Nostr notes by Jérémy Fa

I was such a ride to get there, but the "colored lights" ...

2026-01-11T22:54:21Z

I was such a ride to get there, but the "colored lights" revamp is now working pretty great: it can mix various lights of different colors, and the whole thing is blended correctly so far!

Can finally consider working on other aspects like level design now 😭

#gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #indiedev

This end of year recap comes with an update of the engine: ...

2025-12-29T18:55:15Z

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This end of year recap comes with an update of the engine: Ceramic 2.1, and it’s new cross-platform shader language.

https://github.com/ceramic-engine/ceramic/releases/tag/v2.1.0

#enginedev #gamedev #indiedev #opensource #haxe

Another year has passed. Let's take a moment to look back at ...

2025-12-29T13:31:07Z

Another year has passed. Let's take a moment to look back at what happened around my game engine Ceramic and what's coming next 👇

https://ceramic-engine.com/blog/bye-2025-hi-2026/

#gamedev #enginedev #indiedev #haxe #unity #solodev

This week, I have been trying to add colors to the custom ...

2025-11-15T13:58:49Z

This week, I have been trying to add colors to the custom lighting system of my game. Not gonna lie: it's not an easy task, and I'm far from done yet, but it's looking promising ✨

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #puzzlegame #solodev

The event where my game was playable, along with some food around ...

2025-10-12T19:38:45Z

The event where my game was playable, along with some food around the « underground » idea, is now over. It was very cool to see people try the demo. Now I have a ton of improvements to make in the game 🥹

#gamedev #indiegame #indiedev #undergroundfood

Thank you ☺️

2025-10-11T09:58:37Z

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Thank you ☺️

Quelques captures du jeu ☀️ #screenshotsaturday #indiedev ...

2025-10-11T08:42:56Z

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Quelques captures du jeu ☀️

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #puzzlegame #solodev

Ces samedi et dimanche de 14h30 à 18h30, une démo de mon jeu ...

2025-10-10T16:14:57Z

Ces samedi et dimanche de 14h30 à 18h30, une démo de mon jeu sera testable à Villette Makerz (Paris), accompagnée d'une médiation culinaire (eh oui, inattendu 😄) sur la thématique « sous terre ».

N'hésitez pas à passer !

#paris #solodev

It was always the plan to have some narrative bits into the game, ...

2025-10-04T13:06:08Z

It was always the plan to have some narrative bits into the game, so here we go!

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Thank you ☺️

2025-10-03T15:17:31Z

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Thank you ☺️

Got some feedback (which I agreed with), suggesting not being ...

2025-10-03T12:53:17Z

Got some feedback (which I agreed with), suggesting not being able to trigger the impulsion while jumping was frustrating, so changed it. That change alone is going to affect level design a lot, but it's probably for the best!

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev #pixelart #haxe

Oh, hello? #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #solodev #haxe ...

2025-09-22T19:04:46Z

Oh, hello?

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #solodev #haxe

Digging up some broken and rusty drawing skills to draw the ...

2025-09-18T23:34:15Z

Digging up some broken and rusty drawing skills to draw the avatar of "Rust", main character of my game

#solodev #drawing #gamedev #indiedev

Is that a screen? How do I turn it on? #screenshotsaturday ...

2025-09-13T13:32:33Z

Is that a screen? How do I turn it on?

#screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #pixelart

I'm aware, but my attempts at doing that weren't ...

2025-09-10T14:11:58Z

In reply to nevent1q…zxuf
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I'm aware, but my attempts at doing that weren't convincing. Didn't completely abandon the idea though, but it's trickier than it looks to do

Finally working a bit on the environment graphics! (Just ...

2025-09-09T18:42:45Z

Finally working a bit on the environment graphics! (Just experimenting for now)

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #solodev

Published an updated version of Nape Physics docs with all ...

2025-08-11T12:25:05Z

Published an updated version of Nape Physics docs with all samples converted to HTML5 using Haxe's Javascript target, because it was a shame we couldn't try them anymore (RIP Flash, long live Nape ✊ )

https://jeremyfa.github.io/napephys/samples.html

#gamedev #haxe

Rolling your own open-source game engine also means documenting ...

2025-08-06T19:03:19Z

Rolling your own open-source game engine also means documenting it:

Spent time improving Ceramic API Docs with better categorisation, much more files being properly explained, and added new guides for Sprites and Input handling.

https://ceramic-engine.com/

#gamedev #enginedev #indiedev #solodev

Some follow-up on my audio processing system: testing a reverb ...

2025-07-06T21:55:56Z

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Some follow-up on my audio processing system: testing a reverb effect to the character footsteps, with adjustable settings in real time

#gamedev #solodev #indiedev #audio

Adding realtime audio processing to Ceramic engine. Quite tricky ...

2025-07-05T17:04:21Z

Adding realtime audio processing to Ceramic engine. Quite tricky to make it work on all targets (native, web & unity), but here we are! It opens the door to a lot of cool stuff like creating toy synths and other audio effects in games 🎧

#gamedev #solodev #enginedev #indiedev #audio

For those curious about this "running a framework/engine ...

2025-06-22T20:42:57Z

In reply to nevent1q…hzgk
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For those curious about this "running a framework/engine inside Unity" thing, I wrote an article a while ago about it and how it was done:

https://ceramic-engine.com/blog/ceramic-in-unity/

Next version of Ceramic (haxe 2d framework) will support ...

2025-06-22T20:42:12Z

Next version of Ceramic (haxe 2d framework) will support exporting to Unity 6 using latest Universal Render Pipeline + Render Graph, which will make sure that target stays well supported in the foreseeable future

Video showing my game running within Unity 6000.1.7f1 just fine!

