I was accepted into the usability team for the Godot editor and I just did my first "real" approval of a pull request for the Godot Engine!!!! very exciting, and very happy to contribute. the usability team is the only team I can join as I've never written a line of C++ in my life 🤣 #godotengine

TL;DR Unity -> Godot transition: after 13 years in unity, it took me 4-6 weeks of getting adjusted, and now i’ll never go back. it has quirks, like other engines. there’s bugs. but it’s free, basically equally capable, and well reported issues get fixed quicker than in unity (sometimes within hours)

TL;DR Unity -> Godot transition: after 13 years in unity, it took me 4-6 weeks of getting adjusted, and now i’ll never go back. it has quirks, like other engines. there’s bugs. but it’s free, basically equally capable, and well reported issues get fixed quicker than in unity (sometimes within hours)

got an email from a store rep telling me they'd like to feature Rift Riff but won't; because they "can not find" the store badge they designed on our site. gross strong-arm tactics to turn every game landing page into a boring display of black & white badges REALLY get under my skin 👎🏼 #gamedev

👇🏼 hard agree. i wish more devs trusted in the affordances of making multiplatform games. it takes time setting up UIs for different screen orientations, different UI scales, different input types, localization — but in return you get: • improved accessibility • more opportunities for $$$ #gamedev

👇🏼 event in Amsterdam where you can play new & upcoming indie games. i really loved attending the previous editions (and showcased there too once (twice?)). it’s small and casual and not too busy. i just got a ticket for €8 which is genuinely too cheap.

when my 3yo hugs me and says “mijn papaatje”, i am so flooded with love it’s hard to care about anything else right there and then. but moments later, that love radiates into the rest of my life; to aspire to be kind to myself and others, to make art, to be a friend, to listen, to care.

i need “Rename Symbol” in the Godot script editor a.s.a.p. - who’s with me?!? #godotengine

haha i’ve been instructing programmer @franzlazerte.bsky.social to look over our art director’s shoulders for weeks now and build editor tools for him! we won’t go into any other tasks before our art director can assemble their art freely and efficiently and comfortably. #gamedev

this is the very reason I love GDScript in Godot: instant compilation and hot reloading save maybe 30 minutes a day compared to a medium sized game in Unity where C# compilation is necessary. there’s a small in-game performance cost to that, but it’s workaroundable. #gamedev #godotengine

Godot is pronounced as “go-dough”. other pronunciations are cringe. sorry. #godotengine

Does anyone know whether it's safe to load 8192x8192 textures on basically all devices (desktop, mobile, consoles) these days? 8 years ago 4096x4096 was "practically the limit", especially for Android devices and consoles, but I can't find good recent data on this. #gamedev #godotengine

there’s a lot of talk about that one CEO who thinks game critics should be rated because their bad reviews hurt his ego. i agree with everyone else: that’s just silly. however, i do think reducing one’s thoughts to a number dismisses the idea that some things work better for some than others

#Godot 4.6 is out, and all about your flow! This release puts you and your workflow first with a new theme, flexible docks, and dozens of UX improvements. And Jolt Physics by default, revamped IK, better reflections, and more. Less wrestling with UI. More making games. godotengine.org/releases/4.6

“godot isn’t good at 3D” uhu

i’ve had this app since the beginning of time and love it so much

Today's the last day game designers in the Netherlands can send in an application to work on the Hidden Folks Universe! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/... Some tips based on the applications so far: - be in NL - don't be a minor (we had 1 lol) - don't say HF seemed inspired by a game that cloned ~us~

“new api!! old one dead!” “new metadata required! reupload a binary!!” the amount of maintenance game devs have to do because mobile platforms decided to relentlessly update yearly, often deprecating perfectly functioning systems with no backward compatibility, is costly and infuriating 😡 #gamedev

great perspective on “art vs artist” by @draknek.bsky.social: “On a personal level, I choose to spend my limited time on this planet engaging with art made by people where I don’t have to feel morally conflicted about how much I’m implicitly supporting them and their beliefs and their actions”

TR-49 is: - Promoted with light ARG - Launches on iOS (and PC/Mac) - Combines text with cool UI - Low price, not too long Are we back in 2011??!?! Honestly, this all shows the value of just hammering away at the same thing and building up a good reputation.

