Day 1 of working on my incremental soccer game! Let me know if you want to try the demo!

I'm working on adding custom scenario event triggers for my beat em up. Today: enemies in standby that can be woken up by proximity triggers. This is actually the first part of remaking my stage system into something robust, supporting complex enemy spawn waves and bosses with phases. #indiedev

Lazy Kickers is coming this summer on Steam! Incremental football micro-manager! Grow balls, shoot goals, get coins and dominate the league charts! Click the magic button on Steam and make sure to tell all your friends about it! store.steampowered.com/app/4613890/...

Was visiting the seaside for a gamejam. There was a storm during the night so I decided to go out for a bit of regeneration and look for amber. It was windy and cold but I've managed to find my very first one. Size of couple grains of sand, but still.

people hate hasan for moments like this but he really does speak for the youth on this

I am thrilled to announce that Dreams on a Pillow has wrapped up pre-production and we are about to start full production. We can’t do it without your support. We are starting our second round of crowdfunding, to support us you can find out more here www.launchgood.com/1948

Even if you follow me, you likely can't see my last repost: a Palestinian gamedev working on the lovely Dreams on a Pillow launched a promised follow-up crowdfunding campaign. But @moderation.bsky.app labeled him spam for daring to be Palestinian, so you can't see reposts, repost him, or tag him.

Tonight I've started adding part of a complex interlocking code at the meeting point of spawn/walkable area/ledges and holes/wave/enemy navigation and stage progression systems to my game. The task is daunting and will definitely take me couple days at least, but I'm getting it done step by step.

Sometimes developing a game starts with doing goofy shit and finding it hillarious. #indiedev

Inconvenience? I just had to dig seven pages deep to find the unsubscribe for one of the four TV subscriptions I need, I'm measured & optimized against in my supermarket, lamps, music, games, and travel. Every service I love gets enshittified to buy billionaires yachts worth 100 times my house.

While not yet completed, the #pico8 arcade cabinet v1 is slowly coming together. Prints took forever, but the two most impotant panels (controls and the screen bracket connecting four 64x64 LED panels together) are finished!

Since I'm waiting 10 hours for 3D print to finish, I figured I might as well do some coding for my kaiju game (that I haven't touched since last year). It turns out that I have no idea how anything works. Why don't the enemies move? How does the spawn system work? How does ANYTHING work? #indiedev

After some prototyping test prints, the panels for LED screens and input seem to be properly dimensioned. Now it's time for 10 hours of 3d printing and crossing our fingers in hopes that the print won't crash. Let's go.

Ok, the alpha version of Pico-8 LED based arcade cabinet project is ready for prints. For now keeping everything as open as possible to allow easy access to electronics for test setup. FreeCAD feels about as complicated as Blender - plenty of power but easy enough for basic uses for newbies.

Learning FreeCAD to make the case for my Pico-8 arcade cabinet. Takes time but I think I'm ready for the first test prints of LED panel holding frame

Preparing my 128x128 LED Pico-8 machine, currently testing at 64x64, screen mirroring is looking fine.

There is no ethical consumption of HBO’s Harry Potter series

wouldn't it be funny if EVERYONE blocked this Attie AI account @ bsky.app/profile/atti... before they could do anything with it

Hah, I watched this episode yesterday and couldn't get the 'She totally looks like Gendo here' out of my head.

Spent the weekend experimenting with 32x32 LED matrix panel, controlling it with ESP32. The goal is have a 1bit 32x32 bitmap (with a dropdown shadow) displayed on hue-cycling background, so that I can display icon or some text. The graphic system is set up, now to create data uploader.

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.

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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!

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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!