iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Added a (very rough) first pass at boss introduction banners! They'll help you learn what you're about to face. The colors are based on the core itself, but... there's definitely a lot of work to be done here #indiedev #solodev #monogame #fallingblocks

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Brycicle is one of the characters that will be playable in my #indiegame! It always annoyed me that characters in falling block puzzle games didn't change anything with the gameplay, so my goal is to have characters that actually and meaningfully change the way the game is played. #oc #art

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Advent @adventureislands.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Copy Cats is approaching 2800 wishlists! Can we reach 3k before the game comes out on 29th of October? Can we go even further beyond? Wishlist Copy Cats on Steam and try the free demo! store.steampowered.com/app/4700300/... #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #puzzlegame

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

It's not much, but it's a start: A title screen for my falling block puzzle game! On a related note, I'm taking suggestions for the game's name lol #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #indiedev #solodev #monogame

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

If, like me, you're religious, and, also like me, you're trying to create something, this podcast episode is a must-listen (regardless of your faith tradition): www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbkO...

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Psalms 1–2; 8; 19–33; 40; 46 Part 1 • Steven Sharp Nelson • August 17-23 • Come, Follow Me

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Added two bosses to my #indiegame tonight! This one is called Diminish - it only spawns monominoes and dominoes, rarely giving you a larger triomino to cover the space with. #monogame #indiedev #solodev #fallingblocks

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Spent this week vastly improving the UI. Still a lot of work to be done, but I'm really happy with the visual indicators showing the current status of everything #monogame #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

I'm staying up way too late to work on this kind of thing But I also love how my UI is starting to become more polished so whatever lol #indiedev #monogame #solodev

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

I added bosses to my #fallingblock #indiegame! This one, the gravity boss, causes gravity to change randomly and that only items that change gravity spawn on the board. Also the game gets faster the less health you have now #monogame #solodev

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

My least favorite thing is UI development but that’s what my game needs most right now 🫠

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Watching the Fire Emblem direct yesterday has been dangerous for both my wallet and my falling block puzzle game because I want to make a game with dozens of characters now lol

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

New oc for a little physical card game I'm doing on the side so I don't go insane debugging my main game lol Her name is Dani Saylor, and while she LOVES knives and acrobatics, she promises that she's completely sane*. *Medical professionals have not evaluated or verified this statement.

A colored pencil drawing of a young woman with short green hair, with one large bang covering her right eye. She's wearing a red scarf, a light blue button-up crop top that still has a collar and long sleeves but leaves a little midriff exposed; short brown shorts, fishnet leggings that end just above her knees, and blue stockings that go up to just below her knees. She's wielding two knives and has several others belted at her waist. She's got a friendly smile and is standing at a cliff's edge in front of a bluish gray cloudy sky.

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The game I’m already developing is perfect for the countdown gmtk jam theme lol Guess I jumped the gun by 8 months

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

This isn't what I was hoping for when I updated my game to MonoGame's new Vulkan backend lol Now to figure out what I did wrong...

A triomino on a pink background with an image that isn't properly scaled

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Here’s hoping the brand-new Vulkan backend will make development on Mac/Linux a whole lot easier!

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 15/07/2026

Skyboxes now available ✨ totally free for everyone, for anything (CC0, public domain). Includes 5 skies with instructions on how to use them! kenney.nl/assets/skybo... Please share with your friends 🙇‍♂️

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

this is why you always put in the proper state changes, kids #indiedev #gamedev #monogame #fallingblocks

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Maytch - Memora Wanderer @maytch.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Impromptu Memora Wanderer NPC making time! Post your characters and I'll choose some at random and make them, and they might appear in-game like in towns. Boosts appreciated! Here are some I made previously:

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Kenney @kenney.nl · 05/07/2026

You too can just use my assets. There's no need for permission, or attribution, or payments. It's all public domain! ✨ kenney.nl/assets

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Assets · Kenney

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

I spent a good portion of this week adding sound effects to the game, but I decided last night that I didn't like what I'd selected, so back to square one with that But at least I've been able to add proper input prompts on the play screen now! #indiedev #gamedev #monogame #screenshotsaturday

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Mostly QoL stuff this week: Added a countdown at the start of the game and the omino has the status icon in addition to the border color Bombs were replaced with a generator status to get energy too (main way to get it now) #screenshotsaturday #monogame #indiedev #solodev #fallingblocks #tetris

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

This week for #screenshotsaturday, I changed the default resolution of the game to 1920x1080p, implemented a bag system so that you don't get the same piece 5 times within 7 turns, and fixed the window resizing/scaling code that would mess up the UI #indiedev #madewithmonogame #solodev #gamedev

