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AndyMakes
@andymakes.itch.io
I make small projects in a small apartment
Friend of Arcade Commons
Maker of Particle Mace
I make pen plotter art and tweetcarts sometimes

Buy my drawings: shop.andymakes.com
Play my games: andymakes.itch.io

https://andymakes.com/
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The Flip Out Jam itch.io/jam/flip-out, with games made for a custom alt controller with five toggle switches, was such a blast. Play the jam games (including my annoying elevator operator simulator Up To Go Down) at MAGFest!
December 27, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Jam organized by @arcadecommons.org and @mag-indiearcade.bsky.social ✨ As part of the jam participants also built their own version of the controller, this is our shoebox version by @sadlilrobot.bsky.social
December 27, 2025 at 7:20 PM
For the holidays, my partner made me these amazing stickers to compliment my XCOM-2 obsession (which includes running way too many mods).
December 26, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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2025 was a huge year for building arcade cabinets- I sold 12 this year alone! Here’s where they went:

1. Particle Mace by @andymakes.itch.io sent to @indiedarlingsf.bsky.social in SF
December 23, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Here's a quick vid of the Rocket Dog level gen in action, which does a nice job of showing it getting caught in a dead end for a while and needing to rewind.

#indiedev #gamedev
December 22, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Taper 15 is live! You can check out my code poem here: taper.badquar.to/15/burning_t...

All of the entries in Taper are HTML and javascript with less than 2kb of source code.

#sizecoding #proceduralgeneration
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
It's my holiday party and creating an unpleasant sonic experience is part of it.
December 19, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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Perhaps you might see it at some kind of... Community Showcase...
Getting Hypnogenesis ready for its debut at @magfest.org with a new console!
December 18, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Getting Hypnogenesis ready for its debut at @magfest.org with a new console!
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 AM
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deeply evil people we have in charge of this country. the entire political establishment needs to go
Had the three Dems who voted for this held the line and voted no, they could have blocked it.
December 18, 2025 at 2:57 AM
🎶🎵 santa baby scuttle up the chimney to me 🎶🎵
December 17, 2025 at 8:49 PM
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Tomorrow I'm doing a presentation about Alternative Controllers and my ITP class @newarcadeitp.bsky.social at Word Hack at @wonderville.nyc - come check it out or watch on Twitch!
December 17, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I intend to use my profits from the game to fund and uplift creators less privileged than he is. I’ve already begun that effort with the Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant: grants.draknek.org
Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant
The Draknek New Voices Puzzle Grant is a grant opportunity for game developers from traditionally underrepresented groups and backgrounds who are interested in designing and developing puzzle games.
grants.draknek.org
December 12, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Big revamp of the level generator for Rocket Dog. I love proc-gen so I went harder than I need to. It's pretty robust! Supports segments of any orientation & size, full checkpointing etc.

The levels feel nice & twisty!

first pic is the old output, then 3 of the new one
#indiedev #gamedev #procgen
December 16, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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Peeking through the fence #pico8 #postcart
December 24, 2024 at 6:58 AM
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Animation of the space-time diagram of the current BB6 champion Turing Machine.

Remix it on www.pico-8-edu.com?c=AHB4YQGtAU...

#postcart #pico8 #tweetcart
July 21, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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👁️ Something Watching... 👁️ (295 chars, code in reply) #pico8 #postcart
January 31, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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Boshi’s, NYC nonprofit games space, is hosting an end of year fundraiser!! Your generous support is greatly appreciated. For more about how, what, when, where, and why, see the link in our bio. We love you!

#game #nyc #donate #videogames #boardgames #giveback
December 11, 2025 at 9:06 PM
It's Plex Wrapped season for me!

Alex G is the only touring musician on here that I did not see live this year! (Orion is a youtube Liquid DnB channel lol)

My code for this is public (and janky!) and requires no addons to your plex server: github.com/andymasterof...
December 9, 2025 at 5:22 PM
What's going on with the Mayan calendar these days?
November 24, 2025 at 6:32 PM
One of the strongest power plays you can do right now is to purchase somebody a friend pendant for their birthday.
November 19, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Love when Windows tells me that I'm almost done setting up my computer. Buddy, it's been 6 years. You have to let it go.
November 19, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Doing some super rudimentary work on defining visual identities for different areas in Rocket Dog.

The arcade run has really suffered without a feeling of progression, even if the level segments got harder over the course of the run.

#gamedev #indiedev
November 13, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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After a long gap, pleased to share:

Episode 2 of Games & Resistance, a slow-burn podcast miniseries hosted by @chadtoprak.bsky.social & me.

We interview Lebanese / NYC game dev Ramsey Nasser about his work, including recent project gaza.memorial.

games-and-resistance.pinecast.co/episode/739b...
S1E2 - 02 - Ramsey Nasser
# Episode 2 - Ramsey Nasser For our second episode, we talk to Ramsey Nasser, a Lebanese game designer, computer scientist, and educator who lives in NYC. We talk to Ramsey about one of his recent p...
games-and-resistance.pinecast.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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i hope this election cycle empowers everyone the next time a centrist liberal says to drop pro-trans and pro-immigrant rhetoric to enthusiastically tell them to shut the fuck up
November 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM