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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

The place it is noticeable is when there are transparent gradients overlapping it, which can cause different pixels to jump to the next value in the palette at different times:

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Our game decides what color everything is by dynamically indexing into a palette based on the red-channel at run time, split evenly into 4 segments. I just noticed the colors we use for drawing stuff isn't evenly distributed, which MOST of the time has no impact

An image showing a grayscale gradient, and where the values we use for drawing sprites lie along it.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

a drill item + floaty water in City of None (with @liamberry.ca)

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

this just messed me up for a while because apparently C# record structs will not create an parameterless constructor unless it is explicitly defined and `new Struct()` will be the same as `default`. this is wacky dude

screenshot of the following code:

public readonly record struct PropertiesA(int Weight = 10);

public static void TestA()
{
var x = new PropertiesA();
var y = default(PropertiesA);

// this will print 0, 0
Console.WriteLine($"{x.Weight}, {y.Weight}");
}

public readonly record struct PropertiesB(int Weight = 10)
{
public PropertiesB() : this(10) {}
}

public static void TestB()
{
var x = new PropertiesB();
var y = default(PropertiesB);

// this will print 10, 0
Console.WriteLine($"{x.Weight}, {y.Weight}");
}

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

one of the areas in our game, City of None

screenshot of an area in City of None, viewed from our level editor

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

In Kyoto. Caffeinated. Ready to show City of None later this week!

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Me, jet lagged, waiting for my coffee

Painting of an Ape by Shao Fan, titled "You", 2011, oil on canvas

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Gonna be in Kyoto from May 16 -> 26 showing City of None at Bitsummit! We'll be here:

Bitsummit floor plan showing our booth at 1F-D01

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

We will also be demoing City of None in Kyoto at Bit Summit! Looking forward to being there and showing the game!

Bit Summit event 1F floor plan. City of None will be at booth 1F-D01

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

OK I'm gonna stream some gamedev in about an hour from now (2:30pm PST). I haven't streamed in forever! Gonna be reworking an enemy I don't like. www.twitch.tv/noelfb

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Yeah, Celeste does this (and also has a separate one for Japanese). although it's not that cool looking imo....

Screenshot of Celeste's file-naming screen with an on-screen built-in keyboard

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

apparently Linux hit 11% for English speakers on Steam last month. That's pretty cool, imo! (from www.gamingonlinux.com/steam-tracke...)

Graph of English speaking Linux users on Steam, over time, spiking last month at 11.28%

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Experimenting with the idea of running save files on the title screen for very smooth game-loading ...

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

I got my C# game compiling to android and running on the AYN Thor which is neat. Didn't require any engine changes besides how to load files (also no Audio yet but I assume FMOD has Android binaries)

Picture of the AYN Thor handheld with my game, City of None, running on it

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

unlocking new areas in City of None (with @liamberry.ca)

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

OK I did the creature art today

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

i know everyone is going on about this but i'm watching the digital foundry video on the DLSS5 stuff and they keep going on about how it really understands shadows, meanwhile it's just erasing every shadow and making everything look floaty and blown out.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

experimenting with a new enemy in City of None with @liamberry.ca (haven't done the creature art yet, not sure what it's gonna look like)

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

How are people running Celeste on stuff like the Ayn Thor? I thought it ran an Android OS of some kind, but I see people running Steam games on it?

picture of someone with Celeste installed on their Ayn Thor handheld

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

it's kinda fun zooming all the way out on big screens while editing

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

yeah it's a shader - it's just perlin noise stretched and scrolling, basically. And yeah I don't use resources for this, my little engine hot-reloads the shader so I just mess around with values until I like it. You can use shadertoy online alternatively.

$screenshot of HLSL shader code: float4 fragment_main(VsOutput input) : SV_Target0 { float t = Time * 0.05; float2 uv = input.TexCoord / float2(320, 180); float2 at0 = uv + float2(t, 0); float2 at1 = uv + float2(t, 0 * 0.25); float4 noise0 = Texture.Sample(Sampler, at0 * float2(0.25, 1)); float4 noise1 = Texture.Sample(Sampler, at1 / 5 + float2(cos(noise0.g + t) * 0.2, sin(noise0.b) * 0.1)); float n = noise0.r * noise1.g * 1.8; return lerp(Color1, Color0, step(n, 0.5)); }$ Image of RGB perlin noise

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

literally half the time spent was not realizing this greyed-out field meant that it had "no value assigned" rather than a set value I couldn't edit.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

this took me like 3 hours to make in blender today

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 07/01/2026

good game i just wish the devs had given up the rest of their lives for me to enjoy this a little more 😔😔

Negative steam review "Very good game with its own unique mechanics and spin on the Metroidvania genre. The grapple dash feels insanely good. However the game is pretty short and feels kind of Early Accessy as in there would be so much more potential for this game. I just wish the devs took 2 or 3 more years to really develop their idea and really maximize what this game could've been."

