kaikairos
@kaikairos.bsky.social
Catholic | John 1:3 | "Not a bad public, that." | games https://kkairos.itch.io | pretense https://kaikairos.substack.com
everyone play Puzzle Depot. the devs @laughingmanatee.bsky.social are excellent (expertly coded, runs buttery-smooth, and CHECK OUT THAT PIXEL ART). (also I'm ~30% of the OST, my part among my best work ever. all the music is bangers. i'm biased but it's true)
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...
Puzzle Depot on Steam
A box-pushing, bug-squishing, post-apocalyptic adventure awaits you in Puzzle Depot! Challenge hundreds of meticulously designed rooms that expand on classic sokoban gameplay with new and creative mec...
store.steampowered.com
November 23, 2025 at 6:47 AM
everyone play Puzzle Depot. the devs @laughingmanatee.bsky.social are excellent (expertly coded, runs buttery-smooth, and CHECK OUT THAT PIXEL ART). (also I'm ~30% of the OST, my part among my best work ever. all the music is bangers. i'm biased but it's true)
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...
'why not be a code-lead? you'd make a fine code-lead, perhaps a great one'
'if i were a great code-lead, who would know?'
'your friends, your teammates, your family, your beta testers. not a bad public, that.'
'sir thomas, thank you.'
'be a code-lead.'
'if i were a great code-lead, who would know?'
'your friends, your teammates, your family, your beta testers. not a bad public, that.'
'sir thomas, thank you.'
'be a code-lead.'
November 23, 2025 at 6:35 AM
'why not be a code-lead? you'd make a fine code-lead, perhaps a great one'
'if i were a great code-lead, who would know?'
'your friends, your teammates, your family, your beta testers. not a bad public, that.'
'sir thomas, thank you.'
'be a code-lead.'
'if i were a great code-lead, who would know?'
'your friends, your teammates, your family, your beta testers. not a bad public, that.'
'sir thomas, thank you.'
'be a code-lead.'
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I think what’s important to understand about parenting discourse is that, as someone who doesn’t have a child, it’s obviously parents who are selfishly caring about their own needs over others. But if I ever have a kid, it will be childless people doing that.
May 8, 2025 at 12:00 AM
I think what’s important to understand about parenting discourse is that, as someone who doesn’t have a child, it’s obviously parents who are selfishly caring about their own needs over others. But if I ever have a kid, it will be childless people doing that.
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Steam Box Pushing fest is hours away, but I just accidentally our store page so the expanded demo for Puzzle Depot is now live! Now with TWO full levels! Into puzzles & pixel art? Insert call to action here!
#sobokan #indiegame #puzzlegame #marketingismypassion
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...
#sobokan #indiegame #puzzlegame #marketingismypassion
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...
Puzzle Depot on Steam
A box-pushing, bug-squishing, post-apocalyptic adventure awaits you in Puzzle Depot! Challenge hundreds of meticulously designed rooms that carefully extend classic sokoban games with new and creative...
store.steampowered.com
April 21, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Steam Box Pushing fest is hours away, but I just accidentally our store page so the expanded demo for Puzzle Depot is now live! Now with TWO full levels! Into puzzles & pixel art? Insert call to action here!
#sobokan #indiegame #puzzlegame #marketingismypassion
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...
#sobokan #indiegame #puzzlegame #marketingismypassion
store.steampowered.com/app/3108190/...
Happy Meat Island Thursday to all who celebrate
March 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Happy Meat Island Thursday to all who celebrate
a message from Baxter and Birdster
March 5, 2025 at 7:24 PM
a message from Baxter and Birdster
Live at www.twitch.tv/Kaikairos doing a 2.4 hour ZZT competition. Going to explain the plan briefly then attempt to execute on it in RECORD TIME with a SPEEDRUN CLOCK.
Twitch
Twitch is the world
www.twitch.tv
February 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Live at www.twitch.tv/Kaikairos doing a 2.4 hour ZZT competition. Going to explain the plan briefly then attempt to execute on it in RECORD TIME with a SPEEDRUN CLOCK.
2.4 hours of zzt compo happening last weekend, this weekend and the next weekend. my plans incoming. i made the mistake of asking wil how much paper planning i could get away with and the answer was a lot. that he'd be delighted if someone preplanned their entire stream itch.io/jam/24-hours... 1/2
2.4 Hours Jam (H125 circuit)
A game jam from 2025-02-15 to 2025-06-08 hosted by Mean Girls Games. The Classic 2.4HoZZT is back! Welcome, and be prepared for a Jam-packed first half of 2025. This page will be home to not one, not ...
itch.io
February 20, 2025 at 11:57 PM
2.4 hours of zzt compo happening last weekend, this weekend and the next weekend. my plans incoming. i made the mistake of asking wil how much paper planning i could get away with and the answer was a lot. that he'd be delighted if someone preplanned their entire stream itch.io/jam/24-hours... 1/2
still utterly amazed by the number of times in the story of Morrowind's development you basically hear "and then I lied to Todd Howard about it"
February 20, 2025 at 11:54 PM
still utterly amazed by the number of times in the story of Morrowind's development you basically hear "and then I lied to Todd Howard about it"
i may have caught an inspiration
thank you so much! i'm not as good at checking this thing as I should be, but I'm delighted to randomly come back to kind words about A Thing I Made!
good luck with 7DRL if you decide to enter. i'm a probably not this time around, but maybe the lightning will strike right before.
good luck with 7DRL if you decide to enter. i'm a probably not this time around, but maybe the lightning will strike right before.
