#game-development — Public Fediverse posts

ICYMI: NYC Video Game Festival Picks Competition Winners https://popgeeks.com/nyc-video-game-festival-picks-competition-winners/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NYCVideoGameFestival #VideoGames #GameDevelopment #IndieGames #GamingCommunity

Chapter 7 of my serialized memoir, titled "The Astronaut and the Sleeping Bag," is coming Sunday!

Trying a Sunday publication date this time to compare how well that works.

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-7-the-astronaut-and-the-sleeping

[updated with link]

#RetroGaming #Memoir #GameDevelopment

Spent 72 hours testing Unity AI Open Beta in real game development workflows.
Biggest takeaway?

The MCP integration may matter more than the AI assistant itself.

Some features genuinely save hours.

Others still feel unfinished.

Tested:
scripting
debugging
Figma workflows
editor assistance
production usability
credit consumption

Full review here:
🔗 https://primeaicenter.com/unity-ai-open-beta-review/

#UnityAI #Gamedev #Unity3D #AI #IndieDev #DeveloperTools #GameDevelopment #MachineLearning

Working on this for several days straight may have had a *slightly* detrimental effect on my sanity.

#GameDevelopment

The player やま managed to clear our game Merkava: The Sacred Armour of Meirav's Arcade Mode with just 1 credit, a true achievement in such a difficult game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEXRZ9scerk

Do you want to try it too? Support our videogame projects by buying it

On #itch https://salem-electronica.itch.io/merkava

Or #Steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/4016530/Merkava_The_Sacred_Armour_of_Meirav/

#shmup #gaming #linuxgaming #indiegame #indiedev #godot #gamedev #gamedevelopment

🎮🤖 Apparently, PS3 emulator devs are drowning in AI-generated pull requests from wannabe vibecoders who think #debugging is a new TikTok dance. It seems the real "game" is getting human contributors who know that 'AI slop' isn't the latest fast-food trend. 🍔💻
https://kotaku.com/playstation-3-emulator-devs-politely-ask-that-people-stop-flooding-it-with-ai-code-pull-requests-2000694656 #PS3Emulator #AIgenerated #PullRequests #GameDevelopment #HackerNews #ngated

I wrote a flight simulator in my own programming language

https://github.com/navid-m/flightsim

#HackerNews #flightSimulator #programmingLanguage #codingProjects #techInnovation #gameDevelopment

A bonus anecdote from the Software Projects days. This one concerns the game Hunchback at the Olympics and how we beat the world record in the 100m dash.

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevewetherill/p/chapter-6a-hunchback-at-the-olympics

#RetroGaming #Memoir #GameDevelopment

ICYMI: Second Ever NYC Video Game Festival Begins Saturday https://popgeeks.com/second-ever-nyc-video-game-festival-begins-saturday/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NYCVideoGameFestival #IndieGames #GameDevelopment #VideoGames #GamingCommunity

PC Engine CPU

https://jsgroth.dev/blog/posts/pc-engine-cpu/

#HackerNews #PCEngine #CPU #RetroGaming #TechHistory #GameDevelopment

I'm slowly getting back into my old game engine project. Dependencies are upgraded and now one project is running.

Oh boy, I certainly did some programming crime right there. Many good memories too. Should I start a YouTube series of me upgrading this old engine? Streaming maybe?

#gamedev #GameDevelopment #gameengines

Shipping 24 Games in 24 Months -Challenge (Dev update) Heres the things I've been working with for the past couple of weeks.

Check out my games on Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/68480/Jestercraft_Collection/

#gamedev #indiegames #indiegame #gamedevelopment #gaming

Chapter 6 of my serialized memoir is live, “The Holt Road Heist”.

https://open.substack.com/pub/stevewetherill/p/chapter-6-the-holt-road-heist

#Memoir #GameDevelopment #1980s #RetroGaming

Second Ever NYC Video Game Festival Begins Saturday https://popgeeks.com/second-ever-nyc-video-game-festival-begins-saturday/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #NYCVideoGameFestival #GameDevelopment #IndieGames #NYCGames #GamingCommunity

Footsteps SFX Five: 550 High-Quality Footstep Sounds #Footsteps #Soundeffects #Gamedevelopment #Film #Sounddesign #Audiolibrary #Wavfiles #AssetStore

https://u3dn.com/packages/footsteps-sfx-five-550-high-quality-footstep-sounds-223133

Reverse-engineering the 1998 Ultima Online demo server

https://draxinar.github.io/articles/2026-05-01-uodemo-reverse-engineering.html

#HackerNews #ReverseEngineering #UltimaOnline #GamingHistory #GameDevelopment #RetroGaming

I had the honor in assisting Blukulele 🎸 last Friday with releasing Gambonanza ♟️ for Steam, iOS, & Android!

All links are here 👉️ https://gambonanza.ateo.ch

An absolute pleasure to work on this alongside amazing teams at Stray Fawn Studio, Sidekick Publishing, Ateo, & more incredible partners! 🫶

The community appreciated us & we are at a Very Positive userscore out of 400+ reviews 💯

#indiegames #videogames #gaming #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #gamingindustry #gamemarketing #gamebusiness

Confirmed, the fourth programming language I've learned! 🤟 😎

#gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #indiegame #IndieGameDev

🎉 Wow, #NetHack 5.0.0 is here! A groundbreaking update that makes it... compliant with C99? 🚀 Truly, nothing screams "exciting dungeon exploration" like a riveting code standard. Prepare for adventure, folks—just maybe do it with a debugger handy. 🐛💥
https://nethack.org/v500/release.html #NetHack5 #C99 #DungeonExploration #GameDevelopment #Debugging #HackerNews #ngated

Chapter 6 of my serialized memoir, covering the transition from Software Projects to Odin Computer Graphics in 1985, is now live.

In this chapter, I find myself in hot water with the police for stealing my own trousers. And a routine car park handoff triggers something nobody expected.

https://stevewetherill.substack.com/p/chapter-6-the-holt-road-heist

#RetroGaming #SoftwareProjects #OdinComputerGraphics #Memoir #GameDevelopment

Bitmap and tilemap generation from a single example

https://github.com/mxgmn/WaveFunctionCollapse

#HackerNews #Bitmap #Tilemap #Generation #WaveFunctionCollapse #GameDevelopment

Building a perfect clone of 1993 game SimTower

https://phulin.me/blog/simtower

#HackerNews #SimTower #Clone #RetroGaming #GameDevelopment #GamingCommunity #GameDesign

A peak at some of our environmental art within our game’s world! We’re showing off some WIP on another region at the end, can you guess what the region is based off the artwork?

#gameart #gamedevelopment #indiegame

How do you call the kind of rendering that things like Pico8, Picotron, Love2d and I think Monogame and Raylib do, where you actively tell the engine what to draw in a specific draw function? As opposed to having game objects with a sprite component like Unity, Godot, Pixijs and... well, most engines. Is it immediate mode rendering? I've never called it that. It is... liberating. Do you know more engines that work this way? #gamedevelopment