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James Vanas

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Made LocoLooper 🚂🛤🧩🕹 Football: The Beautiful Game 🤸‍♂️⚽️ Prev: SeatGeek iOS 🎫 Serato Social: https://teapawt.net/t.co/8gXCq0MRsJ Threads: @staminajim

 Aotearoa New Zealand
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Joined June 2009
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Loco Looper for iPhone and iPad is now available! Get on the Brain Train! ❤️🚂🧩🕹 apps.apple.com/us/app/loco-l…
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True now more than ever, given how quickly the average dev abandoned the engineering cosplay and went full on prompt jockey
James Vanas (@jamesvanas) profile pictureJames Vanas@jamesvanas5 Aug 2020
Unpopular opinion: Software development should come under the umbrella of Art & Design rather than Engineering
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You're probably wondering how I got into this situation … #gamedev
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Taking the high road with coop playtesting. Getting each other into and out of and into trouble! #screenshotsaturday
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Catching up where flight sims are at these days
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Aseprite
@aseprite6 Feb 2024
Special Aseprite Back in Time sale for one week in all platforms (website, Steam, itch, Humble Bundle store): Get Aseprite at its original price of $9.99 from 2014, when Aseprite v1.0 was launched! ⏲️🥳
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Defend Cow Castle is a SwiftGodotKit application for VisionOS that renders volumes into the shared space. Like Unity's Polyspatial, but for Godot, now available on the AppStore: Congratulations to Therese 3D Studio for the launch! apps.apple.com/us/app/defend…
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In my hands is my first iPod. Steve Jobs is smiling at me. Everybody at the Apple Store is smiling. I take off my Apple Vision. I am back in the retirement home. Nobody has visited me for 12 years. I put it back on. I hold my iPod. Everybody in the Apple Store is smiling.
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For those lucky enough to be receiving a shiny new #visionpro tomorrow. Check out Void-X if you wanna shoot retro aliens with immersive effects! apps.apple.com/us/app/void-x…
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I was interviewed by Apple 🍎 about the Design of the Ancient Board Game Collection! You can read it here: developer.apple.com/news/?id… #indiedev #iosdev
With Ancient Board Game Collection, Klemens Strasser goes back in time - Discover - Apple Developer

With Ancient Board Game Collection, Klemens Strasser goes back in time - Discover - Apple Developer

Discover how the title blends the new and the (very) old.

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Once a month I get a thank you email for Loco Looper. I know it's not much but to be honest it's the only thing keeping me going
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Synthwave-ish experiment from earlier this year, using CGA palette 1 (4 pretty nice ugly colors)
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Just saw The Creator and absolutely loved it. Best sci fi film in ages ❤️
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Kinda amusing and cute in a way. Well before I’d completed the tiny planet motif or established the art style, and was just beginning to convert the game from 2D to 3D
James Vanas (@jamesvanas) profile pictureJames Vanas@jamesvanas27 Apr 2019
Finally made the trains zoom around the tracks in Loco Looper! Get on the brain train! #screenshotsaturday #Apple #indiedev #gamedev #IndieGameDev #lowpoly #CustomGameEngine #AppStore #LocoLooper
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I think I'm underwhelmed when shown ray tracing in modern games, because in my mind it should look like this. Not "same but slightly more damp". Bonus points for the ground being a checkerboard
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I'm in love with this game's art direction
Lente ⛵ dev on a boat (@LenteGameDev) profile pictureLente ⛵ dev on a boat@LenteGameDev14 Sep 2023
Is it clear that the most left boat is where you go to upgrade your speed? The player boat is electric, because of that I put the solar panel there. Maybe it needs an icon to make it more clear?
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mike cook@mtrc14 Sep 2023
This is a funny joke except for the fact that Discord are 100% going to do some dumb money pivot one day and self-destruct in the exact same way Unity is.
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Really like these graphics. And I'm very impressed that it runs on its own game engine. :)
James Vanas (@jamesvanas) profile pictureJames Vanas@jamesvanas14 Sep 2023
The biggest trick was convincing indie game developers you can't make a 3D game without Unity. If I (a game engine n00b) could make this one, I'm sure you could too! (or make friends with a software dev) 🚀
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The biggest trick was convincing indie game developers you can't make a 3D game without Unity. If I (a game engine n00b) could make this one, I'm sure you could too! (or make friends with a software dev) 🚀
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RetroPC@realRetroPC22 Aug 2023
A rendition of what Winamp would look like if it was actual hardware. I can't stop drooling. 🤤
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Filip Hodas
@FilipHodas21 Aug 2023
Capa City ⚡️
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