First time EU regulation has got a bigger cheer than video game crimes.

Dutch Digra success

It's swordtember again!

Day 1: Shell

I'm going for a bit of a gimmick this year and using one of the 4 colour Gameboy Color re-colour pallettes each day.

(I definitely didn't yesterday forget, Following @faithschaffer.bsky.social's prompt list)
#pixelart #swordtember2025

Train tasks

A little desktop toy inspired by co-working streams and games like Rusty's retirement.

cfdj.itch.io/train-tasks

I've been playing a lot of Dragon Quest 3 HD-2D, and my gosh this game feels luxurious.

Like a custom sprite for each possible class holding a lantern at night, just in case the player character is dead.
Larger sprites just for the start of battles.

Extravagance, there's no other way to put it

If you'd like to see cool games which are being made in the North of England then follow this!

(Also follow GaMaYo generally as they organise good stuff)

[Compost: Flowering deck builder]

The core of compost is simultaneous flower blooming turns, players playing all their cards into a veritable bouquet of flowers.

Why simultaneous though?

(1/3)

Yesterday I accidentally started designing a deck builder about plants, so expect pixel art flowers and playtesting notes

You know it’s a cool research method when the BBC asks to replicate it.

I used social media ad repositories to find that 93% of ads failed to disclose loot box presence: doi.org/10.1016/j.cl....

@twgerken.bsky.social of BBC News found 90.9% of games failed to comply: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article....

Best part of demoing @gamayo.bsky.social: the collection of cool Devs to follow and games to play

(I am so bad at Vextorial, but apparently pretty good at Wyrd Waters)

All packed to take Cellular City to @gamayo.bsky.social today at WX in Wakefield.

(No I don't have a better way to pack up my pc, yes I haven't put enough planning into this)

Monsters of the Greenwood:

An isometric tactics game about hunting giant monsters I made for the first Access Reset game jam

(Needs some better tutorialising and the audio description isn't quite sufficient for it's accessibility goals)
cfdj.itch.io/monsters-of-...

This Thursday is Game Makers Yorkshire (GaMaYo) at WX in Wakefield, I'm going to be demoing Cellular City there!
(Along with 500(!) other Yorkshire game developers)

Moving platforms means resposting old art. In this case a train parallax from a little SDL 2 project:

#pixelart #trains #gamedev

Hey! Do you like desktop toys and also swords?

Checkout Thirty Swords: a desktop toy about forging swords

#swordtember2024

cfdj.itch.io/thirty-swords

The webinar is live now!

(So far some interesting research on how scent is being used to focus gamblers attention in casinos and earlier detection of harmful gambling!)

Return of the Artemis 4: A present day scifi mystery ttrpg.

No rules, just 2 hours for 3-4 players to find out what happened aboard the Artemis 4.

cfdj.itch.io/return-of-th...
(Slowly adding links to stuff I've done to this profile)

I'm going to be demoing a new build of Cellular City on the 21st of November at Game Makers Yorkshire (GaMaYo) at WX in Wakefield!

(Along with a bunch of other cool game Devs)

What am I up to?

1. Making Cellular City, a city builder puzzle game inspired by Sheffield:
cfdj.itch.io/cellular-city
2. Researching games monetisation and advertising disclosure (417 ads watched so far!)
3. *Secret project*

Jumping ship from the bird app, while Cellular City is still my main development project I've taken a short detour due to Swordtember which I'll share more details of shortly...