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Music Weeklies Theme: Very Merry Unbirthday -- more at: https://brandonmakesthings.itch.io

I think my track for the first MuWee birthday celebration was the one I had the most fun making. It was a silly piece that I made almost entirely with my mouth and post-processing. 😅 soundcloud.com/brandon-writ...

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Ha thanks! I learned a lot while making this one. I'd have to dig out the files, but I'm pretty sure the main "synth" is me saying "beep boop" into a distortion effect then played as a resynthesis wave table in FL Studio's Harmor with some more effects / ADSR filters on top.

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Wild that it has been 10 years! Congrats to the team on the milestone!

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Music Weeklies Theme: Very Merry Unbirthday -- more at: https://brandonmakesthings.itch.io

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Des Walsh @deswalsh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

You want to be anti ai? Then support people working without it, share their efforts and help them get seen and let them know you enjoy their efforts.

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 09/09/2026

The patch notes of champions. "The Sun" Congrats on 10 years!

brandon @threadsmind.com · 23/08/2026

That is a solid fire pit.

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 15/08/2026

I need a little diversion so I'm joining in the second fishing game jam (a little late). I'm hopig to prototype a little idea I've been bouncing around in the background recently. Some vibes, some magic??, and LOTS of fishing.

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 14/08/2026

The majority of my itch games are bitsy projects of various sizes. It is wonderful seeing bitsy turn 10 and bittersweet seeing the jams come to an end. Thanks for the lovely tool and ten years of jams!

brandon @threadsmind.com · 31/07/2026

The amount of times I use, "it's imperative that you understand" specifically in reference to this song is higher than most people would expect.

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 04/07/2026

Same here in southern Indiana. A welcome surprise.

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Video Game History Foundation @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Statement from VGHF director Frank Cifaldi on the discontinuation of physical PlayStation media, and the closure of the PS3 and PSP digital storefronts.

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 02/07/2026

So glad to have my "long minutes" back!

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 25/06/2026

I was raised on these streets

A first person view from behind the wheel of a car in the 1997 classic video game Lego Island. Two lego hands grip the steering wheel. The car is driving down a road facing an ocean with cliffs to both the left and the right. The road Ts ahead. A small peninsula is visible in the distance.

Sean Dick | Puppy Truck Demo Out On Steam @seandick.net · 23/06/2026

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the secret to lighting interiors well in games is that it just sucks but you definitely have to do it

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Rami Ismail (رامي) @ramiismail.com · 17/06/2026

"Game dev is one of those jobs you only do when you really want to. It's not going to make your parents proud, you're unlikely to get rich in an industry that lays off people for making superhits, and its a demanding & confrontative job. Why would you let a machine do the thing you're here to do?"

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 04/12/2025

I'm glad folks are still finding the Bitsy Cheatsheet useful after all of this time. It is regularly one of my top viewed pages on Itch. brandonmakesthings.itch.io/bitsy-cheats...

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Bitsy Cheatsheet by Brandon Thread

bitsy variables and dialog reference & mini tutorial

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 12/05/2026

Studying for my AP captcha exams

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 22/04/2026

Side note, I'm glad I'm not the only one who leaves his tracks and patterns mostly unnamed 😅

brandon @threadsmind.com · 22/04/2026

Great work! I love that bassline.

OST Composing Jam @ostcompjam.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

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Introducing: OST Composing Jam: Overtime: You have a month to make an hour of soundtrack. This jam is an built for those of you who love going all in, and we're encouraging collaboration to bring together cohesive, complete soundtracks. 📆 Starts May. 🎼 Join below. itch.io/jam/ost-comp...

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OST Composing Jam: Overtime

A game jam from 2026-05-01 to 2026-06-01 hosted by Lone Rabbit. You have a month to make an hour of soundtrack. Up for the challenge? Welcome aboard. INTRODUCTION OST Composing Jam is back with anothe...

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 09/04/2026

The extra space for array properties in the editor is a very close second. 🙏 The Godot contributors are knocking these QoL features out of the park recently.

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 09/04/2026

Praise be! And all hail max width properties! Seriously, supporting Steam Deck up through ultrawides in UI heavy games was rough previously. This feature will save a lot of time. Looking forward to 4.7! #Godot

A screenshot of the changeover of Godot 4.7 snapshot 4. The text says "GUI: Add custom maximum size propery to Control".

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 03/04/2026

This was a fun one! Thank you for running this jam. One can never have too many fishing-adjacent games 😅

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 02/04/2026

Tired: 🪱 Wired: 🍔

brandon @threadsmind.com · 02/04/2026

Shout out to @kenney.nl for the delicious burger model!

brandon @threadsmind.com · 02/04/2026

My week has been more busy than I'd hoped, but I'm making some decent progress on this jam game. I got some jiggly burger physics implemented on "fishing" bait. #GoneFishingGameJam

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 30/03/2026

Just spent more time than I'd like to admit debugging why my Godot game would not close properly. Turns out there's currently a bug with accessing lambdas in static methods or autoloads. The one time I break my "no lambdas" rule... 🙃

brandon @threadsmind.com · 27/03/2026

Ok, got it solved. Sky mode in DirectionalLight3D set to anything other than "Light Only" seems to break lighting. Mipmaps of any sort break textures (at least when using nearest sampling).

A side-by-side comparison of two screenshots from a placeholder game level. The left screenshot is labeled "WEB" and the right one is labeled "DESKTOP". The lighting and general color is very similar between the two, with the left shot having slightly more saturated colors.

Both screenshots depict green and yellow saturated landmasses with a collection of three tall skinny trees in center frame and part of a small floating platform to frame right. A player hotbar is displayed with 9 item slots. Only the 3rd slot contains an item icon.

brandon @threadsmind.com · 27/03/2026

It's built in the compatibility renderer so I guess I'm struggling with why the web build looks so much worse than the in-editor and desktop builds (which look the same). As far as I can tell I'm not using any web-incompatible world environment or camera settings features. 🙃

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 27/03/2026

Tried a web build of a little side project in Godot 4 and... yikes. I know web builds get more eyes/plays on itch, but this would probably drive more people away than it would attract.

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 26/03/2026

Class names in the remote scene inspector is 👨‍🍳👌 Massive QoL for larger projects.

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brandon @threadsmind.com · 20/03/2026

It really is interesting! It's always good to talk to folks from all over for exactly this reason. And that comic was excellent 😆