JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 12/10/2026I have once again crawled into the innards of Pixelbox to tinker with a feature I probably don't strictly need, and is definitely under the category of "tinkering around the edges when I should be doing more important stuff" - I can now recolour sprites on the fly though! 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 05/10/2026Finally made enough changes to Spinny Wizard Game to push out a new build for the demo! I've written a probably slightly too long dev log about what I've added! Spinny Wizard Game Demo v0.9.3 jhax.itch.io/spinny-wizar...jhax.itch.ioSpinny Wizard Game Demo v0.9.3Hello! It's now been a while since I first released the demo of Spinny Wizard Game to itch, so what's been going on since then? Mostly, I have been on holiday and therefore not spending a lot of time.... 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 24/08/2026I have broken the path finding and fixed it again (ish) Seems to be getting a bit overeager with anticlockwise turns - you can see the debug dots sort of "dragging" a bit when one of the red shades walks to the bottom edge Anyway here's some of it in action because it looks kind of cool to me :P 110
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 24/08/2026As a treat for finally releasing my demo (cough cough jhax.itch.io/spinny-wizar...) I'm allowing myself to do some esoteric code reworking on the enemy behaviour 020
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Spinny Wizard Game Demo is now out there in the world! Very exciting albeit somewhat arbitrary milestone I set for myself! jhax.itch.io/spinny-wizar...jhax.itch.ioSpinny Wizard Game - Demo by jhaxPonder the orb, ponder the orbit 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 03/08/2026"Remember young wizard, never try to move up while trying to cast any spell, lest you destroy the fabric of reality" "Wait what do you mean by 'up'?" 010
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Why does my game keep crashing to the point it closes the whole tab it's running in? A. Seems like unusual crash behaviour from Chrome... B. Only seems to be happening when holding ctrl to cast a spell... C. Hey I wonder if there's a keyboard shortcut to close the current tab... 010
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 03/08/2026Uploading builds / testing things for the Spinny Wizard Game Demo releasing later this week! 110
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 05/07/2026Finally docked my Steamdeck onto the TV again and I'm having a lovely chilled out afternoon playing Tomba and Spyro like it's still the early 2000s 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 04/07/2026The constant battle to finish making Spinny Wizard Game #indiedev 040
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 29/06/2026"Alright, I've ironed out most of the kinks with introducing more keyboard control schemes" ... "hmm." 110
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 01/06/2026Most recent chunk of Spinny Wizard Game development is trying to add in some quality of life improvements for playing without a gamepads Getting weirdly hyped up for figuring out a split keyboard mapping so 2 people can play without any extra doodads Feel like it's going to get weird XD 010
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 24/05/2026Celebrating the bank holiday by doing an extremely normal walk to a pub 110
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 21/05/2026Great day at #Impact 2026 today helping out with the Bristol Indie Developers Playtest Party table! Started the day quite a sleepy boy and have now progressed to my final form of World's Sleepiest Boy 020
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 20/05/2026Frustrating to have introduced a couple of music cue bugs in the version of Spinny Wizard Game just before Impact! 2026 I'm making the real big brain move of bringing a monitor with no speakers #WorkSmarterNotHarder 000
Reposted by JHaxCat Manning @catacalypto.bsky.social · 15/05/2026doing game dev sometimes feels like a constant succession of “step 2: draw the rest of the owl” 1848269
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 14/05/2026"I hope this e-mail finds you well" - you fool, receiving an e-mail has made me unwell 010
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Every day he wakes up he's presented with 3 options for marginal changes 010
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Lunch, followed by long meeting, followed by a little break to recover from long meeting is a tough thing to rally from to actually finish a day of work 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 11/05/2026Working towards something! Very unfocused mix of Game Dev disciplines today, but this is one of the things I've come up with... #indiedev 071
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Honestly thought I was past my Against The Storm obsession last year but it has fully pulled me back in over the last few weeks Lovely to play a game that feels like it was almost specifically made for me personally XD 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Had absolutely no chance of grabbing a Steam Controller given I have no idea what American time zones are and I refuse to look it up 000
Reposted by JHaxOlly @fishernaut.games · 30/04/2026So this has been a long time coming... Cards on the Table is officially announced! If you like pokery deckbuilders, wishlist now! store.steampowered.com/app/4409550/...store.steampowered.comCards On The Table on SteamA roguelike deckbuilding poker game where the cards are magic. Put down huge poker hands and use the power of the cards to ruin your opponents’ game plan. Pile your chips, stack your deck and put your... 3127
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I have now had some sleep Here is my newest game! jhax.itch.io/cleared-to-l... I still haven't totally got the hang of Godot's UI system (although I think I'm getting there!)jhax.itch.ioCleared To Land by jhaxPlay in your browser 010
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 21/04/2026That's an absolute dream of a jam comment! My game's here jhax.itch.io/cleared-to-l... - cheers! (and the jam submission here ldjam.com/events/ludum...)jhax.itch.ioCleared To Land by jhaxPlay in your browser 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 21/04/2026Hey, just played this! Works well, although I'm well off any kind of high score 😅 Is there an Ludum Dare page for rating it? 100
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 21/04/2026I have jammed a game I will post about it some more when I've had some sleep #ldjam 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Day 1 of #ldjam down! I've mostly spent it trying to figure out how to land a plane And the much harder task of getting a passable UI together 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 18/04/2026Getting LD59 kicked off Already a classic JHax game (Yes, I am egotistical enough to decide that rotations are unique and special to games I make) 010
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 17/04/2026Coming to the unfortunate conclusion that prototyping one of my Next Game ideas is probably slightly beyond the scope of what's doable in a Ludum Dare on the off chance the theme is one I could just about twist to fit it 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 16/04/2026When I first heard the term I assumed it was just doing code for fun without like too much of a preset design to kind of feel out what's possible and it's always seemed a real shame that's not what it means 020
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 16/04/2026Sorry folks aren't reacting well! Not sure how much of an impact it'll have but for what it's worth - I think giving people a 3 year heads up to figure out what comes next is a good way to approach things, and I've really appreciated all you've done to support #LDJam since I've started doing it! 100
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The move might be to trick myself into designing a game that I could do in PixelBox then at the last minute make it in Godot instead (In this context, that last minute will need to last approximately 72 hours) 110
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 14/04/2026The power of PixelBox for jams is that I'm very well used to it's limitations and I mostly know how to work around them when it's a bit too limiting Whereas Godot has a bit more of a "you can do anything in this* **" *if you know how ** and you're not trying to learn how to do it in a weekend 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Currently feeling like my great internal PixelBox vs. Godot conflict for the upcoming #ldjam is probably going to come down to something daft like "am I going to want to make a game where the camera can move in more than 1 axis at a time" 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 31/03/2026Hey cool, there's a Spinny Wizard Game reference in Baldur's Gate 3 000
JHax @jhax.bsky.social · 30/03/2026Finally stumbled on a bug in Spinny Wizard Game that has been causing mysterious crashes for about a year where I can see what's going on enough to fix it! 000