GBGames 🍊

Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Universal Mac Builds and CMake | GBGames

Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Universal Mac Builds and CMake www.gbgames.com/2026/03/09/f...

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #PixelArt

Thumbnail from NASA's YouTube channel for live video from the ISS that shows only 92 people watching.

We can see live footage from space, and it seems wrong that almost no one in the world is watching.

🤌

How about these?

They've been on my whiteboard ever since I decided to do a 10-year anniversary update for my game.

No ICE in Minnesota bundle on itch.io

There are nine days left to go in this amazing bundle deal featuring 1,400+ games, tools, books, comics, and soundtracks.

It just made it past $600,000.

Let's see if we can get it to $750,000!

gbgamesllc.itch.io/toytles-leaf...

#NoICE #Game #IndieGame

I don't know if this is the best analogy, but I do really appreciate this analogy.

I really enjoyed Finna. Work can be absurd.

Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Automating New Releases | GBGames

Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Automating New Releases www.gbgames.com/2026/02/23/f...

#GameDev #IndieDev #SoloDev #PixelArt

A week ago, it blew past its goal of $100,000 for the month within a couple of days.

Now this bundle (I'm proud to say that Toytles: Leaf Raking is in it) is nearing its revised $500,000 goal.

And there is still most of the month to go!

Ooh, that's now on my TBR...

Refactoring is about changing the structure without changing the behavior, and it is hard to guarantee the latter without automated behavior-validating tests.

Without such tests, you are just changing code. Calling it refactoring is just making it sound safer than it actually is.

Often I hear the word "refactor" and almost always have to do some mental corrections because the speaker almost always means "changing code" and usually without the safety net of unit tests.

I was going to say it didn't have enough legs, but now I realize that's not sparks of electricity coming out of the screen.

I spelled WHOOPS wrong.

In the early 2000s, I remember Audio Lunchbox (started selling DRM-free music, and I think they provided .ogg files to boot.

I purchased some music from Hey Mercedes. I still have it in my collection. Just popped up, and I still enjoy it.

Random is a perfectly fine algorithm.

It's over $89,000 now. Wow!

itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Get Toytles: Leaf Raking and Fight Authoritarianism at the Same Time | GBGames

Get Toytles: Leaf Raking and Fight Authoritarianism at the Same Time

As of this posting, this bundle has raised over $67,000 for the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

www.gbgames.com/2026/02/10/g...

#Games #IndieGame #NoIce #ICEOut

You can get my leaf-raking business strategy game Toytles: Leaf Raking and over 1,400 other games, tools, books, comics, and soundtracks in the No Ice in Minnesota Bundle today, and you'll support a community under occupation by an unaccountable, authoritarian force.

#NoIce #IceOut

Thanks! I remember sharing it on Twitter (I think all of my posts are gone. I don't know. I don't check), and it got picked up here, which has the file uploaded if you want your own:
www.wcnews.com/chatzone/thr...

graphic that says no ice in Minnesota itch.io charity bundle

The No ICE in Minnesota Charity Bundle has officially LAUNCHED!

There are 1,439 games to discover for a $10+ donation to Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota!

Purchase the bundle here: itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Trying to Make Release a Non-Event | GBGames

Freshly Squeezed Progress Report: Trying to Make Release a Non-Event www.gbgames.com/2026/02/09/f...

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #SoloDev #PixelArt

The Tiger's Claw from Wing Commander is my first love. I cobbled together this from the first game's manual and framed it for my wall.

A small framed poster I put together of the Tiger's Claw, based on the manual from the game Wing Commander.

The Tiger's Claw from Wing Commander is my first love. I cobbled together this from the first game's manual and framed it for my wall.

Bad Bunny with a number 64 jersey

Bad Bunny with an exceptional choice of jersey number

I hear that. Like when I considered getting a custom wall calendar with all birthdays and important dates preprinted, and then decided against it because each time I manually fill in the calendar, I am feeling the texture of the coming month. "Oh, my anniversary is coming up! Better make plans."

Sneak peek at my piece for the Tim Curry pop up art show at First Sip Cafe in Uptown. Tonight! Go grab some fun drinks, buy some cool art and hang out with some cool artists!

Folks, you really gotta move your newsletters off Substack

The olympics should have an indie game jam competition

I'm tired of manually grabbing metrics from App Store Connect and Google Play.

I've done API/JWT stuff for the day job in C#/python/Javascript, but my home computers are mainly setup for C++ dev. I could setup Node or Python, but there would be onboarding...

I'm going to write a C++ app. Stop me.