The past tense of shoot (shot) and troubleshoot (troubleshooted) is incongruent. Chew on that!

Wonderfully weird: erikdemaine.org/fonts/tetris...

I know I've posted about this before, but I swear you guys are sleeping on my drag-and-drop export utility. CTRL+SHIFT while dragging nodes into your inspector. It creates the relevant @export variable, and assigns it.

Imagine asking a question on bsky, tagging multiple hashtags, and then setting it so only your followers can answer 🐣 I know the answer to your question good sir, but you'll never learn because I'm incapable of answering you.

I signed up to do a group playtest session for my in progress game. So... I guess time to get my game into playtest shape? 😅

🤵 I don't know how popular this game is going to be. And I don't imagine a game like this to be my magnum opus. But it still feels like a culmination of my skills (so far). It constantly offers opportunities to use every trick in my book to achieve the result. And it's such a great feeling to do!

There! New and obviously improved models for all my game’s characters! You would definitely be afraid of these horrendous- I mean horrifying character designs! #blender #b3d #oc

I'm glad to announce that I will be working as a contractor for the @godotfoundation! :godot: Starting with this PR to make that UI focus is hidden when gained via mouse/touch input: https://github.com/godotengine/godot/pull/110250 #godotengine

I'm surely late to the party, but apparently this is valid in GDScript! I somehow missed that `Script` could be used in this way. It cannot be used with `is` keyword, and you cannot constrain (e.g., Script<Component>), but it's still pretty nifty! #godot #gamedev #gdscript

New upgrade - energy boost! Gives you a random chance to double your swings per second for a short time. Great for burst damage. Other than that, lots of progress that's not as fun to look at. Controller support, bug fixing, marketing stuff, etc. #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev

"I implemented this because implementing papers is fun and what I do on my weekends". Absolute baller! Rust implementation of SSSP that breaks the O(m + n log n) sorting barrier on directed graphs. github.com/alphastrata/... #algorithms #rust #compsci #programming

Did you ever wish to get a random point from a polygon? Here are three polygons, each with 150 random points inside. You could use this for enemy spawning etc. I'm hoping to get this into Godot, but for now you can get the code here: github.com/godotengine/... #godot #foss #devtools #gdscript

Opened some not-very-important Godot proposals. If I don't get shot down, I might open PRs for them: github.com/godotengine/..., github.com/godotengine/... #godot #godotengine #oss

Considering switching my pet project from a Roguelike, into a set of distinct levels 😱 Balancing for randomness just seems incredibly difficult.

Long Deep Powerful Airy Sneaky Thunderous Bomber Steady Tremor Forced Wrecker.wav The name of the absolutely rank fart noise I just got jumpscared by. I was searching for a fuse sound in my asset library, and caught a stray 😱 #gamedev #audio

I don't play War Games, but the Battlefield beta perked my interest, so I picked up a deeply discounted Battlefield1 on steam. Fucking joke. It requires EA Launcher (fine), but also requires kernel level anticheat to play the SINGLEPLAYER CAMPAIGN. Fuck EA. Viva indie dev!

Hollow Knight: Silksong will be available September 4 on all platforms and day one on Xbox Game Pass! Watch the release trailer: youtu.be/6XGeJwsUP9c

Animation rebasing now supports rotation, and all other primitive properties! If it's a float, int, vec, etc, it can automatically be remapped! I also improved the UX of the tool. Get the pre-release here: github.com/SirLich/godo... #godot #devtools #animation #foss

"Great animations, great art style. Make 100 levels and put it on Steam". ~Mark Brown, praising Walk It!, a GMTK jam entry. Man, this kind of comment would light a FIRE under my ass. Congratulations to everyone at the top of Jam, and in general everyone who submitted. Sorry to miss this time!

