Balmut

Balmut

@balmut.bsky.social

#GameDev Goblin. Support with cheese! http://ko-fi.com/balmut http://patreon.com/Balmut Thrall of Time⌛️ (Any) http://thrallgames.bio.link

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Figure I should probably post some older GameDev stuff since we have videos now! These are my Goblins #PixelArt | #Goblins | #CozyGames | #indieDev | #IndieGames | #SoloDev | #FarmingSim | #TownBuilder

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The Government™ has made an ad about all these protests happening around the world, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative.

Artists, QP with your green art! #green #arttrain #pixelart #goblin

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Artists, QP with your green art! 💚🌼 #green #arttrain #pixelart

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Feeling down about the AI focused re-launch of a certain game jam? fear not, I am putting together a week long gamejam celebrating Human Made creations, come join us and make some cool stuff in the Hand Crafted Jam. itch.io/jam/hand-cra... #GameDev #IndieDev

itch.ioHand Crafted JamA game jam from 2026-11-12 to 2026-11-26 hosted by Dylan Browne. Welcome to the first Hand Crafted Jam, a Game Jam all about Human Made Games and things because Human Made art rules and we should cele...

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Arguably, there’s nothing more political than the erasure of artists, composers and writers from this world, just so people like Tim can get even richer. Billionaires HATE art because it gives ordinary people a voice. That terrifies them.

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We tried "everyone is entitled to an opinion" for three straight decades and all we have to show for it is four thousand cases of measles and a death cult running the government. It's time for people who don't know what they're talking about to shut the fuck up.

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Input Prompts is the largest collection of glyphs covering a wide range of input devices and platforms. It's also completely free and public domain. 🎮 I want it to be even better though so looking for feedback; what's missing? what can be improved? kenney.nl/assets/input...

I don't think using invalid variables in show_debug_message should cause a crash. Code, you're just being demanding and needy at that point.

Back to working on what I WAS doing before I got distracted fixing the Minimap. I've got options in place that let you repair holes in The Underground, but since they're out of view I have to use the subchunk to do it. I forgot that instead of using the xy of the area, I need to use the bbox_left/y.

Otherwise it can do the wrong subchunk. Need to also set it to repeat the number of subchunks that the area spans, or again it wont repair all the holes.

f...fixed it?! It's not infinitely generating debug messages anymore at least. Seems I wasn't using the correct curRoom value when checking the Town Menu while not on the Island, so it was making the wrong map then trying to draw the correct one which didn't exist.

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broke minimaps... seems to be infinitely creating them when you're under the Island looking at a Goblin on the surface. >:(

broke minimaps... seems to be infinitely creating them when you're under the Island looking at a Goblin on the surface. >:(

Currently following my gran around while she goes through every book she can find looking for a book that doesnt exist, making sure she doesnt fall over or hurt herself.🥺

So far I've been able to keep track of culled things when destroying them or whatnot and update the lists there and then, but I'm wondering if it'd just be easier to use the unculling system itself to just cleanup things that no longer exist...

Annnnd fixed. Am dumb. When I updated the script I didn't check the argument[] index. Buildings need [2] not [1] because my code is 50% marinara sauce.

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urGH, I broke the Minimap with culled objects somehow. It only updates for unculled

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sorry, code is fucking beautiful. its fucking magical i can type words in the thing and fucking TRIANGLES just appear ? oops i typed it wrong and the triangles did something i didn't EXPECT ?? now weird shit is happening ?? this is the best shit of all time. i was born to fight the computer

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Now that Steam Next Fest has started I want to remind everybody to not give games with AI any attention, to help you with this you can download this neat extension that will make it A LOT easier to filter through the slop! github.com/seeeeew/aiwa...

github.comGitHub - seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam: Browser extension to increase the visibility of AI Generated Content Disclosures in the Steam store.Browser extension to increase the visibility of AI Generated Content Disclosures in the Steam store. - seeeeew/aiwarningforsteam

urgh. why did I only just notice that vertical doors are 1x3, but horizontal doors are 4x1?! Well. I'm not changing it now! 😤

Updating the Minimap code so I can add objects to The Underground but it seems to be adding the Island rocks and trees :/

wtfuuuuuuuu I have 2 staggered loading events!? That means at some point it got duplicated and overwrote whatever was in previous event T_T

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Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

Buying is the wrong word, but I would fund so many indie devs/artists

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social

question for the audience: if you were ultra rich (let’s say $25M), what completely frivolous thing are you buying?

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Replying to @enikofox.com

This has to be my attitude going forward. Vibe coders are posers, I'm shite at coding, I dont keep it neat I sometimes comment and sometimes I spend all day slamming my head into a problem and yet, HERE I AM

F0rgot. Palette is Pico-8, except for the shadow and text which is still Pico-8 just with blending effects.

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I just learned the wordď"cuck-coding" to refer to vibecoding (you sit on a chair and watch the code happen) I'm upset that I didn't get to invent this word first. I'm definitely including it in my vocab

Amazing. Was trying to get some pokemon cards for my nephew for christmas and now my ip is banned from the pokemon centre website.🫠