Code-loving indie gamedev. A child of the C64/Amiga era.

Joined September 2013
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#pitchyagame Introducing Crownfront - a medieval strategy game, with procedurally generated maps. Command the Crown's army and get the King safely through enemy lines. A first demo is coming soon. Publishers are welcome to make contact.
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Added a wind generator, so now you can build structures that look like windmills. Also upgraded the cable tool so you can select the start and end voxels instead of placing each cable segment one by one.
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My little workplace geek corner
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The Situation Normal demo is now available. You can stop watching clips and play it yourself now. #situationnormal #indiegame #demo
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A French engineer who lives quietly in Paris has spent 30 years writing software that the entire internet now runs on without knowing his name. He wrote the code that streams every YouTube video, every Netflix show, every TikTok clip. He wrote the code that runs the virtual servers underneath AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. He calculated more digits of pi than anyone in history. He has no Twitter. He has no marketing. He just keeps shipping. His name is Fabrice Bellard. Here is the story, because almost nobody outside the systems programming world knows what one man has built. Fabrice was born in 1972 in Grenoble, France. He studied at École Polytechnique, the top French engineering school. He never went to Silicon Valley. He never built a startup empire. He just wrote code. In 2000 he started a project called FFmpeg, an open-source multimedia framework for encoding, decoding, and streaming video. He was 28. The project did one thing nobody else had done well. It handled every video and audio format that existed, in one library, on every operating system. He led it himself for years. Today FFmpeg is the invisible engine of the internet. YouTube uses it. Netflix uses it. VLC uses it. Chrome and Firefox use parts of it. Every Android phone, every iPhone, every smart TV, every video editing tool you have ever touched runs FFmpeg somewhere underneath. If you have watched a video on a screen in the last 20 years, Fabrice's code processed it. He was not done. In 2003 he started QEMU, a machine emulator and virtualizer. He wrote it solo until version 0.7.1 in 2005. QEMU lets you run any operating system on any other operating system. It became the foundation of modern virtualization. KVM, the Linux kernel hypervisor, runs on top of QEMU. Every major cloud provider, AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure, IBM Cloud, runs virtual machines on infrastructure built around it. The Quick Emulator is the most cited piece of cloud infrastructure code on Earth. He kept going. In 2001 he won the International Obfuscated C Code Contest with a small C compiler that grew into TCC, the Tiny C Compiler. TCC can compile and boot a Linux kernel from source in under 15 seconds. In 2004 he calculated the most digits of pi ever computed at the time, using a personal desktop computer and an algorithm he derived himself called Bellard's formula. In 2011 he wrote a complete PC emulator in pure JavaScript that runs Linux in your browser, a project called JSLinux that engineers still cannot believe is real. In 2019 he released QuickJS, a small but complete JavaScript engine that fits where V8 cannot. In 2021 he released NNCP, a neural network based lossless data compressor that immediately took the lead on the Large Text Compression Benchmark. Then he turned his attention to large language models. He built TextSynth Server, a web server with a REST API for running LLMs locally. He released ts_zip and ts_sms, compression utilities that use language models to compress text and short messages at ratios traditional algorithms cannot reach. He released TSAC, a very low bitrate audio compression system. In December 2025 he released Micro QuickJS, a new JavaScript engine for microcontrollers, separate from QuickJS, designed for environments with almost no memory. Fabrice co-founded a telecom company called Amarisoft in 2012, where he serves as CTO. Amarisoft builds 4G and 5G base station software used by carriers and labs around the world. He has been running it for over a decade while continuing to ship personal projects from his own home page at bellard dot org He has no Twitter. He has no Instagram. He gives almost no interviews. His personal website is a flat list of projects with no styling, no fonts, no marketing copy. Just titles and links. A quiet French engineer who never moved to Silicon Valley wrote the code that quietly runs the internet. He is still shipping.
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Finished Crimson Desert (160 hrs). Generally a good game, a huge world to explore (biggest open-world game?). I only touched like 50%. Now it's time for the new Bond-game 🤗
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What if your hero's deck was built from the life they actually lived?🃏 🧬= 🤯 In Obsidian Prince, every adventure & skill tree choice shapes how you play. Pick from 9 unique classes Beesmaster 🐝, Shroomherder 🍄, Rouge 🗡️ & more 👉store.steampowered.com/app/1… #Pitchyagame time 🥳
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Draft a party that shouldn't work. Then save the world anyway. Seer's Gambit is a tactical roguelite built on unlikely hero synergies. 🧙 Explore Emalon 🗺️, turn victories into upgrades, and unlock new heroes & buffs for your next run. 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/2… #PitchYaGame
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#PitchYaGame 🪙 Teaser #2 of my "little" arcade project. 👀
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Hey #PitchYaGame Take command of a drone gunship. - Provide close air support - Guide ground troops through combat - Complete military objectives - Manage ammo, upgrades and resources between missions Try the Demo: store.steampowered.com/app/3…
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Game devs don't get told this enough, so I'm saying it. You're doing an awesome job and I'm proud of you. Making a game is one of the most vulnerable things you can do. It's art, an extension of yourself and what you love, and showing that to the world takes guts. Keep going! ❤️
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Beautiful monday morning 😴😴☕️☕️☕️☕️☕️
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Gaming isn’t just a hobby. It’s cheaper than therapy and works faster.
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LAUNCH ANNOUNCEMENT Forbidden Solitaire is out now! We are immensely proud to release this awesome game made by two veteran indie studios and we hope you really like it. Steam: tinyurl.com/ywj43ptj GOG: tinyurl.com/2s3sv45j Itch: tinyurl.com/3k4bjt8m Plz share, thx!
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