Thank you to all the indie teams coming out on company acounts pushing back at the idea of using genAI is somehow the new normal.

IT. IS. DONE! At 40 years old, I've finally fulfilled my dream of making and releasing my own game. Never forget that there is nothing you can't do. No matter what you dream, the power to make it real is yours to command! #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieGames #Steam #Gaming #2DGames #PitchYaGame

Being chased through the woods by naked people was not on my gamedev checklist for today, yet here we are... (I forgot to pass in the equipment for the bandits when creating them)

HELL YEAH, PROGRESS! Rigged clothing unlocked - now I can make clothes without my characters' asses clipping through :D That also means that I'll have to make some assless leather pants to make up for the now missing cake. (Not that it matters from that distance, but still) #indiedev #gamedev

The absolute madman is releasing - I can't be there because I'm in europe and require sleep, which are my only two weaknesses. #gamedev #indiedev And I really need to sleep already, damn...

Finally migrated all my repositories to my own server! But what on earth was I doing in this repo two years ago??? #indiedev #gamedev

Cowardly programmers calling it a 'Garbage collector' rather than an Orphan Destroyer

Yooooo it's out :D I need to try it on proton ASAP :D

Today I'm gonna set up git lfs so I can work on cursed_existence again! I had to set up gogs on a lil' VPS to get away from Bitbucket but I've yet to migrate away completely because my files won't follow me ;-; #indiedev #gamedev

Fixing the bug where humans with a melee weapon would stand very far away and swing their weapon at nothing because they thought they were holding a bow. Kind of hilarious, but really not great for enticing gameplay^^ #gamedev #indiedev

I can now place custom humans into a level! These will be bandits (player character is in the middle), but I'll use the same system for friendly NPCs. #indiedev #gamedev #cursed_existence

I'm not sure where this game's eventually going, but this could become really cool! :D

Once again burning the midnight oil, but to great effect - I can now add humans to my maps, complete with equipment and all! Also a big step towards NPCs :D I really need some sleep now^^ #indiedev #gamedev

Wishlisted! This looks great :D And that was before I turned on the sound - I absolutelt ADORE narrated games! Wish you all the best!

THIS GUY IS SUPPOSED TO HELP ME THREAD THE NEEDLE, RIGHT??? I looked at this thing in my cheap sewing kit and only just realized, MY GOD.

Here we go. The #SteamNextFest stream of #CurtainsTheClown is live! Right now, I have the looping info video playing, but I'm switching to full mic with camera playtesting and Q&A at 2pm EDT. Hope to see you there! #Steam #GameDev #IndieDev #IndieGames #Gaming #SoloDev #UnrealEngine #2DGames #Retro

Progress! I've solved a long-standing issue I had, by... masking it out compositing^^ And I reworked a specific area for the third time, this time really liking the look of it - the vibes are right, now all it needs is more polish^^ #indiedev #gamedev #cursed_existence

Sure I'll help a fellow indie out! Wishing you all the best with the Kickstarter! :)

So after being extremely bummed out about future mandatory AI usage at work, and my boss being way too gleeful about it, my wonderful gf suggested I put aside other responsibilities and work on my game a little. Honestly, therapeutic ♥️ New weapon type unlocked: Bows! #gamedev #indiedev

May I direct your attention to this shining beacon of good design? Unfortunately not my work^^ Should I mark this nsfw? #design #signage

Putting your bad work online mixed in with your good work not only encourages other beginners, but also gives AI companies a harder time cleaning their datasets, maybe screwing up image generators if enough people do it. Don't be afraid to suck, it helps all of us ;) #AI #Art #Artsky #Inspiration

Wishing I had half as much style as this absolute madlad^^ You're absolutely crushing it! :D #indiedev #gamedev

Being busy with other projects, but wanting to do gamedev sucks, so started programming a little tool (of dubious quality and usefulness) on my phone. Love2D is surprisingly usable for that! Even short bus rides can work for that - I shouldn't overdo it tho, need to turn off too. #gamedev #indiedev

1/2 After being sick for a week, I had time to work on the game on sunday - but the pre-compiled blender binaries crash there on startup, so I had to compile it myself (flatpak works, but its sandboxing breaks all my scripts) With a 2nd gen i5, and only on-chip graphics, working #gamedev #indiedev

Dug out my old lubuntu-machine, and MY GOD, do distro upgrades take a loooong time... (I think it's still on v20 or something, maybe still v18...) #linux #lubuntu

