Philippe Vaillancourt

Finally making the UI feel juicy 🤤 WIP title screen + lobby for my upcoming web game – now with animation, music & SFX! What do you think? UI/UX feedback very welcome 👀 #gamedev #indiedev #webgamedev #FeedbackFriday #UI #UXDesign

Some fresh Fossil Rush UI work: updated title screen, new lobby, and gameplay layout. Lots left to polish, but it’s coming together! #gamedev #indiedev #webgamedev

Early title screen for Fossil Rush 🦴⛏️ A multiplayer push-your-luck web game in the spirit of Incan Gold. Still super WIP! #gamedev #indiedev #webgamedev

If AI wipes out entry/mid-level creative work, who’ll invest years mastering a craft? We risk a generation losing connection to art—not by choice, but by design. If we don’t act with intention now, we may not like the culture we wake up in 10 years.

"If you outsource your creative work to a computer, you are not a creative. Someone who merely churns out product is not an artist – they are a salesperson. The artist is the person who makes, not who has made." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

My first complete game where I've made all of the art and music. Yeah, it's a Flappy Bird clone, but still feels like a milestone for me. First crappy game down... many more to go. 😁 snowfrog.itch.io/looney-bird

Most of your app’s cross cutting concerns should be policies. What’s a policy?

New blog post; Pointing out the things I've come to really love about JS/TS over the years. "JavaScript/TypeScript is actually really good" codingwithspike.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/j...

Writing tests first... when it makes sense to do so.

Hey bluesky 👋 You can use this place to share your repos, blog posts and videos that you want to promote. It's all about #dotnet 🙌

Back in the 90s and 00s, you could always name a few AAA studios in their prime who you’d say were the elite developers that you'd be lucky to work with. At various times Blizzard, DICE, Naughty Dog, Bungie, Valve, etc. Who is that today? Does any such company exist any more? If not, why not?

Trying to make a little roguelite hack n' slash for @github.com's #GameOff 2024. Never realized how much more complicated melee combat is to implement compared to projectiles. I'm drowning in hurtboxes, hitboxes and state transitions. 🎯 #gamedev #gamejam

Best analysis of all the different types of screen shake I've ever seen. www.davetech.co.uk/gamedevscree... #gamedev

One of the most common advice given to aspiring game developers is "don't build your own game engine". I don't listen. youtu.be/6hvlkbebd8I #GameDev #WebGPU #js13k #Nanojet #2DGameEngine #Devlog #GameDevelopment #WebGL #JavaScript #TypeScript #HTML5GameDev