No Place to Go by Demeru Makes Games, mass, kumadochi Escaping an all-powerful hive mind was never going to be easy, but that won’t stop you from trying.

I worked with an awesome team on a fun visual novel. The first part is out with the rest to come shortly. Check it out! demeru.itch.io/no-place-to-go

No Place to Go by Demeru Makes Games, mass, kumadochi Escaping an all-powerful hive mind was never going to be easy, but that won’t stop you from trying.

My team's #liujam2025 game, No Place to Go is live! We're only releasing the first part right now as the summer was extremely busy and we weren't able to finish all the aspects of the game we wanted to. Stay tuned for an update!

demeru.itch.io/no-place-to-go

Two glossy black boxes for the game NEONnoir, one in English and one in German. Both have the NEONnoir logo and depict a stylized private investigator and woman silhouette.

Two glossy black boxes for the game NEONnoir, one in English and one in German. They both depict the back of the box, containing the game's description and requirements in both English (on the left) and German (on the right)

You've heard of unboxing and fan fiction, but what about fan-boxing?

A German fan of NEONnoir went out of his way to create a limited edition NEONnoir box, complete with a German manual, stickers, postcards, and even a poster!

Best of all, he sent me one that I can display next to the original!

NEONnoir by mass Can you find a missing person in this cyberpunk noir story?

Thanks to the good folks at Amiga Vault, I have uploaded a WDHLoad version of NEONnoir, making it even easier to play the game!

Get it here: steamknight.itch.io/neonnoir

His plan is devious in its simplicity. Once he weakens the nation's immune system enough, he will explode in violent bursts of brain worms, each seeking now hospitable hosts. And the cycle continues.

I've wanted to do a VN jam for a while now! I'm interested in helping out as a programmer. Feel free to DM me.

NEONnoir by mass@steamknight.com Can you find a missing person in this cyberpunk noir story?

I'm really pleased to announce that thanks to the generosity of SimonPPC and Torti-the-Smuf, the original Amiga version of NEONnoir is now available in Italian and German! Get the free update at steamknight.itch.io/neonnoir #amiga #gamedev

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The original NEONnoir was released a little over 2 years ago, and was also done as a game jam entry. Today, my stance on AI art has changed significantly, and I haven't used it since in my projects nor do I expect to in the future. This, being a notable exception as I ported a preexisting game.

It wasn't until I went to submit the game that I realized that the jam doesn't allow AI-generated art. When I made the original, I used a combination of 3D renders, hand drawn pixel art, and AI. Sadly, it's too late to replace the AI art with real art and so, I can't submit. My fault really.

NEONnoir GBA by steamknight Can you find a missing person in this cyberpunk noir story? Now on the GBA!

And the marathon is over! You can find the game here steamknight.itch.io/neonnoir-gba. I can't believe I got this working in three weeks. It's rough around the edges, but I'm pretty proud of it. Check out the jam itch.io/jam/gba-wint... for more #gamedev #gba goodness.

Bad news in the comments :(

Woohoo! The whole game is playable from start to finish! Time to squash a whole bunch of bugs. #gamedev #GBA

With just 20 hours left to go until the jam ends, should I be... um, what's the verb here? Bskying? Bluing? Should I be writing a post rather than code? No, definitely not. But I can now play though all of act 1 in my game, and that's worth celebrating! 🎉Ok, enough dopamine, back to the pixel mines.

A GameBoy Advance SP playing NEONnoir. The screen shows the protagonist asking questions.

Just a few more days left in the gamejam and I have all the major systems in place. A couple of smaller things remain, as well as a whole lot of bug fixing. #GBA #gamedev

Obsidian makes the best Bethesda games. I've been having such a good time with Avowed!

@samreich.bsky.social you and the gang at @dropouttv.bsky.social are one the last few rays of media sunshine. However, since we're in the darkest timeline, it's virtually guaranteed that it's going to come out that you eat babies, or put the toilet paper roll on backwards. Such a shame.

Only 10 more days left! Now to go write the game's byte code interpreter, wish me luck ❤️

Some more progress on the #GBA version of NEONnoir. I've updated my tooling in order to update the assets for the GBA. The resolution is smaller (240x160 rather than 320x240) and the hotspots and text positioning are in all the wrong places.

Now, I can run through the whole intro! #gamedev

Oh, and definitely totally necessary, I upgraded the screen on my original GBA SP. It looks so much better. Does it help me make the game faster? No. Does it make me happy? Very yes.

A week and a half. It doesn't look like much, but a lot is happening under the hood. I'm learning how to dev on a GBA, got backgrounds, sprites, music, sfx, input handling, and, most importantly, it's reading (but not displaying yet) all of the original Amiga game's data! #gamedev #gba #amiga

It looks amazing! I can't wait to play!

Yes, but its just modem noises

And so it begins...

22 days to port NEONnoir, my Amiga game, to the GameBoy Advance? Sure, why not? What's the worst that'll happen to my sanity? #gamedev #gba #amiga

@majestic-bob.bsky.social it was, in fact, super obvious who you were 😀

You are never more comfortable than when you realize you need to get up.

Or showering, or cooking, or driving...

Once again, dipping my toes into new social network waters. Let's see how this one turns out.