Just add that feature you've been thinking about. It's not scope creep, you wanted to add it from the beginning anyway. Don't worry about the roadmap, everyone does this all the time. It won't hurt.

I added implemented FLAK turrets and replaced 12 of the Carrier's CIWS with them. Did that improve the balancing? Nah. But hear me out: I rewatched all of Battlestar Galactica (2004) over Christmas. That's it. store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #godot #spacegame

It helps my motivation so much to have the pipelines in place to get even half-done versions of ships into the game and see them going to town on other ships. Or, in the case of the carrier, just annihilate 1km³ of space with 28 CIWS. TODO: balancing. #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #godot #spacegame

"We lost 3 engines, but we still have 17 more." End of last year was crazy. Now working on the base carrier and it turned out to be 802 m long. I only have two hands and I have never been happier to not have gone photo-realistic, because this would kill me XD #indiedev #gamedev #blender #spacegame

I can't believe it's been 20 years. Gone, but not forgotten. #Pluto

"I'll also explain that part later. It makes sense in context, I swear. Stay awake, please." #indiedev #spacegame

The kids turned out okay after all.

*Old man voice*: You kids nowadays with your intuitive UX and your undo functions don't know what good software looks like!

these kinds of videos always prompt a certain Pratchett quote in my brain, from Thief of Time

Oi! Pinterest! Why the actual fuck is this the default setting? Rhetorical question. FU

🤖Need input: Windows 11 is a pile of trash and I'm thinking of setting up a dual boot with Linux as my daily driver. Most things should should work (TM), but doe anyone have input on 2D software specifically and also tips regarding preferred distros for #Godot dev in general? #gamedev #indiedev

If you want to mess with your Steam Replay, just do the basic implementation of the Steam SDK during development and then kinda forget about it watching while you work for the next 4 months... XD #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #godot #spacegame

I’m steadily forming a unifying theory that ultimately, this is what LLMs are accelerating: everyone has access to sycophantic virtual yes men at minimal (for now) cost and that’s having exactly the same effect on the 99% as it always has had on the 1%

Stumbling over your own game after clicking on a YouTube video about upcoming space games is extra wild, when lying in bed with a fever and thinking you are hallucinating. Wheeeeeee <3 #indiegame #gamedev #godot #spacegame store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... youtu.be/KbgrrJ-uaqk?...

"Sir, a second pervert has just hit your bookshelf."

"And also I want to extend a thank to the unsung heroes of the industry: the people on YouTube who make tutorials on how to make a game, because we had no idea on how to make a game before, so thank you." - Guillaume Broche LMAO, my man also won most real acceptance speech with that one

Not a big announcement but we want to make this clear: we have never nor will ever use generative AI. And that goes for all kind of assets. No placeholders mid development, no presentation materials, no automated localization or voice acting replacement. 🌹 #indiegame #horrorgames #fuckAI

Whoever spilled coffee before the briefing is going to get volunteered... Still needs a lot of tweaking and tuning, but getting stuff moving is nice :D store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #godot #spacegame

Back to the tickets. Nothing exploding in the Briefing Room... yet. Work in Progress store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #godot #spacegame

You know, sometimes you work on important tickets, and sometimes you spend a day reworking explosions because THEY ARE SIIIICK AND NOBODY CAN STOP ME. store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... #indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #godot #spacegame

Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif.

Today Shrouded Suns has been up with a “Coming Soon” page on Steam for 4 weeks. And in the past 3 days I went from “I hope I can hit 450 wishlists after a month” to just having gone past 1000! This is wild. Such a niche game and I had 0 expectations. Thanks <3 #Indiedev #Indiegame #Gamedev #Godot

wow who was he up against

Reddit, a company with contracts to sell user generated content to OpenAI and Google as training data, now promoting indies launch their games directly onto their site does not raise any red flags at all? Is Soylent Green maybe people? Who's to say. #Indiegames #gamedev

Uff... Shrouded Suns just hit "Trending Upcoming" in "Space Sim" on Steam and I think it breaks some law of honest indie self-promotion if I don't share this. Want to keep it in there? Cheeky Steam-Link: store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... #Gamedev #Indiegame #Godot #GodotEngine #SpaceGame

I want to shout out IGN India specifically, for having their news priorities straight. Am I dead? What is happening? They must be huge #Godot and #Indiegame fans!

