David Amador
@djlink.bsky.social
Indie game developer (like that movie) running Upfall Studios. Maker of Quest of Dungeons, Vizati and other weird games.
https://www.david-amador.com
https://www.upfallstudios.com
📍Portugal
https://www.david-amador.com
https://www.upfallstudios.com
📍Portugal
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David Amador
@djlink.bsky.social
· Sep 1
Hi new followers, guess it's time for a new intro post. I’m David, been working as indiedev ~15 years, made a few games, I like coding my own frameworks in SDL/C++. More "recently" I've been doing contract work using Unity/GM2 etc for consoles, so been vverry slowly working on my own new game.
I once worked in a place where we sadly didn’t managed to ship anything in 4-5 years, imagine 17!
I know people who have spent their entire career on an unreleased game, and some who worked on it, left to ship another game, came back, left again to ship another game, and came back again.
Unbelievably, 17 years after its original announcement, Ubisoft appears to still be hiring for Beyond Good and Evil 2
www.eurogamer.net/unbelievably...
www.eurogamer.net/unbelievably...
November 26, 2025 at 12:05 PM
I once worked in a place where we sadly didn’t managed to ship anything in 4-5 years, imagine 17!
bumped into this article yesterday and I think it's interesting and wanted to share, always cool to read about older games code. fabiensanglard.net/q... #gamedev
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 PM
bumped into this article yesterday and I think it's interesting and wanted to share, always cool to read about older games code. fabiensanglard.net/q... #gamedev
Reposted by David Amador
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
November 24, 2025 at 10:23 PM
We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.
Square says game key cards are due to speed but ... Dragon Quest 1&2 remake is complete in cart for slower Switch 1 sys, Switch 2 is key-card and also that uglier (due to noticed) box. Also you can’t upgrade. SW2 was supposed to be the no-brainer pick for everything now.
November 25, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Square says game key cards are due to speed but ... Dragon Quest 1&2 remake is complete in cart for slower Switch 1 sys, Switch 2 is key-card and also that uglier (due to noticed) box. Also you can’t upgrade. SW2 was supposed to be the no-brainer pick for everything now.
A non problem these days in modern systems, but back in the day, having a game controller wire across the living room was a problem (once saw friends dog making a PS1 fly off the shelf). When OG Xbox launched the Duke controller that cord that would detached on a pull felt like a game changer!
November 24, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A non problem these days in modern systems, but back in the day, having a game controller wire across the living room was a problem (once saw friends dog making a PS1 fly off the shelf). When OG Xbox launched the Duke controller that cord that would detached on a pull felt like a game changer!
24 hour format is so much nicer than 12 with am/pm suffix.
November 24, 2025 at 2:19 PM
24 hour format is so much nicer than 12 with am/pm suffix.
I think there’s room for pirate themed horror movies and games.
November 23, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I think there’s room for pirate themed horror movies and games.
Bluesky: the place where whether you like it or not, you’ll still find out what’s happening on Twitter (formerly known as Twitter but some people still call it Twitter)
November 23, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Bluesky: the place where whether you like it or not, you’ll still find out what’s happening on Twitter (formerly known as Twitter but some people still call it Twitter)
Bugs are bugs, but some of the most interesting ones are the “works like this by design” but are perceived by players as a bug, as it behaves differently from what they expect. “Playing it wrong” is not a good argument, so there’s more learning involved while fixing it than just broken code.
November 23, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Bugs are bugs, but some of the most interesting ones are the “works like this by design” but are perceived by players as a bug, as it behaves differently from what they expect. “Playing it wrong” is not a good argument, so there’s more learning involved while fixing it than just broken code.
2001 was a good year!
and also...
Final Fantasy X
Black & White
Max Payne
Silent Hill 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Devil May Cry
Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons
Super Smash Bros Melee
Golden Sun
Civilization 3
Shenmue 2
Pikmin
Baldur's Gate 2
Wario Land 4
and more...
and also...
Final Fantasy X
Black & White
Max Payne
Silent Hill 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Devil May Cry
Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons
Super Smash Bros Melee
Golden Sun
Civilization 3
Shenmue 2
Pikmin
Baldur's Gate 2
Wario Land 4
and more...
November 22, 2025 at 8:57 PM
2001 was a good year!
and also...
Final Fantasy X
Black & White
Max Payne
Silent Hill 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Devil May Cry
Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons
Super Smash Bros Melee
Golden Sun
Civilization 3
Shenmue 2
Pikmin
Baldur's Gate 2
Wario Land 4
and more...
and also...
Final Fantasy X
Black & White
Max Payne
Silent Hill 2
Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2
Devil May Cry
Zelda Oracle of Ages/Seasons
Super Smash Bros Melee
Golden Sun
Civilization 3
Shenmue 2
Pikmin
Baldur's Gate 2
Wario Land 4
and more...
Unreal blueprints being binary is kinda of a weird decision. Generally speaking I think binaries during development is terrible for ControlVersion. How are teams handling this large scale, the good old “file lock”?
