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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Aug 02, 2026

Week three of landing in Charlotte, walking into my house, dumping all the clothes in my backpack into the washing machine, and then leaving a few hours later for another flight. Promoting a movie is fun, but it's exhausting. It's in theaters this week, though! https://cookiequeensfilm.com/ I really need people to see it the first week it's in theaters, or there will likely not be a second week. Don't hesitate if you want to see it! Spider-Man and The Odyssey will still be there later, y'all.

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jul 19, 2026

Holy moly, apparently Minecraft has switched to SDL3: https://www.minecraft.net/en-us/article/minecraft-26-3-snapshot-4

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jun 28, 2026

I think it's nice that HarmonyOS exists, so Chinese companies can compete globally on how to make it as obnoxious as possible to sign your apps for deployment. I thought Apple and Google had the market on making it impossible to just build a fucking program cornered, but China is a rising force in making this shit as complicated as possible.

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Jun 07, 2026

Replying to @ClarusPlusPlus@gamedev.lgbt

@ClarusPlusPlus@gamedev.lgbt I just got a notification that you boosted my post and I was like aaaaah someone working on Enigma Heart noticed me! :) I _love_ the Zelda 2 vibe, and I can't wait to dive in!

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 26, 2026

Replying to @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place

DOSification continues: PhysicsFS ported to MS-DOS: https://github.com/icculus/physfs/commit/f674b2dc15d394236e2633e4379bd29d7f93413e

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 22, 2026

Replying to @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place

It’s Friday! I’m gonna wrap this up today. I’m throwing in 100 bucks of my own, so I’m putting my money where someone else’s mouth is. :) Last call, send a few bucks if you want to spread joy with me!

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 17, 2026

Replying to @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place

28 boxes going to: public transit works, DMV employees, nurses, Waffle House staff, people having a bad day, and...maybe Clementine. She's insistent. We still have boxes to give away, if anyone wants to throw in! https://paypal.me/rcgordon

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 17, 2026

Replying to @gnomon@mastodon.social

@gnomon@mastodon.social my hero. :)

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 17, 2026

Replying to @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place

There was a request submitted for cookies for Australian Shepherds. Nice try, Clementine. (But the do-si-dos are dog-friendly: peanut butter and oatmeal! So who am I to say if someone makes demands via PayPal?)

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 16, 2026

Replying to @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place

Okay, first off: hell yeah to public transportation workers. Unrelated: I offered my mailman a free box of Girl Scout cookies at the start of the season and told him I knew he was diabetic, but maybe he would like to bring it to a friend or family member? He told me he wasn’t “a practicing diabetic at the moment,” and cracked the Thin Mints open like a boss.

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 16, 2026

Just trying something.

Our Girl Scout cookie season is over, and we still have 85 boxes: 510 dollars worth of cookies.

If people PayPal me, I will give these cookies out to nurses, Waffle House employees, and any other good requests y'all have.

https://paypal.me/rcgordon

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 10, 2026

Replying to @aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place

@aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place @Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place the native midi library literally wants to play to the OS’s MIDI interfaces, which sucks for several technical reasons. SDL_mixer will decode midi with either a built-in copy of Timidity or FluidSynth, and plays through SDL’s audio (which supports sndio and Haiku’s BSoundPlayer). Maybe useful? https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL_mixer

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 09, 2026

Replying to @hardpenguin13@mastodon.gamedev.place

@hardpenguin13@mastodon.gamedev.place She's never been shy about how she wants to be a Supreme Court Justice, now we just need her to graduate middle school, go to law school and somehow get nominated, lol

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 07, 2026

Replying to @pieq@floss.social

@pieq@floss.social I’m one of the troop leaders for my daughter’s troop. She’s Olive, in the trailer. I’m the guy wearing the cookie costume, lol

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 07, 2026

Cookie Queens trailer is out! Come see us in theaters August 7th! https://youtu.be/nnSQS43Eil8

YouTube

Cookie Queens | Official Trailer | In Theaters August 7

RoadsideFlix

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · May 01, 2026

Monthly SDL3 bugfix release is out! https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/releases/tag/release-3.4.6

GitHub

Release 3.4.6 · libsdl-org/SDL

This is a stable bugfix release, with the following changes: Fixed Xbox controllers being unresponsive on preview release of Windows 11 Fixed enumerating subdirectories in the application assets o...

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 24, 2026

Replying to @Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place

@Doomed_Daniel@mastodon.gamedev.place I actually attempted to do a 2D renderer backend with Glide, and it wasn’t powerful enough. :( 256x256 texture size maximum, no render targets, etc.

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 24, 2026

Boosted by

Kevin Karhan @kkarhan@jorts.horse

Also, SDL3 now supports MS-DOS. Not even kidding. https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL/pull/15377

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 24, 2026

I love what Amir wrote for DragonRuby Game Toolkit’s seventh birthday. Making something you want to use yourself is so good. Go grab yourself a free copy! https://dragonruby.itch.io/dragonruby-gtk/devlog/1497015/dragonrubys-seventh-year-where-we-started-and-where-were-going

dragonruby.itch.io

DragonRuby's Seventh Year - Where We Started and Where We're Going - DragonRuby Game Toolkit by Drag

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 17, 2026

Replying to @pojntfx@mastodon.social

@pojntfx is something with a possible outcome of “destroys the whole system” a thing that the whole system should embrace?

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @sjmulder@bsd.network

@sjmulder@bsd.network @idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place just changed this to be a copy of AGENTS.md. I presume eventually everything will use AGENTS directly, but this will do for now.

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place

@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place @sjmulder@bsd.network I added a CLAUDE.md that says "the instructions are actually in AGENTS.md", let's see if handles that.

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @pojntfx@mastodon.social

@pojntfx but would you agree that our specific, documented concern—that an LLM generates code that we cannot guarantee the origin or licensing of—hasn’t changed in the last two years?

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @pojntfx@mastodon.social

@pojntfx Did you really walk away from that thread with the impression that we feel ChatGPT is the source of our problems and not Claude, Copilot, etc?

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Ryan C. Gordon @icculus@mastodon.gamedev.place · Apr 16, 2026

Replying to @lexplt@hachyderm.io

@lexplt@hachyderm.io Totally fine with me.

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