iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

Tim Romero @timromero.games · 30/08/2026

Started learning Godot Engine a couple weeks ago so I could make something I'm calling "Chunk Companion." When it's working it'll be a little web-based polycube solver to accompany my magnet fidget toy (stickychunks.fun/real/). It'll help you find cool shapes to build! #godot #gamedev

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 05/07/2026

LA in twilight on July 4

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 04/07/2026

here's that same sequence but without subtracting nonpolar light

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 04/07/2026

An experiment with polarized light. I took a series of photos at different polarizing filter angles, took the minimum colors, and subtracted that from the polarized filter photos to produce a sequence containing only polarized light by removing the nonpolar light. #photography

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 07/04/2026

It worked. I’m finally free.

YouTube screenshot. Selected tab is “your custom Home.“ text box is filled in with the prompt “Don't show me any videos, shorts, posts, polls, or games.” Below that is the message:
“We've removed some videos from your feed.” Followed by nothing else. Just empty space. I can stop watching now.

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 18/12/2025

The next step in the enshittification of @bsky.app

“Find your friends. Bluesky is more fun with friends. Import your contacts to see who’s already here.”

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 26/11/2025

I reached the true ending of Kirby Air Riders. The true ending is a fantastic spectacle! Recommended. Clearing on the highest difficulty, “super hard,” didn’t feel essential to me. I suggest skipping it and playing on Hard at most unless you’re really interested in challenge runs.

Kirby Air Riders screenshot. “New Game+ Super Hard Cleared!” Level 454, with 214 challenges cleared, 62 thousand miles earned, and 81 losses. Playing as Taranza, a cute yet creepy anthropomorphic spider with floating hands.

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 07/11/2025

@chevyray.dev ikenfell is responsible for my 15th-phattest session of all my Switch games, with 12h12m played in a single day, out of 2719 sessions

Spreadsheet of Nintendo Switch games sorted by number of minutes played in a day. The highest is Zelda Breath of the Wild with 955 minutes on March 5, 2017.

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 21/09/2025

i still need to add more levels but that hasn't stopped me from adding speedrunning features to my #FallingBlockJam game "Chunkster" in the stupidest example of scope creep yet

the list of level titles, with a few stats about number of restarts, moves, clear time, and number of levels skipped. The level titles are:
Push, Unshelve, Climbing Gym, Icy Ladder, Hiding Spot, "Here I Come!", and The Twins

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 20/09/2025

will i regret further-complicating my already-complicated #FallingBlockJam game at the last minute by adding pushable stackable blocks? time will tell

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 19/09/2025

With good logging it was so easy to find out what move was taken and why, making squashing bugs super easy and satisfying! check log, go to line number. Add a rule, move a rule up or down, or add a Solid or Empty condition. Setting up the line number logging early paid off.

Code detailing block rotation offsets and conditions, alongside logging referencing the line numbers of that code

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 19/09/2025

level design happening in a folder of tiny pngs

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 19/09/2025

The rotation system for the F Pentomino in my #FallingBlockJam game "Chunkster" took almost two full days to really nail down. it has 104 rules!

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 17/09/2025

1st image is the specs it took for me to get a Domino rolling around and doing kicks and tucks… F Pentomino (2nd image) is proving to be quite the bear. was not ready for how many extra rules come from having chunks roll along the ground when spun. __LINE__ macros + log spam help me debug odd cases.

a lot of lines specifying offsets and rules for orientations and directions of rotation

waaay more lines specifying offsets and rules for orientations and directions of rotation and comments trying to remind me what each rule is for

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 16/09/2025

Chunk rotation system and a little obstacle course for a domino! Next is working out the rotation rules for a more complicated shape #FallingBlockJam

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 16/09/2025

Basic movement and gravity working! rotation still clips through stuff for now. rotation will be the hard part to totally nail down #FallingBlockJam

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 13/09/2025

Imagining an alternate version of the Tetris rotation system where rotating blocks causes them to walk along the ground. Call it “paper” prototyping for my #fallingblockjam video game. The magnet chunks are my own design and you can buy them from my website :)

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 11/08/2025

you can kinda see some of them in this photo I took of the 2024 total eclipse such as the little white loop near the bottom of the moon

Total solar eclipse. A disc of black radiates a stringy white glow into a black void. Small wisps of white (the prominences) around parts of the edges of the disc radiate purplish light that flares into the center of the disc

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 01/08/2025

No cheating post your Lock Screen Photo by me of magnet toys I made bsky.app/profile/bria...

Lock Screen image: bright colorful interlocking geometric shapes arranged in a dense pattern. They’re a magnetic fidget toy I designed!

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 19/07/2025

Finally some good news. Bluesky revived the previously-removed UI quirk where the profile picture nests perfectly underneath the up arrow button. They were misaligned for months.

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 24/06/2025

Environmental storytelling

The pristine floor in front of a women’s room door

The floor in front of a men’s room door. The floor is darker in the spot where people stand to open the door, and is cracked.

The floor in front of a men’s room door. The floor is darker in the spot where people stand to open the door.

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 28/05/2025

WIFES OVERLOAD. BALL CAPTURED. 🚨 Hit the ramps to break out of jail together!! 🚨

Overly-busy monochrome pinball machine dot matrix display animation: A slot machine spins and reveals a message "TOWN SQUARE MADNESS - All targets 350,000 - Bumpers Increase Value; GUMBALL LOADED - 15 million points" etc.

Found via image search, source: https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/twilight-zone-pinball-display/

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 19/05/2025

Oh no I have the app and PWA both installed and I can’t tell them apart

Screenshot of iOS app switcher displaying two identical Puzzmo windows

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 28/04/2025

The pinks are quite faded and there are holes in the collar but I still wear it regularly

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 23/03/2025

I hung out with my best friend! We watched some old anime on DVD. Made this painfully spicy Buldak ramen and suffered through eating it while watching Hot Ones. Then we played video games for a while.

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 11/12/2024

Environmental storytelling

A pair of baby shoes set carefully side by side on the sidewalk

A piece of notebook paper on the mulch wedged inside a pair of glasses and held down from blowing away by a stone. The paper says “Find me” handwritten in pen.

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Tim Romero @timromero.games · 06/11/2024

In trying times, do what you can to change what you can

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