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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

A perfectly placed pixel can make all the difference sometimes 👩‍⚖️😳🥷🔮

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tommulgrew.itch.io @tommulgrew.itch.io · 26/09/2026

A little #pico8 rally driving game for the #pico1k comp. tommulgrew.itch.io/drive-1k

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Dungeonbuster @dungeonbuster.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The Elder Scrolls Travels: Shadowkey (2004) | action RPG | N-Gage | Vir2L Studios Nokia's N-Gage got a taste of Bethesda's Elder Scrolls taking place before Arena during the final years of Jagar Tharn's masquerade as Tamriel's emperor with a pocket-sized chapter of first-person adventure!

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

One aspect regarding choice of dev-tools that I've thought about a lot is how much the estimated efforts are to keep an application in a working condition 10 years or more from now. They are of course only estimates, but depending on factors can be more or less qualified.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Lufia 2 is one of my favourite games for the SNES! The Ancient Cave mini-game is basically the first roguelike I ever played. Wouldn’t mind some adjustments for the first game though, like the encounter rate.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

More balancing and scenarios! About half of all planned scripted content done. #screenshotsaturday #coilbound #coilboundgame #indiegame

A screenshot of the game Coilbound where A shady dude with green face wants to be given something called a Darksource.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I try to use Windows as little as possible, but still have it for making builds / platform testing. It's kind of terrible that it won't allow me to turn it off without installing updates (which will risk breaking my build system). Patiently waiting for that year of the Linux Desktop..

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Today I put in a solid 6h gameplay testing session of Coilbound and I can definitely say I felt the hook. The main thing dragging it down was food shortages, so that will be ajusted. Kind of amazed though, and very happy that time just disappeared while playing 👌

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

More scenario making, I had a lot of fun with this one. ⭐️ if you can spot the reference. #screenshotsaturday #coilbound #coilboundgame #indiegame #turnbased #mysterydungeon

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

I had a lot of fun with the original version, nice to see that it might reach a new audience. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NZVQ...

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Dragon Quest Heroes: Torneko‘s Mystery Dungeon -Classic HD- | Release Trailer

YouTube video by Square Enix Asia

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Badger Punch Games @badgerpunch.com · 10/09/2026

TODAY’S THE DAY! Roguecraft DX is officially launching on Steam TODAY! The dungeon of Mordecoom awaits. The monsters are hungry. The potions are questionable. 7:30 AM EST 2:30 PM CEST 5:30 AM PDT Wishlist it now and join us on launch day! thalamus.link/roguecraft #Roguelike #PixelArt #Steam

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Having recently replayed Dark Souls 1 and started DS 3, I was reminded that the parry-mechanic in the latter is so bad that it's basically broken. The reason for this change seems to have been PvP balancing which is fair, but too bad PvE got dragged down with it.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Having played a few split-screen games recently, I realised how awesome it’d be if Fromsoft had incorporated it in Elden Ring, or any of their games.

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Andreas @anpd.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

The game is coming together. Almost feature complete. Added some new enemies like the Skeleton Wizard that swaps position with the player if it brings him closer to a monster. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #ゲーム制作

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

About a year ago I played the demo for Destiny Spire which is now releasing in 6 days!

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

This week I worked on the first major custom scripted event that will complement the procedurally generated content. #screenshotsaturday #indiegame #coilbound

Screenshot from the game Coilbound where a desperate man called Barum might attempt to use the Demon Reactor

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erdbeerscherge @erdbeerscherge.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

The game has released! #ruinsOfCalaworm is a lovingly rework from an obscure early 90s German Dungeon Crawler. Think #roguelike but earlier: no ranged, no builds, few stats, deceptively simple. Just You and then Dungeon, bumping into Witches and Eldritch Horrors. --> Get it on @itch.io (Link in Bio)

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Ashley @ashleysays.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Chefs kiss

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The most interesting thing about the Terranigma announcement is to see how large the variation of expectations are. Both from the viewpoint of devs and players. I played it back in the 90's and enjoyed it a lot, but I can also say that it has some room for improvement, especially its later half.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

I started playing Shining Force II yesterday, and initial reaction is that they have managed to smooth out a lot of jank that the original had, and it generally feels a lot more snappy. Also nice to see some item management QoL features, though in-game item descriptions are still sorely missed..