February 18, 2025 at 7:56 PM
i may have caught an inspiration
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hey there @kaikairos.bsky.social!
I was here considering joining 7DRL this year, and went back once again to your delightful Endgame 437 from '21. What a neat game!
Anyways, glad you're here on bsky! hello!
I was here considering joining 7DRL this year, and went back once again to your delightful Endgame 437 from '21. What a neat game!
Anyways, glad you're here on bsky! hello!
February 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
hey there @kaikairos.bsky.social!
I was here considering joining 7DRL this year, and went back once again to your delightful Endgame 437 from '21. What a neat game!
Anyways, glad you're here on bsky! hello!
I was here considering joining 7DRL this year, and went back once again to your delightful Endgame 437 from '21. What a neat game!
Anyways, glad you're here on bsky! hello!
In this post I get to show off some screenshots and see if I trigger an existential crisis.
SlimeGame Devlog 5: A New Coat
Screenshots! And lots of design questions!
kaikairos.substack.com
March 20, 2024 at 6:10 AM
In this post I get to show off some screenshots and see if I trigger an existential crisis.
In a given game-development Discord, whether focused on an engine, a genre, or something else, certain “types” of inhabitants tend to emerge. Let us study five of them in their natural habitat.
A Field Guide to Game-Development Discord Inhabitants
In their natural habitat!
kaikairos.substack.com
March 6, 2024 at 12:56 AM
In a given game-development Discord, whether focused on an engine, a genre, or something else, certain “types” of inhabitants tend to emerge. Let us study five of them in their natural habitat.
NEW POST.This is a problem. is the slime-block tiles I’ve put in to replace the old ones. On some level they feel better, less viscerally disgusting (it remains to be seen if that is actually better). I also present the hopeful start of a solution.
kaikairos.substack.com/p/slimegame-...
kaikairos.substack.com/p/slimegame-...
February 28, 2024 at 5:53 AM
NEW POST.This is a problem. is the slime-block tiles I’ve put in to replace the old ones. On some level they feel better, less viscerally disgusting (it remains to be seen if that is actually better). I also present the hopeful start of a solution.
kaikairos.substack.com/p/slimegame-...
kaikairos.substack.com/p/slimegame-...
what's the last Metroidvania you've seen that wasn't:
a. post-apocalyptic
b. "cyclically" apocalyptic ("age of x" vs "age of anti-x" plot pattern, Dark Souls/Rusted Moss for 2 examples)
c. some sort of mass 'undeading'/parallel 'hollowing'
d. "you are the bad guy and that's good"
a. post-apocalyptic
b. "cyclically" apocalyptic ("age of x" vs "age of anti-x" plot pattern, Dark Souls/Rusted Moss for 2 examples)
c. some sort of mass 'undeading'/parallel 'hollowing'
d. "you are the bad guy and that's good"
February 22, 2024 at 5:52 AM
what's the last Metroidvania you've seen that wasn't:
a. post-apocalyptic
b. "cyclically" apocalyptic ("age of x" vs "age of anti-x" plot pattern, Dark Souls/Rusted Moss for 2 examples)
c. some sort of mass 'undeading'/parallel 'hollowing'
d. "you are the bad guy and that's good"
a. post-apocalyptic
b. "cyclically" apocalyptic ("age of x" vs "age of anti-x" plot pattern, Dark Souls/Rusted Moss for 2 examples)
c. some sort of mass 'undeading'/parallel 'hollowing'
d. "you are the bad guy and that's good"
"I’m adding a New Year’s Goal my previous two. One goal was to get a game on Steam. Another was to say yes to scary (but good-for-me) things more. The third is now going to be to post here once weekly, attempt including a development update every two weeks."
A Glimpse at the Year's Project, and an Added Goal
I've been bad at posting and developing. It's time to change both.
kaikairos.substack.com
January 31, 2024 at 1:05 AM
"I’m adding a New Year’s Goal my previous two. One goal was to get a game on Steam. Another was to say yes to scary (but good-for-me) things more. The third is now going to be to post here once weekly, attempt including a development update every two weeks."
My stupidest gaming hill to die on, and I do mean my stupidest, is that nobody has ever finished Oblivion's main quest. Show me speedruns. Tell me the tales of how long it took you to fulfill your destiny as hero of Kvatch. It's not real. It was a dream. Nobody beats Oblivion.
