What do you mean making unlockable keychains that move with your camera isn't the best use of my dev time? #indiedev #gamedev #yokaipark #simulationgame

Started my settings menu and added some UI scaling and other options~ #indiedev #gamedev #yokaipark

Had some fun making a possible logo today for the game :3 #indiegame #indiedev #yokaipark

No one make fun of him, he's doing is best to clean up this park. #indiedev #gamedev #yokaipark #skeleton

The girlies in Yokai Park just want one thing.. and it's big soda.🥤🥤 #indiedev #gamedev #cozygame #yokaipark

Showcasing some trees I made for Melon 3 Studio. Loved working on these! Of course, they look better in the actual game with the proper shaders applied, so hop over to Harvey's account and see what he is building! 👉 @melon3.com #gameassets #indiegamedev #vegetation #3Dart #gameart

👀✨Finally happy with this cutaway and CCTV effect so you can watch your guests and creatures go about their day~ I find it very calming to watch them mill about #indiedev #simulationgame #tycoongame #cozygames #gamedev #devlog

I have some really exciting updates on the game to share will y'all! Here's a sneak peek showcasing the first pass flow of constructing a building that requires it~ Anyone peek the new asset look in there 👀? #indiedev #gamedev #yokaipark

🌳✨ New trees have sprouted in the park! ✨🌳 Thanks to some awesome asset work by @assetquest.bsky.social, Yokai Park is looking more beautiful than ever~ I'm so happy with these new trees, and more to come! Which one is your favorite? #indiegame #cozygame #gameart #gamedev #indiedev #yokaipark

🌳✨ New trees have sprouted in the park! ✨🌳 Thanks to some awesome asset work by @assetquest.bsky.social, Yokai Park is looking more beautiful than ever~ I'm so happy with these new trees, and more to come! Which one is your favorite? #indiegame #cozygame #gameart #gamedev #indiedev #yokaipark

I have some really exciting updates on the game to share will y'all! Here's a sneak peek showcasing the first pass flow of constructing a building that requires it~ Anyone peek the new asset look in there 👀? #indiedev #gamedev #yokaipark

🌸 Making improvements to placement! Added an optional grid indicator for players, and now you can hold Ctrl or long-press to snap objects right to the edge of their grid square—super smooth and satisfying. ✨ #yokai #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #featureupdate #devlog #cozygame👻🦊

✨Creatures are starting to get unique behaviors! Mothman 🦋 now flies up to tall perches and hangs out before fluttering back down. ^^ He’s the first in the game with a flying behavior (though he’s still a bit clunky in the air)! #indiedev #gamedev #yokai #mothman #unity3d #cozyhorror #devlog

Been doing a lot behind the scenes including: 🧠 Guest thoughts system 📦 Smoother item placement 🪟 Cleaner, integrated popups — they’ve got a new pager-style look! #indiedev #gamedev #madewithunity #gameui #uipolish #devlog #yokaigame

Started writing documentation for how to use DUM to make dress up games ~ sometimes dev is just writing and taking screenshots >< www.melon3.com/dum-document... #indiedev #solodev

DUM (Dress Up Maker) is now available for free beta playing on itch io! melon-3-studio.itch.io/dum Join me if you want to make cool dress up games :3 #gamedev #dressup #DUM #DressUpMaker #indiedev

Cooking something for a tiny personal game jam.. #gamedev #indiedev #lowpoly #unity

Helped my friend learn the basics of blender today and made this lil guy as a quick example for her #blender #indiedev #doodle #lowpoly

Sometimes the monsters you make aren't quite the monsters you meant to create. #GameDev #IndieDev #Yokai #RiggingFails #Unity3D

started modeling the kasaobake~ 👁️👅 #gamedev #blender3d #yokai #wip #indiedev

After a little #gamedev break, I'm back! Implemented what I lovingly call "wiggle mode" which is just picking up and moving creatures :3 #indiedev #solodev

Added the functionality to make certain parts of objects spawn at random with their own rarities like the lily pads and mushrooms on these logs! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

These guests are absolutely obsessed with buying tacos #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Some current Yokai Sanctuary progress~ #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Been working on the map generation backend, rewrote the code for pathing/dragging, not much to see visually but a lot happened in the backend! sometimes that's just dev :3

Squashed a lot of #gamedev bugs tonight! 🐛Sometimes you just need to make a list of low priority bugs and knock them out, makes for a minty fresh clean feeling!

