“You can now opt-in to allow anonymous visitors to subscribe to your posts via e-mail, so even people who don’t have a Mastodon or Fediverse account and don’t wish to get one can keep up to date with you”

Probably not a replacement for a real newsletter, but still neat.

https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/116765910384325070

Huh. Had Scarlet Deer Inn on my radar for a while, but never realised its sprites are drawn and animated using **embroidery**. Very interesting self-imposed constraint, especially since the art style hides it a bit. Unique, but not overt about it. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1553260/Scarlet_Deer_Inn/

Many marketing guides I’ve read recently have talked about mailing lists being very effective. Is this true? Do really people want more email?

I only ever sign up for the ones like “we’ll send you 1 email when our thing launches, and maybe 1 more when we announce a new thing in the future, but that’s it”.

(Limiting this one to Mastodon because I trust you people more.)

Does this sound like a video game? Interesting? Worthwhile? Anything offputting?

Might still change the name. It has a bit of teflon on it. Not much, but a bit.

A spiritual sequel to the most important game in my life (Dark Age of Camelot) is launching into early access today. https://store.steampowered.com/app/3997970/Camelot_Unchained/

Mixed feelings. I owe a lot to the original, and helped kickstart this new game in **2013**. The development has been turbulent, to say the least. Can’t imagine this going well.

hashtag gamedev

Web design never felt like art, so I’d say my first art created with code was probably this. Sprite-stacking with CSS.

Each woods tile uses the same stack of sprites, but rotation + z-depth from the stacking hides it super well.

https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:iyfmhupl33sdqn3oqe2up2nn/post/3mmkdbgn4lc2w

Noticed a game naming “genre” that I enjoy: word pairings that don’t make immediate sense. Blue Prince, Devil Daggers, Silksong, Falling Frontier, Rocket League, Nuclear Throne….

Forms a little puzzle: "why would a prince have a colour?" Fun to think about, anticipate, and solve. A game!

Love these islets #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev