Today's Guernsey: Fixed a couple of trees that weren't properly transparent when Guernsey walks behind them. Essential for a top-down fixed camera set in a forest! 🌳 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Happy Thanksgiving from Voxile! 🦃 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAaY...

Today's Guernsey: Just a tiny bit of work updating some of the scripting for Chapter 5. You can now get two beats deeper into the story. This is uh placeholder dialogue, folks, I promise I'm decent at the writings. That's all I got for today, folks! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Apres Slaughter www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5_q...

Today's Guernsey: Pushed forward on Chapter 5! Some new code, some new scripts set up. Also fixed a bused tree! #gamedev! #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More fixing stuff, more optimization. Unrelated to any of that, this 10-year-old asset store water one day started looking super jittery in editor -- but it still looks great in builds! 🤷🏻‍♂️ #gamedev #indieGameDev

My daughter, an ACNH fan, wants me to let her play Animal Crossing: New Leaf. But if I let her play, I'd have to delete my town, Benton. Now, I haven't played in about ten years. But... I'm not sure I can delete Benton. 🥹

Today's Guernsey: Went on a rabid optimization jag and stripped a bunch of GameObject.Finds out of random places, including several every-frame methods. Other tweaks and improvements, too. Everything seems to work, and the framerate gets smoother! 🧈 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: A small one, tonight I added support for each Chapters to make the chicken hungry again, so you can feed the chicken anew with each sunrise! All chickens polled agreed this was a good idea. 🐓 #gamedev #indieGameDev #chickens

Today's Guernsey: Decided to take a break from optimizing and improve the chicken! 🐓Guernsey throws seed particles properly 🐓Chicken keeps a respectful distance 🐓Chicken stops following Guernsey around after being fed And that's all for today! #gamedev #indieGameDev #chicken

Voxile building hacks! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yyjm...

Today's Guernsey: Switched my efforts from Awake() to GameObject.Find and found a goldmine of unneccessary calls in the chicken script 🫣They're fixed now! But yikes. 🐔 #gamedev #indieGameDev

なんか急に寒い〜！ #今日のらくがき

Today's Guernsey: A few more optimizations. Every dialogue in the game (there are hundreds) was waking up and performing FOUR find operations on start. So hopefully that's better now! 💬 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More more more optimizations. Today, I caught a good one: I had been calling, like a GENIUS, a very expensive GameObject.Find() being run EVERY FRAME while interacting with a locked door. 😱 That oughta help some stutters. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey update... More optimization! The game... feels like it's booting faster and running smoother, and still working fine? I should probably be Serious and do before-and-after checks on the profiler. But I am not by nature very Serious. 🤷🏻‍♂️ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: A few more optimizations, removing wasteful Awake()'s and unnecessary GameObjectFind()'s. Slow and steady. 🐢#gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Optimization! 💾Removed an intense, redundant save system component 😳Removed a few wasteful Awake() calls 🔭Removed some expensive GameObject.Find() calls Shaking my fist at past Ben for not having more discipline. 😤 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Optimization! My hunt today concerned tracking down wasteful usages of Awake() to cut down on the amount of time it takes to run the game. Seems making 100 rooms of an open world in a single scene wasn't such a great idea. 🧐 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Hey, our new demo trailer is live at @ign.com -- check it out! www.ign.com/videos/voxil...

Today's Guernsey: Going further into optimization, I learned more about Unity's profiler and went through code, removing most of my debug logs. Gonna keep at this for a bit, interesting challenge. Makes for terrible screenshots, though! 😅 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Here's the demo on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2803440/... (Note: demo does NOT include previous tutorial or "adventure" content from the main game, only one survival world!)

For the past several months, our team's been on a big push to realize Procedural Survival Islands. Up to ten biomes packed with dozens of beautiful voxel landmarks, weird quests, exciting loot, foreboding chasms, epic bosses, and so on. Grab the new free demo on Steam, and tell me what you think!

For the past several months, our team's been on a big push to realize Procedural Survival Islands. Up to ten biomes packed with dozens of beautiful voxel landmarks, weird quests, exciting loot, foreboding chasms, epic bosses, and so on. Grab the new free demo on Steam, and tell me what you think!

Today's Guernsey: In search of optimizations and better frame rates, I spent time learning about the Unity profiler and making a bunch of objects in the scene static. More tomorrow! 👨🏻‍💻#gamedev #indieGameDev

We have a NEW DEMO! This is exclusively for the new Procedural Survival Islands we've been working on. You get to play one such island, start from nothing, craft, fight, build, destroy, explore.. SP or co-op! www.youtube.com/watch?v=M36e...

