Mastodawn

been learning how to multiplayer game development and i’m happy to say that i now know how extremely hard it is. next time anyone demands devs just make their game multiplayer i think that person should be the one tasked to do it.
that’s a good solid level of brain melting to put someone through. 🤓👍

Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)2d ago

fellow queer gamedevs,
NAMNAM Space, a queer anarchist space in Tokyo, needs support! A zine of games is being made to raise money for them. to help, you can submit your work:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSc6KvzUTalxV69BS_R1oqKXXIhMZpauYcNMJ9wYXnG_ftOeWw/viewform
the zine will be debuted at NAMNAM. the deadline is June 12th.
#GameDev

Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)3d ago

both publications i’m featured in arrived. it’s an amazing feeling to see my work talked about in print. the Immersion book is beautiful https://www.immersion-revue.fr
inspiring to see video game art like this!
and the slanted digital tools magazine is a 👌 directory of tools https://www.slanted.de/news/digital-tools/

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Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)3d ago

@exquisitecorp this is very cool! thanks for putting it up there so now i could add it to the cool tools list 😎🤓

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lee 4d ago

L5 is now on Itch ( @itchio )

Find L5 here:
https://notapipe.itch.io/l5

In addition to the regular L5 website https://l5lua.org we thought Itch was a good place to find friends, keep a devlog, share projects and host jams. We'll be trying it out this summer.

Our Hello World blog post:
https://notapipe.itch.io/l5/devlog/1541314/hello-world-itch

Other likeminded tools and coding libraries we love on Itch include Decker by Internet Janitor, @bitsy by @ldx ,
cel7 by rxi, Bitty Engine and GBBasic by Tony Wang, Electric Zine Maker by @alienmelon and MANY MORE super cool tools, libraries, assets and more!

We love Itch and think it will be another great place to make friends.

L5: Creative Coding in Lua by notapipe

A creative coding library in Lua, based on Processing/p5, built with LÖVE.

itch.io

Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)5d ago

with google killing search… me made a mistake when we placed all value, all future forward thinking, into automation. web directories had value. no, i’m serious. web directories were wonderful. we already had infrastructure in place. nothing is stopping us from doing it ourselves.

Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)5d ago

Queer Games Bundle 5d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@alienmelon/116673934689999693

please check out and boost this bundle!

Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)5d ago

the Power of Pride Bundle is here!
https://itch.io/b/3682/the-power-of-pride-bundle-2026-60-edition
a month long mutual aid bundle to support queer creators, and the beautiful work the queer community is known for.
there’s a $60 or $10 edition, and you get to da of games for it. my own recent game is in it too!
#indiegame #indiegaming #gamdev

Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)6d ago

there was a small exhibit of the games made during the walking simulator workshop that i helped teach, and i must say i’m blown away by the resulting games.
like this: 🤯
everyone new to gamedev is talented af. 👍✨
#GameDev

Nathalie Lawhead (alienmelon)May 29

i'm honored to say that the Electric Zine Maker is featured in the digital tools edition of Slanted Magazine! along with the magazine they also created this online directory of digital tools:
https://www.slanted.de/news/digital-tools/
there's a lot of inspiring experimental work there!
#Tools #GameDev #IndieDev

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