I love grappling hooks in games, and one of the most fun games I've ever played is Cyber Hook. In a game physics course I'm taking, I felt inspired to make my own grappling hook game. Behold, an early prototype of Grapple Arena! #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment

All good things start with a simple plane...and a floating cube. Its purpose shall be revealed soon... #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment

Had to implement some boids for a uni task and looking at the fishies floating around I just HAD to overlay the perfect song. #gamedev #indiedev #flocking #boids

Seems like a great day to wishlist some indie games! Why not start with Black Ice, the "Overwhelmingly Positive" cyberspace looter/shooter RPG where hackers expose corporate corruption and help people get healthcare and organize against the megacorps. store.steampowered.com/app/311800/B...

So we're all calling it the GabeCube, right?

Pushed a small QoL update for Operation: Retrieval. If you've missed the spooky season, why not treat yourself to a few minutes of scares this weekend? renderscott.itch.io/operation-re... #indiedev #gamedev #indie #horrorgame

Head into the forbidden zone in Operation: Retrieval, a short atmospheric horror game where what you can't see can't hurt you. Playable now: renderscott.itch.io/operation-re... #indiedev #gamedev #indie #horror

Right on time for Halloween, enjoy this short story about a knight sent out to slay a dragon in order to court the love of his life, with a lovecraftian twist! What could go wrong? You'll find out if you dare enter... Available now: renderscott.itch.io/animal-of-prey #lovecraftian #horror #fiction

Only a few days left. On Halloween, prepare to enter the forbidden zone. Are you ready? #indiegames #indiedev #gamedev

Me waking up to a patch of the engine Operation Retrieval runs on: we are so barack 1h later, realizing only half of the issues were fixed: it's so joever

Do you dare enter...? #pixelart I made for the cover image of a horror short story I wanna post on itch.io for the spooky season. Had a blast making it from beginning to end, #aseprite is absolutely amazing, even for total noobs like me!

Game dev during summer is literal hell. Fans blasting at full power as my laptop struggles to run an Unreal sample project turns my room into an oven ☠️

I really just spent 2 days trying to fix an issue in Unreal Engine where I couldn't create any project due to faulty MSVC versioning. Turns out I just had to reset my configs in AppData 🤭

Operation Retrieval is pretty much done, however, the engine I'm working with will receive a major overhaul sometime down the line, so I'll have to rework some API calls. I'll see when the game is in a proper state to be launched, I expect latter half of this year.

When the math gets so abstract you start using graphs for visual debugging

Implemented a rudimentary map generator to stress test performance, proud that I managed to in like 15 minutes. However, the map will 99% be handcrafted (just like the prototype), since I want the player to learn the map via landmarks.

Starting to shape up to something

All good things start with a simple plane

‪Operator, we have a priority assignment for you. Infiltrate the entity's domain and collect data across the map so we can begin analysis. Operation: Retrieval is a short #PICO8 horror game where what you can't see can't hurt you. Play now on itch: renderscott.itch.io/operation-re... #gamedev #indie

currently working on a prototype for an upcoming uni semester project. of course pico8 is the perfect engine for it

getting trolled by my own spritework...

Patch 1.1 fixes the score overflowing into the negatives, as well as slightly changing how it's calculated. Check it out! renderscott.itch.io/droids-farmi...

After a few more features and a couple of QoL changes, I can finally announce that A Droid's Farming Adventure is out on itch! Play the game here: renderscott.itch.io/droids-farmi... #gamedev #PICO8 #indie

Some more progress! Now there's a little guy who'll buy our crops and sell seeds (both for coins) in the future, and fences with collision!

The Pico8 farming tutorial is progressing quite nicely - I even felt motivated enough to add my own spin to it!

I got Pico8 as a gift for a Secret Santa event previous Christmas, and I started a tutorial for a simple farming game. This is my current progress!

I noticed I haven't thoroughly tested input field traversal with the TAB key; Hotfix 1.1.1 squashes a few bugs in regards to that. renderscott.itch.io/steam-key-ma...

Update 1.1.0 for the Steam Key Manager is here! Check out the updated UI, and with up to 5 backups, your keys will forever be safe! More details on my itch.io page :) renderscott.itch.io/steam-key-ma...

This was seriously the hardest feature to implement so far. The amount of edge cases and interactions between selected games and filters/sort options almost drove me nuts. Almost. Suffice to say it's done :) expect an update soon!

TIL about this option. I've been using Windows 10 since release...

I recently released a tool for managing Steam keys on itch.io. Made it in Unity to force myself to work more with the Unity UI. I think it ended up quite nicely! renderscott.itch.io/steam-key-ma...