Hobbyist game developer. Makes code run faster.

Joined February 2009
Version 2.0.0 of this plugin just launched, with several usability improvements (and Godot 4.0 support)! #GodotEngine #Godot4
Using Godot and want to use my pixel input prompts? @johnpennycook made a plug-in! pennycook.itch.io/godot-inpu… Just the sprites (no plug-in): kenney.nl/assets/input-promp… #godot #gamedev
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Shadows of Adam (and all its DLC) is 75% off on the Steam Summer Sale! Enjoy this indie #jrpg "classic" at a cheap price, while ya can! #pixelart #indiedev
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If you're thinking about the measuring performance portability of your code, check out our 2020 paper where we went through the pros and cons of reporting a single score, and shared a methodology for explaining what performance portability means to you. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document…
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Experimenting with Mastodon; my gamedev content will be moving over to mastodon.gamedev.place/web/@…
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36th in Humor and 59th in Theme are both new personal bests. Woo-hoo! #ldjam
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To celebrate the official launce of Google Stadia (@GoogleStadia) tomorrow, I have created a single-purpose website: STADIACOUNTDOWN.COM. It is a countdown timer set for the average lifespan of any Google service/product, which is 4 years.
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Using Godot and want to use my pixel input prompts? @johnpennycook made a plug-in! pennycook.itch.io/godot-inpu… Just the sprites (no plug-in): kenney.nl/assets/input-promp… #godot #gamedev
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Earlier I was happy to report that @globalgamejam decided to drop a sponsor after the community spoke out about it but they just announced that they'll happily take such sponsors again, because they're 'tech-neutral'. Good luck with that, no more GGJ for me. (source: @hachque)
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Last Of Us voice actor pisses everyone off with NFT push: bit.ly/3rg7Yrv
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This is the BBC's director of editorial policy. It suggests a catastrophic breakdown in basic editorial judgement, grounded in a failure to recognise the notion of objective truth. theguardian.com/media/2022/j…
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I recently read "Game Design Theory: A New Philosophy for Understanding Games", which convinced me to focus more on the "game" part of my creations. So, my latest game currently looks like this. #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsunday
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You can remove stolen images on OpenSea by reporting to Google (their image host). I just did it for my Pixelween collage, see the (now empty) page on OpenSea: opensea.io/assets/matic/0x29… Google processed my report in only 5 hours. Instructions below. RT to spread knowledge!
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Looking for something to read on a Friday morning? ☕️Catch up on our CISE paper: Navigating Performance, Portability and Productivity - from IEEE doi.org/10.1109/MCSE.2021.30… or open accepted author manuscript research-information.bris.ac… @simonmcs @jason_sewall @johnpennycook D. Jacobsen
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Kickstarter is switching its entire platform to the blockchain: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Recordings of all P3HPC sessions from #sc21 are now available via HUBB: sc21.hubb.me/fe/schedule-bui…