matt sephton

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gingerbeardman

💾 FITS ON A FLOPPY 🤓 Indie Dev since ~1990
🟨 YOYOZO (GOTY 2023) 🕹️Retro Games 🗿Moai
💿 Macintosh Magazine Media 🍎 ex-Apple

blog: https://blog.gingerbeardman.com
twitter: https://twitter.com/gingerbeardman
bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/gingerbeardman.com
YOYOZO: https://play.date/games/yoyozo/

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2026-05-18 19:57:37 CEST

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some of mine! I’m more of a brass and bass fan than piano
modern:
Rindert Lammers “Thank You Kirin Kiki”
Floating Points, Pharoah Sanders & LSO “Promises”
GoGo Penguin “A Humdrum Star”
Jazz Is Dead (JID, series)
Portico Quartet (earlier the better)
old other:
Tarika Blue “Tarika Blue”
Frank Morgan “Mood Indigo”
modern Japanese:
Thiiird Place “This is Thiiird Place”
old Japanese:
Hiroshi Suzuki “Cat”
TERUMASA HINO “City Connection”
RYO FUKUI “Scenery”

2025-08-15 07:40:51 CEST

OMG a new song from Bran Van 3000 😍
https://song.link/https:/music.apple.com/gb/album/kings-of-las-vegas-feat-fabjustfab-liquidltd/1831650420?i=1831650421

2025-07-23 20:13:06 CEST

This week's #NewMusicMix is French House direct from Tokyo Japan
"Just Brokenhearted EP" by DÉ DÉ MOUSE
https://song.link/https:/music.apple.com/gb/album/just-brokenhearted-ep/1825285536
Even all the gorgeous vocal effects and effects filtering can't hide the heartbreak. Go easy on yourself 💔

2025-07-18 01:43:13 CEST

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in my app dither is now a brush property so I should theoretically be able to do that combo. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@gingerbeardman/114871176305552738

2025-07-17 23:52:43 CEST

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i’ve not tried that one! pic plz

2025-05-01 17:14:40 CEST

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I will do this for Dreamcast at some point. 4-player “Sensible Soccer”!

2025-05-01 17:05:24 CEST

Another abandoned project blog post: in late-2023 I built a prototype for a Playdate arcade soccer game that was set to be a promotional companion to the soccer-infused first-person slice-of-life game Despelote (out today—May 1st, 2025) https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/05/01/abandoned-project-soccer-for-playdate/
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/433/191/005/636/264/original/191cb8555da26617.mp4

2025-04-21 22:55:03 CEST

I'm interested to read about the history of the Amiga, from when it was set to be an Atari computer through development and launch to the first years after release. Any good articles or books?

2025-04-16 09:27:14 CEST

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I hope that first you enjoyed them! But thank you

2025-04-15 23:09:31 CEST

New blog post!
"When Playdate Stopped Being Fun"
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/04/15/when-playdate-stopped-being-fun/

2025-03-26 12:48:10 CET

17 years bashing on my A1243 keyboard, and it's still going strong.
However, it’s worth noting that I recently bought an A1843 (first generation "Magic Keyboard with Numeric Pad") to use out and about: weighs 100g less, bluetooth, thinner & easier to carry. Though still prefer typing on the A1243.
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/228/572/266/186/960/original/824b414c2a90910a.jpeg

2025-03-18 00:15:34 CET

Testing the three different types of tilesets (samegame, extended samegame, macigame) #marchintosh #macigame #samegame #sharkturtle #love2d
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/180/314/446/225/887/original/2d6ea81fb9c42991.mp4

2025-03-17 20:33:20 CET

Am I ready to inflict a loss of productivity this huge on the world? With puzzles comes great responsibility. 😅 #love2d #samegame #sharkturtle
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/179/440/616/914/157/original/1672a8d95ac16578.mp4

2025-03-12 17:35:52 CET

I released an enhanced version of the sfrx.lua demo app, adding: history/undo/redo, auto play on changes, keyboard control of file picker, and several more fixes and QOL changes.
https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2025/03/11/enhanced-sfxr-for-love2d/
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2025-02-25 18:58:23 CET

The overarching concept for my shmup game: everything is based on Water and its various states: liquid, ice, steam & the interplay with hot and cold bullets & the viscosity of water slowing versus air. feels good! #aquaplane
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/114/065/821/026/732/637/original/a248352b9cb953a5.mp4

2024-12-07 17:18:00 CET

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I need to do a deep dive into such luminary phrasing

2024-12-06 17:34:23 CET

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keep on keepin’ on! had to buy a new hifi to be able to do it 😜
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/606/843/591/218/294/original/5b4fdb0285245868.jpeg

2024-12-06 17:13:54 CET

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For a physical copy on CD, MiniDisc, Tape check out my bandcamp: https://gingerbeardman.bandcamp.com/album/2024
Artwork by Hiroshi Nagai

2024-12-06 17:13:40 CET

Here's my #2024 DJ mix!
https://www.mixcloud.com/gingerbeardman/2024/
An upbeat selection of 24 of my favourite tracks from a year of #NewMusicMix
I was inspired to make it after becoming obsessed with Soichi Terada’s Essential Mix from 2022. That's the vibe I was going for.

2024-12-01 17:13:01 CET

Favourite obscure video game featuring snow? Let's go.
Winter Gold (1996, SNES)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=4IMCpUCby2U

2024-11-23 20:54:14 CET

Noticed my 5-star solid gold movie-of-the-year is now streaming on Apple TV and Amazon Movies.
It's a 3 hour subtitled French period drama, but I was perched on the edge of my seat for the duration. Loved it.
"The Count of Monte-Cristo" (2024)
https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/le-comte-de-monte-cristo
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2024-09-04 21:56:13 CEST

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I thought about it but then saw that the last update was 2019

2024-09-04 16:00:06 CEST

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watch out! you can easily get lost on the Japanese section of that site. I dare not look at the other sections!

2024-09-04 15:43:03 CEST

Hanafuda-inspired ex-libris bookplate woodblock print
http://art-exlibris.net/exlibris/11080?query=nationalitet-52&pt=owner
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/113/079/575/012/468/468/original/2db21ac646b2a546.jpeg

2024-08-20 01:22:04 CEST

@npub1lfl…ehf7 have you heard of or tried the whoop fitness tracker? Seems to me that you might like the kind of info it reports.

2024-08-01 02:15:20 CEST

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there's an email address that is the main funnel for support. Here's the last reply, which I won't be responding to!
https://cdn.masto.host/mastodongamedevplace/media_attachments/files/112/883/880/409/007/560/original/2e21ff7522af6845.png

2024-08-01 00:42:48 CEST

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I've taken this to the press

2024-07-31 12:12:28 CEST

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terrifying. interestingly nothing gets deleted when you (or in this case: they) delete an account. They just mark the userid as "unused". Signing up with the same email address relinks your uploads. Really they should relink everything including the old username. They seem typically reluctant to go the whole way on this but I'll keep pressing

2024-07-31 04:00:30 CEST

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so this is a larger issue that isn't being talked about. Many users effectively had their accounts removed thanks to a "glitch". Logging back in with the same email address links your old uploads to a new account. But the old username, favourites, web archives, ...all gone.

2024-07-29 18:24:00 CEST

Recently, for unknown reasons, and against common accepted knowledge that usernames cannot be changed at @npub1umd…wfr7 ...my username has been changed ...from gingerbeardman (since I joined in 2015) to matt_sephton, which is somewhat concerning as it has broken many old links.