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James

@jarmsicle.bsky.social

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Stealing time to build games. 🏹 The Long Arc (https://play.date/games/the-long-arc/) is an action arcade game for the #playdate console built using #nim

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Long Arc is out now on the #playdate catalogue: play.date/games/the-lo...

The Long Arc for Playdate

Defend your tower with the crank as your bow in this fast-paced action arcade game. Fight off waves of enemies, earn upgrades, and unlock powerful arrows like fire, lightning, and explosive shots. Pre...

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · 17d

It's the last day of the sale for 🏹 #TheLongArc on #playdate, grab a copy! play.date/games/the-lo... #indiedev

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · 20d

I started adding support for achievements (via gurtt.dev/trophy-case) to my #playdate game #TheLongArc -- which is still on sale, btw: play.date/games/the-lo...

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · 23d

The Long Arc for #playdate is on sale — grab a copy here: play.date/games/the-lo...

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · 25d

I'm working on an update to #TheLongArc that includes bug fixes and game balance tweaks, but also adds support for high scores #indiedev #playdate

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 30

Gorgeous.

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 30

I don’t know who they are, but a user named tallyfoley is the first person to beat #TheLongArc on #playdate! I feel like I should commemorate this in some way

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 30

Incremental progress: turrets can now damage enemies. I also put together a design document so I have a formalized set of features, enemies, and upgrades that need to be built. #playdate #towerdefense #indiedev

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 28

The turrets can fire bullets now! They can't damage enemies yet, but that's next. #playdate #indiedev #towerdefense

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 26

I love the dark contrast of the characters against the background. Looks great

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 23

Hey, thanks! I appreciate that :)

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 23

I'm starting to add turrets to this tiny #towerdefense game I'm toying with on the #playdate. They don't shoot yet, but you can control their direction with the device crank #indiedev

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 23

After resolving a device crash caused by storing too much data on the tiny stack of the #playdate, I got my performance test running on device. I’m pleased with the results for right now. #indiedev

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 17

Testing the performance of the path finding and spatial indexing for the #playdate #towerdefense game I'm poking at #indiedev

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Aug 10

I picked up the tower defense project I was playing with a few months back. I got an enemy moving across the map today #playdate #towerdefense #indiedev

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Jul 9

I’m the developer :)

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Playdate @play.date · Jul 9

Whip out those Playdates, new Catalog games are here 🙌 !!

Open up Catalog inside your Playdate or head to play.date/games ✨

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Jul 8

The Long Arc is out now on the #playdate catalogue: play.date/games/the-lo...

The Long Arc for Playdate

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · May 7

Started in on a new #playdate project. I'm just playing around at this point, but I got a map being rendered using LDtk, then a flow field that I'll use for enemy steering. #indiedev

James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Mar 25

I’m proud to announce that #TheLongArc has been accepted into the #playdate catalog. No date yet, so if you can’t wait its available now on itch: elephantstarballoon.itch.io/the-long-arc

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Mar 15

Now that my first game is launched (elephantstarballoon.itch.io/the-long-arc), I started playing with rendering a #voxel based model on the #playdate. I'm faking a 3d effect by rendering the layers as separate sprites. Then I offset each layer to make give it a sense of depth #PixelArt #indiedev

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Mar 7

Just published a #nim project for importing JSON schema files as if they were code: github.com/Nycto/NimJso...

I’m planning on using it to import #ldtk files into my next #playdate game

GitHub - Nycto/NimJsonSchemaImporter: Parses json schema files using macros to create nim objects

Parses json schema files using macros to create nim objects - Nycto/NimJsonSchemaImporter

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Mar 1

Now that my first #playdate game is available on itch (elephantstarballoon.itch.io/the-long-arc), I'm starting to play with ideas for my next game. My first idea is a tower defense game that integrates the crank, so I put together a mock #indiedev #PixelArt

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Feb 24

The Long Arc is available now for #playdate on itch: elephantstarballoon.itch.io/the-long-arc

#indiedev #nim #TheLongAr

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Jan 12

I just tagged version 0.12.0 of the #ecs library I maintain in #nim: github.com/NecsusECS/Ne...

Its got some performance improvements, bug fixes, a new `DeleteAll` directive, and some tools for tuning memory usage.

Release 0.12.0 · NecsusECS/Necsus

Backwards Incompatible Changes No known backwards incompatible changes New Features Remove archetype sorting restriction Add generations to entity IDs to prevent entity confusion when entity IDs...

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James @jarmsicle.bsky.social · Jan 4

I may regret having to rebalance things last minute, but I decided I needed more air based enemies. I added a swarm of imps that moves quick, shifts around and shoots. Releasing soon for #playdate: elephantstarballoon.itch.io/the-long-arc #indiedev #PixelArt

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