December 31, 2023 at 8:26 PM
My stupidest gaming hill to die on, and I do mean my stupidest, is that nobody has ever finished Oblivion's main quest. Show me speedruns. Tell me the tales of how long it took you to fulfill your destiny as hero of Kvatch. It's not real. It was a dream. Nobody beats Oblivion.
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If your the sort of data hoarder who has held onto IRC logs from gaming channels from 2003 and earlier, do me a favor and search for “Metroidvania” and “Metroid-Vania” and let me know if you get any results.
December 10, 2023 at 11:47 PM
If your the sort of data hoarder who has held onto IRC logs from gaming channels from 2003 and earlier, do me a favor and search for “Metroidvania” and “Metroid-Vania” and let me know if you get any results.
I made The Coolest in 2020, and almost three years later, I made Tower in Moonlight. These games ended up being incredibly similar. And also quite different. Here's how.
The Coolest Tower Ever to be Seen in Moonlight
A small retrospective on two strangely similar games by yours truly. Also, a Metroidvania Month update!
kaikairos.substack.com
December 6, 2023 at 1:11 AM
I made The Coolest in 2020, and almost three years later, I made Tower in Moonlight. These games ended up being incredibly similar. And also quite different. Here's how.
So the previous rambling update one was written almost all on my lunch ... This time I at least had the wherewithal to attempt an outline. And why not more or less outline the week?
A Slightly Organized Outline of Last Week
This time I’m listing things instead!
kaikairos.substack.com
November 29, 2023 at 12:02 AM
So the previous rambling update one was written almost all on my lunch ... This time I at least had the wherewithal to attempt an outline. And why not more or less outline the week?
Today's Kaikairos labs: I’ve got about 45 minutes to write this before my lunch ends and I’m back to work--and the post drops before my last break of the day, so I’d better get going if I want to make the quota.
(The post ended up being late anyway, but ignore that.)
(The post ended up being late anyway, but ignore that.)
A Rambling Update on the Last Week
Gamejam gamejam gamejam gamejam gamejam gamejam gamejam ooohh let’s gooooooooo
kaikairos.substack.com
November 21, 2023 at 11:51 PM
Today's Kaikairos labs: I’ve got about 45 minutes to write this before my lunch ends and I’m back to work--and the post drops before my last break of the day, so I’d better get going if I want to make the quota.
(The post ended up being late anyway, but ignore that.)
(The post ended up being late anyway, but ignore that.)
From today's Kaikairos Labs:
"Ideas are terrible. I mean, a lot of them are terrible, but what’s truly terrible to me is how quickly they accumulate."
But where do the excess ideas go?
"Ideas are terrible. I mean, a lot of them are terrible, but what’s truly terrible to me is how quickly they accumulate."
But where do the excess ideas go?
The Threepenny Idea Folder
What to do with excess creative ideas?
kaikairos.substack.com
November 14, 2023 at 11:58 PM
From today's Kaikairos Labs:
"Ideas are terrible. I mean, a lot of them are terrible, but what’s truly terrible to me is how quickly they accumulate."
But where do the excess ideas go?
"Ideas are terrible. I mean, a lot of them are terrible, but what’s truly terrible to me is how quickly they accumulate."
But where do the excess ideas go?
do you guys think if dogs had social media there would be a squirrel every hour account and every post wasn't even a picture of a squirrel it was just SQUIRREL! in caps like that
November 10, 2023 at 2:25 AM
do you guys think if dogs had social media there would be a squirrel every hour account and every post wasn't even a picture of a squirrel it was just SQUIRREL! in caps like that
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Hey folks, I just put out a new game jam game as part of Oktrollberfest 2023:
whydoisay.itch.io/zztorture
It's made with a heavily modified version of the first game engine by Epic, a primitive text-based program called ZZT. It's very retro on purpose.
whydoisay.itch.io/zztorture
It's made with a heavily modified version of the first game engine by Epic, a primitive text-based program called ZZT. It's very retro on purpose.
ZZTorture by Jeremy W. Kaufmann
Is it bad on purpose or good on accident? You'll never know unless you play it!
whydoisay.itch.io
November 6, 2023 at 6:57 PM
Hey folks, I just put out a new game jam game as part of Oktrollberfest 2023:
whydoisay.itch.io/zztorture
It's made with a heavily modified version of the first game engine by Epic, a primitive text-based program called ZZT. It's very retro on purpose.
whydoisay.itch.io/zztorture
It's made with a heavily modified version of the first game engine by Epic, a primitive text-based program called ZZT. It's very retro on purpose.
At risk of self-aggrandizement, there are twelve KKairos platformers listed on kkairos.itch.io, and it’s not exhaustive. Are there too many of them? Maybe. But what then?
Have I Made Too Many Video Games?
Maybe.
kaikairos.substack.com
November 7, 2023 at 11:52 PM
At risk of self-aggrandizement, there are twelve KKairos platformers listed on kkairos.itch.io, and it’s not exhaustive. Are there too many of them? Maybe. But what then?