MenacingMecha

🧛‍♂️ 👍 Generalist indie dev, Linux user & known goblin fan. Works in Godot & Love2D. Watches a lot of movies. He/Him

Currently working on #y2roll - wishlist now! https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459420/Y2ROLL/

Previously worked on The Garden Path, Wrought Flesh

Currently unavailable for work

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2026-09-05 17:37:41 GMT

something interesting I've noticed in the rise of LLM slop text is I've started caring less about my writing being a bit messy, because it's more clear that it's definitely a person that wrote it and not copy pasted from a chat bot

2026-04-09 11:05:23 GMT

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@nprofile…5y0h 2, i'm too young to have played 1.6
played a little of source very casually (mostly gun game) but had like 450 hours in GO like 6 years ago

2026-04-09 00:32:40 GMT

getting back into Counter-Strike and man it really is just the one good multiplayer FPS, huh?

2025-12-21 23:44:39 GMT

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@nprofile…dt2r and this is with the player checking for collision with every bullet every fixed tick, too!

2025-12-20 20:04:26 GMT

more bullet hell prototype work:
loading custom patterns at runtime
here's a quick pattern my brother made using the scripting tools
even has error-safe hot reloading!
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/753/684/372/679/838/original/a841618f7c0781b5.mp4

2025-12-12 14:38:23 GMT

was already not interested in Clair Obscur because the combat was very timing based, but especially not now it's come out it used an ambiguous "some amount of AI"

2025-12-06 18:40:29 GMT

just under 48 hours left to pick up Y2ROLL -25% off!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459420/Y2ROLL/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/674/070/879/201/217/original/36a044366c7e718e.png

2025-11-23 11:28:15 GMT

i think i still need to post more about my game because I think that last post about it did actually lead to a tiny spike in sales, but I don't know what to even post, like the game's finished. any post-release support that gets done is not flashy in the slightest
do i just, like, re-post random clips every two weeks and be really annoying about "the algorithm" or something?

2025-11-15 02:53:53 GMT

🎬️ re-watched The Lord of the Rings (1978)
AKA Bakshi's LOTR
It's very clumsy and very flawed, but man, there's so much soul here.
I fucking love the harsh contrast mixed media style they use for the villains (and occasionally heroes - as I said - very clumsy).
I really want to try making something in that style, but I'm not sure how you'd do that without filming footage of people in costumes, and that is out of scope for me.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/115/551/447/026/407/691/original/9f94b2ffa23bc11f.jpg

2025-08-11 10:06:37 GMT

i know i probably should still be on the marketing hustle for y2roll, but atm it's selling on target and I'm content with that
i'd rather spend the energy working on the next thing, esp now the initial burst of sales has quietened
probably next update and sale i'll post more

2025-07-26 18:34:36 GMT

As I round out week 1 of Y2ROLL being on Steam, I'd like to share some sales data:
The game is a success!
As far as I understand the numbers, even with a very conservative 1st week to 1st year sales ratio, I will clear my target for being able to run for at least another year
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/920/971/052/920/249/original/0cb8d02cf5b9fbd0.png
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/920/971/302/750/490/original/e1abfa175687840a.png

2025-07-18 07:53:36 GMT

Y2ROLL is OUT NOW!!!
10% off until 25 July!
I've worked on this game for about 2.5 years now, and I hope you all enjoy!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pt0BgxsBr24
🛒 Purchase:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459420?utm_source=fedi&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=saturday_post&utm_content=release
#y2roll #GodotEngine #gamedev #n64

2025-07-12 17:37:10 GMT

Time flies! ⏳🕓
With Y2ROLL releasing July 18th, here's a montage of progress over the roughly 2.5 years of development:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9wKTgB2OgU
⭐ Wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459420?utm_source=fedi&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=saturday_post&utm_content=dev_montage
#y2roll #screenshotsaturday #GodotEngine #gamedev #n64

2025-07-05 18:00:17 GMT

Put together a release trailer for Y2ROLL
I've worked on this game for like 2 years and it's finally coming out!!!
Launches July 18th - just under two weeks!
#y2roll #screenshotsaturday #GodotEngine #gamedev #n64
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/800/132/880/470/812/original/800f75838f8f2f0d.mp4

