James | CWS 🇨🇦
@coastwide.systems
Game development studio building games for #linux (and other OS's too) using the #bevy engine and #rustlang.
#gamedev #indiedev
https://coastwidesystems.com/
https://discord.gg/Rg8MBJAvu4
https://ko-fi.com/coastwidesystems/tip
#gamedev #indiedev
https://coastwidesystems.com/
https://discord.gg/Rg8MBJAvu4
https://ko-fi.com/coastwidesystems/tip
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@coastwide.systems
· Feb 7
Heat Retreat on Steam
Your home town is forced to evacuate: assemble your party, choose a vehicle and grab supplies before hitting the road in search of refuge. Manage your resources and barter, scavenge, hunt or steal alo...
store.steampowered.com
The Heat Retreat Steam store page is finally live and ready for wishlisting! Tell your friends, tell your dog, tell your cat, tell everyone! 🎉
store.steampowered.com/app/3375550/...
store.steampowered.com/app/3375550/...
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After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams
aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
September 9, 2026 at 1:00 PM
After years of company stalling, Blizzard workers win mega-contract that applies to all unionized teams
aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
aftermath.site/blizzard-union...
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No Man's Sky Cosmos
📋Own A Space Station
🤝Alliances
🛰️Orbital Bases
📡Space Hulks
🚀Anniversary Expedition
🗺️Star Map
💎Deep-Space Looting
🪨Asteroid Belts
🦠Infested Outposts
☀️The Sun
🧙♀️Dev Commentary
🧲Tractor Beam
❄️Ice Fields
🪐Outposts
⛰️Improved Terrain
🔫Shipbreaking
📋Own A Space Station
🤝Alliances
🛰️Orbital Bases
📡Space Hulks
🚀Anniversary Expedition
🗺️Star Map
💎Deep-Space Looting
🪨Asteroid Belts
🦠Infested Outposts
☀️The Sun
🧙♀️Dev Commentary
🧲Tractor Beam
❄️Ice Fields
🪐Outposts
⛰️Improved Terrain
🔫Shipbreaking
September 9, 2026 at 1:33 PM
No Man's Sky Cosmos
📋Own A Space Station
🤝Alliances
🛰️Orbital Bases
📡Space Hulks
🚀Anniversary Expedition
🗺️Star Map
💎Deep-Space Looting
🪨Asteroid Belts
🦠Infested Outposts
☀️The Sun
🧙♀️Dev Commentary
🧲Tractor Beam
❄️Ice Fields
🪐Outposts
⛰️Improved Terrain
🔫Shipbreaking
📋Own A Space Station
🤝Alliances
🛰️Orbital Bases
📡Space Hulks
🚀Anniversary Expedition
🗺️Star Map
💎Deep-Space Looting
🪨Asteroid Belts
🦠Infested Outposts
☀️The Sun
🧙♀️Dev Commentary
🧲Tractor Beam
❄️Ice Fields
🪐Outposts
⛰️Improved Terrain
🔫Shipbreaking
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We’re proud to announce that #Valheim 1.0 is out now! Gather your friends, sharpen your axes and check out the patch notes below. We’ll see you in the tenth realm! valheim.com/news/valheim...
September 9, 2026 at 12:57 PM
We’re proud to announce that #Valheim 1.0 is out now! Gather your friends, sharpen your axes and check out the patch notes below. We’ll see you in the tenth realm! valheim.com/news/valheim...
