Ben Ioannidis

Happy Family Tech Support weekend, fellow nerds 🤓

New stuff coming soon (ish) 😄

"Don’t do speculative programming. Only make the code extensible if it is a validated assumption that it’ll be extended. Chances are by the time it gets extended, the problem definition looks different from when you wrote the code" – Alex Ewerlöf

One of the least-appreciated skills in programming is writing anti-frustrating error messages. A good error message should make it self-evident (a) what the user did, (b) what acceptable inputs are, and (c) how to fix the problem. Can determine love or hate for your library.

@CollingwoodFC Big bad James Manson

Past players podcast in 2022. You keen? Who do you want to see feature? 👇

"The most valuable thing you can make is a mistake - you can't learn anything from being perfect." — Adam Osborne

"I tell my programmers to think carefully before the say something 'can't be done'. There isn't that much that can't be done with a little ingenuity." 🎮 — Satoru Iwata

"The tools we use have a profound (and devious) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities." — Edsger W. Dijkstra

Doing tests, swinging over spikes, just trying to climb some walls, destroying cameras, avoiding walls of electricity, flying into guys with guns, running from a boulder, lasers, cat and into the forest in Splatacle by @CazrusF @8and12games @JibrillMurphy youtu.be/AxANz6i_hW0

"Try new things. Bias towards novelty within the space of feasible solutions. Fight the impulse to copy designs verbatim. Every major system was just a half-baked idea in someone’s head at some point." – Mahesh Balakrishnan

And thank you to the wonderful team @CazrusF @8and12games @RapettiGames and everyone else that doesn't use twitter! (Check out their other work from the game's store page scientists.itch.io/splatacle) #gamedev #IndieGameDev #indiegame

After 15 weeks of hard work, our team Scientists? has put out the final release build of Splatacle. Our itch page is linked in my post! Thanks to my team members for all their hard work and support! 812games.dev/splatacle-para… #gamedev

It's been a little while, but me and the team have been hard at work turning that small prototype from earlier in the year into a fully fleshed out game! Only 4 weeks of production left, lets see how much polish we can cram into this bad boy #gamedev #indiedev #platformer

New blog post! Finished my 48 hour challenge! devfolio180227713.wordpress.com/2021/10/04/48-… Find the game here: elfondo.itch.io/escape

New blog post on what I've been up to the past 8 weeks, as well as a little bit on a challenge I've set myself for this weekend (result will be posted Monday afternoon)! devfolio180227713.wordpress.com/2021/10/02/maj…

Hey guys the latest build of parasite is now up! we also have a feedback form linked on the page so if you test the game out please also fill the form in #indiedev #Iindiegame scientists.itch.io/parasite?secre…

art progress👀 #indiedev

IT'S HERE! alpha build number 1 still a far way to go but we got something up and running that's fun to play 👀

@bubblytest @abcnews They wouldn't need to if the Vic gov cut spending on the dhs, clearly the biggest gov department in Aus doesn't equate to the most efficient...

@abcnews When will the Morrison Government assist the Victorian public

Victorian government in talks about extending the seven-day lockdown abc.net.au/news/2021-06-0…

@mjeeepn @CollingwoodFC De goey playing midfield is what gets the ball going forward unfortunately. Week by week, getting rid of treloar looks like a bigger mistake.

Mid-Season Draft 💎 ⚫️33 games for the Pies since making his debut in R17, 2019