@alexvscoding
Award winning experimental designer, educator and maker from Yorkshire. Advocate for approachable design, makes playful experiences for those marginalised by tech, most recently people with dementia. https://presskit.itch.io/alex-johansson-presskit
Here's a preview of one of MORSE's 3 new training modes: Test your ability recognising the sound of letters in Morse Code. Update arriving next week! 👂⚫ ⚫◼️ ⚫◼️⚫
#hamradio #morsecode #morse #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #games
Very excited to be finally adding a calibration tutorial to MORSE, so folks can have a better understanding of how to tweak their telegraph. Coming soon! 🎚️ #hamradio #morsecode #gamedev #games
Here's what that outreach mode looks like in practice: MORSE is currently on display in Strasbourg, so I tracked down the name of the local (REF67) and national (REF) amateur radio clubs and added them to MORSE to give players a direct local connection to engaging with the hobby.
Pushed an update out for MORSE today with a suite of features to support Amateur Radio including an outreach mode for radio clubs to use, a non-visual Morse input mode, support for Vband and more! Read about it here: store.steampowered.com/news/app/197...
#hamradio #morse #gamedev #morsecode
Hey Robert! Was wondering what your preferred method of direct contact was? Thanks for your work over the years, long term listener.
Also I knoooooow it's technically cheating posting a 2026 prediction 2 months into the year but the podcast had some interesting takes and fancied throwing my hat in the ring heh
Whilst no money was used and the gambling was "simulated", she recognised the potential harm of letting him win, stamping out a seed that he might hold some kind of exceptional luck or skill.
I feel like as designers we need to show similar responsibility towards our audiences (or regulators will).
Personal anecdote: I went to a wedding a couple of years ago for family relative and there was a free roulette table. My teenage relative had won lots of chips and was on track to get the top winnings.
So the croupier quietly handed us out extra chips to bet to ensure he didn't come out on top.
I really, really hope I'm wrong with this one, would be curious to hear what folks think.
This isn't intended as a sleight against devs turning to these mechanics, I can both be appreciative of the design and critical that simulated gambling holds harmful potential. We just need to talk about this!
I've heard from multiple devs dealing with publishers prioritising signing gambling games, clearly chasing coat tails of Clover Pit and Balatro.
If the broader market follows suit, it's only a matter of time till free to play devs clone an indie hit with real, paid gambling and harm escalates.
My 2026 prediction is that as devs lean harder into the harmful aesthetics and mechanisms of an explicitly addictive industry, the escalating arms race of indie gambling "simulators" will quietly rot games from the inside out.
It's wild how the scourge of Loot Boxes faded from memory so quickly.
Unironically getting to build outdoor games tailored for nuns would be such an interesting design brief
I am very grateful to have closure on that project last year and I'm loving nurturing the community and game post-launch, but I can't put myself through that process again.
I tell students "you have a certain number of games left in you" (and that number can go down), so I'm taking my own advice!
I worked on my final indie game, MORSE on and off for ten years, it's been moderately successful (to a point I could feasibly make something else) but I'm at peace with never making a game that big ever again.
Looking forward to making much, much smaller experiences for audiences outside of games.
Absolutely wonderful construction from Adam for MORSE! It's such a delight seeing these electronics projects come into form and the methodical documentation that comes with it.
Feels good to finally get back to making weird stuff
Love me some jank
Since launch, MORSE has inspired a variety of weird and wonderful homebrew telegraph controllers, so I’ve put together an article highlighting community projects.
Look here at what folks are making! 🛠️📻👀
store.steampowered.com/news/app/197...
#hamradio #morse #homebrew #gamedev #indiedev
Exciting! Please do, it's so much fun seeing the different homebrew solutions by folks. Feel free to share it here when you're done: steamcommunity.com/app/1976860/...
Also found this amazing video in the @aftermath.site comments by @secretbase.bsky.social about 1800's telegraph infrastructure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmyB...
Absolutely delighted that Riley had opportunity to give MORSE a look and write such lovely things about the project!
"The whole game requires a kind of intentionality and level-headedness to succeed at that, when I pull it off, really makes me feel like I’m mastering a skill."
Wheeeeeee thank you so much! I'll be pushing out the patch in the next hour, keep an eye out for it and thanks again : )
In keeping with New Year Festivities, I'm pushing out a small update to overhaul the explosions in MORSE! Your artillery is now composed of animated fireballs, smoke and splashes. 🎆
#hamradio #morse #gamedev #pixelart #vfx
As an early Christmas present to the ham radio community and MORSE players...🎄
Introducing the Teaspoon Telegraph, a beautifully crafted, open-source games controller and telegraph key designed by @nachimir.bsky.social!
Learn more here: ympt.co.uk/teaspoontx.h...
#hamradio #MORSE #indiedev #maker
Playing my Morse Code game but with a pair of DK Bongos
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#hamradio #donkeykong #morse #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indie #altctrl #indiedev
That's great to hear! I've dropped you a DM on Twitter about the project, look forward to hearing from you 👍
It is honestly so exciting to hear someone so energised about the project, segment starts around the 43 minute mark, give it a listen:
fingerguns.net/podcast/2025...
It was such a pleasure chatting with Ross at EGX about the game and how Morse Code connected to his Grandfather, I am truly humbled by his writeup here and the palpable excitement in his voice on the Finger Guns podcast. Definitely give it a listen.
#hamradio #gamedev #amateurradio #morse
You can download and assemble the project for yourself here, a massive, humbled thanks to TimeDiver997 for their contribution: www.thingiverse.com/thing:7215115
I actually got a bit teary coming across this: Someone posted to the MORSE Steam forums this beautifully assembled homebrew Iambic telegraph key. JUST LOOK AT THE INTERNALS OF THIS THING
#hamradio #ham #radioham #gamedev #morse #indie
