Found this little gem on discord.

I have decided to make a hot sauce out of my very first home grown carolina reaper.

Seems like the camera system is doing the camera system things like I wanted it to. Good. Belt scrolling unlocked.

After taking my xmas rest and returning to Godot I was staring at this line and couldn't figure out why the engine was shouting at me. After some time I realized that I goofed with the variables in function definition. Guess 30+ years of C-based programming is a hard habit to shake.

Ok, the festive resting period finished, time to return to making the game. Next items on the menu: general level progression.

Drillers got second attack, a spike from below. They are now straight up bullies :D

To create full variety of enemies for a beat'em'up, I'll need certain amount of attacks: IN -regular -jump -charge TO BE DONE -spawned entity (damage/DOT/CC) -shot -weapon/item throw -grenade -shield/defend -extending hitbox -active multihit -grapple/stun -throw Time for the spawned entity type.

Star Spark is a roguelite, tactical turn-based fighting game in which you battle your way through a survival tournament. 👊 You can punch the wishlist button here: 💥 store.steampowered.com/app/3639950 #WishlistWednesday #StarSpark #IndieGames #GameDev

Charge attack gave me a unique problem. As opposed to any regular attacks in the beat em up, which come in from the side, this one can hit you from any point on screen, including above. That meant that I could have hitbox collide with hurtbox outside of Z-check. Another 2D beat em up quirk.

Sketched a quick temp art for the second enemy to test out new attack types. First one is in: charge.

Sometimes you spend couple days refactoring and you end up with code that isn't exactly yet at the point it was before refactor I now have a bug with Octis sliding when entering idle state that wasn't there earlier, but the new architecture is way more customizable and less spaghettified. Good shit

It's pierogosaurus time!

Ever had that moment when you want to add a feature, take a look at your month old code and you want to rewrite it from the start because nothing makes sense any more? So I wrote it down as a UML to wrap my head around it and did a tiny bit of refactoring. Now looking at it pains my soul bit less.

I'm really bad at social media, but if you are reading this, please take a moment and consider joining for our 5th annual blind accessibility game jam starting in Feb! 5 years, over 100 accessible games made, help us do even better! itch.io/jam/games-fo... #GameDev #A11y

Adding juggling to my tiny kaiju beat'em'up and it's SO MUCH FUN to test :D #indiedev #gamedev #godot #beatemup #pixelart

Things that you don't have to give a damn about in 3D: properly displaying particles in Y sorted environment is a relatively challenging thing What I ended up doing is spawning a particle prefab at the same Y position as the enemies for sorting purpose, but its internal sprite node gets a Y offset

Slowly adding steering behaviors for enemy scatter mode, to make them feel bit more alive and fun. Octis are REALLY active at this point in time, but I need to add switching between aggressive/scatter states before I tweak this behavior.

Kaijus? Arkanoid? Sign me up!

Rraaawwrrr! The final content update is live for Mega Kaiju Boom Ball, and includes one final Kaiju battle available as a bonus level! Grab it NOW on @itch.io! #screenshotsaturday #neshomebrew #nesdev #indiegamedev #gamedev #indiegames

Working on scatter movement for my beat'em'up enemies and how to make it dependent on enemy aggressiveness. The idea: pick a random point to scatter towards, and then shorten the vector between it and attack position depending on desired aggro level, allowing for quick transition into attack mode.

Spent the day writing design documents and THINKING BIG THOUGHTS. Brain hurts now, gonna watch some silly movies about dinosaurs.

It’s every living person’s obligation to throw these in the river when they see one.

I am cataloging my old games. Some of them got lost to time, some I've found screenshots of in the archive.org, and some I still have the source code for. Managed to compile this dungeon crawler made in a "7 games in 7 days" solo jam in 2014 Yes that is a Thong Goblin. #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam

While traversing internet looking for my old projects I have found the person whose game created for Ludum Dare 32 about a car destroying buildings with a giant flail put me on my way to make kaiju-destroying-cities games and changed my life forever. Thank you!

