How's your Christmas eve going? I broke some of the games on santatracker.google.com so right now it's last minute fixes and code pushes...

A sort of crazy thing in the latest Nintendo direct is they announced a planet gravity Suika game, and I literally made that last year

jezzamon.com/suika/

A few years ago I made a version of Wordle where you can only ever guess each word once (unless it's that day's word).

At the start it forces you to be creative, but it eventually gets super hard as it tests the limits of your vocabulary/recall skills.

Kitt getting to 993 days is very impressive!

@jezzamon.bsky.social 3585 five letter words. Some of the ones I used are *weird* 😂

Does anyone know what Miyazaki actually thinks about "Ghibli filters" and such? A lot of people are pulling out the 2016 quote which is about a very different circumstance and not really applicable to now.

Probably more relevant would be just his thoughts on extremely derivative artwork

@distraction.engineer Hey Mike, I've been thinking that this Ludum Dare could be a good one for me to sit out of participating and do something like help with support requests or other behind the scenes stuff.

Is that something that would be helpful?? (Feel free to message me)

I finally updated my website with a link to my Bluesky profile. The Twitter link has a good animation too haha: jezzamon.com

It's Gamer time

I'll be at GDC next week! Should be fun :D

Wahoo!!!

PS: I 💜 you, the #LDJam and #GameDev community.

While I still have emails to catch up on 💜, *yes*, I am going ahead with the plan to run Ludum Dare 57 on April 4th weekend, as originally scheduled!

I'll be working the announcement for the better part of the day.

Thanks again. 💜

I'm on-call for Google Santa Tracker tonight!

The map just opened up: looks like Santa will leave in just one hour!
santatracker.google.com

Here's how #AdventOfCode is going for me:

Started challenges in Haskell, which was interesting to learn. I also learned that it's a pain for computationally complicated questions

So then I switched back to comfort languages:
TS, Go, Kotlin, and then did one in python too

Baby's first Haskell program (Advent of Code day 1)

I'm prepping for Advent of Code, deciding what language I want to do it in. I normally try learning a new one. This year the frontrunners were Haskell or Lua, but I've decided to go with Haskell! :) Excited!!

Since the decline of Twitter, I've mostly moved away from platforms where I post things. So I'm still figuring out what I want to use bluesky for now... We'll see!

My latest Ludum Dare game:

"I Have Put The Creature Into My Gun".

a lil' platformer about lil' guys

Play it here: jezzamon.itch.io/i-have-put-t...
#ldjam #gamedev

Haha, the Google doodle game is sick! g.co/doodle/xd2j65f