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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

Recently submitted Crystal Survivor to the GameDev.tv Jam 2026 🔮 Theme was Connections, so I built a survivor-like where every ability is one. Pick 4 of 6 abilities, find the synergies, survive 10 minutes. ▶ snowfrog.itch.io/crystal-surv...

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

Finally making the UI feel juicy 🤤 WIP title screen + lobby for my upcoming web game – now with animation, music & SFX! What do you think? UI/UX feedback very welcome 👀 #gamedev #indiedev #webgamedev #FeedbackFriday #UI #UXDesign

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 28/11/2025

Some fresh Fossil Rush UI work: updated title screen, new lobby, and gameplay layout. Lots left to polish, but it’s coming together! #gamedev #indiedev #webgamedev

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Early title screen for Fossil Rush 🦴⛏️ A multiplayer push-your-luck web game in the spirit of Incan Gold. Still super WIP! #gamedev #indiedev #webgamedev

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

If AI wipes out entry/mid-level creative work, who’ll invest years mastering a craft? We risk a generation losing connection to art—not by choice, but by design. If we don’t act with intention now, we may not like the culture we wake up in 10 years.

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

"If you outsource your creative work to a computer, you are not a creative. Someone who merely churns out product is not an artist – they are a salesperson. The artist is the person who makes, not who has made." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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AI promises to free up time. But what if it spares us from learning, writing, painting and exploring the world? | Joseph Earp

If I reduced my existence to a series of ChatGPT prompts, the act of my living is only shorter – not better

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

My first complete game where I've made all of the art and music. Yeah, it's a Flappy Bird clone, but still feels like a milestone for me. First crappy game down... many more to go. 😁 snowfrog.itch.io/looney-bird

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Looney Bird by Snowfrog

A Looney Tunes inspired Flappy Bird clone

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Like, what's the point of painstakingly learning or building anything if in 2 years from now some 12 year old living in a cave somewhere can put me out of business by simply prompting Grok to "build and deploy a clone of Phil's project but make it slightly better and cheaper".

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

Am I the only one who feels a little like just going into hibernation while the world is done figuring out if AI is mostly 🐂💩 or if it's actually going to get rid of 70% of jobs and put us all on universal income?

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ardalis (Steve Smith) @ardalis.com · 18/01/2025

Most of your app’s cross cutting concerns should be policies. What’s a policy?

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Jeff Valore @codingwithspike.bsky.social · 01/01/2025

New blog post; Pointing out the things I've come to really love about JS/TS over the years. "JavaScript/TypeScript is actually really good" codingwithspike.wordpress.com/2025/01/01/j...

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JavaScript/TypeScript is actually really good

Stop listening to those who say you can’t write good code in JavaScript. Let’s look at Javascript and TypeScript in a positive way instead, because JS/TS is actually really good!

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

A garden? A bouquet? A bunch? A bundle? A fagot? A bed? An arrangement?

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Writing tests first... when it makes sense to do so.

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WeAreDotnet @wearedotnet.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Hey bluesky 👋 You can use this place to share your repos, blog posts and videos that you want to promote. It's all about #dotnet 🙌

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Back in the 90s and 00s, you could always name a few AAA studios in their prime who you’d say were the elite developers that you'd be lucky to work with. At various times Blizzard, DICE, Naughty Dog, Bungie, Valve, etc. Who is that today? Does any such company exist any more? If not, why not?

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

In general, the genres I listen to the most tend to be hard rock, metal, punk, grunge... that sort of thing. But while coding I usually find myself listening to new retro wave. I really like a band called "Gunship". I know, it's weird.

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Philippe Vaillancourt @snowfrogdev.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Trying to make a little roguelite hack n' slash for @github.com's #GameOff 2024. Never realized how much more complicated melee combat is to implement compared to projectiles. I'm drowning in hurtboxes, hitboxes and state transitions. 🎯 #gamedev #gamejam

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