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!

At Skies' Edge by Mackerel Sky has a new demo! We share our thoughts on this large step in the journey towards a full game release. #flightsim #indiedev #indiegame mackerel sky

Upcoming new #gameassets! I've made 125+ light cookies/masks for use in any engine that supports it. Also great for 2D light effects 🔦 (CC0, public domain) Will be released Wednesday April 8th 📅

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! Fly high, fly free ✨ 🏳️‍🌈 :))

oh yeah uhhhh I might have fixed the cloud lighting model since Saturday

Alright, that's work done. Time to help trans folks be more visible. Are you a trans game dev? Have you got something out now or coming soon? Say a little about it and link it and I'll give it a boost!

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.

I'm reanimating this account from the dead to drop ASE v0.11a, featuring 2 campaign missions, 3 aircraft, and a total gameplay and visual overhaul! If you'd like to give it a go, the demo can be downloaded from: mackerel-sky.itch.io/at-skies-edge #gamedev #flightsim #screenshotsaturday

testing new flare and missile trail visuals

if the game devs didn't want you to use the options, they wouldn't have included them. play that game on easy mode. summon that online helper. use that cheat code. the only thing that matters is if *YOU* are satisfied. don't base your enjoyment of a game off of the opinion of online strangers

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

"having to reupload my Screenshot Saturday because all the sound effects are offset by 5 seconds but only in BlueSky" is...a new one

I copied a Thunder Force IV - Metal Squad guitar patch into the YM2151 editor and holy shit

some random screenshots

after surviving multiple medical emergencies, I am now able to work again on my game. I think I'm pretty happy with the state of polish specific unit this has right now.

geo nodes advance

Finally added some point lights to the missiles so you can track them at night #gamedev #flightsim

Thunder Helix is ON SALE ! #lowpoly #indiedev #solodev #flightsim #gamedev store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/...

I know it's a nightmare time to make a living making videogames right now... but there have been so many weirdly beautiful and beautifully weird things released recently, and it has done so much good for my wellbeing. I'll keep shining a spotlight on everything cool. I hope y'all keep making it.

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

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

#indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday A rebel wind

This week I made a bunch of little tweaks to #NovaSquadron: - post-processing is a bit better - lighting is a bit better - the aurora is a bit better - rim lighting?! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

This game has the best publisher store.steampowered.com/app/3639060/...

Making environments and the game naturally dark so you can use additive HUD elements and get away with it.

For Valentine's Day, we're flying through pink bubblegum clouds spreading the love! Of course, by "the love", I mean homing missiles and armour-piercing lasers. This, too, is yuri. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Thunder Helix got a new scenario mission! Supply Drop "Our troops are pinned down behind enemy lines and low on ammo. Deliver a crate of supplies to tip the balance in their favor, then make it home in one piece." Available now: store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/... #flightsim #solodev #steam 🚁

The first four characters from #NovaSquadron, in the order I drew them. I've still got a very long way to go, but holy HECK that's a big improvement in my pixel-pushing skills already (especially with the fabric work) #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

You've already seen Fenrir, but it's finally time to introduce the other playable character in #NovaSquadron, callsign Perigee! I know what you're thinking, "Is he as much of a dumbass as he looks?" and no, he's not. He's even more of a dumbass. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Added a heightmap loaded from a little greyscale image, and a directional light and suddenly it's looking like some kind of #lowpoly video game 😅 #gamedev

which one would u eat... (working on the hub world for Aggressors slowly)

So to celebrate hitting 1000 followers over here (omg hi everyone!) I thought it'd be fun to set up a mission in #NovaSquadron with 1000 planes. This was a mistake. Join me on my quest to try and stabilise the FPS by blowing them up as fast as possible. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

If you're making a flightcade game, and you're taking any one feature from Nova Squadron, please let it be this one. Accessibility benefits everyone, not just the people who "need" it.

If you fly hard enough you can outmaneuver a teleporting mech. Devlog in comments (wishlist the game in pinned) #gamedev #indiedev #DeliveryMustComplete

New Clouds :)

I was so incredibly tired of all those sound generators that can only create retro sounds... so I created my own! It's a work in progress and it'll be part of a new project but enjoy some sounds I've made. Each of these took a minute tops! ✨

Ever got into a situation where you're focusing on the combat so much, you only realise afterwards that you have no idea what anyone's been saying over comms? Yeah, me too. Which is why I'm adding a chat log to #NovaSquadron. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #accessibility

The #NovaSquadron VFX improvement pass has made its way over to laser beams now! I'm not done yet, but you can already see a huge improvement over the live version of the demo. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

more work on the airship (nerfed for testing purposes)

The new fonts are spreading! Now #NovaSquadron 's main menus are more readable and, dare I say, more classy. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

New year, new...HUD?! Yep, I've redone all the text on #NovaSquadron 's HUD (next up, the rest of the game!), and I'll be moving some more things around in the coming weeks. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

oh also cool poster of my game's harrier. I made more posters about related vehicles but I'm going to be slowly posting them, just so I have something to post.

more of the WIP airship and a F-5 micro-fighter Also happy poo years, this year I plan on trying to focus more on the game and finally get a demo out for the Q2. This of course means sharing more progress videos & related art about the setting.