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Development of Coilbound is back on track after summer break! I wrote down a few thoughts here along with this weeks changelog store.steampowered.com/news/app/448... #coilbound #indiegame #mysterydungeon

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Coilbound - Devlog: Week 34 - Steam News

Back from summer break, private test recap, plan forward

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Murlin @murlin.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Gamer picking up a guitar for the first time: I can't immediately play the song I want to. This instrument does not respect the player's time

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I completed Shining Force tonight, such a great game despite a bit of jank and missing QoL features. I first tried it 30 years ago but took a while until I got hooked 😅. Looking forward to try the sequel, but might check out some other old SRPGs before that.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Summer break is over, and work will now continue on this game. I was frankly quite spent after pushing for months, but after letting it rest for a while it felt surprisingly fresh picking it up again.

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Brianna Townsend @brianna.town · 04/08/2025

Chronicles IV: Ebonheim is a classic dungeon-crawling CRPG with a non-procedural world, nuanced character building, and brutal, turn-based tactical combat. Wishlist today at store.steampowered.com/app/3919080/... #indiegames #sologamedev #ultima #roguelike #gamedev

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Played some more Shining Force on MegaDrive and it’s really nice once you get the hang of it. The brutal input lag and cumbersome inventory management could’ve been improved a bit though. The graphics and music are very charming. Best game so far on the platform. #shiningforce #minireview

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

An interesting talk about Lua, what its focus is and how it fits into the software ecosystem youtu.be/jCZnFKk6M9A?...

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Creator of Lua: What People Get Wrong About Scripting Languages | Roberto Ierusalimschy

YouTube video by Ryan Peterman

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davemakes🔶 @mixolumia.com · 10/07/2026

everybody warns you about programming in C like it's gonna be so complicated but it's dead simple. C lets you do anything however you wanna do it. C rolls up on a mini bike, gives you a drag off his cigarette and asks if you wanna throw bricks at an abandoned house

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Tried out Tracktion's Waveform Free (www.tracktion.com/products/wav...) for the purpose of midi sequencing and it seems to have an ok enough piano roll UI. I used Plogue sforzando plugin for SF2 soundbank support and finally export to midi. Overall a pretty nice feature-set for a free version.

Waveform Free UI showing piano roll and soundfont player plugin

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Tyler Glaiel @tylerglaiel.com · 23/07/2026

I screenshotted this comment from around when Mew released and I still think its one of the funniest responses we got to the game

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

Too bad there is no low-spec Mac Mini available. Fanless, SSD and no built-in battery could give it a really long lifespan. Especially if it would be easy to install Linux on it as Apple won’t support it with OS updates indefinitely.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Booted up my old PS3, found the PSX version of FF3 on it and gave it a spin. As always appalled by the severe load times in the transitions in this version, even though it’s entirely loaded from disk! Why couldn’t they have optimised it better?

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I peered into the abyss that creating midi files from code consists of and decided that it will be for another time.. #audiodev

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A bit surprised that there is no longer a default way of previewing midi files from Finder on mac, even VLC and Quicktime just croaks. Not super keen on installing and launching Garageband every time I want to do a quick preview 🤔

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Coding a scripting runtime is a pretty straightforward thing in theory, but kind of insane in practice when you first try it out. The complexity mainly lies in that any valid variation of content needs to be handled appropriately, including memory handling and optimization etc.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I've been sick since middle of June in various forms of summer colds so I've put high prio work on hold for the time being, though I'm slowly tinkering away with some language design stuff with the energy I have left.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

With every bad thing happening in the industry right now, I get an increasing urge to just revert back to cheap second-hand hardware going forward, both for dev and leisure and turn my back entirely to money-grubbing big corp.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

No idea is too stupid to try if it tickles your fancy #gamedev

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Apparently, everyone is making sokoban games now, but I already had my fill with this one.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

I've spent the last 20 years developing software, but there are still an unlimited amount of interesting project one could dive into. Feels comforting in a way.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I made my first arena allocator implementation today; Cleanup will be super easy, and reuse pools will keep allocs at a reasonable level. However, no detection of memory issues will be possible within an arena segment, so I'll add a switch to override usage to regular alloc for testing.

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

What’s the unlikeliest application you could add gamepad support for?

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Harry Lundström @lundstroem.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

It's been over a decade since I made irrigator for PICO-8. How time flies! www.lexaloffle.com/bbs/?tid=2817 #pico-8 #pico8 #indiegame #fantasyconsole

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irrigator

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