2025-06-25 18:00:10 GMT

🌋 WORLD 5: MOLTEN CRAG 🪨
⭐ Wishlist:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459420?utm_source=fedi&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=saturday_post&utm_content=molten_crag_promo
#y2roll #GodotEngine #gamedev #n64
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/743/907/002/084/547/original/d8ce35d7a590e72c.mp4

2025-05-15 19:42:16 GMT

Some extra Campaign menu things
Right stick rotates the level previews, and exiting will keep the background and lighting of that world for the rest of the menus
#y2roll #GodotEngine #gamedev #n64
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/513/551/406/440/366/original/ca9642639054c355.mp4

2025-04-12 18:00:03 GMT

New level:
OMEGA
Rare case where I had to make this level (slightly) easier to be possible on keyboard.
Only 7 more before I reach my goal of 100 playable levels!
⭐🔗⬇️
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459420?utm_source=fedi&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=saturday_post&utm_content=omega
#y2roll #screenshotsaturday #GodotEngine #gamedev #n64
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/315/377/004/869/228/original/8274b755e07a024b.mp4

2025-02-10 05:56:51 GMT

🎬️ watched Body Double (1984)
Went into this expecting to like it, and while I didn't hate it, I didn't like it.
Really unfocused movie about a guy who stalks women being excused and rewarded for stalking women. Sure, the police detective calls him a pervert, but the film very much wants us to be on stalker guy's side. At one point he even lies to one of the women to lure her back to where he's living! At no point is the film saying "this guy's actions are bad"!
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/978/041/953/624/495/original/868302edc8e16552.jpg

2025-02-08 07:17:09 GMT

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@nprofile…t3wn surely Baba O'Riley was big enough for folk it to still have remembered it at the time, though I didn't make the connection until it got brought up in conversation the other day

2025-02-08 06:38:54 GMT

🎬️ watched Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland (1989)
She's back! For the last time! There are no more movies after this!
I've seen a good few user reviews that say this is like DLC for 2, and yeah it kinda is. It's mostly worse than 2, but there are some little things here and there it does better.
First, the poster. For 2 I questioned "...is that Springsteen?" but we're not even trying here. Doesn't fit the character at all, but tonally it kinda fits, though. We're a far cry from 1.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/966/884/711/761/042/original/c35b29691a709ff6.jpg

2025-02-01 19:18:24 GMT

added a new background theme for late-game levels: empyrean
wishlist: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459420/Y2ROLL/
#y2roll #screenshotsaturday #GodotEngine #gamedev #n64
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/930/238/971/585/940/original/3b81a7af2c1dd97a.mp4

2025-01-29 01:33:08 GMT

#Y2ROLL store page is live!
please wishlist!!!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3459420/Y2ROLL/

2025-01-11 20:14:45 GMT

working on a new volcano world theme
steam page will be up to wishlist in the near future
#y2roll #screenshotsaturday #GodotEngine #gamedev #n64
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/811/550/731/834/646/original/25eca3aa47be34e7.mp4

2025-01-04 16:25:43 GMT

finished up org-publish blog engine workflow (+ RSS!), and fittingly wrote a blog post about it
https://www.menacingmecha.uk/blog/blogging-with-org-publish.html

2024-12-28 05:59:59 GMT

:emacs: managed to script going over all my film review roam nodes for the year and producing an output doc, so planning on uploading that somewhere more permanent than here on new years eve
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/728/904/107/899/050/original/5bc6e391885823e7.png

2024-12-14 19:01:08 GMT

Y2ROLL BETA IS LIVE

2024-12-04 05:42:09 GMT

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@nprofile…t3wn I know about the Dark Side of the Moon thing, but find it a little hard to take seriously
I'll probably get to The Wiz at some point, but not before Return to Oz
watched Zardoz last year: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@MenacingMecha/111446602904933460

2024-12-04 05:07:06 GMT

🎬️ watched In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007)
Uwe Boll you motherfucker, I cannot believe I got Almost Famous'd with a fucking Uwe Boll video game movie. This shit is TWO HOURS FOURTY and we only realised it when we sat down to watch it. The extended cut adds FOURTY extra minutes of In the Name of the King: A Dungeon Siege Tale (2007). That is too much, man.
And because there exists an extended version, the theatrical version is seemingly wiped from existence.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/592/812/869/717/623/original/e9b4b9880769333b.jpg

