iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

So, on Friday, after a long, thorough, fair, rigorous process my application to become a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS) was accepted. Chuffed to be honest.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Released my first ever demo in the old school category at Nova 2026. Came last but don’t think I was embarrassed considering the quality of the prods in the category. Itch scratched.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Sunday night single malt (Kavalan) and cigar.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

On the train to Amsterdam to celebrate my 30th wedding anniversary. I am looking forward to this. Time to decompress for a few days.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Day 3 of coding on my own projects, so to speak. This hasn't happened in about 15 or so years. In my happy place, even though yesterday wasn't quite as productive as I'd hoped. Noticed some bugs last night I thought I'd fixed, and reworking some status bar stuff today. Onwards!

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Mind. Frazzled. Been out of game dev. for a looooong time, so long sessions are hurting my noggin. Time for football, F1, beer, gin, and food. Back to it later.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Day 2 of the weekend coding session starts. Let's hope "vram_layout_final2_maybe_i_hope.h" actually lives up to its name. ;) Whilst I'm slightly stuck on that project, let's move across to another, and continue ripping the gfx from Puggsy on the Megadrive to think about an AGA Amiga version.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 02/05/2026

Right then, let's get this Bank Holiday weekend coding session underway.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

That feeling when everything in development seems to be going fine, then two separate parts that had been working don't transition one to the other. Just like networking always seems to be DNS, these problem with me always seem to be RAM. Now, stay up late and fix, or come back fresh tomorrow?

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Vibrant Venture @vibrant-venture.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

some vibrant venture gameplay #gaming #indiegame #gaming #gamedev

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

One bonus of yesterday was picking this up for £5. It’s one of the games I worked on that I didn’t have a boxed copy of. I do now. Oh, and I picked up a lovely aluminium immortal joystick.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Off to Debug Games Festival 26 at the Norfolk Showground today and an old friend @andylemon.bsky.social is going to be there, which is a bonus. I love game dev. There. I said it.

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IndieRetroGames @indieretrogames.com · 12/04/2026

nivrig.indieretrogames.com/rogue-declan ⚔️ Rogue Declan — a roguelite twin-stick shooter for Classic #Amiga. One hero. Forty billion procedurally generated dungeons. How deep can you go? Free demo on #IndieRetroGames. Want your game listed here too? @amigalove.com @retrocomps.bsky.social

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Rogue Declan (Amiga)

One hero. Two sticks. Forty billion dungeons. How deep can you go? A challenging, procedurally generated, roguelite twin-stick shooter for the Classic Amig...

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Damn. This just arrived and I’m away this weekend. Wanted to see if I could hook it up so I can send to it directly from VS Code on my Mac.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Well, what a long weekend that was. I appear to have found my mojo again. Coded a number of prototype effects for my NES demo which have proved certain things can't really be done, and others I though too tricky can be done to an extent. Maybe I will have something to enter at Nova after all.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

First Taekwondo session, in dobok, for what must be 5 or 6 years. Only taught and demonstrated, but boy do I hurt now.

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 24/12/2024

Treated myself to Astro Bot yesterday, and boy, what a game. It’s like it’s distilled and improved lots of things I like from all my favourite platform game series. Might feign illness to spend time playing it this Christmas. 😉

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

Waiting for the damn DJ set. Wish he’d hurry up right @h0ffman.bsky.social ?

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Francis Lillie @francislillie.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

Well it’s a bit nicer on here isn’t it. No enforced views on posts I don’t want to see and less random rubbish being suggested. Hope it stays that way.

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