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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 29/08/2026

Some early animation for one of my creatures. Still rough, but not too bad. But I’ve got a good pipeline setup in Houdini to rig these 2D characters from my artist now. #playdate #veros #indiegame #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 02/06/2026

What playtime would you look for on a narrative game for #playdate? 2 hours? 4 hours? Longer? #indiegame #indiedev #verosgame

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 01/06/2026

You can render the room twice! Render with your lighting pass (sky visible etc), then set viewport to transparent, no sky visible, transparent mode enabled in render settings, and render it out again, and use the resulting alpha channel.

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 01/06/2026

So I have pre-baked bitmaps, black base, white pixels. I have 5 flicker variants of these (each have a different radius, and I cycle through them every ~0.1s), drawn in BlackTransparent mode (avoids paying alpha mask cost). (I actually have 4 sizes of these, so ~20 bitmaps total)

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 01/06/2026

Are you using lua or C? I do a similar dither lighting effect (in C) and it gets pretty good performance.

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 30/05/2026

That’s awesome! I also have a Godot to Playdate pipeline, it really works so well. Looking forward to seeing what you’re building

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 23/05/2026

Menus! Non capybara test geometry enemy sprite sheets! #playdate #indiedev #indiegame #verosgame

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 20/05/2026

Melee class’ crank mechanic charges a damage boost. You get more segments (and thus more damage) as you level. Also spent a long time tracking down some performance issues, drawRotatedBitmap is way more costly than it should be…. #playdate #indiedev #indiegame

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 19/05/2026

Melee class, damage numbers, revised hud, it’s really fun to play…. #playdate #indiegame #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 16/05/2026

The Resonance Shrine, an area where you can upgrade your skills, save your game and more. Still a work in progress but I’m liking the effect of getting into it. #playdate #indiedev #indiegame

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 04/05/2026

Working on a little game for my #playdate Just an arpg set in the same universe as my Godot game. I’m liking how it is looking. #indiedev #indiegame

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 15/01/2026

I’m planning on writing up a blog post on it! I’ll also release the shaders for free for anyone to look at.

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 13/01/2026

Been working on #Houdini / #godotengine integrations. The Houdini Engine integration is supporting marshalling geo in/out and most params. Here I got VATs working for rigid body, soft body, and fluids. #indiegame #gamedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 27/12/2025

One of my favorite games.

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 25/10/2025

Terrain scattering in Godot Engine. Started on my custom terrain streaming system, chunks the world into cells, and can dynamically load as the player traverses. Additionally points are baked per cell and async load in nodes/scenes/instances. #indiedev #indiegame #godot #godotengine

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 11/10/2025

Yay! Been waiting for a while, so excited to play, just wishlisted

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 09/10/2025

Decided to move from Unreal to Godot, starting to get pieces together. (Bad Idle animation makes her sink, but I’ve fixed that already)

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 23/06/2025

I think I spent more time writing my code generation tool, then I’ll save by having it generate my serialization logic…

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 23/06/2025

Sure, write my own game editor, that won’t take forever at all…. #play date #indiedev #indiegame

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 26/05/2025

It was absolutely incredible.

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 17/05/2025

Decided to take a break from working on my Unreal game to make an engine and game for my #playdate Really enjoying it, and also glad playdate-cpp exists.

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 10/04/2025

Seriously consider switching to Arc, it’s automatic tab cleanup is the best feature ever.

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 14/03/2025

He was just overjoyed at his new skateboard

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 27/02/2025

How do other #indiedev split their time between story development, modeling, animation, and programming? I have so much to do, and so little time

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 25/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 20: Broken Age #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 25/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 19: Final Fantasy XVI #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 23/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 18: Stray #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 22/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 17: Kings Quest V #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 21/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 16: Wolfenstein 3D #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 20/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 15: Alan Wake #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 19/02/2025

At least 3 or 4 times a day I think to myself, should I just re-do my project in Godot instead of Unreal? #indiedev #indiegames

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 19/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 14: Loom #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 18/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 13: Celeste #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 17/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 12: Child of Light #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 16/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 11: Returnal #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 16/02/2025

Seriously one of my most favorite games!

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 15/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 10: Primordia #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 14/02/2025

Takes all my will not to balloon the scope for my game… not it does need to genre shift mid game…

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 14/02/2025

The challenge is to choose 20 games that greatly influenced you. One game per day, for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, no particular order. Day 9: Tearaway: Unfolded #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #indiedev

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Michael Kramer @siosphere.com · 13/02/2025

Yeah the atmosphere is so unique! It's amazing what they were able to portray with such minimalistic shapes/colors/textures.

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