Sometimes small fixes can be humbling in how long they take, for example today was tracking down why the season code could not properly clean up after itself, would quickly see multiple stacks of snow or rain after a few quick loops!

😅 Today on hager's gamedev odyssey: ⌚ spent 2 hours down a rabbit hole: why a shader wasn't rendering, despite a re-import workflow in 3 different ways 👀 meticulously checking all is correct ❌discovery: out of date editor stuff that no longer existed, recompile against latest and it works!

knew yesterday this problem in particular was going to be a weird one, it turned out EVEN WEIRDER, I had to chase some real rabbits here just to get everything to play nice, had no idea waking up today how I'd fix it after discovering the absolute strangest, unexpected source of the wild behavior

🌌 Small victory - getting the save and load to work once again but this time, through the newly made profile support (for at least one profile)

Extending save/load system to support multiple profiles has been keeping me quite busy today! I've had one lingering question while working on it, do people care that much about naming their save profiles? I can't think of any time anyone has ever considered it a "must have". #gamedev #indiedev

Woohoo, fixed an irrelevant bug with weapon animations that had zero impact on the player but just annoyed me because it was looking for events that didn't and would never exist! One less bug, one more step forward (onto the important things)

Made some fun updates today but boy is there some work ahead of me

Happy to share the jukebox now has a stop feature, with even a new custom icon for interacting via keyboard "Q" or the "B" button to stop active music. Also fixed its localization reference and got it to play nice with the other audio managers. #gamedev #wip #lowpoly #twitch #unity

Currently live on twitch doing gamedev!

Hehehehe last minute feature added on that 7 hour gamedev stream to the game - a jukebox in the hub area. Maybe I'll add a shuffle feature later too, already have it autoplaying as a feature after you start it! Should it cost like 1-5 in game credits per play or free? (forgot the 'off' feature 😅 )

Had the goal of reaching 250 followers on Twitch this year, just reached it today! Almost all of that was during gamedev <3 #twitch #gamedev #streaming #creator

Really have been enjoying streaming gamedev again! It is so nice to share the progress and the process :)

Feeling so much joy reaching this milestone! After months of work on multiple musical tracks & the engineering to support it, the game has them all playing nicely nestled in their little game play moments - having it all come together like that, matching vision & seeing it play together for real 😊

So many bug fixes today - For three AI concepts they now feel more responsive, you won't catch them defying gravity and floating randomly (hah!), and they've calmed down a bit - no longer are their heads on a spinny swivel!

That sweet sweet programming feeling when you optimize a system, reducing 100 calls down to 2.

Can confirm my game runs at 4k =)

Today's update - reviewing many UI elements, adding new quality of life script changes from yesterday!

Made good progress today =) Added some fixes and some new code to make the navigation feel better - but will need to tinker a bit longer trying to find that perfect "holding the button for THIS long should do THAT much of the thing at a time" where it responds in a way that feels great

tried to figure out why my lanterns kept yearning for the depths below their cliff-side ledges despite repeated, madness inducing, adjustments to make SURE they would STAY PUT! But no, they say - they would leap to their doom every time! solved bug: invisible 3rd object toggled off #gamedev

Megabonk has withdrawn from The Game Awards 2025 Debut Indie category, with the developer citing fairness and eligibility concerns. A rare move met with strong community support. #Megabonk #TheGameAwards #IndieGames

🎼 spent the morning making music and it was so refreshing! 🤔 not sure if they'll go into the game or be used elsewhere just yet

🤔 will the "CRT Filter" aesthetic on the (mostly) indie games side be a hallmark of art choice of the mid 2020s' gaming? Will we look back in 2045 at this aesthetic, completely forgetting CRT themselves as they will be so far removed? (see: floppy disk & saving symbolism)

Ahh, today has been a just write code day! And it has been glorious.

🌹 solodev, doing my best #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #indiegames #soulslike #roguelike #buildinpublic #unity #videogames #gamedeveloper #wip

Being on blusky always feels like arriving at a festival of fun, a party of the unabashedly creative, a good time.

Streamed today. Didn't say anything, fixing bugs (SUCCESS!) + planning out how to put another settings feature for accessibility (reading docs) Also listened to some of the songs I've composed in the last couple months, taking notes and finding a couple REALLY matched well with the gameplay #gamedev

One would think news of CalCompute would be making much larger waves than it has so far.

One of the most rewarding aspects of making games? Getting letters about how your games got them through tough times, or brought their friends and family together when they were apart. Making things that can do that? Magical.

Gamedev stream went well but it was completely derailed from the initial goal - critical bugs appeared that needed tidying up, and some unusual code issues happened in the areas I was play testing - unfortunately not the kinds of bugs I was looking for - the 😭 kinds that require immediate work.

Streaming gamedev on Twitch - now! (does promotion ever not feel weird?)

Streamed over 7 hours of #gamedev =) such good progress, and made some new friends! It always warms my heart that people do in fact get excited about what I'm making enough to subscribe! Got some good chatter feedback today too, some things to work on and others that confirm the vision! 🔥

Should have announced before going live, but did a gamedev stream today! +new OBS scripting working really well, shows off different angles of the scenes I'm working in automatically +got some good additional level details done + lot of rough QA that needed validating #gamedev #indiegames #twitch

Part Two Update! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #indiegames #soulslike #roguelike #screenshotsaturday #buildinpublic

Happy little moment this morning, finding a giant optimization (flag wasn't on) on some very old tech art used in a few places.

Just had to format and write a new partition table to a drive. Data - lost. It was an external HDD for an Xbox, so it wasn't exactly regular stuff. Upside, the games can all just be downloaded again. Thought the drive was gone entirely, but you know, I have a certain set of skills...

Take a break? #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #unity #indiegames

Made a couple more songs between yesterday and today :)

Secretly streamed on Twitch today doing level polish :) Here's a screenshot - hope you'll give me a follow! #gamedev #indiegame #sologame #soulslike #unity

It isn't every day a technology blog really excites me, when you've been around the block for awhile, like seeing old tools dressed in new clothing, it can be sometimes eye-rolling. But seeing the announcement of Advanced Shader Delivery does excite me because it genuinely brings value. Link below.

Went live briefly on twitch today - was testing some new hardware triggers, most of them worked as expected. One did not and put me in a blank category, how odd. The dev machine eventually crashed though. On the brighter side, very happy with the new look 😁

So I got this asset a couple years ago for Unity, and found out today the developer had discontinued development. They had made a better asset, and gave a free upgrade to everyone who used the former asset they discontinued. Nice!

🛎 Slideshow of screencaps collected over the past few months #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #solodev #indiedev #lowpoly #soulslike #roguelike #videogames #gamedevelopment

🎨 just some art

humbly excited seeing my last youtube upload have the highest views ever for my tiny channel, five times the previous best (100 to 500)

Somehow I made it past the first neovim lesson

A short story update on what I'd been building recently. I'd love if you subscribed, too. Maybe I'll make it to 25! 💙 www.youtube.com/shorts/YYCoG... #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #solodev #buildinpublic

Do you ever customize icons for shortcuts, desktop folders?

In today's adventure of gamedev project build pipeline, I restarted a task that took 5 hours this morning to run through. Currently around hour 3 of it doing it again! oops

and now part five of the solution is ready, on to six which will take some more complex thought and seven will be to chain these together

hahahaha all that work and it is reporting a speed up ratio over 5.7 million