Today's Guernsey Update: Another wall section, bit tricky 'cause it's in a narrow walkway behind a hill. But added in a nice little peek of a powerup, even hinted by a collectible. This will be a "How to Level Design" screenshot during my GDC talk. 🙂‍↕️ #gamedev #indieGameDev

Todays' Guernsey: A semi-successful attempt to recreate the shading I've been doing on trees to leaf piles, and a more successful attempt to get smoother UI for quest items working, so they now pop up after the chapter start text! 🙌🏻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Built a nice wall of trees that offers a brief but tantalizing glimpse at the railroad tracks and abandoned rail car beyond -- but how can you get there, dear player!? #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Another slight update, but today: 🌲 Cypress leaves no longer look lit on one side in a weird way 🐞 Fixed an issue with train tunnel bliners And that's it. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Realized I never fluffed up this colorful fella, so here he is all shaded and fluffy lookin'. That's all I got time for tonight! 😮‍💨 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: MOAR FLUFFY TREES 💃🏻Cypress! 🕺🏻Japanese Maple! 💃🏻Apple! 🕺🏻Oak! Making a game blending 3D lighting with 2D sprites, it can be hard to know what to shade in art, vs. let the engine do it. But this is a clear visual upgrade. 🧐 #gamedev #indieGameDev

I'm just realising lighting doesn't really have to make sense #pixelart

Today's Guernsey: 🌳Fluffed up birch and sycamore tree textures 📑Set guiding wind targets for Chapter 5 🗂️Organized all scripts into the script folder I'm a big believer in organized, disciplined development! 😤 Except for Guernsey, here I'm a mess. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Decided to take a different approach with tree leaves, adding some more intentional shading into the mix. What do you think? Should all the trees look more like this? 🤔 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: The family took a walk in the woods and I decided the game needs some more red trees. Here's a red tree! 🌲 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Set up hint dialogue and fixed some little bugs around the nascent Chapter 5. It's becoming a thing! Put my best writing chops into these hints, folks. 🧐 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Got a new special bedtime trigger working for "Chapter ?" but not all the content is hooked up quite right, so it... looks like this for now. 😬 Hopefully this is beautiful tomorrow. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Got a new special bedtime trigger working for "Chapter ?" but not all the content is hooked up quite right, so it... looks like this for now. 😬 Hopefully this is beautiful tomorrow. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Playing through the game led to some bug fixes in "Chapter ?" where some things were being triggered incorrectly. That's it for today! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Played a bit further and noted some issues. Also fixed this bug with the train tunnels that's been bugging me forever, which is great. Now, to bed. 😪 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Another light one as I recover from sickness but, advanced my save a bit further, fixed some issues around leafpiles, and improved the camera framing of this leafpile in particular. That's it from the cozy graveyard game! 👻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Sick so did very little... ⛰️Fixed some bunk terrain 🎮Played a bit further in search of bugs 💬Added a few more lines of temp dialogue 👨🏻‍💻and some simple scripting #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More setup on Chapter 5, and more playing through the game to reach Chapter 5 and test it! And set up a newish gate to work with a beat in Chapter 4 that it previously didn't interact with properly. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Tonight's Guernsey: Spent a lot of time tinkering with Chapter 5. 👻Hooked up all the characters to the right beats 🔖Activated the chapter ☀️Hooked up time-of-day 🧮Hooked up all the chapter miscellany 🌛Fixed a small bug So all-in-all a good night 🙌🏻 #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: More setup on Chapter 5. 💬Added support for part of Chapter 5 to the dialogue script 🎮Played a chunk of the game to actually get to Chapter 5 in progression 🐞Fixed(?) a bug with help dialogue borking sometimes. #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Kinda swamped with Life Stuff, so it was just a few steps forward. Work on the spine of Chapter 5, doing some setup of characters, dialogues, and beat completion. That's it, folks! #gamedev #indieGameDev

Today's Guernsey: Some animation tweaks to the cornmaze kid, and a bunch of subtle but impactful tweaks to the surrounding corn maze so it's easier to find your way and see the action. 🍫 #gamedev #indieGameDev

I did a talk at Narrascope about this very thing! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYXC...

Today's Guernsey: Did an animation past on the lost kid in the corn maze. We've all been there, folks. 🌽 #gamedev #indieGameDev