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Tiny Indie Studio Looking for People

tolongames — Thu, 14 May 2026 12:39:29 +0000

Hi everyone.

We are Windfall Studio, a small indie game team working on our first Steam game, Beatlow, which will be released soon.

Beatlow started as our first real commercial project and a way for us to learn how to actually finish and ship a game. It’s a rhythm/music game, but we don’t want to stick to that genre.

Our goal is simple:

We want to create games that we genuinely believe should exist, but for some reason don’t.

Just games that feel unique, memorable and worth making.

Right now the team is very small, and we’re looking for more people who’d like to help build the studio long-term.

We’re currently looking for:

Unity Programmers
3D Artists
UI/UX Designers
Marketing / Community people
And other people who would be willing to join

We work mostly in Unity and are interested in both 2D and 3D games, singleplayer and multiplayer, while also planning to explore Unreal Engine in the near future.

This is indie development, so honesty matters: we’re still small, still growing, and still figuring things out along the way. At the moment we are not able to offer financial compensation, but if any of our games start generating revenue, we fully intend to share it with the people who helped bring them to life.

We’re serious about actually shipping games and improving with every project.

Our first Steam game:
Beatlow:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4019820/Beatlow/

If this sounds interesting to you, feel free to message me on Discord:
Username: onlytolon

Scribelog — TypeScript-first logger for Node.js

tolongames — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 09:25:13 +0000

I built Scribelog to stop wasting time wrestling with logger configs. It’s a TypeScript-first, configurable logger for Node apps with sensible defaults, useful adapters, and features you actually need in production — masking secrets, requestId propagation, batching, multiple transports, and easy child loggers. Give it a spin.

Why you might care

TypeScript-first + great DX — full types and autocompletion out of the box.
Multiple transports (Console, File, HTTP, WebSocket, TCP, UDP) + batching — send logs where they belong and reduce I/O with AsyncBatch.
Framework adapters — ready middleware/plugins for Express, Koa, Fastify, NestJS and Next.js so integration is trivial.
Security & observability extras — built-in sensitive-data masking, automatic request/trace ID propagation via AsyncLocalStorage, and optional automatic error handling.

Current release: v2.0.0 (freshly published). Weekly downloads are low right now — perfect time to try it and provide feedback.

Quick start (copy-paste)

npm i scribelog
# or: pnpm add scribelog

import { createLogger, format } from 'scribelog';

const logger = createLogger({
  level: 'info',
  format: format.combine(
    format.timestamp(),
    format.simple()
  ),
});

logger.info('Scribelog ready!');
logger.warn('This is a warning', { detail: 'cache near limit' });

(Check the README for JSON/file/http transports, batching and masking examples.) ([npm][1])

Integrations & common uses

Use adapters.express.createMiddleware({ logger }) to log requests with requestId and duration.
Attach AsyncBatch to an HTTP transport to buffer and gzip logs before sending to your collector.
Use format.maskSensitive([ 'password', 'token', 'apiKey' ]) to redact secrets before they leave your process.

TL;DR — when to try Scribelog

You want typed logging in Node + good defaults (timestamp, splat, errors).
You need quick adapters for web frameworks (Express/Fastify/Nest/Next).
You want built-in masking + requestId propagation without wiring AsyncLocalStorage yourself.
You want a good, advanced and highly configurable logging library for Node.js

Links / feedback

GitHub (docs, issues, PRs): https://github.com/tolongames/scribelog.
npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/scribelog/.

If you try it: open an issue with any rough edges, or drop a PR with an example for your framework — I’ll iterate fast. If you post this somewhere, ping me (@tolongames) and I’ll answer questions in the thread.

Indie Game Dev Looking for Team Members

tolongames — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 19:01:36 +0000

Hello everyone!

I'm an indie game dev who is assembling a small team to begin work on a new 2D game — and we're searching for passionate and imaginative individuals to join us from the ground up. No complete concept yet — we'd like to develop it together as a group.

🧠 What is the project?

Currently, we're still in the brainstorming phase and determining the precise game concept — you can influence it from the very beginning.

What we do know:

We're beginning with a 2D game
We'll be using Unity
We also aim to venture into 3D games in the future.

🤝 Who we're looking for

We're not incorporating a company or making official hires. Just creating a friendly, collaborative team to work together on something awesome. You don't have to be an expert — just come with your enthusiasm and creativity!

We’d love to connect with people who are:

🎨 2D Artists / Pixel Artists
🔊 Composers / Sound Designers
🧠 Game Designers / Level Designers
💻 Unity Programmers (C#)
👀 Or anyone excited to build a game from scratch!

🚀 What we provide

An opportunity to co-create something right from scratch
A relaxed and artistic atmosphere — no stress, just enthusiasm
Open communication and mutual decision-making
In case the game goes commercial: equitable profit distribution to all contributors

📬 How to join us

Interested? Want to help shape a new game from day one? Let’s chat!

Discord: onlytolon
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