Hmm, maybe those 'Don't stand in the fire!' loading screens in RPGs are onto something? 🤔 #indiedev #gamedev

Added doors, locks, keys, and safes. If there's a locked door, there's a key. If there's a safe... you'll figure it out. Little things to build up the stealth sandbox 🔐 #indiedev #gamedev

Silly animation test but I'm hyped: new skeleton & animation system! Positions can now be animated and I have more control over keyframes and easing. All defined in code but hot reload makes iteration fast and I can hook into actor state etc. Neck slot items visible too! #indiedev #gamedev

Kicking off the year with a brand new logo for Uncounted Isles! What do you think? #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Happy New Year everyone! And thanks for all your support and feedback!

A little thing I played around with for my holiday post was adding blinking to NPCs. Now it's fully integrated for both NPCs and the player and what a difference it makes! #gamedev #indiegame

🎁🎄 Happy Holidays everyone! 🎄🎁 And watch out for Kobolds making off with your gifts 😉 #indiegame #gamedev

Took a break from the new Steam page to code a bit. Added levers, doors and gates. Not much but it made me realize how far my engine has come. From the core ECS to the editor I can expand, to stuff like navmesh updates as gates move. Lots of duct tape but it works. #indiedev

Oops, didn't realize how long it's been since my last post! The Steam page work continues and a new logo reveal is on the horizon✨In the meantime, here's a small clip just a friendly reminder to stay alert out on the Uncounted Isles #gamedev #indiedev

Been putting in work overhauling the Steam Page for Uncounted Isles! Still got a couple weeks to go before everything's ready (including a shiny new trailer & logo for end of the year), but I couldn't wait to share this: the new Key Art is done! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Haven't had much time this month to think about the spooky season, but here is an early draft for an important story moment of Uncounted Isles that kinda fits. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

The team is pleased to announce the MonoGame Creators University. Every Thursday @ 11:00 EDT, 15:00 UTC, 16:00 BST, 17:00 CET This week we're beginning with the awesome "Getting Started with 2D" tutorial. More details on our blog: monogame.net/blog/2025-10... Have questions ready!

Had fun implementing a little proof of concept for a lockpicking / code breaking minigame today. Every RPG game needs those, right? #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Small Uncounted Isles Update: Added subtle wind sway to the trees and tweaked the clouds a bit and does it ever make a difference! The sway intensity actually depends on wind strength, so stormy weather should look better too! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Long overdue #ThrowbackTuesday Post! Side-by-side of a level from 1½ years ago when I considered a level editor for my #CustomEngine but decided against it. Same island now rebuilt with my newly finished editor & all the engine improvements since. What do you all think? #gamedev

I'm tinkering with one of the main quests and its set pieces, like this burning village. I think I only need a handful more assets, some sound effects, and a couple of tweaks to the particle effects for it to fully click together. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Editor update! I thought I was done with it to be honest.. But I caught a flaw in how I add new Placeables. Took the time to refactored that and now it’s truly done! All pre-editor features are ported and the light levels also got upgrade. Back to gameplay soon! #gamedev #solodev #customengine

My editor is ready and I'm having a blast going through my old levels! Before this, everything was locked to a chunk grid, so things like ledges smaller than a chunk were nearly impossible. Now I have so much more flexibility and creative options! #gamedev #customengine #rpg

Been busy outside #gamedev the last 2 weeks, but back to finish the editor now! Doing a trial run rebuilding the graveyard island from my old level format and noting down a lot of small QoL improvements to work on next. Still lots of fun! #indiedev #monogame #leveleditor

Editor update! Running a weekend behind plan, but still really happy with it. I've knocked out tons of background integration and polishing tasks. Just 'pick similar' and Tile47 tiling now left. Here's the Tile16 tool + test play in action! #gamedev #solodev #customengine

Prototyping a new roof building tool. Previously I'd auto-generate a roof for the whole building, but I decided to give the player more control over how it is generated. There are still some edge cases to fix, but it already works pretty nice! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames

Made solid progress on the Uncounted Isles Editor! 🛠️ Fixed lingering engine issues, upgraded the UI system with proper text input support, and nearly finished all core editor systems. Added scene layers & groundwork for more element types. Here's test footage! #gamedev #solodev #customengine

Also, here's a scene from another game I've been working on 🏝️ #gamedev

Started work on my own level editor and have already setup the basics like move/rotate gizmos, undo/redo and copy/paste. Content search uses my old tag system. Next: a small inspector and tools to reuse the old tiling system for things like paths. #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev

Back from my #gamedev break (allergies 🤧). Finished grass sway motion + upgraded shadows with poisson disk sampling. And now I realized it'll be tough to build the islands for Uncounted Isles without better tooling for my engine. So that's my next project! #indiedev #indiegame

Update on the fog shader: it now reacts to every light source my engine supports! The mood has definitely shifted dramatically with the new fog. Getting spooky vibes now. 🌫️👻 What do you think? #gamedev #indiegamedev

Dug up a dusty old to-do: "Rework fog". 🌫️ Turns out I've been sleeping on some atmospheric goodness! My engine's basic depth fog was nothing compared to this still very basic height fog shader. It's already so much more moody! Can't wait to experiment further! #gamedev #indiegamedev

Enemy AI is still my #gamedev nemesis😅 Faced reusability issues with my last approach, so gave Behavior Trees another shot. Thanks to #BeeHave Godot Plugin, BTs finally clicked! So I built my own BT library for my #customengine, featuring a type-safe blackboard & basic debug view.