My interactive tween guide for Godot is out ! If you have trouble using tweens, adding "Juice" or picking the right transition, it should hopefully help! The guide is free and will always be 🩵 qaqelol.itch.io/tweens #Godot #GameDev #Animation #Tutorial #Guide #Tweens

Putting finishing touches on the second tutorial game. Juice it or lose it!

You know you've been working with snake_case for too long when you mindlessly add commit message like this.

Oh no! The kaiju are attacking!

Accessibility You're going to hate it one day when you're older, less able, and find your favourite games are inaccessible

Today I learned that Jane (as pictured here on a Wikipedia article photo) was in high probability not in fact a T-rex, but rather a Nanotyrannus. My reality split asunder! Desire to learn more intensifies!

20 Second Trailer Challenge No dialogue. No captions. Just pure game energy. #Truckful #indiegames

Slowly coming back to reality. Between job switching, learning totally new tech stack, bit of covid and problem with spinal nerves I barely had time to hang out here and limited my visit to project updates. Today was first day in ages I just came here to watch other people's stuff. So much fun!

Since I'm way ahead of the schedule (6 days), and I'm really enjoying TheGamedevTavern's tutorials, I'm going through the second one - arcade style soccer game. Having so much fun.

Followed TheGamedevTavern's 20 episodes long tutorial on beat em ups and as I started plugging in my own art I realised that I want to make a full game about tiny Kaijus. The preprod period is coming to an end. Time to evolve the concept and make something awesome. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

So I'm progressing with the preproduction of my 4 months long game, and getting closer to finalizing the general prototype for majority of mechanics. 2 weeks left in the preprod phase, gotta test throwing system for better crowd control, and try and do as much proper design paperwork as I can.

A friend printed more of my photos and gave me the prints as a present. Before I never thought about having my works hanging around the house, but it does feel nice.

You know you're having fun with a tutorial when in the middle of it you're like "ok, I want to take this idea and spin it into a full game!".

First pass of spritesheet for both basic aliens and the Rex has been completed. Some are very obviously temp, but for now they work.

The Tiny Kaiju beat'em'up is progressing! First combo and some proper hit reactions from the enemies added. Animation art is temporary, but it feels so much better than just having static poses. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Continuing to make beat em up game alongside TheGameDevTavern's tutorial. And yeah, obviously it'll be about kaiju-sized mutated T-rex :D #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Following the tutorial and adding my own characters and animations is so much fun!

It's a tiny pixelart kaiju for a tiny kaiju beat em up game! Inspired by design by the amazing @vincentvenoir.bsky.social

Wanted to get back into making beat em ups, but couldn't get my ass in gear. Trying to over-engineer the tech made me stuck in the conceptualization loop for the last couple months Yesterday I found this cool tutorial series and just started working alongside. Sweet! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5i4...

Holy shit, I have no idea how I nearly missed it, but it's a Ludum Dare weekend! Shall we make a game? Mayyyybe :o

Oh yeah, as you can imagine I'm back to shitposting (and some devposting) and generally hoping I can get through the dreaded first line of code any time soon. Today would be nice.

Don't you hate those days when you suddenly have a really cool idea to implement something, and then have a realization 'Oh wait, @sebastianlague.bsky.social already did that and better than I possibly ever could' and go back to sulking? One of those days though, I will be innovative and cool!

Sometimes you just enter Bluesky and are greeted with a vibecoded AI bullshit spam that is cross-promoted and retweeted by obvious bot accounts managed by same person. Can't they just stay on Twitter?

Oh yeah we ricing that NixOS :D Still some setup left to be at the point where I had my Garuda, but I am decently happy with what NixOS gives me.

Garuda Linux was awesome, ngl. But I crave MORE. Installing NixOS over the weekend. Wish me luck.

Experimenting with the visual feedback for the dialogue. When the Player chooses the wrong answer, they take damage points (shown by the heart meter) and have ꜱᴀᴠᴀɢᴇ ᴍᴀɢᴇɴᴛᴀ on their face. They should enjoy it and come back for more. 👁️ 🫦 👁️ #UX #UI #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #videogames