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

window resizing is a pain windows are panes

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Anyone else out there making a falling block puzzle game for their #indiedev or #gamedev project? ( #fallingblock games include #tetris #puzzleleague and #puyopuyo for those not familiar with the concept)

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

It's been too long since I've shown actual game footage of my four-directional falling block puzzle game, so here you go! #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #madewithmonogame #solodev #fallingblocks #puzzlegame

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

It's been a while (May was rough), but I've still got a lot done since I last posted, including: - A pause menu that's actually centered on the screen - Full-color character art - Little indicators showing you that going that way is bad for your health #gamedev #madewithmonogame #indiedev #solodev

My falling-block puzzle game showing all the updates listed in the post

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

trying left dock panel (task bar) on my Linux machine to help it not feel so much like Windows this'll take some getting used to...

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Had the idea of having the field change when the gravity pulses or when the gravity changes. I'm curious which one y'all prefer (with no field change being a totally acceptable option). This is with gravity pulses (when the gravity forces the omino down) #indiedev #gamedev #madewithmonogame

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Excellent thread. I got my master's degree and game development and never even tried for the industry (it didn't seem like a good fit for me and my family), but the skills I learned there helped me land a job working on a flight simulator that actual pilots use for actual FAA training

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

sometimes you just need some bad programmer art to make progress #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

I haven't posted anything for the past couple of weeks for #screenshotsaturday because I was busy reworking the rendering code to make connected textures and autogenerate the omino shape renders And I am very proud of the result #indiedev #solodev #madewithmonogame (Images are before and after)

The old render system. The old omino pieces are all the same gray squares and you can't tell what pieces were used to cover the orange tiles.

The new render system. The ominoes all have unique colors and a border, making it easy to tell what pieces you've got. The white border will change color to match your current status as well.

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Easily the best phrase I've heard today was "Love your adversaries."

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

My four-directional falling-block puzzle game is really starting to come to life! I added one of the character renders, did some much-needed UI adjustments (overhaul in the works), and solved some bugs with window resizing #screenshotsaturday #MadeWithMonoGame #indiedev #monogame #solodev #gamedev

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

New collection announcement: We're live at GDC... 1989! We've digitized 21 hours of talks from the third ever Computer Game Developers' Conference, now available for free in our digital library 🔊 gamehistory.org/cgdc-1989-ta...

A cassette tape from CGDC 1989 labeled "The Golden Days of Computer Games."

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Finally got around to implementing this todo item from December lol (took maybe an hour at most) (it's the "next omino" display) #indiedev #MadeWithMonoGame #monogame #gamedev #solodev #falling-block

A screenshot covering a portion of my falling block puzzle game's UI. At the top of the UI is a new section with the text "Next" with a plus (aka X) pentomino to the right of it.

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Added an ability for the player to reverse gravity and indicators for the current gravity direction! (The glitch where the direction indicators would stop working under certain conditions is fixed but I didn't have time to get a new vid) #screenshotsaturdy #gamedev #indiedev #monogame #block-puzzle

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 04/03/2026

I'm maybe 90% feature complete on my four-directional falling block game! ...maybe 2% content complete though, at best

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

spent tonight writing a build system for my #monogame project in Python to replace some really wonky shell scripts that weren't flexible at all that'll make getting demos out to my friends/family (aka playtesters) a lot less of a daunting (and intimidating!) task

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

Releasing a new game version - even if it's just an early alpha version - is somehow liberating, even though it's in a really raw state Probably 'cause it lets you shift from "polish polish polish" to "okay, now I can work on that refactor that I've been putting off for forever" #indiedev #gamedev

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

In addition to making cores (red spaces) and pickups expire with time, I made the underlying grid turn red as the core gets closer to expiring! I think it really helps the player be aware of that limit without them darting their eyes over to the (currently) hard-to-see timer. #indiedev #monogame

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Making some good progress in my little falling-block puzzle game: - Window scaling - Better UI - Tons of backend improvements - Soft drops implemented (gotta avoid those RSIs) #gamedev #monogame #indiedev

A still image of my falling-block puzzle game. The user interface has been overhauled and the grid now sits at the center of the screen instead of in the top-left corner.

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

I’m really enjoying drawing this witch #oc! Aurelia’s from the same world as the angels that I’ve posted here in the past

Aurelia, my witch original character, walking through a dark cave. Her wand is raised and lit, casting some shadows

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Greenstack @greenstack.bsky.social · 03/01/2026

A witch #oc I designed yesterday! Right now her name is Aurelia. Very much a WIP #isperi #traditionalart #ink #paper

A witch character with a huge brimmed hat, short hair, exposed midriff, and fairly tattered clothing. She has a stern look in her eye and wields a long, pointed wand. Her left eye is covered by a fringe of hair. The picture is only lineart

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