Added seasons and breeding to the #gamedev herd experiment! The bison group into smaller herds but collectively migrate with the sun to be near the fertile grass. Populations boom in the good season and start to tank in the off season.

I also used this as an excuse to try out #raylib and I'm kind of blown away. ~2 hours to port the program over and then it was running ~100x faster. That makes a lot more possible in the simulation (and I get to write C, yay).

Tonight's #gamedev introduces the squirrel upgrade! It stows all connected jewels onto a single tile which makes it best pals with the bear, who collects any jewels that are on their lonesome.

This upgrade brings more depth to the table than I expected. It adds some ripples to otherwise uniform boards, making the decisions a lot juicier. Calculating the best way to partition jewels to get the max return on a bear was a satisfying moment from my last playtest. #gamedev

KOROMEKE just hit 30 wishlists!!! That is to say that wishlisting now gives you eternal bragging rights as a double-digit tastemaker #gamedev

In #gamedev, spacial games (platformers, shooters, etc) have rich and intuitive relationships between entities (I have line of sight on X, I am above Y). There's infinite design space outside of these intuitive relationship, but they're much harder to communicate.

Webbed had some of the coolest gameplay I've ever seen, can't wait to give this a go!

Prototyping #gamedev mechanics to keep the end-game compelling. You can play the moving cups game before losing to get a second chance BUT each attempt makes the odds worse in future. Heavily inspired by the end-game in Cole Wehrle's Oath, one of my fav's.

Have finally added enough overpowered upgrades to KOROMEKE that I can beat the hardest difficulty, huge milestone

Here's the number of upgrades added to KOROMEKE over the last few months. Need to squeeze out a few more board upgrades before the art catches up, but then it's time to blast through all of the dice ideas I've been cooking up 😤 #gamedev

ordered a latte in italy and they gave me a cup of milk, holding my L with grace

for the love of god just let him wear 20th century fits and leave him alone

Finished Daniel Linssen 🦊’s Leap Year recently and GOD DAMN it hit good

Places that would be trivial to reach in other games are their own tantalising adventures here. The levels are having a really playful conversation with platformers as a genre, and being able to pull off this level of delayed gratification in such a short game is wonderful.