✅ Collision Detection - working ✅ Spawn Scheduling - implemented Next: Span queues & support for more Spawn logic. Let's go! 🔧 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gameengine #helios

Grinding on Spawn Plans/Scheduling for #helios. Optimizing entity lifecycle management, batching logic, and temporal distribution patterns. Getting the system tight so we can scale spawns without tanking performance. 🔧⚙️ twitch.tv/garagecraft_... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #twitch #streamer

Team #helios sends its regards from the other side of collision behavior hell! ✌️

back to #helios. tackling collision system and despawn logic. laying groundwork for everything that comes next 🎮 #enginedev #cpp #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #twitch #streamer www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

Over the holidays I’ve been busy refining #helios to enable player interactions with game objects: Controlling, spawning and – the holy grail of every game - Collisions💥 I ended up with this draft for a deterministic game loop: garagecraft.games/devlog/2026-... #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #cpp

#Collisiondetection has always been the holy grail of #gamedev for me. As the author of my own #gameengine #helios, I’m starting my implementation based on spatial partitioning. 👾 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #twitch #streamer #happynewyear www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

Wrapping up the year with GameObject pooling and a SpawnSystem based on conditions and strategies. On to collision detection! 🕹️ 👾 #helios #gameengine #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #cpp #programming

Onwards - tackling enemy pooling + a proper spawn system next. Less churn, smoother waves, more time for the fun stuff. 💥🤖 #helios #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev #twitch #streamer www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

🎮 #helios v0.3.0-milestone3 is out! Component-based architecture, physics systems, level bounds and a proper twin-stick shooter demo with projectile pooling are now in place. 🚀 P.S.: The gang of four was right! garagecraft.games/devlog/2025/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

🎄 Merry Christmas and happy holidays! ✨ May your days be cozy, creative and full of great (indie) games, books 📖 and whatever you love to do around this time of year! 🕹️ May your evenings be spent in good company with the people you love. ❤️ #Christmas #HappyHolidays #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

On Christmas night while all seems still, 🎄 I’m hunting bugs with coder’s will. 😤 In #helios’ components, line by line, 🎮 till systems click and stars align. 🌟 Merry Christmas y'all! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #cpp #gamedev #witch #streamer www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

’Twas the night before xmas🎄, and all through the scene, no object was moving, no thrust to be seen. 👀 So I forged a MovementSystem - smooth, responsive, elegant - and wrapped the world in bounds - with a BoundsBehaviorComponent. 🎮 www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_... #indiedev #indiegames #gamedev

On the 20th day of #Christmas, 🔔 checking off my list, ✅ #helios gave to me: Twenty components in the mist, ☃️ and a spaceship demo I can't resist! 🚀✨ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gameengine #solodev #twitch #streamer www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

2025 has been an unbelievable year for my writing. I'd like to thank everyone who's given my dark & twisted fantasy & sci-fi stories a chance with a #Winter #Bookfest! 🟦25% off on all my eBooks & 🟩50% off on all eBook bundles, until 11 Jan. 2026 on www.louiseblackwick.com/books Happy Holidays! 💙📚

Born on the Amiga, reborn for Steam! ⚔️ Roguecraft mixes classic turn-based dungeon crawling with chunky pixels and retro attitude. Coming to Steam in 2026, and your wishlist can help shape its journey!😊 🎯 thalamus.link/roguecraft #teaseYaGame #indiegame #gamedev #steam

Milestone 2 for the C++ game framework #helios just landed 🚀 ✅ Scene graph camera refactor ✅ GameObject + command buffer input flow ✅ ImGui dev widgets (FPS, gamepad, logs, camera) ✅ Gamepad-driven spaceship demo 🎮 👉 garagecraft.games/devlog/2025/... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

My first attempt at building a Darkthing* - an eldritch voidspawn from the #VivianAmberville universe.💙📚 Just a skeleton, for now. His disturbing flesh will soon follow!😄 *Darkthings dwell in the Abyss, in the backrooms of reality, beyond the Dark Door (the door between Life & Death in the series)

#helios milestone_2 changes and improvements: ✨ ImGui Debug Overlay (Log, FPS, Settings) 🎮 Real-time Gamepad & Camera Widgets 🎥 Refactored Camera System (Scene Graph integration) ⏱️ Frame Pacing & Stats Next up: Physics & Gameplay! 🕹️ #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Love seeing what indie devs are putting out there. The creativity in this community is unmatched!

