theChief | Dom Harris
wayfarergames.bsky.social
theChief | Dom Harris
@wayfarergames.bsky.social
Christian, dad, he/him. Just here makin' little arcade style games with googly eyes.

Nominated for the MCV/Develop Accessibility Innovation of the Year 2024. Accessibility is important, trans rights are human rights, eat the rich.
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Hello bluesky, I have been convinced (it didn't take much)

Here's a little look at Polyfury: my highly accessible bullet hell. Face the fury of the Seven Deadly Shapes and blast your way through their barrage of bullets & lasers, on Steam and Xbox!
I love @freya.bsky.social 's shapes so much, and now I have fancy non-destructive corner rounding for polylines 😁 now all I need to do is work out how to round the end caps
July 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A self professed "expert developer" submitted a wholly AI generated game to this year's bullet hell jam. Apparently it took them two hours, so I responded with my own two hour effort 😂 compare and contrast.

wayfarergames.itch.io/2-hour-shmup
May 6, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Show off your indie dev skills at BULLET HELL JAM 6! About a week left to cram as many projectiles into a small game as you can. The theme this year is "UNSTABLE". Dangerous glitches and random elements! 😱😵‍💫

Entry form and Discord link
itch.io/jam/bullet-j...
May 5, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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A last-minute random encounter with @wayfarergames.bsky.social lead to me handling most of the level design/content for his latest game jam game - 5n3k!

My highscore with 0 deaths is currently around 170k... Can you beat it? >:)

wayfarergames.itch.io/5n3k

#gamedev
5n3k by WayfarerGames, Albertalberto
A totally normal snake game, nothing to see here.
wayfarergames.itch.io
March 7, 2025 at 11:20 PM
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I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain
December 9, 2024 at 7:13 AM
VFX artists of bluesky can I pay you to make this lil shotgun energy pulse thing look cool? I suck at this 😂
December 7, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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November 29, 2024 at 9:51 AM
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Inaccessibility for colourblindness is caused by design choices. A design issue, not an engineering issue. The fix is design choices, not engineering workarounds.

Filters are inherently exclusionary, they aren't the answer. Fix the design instead of trying to fix people's eyes.
November 29, 2024 at 8:25 AM
Naming things is one of the worst parts of game dev, and now I have to name another human?! My toddler's suggestion for the new baby's name is "scrambled egg", and at this point I'm tempted 😂
November 28, 2024 at 9:14 AM
If you were wondering what having children is like - say goodbye to your YouTube/Spotify recap 😂 FORTY TWO HOURS
November 26, 2024 at 10:00 AM
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The Games Accessibility Starter Pack is now so big, it's in volumes! That's more than 150 people passionate about, working in and doing the most to improve games accessibility!

Volume 1: bsky.app/starter-pack...

Volume 2: bsky.app/starter-pack...
November 21, 2024 at 3:09 PM
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Hello 🦋 I am a french solo dev making a living creating micro games :) I plan to share some behind the scene stuff here.
November 20, 2024 at 10:32 AM
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Optimist: The cup is half full

Pessimist: The cup is half empty

UI: People are having a hard time understanding which part of the cup icon is full and which part is empty
November 24, 2024 at 3:31 PM
Ew, clearly I have done something wrong
November 24, 2024 at 8:15 AM
A thread about my adventures trying to be creative with ai! It's no secret that I hate it. I think ingesting as much content as possible to automate creative jobs is reprehensible. AI art is a scourge. AI code makes developers more stupid. AI writing is boring. AI search makes stuff up. 🧵1/7
November 22, 2024 at 2:44 PM
"he needs EYEBROWS daddy"
November 22, 2024 at 8:27 AM
I need to commission a banner for this account I guess. Does anyone know of any cool artists with open commissions?
November 22, 2024 at 2:38 AM
Hello bluesky, I have been convinced (it didn't take much)

Here's a little look at Polyfury: my highly accessible bullet hell. Face the fury of the Seven Deadly Shapes and blast your way through their barrage of bullets & lasers, on Steam and Xbox!
November 22, 2024 at 2:32 AM