Simon ▶darkside◀ J @[email protected]

I often get asked, "What on earth do you tweet about, it seems random" In short, I use Twitter to: * Promote indie devs * Share critical and interesting #gamedev info * Share new tips and tricks I find * Things that made me laugh or cry I'm all about gamedev, on all platforms.

The 1st episode of MonoGame Spotlight will be premiering TODAY! When: TODAY @ 17:00 EST, 22:00 GMT/UTC, 23:00 CET! Premiering on: YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=Ot3KUY…

To quote Bueller: "Life moves pretty fast. If you do not stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." Which is what happens if you do not re-evaluate your AI tools often. As I adapt, I write & discuss how my plans evolve! linkedin.com/pulse/evolving… #llm #agents #ai

The MonoGame Foundation team is pleased to announce the release of MonoGame v3.8.5-preview.2! Read this guide if you want to tryout these preview releases docs.monogame.net/articles/getti… More details here: monogame.net/blog/2026-01-0… Test it out and help us make 3.8.5 official!

Join Simon Jackson (@SimonDarksideJ) TODAY (13/11) for the next episode of MonoGame University. When: Every Thursday @ 11:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC/GMT, 16:00 CET Streaming links here - monogame.net/blog/2025-10-2… Today he's continuing with the "Getting Started with 2D" tutorial.

The new Content Builder Project is one of the hottest things coming in MonoGame 3.8.5 preview release. It aims to greatly simplify asset management for MonoGame projects. Read our blog post - monogame.net/blog/2025-11-0… and watch the related video (link in the blog post).

Join Simon Jackson (@SimonDarksideJ) TODAY (4/11) for the some extra Code Time! When: Tuesday @ 11:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC, 15:00 BST, 16:00 CET Today he'll be doing a deep dive on the NEW Content Builder project (replacing the MGCB-Editor). Stream Links : monogame.net/blog/2025-10-1…

@MonoGameTeam Want to know more details about the awesome KNI engine by Nikos Kastellanos (NKast), check out the GitHub link below: github.com/kniEngine/kni #MonoGame #XNA #Web #KNI

During last Thursday's MonoGame University Q&A, someone asked "What about MonoGame on the Web"? This was @SimonDarksideJ 's reply - youtube.com/watch?v=kjfcpg…

In order to address some key policy changes by Apple and Google the MonoGame Foundation is pleased to announce the patch release of v3.8.4.1! More details can be read here - monogame.net/blog/2025-10-2…

Open Hours is today 16:00 UTC (17:00 BST), be there or be square as we announce more streaming and a fantastic guest takes the stage and starts to take shape! #MonoGame #GameDev

It's Steam Next Fest this week - Post your indie game in our week long showcase. We will share some games throughout the week! #indiegame #SteamNextFest #gamedev #indiegamedev

Looks like path finding is now working. Since it was Sunday and I touched a bit of grass, I delegated this feature to a Copilot coding agent. So, I went to the bakery for some bread and coffee while this was being done by a bot in a PR Oh this is #fsharp and #monogame btw

@CarnivoreKing88 @EricRichards22 Everything in #gamedev is a compromise, sell your soul to use Unity, figure it out with Open Source, Go FORK and support open-source. Whatever you need to do to make your game dreams come true.

@SimonDarksideJ @EricRichards22 Not sure. Maybe. I do a bunch of operations using a few compute shaders prior to rendering, but it could perhaps be possible to write them all into steps in a fragment shader or something. But this is what I wanted to avoid if possible.

Bro I don't want to learn C++

If you are tackling with the Google 16kb policy updates, here is a script to help. gist.github.com/SimonDarksideJ… Based on a #Unity project, but should be usable for any #Android apk build. Instructions included in gist. Hope this helps others as it has been a real pain diagnosing.

@CarnivoreKing88 @EricRichards22 Which makes perfect sense, but can you can still achieve without compute using other techniques? Compute shaders are still on the roadmap, but the focus is on Vulkan and DX12 atm.

@SimonDarksideJ @EricRichards22 I already have the compute written in Unity but I want to move away from Unity, which is the issue.

@CarnivoreKing88 @EricRichards22 While compute shaders are very useful in #gamedev, a lot of titles simply don't use them, Stardew for instance. In the end, it should just be about what you want out of your game and not just what a framework doesn't support. Take Arcturus store.steampowered.com/app/3226800/Ar… for example

@EricRichards22 Monogame is nice but until they get those compute shaders in idk how I feel about it. I think Stride3D is a fork of SharpDX but I am not really looking for an engine, just a framework. But maybe just trying C++ with SMFL or something again could be worth it.

Our new 2D Shader Tutorial is nearly ready. Watch this short to find out what sort of things you'll learn, to enhance your game - youtube.com/shorts/OHNz-GN…

Shadows in 3D platformers are more important than you think. Watch our short to learn why! #MonoGame youtube.com/shorts/SpKUHwt… Help us expand our channel by sharing thise video :) cc: @KenneyNL

Can you make a game with AI? I wrote up my latest iteration in AI research that I perform annually (might have to switch to bi-monthly with recent advances) on using a LLM to generate a game. darkgenesis.zenithmoon.com/Can-you-make-a… #GameDev #MonoGame #AI

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