I can relate a lot with this. The struggle between making tools and making games is real, but it's definitely manageable if you pay attention, and also very rewarding to do! And there is also a lot of middleground: you can assemble a lot of smaller tools to make something that works well for you!

Mon partenaire et moi avons installé Loreline et commencé à le tester, et on s'amuse beaucoup! Merci d'avoir créé et mis à disposition cet outil, il est très cool. On espère que la version Godot sera disponible bientôt, et on a hâte de voir comment l'outil évoluera!

Here is the same thread I just posted, but for English-speaking friends: Excited to share the first public release of Loreline, an open-source language for writing interactive fiction and dialogue systems! More info and links below 🧵↓ #interactivefiction #writing #gamedev #indiedev

Et un nouveau langage pour écrire des fictions interactives !

Pour suivre le truc depuis ses débuts, c'est prometteur, c'est open source, et c'est fait intelligemment, foncez l'essayer si vous vous lancez dans du jeu avec une dimension narrative, c'est de la qualité et @jeremyfa.bsky.social a besoin de vos retours !👍

Très heureux de partager la première version utilisable par toutes et tous de Loreline, langage open-source pour écrire de la fiction interactive et des systèmes de dialogue ! Un thread pour expliquer ce que c'est et tous les liens pour l'essayer 🧵↓ #interactivefiction #writing #gamedev #indiedev

Tonight, added just a little bit of "juice" to the ON/OFF small lights state change, and tried a more neutral tint when those lights are in "sleep mode". #gamedev

I was such a ride to get there, but the "colored lights" revamp is now working pretty great: it can mix various lights of different colors, and the whole thing is blended correctly so far! Can finally consider working on other aspects like level design now 😭 #gamedev #indiegame #pixelart #indiedev

Another year has passed. Let's take a moment to look back at what happened around my game engine Ceramic and what's coming next 👇 ceramic-engine.com/blog/bye-202... #gamedev #enginedev #indiedev #haxe #unity #solodev

This week, I have been trying to add colors to the custom lighting system of my game. Not gonna lie: it's not an easy task, and I'm far from done yet, but it's looking promising ✨ #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #pixelart #puzzlegame #solodev

The event where my game was playable, along with some food around the « undergroud » idea, is now over. It was very cool to see people try the demo. Now I have a ton of improvements to make in the game 🥹 #undergroundfood #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Ces samedi et dimanche de 14h30 à 18h30, une démo de mon jeu sera testable à Villette Makerz (Paris), accompagnée d'une médiation culinaire (eh oui, inattendu 😄) sur la thématique « sous terre ». N'hésitez pas à passer ! #paris #solodev

Ces samedi et dimanche de 14h30 à 18h30, une démo de mon jeu sera testable à Villette Makerz (Paris), accompagnée d'une médiation culinaire (eh oui, inattendu 😄) sur la thématique « sous terre ». N'hésitez pas à passer ! #paris #solodev

When @aceottorney.bsky.social first told me about this I said "this could change people's lives and stop developers from getting exploited" and having seen the final resource, I think I was not wrong. I'd call it a must-bookmark for indie devs.

A friend of mine made a nice little game about trains you can play in the browser right now 🚂

It was always the plan to have some narrative bits into the game, so here we go! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Got some feedback (which I agreed with), suggesting not being able to trigger the impulsion while jumping was frustrating, so changed it. That change alone is going to affect level design a lot, but it's probably for the best! #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #pixelart #haxe

everyone should checkout Messenger by Abeto. it's a free browser game where ur just a little delivery kid on a little planet! messenger.abeto.co

Oh, hello? #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev #solodev

Digging up some broken and rusty drawing skills to draw the avatar of "Rust", main character of my game #solodev #drawing #gamedev #indiedev

Alright, found a way to turn the screen on, now what? #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart #solodev

Is that a screen? How do I turn it on? #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #pixelart

That game doesn’t get old #nomansky

Finally working a bit on the environment graphics! (Just experimenting for now) #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #solodev

Once again, the mosquito net saved a bird from my cats #cat #catlife #pigeon #chat #notgamedev

Published an updated version of Nape Physics docs with all samples converted to HTML5 using Haxe's Javascript target, because it was a shame we couldn't try them anymore (RIP Flash, long live Nape ✊ ) jeremyfa.github.io/napephys/sam... #gamedev #haxe

Rolling your own open-source game engine also means documenting it: Spent time improving Ceramic API Docs with better categorisation, much more files being properly explained, and added new guides for Sprites and Input handling. ceramic-engine.com #gamedev #enginedev #solodev

1/2 Narkhos is working on giving the main characters more personality, background, etc. @stormi-v2.bsky.social doesn't know yet how much impact this will have on the story and gameplay, but he supports the idea 100%! #gamedev #indie #indiedev #indiegame store.steampowered.com/app/3857110/...

