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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 28/09/2026

I'm in the process of the pulling the editor I wrote for Purgo into a stand alone library. #gamedev #pixelart #love2d

Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 16/09/2026

Rather than working on an actual project this evening I wrote a little snippet to fire an event every fixed period. paste.alexjgriffith.com/every.fnl.html #gamedev #fennel #love2d

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 14/09/2026

Small thing, but @itch.io updated their dashboard page recently. They now let you choose how to sort your projects (by default is now last modified) and allow you to filter! No more scrolling through dozens of projects because your latest game starts with a W! #gamedev

Screenshot of new itchio dashboard, sorted by recently updated and with filters!

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 14/09/2026

Another small update to my LoveJS Player It will now scale the canvas in cases where the screen is too small. So games you build with the tool will now display well on mobile. alexjgriffith.itch.io/lovejs-player #love2d #gamedev #itchio

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LoveJS Player by Alex ☕🇨🇦

Yet another lovejs player. This one is based on Love 11.5 and Emscripten 3.1.69

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 03/09/2026

I haven't had much time for pixel art this summer. Took a bit of time this evening to draw some houses. This one was my favourite. #pixelart

A wooden shack with a red roof done up in pixel art.

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 24/08/2026

The LoveJS player has been updated. You can now pass in a .love file with a top level lovejs.json with your settings and script.js which will be executed in the js side. alexjgriffith.itch.io/lovejs-player #love2d #gamedev

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LoveJS Player by Alex ☕🇨🇦

Yet another lovejs player. This one is based on Love 11.5 and Emscripten 3.1.69

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 02/06/2026

For the lisp game jam this year I made a little tower defence game. My twist was that the enemies would take the shortest path to N targets. Spoilers, people did NOT love this! I've just pushed a patch that adds flow field visualisation alexjgriffith.itch.io/dfrost #gamedev #pixelart #lisp

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 24/05/2026

Going to call day 10 complete! I did some balancing over lunch. There is still a difficulty spike at level 7, nothing insurmountable. If anyone runs into a game crashing bug I'll try and fix it before submissions lock at Midnight EST. alexjgriffith.itch.io/dfrost #lispgamejam #gamedev #love2d

Screenshot of completed game running on the web

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 24/05/2026

The lisp game jam is wrapping up tomorrow! I've just finished my tower defence entry and am hoping to do one more balancing pass alexjgriffith.itch.io/dfrost

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dfrost by Alex ☕🇨🇦

A numerous path tower defence game with gnomes and upgrades

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 21/05/2026

Working on a little goblin tower defence game for this spring's lisp game jam #gamedev #lispgamejam

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 22/03/2026

Made some final tweaks to my love2d jam game. Moved the starting point up the curve and got the game running on mobile chrome alexjgriffith.itch.io/shepherd #gamedev #love2d

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Shepherd by Alex ☕🇨🇦

Collect wool and process it in this sheep based incremental game

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 11/03/2026

The love2d game jam starts Friday!! For those who want to try out some fennel with love2d I've written a mini guide to get you started! alexjgriffith.com/7.html #love2d #fennel #gamedev

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How to get started with Love2d and Fennel

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 07/01/2026

Put together a blog on my approach to handling persistence when hotloading fennel modules in love2d. It has an accompanying love2d project to test out the approach for yourself, which includes an example watcher utility. alexjgriffith.com/6.html #gamedev #love2d

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How to keep things around

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 18/12/2025

A few months ago I whipped together a little idle battler for the Lisp Game Jam in Love2D using fennel. I've finally got around to fixing the bugs and making the improvements recommended by the jam participants. alexjgriffith.itch.io/purgo #gamedev #pixelart

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 05/11/2025

Lisp Game Jam is going well. So far I am only a little distracted writing a 1 bit tile editor... #gamedev #pixelart

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 08/06/2025

Having a nice afternoon culling my awesomeWM config

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 29/05/2025

Made a little static site with all the #lispGameJam submissions going back to 2016. Of course the generator was custom built with Emacs and elisp. lgg.alexjgriffith.com/index.html #gamedev #linux #emacs

Screen shot of the landing page for the Linux game Jam Collection

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 07/05/2025

The Lisp Game Jam starts on Friday!! itch.io/jam/spring-l... As part of the lead up to the Jam, I've been working on putting together a little template to get you started targeting a lua5.4 build of lovejs codeberg.org/alexjgriffit... #fennel #lisp #love2d

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 05/05/2025

Finished up adding a pathing example to libhex The weighted a-star search is much nicer than my old depth first search approach codeberg.org/alexjgriffit...

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 02/05/2025

Took a little detour this evening and implemented an island generator codeberg.org/alexjgriffit... #pixelart #gamedev

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 01/05/2025

Working on a little simplex noise island generator

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 29/04/2025

Turns out writing a shader to outline pixel art is dead simple #pixelart #gamedev #love2d

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 29/01/2025

Playing around with some post processing shaders

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 18/01/2025

The Pirate Jam is on for the next two weeks. The theme is "You are the Weapon". I'm thinking of making a reverse asteroids.

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 16/01/2025

I had planned to work on some shader design this evening, but ended up writing another autotiling library

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Alex☕🇨🇦 @alexjgriffith.itch.io · 07/12/2024

I've been working on tools for interactive development in lovejs. Took a small detour this week to put together a little lovejs-player, with some of the extensions my development tools rely on (websockets, and interop with JS). alexjgriffith.itch.io/lovejs-player