VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. Mudborne - A casual nature management sim about discovering & breeding frogs

   2025-05-16
   frog game-engine/love2d genetics indie programming/lua puzzle

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   • Mudborne Postmortem
   • ellraiser/love-build - Cross-platform builder to export LÖVE games to Windows, MacOS, and Linux
2. The new reading stack

   2025-05-10
   book indie library network/activitypub personal-knowledge programming/html self-hosting web/syndication

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   • Owning my reading log
   • Indie Bookshelves
   • BookWyrm - Social Reading and Reviewing
   • Indieweb - Personal Library
     • 2022/Pop-ups/Personal Libraries
   • Microformats
     • h-cite - format for publishing citations and references to online and other publications
     • h-entry - format for content intended to be syndicated on the web
     • h-review - format for publishing reviews on the web

   Book metadata sources:

   • Bookbrainz
   • Open Library by the Internet Archive
3. My Favorite Tools + Techniques for Procedural Gamedev

   2024-11-22
   game graphics/2d graphics/3d image/texture indie procedural-generation

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   • Implementing Depth Pre-Pass Optimization for Three.JS
4. Image Dithering - Create the illusion of color depth in images on systems with a limited color palette

   2024-11-18
   color/palette game image/2d image/compression image/dithering image/noise indie programming/go programming/roff

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   • Re: Return of the Obra Dinn [GDC 2016 Demo Build] - Dithering Process
   • Ditherpunk — The article I wish I had about monochrome image dithering
   • Cyan's Richard A. Watson - Dithering 101 (archive)
   • Differentiable Dithering
   • What the Heck is Blue Noise?
   • Generating Blue Noise Textures With Void And Cluster
     • Atrix256/VoidAndCluster
     • jdupuy/BlueNoiseDitherMaskTiles
   • Why Your Website Should Use Dithered Images
     • Dither Me This!
   • Why Your Website Should Not Use Dithered Images

   Command-line dithering tools:

   • makew0rld/didder (Go CLI)
     • makew0rld/dither (Go library)

   Online dithering tools:

   • Dither It! - A Web application to dither images
     • alexharris/ditherit-v2
   • Building Retro Dither: Dithering Algorithms, Run-Length Encoding, Resource Forks and More!
   • Blue Noise in Futhark
     • Munksgaard/bluenoise
5. Pixel Art Tutorials | Saint11

   2024-11-17
   art/animation art/pixel-art graphics/2d indie

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   • Pixel Art Tutorials Package
   • Aseprite - Animated Sprite Editor
6. Three Hundred Mechanics - Gameplay concepts and ideas

   2024-11-16
   game graphics/2d indie

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   • Three Hundred Prototypes
7. Cozy Space Survivors | Simonschreibt

   2024-11-06
   art/pixel-art blender game game-engine/godot game/roguelike graphics/2d indie

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8. Teardown Teardown - A breakdown of Teardown's renderer

   2023-06-19
   game/teardown graphics/3d graphics/opengl graphics/voxel indie sandbox

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   • Graphics Programming Virtual Meetup - Teardown teardown [2023-01-06]
9. Teardown Frame Teardown - Rendering Analysis

   2023-06-19
   game/sandbox game/teardown graphics/3d graphics/opengl graphics/voxel indie

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10. LÖVE (Love2D) - Free 2D Game Engine

    2021-05-02
    game game-engine/love2d graphics/2d indie programming/lua

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    • Game Development with LÖVE 2D and Lua – Full Course
11. SHENZHEN I/O Solitaire bot

    2019-09-03
    bot card game indie solitaire

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    • https://gist.github.com/CyberShadow/218d1ac4033b5d67d99ba5ec4e433b46
12. pixel: A hand-crafted 2D game library in Go

    2019-01-29
    game graphics/2d indie programming/go programming/library

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13. The Poor Man's Netcode

    2019-01-04
    development game game/multiplayer graphics indie network

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    • https://github.com/etodd/lasercrabs
    • https://github.com/etodd/lasercrabs/blob/master/src/net.cpp
14. One Hour One Life

    2018-11-29
    family game indie nature sandbox survival

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    • https://onehouronelife.gamepedia.com/One_Hour_One_Life_Wiki
    • https://store.steampowered.com/app/595690/One_Hour_One_Life/
15. SHEDWORKS - Sable

    2018-06-26
    art exploration game indie moebius

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    Trailers:

    • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJFQhEY9udE

    Dev & Art Team:

    • https://twitter.com/ShedworksGreg
    • https://twitter.com/ShedworksDan
    • https://twitter.com/betterthemask
    • https://twitter.com/Jbrekkie
    • https://twitter.com/MartinKvale
    • https://twitter.com/MacchiatoLycan

    Media:

    • https://twitter.com/i/moments/971351000635314176
    • http://www.erictabuchi.net/filter/Photoworks/Architecture-d-entrainement

    Interviews:

    • http://uk.ign.com/articles/2018/06/14/e3-2018-sable-is-an-unlikely-companion-to-breath-of-the-wild
    • https://www.pcgamer.com/sable-is-a-gorgeous-contemplative-exploration-game-made-by-two-friends-who-work-in-a-shed/
    • https://www.forbes.com/sites/maxthielmeyer/2018/06/26/sable-developer-greg-kythreotis-talks-art-and-architecture-in-e3s-prettiest-game/#59af53bf358c
16. Monument Valley

    2018-02-05
    game indie mobile mobile/android puzzle

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    • https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ustwo.monumentvalley&hl=en
17. Game Off - itch.io

    2018-01-21
    game game-engine/unity hack indie source-code-management/git source-code-management/github

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    • https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2017/results
    • https://github.com/blog/2483-game-off-2017-winners
    • https://itch.io/jam/game-off-2017/entries
18. Open Source Game Clones

    2017-10-15
    development game indie open-source

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19. Zachtronics | TIS-100

    2017-09-25
    compiler game indie programming programming/assembly

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20. Tomorrow Corporation : Human Resource Machine

    2017-09-25
    game indie programming

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