Just finished Öoo this evening and what an absolutely stellar game! Brilliant puzzles and excellent level design, effective presentation... Took me a little less than 4 hours to beat and it kept giving me new 'aha moments' the whole time. Reminded me a lot of leap year which I'd also recommend.

When I left 2K Marin in 2013 and went indie, this statement (from a Rock Paper Shotgun guest piece about Deus Ex written by my friend and former colleague JP LeBreton) was seared into my mind.

#gamedev #indiedev

finally starting to implement this guy

In case you haven't had the chance to play it yet, Hypogea is 25% off for the Steam winter sale! I (an impartial observer) hear it's pretty good! #indiedev #3DPlatformer s.team/a/2980260/

Playing #routine right now and so far it's really good. Incredible vibes, excellent visual design & audio, also I'm absolutely scared shitless 🫠

From outside this may sound like an elitist "you poor baby you deprived yourself of knowledge" But no, it's a legit problem. You went straight from point A to point M, but the interstitial steps are SO important! All of those give you information and context. They make you better in the future.

Tannhauser Gate

Sometimes people ask me how to get better at improvising in TTRPGs and I shrug helplessly, saying "...uhhhhh.... Ummmm," and things like that. To improve this response I rolled on a spark table and followed the prompt "write a blog post about it".

Okay, I realized it's not very comfortable to watch. It will be better this way:

a commission i still like from 2023/2024 of leek's character, whistler!

no sun vibes in today's prototype

Can this be called #pixelart?

Finally got the good stuff, can't wait to get into it 😌

Breaking: New era of video games is upon us. Time to adapt. Introducing #TeaseYaGame; open to ALL #VideoGames. 3 x a year. Lite version of PYG; Jan, Apr, Sep. PLUS: Special December teaser edition! June & November WILL remain as #PitchYaGame. 🫡 Live next Tuesday! Who's ready?! 🥳

Looking for some #pixelart ? You found it!

Hypogea is now a month old! It's been really awesome and slightly overwhelming seeing so many people play and enjoy my little video game, I can't express how grateful I am to see something I made be recieved so well. For the occasion, the full Hypogea OST is now up on youtube! youtu.be/TR30s82xOxk

Working on status effects! Still need to add damage over time to the fire so it's a bit more balanced #gamedev

Test Rig booth.pm/en/items/348...

been a miiiinute since I posted a Songs of the Shore update on here! a year of extremely buggy spaghetti code caught up to me and made development slow to a crawl, so I'm spending this month rebuilding all of the basic systems of the game with all my new knowledge! #GodotEngine #Godot #gamedev

This is one of the most unique adventure games that I've played in a long time. Hypogea's story and adventure is a wonderful experience, and while it is a short game, it's also incredibly inexpensive. @ccharnul.bsky.social #indiegame #gamedev What indie games should I check out next???

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Trying to group everything back into this dev thread, take a look if you haven't!

Haven't done a camera analysis in a while! Here's a quick look at the camera for Metroid Dread 🎥

Just tried the Nophenia demo and wow I really love the vibes here! The low res textures, eerie music, all with a really lovely softness in the rendering, awesome stuff! steam page: s.team/a/3979330

So I knew they where gravity powered but it never accord to me that the weight would need to shift from one train to the other to make that work and it’s such a simple idea and something designer’s may like the idea of cos it’s very charming #reference

Ok I think there miiight be a bug #gamedev

Finally bought a graphics tablet with an actual screen and wow it feels waaaay better

MASSIVE props to Dima Goryainov for adding these big chunky CRT style monitors and Chernobyl reactor style stations to the golden age Rasputin palette language! His concepts: www.artstation.com/artwork/1nee4X concept / my in game execution

until we return, paradise interred

After 3 DAYS of tinkering I FINALLY got Tower of the Deep to work with Steam multiplayer LET'S GOOO

Jules Guerin, illustrations from Egypt and it’s Monuments, 1908

beautiful prince of persia the sands of time...

Stilted Gosherds of the great bog with their giant flightless charges- a main source of meat, eggs, leather and feather for the region. They also favor the wizards hood, in their own way, for protection against the spirits of the peat lands…

Flying machine V What version do you like more?

That footstep sound effect is just SO satisfying

C'est beau. C'est Albert Bierstadt (1830-1902). C'est une source d'inspiration à la direction artistique d'Outer Wilds.

art. medusoid girl

draped in bamboo. #street #photography #streetphotography #leica #leicam11p

chromis(?) in london

We did something different with the credits for Demonschool. We used this format: name, title, lengthy description of what they did. Often you see credits in games where you don't know what the credited developer was actually responsible for. We wanted to give people proper, actual credit.

Please wishlist Hark the Ghoul! Recently did a playtest and they've got sooo much cool shit & personality in there, really worth checking out!

Initially vaguely wanted to be a movie director so I'd started to look into schools for that, then met a guy in highschool who was ACTUALLY motivated & passionate to work on movies and that's when I realized I was way more interested in working on video games

Alright! Let's actually talk about this waterfall thing. It is an amazing showcase of many things that I adore from late 90s/early 2000s graphics. I am replicating this in Blender through mere observation, so some things might not be fully accurate to the mind-boggling effects of the PS1.

Nothing like having a quick look at twitch before going to bed, seeing someone playing the game, joining to see how they're doing and OH SHIT THEY JUST DID A HUGE SEQUENCE BREAK

Really like all the secondary animation on this

The amount of people I know who have been laid off from games industry jobs and are deciding to leave games entirely as a result is not only extremely saddening (of course), but also genuinely scary. We have lost legitimately thousands of years of knowledge and experience in the last four years.

[WIP] I am modifying the planet editor in my game so that it can generate foamy edges for water and other liquid surfaces. I would also like to add support for shorelines. (Got inspired by @oskarstalberg.bsky.social's work) #godotengine #gamedev #b3d #wildcosmos

Kid of sad it didn't make it for release but I really wanted to setup this little water VFX, should be in a patch later in the week!