IT'S ME I'M BACK -tumbleweed- I've been away scrapping and starting and scrapping projects - now I'm using flutter and never thought in a million years that this would be my favourite engine but here we are. Also, why did nobody tell me Claude is hilarious, pro sub purchased for moments like this:

The past week or so has seen me write a 12,000 word story/script for my next game. I've just finished it. What I lack in programming, I'm hoping my background in screenwriting gives me some sort of transferrable skills! Time to turn this badboy into something you can all enjoy #gamedev #indiedev

'panicka' taught me a ton. 'unearthed' helped me experiment. finally found a project that's clicked: "The Ministry Says" #gamedev

Because you all needed a Turtles meeting... 🤣🤣 #bluesky

love this and what a brilliant idea!

scope scope scope

Taking a break from Panicka to work on something I've wanted to do for years inspired by my favourite games No Umbrellas Allowed, and of course, the amazing @dukope.bsky.social's Papers, Please. A little passion project called UNEARTHED. Using Unity for the first time. Good, innit? #gamedev

absolutely beautiful

Ever work on a game for an entire weekend, then playtest it and think "I hope i made a backup two thursdays ago" #gamedev #indiedev

making my own game has made me truly appreciate every single developer to ever exist. even games considered worldwide to be crap have had so much effort put into them. bravo to all the devs out there #gamedev #indiedev #softwaredev

oh for crying out loud just had a really good idea and now i've got to rewrite my game #gamedev #notahaiku

oooooooooo nice font ty font gods #gamedev

how about your mum was used without context script devil

today i accidentally learned how to yeet the meatiest enemy in the game so far into the fucking stratosphere #gamedev #indiedev #oops

serious Q: how do you decide what version of the game build you're currently up to? sometimes i make like 10 changes and move from 0.1.1 to 0.1.2 and sometimes i make one change and it feels better and I go "Yeah that's 0.2". how do you decide? is it just vibes? a certain type of change? #gamedev

fixed it the wizard is a bit gutted but at least he can look left now #gamedev #indiedev

well that's not supposed to happen #gamebugs #unexpectedfeature

I might just call it 'bugs' and the game is to find the game underneath all the bugs #gamedev

Scratch that, I've decided there's way too much work to do before releasing an Alpha after numerous epiphanies and a 3rd coffee. I'm also now calling my current build v0.2.3, so have reverted like 0.4 versions because I was being very bloody optimistic. Not going to get ahead of myself! #gamedev

proof trippy as hell felt like we were about to get sucked into the screen thanks @zozox.bsky.social but, actually, thanks

alpha down permanently after some amazing feedback after someone managed to push my game to it's limits and break it completely. yes, it was my wife

alpha down temporarily while I un**** a couple of things :')

First playable alpha is out! FAAAAAAR from the finished game. Would love for you to fill out this feedback form if you do play it!: forms.gle/K3UdFFdNDyzY... puddlecatgames.itch.io/panicka/devl... #gamedev #indiegame

Gooooood morning, it's a new day in (too bloody) sunny England and this cat is wishing for puddles. Please rain. Please. As Christian Bale once said: I can't code in these conditions! Or something like that #gamedev

V0.5.1 complete today. Now for 5 and a half hours of sleep before I can wake up and accidentally break it down to v0.3 #gamedev

trying to play your game that used to be good after 8 hours of work #gamedev

me: right, now to playtest, to see all the cool things i made! also me: right, now to throw my laptop out of the window, to undo all the bad code spirits i invoked

code just said something to me and it was v rude #gamedev

he's so powerful

ooooooh biiiiig changes to the game today. super exciting! #gamedev

o no it's big barry #gamedev

today i learned i'm dumber than a raven

me taking my 4 year old anywhere

when you leave your laptop with your code open a few hours then come back and the software has closed #gamedev

nvm nvm i fixed it #gamedev

nvm i broke it #gamedev

Kept choosing upgrades accidentally. Confirm button added. Why aren't you dead excited about the new button you don't look excited

Fixed it. It was... It just 'was'. And now it is no more. #gamedev

Oops. Due to some unforeseen technical glitches (coding crapness), our wizard hero now autofires and floats off when you start the game. Might be fixed in the future. Might be called a 'feature'. below: where you goin', lad

Test run of game to check a feature. Child needed car keys. Instinctively paused game to give car keys. Pause functionality paused as doing something. Game crashed. Thanks, kiddo. P.S. Child was getting a toy from the back, I don't usually let him drive as he's 4 #gamedev

We're making our first ever game! It's cute, it's dumb, it's a bazillion light-years from being done, but hey-ho, let's go :D puddlecatgames.itch.io/panicka/devl... #gamedev