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@lodomo.dev

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Dad. Game Dev. Pixel Artist.
🪨 Developing Boulder Mage #PlayDate 🟨
Devlog: https://blog.lodomo.dev
Portfolio: https://lodomo.dev
Portland, OR. He/Him

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Found this beautiful spot to sit and stare at my phone.

August 29, 2025 at 2:42 AM

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i saw a robot in the streets in portland. i felt like Tony Tony Chopper.

a white robot with blue lights on a side walk at night

August 9, 2025 at 4:59 AM

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anyone else getting a lot of follows but no engagement?

i have a feeling bsky is turning into just bots.

August 5, 2025 at 6:10 PM

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Me after being dead:

#DEADAF

July 31, 2025 at 4:16 AM

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Character Controller is starting to FEEL good.

#gamedev #pixelart #playdate

July 23, 2025 at 9:59 PM

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TILEMAP COLLISIONS ARE A SUCCESS.

What you're seeing:
Tiles are made solid at random for testing.
Big Square is being controlled by the DPAD
Tiny dots are polling positions (think raycasts)
Squares are the tiles being polled for collisions.

#gamedev #playdate

July 17, 2025 at 7:40 AM

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we broke bananagrams.

July 10, 2025 at 6:28 AM

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I'm back at it, folks! This time I'm working on creating a tile collision system. This is more of a consciousness dump for what I'm setting up to work on.

Spoilers: There's no actual collisions, yet.

hop.lodomo.dev/dl3

#gamdev #pixelart

July 7, 2025 at 5:20 PM

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I think a "part 1" of my DevLog on collisions will be up by Sunday. It was originally going to be just a single post, but it's getting out of hand.

oooof.

#gamedev #playdate #pixelart

July 2, 2025 at 6:00 AM

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Playing with figuring out how to implement a Tilemap collider on playdate.

Holding the data in a string is memory efficient (by about 10x) but is 4x slower to look up since strings aren't indexed.

#gamedev #playdate #learning

A playdate console (yellow gameboy style device with a crank) showing a screen that says

Bool 3.38ms
Num: 3.53ms
String: 13.25ms

July 2, 2025 at 1:23 AM

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Text: AI? ey I got an idea go fuck yourself. With a mobster pointing at you.

July 2, 2025 at 12:58 AM

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lmao, and Indeed blocks VPNs now?

COOOOOOOOL

June 30, 2025 at 9:01 PM

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Me when I say I'm headed to the valley:

#gamedev

A graph illustrating the Dunning-Kruger Effect. The y-axis is labeled "Confidence" (ranging from Low to High), and the x-axis is labeled "Competence" (ranging from "Know-nothing" to "Guru"). The curve starts low, rises sharply to a peak labeled "Peak of 'Mount Stupid'," then drops into a trough labeled "Valley of Despair," gradually rises again through the "Slope of Enlightenment," and levels off at the "Plateau of Sustainability."

June 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM

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Working on the colliders for Boulder Mage PD, I wanted to make sure I'm using roughly the right sized circle

I took a screenshot from Celeste, and scaled it to a 400x240 to see, roughly, how big boulder mage should be.

To my delight, I don't think I have to scale anything, just redraw in 1 bit.

The image is a screenshot from the video game Celeste. It shows a pixel-art platforming section set in a dark, cave-like environment. The protagonist, Madeline, is seen on the left side near a wall, with her hair colored in shades of red and yellow, indicating she has a dash available. The area contains dangerous spikes, platforms, and climbable walls, requiring precise navigation to progress. A wooden signpost is visible in the center, suggesting a tutorial or warning. The overall color palette is dark with icy blue and earthy tones.

Superimposed on top is BoulderMage in two styles (colored and 1-bit)

June 29, 2025 at 1:00 AM

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If you couldn't tell the UI was inspired by the original duke nukem.

Screenshot from Duke Nukem 2D, showing duke, a blond guy with a gun, shooting a turkey.

June 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM

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Practicing my 1-bit art by drawing scenes from @thirdrulegames.bsky.social's TTRPG Arcade Crawl.

"I'm here to kick ass and read books, and I'm all out of asses to kick"

#gamedev #pixelart #playdate #1bit #ドット絵

June 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM

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SEE BIRD, POST BIRD

#pixelart #birds

A pixel art pigeon that says "Hell Yeah!"

June 18, 2025 at 6:53 PM

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Getting a "scene" system working for Playdate. I can finally make some garbage stuff to test things without having to rewrite "main" and make a mess.

Code that says:
import "scripts/_imports"

local pd = playdate
pd.display.setRefreshRate(50)
local current_scene = TestScene

local function init()
print("Initializing...")
current_scene:load()
pd.update = current_scene.update
end

pd.update = init

-----

TestScene = Scene()

TestScene.load = function()
-- Load resources or initialize scene
print("TestScene loaded")
TestScene.some_var = 0
end

TestScene.update = function()
-- Update scene logic
TestScene.some_var = TestScene.some_var + 1
print("TestScene.some_var: " .. TestScene.some_var)
end

June 18, 2025 at 6:49 PM

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Devlog 0: Boulder Mage and the Parasol of Destiny is officially live on Patreon!

Read it: patreon.lodomo.dev

Come join me on my journey in #playdate, #gamedev, #pixelart, and much more!

June 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM

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My mom mailed me some art my grandma made and has been in storage.

It was wrapped in this Disneyland bag. This bag is now as old as Disneyland was when the bag was made. 🤯