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AndyMakes

@andymakes.itch.io

I make small projects in a small apartment Friend of Arcade Commons Maker of Particle Mace I make pen plotter art and tweetcarts sometimes Buy my drawings: shop.andymakes.com Play my games: andymakes.itch.io https://andymakes.com/

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I made Moss Moss, a #pico8 game about mossing the world and finding secrets. Hope you enjoy β™₯

noelcody.itch.io/moss-moss

04.03.2026 17:10 πŸ‘ 304 πŸ” 88 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 10
our game typing party at the bar wonderville in brooklyn

our game typing party at the bar wonderville in brooklyn

our game wrapped up for the move

our game wrapped up for the move

Our very old arcade cabinet we made for Typing Party has been at @wonderville.nyc since 2019 but today we just moved it to The Museum of the Moving Image (will be available there later in the month)!

04.03.2026 20:48 πŸ‘ 23 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Saint Elizabeth, by ella guro 10 track album

the day is today, the time is now

my album Saint Elizabeth is out now
ellaguro.bandcamp.com/album/saint-...

27.02.2026 16:07 πŸ‘ 151 πŸ” 76 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 9
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Claims of 40 dead after an Israeli airstrike on a elementary girl’s school in Iran
www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblo...

28.02.2026 11:53 πŸ‘ 2005 πŸ” 940 πŸ’¬ 123 πŸ“Œ 237
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This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

28.02.2026 15:54 πŸ‘ 10273 πŸ” 2809 πŸ’¬ 92 πŸ“Œ 136

the united states government's almost pathological framing of their violence as liberation is so ghoulish. illegal, deadly, evil airstrikes, a senseless war announced in the middle of the night, and still the framing is "liberation". it's sickening

28.02.2026 08:45 πŸ‘ 960 πŸ” 341 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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On the G train

27.02.2026 03:59 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Saint Elizabeth is coming tomorrow...

26.02.2026 17:27 πŸ‘ 21 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online

I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players

ssh snakes.run to join!

26.02.2026 16:10 πŸ‘ 540 πŸ” 180 πŸ’¬ 13 πŸ“Œ 13
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List of Unicode characters - Wikipedia

I am certain I am in the top 0.01% of people who view this page regularly: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I can't get enough.

25.02.2026 19:21 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
video game console with labels done with black distressed plastic label maker

video game console with labels done with black distressed plastic label maker

Did some work on the console too! Love the old label maker that @janelastname.bsky.social bought me. Can't beat that distressed plastic look.

24.02.2026 23:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I'll be bringing Hypnogenesis to the Wonderville playtest tonight if you want to give it a spin (& give some feedback) before @allenriley.com & I take it to the ExGS at @officialgdc.bsky.social next month!

Specifically, we're testing the the first positive element: a little smile that grants health

24.02.2026 23:00 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Throwback Tuesday to when I tried to homebrew an analog arcade stick out of an xbox controller for the original Particle Mace machine.

Spoiler: this does not work because the spring on a thumb stick is not designed for a big lever

24.02.2026 16:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Did an old person scheme last night: brought a little melatonin to the party so I could take it while leaving instead of waiting until I got home.

22.02.2026 20:12 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

most people in my life, if they didn't before, recognize what's happening to trans people. but there is a dedicated war against trans people happening not just on the right wing, but with the pundit class who seem to be getting on board to exterminate us because we're too annoying in their replies

21.02.2026 17:06 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 16 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

I would love that! Any events you're planning to hit up?

20.02.2026 22:33 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

GDC hotel and flight booked!

I have not been in almost 10 years and it will be super weird to be back. GDC is a super weird event!

20.02.2026 22:26 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
Flier for the Nothing Good Can Come of This relaunch at Wonderville, on Saturday, Feb 21st at 6:30pm

Flier for the Nothing Good Can Come of This relaunch at Wonderville, on Saturday, Feb 21st at 6:30pm

The refurbishment of Nothing Good Can Come Of This is complete, thanks to @chriscariot.bsky.social, @alexpanait.bsky.social, @mattfryed.bsky.social and developer Michael Consoli!

Come through @wonderville.nyc on Sat. Feb 21st for a celebration featuring new game modes, tournament, and prizes!

17.02.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 30 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
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Doing some work on the tank boss in Hypnogenesis.

One of the cool things about feedback is figuring out how to let it do the heavy lifting for visuals. I like how the stripe pattern of the death animation plays with the reaction diffusion of this preset.

#gamedev #videofeedback #creativecoding

19.02.2026 18:55 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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VIDEO WAAAVES GETTING STARTED β€” andrei_jay_creative_coding GETTING STARTED WITH THE VIDEO SYNTHESIS ECOSPHERE DESKTOP 0. If this guide and/or these public domain open source video tools are super useful for you, please...

And if you want to mess around with video feedback on your own, Hypnogenesis uses video waaaves by Andrei Jay to emulate the analog video feedback.

It's a very cool tool that you can play with here: andreijaycreativecoding.com/VIDEO-WAAAVE...

18.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

And now I need to sit down and work on this game instead of just excitedly posting about it.

18.02.2026 16:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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If you want to learn a bit more about the game you can check out hypnogenesis.xyz

18.02.2026 16:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exciting news: @allenriley.com and I will be showing Hypnogenesis at the Experimental Games Showcase at @officialgdc.bsky.social

We'll be talking about using video synthesis techniques to make video feedback a core gameplay mechanic.

We'd love to show the game at your GDC party! Drop us a line!

18.02.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 12 πŸ” 6 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
poster for the debut of the doom drop arcade cabinet, happening on march 13th 2026, 7pm at wonderville in brooklyn. the design is two tone black on pink, emulating show posters for metal bands from the 70s. three cultists drawn by chris pickett for the game are featured prominently

poster for the debut of the doom drop arcade cabinet, happening on march 13th 2026, 7pm at wonderville in brooklyn. the design is two tone black on pink, emulating show posters for metal bands from the 70s. three cultists drawn by chris pickett for the game are featured prominently

one month from today

🐐

@dxtr.se @timespace.place

14.02.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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I made a series of cell phone landscape videos processed with the Sandin Image Processor in 2010

12.02.2026 02:28 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hell yeah! It's very good.

And if you finish that and are hungry for something with even more depth, Long War of the Chosen is waiting for you.

11.02.2026 17:58 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Hypnogenesis Hypnogenesis by Allen Riley and Andy Wallace

Here's a site with info about Hypnogenesis, the new psychedelic space shooter that I am making with @andymakes.itch.io. The game uses video feedback as a core gameplay mechanic via Andrei Jay's Video Waaaves library.

www.hypnogenesis.xyz

03.02.2026 01:05 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We got all of our answers! Thank you, folks.

As promised, my camp just donated $500 ($5 per responder) to the Women's Foundation of Minnesota's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.

You can donate too! www.wfmn.org/funds/immigr...

bsky.app/profile/andy...

02.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

We're about halway there! If you want to answer some dumb questions we'll donate $5 to WFM's Immigrant Rapid Response Fund.

bsky.app/profile/andy...

30.01.2026 15:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Working on an attract mode for Hypnogenesis today. I wrote a little AI that does a reasonable job of playing the game. Enough that I can drop it into any room let it do its thing.

Bonus is that the title plays with a lot of the game feedback in a fun way.

[flashing colors]

#gamedev #videofeedback

01.02.2026 05:28 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0