Still doing lots of backend engine work, reworking the AI for the umpteenth time. But I did a lot of research and experiments and I think behavior trees actually clicked for me this time around. Also added these two new outfits: Cook and Bandit. #gamedev #indiegamedev

Just tackled some engine maintenance e.g. hunting down memory leaks and tightening frame pacing. Not visually exciting but necessary work. The only visual update: teaching my physics engine to handle stairs as slopes for smoother movement! #indiegamedev #indiegame #customengine

Just finished updating the safehouse core systems! Moving forward with gameplay and quests. Here is a small preview of the revamped 'Burial Forest' island to fit the new story for it. Excited to playtest the island tomorrow at a local gamedev meetup. #gamedev #indiegame

For this #ScreenshotSaturday, I can show a bit of the overhaul of our safehouse/tavern in my game! Switching away from a simple menu to a walkable space where you can trade & store items, accept quests and customize your character. Hope to show more soon! #indiegame

Equipment overhaul complete! Armor now displays properly on all characters while preserving customizations like hair merges with helmets instead of just vanishing. Going to make towns feel much more alive since NPCs won't all look identical! #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame

I overhauled the character model system to support dynamic armors going forward! Breaking models into smaller components allowed me to enhance the character creation process too. Pardon the developer UI in this Random Appearance button test. #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame

I’ve added a back slot for backpacks and cloaks. Since the player character is now regularly visible in UIs, I expanded the bipedal skeleton to make the new slot render the item! Up next: the rest of the armor slots! 😁 #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Small update: Cooking system is done. Different fireplaces have varied amounts of cooking slots & yes, you can burn food! 🔥 UI needs some final touches but the core works great. And after this, I'll never laugh at item duplication bugs ever again! 😅 #gamedev #indiedev

Began working on the cooking interface. I think I'll go the route where food burns if it stays on the fire too long. 🤔 #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Doing a small cleanup pass over animal behaviors and adding sound effects and animations. Last one was this cute little pig's wallowing behavior. Anyway, what's next on the Todo? Food & Cooking? Oh no... #screenshotSaturday #indiegame #indiegamedev

I've been out of service for the past two weeks due to being sick once more, so progress has unfortunately halted. Slowly picking up the pieces now, but for this #ScreenshotSaturday, I just have this a friendly reminder that you can Wishlist my game Uncounted Isles on Steam!

Friend asked why my ships never move. So now they sometimes sail near islands! Brainstorming gameplay relevance without making them controllable by the player: maybe their arrival triggers shop restocks or container spawns with loot at piers? 🤔 #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Sometimes greed can be the death of an adventurer... Anyway, I am adding more traps right now! 😊 #gamedev #indiegame #ScreenshotSaturday

Setting up and testing out new interiors in my engine, like this alchemist shop. Can you see the many quests you will be able to receive in here? #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

I've been rather sick this past week, so there's been no gameplay progress for Uncounted Isles. On the bright side, I've got some commissioned swamp biome trees to show off. Looking forward to getting back on track next week. #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

I'm having way too much fun porting old code to my new status effect system and adding new elements, like this RPG classic: spider webs 🕸️ that slow you down! #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

After a weekend spent hunting down memory leaks and tightening frame timings, I finished up the status effect system. Now fully featured and connected for both player and NPCs with HUD elements. Oh and also fall damage! #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Now that the Inventory UI is complete I'm finally adding status effect system! Starting with the classics stun and knockback shown here in a quick test combining both. The same system will also handle Food Items that provide healing over time. #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Took me way longer than I expected, but I finally finished my Inventory overhaul. Adding the Drag and Drop Item Management was a bit of a challenge within my UI System, but besides a handful of visual tweaks, I am really happy with the result. #gamedev #indiegame #indiegamedev

Phew, that rendering pipeline update took WAY longer than I expected... but now my custom engine can render to as many textures as I want! What was I doing before? Ah! Time to finally build that inventory system! 🛠️ #gamdev #indiegame #ingegamedev

Happy New Year everybody! 🎆 Here's to bright futures for our #gamedev and #indiegamedev creations! 🎮 And thanks for all the support I've received for mine!