Retzonel || BUILDING IKENOBI

I just wanna build stuff⚡|| Underground GameDev w/ Unity && C# || Learning Flutter && Dart || 🇳🇬 || building IKENOBI @creotlystudios
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Sola Fide

[Retzonel || BUILDING IKENOBI @retzonel]

✨ Took part in this year’s Africacomicade Game Jam!
The theme was “Connect” and my team made a connect-the-dots game with a story twist😅
👉 https://t.co/5VpxsNXqfZ
Grateful for the chance to team up with new people and try something different.💡 Thanks @africacomicade
#GameJam

[Obi Emmanuel @_obiski]

Participated in the Squad Hackathon 3.0 alongside @dixx_david 🚀

We didn’t make the final top 3, but we finished in the top 30 out of 160+ teams from an initial pool of over 1,600 applicants.

[Polymath Investor @polymathinvest1]

A few months back, I published this guide on how to remember everything you read.
Re-sharing it here for anyone who finds these protocols useful.

(1/11)

[Adedoyin Emmanuel Adeniyi 🚀 @Emmysoft_Tm]

2021-2022, I met Prime on Facebook and bro inspired me to start building and talking about games. I built 9ja flappy bird then and it was really cool. I remember the day I launched it lol. Through Prime, I connected with guys like Azi, Tamar, Retzonel, Israel. Peak times ngl.

[Retzonel || BUILDING IKENOBI @retzonel]

it's hard fam

[thissmay @thissmay]

is game dev really hard or am i intellectually lacking

[Daniel Shontan @PilgrimArcheon]

Well I’m a Nigerian Indie Developer and I create games.

Would you play this??

[GlobalGameJam @globalgamejam]

⏳Final hours for the Pan-African Game Jam 2026 — submissions close today May 11!

If you’ve been hesitating, this is your moment. Your game doesn’t need to be perfect, it just needs to be shared!

Get it in before it’s too late: https://t.co/WhoHyeKXBj

@Lagosgamesweek #GameDev

[Johnmark Obiefuna @jayhemz]

Bro doesn't know that even modern Compilers still have bugs and need to be maintained, and have their features improved on.

There was a case of a Dev who, after coding an application that was throwing errors, went into the compiler, and found that the compiler was the problem. That's not learnt in a bootcamp.

Computer Science isn't about building that your fine React website, it's about understanding and building computing systems and underlying platforms.

Maybe you're part of the devs Tosin was referring to.

[Manuel 'TheDuriel' Fischer @the_duriel]

To teach game developers programming, you have to trick them into believing they're learning some special secret game development type programming that's totally easier than the real deal.

[Johnmark Obiefuna @jayhemz]

In case you've been seeing my tweets, note this carefully.

I'm not the best in any single thing, but I'm the best in the composition of things.

This perspective is useful in case of those struggling about not knowing where to focus on. Early in my career, I start a tutorial in Data Analytics, stop, enter DevOps, stop, enter programming, stop, back to data analytics.

I sat myself down one day and wondered how I'll "make it" laidiss.

I HAVE NOT YET MADE IT, but the direction is clearer. I operate at a high level, a strategic level, bird's eye view if you will. And in some cases, I've been flown in by clients locally and internationally to fix raging problems, which I've mostly been successful doing.

So in case you're confused, it's normal. Get all you can get in different, almost unrelated areas, you may end up being the glue when unrelated challenges show up.

Put yourself out there, and keep pushing.

[Retzonel || BUILDING IKENOBI @retzonel]

👨🏾‍💻

[GlobalGameJam @globalgamejam]

There’s still time to join the Pan-African Game Jam 2026 — you still have the whole weekend to create and submit your game before the jam ends on May 11!

Keep building and submit before it’s too late: https://t.co/WhoHyeKXBj

#GameDev #IndieDev #Africa #GameJam #IndieGames

[GlobalGameJam @globalgamejam]

There’s still time to join the Pan-African Game Jam 2026 — you still have the whole weekend to create and submit your game before the jam ends on May 11!

Keep building and submit before it’s too late: https://t.co/WhoHyeKXBj

#GameDev #IndieDev #Africa #GameJam #IndieGames

[random guy on the internet @KharayKrayKray]

“I used to feel Nigerians are really bright. We’ve had over 500 vacancies since 2024, and we’re still struggling to find Nigerians to fill those roles.”

This moniepoint?

[Bams @tormentor0001]

@jayhemz Ignore the trolls

[Johnmark Obiefuna @jayhemz]

One of the issues in hiring in Nigeria is that people don't understand first principles.

Computer Science isn't about coding. It's about mathematical concepts and logic that facilitate the creation of computing tools and platforms.

A bulk of Computer Science is actually Mathematics, but as they apply to computing. For example, you learn Automata Theory, Context Free Grammars (CFGs), etc etc. It's largely theoretical.