Been working on a lot of backend stuff, so nothing too flashy to share in my recent #gamedev journey, but guests will now go to open shops~ I'm honing the guest behavior little by little #indiedev #solodev #devlog

Animating the emission color to make the lights turn on and off with the shops! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #unity

picoCAD is out on Steam today! 📐 Build tiny models! 🖼️ Texture with pixel art! 📽️ Export spinning gifs! (and OBJ/MTL) Get it 👉 bit.ly/picoCAD (15% off) #gamedev #pixelart #lowpoly #pico8

Designed out the basic shop base for drinks/food stalls the guests use. I'll add to these to make each one look specialized to its offerings! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegame

I made an old-fashioned blog post on enclosure detection and how I did it in my game! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev www.melon3.com/blog/enclosu...

I made an old-fashioned blog post on enclosure detection and how I did it in my game! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev www.melon3.com/blog/enclosu...

A friend told me he liked to see what he was buying from menus, so I added a little preview in the form of a tamagotchi-like! and Yes - there will be unlockable skins #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #indiegame

Creatures now spawn with randomized traits that affect their behaviors! 🍖 Ravenous creatures eat more, more quickly, speedy ones go faster etc~ #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

11/22/2024 #indedev #devlog Got in three things tonight in Yokai Sanctuary #gamedev! - Food crates to access the food resource - Implemented the concept of gates on enclosures, and placing this gate - Added a salt line "invisible" fence Two crates, one filled with meat and one filled with rocks

Creatures will now consume the food in their enclosures 🥩🥩 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame the mothmen hunger..

Here's my demo reel of DUM - my Dress Up Maker #indedev tool designed for artists who want to make a dress up game~

Here's my demo reel of DUM - my Dress Up Maker #indedev tool designed for artists who want to make a dress up game~

Trying to take a demo video for your #indiegame is the perfect time to find a million bugs xD

Game my website a little makeover to be more games focused! www.melon3.com #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

New yokai in progress alert! Started adding nurikabe tonight! #gamedev #indiedev #妖怪

New yokai in progress alert! Started adding nurikabe tonight! #gamedev #indiedev #妖怪

11/15/2024 #gamedev log: Been quietly in the tank working on creature behavior! They now have needs and will act upon their environment based on them ^^ I can also tweak the defaults to make some creatures like certain things more, for example the kappa love bathing! #indiedev #indiegame

Hi there! Would love to get to know some of y'all, let me know if you're a fellow #gamedev or #indiedev, or maybe just someone who likes those things! Comment with your favorite yokai/monster and maybe it'll make it into the game~

Hi there! Would love to get to know some of y'all, let me know if you're a fellow #gamedev or #indiedev, or maybe just someone who likes those things! Comment with your favorite yokai/monster and maybe it'll make it into the game~

awesome set my handle to my custom domain! cute :3 now you can find me at @melon3.com

Devlog 11/12/24 - stayed up too late getting the first pass of my creature intelligence in! It has a long long ways to go, but they're making decisions based on their environment and needs and that's so cool to me!

Back to working on my Kirby Air Ride spiritual successor - DracoDrift! i've been distracted by many mini projects over the past few months but am glad to be back on the #gamedev grind #indiegames #indiegamedev

Starting to take a crack at my creature AI using the Sims method laid out by @gamemakerstoolkit.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gf2... Awesome video I'm leaning on it heavily and giving myself lots of internal debugging tools while I implement #gamedev #indiedev

After fighting with the NavMesh all night I finally got my placeholder guests in and walking around! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev