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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 27/09/2026

This scares me. …And yet, my curiosity grows.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 18/09/2026

Hoping for the best for you! I can’t wait to see mobOS come out \o/ Do take all of the time you need 💜

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 01/09/2026

Good news though, I did manage to get an affordable refurb PC with decent enough specs I can use in the short term. While I figure out what the hell happened later with new parts.

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NGPZ @ngpz.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

UPDATE: my condition is much worse than I thought... last July the docs found pre-cancerous tissue which will burst and KILL me unless I get 3-4 pounds worth of gut removed and replaced with a prosthesis 😖 my surgery is on 9/18 please help 😭🙏🏽 #mutualaid #helpsky #indiedev #disability #cancer

Bottles of surgical prep drink, and right next them, a stoma bag.

The stoma bag is comprised of medical grade plastic with a ring of adhesive on top.

Apparently my choices are either have this attached to my abdomen for the rest of my life, or develop cancer and die.

Needless to say, more devastated and scared than I've ever been.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 31/08/2026

I’ve been cursed to use the Piss PC, by force!

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Kate Gray @hownottodraw.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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Home - Trans Lifeline

A resource for coming out to your friends, family, co-workers, and the online world. Radicalcommunity care Trans Lifeline provides trans peer support for

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 31/08/2026

Welp, main computer is having hardware issues. It’s great I have a spare to use though! I’m just going to be using Linux until I can acquire the parts needed to fix it.

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Chequered Ink @chequered.ink · 25/07/2026

We have literally just gone on image flip and made like 7 of these because we A) need money B) want you to have 1200 fonts for commercial use for just $19 ci.itch.io/all-fonts-pack

The car veering off the highway meme. The left road is AI GENERATED TEXT, the right road is 1200 COOL-ASS FONTS, the car is veering right and has the caption: YOU, I HOPE.

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Hoshino Lina (星乃リナ) 🩵 3D Yuri Wedding prep!!! @lina.yt · 24/07/2026

Looks like Hugging Face scraped ~all of GitHub into an AI training dataset... huggingface.co/spaces/Huggi... There is an opt-out link. You might want to use it.

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Am I in The Stack? - a Hugging Face Space by HuggingFaceCode

Discover amazing ML apps made by the community

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terpatin.bsky.social @terpatin.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

For the Cookbook jam I made ABoxBlur, allowing arbitrary and variable-sized box-blur. I was in speedrun mode as I tried make entry in last two hours 😂 Now afterwards I am fixing bugs and adding new examples itch.io/jam/cookbook... #gamemaker #shaders #foss

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Gleb Tsereteli @glebtsereteli.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Hey #GameMaker devs! I just released a new @gamemaker.io library called Fracture for @tabularelf.com's sixth #gmcookbook jam! Fracture is a free and open-source library for breaking objects into Box2D physics pieces using a variety of shapes and patterns. glebtsereteli.itch.io/fracture

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 19/07/2026

Making lil stream tools is fun! :3 (name pending)

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 18/07/2026

Now what you just need is subway surfers playing somewhere.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 18/07/2026

So, I did a thing. www.tabularelf.com/posts/new-bl...

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Scary Hag @scary-hag.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

me at the club hoping my dancing looks normal

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Gleb Tsereteli @glebtsereteli.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

@dragonitespam.bsky.social, @tabularelf.com, @nkrapivindev.ru and I got to talk about the future of @gamemaker.io with @russellkay.bsky.social for 4 hours(!) today. We covered the recent spring update and other exciting #GameMaker features on the horizon with GMRT. www.youtube.com/live/bnCplHA...

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Screaming About/With GameMaker (2026) - TabularElf, Russell Kay, Gleb Tsereteli, Nik Krapivin

YouTube video by DragoniteSpam

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 14/05/2026

It's the one reason why I think we need to push our voices towards Opera. Opera needs to know what the customers really want.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 14/05/2026

GameMaker is free to use for non-commercial use, so you can always try it out whenever. RPG Maker MV/MZ are pretty decent RPG making software though. They have their own sets of limitations, but it is good if you just want to make an RPG.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 13/05/2026

There’s some misleading and clickbaity wording going on. It’s a single tool that has an MCP api, that you can bring your own AI to interface with projects. It is not installed with the engine. You can 110% not use it and it won’t affect GameMaker. That being said, I’m not happy with Opera at all.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 04/05/2026

In regards to my previous post, here’s that post with GX style released as an early access preview! (This is paywalled) ko-fi.com/Post/Test-A0...

