the latest from @nocapsbb.bsky.social on noclip_2
an exploration of the world of #pico8 game design. the free "fantasy console" that allows players to create and play hundreds of inspiring games.
WATCH & SHARE: youtu.be/1VFSJx8YSIU
Hey gamers, wanna do a good deed? Add an #IndieGame to your wishlist on #WishlistWednesday!
Here's a suggestion! 🥹
store.steampowered.com/app/4321920/...
🌟 It's here! Mistpaw Ravine is now available on Steam!! 🌟
Build a home for magical cats, have them shoot lightning, clean their poop!
Get it now: store.steampowered.com/app/3735490/...
💥Quick-fire talks covering:
🎶Games x Music 🎶
💡Games x Philosophy 💡
🗺️ Games x Migration 🗺️
🔨And an exclusive chance to play @gua-le-ni.com's new philosophical game: Hamm-3r.
▶️ www.eventbrite.com/e/science-in...
@amidos2006.bsky.social @danielvella.bsky.social @vthewanderer.bsky.social
#gamedev
Yeah, looks like we will soon release a new experiment in playable philosophy called
>> 'HAMM-3R" <<
(made with @amidos2006.bsky.social and @demigiant.com and others who are not on Bluesky).
We will demo it and give a short talk in Valletta on March the 24th :) Come say hi!
LevelForge is such a cool little toy... level-editor.onrender.com
From one small island to another! 🏝️
Iceland ✈️ Malta @joshbayer.bsky.social (Senior Game Designer, EVE Online) will keynote the Malta @globalgamejam.bsky.social!
Ready to make a game in 48h? Jan 30 - Feb 1. All experience levels welcome. maltagamejam.institutedigitalgames.com
#GGJ2026 #IndieDev
A timeline visually representing the advice from my post, emphasising how dramatically and reliably having more time, with a testable build, converts to your game being better and your studio being safer.
I've been running an indie games studio for 15 years now, and it felt like a good time to boil down what I've learned into 4 pieces of advice:
www.pentadact.com/2026-01-08-1...
I hope it's of use, not least because goddamn I forgot how long blog posts take to write.
"Was ist Suppe?"
A little old game (of mine) causes confusion and delight, it seems [in German].
www.zeit.de/2025/54/some...
Cc @zeit.de @indigitalgames.bsky.social #soup #gamestudies
Unto Deepest Depths is out NOW!
Battle your way through punishing turn-based combat in this roguelite where every move matters!
store.steampowered.com/app/3106600/...
#turnbased #roguelite #GodotEngine
Modern LLMs are good at writing code, but not necessarily at optimizing policy. But you can wrap the LLM in an evolutionary framework, and search for policies. In a new Nof1 paper, we show that we can automatically generate strong trading policies.
🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social offered some techniques for procedural generation in 2D games at at ExpoVIT 2025 in Costa Rica.
Watch the talk to learn what they are, how to use them, and also some ideas on how to combine them for your games.
🔻Hint #Stochastic #WFC #AI
www.youtube.com/live/k9nVryZ...
On Dithering ⇢ visualrambling.space/dithering-pa...
Just when you thought there couldn't possibly be any more balatro inspired rogue-lites... I went ahead and made another one with dice scoring mechanics.
rentonl.itch.io/pip-pip-hooray
#roguelite #balatro #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev
raw as hell and super-well-done flicksy by @amidos2006.bsky.social (cw for slurs and institutional homophobic violence) amidos2006.itch.io/queen-boat
🎮 @amidos2006.bsky.social was interviewed by @trueavatars.bsky.social at the @qgcon.bsky.social where he was presenting his game: Queen Boat.
🎧 Read more and listen to Ahmed’s interview
👉 game.edu.mt/blog/queen-b...
#GameStudies #SeriousGames #LGBTQ #IndieGames
finished! this was a good time, loved the main twist on platforming language and the masocore levels were a pleasant surprise. (note that the down key is required for a verb later on, and it didn't work on my xinput d-pad, only the analog stick. that was my only wrinkle in an otherwise rad game)
Appendix :D
Special thanks to everyone that is working on that issue:
- Zhenhua Feng - Jiangnan University
- Jialin Liu - Lingnan University
- Ahmed Khalifa - University of Malta (me :D)
- Huanhuan Chen - University of Science and Technology of China
- Josef Kittler - University of Surrey
- Large Language Models for generating multi-modal game content.
- Applications of the aforementioned methods and tools within the game industry.
Paper submission deadline: December 31st, 2025
For more information: transactions.games/special-issu...
Let's build multimodal generators.
(5/5)
- Few-shot and zero-shot learning algorithms applicable to multi-modal game content generation.
- Methods for evaluating and improving game facet orchestration.
- Methods for generating game worlds that incorporate multi-modal data and multifaceted content.
(4/5)
- Quantitative and qualitative methods for evaluating multi-modal game content, including joint evaluation approaches.
- Multi-modal or cross-modal content generation methods specifically tailored for games.
(3/5)
The issue focuses on submissions from a wide audience on topics, including but not limited to:
- Datasets or simulators designed for multi-modal content generation and/or evaluation, with potential applications in games.
- Tools for creating and evaluating multi-modal game content.
(2/5)
I am one of the editors for the upcoming Transaction on Games special issue :) The special issue is about "Multi-Modal Content Generation for Games." One topic that excites me the most is the orchestration between different facets of content generation.
(1/5)
#PCG #AI #ML #GenAI #AIandGames
My friends have just released their amazing poetry-based visual novel. Go support them and buy it if you are into cute games and poetry :)
#gamedev #indiedev #poetry #poetrygames #releaseweek #retweet #screenshotsaturday
Congratulations :) That is amazing :) Next time, I am in the US, I will go to @barnesandnoble.com to see it on the shelves :)
We (me, @smearle.bsky.social, @togelius.bsky.social) are working more to understand the relation between human solutions and the AI solutions in the #PuzzleScript games.
Help us by playing #online #puzzlescript games. No personal data is collected. Links are in the subsequent posts.
Please we are still looking for more human data for our project :)
Please send it to your students, repost it, play some #puzzlescript games. These ones suppose to be short and fun :)
#research #ai #pcg #ml #study #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #puzzle