2024-12-03 06:16:00 GMT

🎬️ watched The Wizard of Oz (1939)
No I did not re-watch this in preparation for Wicked (2024). I have no intentions of watching Wicked (2024). This is not a bit like Gladiator II (2024).
Saw this as a kid and had little memory of it outside of the munchkin village.
It's hard to really give an opinion on this? Like it's such an overwhelmingly important and influential film, it's extremely ahead of and it's also a fun and enjoyable watch.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/587/409/746/279/960/original/ce96d9a489e04db6.jpg

2024-08-18 11:35:18 GMT

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@npub1w66…rc58 oh damn! use-package integration for git repos was what got me to switch to elpaca in the first place - no reason to stay on something in-built now!

2024-08-18 01:00:58 GMT

:emacs: think i might ditch elpaca and go back to package.el
sick of it breaking all the time, and the first time install is a nightmare

2024-07-07 13:07:02 GMT

playing around with #krita filters on old movie posters
#pixelart
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/745/349/552/760/121/original/f2b9e3707b1ed9aa.png
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2024-06-21 20:07:24 GMT

added mailing list link to portfolio site
https://www.menacingmecha.uk/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/656/407/507/341/996/original/d9585e3d15259049.mp4

2024-06-15 19:34:31 GMT

no new clip today, but announcing a mailing list
subscribe for exclusive beta keys, announcements, secrets, and other fun stuff
the upcoming #y2roll beta will handled through here. there will be no other public demo
https://www.simplelists.com/menacingmecha/subscribe/
(inputting full name can be ignored, afaik I can't turn that box off and I also don't want that info)

2024-06-13 21:08:58 GMT

released the #fennel #ECS lib I wrote as part of my Spring Lisp Game Jam game under MPL
https://codeberg.org/MenacingMecha/mecs

2024-05-30 14:48:09 GMT

had a little post-release depression after finishing that jam game
makes sense since it's been several years since I released something playable - probably worth releasing more smaller things in future

2024-05-26 20:25:21 GMT

New release from me, as part of the Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024:
Katacoma
A one-button, one-hit Survivors-like.
Enter & Die.
https://menacingmecha.itch.io/katacoma
#gamedev #love2d
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/509/255/457/703/974/original/dd233ede89768f61.mp4

2024-05-15 18:59:59 GMT

have my game concept and assets all prepared for the Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 (https://itch.io/jam/spring-lisp-game-jam-2024)
will be using the fennel/love2D graphics test i've been posting recently as a basis to make something ECS-y
https://codeberg.org/MenacingMecha/love2d-bounce-test/

2024-05-14 17:32:51 GMT

any folk have experience with #MailingList providers for small businesses? (#gamedev especially but all welcome)
looking for any and all input/recommendations/warnings

2024-05-07 15:57:33 GMT

#love2d bouncy graphics test w/ #fennel
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/400/612/690/306/373/original/e0c5e41a028d87a4.mp4

2024-04-24 05:07:56 GMT

🎬 watched Pass Thru (2016)
4th Breen movie, and we're back to DVD quality, because sure.
Probably the hardest to follow - despite having the least amount of abstract experimental content of all the post Double Down (2005) Breen movies - but I enjoyed it a lot more than Fateful Findings (2013). It's basically just I Am Here... Now (2009) again, but swap "god but alien but god" with "AI but actually Doctor Manhattan".
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/324/457/217/134/606/original/1a319c2cbac6150e.jpg

2024-04-19 17:19:49 GMT

any #love2d devs have any experience with the various 3D rendering libraries on offer?
been very impressed with the examples, and interested to hear if anyone's tried them or used them in games
- https://github.com/rozenmad/Menori/
- https://github.com/3dreamengine/3DreamEngine/tree/master
- https://github.com/groverburger/g3d

2024-04-08 17:03:31 GMT

finally properly clicked for me what "lambdas capture their environment" means, as in "you can define things in-scope before the lambda is defined, and then those things will be captured in the lambda even after they've gone out of scope"
every example I tried to look at previously just ended up being like verbose syntax vomit
practical gdscript example:
var x := 1
node.example_signal.connect(func(): print(x + 1))

2024-03-25 04:15:24 GMT

watching a yt video essay where "i looked at a very old website, got a 404, so i used wayback machine and it worked" was delivered like a huge plot twist and got so irrationally angry