#gamedev #indiedev

Was just chill doing level design, until I noticed a new display ...

2025-05-27T22:17:03Z

Was just chill doing level design, until I noticed a new display glitch to fix 🫠

#gamedev #indiedev

Migrated Ceramic engine to SDL3, among various other ...

2025-05-12T15:23:27Z

Migrated Ceramic engine to SDL3, among various other improvements. Glad my game still runs fine, along with gamepad input, on my Retroid Pocket 4 (Android) 😄

#gamedev #indiedev

Some progress on my game: Improved screen transitions (fade for ...

2025-05-01T22:30:33Z

Some progress on my game: Improved screen transitions (fade for small sections, scroll for screen-sized ones), made light rays continue across screens, and clarified respawn rules (player returns to last entry point on current screen). Not very punishing, which is fine!

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Why using ANGLE? On Apple devices, it addresses the deprecation ...

2025-05-01T17:52:26Z

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Why using ANGLE?

On Apple devices, it addresses the deprecation of OpenGL. Metal is the way to go, and ANGLE allows just that without having to change existing rendering code that is GLES-compatible!

On windows, it also allows to run your GLES code on D3D11, which often work better than GL too

I've set up a Github repository to build Google ANGLE ...

2025-05-01T17:52:11Z

I've set up a Github repository to build Google ANGLE binaries for Mac (Metal), iOS (Metal) and Windows (D3D11) automatically.

These are going to be used with my engine Ceramic (using GLES3 for rendering), but other engine or game developers might be interested too ⬇️

#gamedev #graphicsprogramming

https://github.com/jeremyfa/build-angle

How to drive the player mad in 10 seconds (Note to self: preserve ...

2025-04-24T22:47:53Z

How to drive the player mad in 10 seconds

(Note to self: preserve state between screens)

#solodev #indiedev #gamedev

Moving around different screens is now working. Needed time to ...

2025-04-23T22:42:43Z

Moving around different screens is now working. Needed time to get it right: no reloading between screens, avoided simple fade-in/fade-out transitions in favor of properly timed scroll to maintain spatial awareness, even when level sections don't perfectly fit the screen.

#gamedev #indiedev

Separated player light data from main lighting to prevent ...

2025-04-21T19:53:21Z

Separated player light data from main lighting to prevent artifacts on the wall. These were caused by vertex shader interpolation. By isolating player data from the rest, no interpolation occurs between systems, eliminating those artifacts for good :)

#graphicsprogramming #devlog #gamedev #indiedev

It's nice to see the systems start to play together: light ...

2025-04-20T21:52:31Z

It's nice to see the systems start to play together: light ray is powering up the generator, opening a door, which itself let another light ray enter the room and so on

#gamedev #indiedev

Redesigned the generators that are powered by light rays, and ...

2025-04-18T22:34:08Z

Redesigned the generators that are powered by light rays, and added a proper animation to them

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Doing minor tweaks to the lighting system: now, a light ray ...

2025-04-17T22:58:49Z

Doing minor tweaks to the lighting system: now, a light ray doesn't stop right at a wall tile bounds. Instead it goes a few pixels further, which reproduces better that impression of strong light hitting a wall

#gamedev #indiedev

Don't mind me, just testing a custom CRT shader for fun with ...

2025-04-14T22:51:46Z

Don't mind me, just testing a custom CRT shader for fun with Ceramic engine

#gamedev

Here is my COMPO game jam entry for Ludum Dare 57, a minimal an ...

2025-04-07T17:58:40Z

Here is my COMPO game jam entry for Ludum Dare 57, a minimal an introspective narrative game, with a very personal take on the theme "Depths":

When it Sinks
Play here -> https://ldjam.com/events/ludum-dare/57/when-it-sinks

More prototype than complete game, but that's how it is with 48h jams I guess 😄

#ludumdare #ldjam #ld57 #gamedev

Still working on my interactive fiction / narrative dialogue ...

2025-03-23T12:18:27Z

Still working on my interactive fiction / narrative dialogue language. Can't wait to share more about it!

#gamedev #narrative

Thanks, I needed to read that

2025-03-21T04:45:56Z

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Thanks, I needed to read that

can’t speak for the rest, but as far as Ceramic is concerned, ...

2025-03-21T03:41:23Z

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can’t speak for the rest, but as far as Ceramic is concerned, it’s open to anyone and it is not aligned to rightwing ideology as suggested here, quite the opposite. The haxe discord ban is unfortunate (and not my decision as I don’t own that server) but I’m sure it could be undone if you wish to return. Take care

I started a narrative-focused side-project: create a new ...

2024-11-18T22:52:33Z

I started a narrative-focused side-project: create a new scripting language for writing interactive fictions. Planning to provide a portable runtime for it, as well as a dedicated non-code editor that is compatible with the same file. Early works, more to come later :)
#gamedev

The player now dies if he hits the very dangerous light! #gamedev ...

2024-10-13T21:35:07Z

The player now dies if he hits the very dangerous light! #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev

Some more work on ladder animations in my game. Moving up and ...

2024-09-08T15:02:48Z

Some more work on ladder animations in my game. Moving up and down lead to different speeds. Added another animation when the character is about to fall, although not totally satisfied with how it looks yet on that last one, but that can be improved later 😶 #gamedev #pixelart

Low resolution pixel art games are a bit like books, in a sense ...

2024-08-28T11:01:40Z

Low resolution pixel art games are a bit like books, in a sense that they give a lot of space to imagination, compared to ultra-realistic games and movies. One of the many reasons both of these mediums are still relevant nowadays #books #pixelart #games