p sure i make flawless games and my publisher hacks bugs into them after i send review builds tbh

thanks!

i don’t mind but it’s a rabbit hole haha- it’s inspired by Castle Wars, which is a clone of ANTZ, which was inspired by… Arcomage

not sexy i know, but it’s real. realer than “vibe coding” by a ridiculous margin. a dishwasher that can say “i know you ran THIS cycle but your pots are still dirty so i’ll run THIS instead” has infinitely more value than a shitty flight sim clone

sam altman is dumb as shit for telling you that you should turn a family photo into a ghibli drawing when the real revolution is that AI can go “your ass is still dirty, let me run the bidet on your gross butthole again”

and realistically, that’s not even a joke. the closest we can actually get to “i want AI to do my dishes so i can draw, not make it draw so i can do dishes” really is smart home progress. the reason robovacs are better now at not smearing pet shit around the floor is 100% achieved through AI

since i make games, ppl i meet irl think i work in tech (not unfair i guess, but not how i feel either), and so the way they try and connect w me is to talk about AI. which, i hate.

so lately i just started responding by talking about AI advancement in smart toilets

friendly reminder that it’s nopopo, not NoPopo or NoPopoFun. just nopopo all lowercase

like i don’t think that’s uncommon, probably. bc i have to play it a 100 times a day to test it. every card, to me, is basically just a block of code i fought for a while. but seeing ppl get into it is getting to me

i’ll be honest as a game designer i’ve always found it REALLY difficult watching ppl play my games. i mostly avoided youtube LPs and twitch streams. but the way ppl get into Castle V Castle has me hooked 😅

fuck me i blanked on a word so googled it, the AI generated response:

- got the name wrong
- got the goal of the game wrong
- claims that both “27” and “37” are 27

what’s the point of this at all man i’m so tired

castle v castle trivia: the game was called castle VS castle for the longest time, then i started designing the logo and hated how the S broke up the flow

Save 15% on Level Devil on Steam “Troll” is such a strong word for this 2D platformer with nearly 200 uniquely inventive levels. Don’t let screaming YouTubers convince you that this game is unfair. It’s fair. Sure, there are buzzsaws...

i just want everyone to know that Level Devil is out on Steam and like. it’s really good. games made in Stencyl don’t get a great rep but we’re out here doing cool shit so, support this pls

store.steampowered.com/app/3242750/...

i’m trying my best! it’ll definitely have more weird shit in its final form, i can say that much. just wanted to say thanks, i’ve followed your work, through polygon and everything else you’ve been up to for ages so it means a lot ❤️

omg not @thejenna.bsky.social wishlisting castle v castle and me finding out through a tiktok that’s so wild to me how did i get here

❤️

good shout. i’m finishing up Castle V Castle these days!

It's been a while since I've done this, and the world is bleak - so we can all use a little art & creativity.

What is everyone creating nowadays? Games, art, music, video, writing, anything - whether it is early, almost done, or just shipped. Feel free to include trailers, images, links - whatever.

added a “v hard mode” to Castle V Castle just bc anyone who knows me knows i haven’t written the word “very” out in full in years. bonus shot: multiplayer scoreboard!

the way indie games are a spectrum is so wild. i’ll scroll through here and see a post that’s like “we got 500 wishlists! huge! validation for the decades of work we put in! ❤️” and the next post is like “98K wishlists on my first game, can we get to 100k chat or are we cooked 😭”

❤️ always

i’m fresh into the new season so gonna let it marinate for a minute but oh yeah. we’re getting into it

Leigh is *the* voice of authority on this and i implore you to read it

(also leigh apologies in advance i will probs rant about Below Deck at you again soon)

love this write up. spot on

Pantaloon; a home for misfits

Hark, some news 📢

Pantaloon is broadening its mission of platforming bold & bizarre games by moving into the world of original publishing, as we seek to become a home for misfits.

Gonna thread some COOL BITS & PIECES

Shares hugely appreciated 🙏

#indiedev | #indiegames | #gamedev

(also “show us your games, we wanna collaborate” sounds flaggy like idk what that means)

idk there’s something fascinating about the idea of pitching indie games to harmony korine but i can’t get over the name EDGLRD

little known fact about my game: the title "Castle v Castle" actually comes from the gameplay of the game that sees a castle fighting another castle

huge if true

found an article that mentioned Castle V Castle as one of the best steamdeck games in next fest and i was like… it runs on steamdeck?? been too busy to check 😅

nice way to find out tho

actually a big fan of ppl referring to Castle as “Jenga but with cards” ngl

pointless fun thing I've added to Castle V Castle:

a signpost that strolls up when your castle is near destruction with a "the end is nigh" sign. if your castles loses while the signpost is there, it turns around and reads “told u so”