2024-03-15 07:09:03 GMT

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@npub1ykd…6j2y huh - did not know there were so many of these, was only aware of the 2007 reboot
normally avoid pre-80s comedy, but looks big and influential enough to check out

2024-03-14 06:16:30 GMT

🎬 watched Bad Manners (1984)
Insane person movie. Honestly feels not that far removed from a John Waters movie, but without the thematic undercurrents to steer it.
Delinquent kids in a prison-orphanage, complete with electric fences, solitary confinement, blood pacts and full blown nazi graffiti. Like, a lot of nazi graffiti - like every wall is covered in swastikas. These are the worst darn kids you've ever seen.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/092/568/463/600/047/original/55b56bedb81a9254.jpg

2024-01-25 20:51:07 GMT

:emacs: envrc.el has been great for running direnv when changing directories in emacs in order to add the packages in my nix-shell to path.
however I mostly navigate to projects with project.el, and I had to manually do M-x envrc-allow every time
reading up on how to improve this, with advice-add, I can automatically call envrc-allow after all the relevant functions
elisp is great
#emacs
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2023-12-23 19:00:05 GMT

Quick QoL addition: speeding up the level intro
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #GodotEngine #n64 #y2roll
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/111/602/593/417/665/903/original/1dc73d8c4b9e091f.mp4

2023-12-18 03:52:49 GMT

🎬 watched Run Lola Run (1998)
It's okay. Might be my first German language film?
Wonderfully stylish and exciting cinematography, but all the different paths are way too similar and the eventual solution happens randomly and completely unrelated to anything the protagonist does, which is not what you want from a time loop script.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/111/599/388/009/401/644/original/1f9c0e72e714a2de.jpg

2023-11-02 17:36:16 GMT

working on a laura palmer cosplay for next halloween/cosplay-appropriate event

2023-10-20 20:42:56 GMT

taking part in the autumn #LispGameJam
to manage scope, going at things with the very specific goal of "just trying things out" as an excuse to research the use case i've been pondering of an embeddable scheme to handle the rules & logic for a digital card game
there will (likely) not be an executable, just the start of a library with some test cases. would be playable from the REPL, but "playability" isn't the goal here - it's a pure learning experimentation project
https://itch.io/jam/autumn-lisp-game-jam-2023

2023-10-16 16:32:00 GMT

coincidently somehow only scheduled saturday's #y2roll clip on tumblr so rescheduled for this sat
do NOT look at https://www.tumblr.com/menacingmecha in the meantime, don't even think about it

2023-10-15 16:21:06 GMT

was going to start reading SICP today, but consensus seems to be that it's more general abstract CS focused instead of "practical book for learning and understanding scheme" like I was after, so reading "the little schemer" instead

2023-10-11 16:30:42 GMT

creepy looking bug i came across while testing #y2roll
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/111/217/333/213/698/932/original/91cbc9c83be4d622.mp4

2023-08-14 02:06:27 GMT

🎬 watched Basket Case (1982)
Hell yeah. As weird little creature movies go, this is the good shit.
Some wonky pacing here-and-there, (especially towards the end), but great effects, great mood, and it's always a good time seeing the wee guy do his thing.
For some reason I see this billed as a horror/comedy, but there's no comedic elements whatsoever? It's a little goofy, sure, but genre-wise it's very straight horror.
Highly recommended.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/110/885/499/189/223/029/original/6c8034a5ea902700.jpg

2023-08-03 19:15:54 GMT

i think "hawaiian shirt goth" is the vibe i'm gonna try and aspire to

2023-07-31 03:23:06 GMT

why does everything want me to join a discord?????? no!!!!!!!

2023-07-16 22:00:40 GMT

interested in lisp, was looking around for lisp gamedev solutions, and if I'm honest was getting a little discouraged at what I was seeing (not lisps fault!)
then I stumbled on fennel (lisp -> lua), and I think this might be a solution worth exploring?

2023-07-01 18:00:00 GMT

important milestone: levels can now be fully compiled from a .blend source with no manual intervention
by doing this in a seperate tool, it can be released under a copy-left license completely seperate from the game itself, so users can create custom levels using the same tools used to author official ones
#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #GodotEngine #Blender3D #y2roll
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/110/542/643/862/901/688/original/68a5c9038adbf2c7.mp4