Luke Benstead

Promotional image for Debug Games Festival, featuring Ashens, John Robertson’s The Dark Room, Indie Game Awards hosted by Josh Strife Hayes, Did You Know Gaming? Quiz, Mr Louis King’s ‘Game Over, Geek’, Gaming Violinist Lucia La Rezza, High Scored, and Sonic the Hedgehog artist Duncan Gutteridge

The full stage lineup for Debug Games Festival 2026 is officially confirmed!

Join Ashens, Mr John Robertson, Josh Strife Hayes, Did You Know Gaming?, Mr Louis King, Lucia La Rezza, High Scored, and Sonic the Hedgehog artist Duncan Gutteridge on the Arena Stage this April

25 April // Norwich, UK

MASSIVE UPDATE ON OUR #SONIC MANIA PORT! Here's a series of hardware captures taken directly from my #Sega #Dreamcast! Thanks to jnmartin and the crew, the 3D stages are all now running fullspeed!!!

#gamedev #indiegame #retrogaming

This is incredible. UK emissions fell 2.4% in 2025 as coal fell to a 400-year low. Incredibly, we used less coal last year than than in 1600, when Queen Elizabeth I was on the throne and Shakespeare was writing Hamlet
www.carbonbrief.org/analysis-uk-...

Ouch! those final paragraphs!

Building a new Flash I don't know where to start with this but yeah I'm making flash if flash was built in 2026. I'm making it compatible with Linux,Mac, and PC. If you'd like to support this project I've started a patreo...

Spread the word, an ACTUAL replacement for Flash is on the horizon! Go support this project NOW!!!!!!!!

bill.newgrounds.com/news/post/16...

I'll never understand why people (including many engineers) can't see programming as the creative art that it is.

LLMs generate code the same way they generate images or videos. Bland, mediocre, inelegant remixes of the training data.

Had the best time in the UK over the weekend.
Here's a look at the 2nd Bristol Video Games Expo @bristolvge.bsky.social that I'm sure will grow and grow each year. youtu.be/NpWcovu11_U

Hmm, does this mean all code generated by an LLM is public domain? 🤔

Just finished my entry for the DreamDisc '25 #gamejam ! Enjoy the weird mix between Breakout and a dungeon brawler - only for the 𖦹 #Dreamcast
Download ➡️ lesam.itch.io/dungeon-dribble

"Alien Taxi" is a new #homebrew release for the #Dreamcast by @captkuso.bsky.social

Its a simple little arcade game where you have to pickup and transport passengers, ala "Crazy Taxi" but from a perspective like that of the old GTA games.

captkuso.itch.io/alien-taxi

#retrogaming #indie #gamedev

I continue to be fascinated by the phenomenon whereby an expert engages with any of the LLMs on their field of expertise and is instantly horrified by the wrong answers, and then goes on to use it for things they are not experts in as though it won’t be just as bad for those.

In honour of the Sunday Telegraph's editor and offical maddest columnist, we have created the Allister Heath headline generator...
stirring-fox-7e1fab.netlify.app

I think my biggest pet peeve with modern software/apps is that no one seems to give a shit about clickable things staying put while other elements are loading around them, such that I mis-click way too often because I reacted too fast anticipating where the button is going to be - until it's not 🤬

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript)

you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS

lyra.horse/x86css/

Acting ethically in an imperfect world Life is complicated. Regardless of what your beliefs or politics or ethics are, the way that we set up our society and economy will often force you to act against them: You might not want to fly somew...

I was disappointed to read Cory Doctorow's post where he got weirdly defensive about his LLM use and started arguing with an imaginary foe.

@tante.cc has a very thoughtful reply here:

tante.cc/2026/02/20/a...

A few further comments, 🧵>>

How does it feel?
When you're alone
And you're cold inside
Like a stranger in Moscow

🔊🎵 #OPL3MIDI

Credits - Sonic the Hedgehog 3 [OST] YouTube video by DeoxysPrime

Also the Sonic 3 ending credits 😁 youtu.be/G8bNZboAPfc?...

My city #gameassets already has suburban, commercial and industrial buildings. However, I know you've been asking for more 'special' buildings like windmills, schools, a hospital and more. What buildings would you like to see?

kenney.nl/assets/serie...

Two builds of #MarioKart 64 running on the #Sega #Dreamcast. Top is release using our stock GLdc driver for graphics. The bottom is an experimental build I have optimized with my accelerated math library, SH4ZAM. Community gainz are coming!

github.com/gyrovorbis/s...

#gamedev #retrocomputing

In today's episode of AI is ruining the thing you love; Godot could really use some extra funding just to judge if something is slop because they're getting overwhelmed

Godot's GitHub has increasingly many pull requests generated by LLMs and it's a MASSIVE time waster for reviewers – especially if people don't disclose it. Changes often make no sense, descriptions are extremely verbose, users don't understand their own changes… It's a total shitshow. #godotengine

You Are Tomato - DreamDisc '25 - Full Game Walkthrough [Dreamcast Homebrew] YouTube video by freakdave

Aaaaand it's finished!
Here are all 10 levels in its full glory.

It may not seem like much but trust me I've been through so many issues and crashes that I was *very* close to giving up.

But now it's in a state where I am happy with the results.

#dreamcast #gamedev #homebrew

youtu.be/QcI3XUieh_Q

a logo for the company dreamcast with an orange spiral Alt: a logo for the company dreamcast with an orange spiral

128 bit!

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

You know the animated character faces next to the messages in games like Star Fox?

Or maybe a variety of distinctive buildings for your City kits (churches, schools, libraries, fire stations, shops etc.)

More retro texture packs obviously.

Animated animal/dinosaur pack?

Bluesky Map Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!

bluesky-map.theo.io

I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail