Clifford
@towersvault.dev
Official communication place, stopped using X | Indie #GameDev that made #Suddenfell | Proudly #SouthAfrican 🇿🇦
Currently working on #SATTERM, a space base management game for the #GameBoy.
Currently working on #SATTERM, a space base management game for the #GameBoy.
Pinned
Clifford
@towersvault.dev
· Oct 24
Riiight, so I've been working on the mission tick logic for SATTERM. I'm trying to fit a single "step" in between each VBlank, however discovered that when it comes to mining, that while the #GameBoy Color is fast enough in double speed mode, the DMG isn't. Time to optimise. 🤷♂️ #gamedev #gbdev
November 24, 2025 at 8:23 PM
Guh, macOS 26 has been so absolutely awful. Updated to 26.1, and while it fixed a lot of issues, it's now introduced new ones such as Emulicious (that I do debugging in for SATTERM) being incredibly laggy, even after making sure my installed Java is up to date.
November 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Guh, macOS 26 has been so absolutely awful. Updated to 26.1, and while it fixed a lot of issues, it's now introduced new ones such as Emulicious (that I do debugging in for SATTERM) being incredibly laggy, even after making sure my installed Java is up to date.
The Mission View window is pretty much done! I made some low level changes to unit missions where I'll be tracking them on "units lost" versus "current HP" over "max HP" which will undoubtedly break the Repair Bay.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts #screenshotsaturday
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts #screenshotsaturday
October 24, 2025 at 10:07 PM
Took a bit of a detour today. I've been unhappy with saturation on the IPS/OLED modded #gameboy Color, and manually tweaking or figuring out a good desaturation algo just hasn't paid off, so I built an in-game colour palette tester.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts
October 23, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Refactored the window UI drawing macro since it’s gotten a bit clunky with the tech debt, and wow, it’s amazing now. I’ll post some screenshots a bit later to show what I can do with it now.
#gamedev
#gamedev
October 22, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Refactored the window UI drawing macro since it’s gotten a bit clunky with the tech debt, and wow, it’s amazing now. I’ll post some screenshots a bit later to show what I can do with it now.
#gamedev
#gamedev
Making progress! The Active Missions window will display a summary of each mission with the mission's remaining unit count, experienced weather, current position and destination. You can then drill down each mission summary.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts #gameboy
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts #gameboy
October 20, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Been spending some time implementing the fission reactor into SATTERM. Fuel cells, while provided for free, are limited by USC. Also there's a warm-up/cool-down time for the reactor, so aim not to get attacked.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #screenshotsaturday #rgbds #rts
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #screenshotsaturday #rgbds #rts
October 10, 2025 at 11:57 PM
Been busy with power management systems for SATTERM. The latest inclusion is the humble solar array! Solar effectivity will be affected by the position of the sun relative to your base, and the weather effects currently there.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #rgbds #rts
October 7, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Reposted by Clifford
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
signal.org
October 3, 2025 at 4:14 PM
We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...
Losing the fight against the urge to implement window drawing animations…
October 1, 2025 at 2:23 PM
Losing the fight against the urge to implement window drawing animations…
Whoever designed the new alarm stop/snooze screen in iOS 26 deserves a special place in hell. I’ve now accidentally stopped alarms in my sleep twice. 🫠
September 27, 2025 at 7:19 AM
Whoever designed the new alarm stop/snooze screen in iOS 26 deserves a special place in hell. I’ve now accidentally stopped alarms in my sleep twice. 🫠
More of the User Management Portal in #SATTERM!
Originally “user mgmnt” would’ve been part of the Comms Radar building, felt there needed to be separation between user and base management so I built out a chunky terminal UI.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #screenshotsaturday
Originally “user mgmnt” would’ve been part of the Comms Radar building, felt there needed to be separation between user and base management so I built out a chunky terminal UI.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo #screenshotsaturday
September 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Finally got myself a GameCube and a Gameboy Player
September 13, 2025 at 12:43 PM
Finally got myself a GameCube and a Gameboy Player
Finished some low level rewrites to take care of bugs with the map query feature, and then also had some time to squeeze in a new background for the homescreen! Rebooting your #GameBoy will change the layout of the background's stars every time.
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo
#gamedev #pixelart #retro #indiedev #gbdev #nintendo
September 9, 2025 at 9:17 PM