🎹 #8bit #chiptune in the style of FM #MasterSystem, for your #indiegames or other projects 🎶 www.pond5.com/royalty-free... #ym2413 #pond5 #royaltyfree #bgm #vgm #gamedevs #indiedevs #music

🎄✨ #helios and I, back on #Twitch we're streaming, Grid fields we're building, pixels gleaming, Bugs getting fixed while the season's still bright 🎮 - Live coding magic under #christmas lights! ✨ #gamedev #streamer #indiedev #indiegames www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

New devlog: #ImGui integration, frame pacing, and some breaking changes in #helios 🎮 Debug overlays are in! FPS widget, #gamepad visualization, log console. Also refactored the rendering setup with RenderPrototype for better resource sharing. #tooling #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Never forget this: you are the core of your game You’re the reason this project even exists. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev

Command-Pipeline architecture deep dive continues! Let's optimize those draw calls and make the GPU go brrrrr 🔥💻 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #RenderingEngine #helios #GameEngine #LiveCoding #TwitchDev #twitch #streamer 🔴 twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

there are two kinds of people in this world... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #programming

My IDE: "What if SPACESHIP isn't the answer?" Me: "It literally is" My IDE: "But what about SPACESHOP? SPACEHIP? SPACEHOP?" Me: *stares into the void* Sometimes the real #game dev is the autocomplete we encountered along the way. 🎮 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #helios #autocomplete

I'm diving back into work on helios/#111 - excited to make steady progress and bring support for tooling into the framework! #indiedev #indiegames #backseatcoding #streamer #twitch #gamedev #helios www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

Comprehension over Convenience. Principles for maintaining quality and mastery in the age of AI. #AICraftsmanship #SoftwareDevelopment #Craftsmanship #ResponsibleAI #gamedev #indiegames ai-manifesto.software-craftsmanship.dev

#frametiming! Implementing a high-precision stopwatch class for #helios - because you can't optimize what you can't measure! Building everything from scratch w/ way too much enthusiasm for delta time calculations ⏱️ Nerd out with me: twitch.tv/garagecraft_games #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #opengl

#Manifesto for #AI -Augmented #Software #Craftsmanship - a 🧵 (1/5) With tools like #GitHub #Copilot, #Claude Code and #Gemini CLI, our work has changed massively. The models keep getting better - but with that, the question grows louder:

Streaming more #helios development on #Twitch! Building a #game #framework in C++23. Current boss fight: Camera system vs Scene Graph ownership 😅 Come hang out → twitch.tv/garagecraft_games #cpp #gamedev #livecoding #indiegames #indiedev #streamer #gameengine #streamer

Don't let your codebase become the logical equivalent of an asset flip ✋ Use #AI tools to handle the grind - but keep the ownership of your #architecture and #game loop. 🕹️ Principles for keeping the #craft in #gamedev: ai-manifesto.software-craftsmanship.dev #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #coding

Working on #milestone 2 of the #helios project. Issue helios/#97 mandates some major #refactoring to the #rendering pipeline - let's get it on! 🕹️ www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_... #twitch #streamer #gamedev #backseatcoding #indiedev #indiegames #ccp

Going live! ✨ Streaming #helios #dev on #Twitch right now. We're diving back into the #gamepad input #demo. Stop by and say hi! www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_... #gamedev #indiedev #TwitchStream #coding #indiegames #streamer