Ceramic v2.0.0 has been released! A lot of internal changes for future proof platform support, and a few additional features ✨ #gamedev #indiedev #enginedev #solodev github.com/ceramic-engi...

Some follow-up on my audio processing system: testing a reverb effect to the character footsteps, with adjustable settings in real time #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #audio

Adding realtime audio processing to Ceramic engine. Quite tricky to make it work on all targets (native, web & unity), but here we are! It opens the door to a lot of cool stuff like creating toy synths and other audio effects in games 🎧 #gamedev #solodev #enginedev #indiedev #audio

Next version of Ceramic (haxe 2d framework) will support exporting to Unity 6 using latest Universal Render Pipeline + Render Graph, which will make sure that target stays well supported in the foreseeable future Video showing my game running within Unity 6000.1.7f1 just fine! #gamedev #indiedev

Unity Editor be like: "You are using obsolete API, update to that new API" ~ updates to the new API ~ "This API is experimental and might be changed or removed in the future" 🫠 #gamedev

Bug fixed! Now the whole mess is chained properly: 1. mirror turns 2. light changes direction and powers left generator 3. second door opens 4. right generator not powered anymore 5. first door closes, blocks light 6. second door stops opening because not powered anymore #gamedev #indiedev

Was just chill doing level design, until I noticed a new display glitch to fix 🫠 #gamedev #indiedev

they left... the fucking prompt they used.... to make their fake book... in the final draft.......

Viv is 100% correct here. Your options are always one of three: 1. Do not make an indie game. 2. Get funding, usually by making something that fits a very narrow and useless definition of "safe", and subsequently losing agency over your production reality. 3. Have another income or means.

Migrated Ceramic engine to SDL3, among various other improvements. Glad my game still runs fine, along with gamepad input, on my Retroid Pocket 4 (Android) 😄 #gamedev #indiedev

Some progress on my game: Improved screen transitions (fade for small sections, scroll for screen-sized ones), made light rays continue across screens, and clarified respawn rules (player returns to last entry point on current screen). Not very punishing, which is fine! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

I've set up a Github repository to build Google ANGLE binaries for Mac (Metal), iOS (Metal) and Windows (D3D11) automatically. These are going to be used with my engine Ceramic (using GLES3 for rendering), but other engine or game developers might be interested too ⬇️ #gamedev #graphicsprogramming

This hits very, very hard

How to drive the player mad in 10 seconds (Note to self: preserve state between screens) #solodev #indiedev #gamedev

Moving around different screens is now working. Needed time to get it right: no reloading between screens, avoided simple fade-in/fade-out transitions in favor of properly timed scroll to maintain spatial awareness, even when level sections don't perfectly fit the screen. #gamedev #indiedev

Separated player light data from main lighting to prevent artifacts on the wall. These were caused by vertex shader interpolation. By isolating player data from the rest, no interpolation occurs between systems, eliminating those artifacts for good :) #graphicsprogramming #devlog #gamedev #indiedev

It's nice to see the systems start to play together: light ray is powering up the generator, opening a door, which itself let another light ray enter the room and so on #gamedev #indiedev

Redesigned the generators that are powered by light rays, and added a proper animation to them #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Doing minor tweaks to the lighting system: now, a light ray doesn't stop right at a wall tile bounds. Instead it goes a few pixels further, which reproduces better that impression of strong light hitting a wall #gamedev

i just love the term “solodev". it’s validating to recognize that people can make games entirely alone too. no need to know other people, or have friends to work with. just do it all yourself! enjoy the art of stubborn resourcefulness. i do everything on my own and its my happy place 😌

Don't mind me, just testing a custom CRT shader for fun with Ceramic engine #gamedev

It’s a bit silly that this game I have been working on for a while fits the #ldjam “Depths” theme likely way more than the entry I actually submitted 😅