Mike Meyer

Biddy Blas is popular because subconsciously everyone knows what the best part of Star Wars was: Muppets

"Is the game heartless/soulless?" I saw someone ask, seemingly conflicted about their fully gen-AI generated jam game. The question actually has an easy answer! It has exactly the heart and soul that was put into it!

There's so much dithering in this Ludum Dare. Dunno why that is. Did I miss something?

When nature completes the art Original post

It almost seems like people forget how "x, but y" sentence structure works. You still said both things, friend! It doesn't cancel one of them!

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Tired: debugging lines. Wired: enbuggening lines.

I didn't mean for the debug lines to look like spider legs but it's kinda neat

Huh. Usually the news just makes me feel bad but today some of this stuff makes me feel like I should get out my "SICKOS" shirt.

somehow the harshest thing I've seen on this topic is from the guy who is ALWAYS nice

Here's my little game for Ludum Dare 60! #ldjam excitemike.itch.io/smash-to-begin

Don't let billionaires convince you slop is the future. They're used to managing & directing, not making things themselves. Of course they can't see the difference. They don't understand your love for the craft. Keep making personal, beautiful games. You've got my support 💖

Oooh somehow I missed until now that SublimeMerge lets you diff (well, compare) images you are changing. Somehow other source control tools I've used just show you one or the other if at all

Haha I love how I've been virtually squishing things all weekend but when I add sound it suddenly feels new and different

I kinda can't decide what I'm building for ludum dare but you can smash little guys #screenshotsaturday #ldjam

I'm sure GTA or whatever is impressive and all, but it's stuff like Double Fine Action Theater that makes me think videogames are great and worth protecting

BIDDY BLAS

Me: Gosh is there anything better than creating optimal, elegant, beautiful solutions for problems? I love it! A bunch of clowns, apparently: hahaha let's throw a bunch of money into a furnace, buy up all the RAM and GPUs and just fuckin' brute force everything HONK HONK

Asked the BDS movement if it'd like to provide comment on today's House House news:

My hobby is: You know those glowing rectangles that we stare at all day? Sometimes I tell them to make colors wiggle around.

This silly thing is actually kinda fun to watch. Maybe I should make a pinball game for this Ludum Dare. playable online: editor.p5js.org/ExciteMike/f...

The DHS is younger than crash bandicoot

Ludum Dare Theme Voting will kick off tonight: Two Rounds, followed by a Final Round. #LDJam

I am enjoying He Who Watches but sometimes they way bits interact seems counter to what the game has been teaching me about them and thus arbitrary and unsatisfying. Are blocks supposed to pass through each other? Why on the 2nd bump but not the 1st?

I bought this "SICKOS" shirt thinking it was a funny low-effort Halloween costume, but instead I have become the "getting questions that I thought were answered by shirt" meme.

Yes, but I was confused by everyone finding it so interesting? and now years later to still be talking about it???

Whoa! No one told me Galactic Racer was so ExciteTruck-like!!

Had to workaround a Firefox-specific issue with the audio library, but this silly bouncing ball thing is online now excitemike.com/games/bounci...

Dressmaker is a masterpiece.

I have kinda always been meaning to play with generative music (NOT LLM/GenAI. "algorithmic" maybe?) But somehow that's never what comes out when I sit down at the computer. This might count, though?

this would make a beautiful video game

I think it should be on the billionaires to not make their death be a huge, obvious benefit to society rather than on the rest of us to pretend otherwise.

Spoilers for a book from 140 years ago: OK people largely realize Frankenstein was the doctor not the creation. Now let's do that but for "Jekyll and Hyde were never different personalities"

I saw somebody share a "product" they made where an LLM helps you prompt an LLM and I was SO SURE it was a joke and I even thought it was a good one, but since then whole conversations happened and project updates and! Somehow? It was completely serious!? What is happening to people?

Metroid Ravenous

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

This is awesome so I cut one out of wood and made a double sided puzzle.

#fallingblockjam #screenshotsaturday

It almost looks like my entire settings UI is not just a single text field #FallingBlockJam #screenshotsaturday

Tried to be more interesting by having you manipulate the already-fallen tiles, but, predictably, controlling the falling one is more fun, so I guess I'm making that game instead #fallingblockjam