We stand in solidarity with employees and ex-employees at Build a Rocket Boy as they file legal claims through our union and publish an open letter, condemning the way in which they’ve been mistreated and discarded by the studio’s millionaire executives. www.gameworkers.co.uk/barb-open-le...

my 1st game "an unplayable game?!" reached 100 steam wishlists, so i decided to release it EARLY to celebrate! its a short platformer about accessibility settings, why theyre important, and how it feels to play a game thats inaccessible FREE on itch TOMORROW! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #solodev

Learned that I am being laid off from Heart Machine, and will be leaving the studio later this month. Do you need a contractor? I've got a track record of leading scope-friendly script revisions late in dev. I have also done a lot of consulting on new IPs and pitches/demos. Feel free to DM me!

For anyone who needs to hear it, the advice to "always do your best" does not necessarily mean "always be the best." Our "best" can change from day to day. Every day is different. Doing your best just means being kind with yourself—knowing what you want and having the courage to go after it.

I had to expunge my thoughts on Bluesky's current, uh, choppy waters into a proper blog post (which jay can't take down for being too mean or saying 'lol' in a threatening way) azhdarchid.com/delusions-of...

hades 2 coming out amidst my silksong playthrough is wild… i have Things to Do !!!!!!

could you have living things which derive energy from tides or wind?

dipping a toe into shaders

Pretty happy with how this palette building tool is going! Just finishing up a feature for base colors, which are colors multiple ramps can use, updating one will update all ramps that use it! #art #gamedev #godot #palette #colors

Hear that, #ScreenshotSaturday? Tis the siren's song of #Moonshell_Island that keeps this #indiedev sailing on. Respite won't come until I reach the destiny that calls me. #gamemaker #pixelart 🔊🎵 Music by @queergermangirl.bsky.social 🧡 Captain's #gamedev log: www.patreon.com/posts/mir-mi...

There is nothing wrong with being autistic. I am autistic and I am f**king awesome. I've been designing levels and content for hit video games for over 20 years. I can build websites, I do graphic design, I can dress myself, and I can even cook my own food. So, take as much Tylenol as you need. 💊💊

After many years of NDA.... I'm proud to announce I FINALLY HAVE A PUBLIC PORTFOLIO!! I'm still looking for work, so please check it out, share, throw it at your studio leadership etc. Thanks for the support ❤️ nataliespitzel.myportfolio.com

To all freelance peers who are struggling to make ends meet this year: it's not you. It's been getting tougher and tougher to get any gigs and many private clients struggle to pay their own bills. Whatever it takes for us to get through this, please don't doubt your skills and value as a creative ❤️

i wish more of us could cherish the quality of bigger indie game releases that have come out even in just this past week because i promise it won't always be this way. even with everything happening in games world the quality of some of the best stuff stays incredibly high

Simple height blend shader in godot (+zip included)

i cant explain it but gamemaker games feel kiki and godot games feel bouba

Have you ever wonder how to draw textures in Godot? I've just made a new tutorial on how to make your very own paint system. Check it out! www.youtube.com/@octodemy #Godot #GodotTips

WAHAHA! Helpful #godot tip: if you're spinning 3D objects using tweens, animate the ".quaternion" property rather than the ".rotation" property. #GameDev

Been working with the #GodotSteam addon for #GodotEngine and noticed that one of my very frequent tips regarding properly utilizing your project settings in Godot is particularly helpful. Here's a #GodotTips thread on how.

Godot Curve Spawner - Lock Rotation and Spiral Modifier 🔒🌀 You can now add an optional SpiralModifier to the CurveSpawner via the inspector UI and it will curl the spawned objects along the curve. You can enable the Lock Rotation option to not have the objects follow the curve in rotation. #Godot

Updated to #Godot 4.5 tonight. Not. One. Single. Error. My sincere and genuine gratitude to every person who makes the @godotengine.org not just possible, but what it truly is: amazing! Back to #gamedev.👌👍🫡

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 19: Membrane Making 2 swords yesterday means I had to do more with less. The modeling for this jellyfish guy was very simple, but the materials are where it *really* shines. The char shader is 2 matcaps on top of 2 fresnels, and the caustics are scrolling textures. #b3d

Godot Curve Spawner - Index Patterns 🔤🔗 I implemented patterns that are created as alphabetical strings: AABB is treated as 0011 (repeating sequence). You can also optionally use the random seed to shuffle the objects in the list, so it's not always just the first and second element with each seed.

