Aaaaand back to #NovaSquadron UI. The main menu goes shwoop woop now. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

well that's rockstar, uber and nvidia on the fuck no list source www.bbc.com/news/technol...

I needed a break from UI stuff, so I let my hair down and, uh, completely remade #NovaSquadron 's missile VFX. The usual ~1 minute video wouldn't do this insanity justice, so here's 3 minutes of the INDF and CLE absolutely wrecking each other's navies. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Besties I'm gonna do so many silly things Giving me this much power was a mistake

Shatter part 2. I need to fix a few things such as: Making sure chunks buildings are water tight. Better particles. Optimize it a bit more. Sound effects. Sometimes the whole building doesn't come down. But this won't be a common occurrence in regular gameplay, and it's kind of awesome.

shatter :) (super wip but im happy with this so i will only post it here)

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I'm still working on the #NovaSquadron narrative tooling overhaul, but that's not all I'm cooking. For your listening pleasure: the WIP new background music for Dogfight missions! For your viewing pleasure: me making extremely bad evasive decisions! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

@crowwmonarch.bsky.social asked for a tiny extra feature in #NovaSquadron 's narrative system, so, naturally, I am 70 files into refactoring the entire system, and have to scratch-build a new UI because Unity doesn't support the new format. Looks nice though! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Prototyping a cinematic camera. There's a lot to refine about it and I'm not happy with it yet. But it's also looking cool. I haven't been working much in aggressors however due to working on related things + planning on making a public version of my cockpit tool.

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Be certain, as is always the case with things such as this, that ANYTHING can be considered sexual and can end in a blanket account shadowban under this. It is easily weaponized it is determined by an AI moderation system. There is no accountability or recourse. you probly can't read this.

Happy Pride Month! Most of #NovaSquadron 's roster is already openly gay/bi/ace/lesbian, but we do have something for you: The Valkyrie strike fighter has come out as gay. ...We have a team of mechanics working round the clock to try and figure out what that actually means. #gamedev #indiedev

💥 #SonictheHedgehog #Art #ShadowTheHedgehog

No, this isn't a late April Fools' joke, we're actually adding "the ground" to #NovaSquadron! Introducing the secret fifth region, the Crystal Highlands, where freezing temperatures condense rare minerals in the clouds into huge pillars. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

haven't had much time to actually sit down to work on aggressors but here's an aircraft model WIP. plane that makes really loud fart like sounds out of it's gun and people think it's cool for that.

So the CLE has nailed a bunch of gaudy yellow SAM facilities to the Pillars, and I've told them to shoot at anything that moves. I forgot to tell them to stop. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #NovaSquadron

I might have taken the description of the Pillars of Origin a bit TOO literally. …Tune in tomorrow for the horrors. #gamedev #indiedev

i have so, so many furious things to say about this but just to scream about one: when corporations declare themselves able to decide what art is or not made specifically for getting off, they are absolutely going to use that power to target even the tamest of queer art first.

This week is the sixth anniversary of #NovaSquadron starting development (never say something will take "maybe a year"!), and it's crazy to look back and see how much the game's visuals have improved over the years. I will not be stopping. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Glamour shots! #gamedev #indiedev #gameart

The prototype Pillars seemed to work, so I've started experimentally texturing them. Yes, environment texturing. In #NovaSquadron. I've never done this before in my life... ...but what if I did #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

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Welcome to (the early prototype sketch of) the Pillars of Origin, a region named after, well, the gigantic pillars everywhere. These were the first colonies floated into Jupiter's atmosphere back in the 22nd century, and they're still used today! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Did more to the map generation, added huge fields of trees, although I need fix the shader a bit as they vanish when I turn the camera. But at the same time, it looks really good as is! I might also to make the altitude warning optional as its annoying me lol

The trailer for @yoyoyollie.bsky.social's DELIVERY MUST COMPLETE is finally out, and it came with an official release of Jose Pavli's fantastic main theme. So, naturally, I had to do something with it. Presenting DLMC's main leitmotif, butchered in the style of NS's menu music. #gamemusic #vgm

