Hi, I’m Tijn!

Tech consultant, coffee lover, and indie game developer from Amsterdam.

You might know me from my Playdate game Voidblazers, as well as projects like Hopper and gbforth.

Find me over at Bluesky, GitHub and itch.io.

I’m currently working on Zest, a web runtime for Pulp games, letting developers publish their game directly to the browser!

Work

• ✦Zest Mar '26
  Web runtime for Pulp games.
• Hopper Aug '25
  Small Web client for Playdate, launched with GeoPeeDees.
• Thornfell Manor: 1984 Dec '24
  Spooky text adventure written in PunyInform. Available on IFDB and itch.io.
• ✦Voidblazers Aug '24
  Story-driven shoot ‘em up for Playdate. Available on Catalog and itch.io.
• Soko Feb '23
  Teensy Sokoban for Playdate. Available on Catalog and itch.io.
• gbforth Jul '18
  Forth-based Game Boy development kit.

Tech Talks

• Finding the Corner of the Internet You Love Mar '21
  Podcast episode about Amsterdam Hackers for Fork Pull Merge Push.
• GBForth: Using Forth to understand the Game Boy Feb '19
  Conference talk at FOSDEM, Brussels.
• Codemods: Refactoring JavaScript with JavaScript Dec '18
  Meetup talk about code transformations at AmsterdamJS.

Posts

• Beyond Catalog: Why you should start sideloading on your Playdate Jan '26
• Why Play Games When You Can Write a Game Boy Compiler Instead? Feb '23
• Creating a game with gbforth Oct '20