Maker of games and things, namely Cadence www.thefuntastic.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mldkduq7je2zCadence is your App of the Day across all of Europe! 🎉 🎉🎉 A surreal moment: I've been working towards this for 13 years!08 May 2026 10:44 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mldkduq7je2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mjwafn5uvs25Woke up to the news that Cadence is App of the Day in Australia and New Zealand! 🥲 https://apps.apple.com/us/story/id187810778420 Apr 2026 10:16 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwafn5uvs25https://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mhkxcnnxb427Cadence is 15% off in the Steam spring sale! https://store.steampowered.com/app/362800/Cadence/ Perfect time to grab it if you missed the launch discount! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1tj7dWQBAY21 Mar 2026 11:43 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhkxcnnxb427https://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mgmfy6vcyb2lSay you've been working on a game for 13 years without saying you've been working on a game for 13 years...09 Mar 2026 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgmfy6vcyb2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mghf2e47ay27It's been a bit bizarre and frustrating securing coverage for Cadence, but then you discover that small creator has made an absolute gem of a review and it puts a smile on your face! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1tj7dWQBAY07 Mar 2026 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mghf2e47ay27https://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mfueniyu5s23What's that, just a casual FRONT PAGE OF THE FREAKING APP STORE!!27 Feb 2026 18:46 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfueniyu5s23https://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mfpgtsqejc23Cadence was born in the same game jam as Mini Metro. To see it on the same best of list, despite coming out more than a decade apart it's breaking my brain in the best way possible! 🤯 [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Feb 2026 19:42 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpgtsqejc23https://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mezanh3dn22e@eddybox.bsky.social I don't think we've ever met at any events, but just wanted to say osmos is probably one of my favourite games from the early days of the app store... Was very influential on me as a baby game dev! Also didn't realise you worked on Gibbon. A++ Execution!!16 Feb 2026 23:52 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mezanh3dn22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mennakwldt2dCadence is out now! Make music by solving circuits. It took 13 years to figure how to do this well! Beyond the puzzles: 🐈‍⬛ Pet Ren, the cat! 📜 Enjoy Ren's life philosophy (all text is skippable) 🎹 Use the sandbox to make music 🧮 Or explore turing complete contraptions12 Feb 2026 09:06 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mennakwldt2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3meliy5zkyc23Me: Spends 13 years making game. Also me: Wakes up on release day to find the big RELEASE YOUR GAME button on Steam is no longer there... AFAICT, I'm "missing" an image that I've had for six years?!? Waiting for a response to my support ticket and feeling very defeated right now...11 Feb 2026 12:44 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3meliy5zkyc23https://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3mdkgstnhzn2wCADENCE HAS A RELEASE DATE!! ✅ Good shit puzzles! ✅ Makin' sick beats! ✅ Emotions & stuff! ✅ Pet the cat! ✅ 13 friggin' years in development! 🙀 Put it in your earholes 11 Feb 2026! youtu.be/YIN-nrFr7EQ Steam: l.madewithmonsterlove.com/wishlist iOS: l.madewithmonsterlove.com/ios_preorder https://youtu.be/YIN-nrFr7EQ29 Jan 2026 09:08 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3mdkgstnhzn2whttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3m5qbc5pwxf25Localising Cadence made me understand I was influenced by the East more than I consciously realised... But also we're getting real close to shipped now!16 Nov 2025 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5qbc5pwxf25https://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3m5nqt74y7q2eUsing Unity after several years absence: I've been pleasantly surprised to find state of most things is better than I remember it. Unity's IAP Purchasing is not one of those. Message from my future self: Just use RevenueCat...15 Nov 2025 08:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3m5nqt74y7q2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3lwvffptulk2bIt only took 12 years, but I have just implemented THE most important feature in Cadence... #PetTheCat21 Aug 2025 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lwvffptulk2bhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3lvs6tv7p472eThem: Just release your game, it's done right? Me:07 Aug 2025 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lvs6tv7p472ehttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3luoydf66vu2fThis is the most conceptually challenging tile in Cadence. Have been musing for years if I should even build it, and how on earth to telegraph it to users. Fitting the last piece of content is my best work to date - really happy with the polish here.24 Jul 2025 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3luoydf66vu2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3ltjvk5wf6n2fPaid Dreamhost $1000 over the last five years for a broken wordpress website because I was too lazy to port my email away from them. They rubbed salt in the wounds by making me pay an extra $20 cancellation for a "free" domain registration from over 10 years ago 🙄09 Jul 2025 13:15 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ltjvk5wf6n2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3lsbpuqnun22nToday I was brutally attacked by truth... [contains quote post or other embedded content]23 Jun 2025 13:47 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lsbpuqnun22nhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3ls46ek6drk27This has been a brutal leadership lesson: Explaining an idea to a room full of 15 people, and getting 15 different interpretations back. Especially when nuanced. And that was just 15, not 400! I have a lot more sympathy for the derivative nature of AAA now... [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Jun 2025 08:51 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3ls46ek6drk27https://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3lqzddf36fj2qBeing an adult: having the money to buy fancy Lego. Also being an adult: waiting a year before finding the time to start building it...07 Jun 2025 12:16 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqzddf36fj2qhttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3lqtrifqulk2aI need to get over the idea I'm only capable of "programmer art". But also pulling off something you have no rights to is pure magic... perhaps I should start believing I can't program to recapture that beginners joy? Anyway, can't close Blender, because how cute is this guy I made?!? 🥹05 Jun 2025 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqtrifqulk2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3lqrazet5ck2aAn e.g. of how mad gamedev in 2025 is: Great, look at this niche games festival full of my prospective audience... ...with 477 niche games. That's more than the entire number of games that launched on Steam in the 2013, the year I started working on Cadence. 🪦04 Jun 2025 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqrazet5ck2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3lqpddruqhz2sCadence is a minimalist zen game about solving circuits to generate music. To find out what that means, there's a brand new Steam demo available as part of the #CerebralPuzzleShowcase by @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social! https://store.steampowered.com/app/362800/Cadence/ https://store.steampowered.com/app/362800/Cadence/?beta=103 Jun 2025 12:50 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lqpddruqhz2shttps://bsky.app/profile/thefuntastic.bsky.social/post/3lnmoeipzwo25Producing promotional material is my anathema, but seeing Cadence taking its final form is slightly thrilling...25 Apr 2025 07:14 +0000at://did:plc:ng2v62f6sjnuthwcclughkcx/app.bsky.feed.post/3lnmoeipzwo25