iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

🌎Album announcement🌍 My new album, World’s Away, an experiment in ambience and escapism, is coming out June 22nd, one month from today. More info soon

An image of a hand in the grass holding a small, putty model of the Earth, with the handwritten words “World’s Away” overlayed

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

Reading How A Game Lives by @jacobgeller.com (VERY good book btw) and had to laugh at this line by Blake Hester ( @metallicaisrad.bsky.social ), while reading a book I had my library order for me. Libraries rule!

Text from How A Game Lives by Jacob Geller. Words spoken by Blake Hester in a conversation between Jacob and Blake: “…Don’t buy it. Go to your library, come on. Save yourself the money.”

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

It took me like 3 hours to make this. We are so back lol #PlayDateDev

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

My new EP is out now!!! I hope you’ll give Where My Heart and Feet Take Me a listen :) Streaming link in bio. Also on Bandcamp!

Picture of me standing on the stairs at Twin Peaks, San Francisco, facing the sundown

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

I put out a new song today! And I have a new EP coming out on October 21st! Links below

Image of my walking on the sidewalk, but the house in the background appears to be slanted at an angle.

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

Just published a new Playdate game (for free) on itch.io! meteors is a simple arcade game about shooting meteors developed for Playdate. It's inspired by Asteroids and was my attempt at learning the mechanics of Playdate game development in Lua. Find it here: swansonge.itch.io/meteors

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

Finished up the code I created some simple art for when people load the game onto their Playdate. I’m hoping to publish Meteors to itch.io within the next week!

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Had a lot of fun making these gang vocals. I tried playing 10 different characters from different points in the room to make it sound like a big group of people and not just copies of myself.

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

Coded in a simple title screen animation. Honestly I think the game is pretty much code-complete, so I just have to work on some packaging touches before publishing the game.

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Localization is now dynamic!

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Added Japanese localization! Translated it myself so it’s not perfect. がんばった😅 Next step is to implement a way to update the text after unpausing.

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

See if you can parse every take playing at once to hear what the new song actually sounds like lol

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Added sound effects Combining my hobbies of music production and game development has been fun :)

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Wrote some music for my game-in-progress. I’m probably putting in too much effort for what should be an exercise in learning Lua for Playdate lol

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Added a simple menu with to turn on/off crank controls. Trying to be more conscious of building in accessibility options early.

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

Added a simple game over screen with a restart option so the gameplay loop is closed! (Still lots to work on though)

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 25/04/2025

Lots of progress on my Asteroids-like! - made the asteroids bounce off each other instead of overlap - added a simple title screen with a transition

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 15/04/2025

Making some progress on my Asteroids clone. The asteroids now split into smaller objects and I added a display for score. The smaller asteroids are worth more!

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

Created a system for randomly spawning “meteors”

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Double dev update for today! Figured out how to make the player character shoot bullets at the proper angle

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

Only took me 3 hours to figure out how to rotate a triangle using the Playdate crank

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

Made a simple Playdate game in Lua using a tutorial from @squidgoddev.bsky.social . This is my first time using Lua and I’m excited to get back into game dev!

GIF of a simple game for the Playdate console. Shows a capybara sprite dodging rocks

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

So cool to see Date Nite in print! Looking forward to reading this cover-to-cover 💛 @uncrankdpd.bsky.social

Picture of Uncrank’d magazine with a column featuring the game Date Nite on the right side of the page

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Just a heads up, I increased the price on itch.io to $1 to match the price on Catalog

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Unwrapping the game on the device

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

View of the game on the Playdate website play.date/games/date-n...

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Date Nite is officially out in @play.date ‘s Catalog!! So happy I can share my little game with a bigger audience :) 💛

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 03/02/2025

Date Nite launches on the @play.date Catalog tomorrow!

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

Date Nite is on @play.date Catalog in 3 days! Here’s some assets by @sine-creates-art.bsky.social that will be used on the Catalog store!

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 28/01/2025

Date Nite is coming to the @play.date Catalog on February 4th!! It was a year-long labor of love and I’m so happy the folks @panic.com liked my game enough to include it 💛 Big thanks to @sine-creates-art.bsky.social for doing an awesome job creating the key art!

A little blob person with stick feet has theee red hearts above their head. Next to them are two roses being smelled by 2 bumblebees. The flight trail of one be is making a heart to its lower-right. In the top right is a chick holding a rose in its mouth.

A little blob person with stick feet has three red hearts above their head. The flight trail of one bee is making a heart above the person’s head while the bee flies to the right . In the top right is a chick holding a rose in its mouth. The words “Date Nite” are spelled out with the dot in the “i” replaced by a red heart.

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 02/01/2025

It’s 2025, so it’s time to drop my top 10 games of 2024

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

We raised $100 for the Alameda County Food Bank over the past week!! Thank you to everyone who bought Date Nite and contributed a donation ❤️

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Swansonge @swansonge.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

Introductory post for people stumbling across my profile: Hi, I’m Swansonge! I’m an indie music producer and game developer. This year I released a bedroom pop EP called “A Room Gone By” and a short little adventure game for Playdate called Date Nite. You can find more info at the link in my bio!

A man in a white sheet ghost costume stands in a closet in between hung-up clothes

Date Nite title screen. The home screen of the Playdate console transitions to a splash screen with a pixel swan and the name “Swansonge” then transitions to the title screen for the game Date Nite.

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