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Andrew Gillett

@arganoid.com

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Game developer, computer science & programming tutor, person defined by comma-separated values. Partial gameography: Dog's Life, RCT3, Thrillville, LostWinds2, Kinectimals, Kinect Disneyland Adventures, Elite Dangerous Books: Code the Classics Vols 1, 2

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · Sep 8

I'm proud to announce Reality Drift, a roguelike racing game where your choices matter. Race through a series of strange worlds, choose upgrades for your car and decide which track will be next - your decisions are just as important as how you drive!

store.steampowered.com/app/3078120/...

Reality Drift on Steam

Reality Drift is a roguelike racing game where your choices matter. Race through a series of strange worlds, choose upgrades for your car and decide which track will be next - your decisions are just ...

store.steampowered.com

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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 23h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 17h

Cybermorph (Atari Jaguar)

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 19h

What if a game had cards like in Slay the Spire AND boons like in Hades? And it was a racing game? Wouldn't that make it the best game ever?

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 1d

So it seems the bug is only in this one scene

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 1d

So I see I'm getting the Bluesky/Firefox blank image bug again

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 1d

Unity event system has Move Repeat Delay which should control whether/how navigation actions are repeatedly triggered, but it seems not to work. Keyboard and d-pad don't trigger repeat actions, and analog stick has zero delay between repeat actions

Screenshot of Unity inspector showing Input System UI Input Module and Move Repeat Delay of 0.5

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qntm @qntm.org · 1d

Hollow Knight: Silksong (2025)

Picture of a cra. Text: "This is a CRA."

Picture of cra and another cra. Text: "Now there is another one. There are two of them. There are two ________."

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James Kelleher @jameskelleher.pilcrow.ie · 1d

Next time somebody asks me what Bluesky is like, I'll send them this

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Kate Killick (Glowfrog Games) @katekillick.bsky.social · 2d

If you're curious to actually play what I've been making for the last 2.5 years, now you can! Any feedback, wishlists or reviews are a big help during Next Fest - we're not too far from full launch so gotta start building some hype! 🥳

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #cozygame

Pieced Together (Glowfrog Games) @glowfroggames.bsky.social · 2d

The more players we have early in Steam Next Fest, the bigger our visibility boost. If you've been meaning to check out our demo, now's the perfect time! 👇

zurl.co/XquWo

Thanks to everyone who’s already downloaded, played or left a review. We appreciate you! 💗

#cozygame #gamedemo #gametrailer

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Adrian Tchaikovsky @aptshadow.bsky.social · 2d

Editor: “We loved it but…”

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Rachel Coldicutt @rachelcoldicutt.bsky.social · 2d

Nature's Labubu

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 2d

Story of temp assets. In 2008 I as a joke wrote 'Change your pants like you have never changed before!' to a text box, thinking someone will change it. 2025, it's still there. Maybe some day they'll change it. #gamedev

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George Gantsoudes @pedsortho.bsky.social · 2d

Please remember that the disgust people have over Christopher Columbus is not based on some modern, 21st century “woke” ideology, but rather on contemporaneous accounts of atrocities that make many modern genocides appear quaint in comparison.

Below, are the accounts of Bartlomé de las Casas.

But too many of the slaves died in captivity. And so Columbus, desperate to pay back dividends to those who had in-vested, had to make good his promise to fill the ships with gold. In the province of Cicao on Haiti, where he and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months. When they brought it, they were given copper tokens to hang around their necks. Indians found without a copper token had their hands cut off and bled to death.
The Indians had been given an impossible task. The only gold around was bits of dust garnered from the streams. So they fled, were hunted down with dogs, and were killed.

After each six or eight months' work in the mines, which was the time required of each crew to dig enough gold for melting, up to a third of the men died.
While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants.
Thus husbands and wives were together only once every eight or ten months and when they met they were so exhausted and depressed on both sides... they ceased to pro-create. As for the newly born, they died early because their mothers, overworked and fam-ished, had no milk to nurse them, and for this reason, while I was in Cuba, 7000 children died in three months. Some mothers even drowned their babies from sheer desper-ation.... In this way, husbands died in the mines, wives died at work, and children died from lack of milk ... and in a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fer-tile... was depopulated... My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write....

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 2d

I'm over 50 years late to this, but I wasn't alive for some of those years, and also probably wouldn't have appreciated it as a baby www.youtube.com/watch?v=BfWJ...

Tubular Bells (Pt. I)

YouTube video by Mike Oldfield - Topic

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 2d

When I listened to this in 1993 I had no idea it was based on a 1973 classic www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbKX...

Sickest So Far.. - Punish Your Machine Demo - Big Alec / Delta Force (Atari ST)

YouTube video by zeusgb

www.youtube.com

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Matt Hackett @richtaur.bsky.social · 5d

Happy 2nd anniversary to the Steam Dev Cheat Sheet 🥂

LMK if any info is out of date! Good luck with your game 🎮

#indiegamedev

STEAM DEV CHEAT SHEET
Quick access to a collection of best practices & magic formulas:

STEAM CAPSULE
(Your Game)
The single most IMPORTANT element since it's seen the most
Clear
Readable
Game name
Genre
Hook(s)
Hire on artist!

THE DISCOVERY ALGORITHM
Get 7,000+ wishlists before launch
Get 10+ reviews ASAP (positive or negative, just need 10)
The only punishing review status is OVERWHELMINGLY NEGATIVE (the rest are neutral for traffic)

WISHLISTS
About 15% of wishlists convert in the first week.
ALL wishlisters are emailed at launch.
Discount 20%+ to email wishlisters after launch.

SALES ESTIMATES FROM REVIEWS
One review represents about 20-55 soles.
It's the New Boxleiter Number! ~30 is good
So 100 reviews = about 3,000 copies sold.

TRAILER
(Viewers skip through trailers)
Start strong
Omit intro logos
Direct to gameplay
60 seconds or less
End with ONE CTA: Wishlist it or buy it

Made in October 2023

From the author of How to Make a Video Game All By Yourself
valadria.com

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Kimmo Lahtinen @gimblll.com · 3d

Nice to see such a positive take on Sektori from @pcgamer.com. Seems that at least a site or two saw the release date announcement!

www.pcgamer.com/games/action...

Prepare to have your brain fried by this electric shoot 'em up from an ex-Housemarque designer when it launches next month

Sektori's demo blew me away when I played it last year.

www.pcgamer.com

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Rat Fascal @mrpsb.uk · 3d

See that ruin? That’s where you live. That’s your million pound mansion.

A ruined stone building on moorland in front of a blue sky

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Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 3d

Executive's kid preferred Fortnite

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 3d

Just one small change

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 3d

Internal compiler error... dude

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 3d

It crashed the kernel

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 3d

It only crashed once

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

Andrew Gillett @arganoid.com · 3d

It worked on mine

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.