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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · 11d

Our next update is getting closer. Here's some more fun with our new enemy(ish) plant, Husk. #icariagame #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Dan Malouff @beyonddc.bsky.social · 27d

Phrasing, people 😂

Screencap of a news story from Germany with the headline "Cargo train breaks the sound barrier," and a photo of a train crashing through a sound wall.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Sep 7

WIP: A new challenge targeted for the next update of our game Icaria: the Husk defends its territory by draining power and using it to grow. As it is a programming game, the attacking drones are fully automated. #icariagame. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · Aug 29

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

A drawing of a horse. The front half of the horse is black. The back half of the horse is white. The tail is black.

Text reads: I defragged my zebra

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Aug 17

www.youtube.com/watch?v=-nPe...

Icaria Early Access: Release Date April 28, 2025

YouTube video by Icaria

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Aug 10

First feature for our next update: I moved the command bar to the bottom of the screen (like the build bar I did earlier) and then put the script editor in a movable and resizable window. #icariagame. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Aug 3

That moment when a WSJ article reads like the Onion.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Jul 30

youtu.be/ReKH838XPao My first every voice over YouTube video. Would have been better if I had gotten it out when we launched the update, but this ended up being mostly a learning exercise. #icariagame #gamedev #indiedev

Icaria Update 1 Feature Overview and Demo

YouTube video by Icaria

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · Jul 30

Holy shit, they did it. They wrote the headline.

NYC Mass Shooting Was Nearly Impossible to Prevent, Experts Say

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Jul 19

Messing around with a multi-layer base using our new sloped conveyors in #icariagame. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · Jul 14

Building a Fire

xkcd.com/3114/

4-panel comic. (1) [Two people in front of tent. Person with short hair kneels, stacking sticks.] PERSON 1: Can you show me how to build a campfire? PERSON 2 with short hair: Sure! We’ll use the log cabin method. First, we build a square cabin out of sticks. (2) PERSON 2 [holding tiny table and chair]: Next, we’ll add interior walls, doors, and some cabin furniture made from twigs. PERSON 1: This is very elaborate. (3) [Person 2 runs wire to miniature cabin. Tiny lightning bolt symbols indicate the wire is energized.] PERSON 2: Now we’ll add some rudimentary plumbing and electrical wiring. 50 amps, nothing fancy. PERSON 1: It kind of seems like you’re just building a cabin. PERSON 2: I just— …Oops. (4) [The mini cabin is on fire.] PERSON 2: I think my wiring wasn’t up to code. PERSON 1 [leaning away and shielding face]: *AAAAA!* PERSON 2: …And that’s how you build a fire!

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Jul 14

We're participating in the Steam Automation Festival this week. Valve gives us this promo art but lordy is it difficult to work with. Nothing I've got looks good against their background.

Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Jul 12

Getting ready for our first major update coming to #icariagame on Monday July 14.
#gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Jul 10

Its pretty common for programmer time estimates to only include the time spent writing the code without considering testing, debugging or, you know, actually shipping something functional. If you don't care whether or not it works using LLMS to help right code might actually be faster.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Jul 6

The biggest new feature in #icariagame update 1 is blueprints; copying builds within a save, between saves, and exporting them as a string to share with your friends. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Jul 6

If you've got it on your phone, A Dark Room is a great game to play when the power is out.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Jun 29

Working on #icariagame Update 1 where conveyor can climb hills and jump over canyons. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · Jun 5

So they disguised a contract software development house as AI so investors would throw money at them? Sounds like the 2025 version of en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pets.com

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · May 28

Meh, almost all new rocket designs fail a few times while they sort things out. However 3 similar failures in a row leaves me wondering if Musk has alienated too many of his staff and the SpaceX engineering team no longer has the skills to fix issues when they come up.

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Indie Games @theindieden.bsky.social · May 28

We created an Indie Den starter pack!

We want to add as many of our community members as possible, so reply to this post to be added! 🤩

All I ask is that you follow us and some of the awesome accounts already on the list 💛

#startpack #indiedev #indiegame
go.bsky.app/6jBtiB4

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · May 28

I got a front row seat to watch a lot of the politics around the writing of the DVD and Blue Ray standards. DVD was, honestly, a miracle but it is also a bunch of parts glued together based a mix of technical need and who owned which patent. Blue Ray is kind of a mess but that's another story.

Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · May 28

Sony (the primary author of the DVD standard (sorry Phillips)) clearly intended for Subtitles to replace Closed Captions as CC data was never going to support Japanese so we get this wacky extension on the MPEG-2 transport stream designed for Play Station-like hardware. 🤷‍♀️ it was cheap.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · May 28

Post houses were already accustomed to embedding it and off the shelf NTSC video decoder chips all supported it so, if you built a DVD player, CC just worked with no effort. Its been a hot minute since I looked at it, but the DVD standard may not even mention CC data; at best it is a footnote.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · May 28

@techconnectify.bsky.social Just watched your video on DVD Closed Captioning. DVD supports closed captions because it is an extension of the MPEG-2 video standard which, in 1996, was how a live broadcast from WGBH in Boston made it to KQED in San Francisco.

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Arkenhammer @arkenhammer.bsky.social · May 28

Heya! Been following you for a while. Nice to see this starter pack and would love to be added to the list.

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