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2/2 I am playing around with #gamedev in #GDevelop again. Game is Tron-inspired. A 2D brawler-style arena disc combat game with some Smash Bros-style mechanics. Meant to be fast-moving and have short rounds, so you can bang out a best-of-five without it overstaying its welcome.

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#LoveMakeShare for May 3, 2026: It’s the start of a new week! What’s on your workbench? 1/? Home repairs are the first priority right now. Last week was kitchen plumbing, today is back fence, rest of the week will be incrementally patching the kitchen ceiling from when we had flooding a while back.

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4/4 (In *other* other news, I cannot believe I forgot to share this here yesterday. My own dang hashtag game! Mastodon is where most of the action is, I am *trying* to use this to use Bluesky a little more regularly. Clearly mixed results so far.)

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3/? Or I would illustrate personal essays on the blog. lovemakeshare.ca/2011/12/17/u... is a beloved example of that. I kind of miss it. I like drawing, a lot. In other news, I'm going to take the kiddos to a local comic book shop and see what the buzz is around Free Comic Book Day!

Universal Cookie Constant - Love Make Share

There’s always a lot of baking that happens during the holiday season. Even I get into it a little bit, although my baking usually consists of churning out several hundred sausage rolls, made in massi...

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2/? A full comic book is a lot, and I am not that good at drawing, and I rarely have ideas that I think would make a better comic than they would a novel or a film script or a video game. I used to draw single-page comics that I called "one-sheets" back in the day...

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#LoveMakeShare for 2026/05/02: It’s Free Comic Book Day! Have you ever written or drawn comics? If not, would you want to? 1/? I took stabs at comics in the past. I love writing and enjoy drawing, particularly in the style of bubbly little "bonhommes" that have become a bit of a signature for me.

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Feeling the #gamedev itch strongly. The problem with being a maker with a lot of interests is there's never enough days in the week to tinker with everything you want to tinker with.

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2/2 I dabble in all sorts of things - but writing is my first love, and 3D printing features in a lot of my projects. Recently, we've gotten into model rocketry, which is a whole other platform for learning and being creative. And I'm getting the gamedev itch again! What about you?

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#LoveMakeShare for 2026-05-01: Tell us about you, and the things you create! Hi everyone! I'm Trevor. I'm a Canadian dad who loves using learning and creativity as a form of play. Play-based and project-based learning are some of my favourite ways to parent, and my favourite ways to learn. 1/2

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

For those of you who like an image version, here you go! Text is linked via the blog post above. #LoveMakeShare

An image of the #LoveMakeShare prompts for May, 2026. Please refer to the blog post linked in the previous post in this thread for a full text version!

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There's no shortage of hustle in #EdTech, AI, platforms, etc. but I'm wondering - is there anything like the edutainment of the 1990s happening in the #software space these days? Is there a modern Learning Company making excellent games teaching core skills? Maybe #EduSky can help me out with this!

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

I love the texture work you did on the hull here. I always loved the geometry of the Oddy in STO, but found the stark white and black to be a little bland. This makes it feel real in a way the game never quite got (at least when I was playing it; might be different now).

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

I've got a little hobby project I made a first prototype for in late 2023, picked it back up last year, and put it back down again for a bit. I guess that counts as ~3 years for a silly little mobile/arcadey thing?

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 15/04/2026

The phrase "the furthest any human has ever been from their dog" struck me to my core in a way I was not expecting from a WeRateDogs post.

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Hmm. My instinct is to say that for a demo, you want to hook people real early, but I also don't know anything about trying to market a game.

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

How intuitive are the core mechanics? If it's easy to pick up and fun from the jump, then diving right in might get people invested right away.

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 14/04/2026

Absolutely - and curiosity, learning as play, the joy of experimentation and discovery. I think that's where you find out what future you want to build with discipline and a growth mindset. Thank you for the kind words!

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Inspired by Artemis II, I decided to build and fly a model rocket with my 6 y/o - and the project really took off! Suddenly, it's not just one kit, it's Kerbal Space Program, IRL edition. youtu.be/jXNIX1ASCQo?... #maker #modelrockets #Artemis2 #space #3Dprinting #parenting #kids #Estes #rockets

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You Should Be Flying Model Rockets.

YouTube video by Love Make Share

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Look, we're all grumpy at Nvidia over DLSS5. But most of the conversation is the same "games as art" or GenAI conversations we've been having for years now. That's fine, but I want you to be mad for bigger reasons, too. lovemakeshare.ca/2026/03/23/n... #gaming #nvidia #dlss5 #AI #blog

Nvidia and DLSS5: Or, We Used to Make Things - Love Make Share

Everyone seems to hate DLSS5 from Nvidia, but I want you to hate it for a reason unrelated to video games.

