Clifford
@towersvault.dev
Official communication place, stopped using X | Indie #GameDev that made #Suddenfell | Proudly #SouthAfrican 🇿🇦
Currently working on #SATTERM, a space base management game for the #GameBoy.
Currently working on #SATTERM, a space base management game for the #GameBoy.
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Clifford
@towersvault.dev
· Oct 24
While I'm busy developing the weather system for #SATTERM, I thought I'd do a bit of a "Creature Feature" of the units by presenting the humble ATV!
Since it's the quickest and cheapest ground based, it means it's great for scouting!
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Since it's the quickest and cheapest ground based, it means it's great for scouting!
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts
December 14, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Ended up redoing my multiplication and division math routines (8 bit and 16 bit) to be a lot faster and now I need to check for bugs since of course everything uses these routines.
#gamedev #gbdev #indiedev
#gamedev #gbdev #indiedev
a close up of a dog 's face with its eyes closed and looking at the camera .
ALT: a close up of a dog 's face with its eyes closed and looking at the camera .
media.tenor.com
December 3, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I might’ve bought a Nintendo Switch that was on sale, and I might’ve gotten hooked to Animal Crossing…
November 26, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I might’ve bought a Nintendo Switch that was on sale, and I might’ve gotten hooked to Animal Crossing…
Riiight, so I've been working on the mission tick logic for SATTERM. I'm trying to fit a single "step" in between each VBlank, however discovered that when it comes to mining, that while the #GameBoy Color is fast enough in double speed mode, the DMG isn't. Time to optimise. 🤷♂️ #gamedev #gbdev
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Guh, macOS 26 has been so absolutely awful. Updated to 26.1, and while it fixed a lot of issues, it's now introduced new ones such as Emulicious (that I do debugging in for SATTERM) being incredibly laggy, even after making sure my installed Java is up to date.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Guh, macOS 26 has been so absolutely awful. Updated to 26.1, and while it fixed a lot of issues, it's now introduced new ones such as Emulicious (that I do debugging in for SATTERM) being incredibly laggy, even after making sure my installed Java is up to date.
The Mission View window is pretty much done! I made some low level changes to unit missions where I'll be tracking them on "units lost" versus "current HP" over "max HP" which will undoubtedly break the Repair Bay.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts #screenshotsaturday
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Took a bit of a detour today. I've been unhappy with saturation on the IPS/OLED modded #gameboy Color, and manually tweaking or figuring out a good desaturation algo just hasn't paid off, so I built an in-game colour palette tester.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts
October 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Refactored the window UI drawing macro since it’s gotten a bit clunky with the tech debt, and wow, it’s amazing now. I’ll post some screenshots a bit later to show what I can do with it now.
#gamedev
#gamedev
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Refactored the window UI drawing macro since it’s gotten a bit clunky with the tech debt, and wow, it’s amazing now. I’ll post some screenshots a bit later to show what I can do with it now.
#gamedev
#gamedev
Making progress! The Active Missions window will display a summary of each mission with the mission's remaining unit count, experienced weather, current position and destination. You can then drill down each mission summary.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts #gameboy
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts #gameboy
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Been spending some time implementing the fission reactor into SATTERM. Fuel cells, while provided for free, are limited by USC. Also there's a warm-up/cool-down time for the reactor, so aim not to get attacked.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #screenshotsaturday #rgbds #rts
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #screenshotsaturday #rgbds #rts
October 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Been busy with power management systems for SATTERM. The latest inclusion is the humble solar array! Solar effectivity will be affected by the position of the sun relative to your base, and the weather effects currently there.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts
October 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Clifford
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
Losing the fight against the urge to implement window drawing animations…
October 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Losing the fight against the urge to implement window drawing animations…