Introducing: 2D animation retargeting in Godot! #godot #gamedev #animation #devtools

Seriously considering writing a script that allows me to reposition nodes after animating them. I want to reuse animations between similar characters, but I need some way of re-positining e.g, the head, and having the animations (which are all relative) update to that new position. #godot

How are we feeling about this little dude? I so badly want to do frame-by-frame animation for this project, but I'm simple not skilled enough 😅 #godot #animation #gamedev #krita

A horse struggles to exist #art #animation #indieanimationday #horse

How would you deal with UI covering gameplay elements? My current UI looks something like this (shown over Into the Breach). Currently I'm giving the player pan controlls (so they can shift the gameplay area around, and see "under" the UI, but it feels bad. #godot #gamedev #ux

In Godot, it should be possible to SHIFT+click export variables: - If it's a resource, then it should open the Quick Open - If it's a node, it should automatically assign (*if only one option exists) Too often I'm exporting e.g., a Button, and only one button exists. I want a shorcut :) #godot

This is a diabolical usage of semver 😱 #programming

🧵 Ever wondered how bugged seeds in Balatro work? The fact that bugged seeds exist at all is weird. Normally buggy seeded generation is described as "interesting" -not "buggy". Something special is going on to allow Balatros most broken seeds! #gamedev #balatro

I think it's finally time to learn to touch type properly. Getting some pain in my digits due to under-use of my pinkies. I "touch type" unconventionally (70-100 WPM depending on the day), so it's really just the pain that is the problem.

Is your game concept easy to describe? Some of my side projects are easy to describe "Minigolf, but the ball is an oddly shaped every day object". Other projects aren't so glib. A bit of this, inspired by that... Do you think easy-to-describe game concepts are easier to work on? #gamedev

Pretty good graphics, but the shadow texture is a bit low res.

🧵Going through old Godot projects, and either uploading them to VCS, or deleting them. ❌DELETED: Prototype hand placement for 3D cards (to facilitate 3D animations). #godot #gamedev

Today, IGN laid off eight extremely valuable members of our union and workforce via directive from our parent company, Ziff Davis. This, after two incredibly successful live events IGN Live and SDCC, and yet another corporate acquisition. Please take a moment to read and share our full statement:

Damn, SyncWithPhysics is broken for AnimatibleBody2D, and has been for ages. Not really possible to animate them. Or even move them it seems like? I wonder what a reasonable replacement would be for me... :(

What are the most user friendly orbit controls for games? Every 3D application I use (blender, Godot, unreal, etc) all tend to use inconsistant control schemes. Is there anything prefered by gamers? #gamedev #godot3d

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

Flashback to school debate, where the topic was "Should men be forced into military service" (my position: No) My opponent became confused, and argued that military service isn't for everyone, and some people might be traumatized. The class found this compelling, and declared him the winner.

🧵I hate combat in live service games evolve to be gimmicky. Games usually start with a small roster of simple, self-consistent characters/factions. New characters have to "one up" the old characters by adding gimmicks. After a few years, the roster is complicated and cancerous to play (against).

This game site brought me great nostalgic joy: www.welcometocosmos.com/login43/inde... It has a built in music player, taunt system, and chat, where you might just run into the author! The actual site design and gameplay is bizzare, but you might enjoy checking it out :) #gamedev #nostalgia

Somebody added Nipple.JS to our project, and I got jump scared with "nipples* couldn't be found". Why would you name your library this? 😭

Saw a video about a workshop where you can repair pre-broken cheap ceramic bowls with glue and bronze paint, to learn the secrets of Kintsugi. Am I tripping? Feels like the point of Kintsugi was missed by a million miles.

I pixeled the Death tarot card from Balatro as Brook from One Piece. #balatro #onepiece #pixelart

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been working on a fix for shadow leaks in godot lightmapper

Me, changing the toilet paper roll: "Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they they shall never sit in..."

"Reddit Answers is a new way to get answers, perspectives and recommendations from all of Reddit. It leverages generative AI to help find, synthesize, and deliver easy to understand answers from real posts and comments from redditors." Really? 🤦‍♂️

I was recently checking if it was somehow possible to play Balatro on my phone without repurchasing. Something like mobile crossplay launched from the steam app with save, achievement, and progress sync. I found a reddit thread about this topic, and oh boy were the comments deranged 😶

For the longest time, all the statues in my Furniture mod for #sapiens were alpacas. Finally found the issue (base game bug), and version 1.5.1 has a fix: #modding #lua #blender

I let a project of mine rot for a few months because I broke a core part of the progression, meaning I couldn't really play-test. It took like.. five minutes to fix :facepalm:

Things I stopped doing that made my Godot projects more maintainable: No @autoload vars, no conneting signals in-editor, no groups.

Love drag+drop, but want to use @export vars instead of @onready vars? Now you can! The functionality is available in Create Actor when you use CTRL+SHIFT to drop. #godot #devtools #gamedev