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Written by Markus Latvala on 2025-01-30 at 19:22

Testing out different yoyos. The special ones are a bit cumbersome by design to keep the basic yoyo relevant. The wind yoyo is still missing a full screen wind effect, but I guess the others are pretty much done now.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2025-01-27 at 20:38

Iterating on the special yoyos.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2025-01-27 at 07:31

Short and sweet. What are your favorite games that only took a few hours to finish? Infinitely replayable games don't count for obvious reason.

Here are some of my favs in no particular order:

Tacoma

Elechead

Observation

The Turing test

Stray

Gato roboto

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2025-01-26 at 19:28

Finally made big ice blocks destroyable. While at it, I also added some fire to the fire yoyo.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2025-01-17 at 19:12

It's a fancy new tower crane! L2 is now more or less done so I guess it's time to start working on L3, the park.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2025-01-11 at 21:35

The Henry Cavill of bots.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2025-01-10 at 09:17

The tram finally reached our suburban neighborhood this week. It's like I'm living in an actual city all of the sudden! 🤩

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-12-14 at 10:59

Yo, fediverse!

I can't afford* the $99 Apple dev license anymore, so this month will probably be your last chance to buy and download my iOS games. Get them while you can! Boosts are very much appreciated.

🌟⛳ Little Comet

https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/little-comet/id1445869212

🍇🍊 Bungee Spider

https://apps.apple.com/fi/app/bungee-spider/id1497258440

) My sales have been down to around $20 for the last two years, so I'm basically paying for nothing these days.

[#]ios #appstore #games #lastchance #indiedev #familyfriendly

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-12-13 at 08:28

Zomg, look what I found! I was only 16 when I released the game on THE national computer mag BBS.

This glorious 256 color MCGA game was written in Turbo Pascal and I never figured out how to do raw keyboard input, so the controls were a bit cumbersome; keys for starting running and a separate key for stopping. There's also no double buffering, so you can see some flickering when the sprites draw their background.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6rxFeMiNbI

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-12-05 at 21:07

The math frogs were totally out of control, so I put them through a rigorous training programme. They now follow a polyline path, jumping from a point to another.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-12-01 at 19:03

Hi, all you lovely Fediverse peeps! My older games are currently on sale on Steam, so drag your butt to the store and go check them out. Maybe they're something you might enjoy.

https://store.steampowered.com/developer/outgunned

[#]gamedev #indiedev #AutumnSale #steam

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-11-29 at 07:31

AmigoTracker 1.26 contains lots of fixes and improvements, so make sure you update to the latest and greatest.

Enjoy your retro tunes! I'm going back to coding frogs now...

https://outgunned.itch.io/amigo-tracker

[#]playdate #gamedev #amiga #trackermusic

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-11-25 at 19:08

Thanks to their superior math skills, these frogs never jump over the edge.

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-11-22 at 06:30

What! Another update?

After a lot of trial and error, looping samples now work a lot better. To demonstrate here's a cool chiptune that really pushes my player to the limits. Not quite ModPlug Tracker smooth, but pretty decent considering the lower bitrate and lack of proper mixing.

Song: shoob2000 - downhill (cs127 remix)

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-11-21 at 18:31

Oh man, this song had so many things that I hadn't implemented properly... Fortunately I managed to fix them all and you can now listen to this banger with the version 1.22!

dubmood - the clairvoyant

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Written by Markus Latvala on 2024-11-20 at 15:45

How much chiptunes would a chipmunk... tune...?

Thanks to super-secret government technology arpeggios no longer sound like nails on a chalkboard in AmigoTracker 1.21! I also managed to squeeze some extra performance out of the resampler, allowing a 2x output sample rate within tolerable loading times.

The song is 4mat's amazing "back again".

https://outgunned.itch.io/amigo-tracker

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