NEON STRUCT: Desperation Column is the third game in the NEON STRUCT series, and the second that I've released as a free game jam. The reason I've been doing game jams again recently is that sometimes I need the extrinsic motivation of a theme, a competition, or a deadline. I like making games, but it's easy to get lazy, and an extra push doesn't hurt. This is the first game jam I've done in a very long time that put gameplay first. I've been doing narrative-focused stuff for a while, and that's been gre...

I know you code games on the side of your real work, but do you have a vulkan backend in the works or even planned? An important update regarding native linux support: there is an on-going apocalypse with the GNU versioning of symbols. To work around this issue (and the other ones), binaries should be pure ELF64, and statically load only libdl with the 3 symbols dlopen/dlsym/dlclose, and nothing else (even distributed third party libs, statically linked or distributed shared libs). This is more work, but ...

I'm gonna start by saying this game is exactly where it needs to be, right now. It's simple, sure, and I beat it in like 30 minutes, but everything meshes perfectly in a way that I rarely see. That said, there are things that can be added to the game without sacrificing that perfect mesh. I'm deliberately going to *AVOID* touching the gun, or anything about how the gun works. The mechanics of the gun, the ammo capacity, and the rate at which new ammo drops all feel perfectly balanced right now, and I get...