Now, a Computer Scientist should use knowledge got from Automata Theory to build Compilers or Programming Languages. That's how it works.

Many of these self-taught developers just take a stack and run with it without understanding the underlying workings. You still can't be at the level of Computer Scientists who deeply understand these concepts and create tools that you use and feel good about yourselves. Your bootcamp and Udemy subscription isn't a Computer Science degree.

[Jonathan Blow @Jonathan_Blow]

It's been 3 months since the 100x vibers started 100x vibin'! So, post your 25-years-of-work-equivalent project here, so we can signal boost and everyone can celebrate the Life's Work that you did in 3 months. Looking forward to it, Let's Go!!!

[Kenney @KenneyNL]

You can download all my assets for free today, https://t.co/jxRUi6wXOa

(read this again tomorrow)

[Rafe Esin @rsty_rafe]

Custom sliders in flutter

Range slider and a simple slider:

[Johnmark Obiefuna @jayhemz]

Not many know that MS Nigeria once hired a Software Engineer who was still schooling at UNILAG.

Maybe this one is extreme, but can you imagine a Nigerian employer hiring someone STILL IN SCHOOL?

I say MS see Baba portfolio as an undergraduate, he got snapped up. Nothing like, "You're still in school, what do you know?" People like this are still out there o, but Tosin knows quality more than Microsoft.

Okay na!!

[Retzonel || BUILDING IKENOBI @retzonel]

brodie thinks he a contrarian

some shii just cringe worthy, it don't even gotta be deep i guess

[b ✈︎ @benjamingjoel]

Tosin Eniolorunda @Eniolorunda, CEO of @moniepointng, just spoke the brutal truth that too many Nigerians don’t want to hear. Instead of reflecting, a lot of people chose to attack him. That alone shows part of the problem.

Since 2024,@moniepointng made a clear decision: hire only Nigerians. Right now, they have over 500 open positions that remain unfilled. Not because there are no applicants. Thousands are applying. The issue is most of them cannot meet the global standards this company demands.

Let’s be very clear.@moniepointng is not competing inside Nigeria. They are battling serious Chinese fintech giants and the best payment companies in the world. They need exceptional engineers, data scientists, backend developers, product managers, and payment systems experts who can operate at the absolute highest level. This is real high-stakes work, not mediocrity.

Certificates are everywhere in Nigeria. But actual competence? Deep technical mastery, clean and scalable code, strong system design, fast execution, real ownership, and the ability to solve complex problems under pressure? That is extremely rare. And that scarcity is killing our progress.

Tosin did not sugarcoat anything. He pointed directly at the root problems:

> Our education system has totally failed. It keeps producing graduates who can memorize textbooks but cannot think critically or deliver real solutions.

> Brain drain is destroying the country. The most talented and disciplined young people are leaving Nigeria in large numbers every single year.

> Modern youth culture has become toxic. Endless hours on social media, get-rich-quick schemes, yahoo culture, hookup culture, and zero discipline are destroying focus, ambition, and work ethic for far too many.

These factors are shrinking the pool of serious talent.

Stop pretending this is not happening. Yes, there are good developers and talented Nigerians. But when you look at our population of over 200 million people, the number of truly world-class professionals is painfully small. Companies trying to build at a global scale feel this crisis every single day.

I stand with Tosin Eniolorunda 100%. @moniepointng
has already given jobs to thousands of Nigerians. They are not the enemy. They have every right to refuse to lower global standards just to fill seats with people who cannot deliver. In fintech, one single mistake or weakness can cost millions of dollars and destroy trust forever. The bar must stay high.

If you are one of the people angry at the CEO right now, I have a simple challenge for you: look in the mirror.
Stop the endless excuses.
Cut the distractions immediately.
Stop wasting 5-8 hours every day on TikTok, Twitter arguments, and meaningless content.
Start investing that time in mastering hard skills, building real projects, and delivering results.

Competence is everything. Comfort is the enemy.

The truth is harsh but necessary. Good fintech companies in Nigeria actually pay decent salaries to people who can perform. But you must be good enough to compete with the best talents globally, not just average people around you.

Nobody is coming to save us. The government will not fix this tomorrow. We must fix ourselves first.

Tosin (@Eniolorunda), I want to say thank you. Thank you for having the courage to say publicly what so many CEOs think privately but are afraid to voice. Keep hiring only Nigerians, but never, ever lower the standard. That is the only way we will ever build serious, generational, world-class companies from this country.

We need more leaders like this who are willing to tell the truth.

Nigeria has the largest youth population on the entire planet. Our potential is massive. But raw potential without discipline, focus, and excellence is completely useless. It means nothing.

Enough of the blame game. Enough of the victim mentality. Enough of attacking anyone who dares to call us out.

It is time to start the building game. Time to get serious. Time to compete.

#BuildNigeria #YouthWakeUp

[André Cardoso @andre_mc]

doing key art in engine is so satisfying!!!!

#gamedev #indiegame