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GX Style library preview

TabularElf added a post for monthly subscribers!

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 04/05/2026

I am making a change to how I release FOSS libraries and tools made for GameMaker. ko-fi.com/Post/Future-...

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Future GameMaker libraires & tools works

TabularElf published a post on Ko-fi

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 03/05/2026

It's a single tool that has optional AI integration, which can also be ignored if you just don't use it. The main engine doesn't even have it. I do get the feeling though, don't get me wrong.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 01/05/2026

AI is a mess and overly glorified, and mostly used by people to drive their greed. I would be shocked if no one was upset about any mention of AI involvement.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 01/05/2026

This is correct, I checked it out. GM-CLI has a hook-in for mcp files, which allows any AI to be hooked in. But all of that is to just allow you to interface with the project itself. You can 100% use it and never once touch the AI aspect... But regardless I don't blame anyone for how they feel.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 17/04/2026

Anything for you Fern :3

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 16/03/2026

Yeah haha. I still use the IDE heavily, cause the work I do requires me to be in the IDE often. On lower end machines I’ll use vscode or GMEdit if I can get away with it.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 16/03/2026

Theres a community guide online that also covers other aspects. (Distrobox will require file and zenity (for gui) as another dependency) www.gamemakerkitchen.com/tutorials/ga... I need to go back and refactor this with other distrobox instructions.

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Linux Woes, and how to remedy them

A guide online to help resolve and work around the various Linux issues with GameMaker

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 16/03/2026

Perhaps you might be experiencing issues due to the distro or missing steps… Despite what the requirements are for GameMaker, some aspects do require some additional dependencies as well. Personally, I’d recommend digging into distrobox and getting GameMaker installed under a Ubuntu image instead.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 16/03/2026

Yeah that is a bit of a problem once you’ve got a low enough resolution monitor. It’s just fucked haha. These days we have options at least, if not GM, other IDEs!

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 16/03/2026

I could believe that. There’s some things that can be done to massively optimise the IDE performance on weaker devices, but I can’t imagine how a laptop from 2014 would fair even with those. 🤔

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 16/03/2026

By my estimate, it should be good enough to do some GameMaker work on it without too many issues. Judging purely based on my 8gb M1 Mac Mini, and how the MacBook Neo is about on par in terms of performance.

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GameMaker @gamemaker.io · 04/03/2026

Following the GameMaker Awards 2025 we are delighted to share a GameMaker Steam showcase and sale 🎉 🔗 store.steampowered.com/curator/3304... Thanks for all the support @akuparagames.bsky.social

Promotional banner for “GameMaker Awards 2025.” A blue gradient background features a central pedestal with a stylized geometric trophy icon above the text “GAMEMAKER AWARDS 2025.” Around the sides are colourful cartoon and pixel-art game characters: on the left, a glowing star character, a muscular hero, a purple ninja-like figure, a woman holding a sci-fi gun, and two retro pixel characters; on the right, a duck, a green-haired villain with a sword, two rock musicians with guitars, and a small blue-haired warrior. A caption below reads, “This third-party event is presented by Akupara Games.”

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 22/02/2026

I forgot to mention, but I have an update. The artist saw it, and proceeded to crept around the source code to add themselves as a character in the VN dev demo. They don’t know GameMaker. Such an easy engine, I swear!

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helloitscrash @helloitscrash.com · 06/02/2026

HOUSE CALL is now available for FREE on Steam. Featuring multi-language support, achievements, and the most up-to-date version of the game. Download now. store.steampowered.com/app/4348980/... #indiedev #gamedev #horror #gamemaker

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HOUSE CALL on Steam

"Something is inside my house."

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 15/02/2026

I cannot answer that. But what I can say is, maybe I'll leave in a dragon somewhere.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 14/02/2026

They are both very new to the world of games development and programming. So naturally a lot of it is spooky! And as I’m working on new features, I needed a good test case. So it comes as two benefits! :)

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 14/02/2026

Did I just really spend the past 3 hours making a multi-chapter live demonstration of how this visual novel engine works, that I've built in GameMaker, just so the writers know how it works? Yes, yes I did.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 06/02/2026

Devastating, my heart goes out to Sandy's family. I am ever grateful for where we have gotten today. Rest in peace.

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TabularElf @tabularelf.com · 02/02/2026

there is a sky and it is blue, did you know?

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