It's been quite the journey to get to this point, but Novantica – the sci-fi adventure game that I've been working on – is coming soon to Steam!. Wishlist it today

I made a thing to sync vals from @ValDotTown to GitHub and then back to Val Town. It takes a little bit of setup right now, but have some ideas on how to simplify things a bit:

Overall, it's still a fairly simple site, but I'm quite pleased with how the setup ended up. Let me know what you think and if you have any ideas on how to make it better

The avatar is an SVG component/service that is used in the site, as the favicon, and in the OG image service: OG images are their own dynamic service:

The site also uses middleware to track server-side analytics (stored in SQLite), handle robots.txt, handle redirects, generate an rss.xml file, and set cache headers, using

The content is still hosted at and the val that renders the site imports a static JSON file from gh-pages. I tried using Val Town storage as well, but the JSON import seemed simple and straightforward.

It uses React to render to stream on the server. I tested two versions: one with hydration on the client and one with vanilla JS scripts to handle the color schemes. I went with the vanilla JS version because it was noticeably faster.

I was originally planning to create a dynamic site on @valdottown then create a separate val that fetched each page and committed static HTML to a gh-pages site for perf reasons, but Val Town was fast enough that I stuck with the dynamic one

I recently rebuilt my personal site with @valdottown, and it's way faster than I thought it'd be. I'll explain how I set it all up

You can try it out here: Built with @valdottown so you can fork it to customize it however you want:

I made a minimal web-based markdown editor with Vim keybindings because why not

RT @LincolnRestler: Congestion pricing is the right policy for NYC and provides essential funding for buses and subways. After so many ye….

Shipped two small UI updates to @ValDotTown today. Suggested starting points for new users & truncated readmes to get to the code faster. What do you think?

I rebuilt Colorable on @ValDotTown – test color contrast with a URL that you can share anywhere:

Novantica Garage puzzle gameplay teaser #indiegame #indiedev #IndieGameDev

Holograms

I love particles

Don't get caught

Temporal anomaly

I wrote about how I set up the interior scene transitions in Novantica #unity3d #indiedev #IndieGameDev .