Not a great month for working on projects. Got a little bit done on the current Vangers-esque project but fell down a rabbit hole trying to generate geometry instead of just drawing tiles. Travelling for two weeks as of Monday, so will see if I get time for project stuff before EOM.

#silksong thoughts: - I have only known the Bell Beast for an evening but if anything happens to him I will kill everything in this kingdom and then myself. - Did I get bad at video games in the last 7 years or is Silksong much harder than HK? - Please god no more ants. I've fought enough ants.

Practicing pixel art, keeping the palette down to 16. #indiegame #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGames #IndieLove #PixelArt #beep8

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I spent 45 minutes with silksong and these are my first impressions: is this real? Events appear to transpire beyond some sort of barrier or screen I cannot influence aside from pressing buttons on my "side" of the dividing medium, but if these bugs are really doing all that it should be on the news

Scrap Panic, a free match-4 falling block game made over August, is now released on itch.io: mistakenot4892.itch.io/scrap-panic First time I've 'finished' a game, let alone uploaded one to a public site. Time to start stressing about bugs and problems aaa. #monogame #gamedev #indiedev

Currently working on a gang of weird birds (teshari OCs belonging to friends, which I am putting into my match-4 game). Lots of individual states to do for their gestures/poses ingame, but at least they're fun to draw. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

いぬ。 #pixelart #ドット絵

管狐の兄弟。 #pixelart #ドット絵

A very shaped pied currawong from outside the medical centre a few weeks ago.

Pretty pleased with how this background came out. Bless the Krita dither brush. Would like to do a couple more of these before the end of the month if I can find the time. #pixelart #gamedev

My match-4 one month project is feature complete! I wanted to add a story mode, network multiplayer, items, abilities, etc... but maybe I can do those in September. The rest of August is for character art and polish. Very pleased to finish a project for once! #indiedev #monogame #gamedev #solodev

we used to build household shrines to Going On The Computer and it's no coincidence that as we abandoned these we started straying further from god's light

omg i love (getting way too anxious so i get stunlocked during) #artfight cool epic @drawsstuff.bsky.social vox character, wip as well as TONS of sketches

My Real Job has picked up. so progress on the August project has been slow. I've got Github/Itch build automation setup (with thanks to Apos on the Monogame Discord) and I've been polishing the background art a bit. Finding the dither brush in Krita saved my hands... #monogame #gamedev #indiedev

Jesus Christ the vocal delivery in I Am Your Beast is something else. The music is like being punched in the head (positive) and the gameplay is like punching other people in the head. Very very glad I picked it up.

Redid most of the character states (still working on the failure state), added music, added sounds, and generally tweaked and adjusted things. Settings menu is also about halfway coded, since I need to build a UI framework as I go. Steady progress! #monogame #gamedev #indiedev

There might be a very slight issue with my AI opponent's timing check... #monogame #gamedev #indiedev

can't sleep, must fix critical bugs #gamedev

The problem with getting things to the point of being playable is that I keep going to test something and then spend 20 minutes playing it instead. Lots of backend work done today to support things like menus, game modes, etc. Pleased with how it's coming together. #gamedev #indiedev #monogame

Took the day off sick and spent all of it tinkering with mechanics for my August project. On the positive side it looks and feels a lot more like an actual playable game now, but on the negative side I didn't actually chill out at all and I'm back at work tomorrow. Choices have been made.

Good bit of progress today. I would love some opinions on whether or not this screen shake and variable fall rate looks good, or if it would be too distracting or annoying. #gamedev #indiedev #monogame

Repost due to busted video. Four days in on my August project. It's great when things start feeling like an actual game. Next up, an input handler to control what drops, rotate it, etc. Also need to clean up the board state to avoid weird visual issues across iterations. #gamedev #monogame

"I asked chatgpt" "I asked grok" well I asked Achenar from the best-selling point&click adventure game Myst and he told me to bring him the blue pages and NOT to touch the red ones

My love for godot has reached a level where I feel comfortable yelling at it. This is an important stage in any relationship to a piece of software, and absolutely healthy / not indicative of anything bad in my character.

This is what the game I'm making looks like.

