have no mouth but I must a-scream
November 2, 2025 at 8:29 PM
For SOLAS 128 neither delta or fixed time steps worked because of dodginess with floating point arithmetic or alt tabbing desyncing things from the music which broke EVERYTHING.

I ended up tying everything to the PCM sample values of the backing track instead which was mad and worked really well 🤣
Do smaller indies/devs still prefer to work in a fixed framerate? It used to be prevalent in my circles. I felt like not many were working with delta timing, which I guess makes more sense if you're actually working at a pixel resolution for the codebase as well
November 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM
There are very, very few moments when I feel like a genuinely functioning adult with my shit together.

Going to a supermarket with a voucher that gives me money off when I spend over £20 and getting *just over £20* on my first try? Mmf, that's as good as it gets.
November 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM