I'm Alice Girard Guittard, Co-Founder of Tsukumogami Software . I write about open source software and indie game development.
In April, the Godot foundation organized a conference close to their home base: GodotCon Amsterdam. It was a good occasion for us to showcase Paradox Tower and get some beta feedback from other developers. Amsterdam North, under the sun Most importantly it was two entire days of talks about game development in Godot. Here are some of the ones I recommend checking out if you are into it. 1000…
In the latest Steam client update, Valve unveiled major changes to its store’s home page. One of the main difference is that the “Popular Upcoming” section, which shows upcoming games now shows a lot fewer titles. This seems to worry indie developers who relied on this section as a major driver of visibility before launch. I personally think this is will not change much to how indie games are…
Lately, I’ve been experimenting with building games in Ebitengine . It’s a 2D engine that lets you create games using the Go programming language. To be able to iterate faster on visual effects, I have created a tool that lets me preview shaders: Luluka . Kage Shaders For those who feel like they missed an episode, shaders are small programs running on the GPU which can be used to modify the…
Godot games are known to be easy to reverse engineer. Simple tools can extract assets and source code from the packaged files. If you are making commercial games you probably want to take some steps to avoid this. Photo by Jorien Loman Godot RE Tools The most popular Godot reverse engineering software is gdsdecomp aka Godot RE Tools. It’s very multi-platform, simple to use, and even comes with a…
Like a lot of people, you may be using Go at work to develop backend applications or create infrastructure tools. But you may not be aware that you can actually make video games in Go using Ebitengine . Photo by gomding Just enough to make games Ebitengine aims at being dead simple. It was explicitly designed to have the most minimalistic API possible and still let people make the games they want.…
Afraid of GitHub suddenly enshittifying their product? The best way to shield yourself from that is to start self-hosting your code repositories. I have been running a self-hosted instance of Gitea for around two months, and so far the process has been pretty close to painless. Photo by Content Pixie Preparing a machine To install Gitea, all you need is a server with 2 GB RAM and 2 CPU cores. The…
Around 2 years ago, I had some time on my hands and got really interested into investing and playing with stock market data. After reading way too many books on the subject, I started building my own tools which led me to creating Itako . It’s a portfolio tracking and data visualization software that lets user journal their stock market transactions, and learn about their portfolio performance and…
Every 6 months or so, I decide to leave my cave and check out what the cool kids are doing with AI. Apparently the latest trend is to use fancy command line tools to write code using LLMs. This is a very nice change, since it suddenly makes AI compatible with my allergy to getting out of the terminal. Me, browsing HN from my cave (by Stable Diffusion) The most popular of these tools seems to be…
Kubernetes is not exactly the most fun piece of technology around. Learning it isn’t easy, and learning the surrounding ecosystem is even harder. Even those who have managed to tame it are still afraid of getting paged by an ETCD cluster corruption, a Kubelet certificate expiration, or the DNS breaking down (and somehow, it’s always the DNS). Photo by Samuel Sianipar If you’re like me, the thought…
In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies. But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts, there’s not a lot of attention given to Discord. I personally have been using Discord so much for so long that the majority of…