Taking a break from the game's pixel art & working on some explorations to improve on my (crappy) capsule art. Plus enjoying the cooler end of summer weather 🏖
September 6, 2026 at 8:21 PM
Taking a break from the game's pixel art & working on some explorations to improve on my (crappy) capsule art. Plus enjoying the cooler end of summer weather 🏖
I'm in this picture and I don't like it 😆😅
September 6, 2026 at 6:31 PM
I'm in this picture and I don't like it 😆😅
Glad I'm already entirely off Google products entirely, but this is infuriating 😡
It is, and always will be, Lake Ontario
It is, and always will be, Lake Ontario
August 30, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Glad I'm already entirely off Google products entirely, but this is infuriating 😡
It is, and always will be, Lake Ontario
It is, and always will be, Lake Ontario
Alright, we're finally trying out Lou's Gagoon (Lou's Lagoon, as pronounced by my daughter, 4)! She's been super excited & asking, she just finished making her character. Looking great @tinyroargames.bsky.social 😄
August 30, 2026 at 1:39 AM
Alright, we're finally trying out Lou's Gagoon (Lou's Lagoon, as pronounced by my daughter, 4)! She's been super excited & asking, she just finished making her character. Looking great @tinyroargames.bsky.social 😄
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Lou's Lagoon has officially landed! 🛬🎉
Explore the vibrant Limbo archipelago now on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 1|2! #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame
Explore the vibrant Limbo archipelago now on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 1|2! #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame
August 27, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Lou's Lagoon has officially landed! 🛬🎉
Explore the vibrant Limbo archipelago now on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 1|2! #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame
Explore the vibrant Limbo archipelago now on Steam, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and Nintendo Switch 1|2! #IndieDev #GameDev #IndieGame
Tiny fire! This I found pretty challenging at only 8x8 px, kept finding it either too energetic or too static. But good enough for now, I'll probably adjust it more once I have it in the game properly
August 27, 2026 at 4:37 AM
Tiny fire! This I found pretty challenging at only 8x8 px, kept finding it either too energetic or too static. But good enough for now, I'll probably adjust it more once I have it in the game properly
Oh come on @proton.me - silently enable auto categorizing emails and not show them in the main inbox anymore? Really?
I have a ton of missed email now because I had no idea they were getting automatically "sorted" into categories, and badly too. Is nothing safe from enshittification 🤬
I have a ton of missed email now because I had no idea they were getting automatically "sorted" into categories, and badly too. Is nothing safe from enshittification 🤬
August 26, 2026 at 4:58 PM
Oh come on @proton.me - silently enable auto categorizing emails and not show them in the main inbox anymore? Really?
I have a ton of missed email now because I had no idea they were getting automatically "sorted" into categories, and badly too. Is nothing safe from enshittification 🤬
I have a ton of missed email now because I had no idea they were getting automatically "sorted" into categories, and badly too. Is nothing safe from enshittification 🤬
Multitasking game dev/hockey dad😅
August 24, 2026 at 8:16 PM
Multitasking game dev/hockey dad😅
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Its seems to finally be official so ill say again, for real this time:
You can jow buy South of Midnight without contributing to the genocide Isreal is committing with the help of Microsoft. Its a great game, everyone should play it. Hoping now to pick up a PS5 disk if they're still available.
You can jow buy South of Midnight without contributing to the genocide Isreal is committing with the help of Microsoft. Its a great game, everyone should play it. Hoping now to pick up a PS5 disk if they're still available.
August 20, 2026 at 6:43 PM
Its seems to finally be official so ill say again, for real this time:
You can jow buy South of Midnight without contributing to the genocide Isreal is committing with the help of Microsoft. Its a great game, everyone should play it. Hoping now to pick up a PS5 disk if they're still available.
You can jow buy South of Midnight without contributing to the genocide Isreal is committing with the help of Microsoft. Its a great game, everyone should play it. Hoping now to pick up a PS5 disk if they're still available.
Woah, woke up to a bunch of new followers! I don't have any exciting game progress to show today but new art coming SOON
Also been working at getting a blog going so watch out for that, here's a little teaser of one of the article topics I have coming up coffee.coastwidesystems.com
Also been working at getting a blog going so watch out for that, here's a little teaser of one of the article topics I have coming up coffee.coastwidesystems.com
August 15, 2026 at 6:09 PM
Woah, woke up to a bunch of new followers! I don't have any exciting game progress to show today but new art coming SOON
Also been working at getting a blog going so watch out for that, here's a little teaser of one of the article topics I have coming up coffee.coastwidesystems.com
Also been working at getting a blog going so watch out for that, here's a little teaser of one of the article topics I have coming up coffee.coastwidesystems.com
I'm _really_ trying to get some solid game updates out but seems like every 5 min there's some tangential emergency/fire to put out
Today's issue: a bird knocked out power to most of the town, then my Ubiquiti network gear shit the bed when I started powering stuff up 🤬
Today's issue: a bird knocked out power to most of the town, then my Ubiquiti network gear shit the bed when I started powering stuff up 🤬
August 14, 2026 at 4:14 PM
I'm _really_ trying to get some solid game updates out but seems like every 5 min there's some tangential emergency/fire to put out
Today's issue: a bird knocked out power to most of the town, then my Ubiquiti network gear shit the bed when I started powering stuff up 🤬
Today's issue: a bird knocked out power to most of the town, then my Ubiquiti network gear shit the bed when I started powering stuff up 🤬
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I don't like putting all my eggs in one basket...
