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Game developer using #GodotEngine 🎮 Mental health advocate 🧠 Avid gamer with a lust for challenge 🕹️ Wall Monkey 🧗🏻 Key Master 🎹 There is no _____, only Zuul 🎥
Reposted by Gemfruit
Trying to be better about supporting my backlog of games.

Here's "Tower of Greed", built in collaboration with @gemfruit.bsky.social, which got over 1 million plays on #Kongregate alone.

Still one of my favorites.
#indiegame #indiedev #gamedev
September 28, 2025 at 2:51 PM
@elgato.com Any work being done on adding mouse button support as the activation "hotkey" for virtual stream decks set to dynamic activation?

The results of this guide are pretty sweet, but I'd love to activate it via the mouse, without setting a macro in software.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY5B...
How to Create a Tool Wheel with Virtual Stream Deck!
YouTube video by iamfallfromgrace
www.youtube.com
September 27, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I just read this article about Steam's colossal mistake that cost multiple members of an indie studio more mental anguish than words or money can possibly replace, IMHO.

In order to stay afloat, I've shared ROOMS, didn't eat out, etc, for years - it's brutal.

www.polygon.com/valve-steam-...
Valve apologizes for ruining a Steam game's launch
A decade's worth of work in Steam's early access went down the gutter, and the developers spent almost a year wondering why their game failed
www.polygon.com
September 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I just switched backed to a long abandoned YouTube Channel account (due to a handle issue, I got it back!), only to find that the algorithm there is so pure, so kind, so gentle. Video game music, game dev, creativity - not all the politics and garbage on my main.

How serendipitous ♪♫
September 8, 2025 at 4:19 AM
N: Montreal - Québec City, Canada
E: Camp Casey (north-east of Seoul), South Korea
S: Tampa (Busch Gardens), Florida, USA
W: San Francisco, CA, USA

I need to go down more.
Furthest I’ve been:

N: Espoo, Finland
E: Helsinki, Finland / Krakow, Poland
S: Oranjestad, Aruba
W: Honolulu, Hawaii
August 8, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Please keep an extra eye on your children for the remainder of the summer - the House GOP just started their FIVE WEEK recess EARLY, as they don't want to deal with the repercussions of defending our pedophile president until September.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0z5i...
Mike Johnson Delays House Epstein Vote Until September
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
www.youtube.com
July 23, 2025 at 10:53 PM
When I was in Korea recently, there was a cat cafe on the main Myeongdong strip, and I wanted to go sooooo bad, but you had to block out a half hour, and some of my crew was allergic.

Maybe I will run my own now.
July 14, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Mike Johnson thinking HE can decide who "needs" or "deserves" Medicaid, is the EXACT reason we have people like Luigi Mangione deciding who "needs" or "deserves" a bullet or three in their cranium.

I'm not directly condoning, simply stating objective facts.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjFL...
Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
YouTube video by LastWeekTonight
www.youtube.com
June 30, 2025 at 8:38 PM
This admin is fucking cooked, it won't be pretty, but we're 100% going to get there. Hit the streets, your 1px face on a TV screen can change the world, as long as there are enough of us.

I plan to make games and be creative in this life, not be a slave to absolute losers.

www.nokings.org
No Kings
On June 14—Flag Day—Donald Trump wants tanks in the street and a made-for-TV display of dominance for his birthday. A spectacle meant to look like strength. But real power isn’t staged in Washington. ...
www.nokings.org
June 14, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Jason will most certainly hunt me down before I finish this stream setup, but we get closer (minus the ones where life) every day...
June 14, 2025 at 3:54 AM
I come from poverty - I will NOT live in a country where we spend MILLIONS on attacking innocent people (domestic and foreign) and marching tanks in the streets, but we can't feed our children, provide healthcare, accept that dental IS medical, among so many other issues.
app.sosha.ai/s/jxwd6rIb
Join me on June 14
app.sosha.ai
June 12, 2025 at 12:24 AM
I've got a soft spot for this franchise, and I really hope @tributegames.com nails this entry!

(bonus points for a challenging post-game - the target market demands it!)

youtu.be/fY3RgEkSfNk?...
Scott Pilgrim EX - Coming in 2026 🌀🛹
YouTube video by Tribute Games
youtu.be
June 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Reposted by Gemfruit
Nova Drift's 1.2, DAILY CHALLENGE update is now live!
* 10 daily challenges + 23 random modifiers
* A unique challenge every day of the year
* 20% of profits to whale and dolphin conservation
* Last week to back Vinyl/CD OST

👉Details here: blog.novadrift.io/dailychallenge
#roguelike #indiegames
Nova Drift 1.2 OUT: Daily Challenge // Games for Waves
Take on a new seeded challenge each day, competing with players globally. All together, there are 10 main Daily Challenges, and 23 modifiers that can be applied to them to in different combinations. T...
blog.novadrift.io
June 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Reposted by Gemfruit
Did you know there's a whole-ass new Katamari game? There seems to be no marketing for it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wcz...
May 15, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A decade...it's been too long.

This photo is kind of overwhelming for me, in so many ways.
From the individual events each person in this photo has gone through (divorce, loss of loved ones, depression, war), to the strength and growth that each has demonstrated during those trying times.

1/2
March 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
There's a LittleFreeLibrary.org box on my dog walk route, so I obviously added a #Zelda Wind Waker Outset Island figure to it.

Link is safe in the warmth, much like I am here in Vermont, USA, but the weather / politics outside are "dangerous to go alone!" level. Even when I am safe, WE must fight.
February 23, 2025 at 5:15 PM
@elgato.com Please add "Delete" to the right click context menu within the profiles settings screen, as that functionality is only accessible from right-clicking on the numbers within the main app, which isn't intuitive. If you can ADD pages from a location, you can REMOVE them too, not one way.
February 20, 2025 at 3:56 PM
My mantra for 2025 is to be it all the ways. Rather than get caught up design choices, which is better, how to do what, I'm just going to DO. I can build all 3 options faster than I can pick one, so why not just do until I learn, and some day take less time on step 1. 2025, year of Do.
January 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
I just got legitimately excited to work on a project after taking notes for the first time in years (very hard years). I'm genuinely excited to wake up and put some serious hours into this tomorrow. For the love of god, universe, let this wind in my sails last, give me 24 hours I beg you ♪♫
January 14, 2025 at 2:05 AM
@luministmusic.bsky.social Sir, your song Inner World, is quite frankly, out of this fucking world! I'm super focused on some OBS work, only to be snapped out of it by this absolute banger. I look over, "first got into music after playing Final Fantasy". - tracks.
open.spotify.com/track/4Y5y5W...
Inner World
Luminist · Simulations · Song · 2017
open.spotify.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:52 PM
My 8BitDo Pro 2 controller saw some very heavy use, but recently bit the dust (I had repaired it once), and I'm back to using my SF30 Pro. Luckily there's a new hall effect joystick upgrade, as well as a sleek translucent purple design, so that will be here in a week.
shop.8bitdo.com/products/8bi...
8BitDo Pro 2 (Special Edition)
8Bitdo is a premier 3rd party video game hardware company with a special focus on retro themed game controllers. Renowned for producing the highest quality retro controllers on the market.
shop.8bitdo.com
January 1, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I highly suggest checking out the supplied dropbox link for the full version ♪♫
Somewhere in my Memory. A tribute to my family, played on the instruments that they owned and performed growing up, before eventually passing them down to me.

In honor of my dad (clarinet) and aunt (harp), and in memory of my mom (flute/picc) and uncle (saxophone).

Happy holidays 🎄❤️
December 22, 2024 at 8:40 PM
December 10, 2024 at 9:50 PM