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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 17h

This weekend I am prototyping some more alignment options for Marble Game as per a wonderful suggestion from @piranjade.bsky.social . It works best if I tie this into the snap joint system... but I half-assed that one. So before this all works I gotta full-ass it.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I feel like sinning. I may open a bag of potato chips/crisps.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I am really tempted to start an Open Source project again and put it on GitHub... just so I can tell all those Claude Co-Authors to go fuck themselves once they reach out to me.

8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I'm almost at the end of the main story of #xenoblade 1 Switch 2 Edition. Been really enjoying it and for grinding materials and side quests, the ether jets have been useful. Future Connected soon!!! Soon as I trash some lvl99 monsters that is. (cont'd)

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Just can't get #Xenoblade out of my head. Excited for Genesis. I wish tho Monolith would leave the new games independent in terms of continuity. But after they tried their hardest to tie and retcon all previous games together with multiverse shenanigans, I suppose they can't help themselves.

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Nintendeal @nintendeal.com · 01/10/2026

I still think back fondly to that moment in time when the #Xenoblade fandom lost its marbles over a fuckin radio. This is the only game series I am invested in enough to keep up with things so I can laugh along. According to @piranjade.bsky.social , it's clear that I'm a big fan.

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Gerudo Fortress in Zelda Ocarina of Time on Switch 2

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I'd be mad that the delivery date of the physical version of the Switch 2 Edition Xenoblade 2 has been delayed by a week. But since I decided to replay Xenoblade 1 where I now have about a week worth of playtime left, that's actually perfect.

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New Month, new quarter. It's book keeping day. I keep all my books in the cabinets I also use for DVDs. Since most books I buy are soft covers, they fit perfectly. For some reason my accountant was very confused.

8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In case you missed it: I published a new devlog! :)

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I stopped paying attention to most decomp/recomp projects. If done with an llm, my assumption is that - at worst - the code is an unmaintainable mess or - at best - nobody involved knows how anything works.

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A human-led decomp/recomp project is a labor of love by people who have to overcome technical challenges to make something special. It is to be lauded. An AI-led decomp/recomp project is labor of nothing by nobody who didn't have to anything except buy tokens. It is to be ignored and ridiculed

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In my rage against the machine that eats my job and turns it into slop, I'm much more motivated to make my own game something special. So I did a massive overhaul of my game's HUD. Cleaner structure, self-managing components with animations and sfx and good lord do I love coding. <3 #godotengine

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

[devlog_02: UI renovation] is now live! Patreon: www.patreon.com/memoriesin8b... Ko-Fi: ko-fi.com/post/devlog0... All posts are free for everyone. All I'd like is to let me know what you think and only give support if you want to. :) #gamedev #godotengine

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devlog_02: UI Renovation | Memories in 8Bit

It’s been almost a month since the launch of my Patreon and KoFi pages, so I thought it would be a good time for a new devlog! And what bett

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

!!! #Xenoblade 1 late game spoilers !!! Now if you pause at second 28 of the video, you can see Melia's heart break into a billion pieces.

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Triple-Q @triple-q.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

"oh man these decompilations of Ocarina of Time, Monster Hunter 3 and Rave Racer look great I wonder who the developers are"

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SEGA SATURN, SHIRO! @segasaturnshiro.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Is there any harm in using AI to work on — or entirely create — projects for the Sega Saturn and elsewhere in the retro gaming scene? Yes, PandaMonium says in this opinion column, equating such work to digital asbestos: www.segasaturnshiro.com/2026/09/24/c... #sega #saturn #segasaturn #retrogaming

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Column: All A.I. Projects Are Digital Asbestos

The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of all SHIRO! Media Group contributors. The cost of modern day video game consoles and personal computers have skyrocketed…

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

I played #Xenoblade for the first time almost 15 years ago and many times since. Still, on my current playthrough, hitting the scene where Dunban reunites with [SPOILER], I start crying. That's why I don't need a 3 hour essay why this game is great. It can still make me cry. That's all I need.

8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Reading this Reddit thread is the most dystopian thing I read all day and in the year of our lord 2026, that's saying something.

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hellojed @hellojed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

It's really funny how AI will give you 5x velocity but make everyone miserable www.reddit.com/r/gamedev/co...

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I don't care much that the Switch is a portable. But I just had a random power outage and hadn't saved in Xenoblade 1 for... ~3, 4 hours. Last Autosave was probably no less than an hour back, but I still I was shocked. Until I suddenly heard the game music coming from the console itself.

8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I'm continually pondering new career paths. While working on my own game is fun, it's not sustainable and working with other studios, bubbles bursting or not, clankers like Claude are up to replace me or - at best - kill what makes this job fun to me. And I don't want to hate making games.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Me imitating Leonard McCoy's voice (badly): "I'm a gamedev, not a slop prompt writer!"

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

That Saturday Morning Marble Game lacks traditional resolution options will likely confuse people. "But I see it in the screenshot" - yep. That's just for Window mode, tho. In fullscreen, the game runs on native resolution. If you gotta reduce that for performance, Render Scale is your friend.

A screenshot showing the settings menu of Saturday Moring Marble Game

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Me: Next time I want to make a more simple game. My brain: A game where you clean earth's orbit of billionaire space agency debris by burning up in atmosphere using correct angle for mass which will be satisfying to watch while also managing budget and... Me: fuck

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Making Marble Game ready for the PSX port. Kidding. But I wish...

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People coding with AI be like: "I still make ALL the decisions, know the whole code, skipping no steps but I am still 50 times faster." Yeah sure keep telling yourself that.

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With Saturday Morning Marble Game's UI renovation 95% completed, I feel I am finally allowed to enjoy the weekend - play some games, watch Columbo and listen to Podcasts. #godotengine #screenshotsaturday

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I dunno why it's such a big deal that Valve is "working hard" to get an Nvidia driver working for SteamOS because I assumed SteamOS is just Linux and I've been running an Nvidia driver on that for the past 22 years and at this point I think I just don't wanna know the answer.

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You can do a lot of real cool shit with style boxes and nested containers in #godotengine even if you're like me and you don't really know what you're doing.

Ho boy I didn't even realize it's 3:30am already. Spent tinkering with my game's UI all night and I am so happy with it right now. Only a few little details left. But those can wait till after sleep. :)

8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

My UI overhaul is making great progress. Only a few elements are missing now. Dropdown popups (as seen in the video) being one of them. But all in all I am already extremely happy. the UI finally looks more as I wanted it. #godotengine

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What I always hated about "Check Buttons" is how ambiguous they can be. Esp without indicative colors. So I'm trying my own version with icons. I am not sure if I like how it looks, but at least they're clear! Not sure tho if I should go with checkmark or circle for "active" state. #godotengine

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Had a relatively free day today, so I did a ton of chores that won't haunt me on the weekend and that makes me happy. And sometimes I need just that.

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I thought I was bad when it comes to rambling. But I just tried to watch a (~45 min) video about Retcons in Xenoblade. 12 min in and there wasn't a single retcon. And I really had a hard time to follow. They just kept talking in one long incredibly unbroken sentence moving from topic to topic...

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8Bit @memoriesin8bit.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Dragonball: You need at least 50 years to master the Kamehameha Dragonball Z Super DX Broly Ultra 69 Definitive Edition (and Knuckles): I have 3 days to learn how to learn this technique that was used to kill the big bang or something.