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Noel Berry
@noelfb.bsky.social
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Sometimes, when I'm in the right mood, I make video games and art. Or something.

Made Celeste with friends, working on new games with EXOK and City of None. www.noelberry.ca
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noelfb.bsky.social
good game i just wish the devs had given up the rest of their lives for me to enjoy this a little more 😔😔
Negative steam review "Very good game with its own unique mechanics and spin on the Metroidvania genre. The grapple dash feels insanely good. However the game is pretty short and feels kind of Early Accessy as in there would be so much more potential for this game. I just wish the devs took 2 or 3 more years to really develop their idea and really maximize what this game could've been."
January 7, 2026 at 3:07 AM
noelfb.bsky.social
still not even 4% but this trend is really cool (from www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valv...)
graph showing linux use on Steam from 2018 (0.7%) to 2026 (3.6%)
January 6, 2026 at 11:48 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
just let me request a window position, wayland. 99.99% of people are not using their desktop ui in a 3d virtual VR space, and now my normal desktop app can't position itself like it can on win/mac/x11 lol
https://wayland-book.com/xdg-shell-in-depth/interactive.html "However, a deliberate design trait of Wayland makes application windows ignorant of their exact placement on screen or relative to other windows. This decision affords Wayland compositors a greater deal of flexibility — windows could be shown in several places at once, arranged in the 3D space of a VR scene, or presented in any other novel way. Wayland is designed to be generic and widely applicable to many devices and form factors."
December 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
pretending to know how to do lighting
November 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
noelfb.bsky.social
still pretending to make a 3d game
November 15, 2025 at 12:17 AM
noelfb.bsky.social
pretending i know how to make a 3d game
November 7, 2025 at 1:23 AM
noelfb.bsky.social
hmm maybe a 3d platformer with a palette shader?
November 3, 2025 at 7:44 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
yeah cuz you are
image of a reddit thread titled "I Can't Help Feeling Like a Creep Wearing Meta's New Gen 2 Glasses"
November 2, 2025 at 8:12 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
maybe a 3d platformer? (model is modified from: kenney.nl/assets/mini-...)
October 29, 2025 at 8:13 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
Melbourne was really cool! Awesome city, lovely people, hope to visit again some day. Next time I wanna see more outside the city on a longer trip
A picture of some of melbourne's city line, from a hill somewhere
October 12, 2025 at 12:35 AM
noelfb.bsky.social
genuinely, who cares? public services aren't businesses. it provides services that should be accessible to the entire population. it should not be expected to make that profitable.

www.cbc.ca/news/politic...
screenshot from the article: "Canada Post is now facing an existential crisis," Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound said in a statement on Thursday. "Since 2018, the corporation has accumulated more than $5 billion in losses. In 2024 alone, it lost over $1 billion, and in 2025, it is already on track to lose close to $1.5 billion."
September 25, 2025 at 5:59 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
I'm not gonna have time to make anything with this but I started on a tiny interactive web thing for Vancouver Game Garden using @pietepiet.com's art and LDtk (arrow keys): vangamegarden.com/events/02/ga...
September 22, 2025 at 9:48 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
here's a pixelated 3d spinning heart I made for a thing today
September 2, 2025 at 4:19 AM
noelfb.bsky.social
(if you are at all interested in doing this the csproj property is called DocumentationFIle:)
csproj xml showing properties to generate documentation files
August 30, 2025 at 9:16 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
A C# thing I really like for custom editors is that you can automatically generate xml from your comments, and then load those at runtime and display them using reflection. So now code-comments are also editor docs/information:
An image showing C# comments, followed by generated XML, followed by a screenshot of a level editor presenting those comments.
August 30, 2025 at 9:13 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
Am I a speedrunner now?

(skipping stuff in the new DK game... but then not following through because I assume I need some kinda power up for this wind stuff)
July 25, 2025 at 3:25 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
basically making a circa 2009 flash game (w/ @maddymakesgames.com)
July 24, 2025 at 12:32 AM
noelfb.bsky.social
this is going to be the sequel to celeste
July 17, 2025 at 8:08 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
trying to make something small in javascript and this language is so stupid lol. just trying to parse a json file, apparently "import" is the easiest way now. except it's so janky!
screenshot of the following code: // this doesn't work for "reasons" import data from './levels.ldtk'; // everywhere online says you need to assert the type // except, wait! this doesn't work in browsers anymore? import data from './levels.ldtk' assert { type: 'json' }; // it's been changed to "with" for whatever reason, OK.. fine.. // except, wait! this still doesn't work and fails to load? import data from './levels.ldtk' with { type: 'json' }; // oh it needs to have a .json ext EVEN THOUGH i tell its type // this one works import data from './levels.json' with { type: 'json' };
July 6, 2025 at 9:33 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
yeah... this one would just keep adding to the circle but it becomes unwieldy past about 12 items.
July 6, 2025 at 7:39 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
experimenting with a radial menu 🤔 (among other things, in City of None with @liamberry.ca)
July 6, 2025 at 7:05 AM
noelfb.bsky.social
I just use C# for 95% of the game - hot reload and compile times being basically 0 in C# means it's very easy to iterate fast.

However, I do have a light node system I made for cutscenes, because it's convenient for one-off little events
June 19, 2025 at 9:33 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
we custom code a lot of cutscenes because with C# hot reload it's faster and easier, so these are more for one-off little events. The bigger cutscenes still use the same system, but they just end up being a singular custom node haha
May 15, 2025 at 6:41 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
it's 99% C#, but some of the lighter cutscenes use a little node graph I made:
May 15, 2025 at 6:40 PM
noelfb.bsky.social
taking the subway (City of None with @liamberry.ca)
(metro map still wip / doesn't have art yet)
May 14, 2025 at 11:33 PM