Godot Curve Spawner - Auto Bake 🥐🔥 When the "Use Auto Bake" property of the CurveSpawner node is enabled, you can adjust the curve in the editor and see the results in real time. I think it kind of looks mesmerizing, so I animated one of the curve's control points 🪙 Link below 🔗👇 #Godot #GameDev

I finally got around to publishing my next open source #Godot addon - Godot Curve Spawner. A procedural spawning system that takes a Curve3D node as input and spawns 3D models or scenes alongside it in regular intervals. It can also calculate this interval based on BPM and velocity. See below 👇

Ideally, a boss runback maintains some of the initial tension of encountering the boss, and also offers some space to think and strategize. Respawning right in front of a boss means no time to think and therefore no time to adapt, encouraging a "beat head against wall" approach to play.

About to publish the first in a series of Godot add-ons (all centered around procedural generation) in the next couple of days. After all the planning I did in advance it came together really quickly 🏞️🪙✨

Supportive Parents MtG through the Omenpaths AD: Emily Mazza Another one for Omenpaths, also in one of my favourite recent planes. What can I say, I have a soft spot for Magic schools...

Such a fan of how #Godot showcases new releases There care taken into detailing features, the interactive widgets, in-depth explainers, it makes so much it easier to pick up what's personally useful while still appreciating the whole package Amazing stuff @godotengine.org team! #indiedev #gamedev

If you have an election results chart, the alt text needs to communicate the results. "Election results" is not enough. The same rules apply for alt text for images of weather charts. "Weather chart" doesn't cut it and doesn't convey what the chart is actually saying to users.

i was burnt out on game jams for a long time because it was always about utilizing the entire submission period, and the scope of each game barely fit into that time. the jams got longer, the scope bigger, the fatigue lasting. this time, i just had a game idea and made it, and it was really nice.

✨⏳ Death to Chronos! ⌛️✨

I like fun musical elements in the UI for games. For TUK I wanted to put in scale-corrected samples of a Koto with some reverb when you moved around different upgrade paths in order to maybe make a "upgrade selection" on a ui screen a bit more interactive than just "click box".

When you obsess over how far you are from launch, you drown in discouragement. When you notice small wins, like one feature working, you realise you are moving. That’s patience in practice. #gamedev #indiedev

people have a hard time conceptualizing storage sizes, guide for less technical people: 1 kb = plain text files about your thoughts and feelings about how awesome ducks are 1 mb = store one smartphone photo of a duck 1 gb = around a thousandish photos of ducks 1 tb = about one week of my duck photos

Seeing a lot of people freaking out about Nintendo patents on my timeline, wait until they find out about EA holding the patent on dialogue wheels, or Sega's patent on a directional arrow that points to your destination.

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To determine which bugs drop rosaries in Silksong, you simply need to figure out which ones know about, and thus fear, God.

silksong took several extremely talented developers and artists 7 YEARS to make dont try to copy it, dont be discouraged by its success, dont be afraid of its generously low price tag, just make your own (small) thing and be proud of it

someday - someday! - my children will make the connection between “I am hungry”, “when I am hungry I get cranky very easily”, and “I should eat more food”

fighting flying enemies in Silksong:

I know it’s a “buyers market” right now in game dev, but having a metric ton of people vying for every open position is bad for studios too. You get flooded with thousands of applications, and leadership starts hunting for a unicorn. That perfect hire that doesn’t exist.

New update to Scythe, my Source 2 Hammer inspired level editor for Unreal Engine 5! New features below! 🧵(1/6)

good morning, i wrote a manifesto about a new direction for game design / play possumcreek.medium.com/the-expressi...

the USS Enterprise's number one export is Computers that Kill You

To piggyback off this simple truth: have your own website. It doesn’t have to be a dot com or a dot net or whatever. Just have your own spot.

Reddit opinions on Hollow Knight 10 years ago #indiedev

[Wild cosmos - devlog 2] Flexible platforms Wild Cosmos's steam page: s.team/a/3051070 Music provided by Chillhop Music Ian Ewing, Strehlow, Nosmoh - Convertible chll.to/91a66994 #gamedev #devlog #godotengine #wildcosmos