Simon Dalvai

I blog now monthly since more than 3 years and I nearly missed the deadline this month.

After several attempts to create good looking gifs for my game on Steam, I found Gifski.

As of today, I run my phone Google free (at least everywhere I can influence).

My Godot game 99Managers, a sport management game, has a lot of UI and text.

I showcased my game 99Managers Futsal Edition already twice.

In January 2025 I got my first split keyboard.

Also this year I want to celebrate I Love Free Software Day.

I recently added cross platform save game synchronization to my game.

On this exact day 3 years ago, I published my first blog post.

During the 7 and 8 November I attended again SFSCON 2025.

This time I want to share how to center a single buffer in Neovim using only Lua and no plugins.

On this exact day one year ago, my journey as a solo game developer began.

I started using Godot 3 around 5 years ago.

I have been working on a Thinkpad T470s for about 2 years now.

The more I work with Godot all day, the more edge cases I face.

I learned programming with Java, a statically typed language.

This is the complete blog post to my talk at the Software Developer's Thursday.

Resources in Godot are really powerful and can make a Game Devs life easier in many ways.

It's been a long time since I wanted to share a list of FOSS projects I really enjoy.

Since some months now, I'm happily using Neovim as an external editor with Godot Engine 3 and 4.

To release a game on Steam, it is good to have at least one video trailer about the game.

This year I started using Sway on my laptop running the latest stable Debian 12.

I was using VSCode and later VSCodium for some years as my editor for everything.

I'm excited to announce that today is my first official day as a full time indie game developer.

To use websockets within your Godot game on itch.io, or any other website, a secure websocket connection, aka wss://, is mandatory.

Yes, it is worth it, if you like writing (or nowadays, prefer to let some fancy VC backed LLM service do the writing).

There is now a new and updated FAQ on 99managers.org, the official website of the game.

GDScript is a dynamic typed language, but you can add type hints, that make it a Static Typed language.

After I missed this year's CSS Naked Day on 9th of April, I'm happy to participate to the JS Naked Day on 24th of April.

Flathub is an Open Source and community driven App Store for any GNU/Linux system.

In this post I would like to show what impact open sourcing my games had and why you should consider open sourcing your game too.

My 3D Godot game Ball2Box needs some variety, so I created some portals for new levels.

To upload a app to the App Store, you need to create a Developer Certificate.

Also this year I had a talk at SFSCON 2023 about F-Droid.

Godot Resources in a nutshell Godot has a lot cool features built in that make game development a joyful ride.

App to organize the Italian Fantasy Football game "Fantacalcio" auction.

The main target of the Godot Engine are game developers.

Happy 30th Birthday Debian!

After using libGDX, since 2020 I create my games only with Godot Engine.

I just bought a refurbished Pixel 5 to upgrade from my Samsung Galaxy S5.

With the following two Github Actions you can export a Godot game to HTML and upload it to itch.io godot-html-export itchio-butler-upload First you need to create a game on itch.io with all the needed information, then a first build can be uploaded with t…

F-Droid is an awesome app that gives you access to thousands of Free and Open Source Software apps and games.

You can support me by buying my games on Steam.

Last week I implemented dark mode on my website, without using any JS and only modern CSS media queries.

I create games since 2018 and here I want to share my experience with libGDX and Godot.

99Managers™ Futsal Edition, is a Open Source Futsal Manager game.

To publish a game to Apple App Store or Google Play Store, screenshots of the game are needed.

In my last blog post I explained how my Github Action, to automatically export and upload Godot iOS games to the Apple App Store, works.

Github Actions allow you to automate repetitive tasks, like exporting your game for iOS and uploading it to the App Store.

Swipe to shoot the ball into the box in over 100 levels with only one finger.