Kevin Thompson
@kevinthompson
Dad; developer; tiny game creator. The games are tiny. I'm an average-sized person.
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As we come out of spooky season, it's time to start looking ahead to the winter holidays, and the #pico8 advent calendar! The elves are already hard at work on a collection of games for this year's calendar, but we could still use your help. itch.io/jam/pico-8-adv…
We've added a "Resources" section to the PICO-8 Advent Calendar jam page! It now includes 19 cartridges with holiday music provided by the #pico8 community for you to use in your games! itch.io/jam/pico-8-adv…
The holiday season is right around the corner and that means it’s almost time for another #pico8 Advent Calendar! Submissions for the 2025 PICO-8 Advent Calendar are open starting today and we’ll be accepting entries until the end of November. itch.io/jam/pico-8-adv…
🎉 Giveaway Time! 🥳 Enter now to explore dungeons, battle monsters, and uncover epic treasure on your very own Steam Deck. 🔗 Spread word of Pathfinder: Abomination Vaults for a chance to win: bit.ly/PAVSteamDeck ⏳ Competition ends 31st October!
It's done. Thanks for all the support and the new followers! If you're interested in getting the files I will likely be making them available for 5-10 dollars via my Printables and Etsy store in a week or so. Happy to answer any questions about it!
👋 Hi PDX folks! Come see us at the Portland @RetroGamingExpo! We'll have Playdates to play and buy, plus some fun merch 💫 📅 Sept. 28–29, Saturday - Sunday ✨ Playdate Panel on Sunday at 2, Room E145/146 📍Oregon Convention Center: Booth 1021 🎟️ retrogamingexpo.com
🛸UFO 50 by the numbers! 🎮50 games ⚔️16 versus modes 🫂11 coop modes ⛳️2 golf Games 🎨32 colors 📜8 years of history 🏡1 garden 💲25
Working on a new tool: Kenney Toolkit! It'll be free and contain many smaller tools common for game developers. Think icon creation, Steam capsule creation, Steam news images, input icons, video editing, watermarks, tilesheet creation/extracting and more! More on this soon ✨
👋 In Panic games news, don’t miss the Panic Games Showcase TOMORROW at 10 AM PT! Get behind the scenes info from the developers of Thank Goodness You’re Here!, Arco, despelote, Time Flies, Nour, and, yes, Herdling… plus a delicious giveaway… 🍦 Visit live.panic.com!
Wednesday game dev stream in a few minutes! Thinking I might explore procedural generation for my Pikmin-inspired #pico8 game, Moonbreak. - Twitch: twitch.tv/kevinmakesgames - YouTube: youtube.com/@kevinmakesgam…
I love thinking about games for game jams weekly, but my schedule doesn’t make completing games weekly very realistic.
Announcing the start of our full course of #pico8 #gamedev lessons! It's free thanks to our generous sponsors on ko-fi. Many want to learn PICO-8 but can't afford it let alone a paid course. So our videos will keep Education Edition learners in mind. youtube.com/shorts/ZmkEqml…
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The Start of Our New Course
Yesterday I wanted to read a bunch of game design articles, but I had other work I needed to be doing. I wanted them narrated to me in the background and I didn’t want to pay for some AI narration subscription service. kevinthompson.info/blog/convertin…
I ended up starting an entry for the @PursuingPixels game jam (itch.io/jam/pursuing-p…) in #pico8 on my stream this evening. The theme is “Parallel”. I have a little two player game started and I like where it’s going so far. Going to keep tinkering on it this week.
Starting my regular Wednesday game development stream in a few minutes. Today I'll be looking at a few game jams and exploring prototypes for them in #pico8. - Twitch: twitch.tv/kevinmakesgames - YouTube: youtube.com/@kevinmakesgam…
Going to stream a little #gamedev starting in a few minutes learning #GodotEngine. I’ll be live on Twitch (twitch.tv/kevinmakesgames) and Youtube (youtube.com/@kevinmakesgam…)!
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