🕹️ Finally wrapped up my technical report for the #university project built with #helios - time to push forward to the next milestone! 💡 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #gameengine #cpp #linearalgebra #programming

going live with #helios! continuing work on gamepad input visualization after cleaning up mesh & material class hierarchy. come watch me debug analog sticks in real-time 🕹️ www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_... #gamedev #indiedev #backseatcoding #indiegames #gameengine #twitch #streamer #youtube

#GTA6 got delayed so naturally I'm like 'time to ship MY game!' Join me on #Twitch as I commit various crimes against the gamepad API! 💀 #helios #backseatcoding #gamedev #gameengine #indiedev #indiegames #streamer #youtube #gtaVI www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

After finishing a technical report on helios, I’m diving back into #helios development this weekend! Focus is on #Gamepad #Input! Planning to build a small graphical demo to show the progress - visuals avilable in my #twitch stream! 🎮 www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_... #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames

Working on #milestone 2 of the #helios project. Today, I'm implementing #gamepad input #management with a focus on efficient per-frame state capture and processing. 🕹️ www.youtube.com/watch?v=rciL... #gamedev #indidev #gameengine #backseatcoding #indiegames

Just make it exist first: From #SceneGraph to #Snapshot to #RenderPass to an animated cube - Rendering pipeline for #helios is taking shape! 🕹️ Ready for the next subsystem. Details in my latest #devlog: garagecraft.games/devlog/2025/... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #programming #coding #games

Coffee, #progressive #house (Adriatique's Cercle set from Alpe d'Huez is 😙👌), and a dialed-in IDE. That's the vibe for pushing code on weekends. What keeps YOU in the zone? 🕹️ #CodingLife #FlowState #gamedev #indiegames #indiedev #cpp #streamer #twitch www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

Happy with how the #renderengine semantics and syntax for #helios turned out! Aiming to wrap this up this weekend, write some intro docs, then on to the next #subsystem! 🕹️ #gameengine #gamedev #indievev #indiegames #backseatcoding 🕹️ www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

GAZAR is an intense vertical arcade space shooter where you fight against an alien fleet destroying the galaxy. - And the Nextfest demo update is already live!^^ store.steampowered.com/app/3656330 #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #arcade #indiegamedev #gaming #games #retrogames #retrogaming

Time to make #meshes and uniforms play nice together 🤝 This weekend 🕹️ adapter #architecture so #shaders know what they're dealing with! #gamedev #gameengine #backseatcoding #indiedev #indiegames #twitch #streamer www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

👉 git branch scene. Working on the SceneGraph implementation! #helios #gameengine is shaping up nicely. #gamedev #indiedev #gameengine #backseatcoding #livestreaming #indiegames www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

Trick or treat - some enemies are wearing masks during Halloween season! Now I really have to get this Towebound update out before Halloween. #gamedev

Someone on #StackOverflow nailed the essence of #defensive #programming: "When writing industrial-strength code, you should always assume that your coworkers are psychopaths trying to get you any way they can (especially since it's often yourself in the future)"

Sure, #thelifeofashowgirl is wild, but have you ever built a #gameengine from scratch? 🕹️ Today: wrapping up refactoring + adding API docs ✌️ #backseatcoding #gamedev #indiedev www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...

"It's dangerous to go alone! Take this:" - Smaller than a tweet, mightier than a thousand Polygons ⚔️: How 32 #bytes are the building block of every #rendering #engine: My latest #devlog has (almost) all the details 👇 garagecraft.games/devlog/2025/... #gamedev #indiedev #helios #indiegame

It's #saturday, ya'll. Time for your weekly dose of #ducktales cartoons, or coding on your favorite #gameengine as an #indidev. Pick your poison! 🕹️ (Today's episode: The Golden Lagoon of Subsystemia) #gamedev #backseatcoding #twitch #programming www.twitch.tv/garagecraft_...