Michael (Mixel) Dawes

Mixel’s Scorpion Corner Welcome to my Scorpion Engine pages. I’m trying to document as much as I can about SE and add any tips and tricks I find along the way. Here you’ll find tutorials and any other resource…

Ever wanted to make an #Amiga game in Scorpion Engine? This could be a good place to start: mixelslab.com/scorpion/ - it won’t appear new to readers of Zzap Amiga, but I’ve expanded on it and built a section for more tutorials and deep dives.

My Stream Deck is having a seizure. 😵‍💫

Nicely done.

Oh that IS nice! I got myself a Christmas keyboard too but it hasn’t arrived yet. 😕

But that makes the n64 retro but the 3DO, CDi, CD32 (all older than the n64) and then Saturn and PS1 (contemporaneous with the N64) all somehow not retro?

I really liked this one! Damn that’s a long time ago, no idea what happened to my copy.

Headline "Jonathan Blow interview- the father of indie gaming on video games in 2525 AD"

Okay please let's not call him that

Indie Retro News: Christmas Me Out - A Special XMAS demo for the Commodore Amiga by Mixel's Lab www.indieretronews.com/2025/12/chri... #retrogaming #gaming #games

The only surefire way to stop oligarchs buying up the things we love is to drop those things the moment oligarchs buy them & that requires changing habits and massive self-discipline.
It means going to alternatives that might not be quite as good or convenient.
It’s really hard. But there it is.

This whole thing seems so bizarre, from eurogamer’s review there’s nothing *that* subversive and certainly nothing illegal to have represented..

Is it just that they know tabloids (etc) are going to go crazy about it and they’re worried payment processors will be pressured to drop them?

cartoon of a cute little monkey using a saw to cut off a tree branch that it is standing on. The monkey is saying "Wow technology is amazing"

artists and designers using ai like

They also don’t understand how much of the finished art comes from the process of making it. They think the initial “vision” is the magic, and the rest is donkey work. But you learned more about your creation by drawing (painting / sculpting / writing / coding) it. It’s a conversation and a journey.

Showed my dad my Miyoo Mini.
He instantly got interested asking if it got Amiga, C64, CPC, all the old PCs and consoles he had.
"yuh, got all of them"
"man technogy isn't all bad, huh"

The GENUINE smile on his face, love to see it.

Godzilla has no fucking idea how to load that paper and is begging you for help.

Everyone ten years ago when The Force Awakens came out: “Wow, this is dumb. Why are the fascists just doing the exact same plan again?”

Everyone now: “Oh.”

the idea that lots of gamedevs are secretly using ai is booster bullshit

what on earth would I use genAI tools for? Coming up with ideas? Writing? It’s shit at those

making 3D models? Coding stuff? It’s shit at that too

oh but it’s faster maybe? Did I mention it’s shit at things?

seems important

I seem to remember whole congressional hearings about the terrible destructive force that is violence in video games and yet, there is a very strange quiet about an unregulated technology that coaches people to suicide.

Space for a 4th project? 😅

Pixelart of an Asian Tiger Mosquito up close, with all the white stripes you'd expect from a "tiger", and all the little hairs, legs and mouth appendages you'd expect from a mosquito

I don't think I've actually posted this one on its own, a travesty

Asian Tiger Mosquito

#pixelart #украрт

Awesome, thank you, and good luck! It’s slightly evil in parts. 😅

Really pretty!

LS-6? I don’t know what that is; As a Leeds person I was thinking… “A Headingley joystick?” 😅

EVIL EGG is OUT NOW and FREE FOREVER on Steam and Itch. infinite twin-stick paradise, no strings attached. it's not your fault you were born a monster.

download on steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3651950/...

other links below
#gaming #indiegame #indie
🥚👽👾🍄

Thanks! 😊Going to take a while to finish, but it’s still my main project!

Well this is very nice. Thank you @alexfalcone.bsky.social

Ahaha! I’ve never seen any in person. Thankfully. 😅

I have no idea what that is, but it looks more like an AI hallucination than a food. 😵‍💫

Demo 2! Swamps and saws? Hey everyone! Off the back of Amiga 40 Germany (which was amazing!), and just in time for Halloween - here's another demo of Creeping Me Out! It's a shorter demo than the first one but still has a goo...

Happy to finally be able to release CMO demo 2.. It’s way shorter than the first one, but has much harder levels. #amiga #gamedev

Baron Von Blubba from Bubble Bobble

Ok so I have a proposal for how to fix the problem in baseball

Domesticated animals have pulled our heavy carts and turned our large mills for centuries. But what about the opposite end of the spectrum—what if the wheel you want to turn is so small you can’t see it?

Turns out we can harness the power of bacteria to power the world’s smallest machines.

1/7 ⚛️🧪

Disgusting on so many levels.

I’d been blissfully ignorant of this.. I guess grokipedia is just their alternative facts, fash-friendly Wikipedia equivalent since they couldn’t control the messaging on Wikipedia?