Alright, back to our scheduled tour of #NovaSquadron 's Jupiter! Welcome to the Regio Obscurus, an area around the north pole permanently shrouded in a blue aurora. It'd be beautiful if only it didn't mess with your plane's sensors. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Wait for it, wait for it... Behold, the moons of Jupiter, coming soon to #NovaSquadron. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

And finally, Callisto. The one the CLE's headquarters are in. The entire Jovian front in Nova Squadron is just to try and set up a forward base remotely near it, because there sure ain't any way to land on the moon itself when it's covered in so many turrets. #gamedev #indiedev

Onward and outward to the third closest Galilean moon, Ganymede! This is Jupiter's largest moon by far, and it's where Callisto Lunar Enterprise made their trillions in the late 2100's. Most of its population lives in (and expands) the subterranean honeycomb of ore mines. #gamedev #indiedev

Moon 2: Electric Boogaloo - now for Europa, the second closest Galilean moon. At the time Nova Squadron takes place, there's a demilitarised zone around the Lunar Ocean Research Station...who have just (April 2283) found alien life 100 miles beneath the ice. #gamedev #indiedev

killing my main battle chuds with my evil rocket pods that i just made. When I started this project I was actually super intimidated of making rockets. I just didn't have the knowledge to make them. Now, it just took a few hours with most of it spent modeling the projectile and pod lol

testing ground units, starting with making proper tanks.

So I know I just said I was going to show off the next region this Saturday, but I got caught up in the Artemis II mission hype, downloaded Material Maker, and now I'm procedurally texturing one Galilean moon a day instead. Here's Io, the closest to Jupiter. #gamedev #indiedev

Another quick update on #NovaSquadron 's clouds: They look like this now. It's all finally coming together. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

I've always looked at art trades and thought "damn, those are cool, artists rock". I'm not really an artist, but I have had a lot of practice at one thing: character portraits for NS. Happy birthday to the lead dev of Aggressors: FAC, my close friend/rival/comrade, @sanikkat.bsky.social!

After a lot of consideration from the team, we've decided that #NovaSquadron is going to pivot away from being a roguelite, and instead have an action-packed, bespoke campaign. We're very excited to reveal the mission lineup for Part 1 of the campaign! #gamedev #indiedev

Happy Trans Day of Visibility! It's...not been an easy year, for a lot of trans and enby folks out there. But it's also worth looking ahead to the future, to change, to making the world a better place, little by little. We can do this.

Working on anti-ship missiles and further on ship combat. It's a bit rough around the edges but I really like the feel of it so far.

Something I don't post enough about aggressors is about the hub area and menus. Reason why it's because it's not as cool as planes blowing each other up at fast speeds, and the hub area itself being just weird for this kind of game. That being said here's a look at the current state of it all.

Quick update on #NovaSquadron 's cloud rendering: ...sometimes things have to look worse before they start looking better. "Make a plane game set on Jupiter", I told myself 5 years ago. "You won't have to worry about terrain then!" "It'll be so easyyy!" #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

DMC4 stuff I did recently #DevilMayCry

Happy Bloodborne day!!

I've been hard at work on #NovaSquadron 's clouds again! Fortunately, dual-filtered volumetric froxel-based Henyey-Greenstein phased fBM cloud rendering is as simple as it sounds, and totally doesn't do anything weird if you mess up slightly. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

The next #NovaSquadron tour stop was meant to be the Regio Obscurus, but it's on the other side of the planet...so I'm borrowing the Grand Viaduct's mag-railways to get there faster. Ground-attack planes weren't meant to go this fast. Not even red ones. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

The clouds were getting on my nerves, so I trapped them in an alternate dimension. Graphics programming can be weird sometimes. #gamedev #indiedev

Welcome to the Scarlet Fields, a corner of #NovaSquadron 's Jupiter with such a high density of rare resources, it actually tints the clouds red. Very ominous and angry. Totally not making me hungry or anything. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Nero #DevilMayCry

Here's screenshots of all four revealed regions, for all you lore nuts and strategisers out there!

You know how when you open the mission select menu in #NovaSquadron there's a bunch of arrows and numbers and stuff? And none of them make any sense? Yeah, we're getting rid of them. Introducing the new start-of-run Region Select menu. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday