Noel Berry

@noelfb
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sometimes, when i'm in the right mood, i make video games and art. created Celeste with friends, making new games with more friends. he/him
websitehttps://noelberry.ca
exokhttps://exok.com
experimenting with a new enemy in City of None ...

(haven't done the creature art yet, not sure what it's gonna look like)
it's kinda fun zooming all the way out on big screens while editing
experimenting with a radial menu 🤔 (among other things, in https://cityofnone.com/)

I've been making video games in some form for 20 years, so I wrote an article about my process - and why I don't use an engine.

https://noelberry.ca/posts/making_games_in_2025/

Making Video Games in 2025 (without an engine)

Thoughts, tools, and libraries I use to make games

Here's the May edition of Thinky Third Thursday, the monthly roundup of thinky puzzle games that have caught our eye:
https://thinkythirdthursday.com/may-2025
Thinky Third Thursday - May 2025

Monthly game recommendations from the puzzle experts at Draknek & Friends

taking the subway (game I'm making: https://cityofnone.com)

(metro map still wip / doesn't have art yet)

City of None

An upcoming adventure game by Noel and Liam Berry

Here's an old technical breakdown of how I redesigned Celeste's lighting in 2017, before it came out: https://noelberry.ca/posts/celeste_lighting/
Remaking Celeste's Lighting

A technical breakdown on the lighting in Celeste

also I was not expecting the matodon client (at least on web) to just display that entire thing lol, those are huge screenshots sorry