Do you have a #Godot 4.x game on #Android using Vulkan Mobile? We recently fixed a number of Vulkan crashes for some mobile GPUs which will be in 4.5.2 and 4.6. I'd like to figure out if there are more Vulkan crashes in the wild that we can prioritize.

calling it: the Steam Deck is the Nintendo Switch killer.

this highlights such a big “issue” in games: a shallowness that is comfortable and thoughtless and which has almost entirely drowned out experiences that are thoughtful.

the joke's on me: Godot DOES contain a native bin packer 😅 docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/cl... tested with placeholders & looks decent enough! thanks to @jdbaudi.bsky.social for pointing me at the builtin function + a usage example 🙏🏼 next up: replacing Texture2Ds in scenes with AtlasTextures

Godot folks, i could use suggestions! have you implemented some sort of sprite packer / texture packer / bin packing algorithm inside your project? we need this for our asset pipeline in Hidden Folks 2 made in Godot. ideally it’s in GDScript, but i’m open to adapt something. #godotengine #gamedev

strong vibes

Something positive: Spry Fox is spinning out of Netflix. We are independent (once again!) and preparing to launch Spirit Crossing. We wrote up a little blog post musing about this wild adventure. Worth sharing the good news. spryfox.com/a-16-year-ol...

game looks sooooooo good 🫠🫠

oh hey that’s us!

proud to report that Rift Riff earned enough to break-even its development costs! it's currently at ±€130k net from Steam, App Store, and Google Play. Rift Riff team members share in the game's profit, so the money that continues to trickle in is also theirs <3 #gamedev #godotengine

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All these Vulkan rendering fixes are included in #GodotEngine 4.6, and cherry-picked for an upcoming 4.5.2 release. The crash rates for Vulkan Mobile on Android were quite bad, so I'm grateful for everyone involved in solving them! Working around GPU driver peculiarities is never a simple task 😅

Rift Riff had a high crash rate on Android (3-5% of sessions, yikes) due to Godot's implementation of the Vulkan renderer. This throttled our game's discoverability on the algorithm-based Google Play; very bad, obviously. So… we fixed all the crashes!👇🏼🧵 thread on HOW, below. #godotengine #gamedev

haha, very good

hear hear, same

using “a11y” is ironically not at all accessible, and terrible UX. can we all agree to stop using it, along with “i18n”?

idea: inverted job references job applicants get to talk to current and former employees about the boss that's about to hire them

lived experience distilled into excellent advise. @pentadact.com is an industry legend. always has been!!

friends! acquaintances! help! i'm looking to hire a game designer (living in the Netherlands) to help build games in The Hidden Folks Universe, starting with a sequel to the indie hit game Hidden Folks. know someone who's a good fit? pls forward this, ty! hiddenfolks.com/job-opening/...

no-bullshit talk on how to playtest while respecting ‘the art’ of your game: youtu.be/6EUeYu0aPn4

thought provoking thread

i saw this and realized making a game with my son is on my bucket list now

my 2025: - released Rift Riff to great success. - founded a company to expand the Hidden Folks universe. - became caretaker of my partner (bedridden since Jan 1st, Long COVID) and our now 3yo son. - got better at cooking. - exercised 8 times this year, in total. - felt much sadness. grieved a lot.

1,5 years of making "a game for Steam players" + €40k promoting the Steam release (YT/T creators, ads, etc) but Rift Riff's daily revenue is 4x higher on mobile with €0 marketing spent there……? Rift Riff's daily avg net revenue: ±$100 on Steam ±$400 on mobile (90% App Store, 10% Google Play)

game designers i 💙 go.bsky.app/D4QViNs

stress testing placeholder art & animations for Hidden Folks in Godot. instead of Sprite2D + AnimationPlayer, we draw folks using the RenderingServer to increases FPS by 80%. and without other objects, all folks are drawn using a single draw call if all body parts use the same texture. #godotengine

rift riff is game of the day in the US! cool cool cool cool cool apps.apple.com/us/story/id1...

the discourse about “making a game that has the same concept as another game” and the discourse about “games touched by genAI will always be derivative and soulless” happening at the same time on my timeline, with strong diametrically opposed opinions, is really confusing to me.

if there’s one thing that just ruins my day, it is shaders. every time i try them, try to understand them, it doesn’t work as expected, and it always leaves me mad and frustrated and angry at everything. shaders can get fucked as far as i’m concerned

Godot Shader / GLSL experts: I know practically nothing about shaders but I'd like all instances of a canvas_item shader to get a random offset to a TIME variable inside its fragment shader, and I want to do this without using a uniform. How would one go about that? #godot #godotengine #gamedev