Game Devs and Publishers, if you're on Mastodon, link yourselves below ⬇️
Game Devs and Publishers, if you're on Mastodon, link yourselves below ⬇️
August 13, 2026 at 3:42 PM
I don't like putting all my eggs in one basket...
Game Devs and Publishers, if you're on Mastodon, link yourselves below ⬇️
Game Devs and Publishers, if you're on Mastodon, link yourselves below ⬇️
I might be doing something wrong but...podman pods in quadlets _suck_. Run the containers in independent namespaces and they're fine, but put them in a pod? *Maybe* 12h uptime before something goes screwy and the entire pod crashes
August 8, 2026 at 2:29 PM
I might be doing something wrong but...podman pods in quadlets _suck_. Run the containers in independent namespaces and they're fine, but put them in a pod? *Maybe* 12h uptime before something goes screwy and the entire pod crashes
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Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at handling requests. They're in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.
August 8, 2026 at 12:39 AM
Google replaced pushing Git tags for certain source code with obtaining source code via Google Drive after making a request through Google Forms. It's completely ridiculous and they've gradually become very slow at handling requests. They're in clear violation of the GPLv2 now.
It lives!!!
PC is back in action; thankfully only the motherboard burned out & I was able to scrape together enough change for a replacement (helps that old hardware isn't ludicrously expensive).
Freckles missed gaming nights as much as I did 😆
PC is back in action; thankfully only the motherboard burned out & I was able to scrape together enough change for a replacement (helps that old hardware isn't ludicrously expensive).
Freckles missed gaming nights as much as I did 😆
August 4, 2026 at 3:52 PM
It lives!!!
PC is back in action; thankfully only the motherboard burned out & I was able to scrape together enough change for a replacement (helps that old hardware isn't ludicrously expensive).
Freckles missed gaming nights as much as I did 😆
PC is back in action; thankfully only the motherboard burned out & I was able to scrape together enough change for a replacement (helps that old hardware isn't ludicrously expensive).
Freckles missed gaming nights as much as I did 😆
Guess it's not all bad having my PC out of commission. Still miss having a full sized monitor though, laptop screen real estate is pretty limited for gamedev
August 3, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Guess it's not all bad having my PC out of commission. Still miss having a full sized monitor though, laptop screen real estate is pretty limited for gamedev
Had to head in to the city the other day with the kids & we encountered a cybertruck; my son (7) yelled out "it looks like it was designed by AI, I hope it doesn't break down in front of us!"
Kid's gonna be alright 👍
Kid's gonna be alright 👍
July 31, 2026 at 6:33 PM
Had to head in to the city the other day with the kids & we encountered a cybertruck; my son (7) yelled out "it looks like it was designed by AI, I hope it doesn't break down in front of us!"
Kid's gonna be alright 👍
Kid's gonna be alright 👍
So bad news on the game dev front: my PC burned out, and I can't afford a replacement. Not sure what, if anything, is salvageable but it's all older hardware so finding compatible parts won't be easy even if I could afford any of it
And it takes with it a month of art assets I hadn't committed 😣😭
And it takes with it a month of art assets I hadn't committed 😣😭
July 27, 2026 at 10:39 PM
So bad news on the game dev front: my PC burned out, and I can't afford a replacement. Not sure what, if anything, is salvageable but it's all older hardware so finding compatible parts won't be easy even if I could afford any of it
And it takes with it a month of art assets I hadn't committed 😣😭
And it takes with it a month of art assets I hadn't committed 😣😭
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Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI.
It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us.
Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning.
So: Sharing time!
1/12
It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us.
Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning.
So: Sharing time!
1/12
July 24, 2026 at 10:41 PM
Blue Bottle Games, as a policy, does not use generative AI.
It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us.
Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning.
So: Sharing time!
1/12
It's something we've discussed as a team, weighing the pros and cons, and ultimately, we decided it was not for us.
Recently, while chatting with a colleague, she mentioned it was useful hearing our reasoning.
So: Sharing time!
1/12
Definitely going to have to get references to these memes in Heat Retreat 😆
July 17, 2026 at 7:48 PM
Definitely going to have to get references to these memes in Heat Retreat 😆
Been diverted from gamedev with some sysadmin shenanigans lately: the homelab was ailing after a long power outage and I went down a horrific rabbit hole
July 16, 2026 at 5:14 AM
Been diverted from gamedev with some sysadmin shenanigans lately: the homelab was ailing after a long power outage and I went down a horrific rabbit hole