I accidentally left my game running for multiple hours, attacked once, tried to move, it crashed. Not a script error, but a segfault??? All my code is just lua (and some shader code). Keeping the core dump, but that was unexpected... #indiedev #gamedev

Is it a good idea to model armor attached to a character model as very stiff cloth? :D Currently I'm just parenting the pieces to individual bones and messing around until there's no more clipping^^ #b3d #blender3d

First off, reposting cuz you're cool :) Then imma look through what people posted :D Then I really don't know what to share, but I guess I'll find something - even if it's just to encourage other folks to do better^^

@grimclownjay.bsky.social I wanted to polish this some more, maybe with a puff of smoke, but I have no Idea when my brain will let me work on that kinda stuff, so here's the CHEST CANNON! It's fun and goofy, even if a bit rough around the edges - not yet sure where it'll fit in the final game tho^^

Fuck it, I'm fixing this shit tonight. This is just me debugging, but it shows the problem: When I combine my base sprite with weapons and armor, it still gets the skin color of the human. In this case blue, because it's easier to see. #indiedev #gamedev #cursed_existence

I find it very funny that in Universal Paperclips, curing male pattern baldness gives a higher reward than curing cancer^^ If you haven't played it yet (it's quite old), then I recommend checking it out based on that quote alone ;) www.decisionproblem.com/paperclips/i... #indiegame #notminetho

Refactoring is always one step back, two steps forward. I'm almost back to where I started, and then I can FINALLY add animations for other weapon types! Well, provided I don't go insane before... It's time to stop for today^^ #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #cursed_existence

And the same reversed feed concept for #Godot: bsky.app/profile/did:...

sprite doesn't even seem like a real word after staring at it for so long... #indiedev #gamedev

That's the spirit! :D Also, I'm sure you suck less than you did yesterday, and that's important ;)

If all I do today is making the git branch for the animation rework, then that's fine. Baaaaby steps. If more work happens, that's cool, but I'm not forcing anything^^ #indiedev #gamedev

Sigh. I'm not looking forward to this. Mostly dread fixing my messy export scripts, but I need to get this done, or I'll only have half game mecanics I want^^ #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

This was a very productive weekend - now the material your weapon is made of has an effect on how fast you swing it! A golden sword is a shit weapon. Something that turns your weapon to gold, might be seen as a... curse ;D #indiedev #gamedev

Just implemented respawning for my #rouguelike, #cursed_existence - beforehand you'd just lie there forever and have to restart the game^^ Only problem was, that I misremembered how my delay function worked, and instead of waiting 5 seconds to respawn, it took 5000 seconds :D #gamedev #indiedev

@grimclownjay.bsky.social It's firmly planted on the list now ;) Imma do it before the bows, because it's pretty fun and shouldn't be too hard^^ And honestly, out-of-place things like the cars in AoE 1/2 were always my fav eastereggs :D #indiedev #gamedev

There are still 59 spots left, everybody! All #GameDevs are welcome no matter your skill level or specialty! #SoloDev #IndieDev #GameAudio #GameArt #GameDesign #Godot #UnrealEngine #Unity #Blender #Gaming #IndieGames #Python #3DArtists #PixelArtists #GameMaker #C+ #Coding

Making tiny pieces of progress on my inventory every day in my spare time, but with the certainity that I'll have to refactor this mess at some point... But for some reason even this early version makes it feel so much more like a game already??? I'm hyped^^ #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

The sheer energy this game brings with it - I'm jealous! ;D But I'm also insta-buying tbh - congratulations on the launch! :)

Damn, that is some goooood juice :D

Made a simple inventory grid for #cursed_existence today, but the fields aren't named yet, just numbered. Looks like a really shitty calendar^^ I still need to decide how to handle the icons - Monster Hunter style generic-ish, or just renders of the items/weapons? #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

Working on Armors! Pants are optional, hehe^^ This will also form the basis for most NPCs, since I can mix and match these armors a lot, and all of them have various materials they can be made of :) Happy to have something visual to show for once! #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

1/2 Linux folks of bsky, help me out here: If a command, timed with "time" in bash takes less real time, but the more sys time, when when piped to /dev/null/, then it is actually faster, right? #linux #commandline #terminal #benchmarking

This is absolutely beautiful.

Artist Svetlana Petrova, who decided to add her big ginger cat to some iconic paintings to create some fun artworks #WomensArt

Torso armor ❌ Chest cannon ✅ I had to debug my rendering script to find out, I had the armor attached to the wrong bone in the source file... does this count for #ScreenshotSaturday? :D