Woot! Shrouded Suns made it on IGN's GameTrailers channel! My janky-ass teaser is about to get a 7/10 from the gamers over there, but I am hyped :D #Gamedev #Indiegame #Godot #GodotEngine youtu.be/J8cPMuLLfBg?...

aaaaaaaaAAAaaaAAAAaaAAAaAaa 💚 -- ens han donat un altre premi! 💖 -- vielen vielen vielen Dank! 💗

Okay, something different: sharing some older prototype I did in Godot a while ago. I CANNOT be the only one that tends to put far too much work into these things before noticing that they are no fun without spaceships? Anybody else wanna share from their #ProjectGraveyard ? #indiedev #godot

Seeing people post obvious AI slop with the caption "open for commissions" just made me throw up in my mouth a little.

Clair Obscur has to be my GOTY, because it made me cry a lot and that does it. But my honest leftist reading of the backstory still needs to be: "Magical billionaires get sad and make it LITERALLY EVERYONE ELSE'S PROBLEM."

Boy, when you try to do foley recordings for a character standing up, but it keeps getting ruined by the mic picking up your knees cracking.. That puts stuff into perspective.. #indiegames dev turning 40 soon, I guess.. Anyone relates or are you too young? Get the frick off my lawn, youngsters!

Progress on Shrouded Suns' Pilot's Quarters environment, animations and interactions. On-screen menus within on-screen menus! youtu.be/IUXEGMFsQEo?... store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... #indiedev #godot #godotengine #gamedev #spacegame

Damn, creating a navigation system for wall climbing & flying enemies in procedural caves is hard 🥵 But the debug visualizations make it all sooooo worth it 🤩 #Godot #GameDev

Okay, relax: the subspace node marker is a placeholder, but given my sources of inspiration, I couldn't resist another little nod to Freespace. Even if only until I switch it out for the final asset :D store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... #indiedev #indiegame #godotengine #godot #spacegame

The proportion of female to male dialogue in Final Fantasy. #advx25

Wake up, pilot! You've got mail. Very much still work in progress, but animating stuff in Godot is so much fun :D store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #indiegame #godotengine #godot

The difference between how nostalgia makes games look and feel in our heads, compared to what they actually are is quite funny sometimes. For Starfox I always have this memory of fast, fluid action and I am pretty sure it struggles to actually keep 7fps. But the presentation is still glorious!

Gotta have a place for your pilot to check up on their messages and the news between missions in Shrouded Suns. And maybe there are some secrets to uncover... store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/... #indiedev #indiegame #godotengine #godot

Windows 11 freezing, crashing to boot and then installing an update for 10 minutes and pretending nothing happened feels like an ad for linux.

Look... We should collectively agree to stop writing dystopian fiction. Clearly mouthwash drinking venture bros don't understand they are supposed to be a warning and are just speed-running Black Mirror episodes. any%noMoralsGranmaNecromancy youtu.be/sQ5p_3Ps_pA?...

Most talented technical artist out there and certified great person! Put her in every conference! I am not asking! Are you listening? Oi! Now!

YOU GUYS WANNA SEE SOMETHING CURSED???? HOW ABOUT NEON GENESIS LEHIGH VALLEY PHANTOMS HOCKEY?????

Reading the 'macros' / batch editing section of the Audacity documentation has had me screaming more than any Stephen King novel.

Just in time for the end of ScreenshotSaturday, I finally got the transport ships in the game. Still need some love, but getting there. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #godot #indiegames

I call my game voiceover recording setup the "The John Wilkes Recording Booth". Because I'd rather be shot by an actor than record another 20 lines in a row with my current pipeline. Any links out there? Process for batch recording + applying post + export (ideally FOSS 👀) #indiegamedev

If you didn't meet the over-caffeinated guy with the space game around #GodotFest, or you could not see the action, because he wisely chose a dark nebula for the demo: here is a video showing off the Quick Command System. youtu.be/_4o6eL-l03A Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/4060820/...

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