November 22, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Unreal blueprints being binary is kinda of a weird decision. Generally speaking I think binaries during development is terrible for ControlVersion. How are teams handling this large scale, the good old “file lock”?
Helped with some code for this one in last year. check it out, it’s very inspired by one of my fav consoles social network.
📣 VIDEOVERSE is out on consoles! 📣
Set on a fictional gaming system, VIDEOVERSE is a love letter to video games. If you're looking for an emotional narrative experience, this one is for you!
PlayStation 💙 tinyurl.com/yuhzcbhc
Nintendo Switch ❤️ tinyurl.com/4cy48abw
XBOX 💚 tinyurl.com/4w636war
Set on a fictional gaming system, VIDEOVERSE is a love letter to video games. If you're looking for an emotional narrative experience, this one is for you!
PlayStation 💙 tinyurl.com/yuhzcbhc
Nintendo Switch ❤️ tinyurl.com/4cy48abw
XBOX 💚 tinyurl.com/4w636war
November 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Helped with some code for this one in last year. check it out, it’s very inspired by one of my fav consoles social network.
Zork 1, 2 and 3 are now open source and available on GitHub
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
November 22, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Zork 1, 2 and 3 are now open source and available on GitHub
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
github.com/historica...
My first game development console kit. XNA!!!!!!!
November 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
My first game development console kit. XNA!!!!!!!
Unreal has a KINDA_SMALL_NUMBER float macro define, so we can compare against small numbers close to 0 and I found the name funny because I imagined the dev conversation.
"So how big is the number?"
"kinda small"
wfh will do that to your brain.
"So how big is the number?"
"kinda small"
wfh will do that to your brain.
November 22, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Unreal has a KINDA_SMALL_NUMBER float macro define, so we can compare against small numbers close to 0 and I found the name funny because I imagined the dev conversation.
"So how big is the number?"
"kinda small"
wfh will do that to your brain.
"So how big is the number?"
"kinda small"
wfh will do that to your brain.
This is such an idiotic solution! moving Windows frontend components to web-tech was a mistake and it shows. Tech debt must be pilling up at absurd levels and they can’t keep up with the sluggish code anymore. And faster hardware can’t do miracles.
Microsoft says it will always run Windows 11 File Explorer in the background to load it faster
Microsoft admitted that File Explorer is slow and can take longer than usual to load, and it's going to fix it in the next Windows 11 update.
www.windowslatest.com
November 22, 2025 at 9:57 AM
This is such an idiotic solution! moving Windows frontend components to web-tech was a mistake and it shows. Tech debt must be pilling up at absurd levels and they can’t keep up with the sluggish code anymore. And faster hardware can’t do miracles.
do yourself a favor, install File Pilot and "Windows explorer" becomes usable again. So far the only caveat I found is I can't access network drives directly by UNC, only if mapped on Windows. https://filepilot.tech/
November 22, 2025 at 9:38 AM
do yourself a favor, install File Pilot and "Windows explorer" becomes usable again. So far the only caveat I found is I can't access network drives directly by UNC, only if mapped on Windows. https://filepilot.tech/
probably best to hold on updates on windows11 for now while they patch it up
support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...
support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...
November 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
probably best to hold on updates on windows11 for now while they patch it up
support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...
support.microsoft.com/en-us/topic/...
What is the games equivalent to movies “it’s all CGI, they don’t do practical stunts/effects anymore, so it doesn’t age as well”?
November 21, 2025 at 4:27 PM
What is the games equivalent to movies “it’s all CGI, they don’t do practical stunts/effects anymore, so it doesn’t age as well”?
November 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
I’m fine with the Nintendo game releases where they drop the game complete on day one and only update crucial issues. But weirdly, Mario Kart World, considering what it seemed to be about and the scope, seems kind of abandoned? This never crossed my mind with MK8, even before all the DLCs.
November 20, 2025 at 8:58 PM
I’m fine with the Nintendo game releases where they drop the game complete on day one and only update crucial issues. But weirdly, Mario Kart World, considering what it seemed to be about and the scope, seems kind of abandoned? This never crossed my mind with MK8, even before all the DLCs.
finally!! the internet became worse since this poorly thought-of non-sense started. www.theverge.com/new...
November 19, 2025 at 2:58 PM
finally!! the internet became worse since this poorly thought-of non-sense started. www.theverge.com/new...
Unity and Unreal are partnering up ... for Unity games to be published directly inside Fortnite "metaverse". Not really sure what this means for Unity in long run (for Unreal it doesn't hurt). interesting collaboration but doesn't change anything for majority of current devs?
Unity devs will be able to publish games in Fortnite after Epic Games announces surprise collaboration
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says Unity game developers can publish their games "directly into Fortnite" starting next year.
www.pcguide.com
November 19, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Unity and Unreal are partnering up ... for Unity games to be published directly inside Fortnite "metaverse". Not really sure what this means for Unity in long run (for Unreal it doesn't hurt). interesting collaboration but doesn't change anything for majority of current devs?