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 06/01/2026

still not even 4% but this trend is really cool (from www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/valv...)

graph showing linux use on Steam from 2018 (0.7%) to 2026 (3.6%)

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

just let me request a window position, wayland. 99.99% of people are not using their desktop ui in a 3d virtual VR space, and now my normal desktop app can't position itself like it can on win/mac/x11 lol

https://wayland-book.com/xdg-shell-in-depth/interactive.html

"However, a deliberate design trait of Wayland makes application windows ignorant of their exact placement on screen or relative to other windows. This decision affords Wayland compositors a greater deal of flexibility — windows could be shown in several places at once, arranged in the 3D space of a VR scene, or presented in any other novel way. Wayland is designed to be generic and widely applicable to many devices and form factors."

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

pretending to know how to do lighting

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

still pretending to make a 3d game

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

pretending i know how to make a 3d game

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

hmm maybe a 3d platformer with a palette shader?

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

maybe a 3d platformer? (model is modified from: kenney.nl/assets/mini-...)

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Melbourne was really cool! Awesome city, lovely people, hope to visit again some day. Next time I wanna see more outside the city on a longer trip

A picture of some of melbourne's city line, from a hill somewhere

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

genuinely, who cares? public services aren't businesses. it provides services that should be accessible to the entire population. it should not be expected to make that profitable. www.cbc.ca/news/politic...

screenshot from the article: "Canada Post is now facing an existential crisis," Government Transformation, Public Works and Procurement Minister Joël Lightbound said in a statement on Thursday. "Since 2018, the corporation has accumulated more than $5 billion in losses. In 2024 alone, it lost over $1 billion, and in 2025, it is already on track to lose close to $1.5 billion."

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

I'm not gonna have time to make anything with this but I started on a tiny interactive web thing for Vancouver Game Garden using @pietepiet.com's art and LDtk (arrow keys): vangamegarden.com/events/02/ga...

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

here's a pixelated 3d spinning heart I made for a thing today

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

(if you are at all interested in doing this the csproj property is called DocumentationFIle:)

csproj xml showing properties to generate documentation files

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

A C# thing I really like for custom editors is that you can automatically generate xml from your comments, and then load those at runtime and display them using reflection. So now code-comments are also editor docs/information:

An image showing C# comments, followed by generated XML, followed by a screenshot of a level editor presenting those comments.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Am I a speedrunner now? (skipping stuff in the new DK game... but then not following through because I assume I need some kinda power up for this wind stuff)

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 24/07/2025

basically making a circa 2009 flash game (w/ @maddymakesgames.com)

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

this is going to be the sequel to celeste

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

trying to make something small in javascript and this language is so stupid lol. just trying to parse a json file, apparently "import" is the easiest way now. except it's so janky!

screenshot of the following code:

// this doesn't work for "reasons"
import data from './levels.ldtk';

// everywhere online says you need to assert the type
// except, wait! this doesn't work in browsers anymore?
import data from './levels.ldtk' assert { type: 'json' };

// it's been changed to "with" for whatever reason, OK.. fine..
// except, wait! this still doesn't work and fails to load?
import data from './levels.ldtk' with { type: 'json' };

// oh it needs to have a .json ext EVEN THOUGH i tell its type
// this one works
import data from './levels.json' with { type: 'json' };

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

yeah... this one would just keep adding to the circle but it becomes unwieldy past about 12 items.

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

experimenting with a radial menu 🤔 (among other things, in City of None with @liamberry.ca)

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

I just use C# for 95% of the game - hot reload and compile times being basically 0 in C# means it's very easy to iterate fast. However, I do have a light node system I made for cutscenes, because it's convenient for one-off little events

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Noel Berry @noelfb.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

we custom code a lot of cutscenes because with C# hot reload it's faster and easier, so these are more for one-off little events. The bigger cutscenes still use the same system, but they just end up being a singular custom node haha

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