Can't set the duration of notes? Just arpeggiate to fill in the gaps. (This may or may not be real advice.)

Herb coded a cool toy to let chatters play musical notes via his stream bot, and I had fun putting together a little bit of Europe's "The Final Countdown" to test it out.

This is delightful. 🩶 Thank you, Nico.

#NicoDrawsEveryMon A chipper metal eyeball Magnemite for a chiptune eyeball artist, @fyda.tech! Thank you so much for the Ko-fi!

Xanatos Gambit - TV Tropes A Xanatos Gambit is a plan for which all foreseeable outcomes benefit the creator — including ones that superficially appear to be failure. The creator predicts potential attempts to thwart the plan, ...

"If I wake up around 4am, I'll do exercise (which helps with sleep). Otherwise, I'll sleep."

I may have turned my insomnia into a Xanatos Gambit.

tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwik...

From the Duolingo mobile app: "I'm on a 2000 day learning streak!"

And then I deleted the app.

Suddenly, the sound of sibilants sprung into salience. Still speaking, he listened and noticed every hiss; so insistent was this new awareness that it stirred him to distraction. Such suffering in simple sounds...

Think Awards "Best Challenging Game" graphic with "Gentoo Rescue" key art.

Gentoo Rescue won Best Challenging Game! 🎉Thank you so much for the support from the community and @thinkygames.com 🐧

A new patch just went live, and it's 20% off on Steam to celebrate:

store.steampowered.com/app/2830480/...

This is the kind of intrusive thought I get when playing video games (in this case, Hollow Knight: Silksong).

Here I am, hours later, following through:

I just got a DM from someone that pirated my game.

They said (paraphrasing) that with hindsight the game was absolutely worth the price, and were asking my preferred avenue for them to buy it (Steam vs Itch).

I've gotten a lot of great DMs from players, but this one is probably my favorite.

Thinky Awards Game of the Year Nominations: - 0PLAYER - Blue Prince - Gentoo Rescue - Lingo 2 - LOK Digital - Ooo - Spooky Express - Strange Jigsaws - The Roottrees are Dead

Thinky Awards 2025 nominations have been announced, and Gentoo Rescue has been nominated for:
🐧 Game of the Year
🐧 Best Challenging Game
🐧 Best Puzzle Design

Please go vote here: thinkygames.com/events/award...

A screenshot from Mario Is Missing!, released in 1993 for MS-DOS. An area enclosed by yellow walls with blue windows, green trim, and magenta roofs contains a giant red pyramid bearing the face of the Mona Lisa on its front. Below this illustration, a caption reads: "The Louvre".

For reference, this is how Mario Is Missing! depicts the Louvre.

I'm glad I decided to revisit Mario is Missing! for DOS. It has been delightfully cursed. This time around, I discovered that Luigi can take a photo at each of the historical sites. I was so tickled by the game's rendition of the Louvre that I had to make this...

The original games at the core of Order of the Sinking Star are:
* The Heroes of Sokoban series: by @ostroffj.bsky.social
* The Promesst series: by @nothings.bsky.social
* Mirror Isles: by me
* Skipping Stones to Lonely Homes: by me

I designed this as a new wallpaper. I took inspiration from Star Trek the Motion Picture and the recent Nodevember prompts. What happens to the cubes when we delete them?
#b3d #blender

Marki is an incredibly sweet and thoughtful streamer who is thorough in his exploration of games new and old. He tackles the sorts of completionist challenges many people would shy away from, and does this in such a patient, calming, and pleasant manner that the time simply flies.

I also think first of vector art. Then, the Vectrex console.

fydaTECH's Twitch Recap as a streamer in 2025. New followers: 295 Total hours watched: 14.2K New subscribers: 258 Top categories: Outer Wilds; Lies of P; Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice; Gentoo Rescue; UFO 50 Total streams: 235 Chats received: 90.2K Clips: 93 Top channel emote: fydateDance (a pixel art dancing eyebeast)

I'm back home just in time for the Twitch 2025 recaps. Phew!

This was my 3rd year of streaming.

Thank you for all of the support. This has been an exhausting year, and I am grateful for all the company, encouragement, and distraction while I tried to play some video games.

Desireless - Voyage, voyage [NES-style cover] YouTube video by FydaTECH

I made an NES-style cover of "Voyage, voyage" by Desireless.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8G2...

#chiptune #nes

Against 'Metroidbrania': a Landscape of Knowledge Games What are knowledge games? How do we relate them to each other? What sub-genres exist – and which ones might be implied?

azhdarchid.com/against-metr...

I really do hate the term 'metroidbrania'. I think so do many of you. Let's nip it in the bud before it becomes something people are financially invested in.

I wrote a DOS application on stream that demonstrates why the colors that make up the default VGA palette were chosen.

Gazebo - I Like Chopin [NES-style cover] YouTube video by FydaTECH

Here is my attempt at a cover of "I Like Chopin" by Gazebo.

(I've been waiting for a typhoon to finish passing through; there is still an "extremely heavy rain advisory". I worked on this over the past two nights with the intermittent roar of rain against the windows.)

#chiptune #nes

A pedant like that lives in my head, too, and is the reason why I just write "Pacific Time"... 😅

The eyebeast presents "ten games to get to know me" (in approximate order from earliest to latest experience): - Discworld MUD (1992) - Devil Crash (1990) - Terranigma (1995) - Trials of Mana (1995) - Uplink (2001) - VVVVVV (2010) - Elsinore (2019) - Return of the Obra Dinn (2018) - Chants of Sennaar (2023) - Lorelei and the Laser Eyes (2024)

Ten games to get to know me. 👁️

Witch Cauldron by Jagriff Play in your browser

jagriff.itch.io/witch-cauldron

It's out for FREE!

#puzzlegame #platformer #metroidbrainia #metroidvania

Aaaahh! What the heck! All I did was send you a chippy bassline. You did everything else!

I am looking forward to the game and the rest of the soundtrack. <3

Flying Lab Rat (feat. FydaTECH) Background music for the early tutorial stages in Megabat. Wishlist on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2429230/Megabat/

New Megabat track just dropped! soundcloud.com/observerherb...

Wishlist Megabat on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/2429230/Megabat/

Also check out FydaTECH's music: soundcloud.com/fydatech

Don't worry; this is normal. Keep your scraps; they are the products of your creative process. You never know what they might be useful for later.

This is the final entry in the birthday album series. I have completed my self-imposed challenge (to do this for 5 years), and I am satisfied.

Going forward, I look forward to branching out into other genres (mainly electronic) and making smaller and more frequent releases.

Fortune's Tempest, by FydaTECH 20 track album

My 5th annual birthday album is out now: 20 tracks of NES-style chiptune music composed for just 4 audio channels.

Waveform visualiser: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHX6...
Bandcamp: fyda.bandcamp.com/album/fortun...

#chiptune

Twitch chat message that reads "You know how people volunteer to entertain old people? This is that"

As someone that watches/listens to a lot of twitch streams, this comment hits really hard.