Simon ▶darkside◀ J @SimonDarksideJ@mastodon.cloud (@simondarksidej) 's Twitter Profile
Simon ▶darkside◀ J @[email protected]

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Indie community developer for the new world order. Best selling author, Windows & Xbox MVP UK and Master Chief of @Zenith_Moon studios

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And so it begins, welcome to my first ever AI assisted writing darkgenesis.zenithmoon.com/GLTFAnimationI… An experiment that followed a mornings work to diagnose a troubling issue with 3D model animation in #Unity - When manually instantiated, animations played - Via an API, they did not

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See our latest YouTube short showing the squishing mechanic in the 3D Platformer Starter Kit - youtube.com/shorts/z5Ca_6w… Please reshare 🙂 cc: Kenney

See our latest YouTube short showing the squishing mechanic in the 3D Platformer Starter Kit - youtube.com/shorts/z5Ca_6w…

Please reshare 🙂

cc: <a href="/KenneyNL/">Kenney</a>
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Learn how we're using #Blender as our #LevelEditor in our latest #YouTube short for the 3D #Platformer Starter Kit - youtube.com/shorts/vSilo2b… Please reshare 🙂 cc: Kenney

Learn how we're using #Blender as our #LevelEditor in our latest #YouTube short for the 3D #Platformer Starter Kit - youtube.com/shorts/vSilo2b… 

Please reshare 🙂 

cc: <a href="/KenneyNL/">Kenney</a>
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Can you make a game with AI? I wrote up my latest iteration in AI research that I perform annually (might have to switch to bi-monthly with recent advances) on using a LLM to generate a game. darkgenesis.zenithmoon.com/Can-you-make-a… #GameDev #MonoGame #AI

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Shadows in 3D platformers are more important than you think. Watch our short to learn why! #MonoGame youtube.com/shorts/SpKUHwt… Help us expand our channel by sharing thise video :) cc: Kenney

Shadows in 3D platformers are more important than you think. Watch our short to learn why! #MonoGame 
youtube.com/shorts/SpKUHwt…

Help us expand our channel by sharing thise video :) 

cc: <a href="/KenneyNL/">Kenney</a>
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Our new 2D Shader Tutorial is nearly ready. Watch this short to find out what sort of things you'll learn, to enhance your game - youtube.com/shorts/OHNz-GN…

Our new 2D Shader Tutorial is nearly ready. Watch this short to find out what sort of things you'll learn, to enhance your game - 
youtube.com/shorts/OHNz-GN…
Simon ▶darkside◀ J @SimonDarksideJ@mastodon.cloud (@simondarksidej) 's Twitter Profile Photo

If you are tackling with the Google 16kb policy updates, here is a script to help. gist.github.com/SimonDarksideJ… Based on a #Unity project, but should be usable for any #Android apk build. Instructions included in gist. Hope this helps others as it has been a real pain diagnosing.

Indie Games Developer Magazine (@igdmag) 's Twitter Profile Photo

It's Steam Next Fest this week - Post your indie game in our week long showcase. We will share some games throughout the week! #indiegame #SteamNextFest #gamedev #indiegamedev

It's Steam Next Fest this week - Post your indie game in our week long showcase.  We will share some games throughout the week!
#indiegame #SteamNextFest #gamedev #indiegamedev
Angel Muñoz 🦔 🦋 (@angel_d_munoz) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Looks like path finding is now working. Since it was Sunday and I touched a bit of grass, I delegated this feature to a Copilot coding agent. So, I went to the bakery for some bread and coffee while this was being done by a bot in a PR Oh this is #fsharp and #monogame btw

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Open Hours is today 16:00 UTC (17:00 BST), be there or be square as we announce more streaming and a fantastic guest takes the stage and starts to take shape! #MonoGame #GameDev

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In order to address some key policy changes by Apple and Google the MonoGame Foundation is pleased to announce the patch release of v3.8.4.1! More details can be read here - monogame.net/blog/2025-10-2…

In order to address some key policy changes by Apple and Google the MonoGame Foundation is pleased to announce the patch release of  v3.8.4.1!

More details can be read here - monogame.net/blog/2025-10-2…
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Join Simon Jackson (Simon ▶darkside◀ J @[email protected]) TODAY (4/11) for the some extra Code Time! When: Tuesday @ 11:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CET Today he'll be doing a deep dive on the NEW Content Builder project (replacing the MGCB-Editor). Stream Links : monogame.net/blog/2025-10-1…

Join Simon Jackson (<a href="/SimonDarksideJ/">Simon ▶darkside◀ J @SimonDarksideJ@mastodon.cloud</a>) TODAY (4/11) for the some extra Code Time! 

When: Tuesday @ 11:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CET

Today he'll be doing a deep dive on the NEW Content Builder project (replacing the MGCB-Editor).

Stream Links : monogame.net/blog/2025-10-1…
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The new Content Builder Project is one of the hottest things coming in MonoGame 3.8.5 preview release. It aims to greatly simplify asset management for MonoGame projects. Read our blog post - monogame.net/blog/2025-11-0… and watch the related video (link in the blog post).

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Join Simon Jackson (Simon ▶darkside◀ J @[email protected]) TODAY (13/11) for the next episode of MonoGame University. When: Every Thursday @ 11:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC/GMT, 16:00 CET Streaming links here - monogame.net/blog/2025-10-2… Today he's continuing with the "Getting Started with 2D" tutorial.

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The MonoGame Foundation team is pleased to announce the release of MonoGame v3.8.5-preview.2! Read this guide if you want to tryout these preview releases docs.monogame.net/articles/getti… More details here: monogame.net/blog/2026-01-0… Test it out and help us make 3.8.5 official!

Simon ▶darkside◀ J @SimonDarksideJ@mastodon.cloud (@simondarksidej) 's Twitter Profile Photo

To quote Bueller: "Life moves pretty fast. If you do not stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Which is what happens if you do not re-evaluate your AI tools often. As I adapt, I write & discuss how my plans evolve! linkedin.com/pulse/evolving… #llm #agents #ai

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The 1st episode of MonoGame Spotlight will be premiering TODAY! When: TODAY @ 17:00 EST, 22:00 GMT/UTC, 23:00 CET! Premiering on: YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Ot3KUY…

The 1st episode of MonoGame Spotlight will be premiering TODAY!

When:
TODAY @ 17:00 EST, 22:00 GMT/UTC, 23:00 CET!

Premiering on:
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Ot3KUY…