Hit my Art Fight goal of 25 attacks. Not going to list all the characters, but they are all on my Art Fight page (artfight.net/~MistakeNot4...). Very very happy to achieve my goal this year, I think it's my third or fourth shot at Art Fight and the first one to succeed. #artfight #pixelart

Watching itch.io implode over the last week made me remember when indie games were .exe files made by a stranger that you downloaded from a self-hosted website that still used <marquee>. If handling money wasn't such a nightmare it wouldn't be so bad to go back to that. Platforms delenda est, etc.

Down to my last Art Fight to hit my goal of 25 single attacks for the month. Very satisfying to hit a milestone like that. Between Art Fight and some personal health stuff I haven't had many spoons for my game, but I'm hoping to get back onto it in August. I might start with some new assets...

idk I think any broad prescriptive statement about game design, or even questions phrased along the lines of "should game design be x? or should it be y?" is very easily to dismiss because game design is a practice, a set of tools, a tradition, and an artform; it's not a set of rules

A 2D first person dungeon crawler, made in 3 days for the Ludum Dare game jam. Isn't it funny that we used to call these "3D" games? It's not even billboards, it's sprites. #indiedev

Art Fight multiattack! God, it's finally done. Several days isn't a huge amount of time for a complex piece, but this is the most effort I've put into one for ages. Full character list/details on the site, Bsky posts are so short: artfight.net/attack/11652... #artfight #pixelart #ss13

Fourth-day WIP of a big Art Fight multiattack that I thought would be a one or two day project. Someday I may finish dithering/greebling these vox. Someday... #artfight #pixelart #ss13

Just hit attack #15 for Art Fight - 10 to go to hit my goal. Really enjoying this year's festivities, it's the first year I've managed to consistently get an attack out each day. Seems like strict contraints are the best way to get me to draw things. #artfight #pixelart

This site seems to be absolutely lousy with bots and marketing people. Kinda disheartening.

Coloured light blending is working! Next is wall masking so it looks less bizarre in areas with dense tiles. Also, Debug Drake says gay rights. #gamedev #monogame

More work on lighting... using dithering for the falloff gives a really fun textured vibe I think. Still need to sort out coloured lighting that blends along the edges, and work out why moving a light stops every other light from displaying. Progress... #gamedev #monogame

Tile lighting working at a basic level! Had issues with bake-in initially, but it's doing more or less what I want it to now. Next step is adding the dithered effect to the edges, and maybe animating the alpha to make it look smoother when moving. A shadow shader could be good... #gamedev #monogame

It was too big to be called a sword. Massive, thick, heavy and far too rough. Indeed, it was like a heap of raw iron. #gamedev #indiedev #monogame

An example of dithered edge lighting from a previous project (which I am recycling into my current project, hence the shared assets). I think it could probably use a couple more variations (one darker and one in the middle somewhere) but I like the texture it gives the terrain. #gamedev #monogame

As mentioned in my other post, I'm doing Art Fight this year. Specifically trying to work on my pixel chops, so my attacks are 64x64 pixel art with DawnBringer's 32-color palette. Attached is tonight's attack. Profile: artfight.net/~MistakeNot4... #artfight

Not dead, but dev time has been limited. I'm doing Art FIght this year too which cuts into free time. Currently fixing rendering issues (which was a one-line fix that took three weeks to solve) and resolving mouse position to world position, so I can add tile/entity interactions. #gamedev #monogame

if you wish to understand me as a game designer you must know i follow the law of beasts and do things according to my guts and the weather

We just had a wonderful and extremely long-ass conversation about game trailer editing with @derek-lieu.com (who worked on Psychonauts 2, Subnautica, Half Life: Alyx, etc etc etc)! It's one of my favorite episodes we've done so far. You should listen to it!! youtu.be/FfxxrdaSq9A

As a software engineer, I have to say software engineers can be some of the most insufferable people. Just let me enjoy my hobby, you weirdos.

nomadsculpt.com/beta/ #NomadSculpt desktop beta is out! I've been using the tablet version to great success. If you're looking for a #zbrush successor, albeit one that's still growing, give it a try and leave feedback. If you're tired of subscription BS, then here's a place to start the transition.

Been incommunicado for a little bit! Call it a holiday. Working on visibility and lighting now, and everything is fine and nothing is broken at all. #gamedev #monogame