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Old Nrrd @djnrrd.com · 11/03/2026

“The ships hung in the sky in much the same way that bricks don't.”

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 13/11/2025

Oh, right. Bluesky exists. What's good on here these days?

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 21/09/2025

Live now for more TRONtober goodness! Prototypes, printing, working with EL tape, and much more! twitch.tv/lovemakeshare #Twitch #streamer #3Dprinting #3Ddesign #maker #cosplay #Halloween #TRON #TRONtober

A very glossy render of a very small TRON Legacy-styled identity disc.

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

GREETINGS, PROGRAMS! Live now to keep working on the tiny child's #TRON costume. We'll start with some VERY analogue creativity, then talk rapid prototyping, and then dive into lighting the identity disc. #TRONtober continues! twitch.tv/lovemakeshare #3Dprinting #maker #ScribesAndMakers #Twitch

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Joana Almeida 🧙‍♀️ @sorcerystory.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Now streaming the development of my Colony Sim + RPG game! ⚒️🤖⚔️ Going to make plants spread seeds over time when reaching maturity! May also take the opportunity to add in crops and other plants! 🌳🌱 Come join me! www.twitch.tv/sorcerystory #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

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I watched one #Writing YouTube drama video and suddenly my algorithm is full of the WORST takes. Folks, writers, craft-focused friends: please be a million percent less smug about "writerly" content creators. It doesn't help, and it is just going to hurt new writers. lovemakeshare.ca/2025/07/24/s...

Your smug takes on writing content hurt new writers. Stop it. - Love Make Share

More established writers are creating a hostile environment around entry-level writing content and message boards. And it should stop.

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castpixel ⚧️⚢ @castpixel.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

I. love. designing. game logos. Capturing the soul of a thing, and keeping it captive within a small picture with some type. I just love the problem solving and the beauty of it.

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TL;DR I'm tired of survivors being found to be "not credible" and I think prosecution in these cases need to do a better job of supporting and preparing their clients.

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And if I'm noticing this, while not paying close attention, then I wonder how deep it goes. Are we simply not preparing women appropriately to participate in these cases? It undermines the whole project when survivors aren't supported properly, to say nothing of the damage to them personally.

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

I'll take you at your word on that! I don't know enough about legal precedent to speak to it. I can however think of three high-profile cases about abuse & harassment now where it seems like lawyers from the Crown let their clients take the stand totally unprepared, and it damaged their credibility.

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The Hockey Canada sexual assault verdict today is raising a concern about systemic failures, but not the ones I think you might be thinking about. Does Canada have a serious problem with how Crown prosecutors prepare key witnesses in abuse & harassment cases? Is this an emerging pattern?

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Tomas Sala @falconeerdev.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

Really quite happy with the visual improvements that the latest few patches have brought to #bulwark.

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

What do you mean, sell *products* to *users?* I thought users are what we're selling?

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Aaron Bossig @aaronbossig.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

It’s fascinating how much money there is to be made in the field of making search engines worse

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

The Internet - and my whole digital existence - have felt increasingly hostile lately. #OpenSource has been an antidote to that. So here are some reflections of a #FOSS neophyte, appropriately written on a Microsoft product running #Ubuntu. lovemakeshare.ca/2025/06/16/o... #writing #blog #GDevelop

On Open Source - Love Make Share

With my digital neighbourhood becoming increasingly gentrified and hostile, I'm looking to put down roots elsewhere. I've found a place in open source.

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Me when people suggest I use AI to make writing go faster. No, I promise you it won't. It'll just make me angrier.

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Trevor @lovemakeshare.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Work on my game tonight has been brought to a screeching halt by a fresh new mysterious failure of my #FrameworkLaptop, which I clearly jinxed, because I was just thinking about how nice it is to use and how great it's been working since the new main board installation from the last set of issues.

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Adding some 3D models and swapping between 2D and 3D physics taught me how to activate/deactivate behaviours on the fly, so I can now switch from pathfinding to physics-based movement once the Hunter is near the player. #GDevelop #bHopper #devlog #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #retrogaming

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Thus far, the pathfinding behaviour has been a real barrier to making more quick, responsive, and dynamic movements for the Hunter. In #GDevelop, if an object has both Pathfinding and Physics 2D behaviours, it will simply stop pathfinding. #bHopper #devlog #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #retrogaming

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It legitimately jump-scared me last night while testing - appeared from the side like the raptors in Jurassic Park and annihilated me mid-delivery - but it often gets a stuck trying to pathfind and isn't as aggressive as it could be. #bHopper #devlog #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #retrogaming

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