Finally got around to beating Dark Souls 1 (I've done all the other soulsy games) and have produced a scientific alignment chart for each boss based on real science and empirically "getting my ass kicked a bunch": #darksouls #youdied #gaming

Book menu breakdown 📙 #pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

Absolutely feeling low motivation for my projects this week. Anyone else hitting the wall? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwFk... #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #godot #tetris

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I have bloviated briefly on how modern roguelikes are paced to constantly move players forward to avoid boring, conservative strategies www.youtube.com/watch?v=51fO... #roguelike #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign

Woohoo! Godot 4.6 is out. Lots of cool stuff, especially for 3D workflows. godotengine.org/releases/4.6/ #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

👑👑👑 Very happy that more people are talking accessibility in games. Xalavier is rad.

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

In the span of weeks, I've gone from someone who has never used Godot, to struggling to "get" Godot, to really liking Godot, to having taught aspiring gamedevs the basics of Godot, to strongly believing Godot's workflow & structure might be the best approach to developing games for many purposes.

Part 11 is here! Did you know that we can REUSE almost all of our move code to handle items? Because we can! www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAtT... #indiedev #gamedev #pokemon #programming #godot

Forgot to post this when it came out, but: LETS FIX SOME BUGS AND MAKE THE UI ASYNC in our poke-clone www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hi7... #godot #gamedev #indiedev #programming

The term "bug" for computer bug gained popularity when they found a literal moth in the circuits of the Harvard Mark II in 1947! Look at this lil guy. A moth hero, standing up to the machines. americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...

Planning #gamedev milestones for 2026 lead me to compare the number of enemy types in various #roguelike games:

The most British crime possible has been committed

This would be a really worthwhile task for the modding community to take up (if they haven't already, I haven't dug too deep into cyberpunk mods). It really should be done by the devs, though.

cool find: this pulsating, uncut, possibly cursed GEM of a blog for those interested in ROGUE, it's descendants, 80s programming, and gaming history! Check out DataDrivenGamer datadrivengamer.blogspot.com/2019/05/iden... #gamedev #indiedev #roguelike #programming

9th video on remaking pokemon gen 1 battles! Let's make some projectiles! Let's make the screen shake! Let's make things flash etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUCA... #godot #gamedev #indiedev #tutorial

PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD(OT), use version control for your game (i will teach you how) www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2t... #gamedev #indiedev #softwaredevelopment #programming #git

Fresh educational video for your consideration. Making audio and visual effects for a turn based pokemon-esque game! www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bOA... #gamedev #indiedev #turnbased #rpg #godot #pokemon

hehehe he'll yeh 420

What's everyone's favourite resource for low-poly 3d anim workflows in Godot? It is NOT my strength... apparently. #godot #3danimation #gamedev #indiedev

ESCAPE FROM TUTORIAL HELL! featuring THE POWER OF FRACTALS www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_VX... #gamedev #indiedev #programming #godot #tutorial

Love this tool for estimating your next extremely reasonable game dev project: clintbellanger.net/toobig/ #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Hey! I uploaded the latest in my pokemon-battle-clone series. I explain how we can use a finite-state machine to control game flow better, and we implement quick moves, struggle, critical hits, fainting and a win/loss states. www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfV8... #godot #pokemon #indiedev #gamedev

THE CITY IS ELECTRIC WITH ANTICIPATION A SPOOKY NIGHT FALLS ESPECIALLY FOR THE DODGERS I GUESS #toronto #bluejays #halloween

HORROR AMBIENCE in MY GODOT GAME? It's more likely than you think. www.youtube.com/shorts/FQdx-... #godotengine #godot #horrorgaming #tutorial #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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Yeah, you should DEFINITELY make an MMORPG as a first time game developer with no experience www.youtube.com/watch?v=n784... #indiedev #gamedev #programming #clickbaittitle #learning #softwaredevelopment

Awesome little story + tip about making your game more accessible for colorblind players... Accessibility isn't just for corporate software -- if we make our games more accessible, more people can play and enjoy em. www.youtube.com/shorts/bUwmD... #a11y #gamedev #indiedev #colorblind

the key to game design is to imagine the target audience for your game and then imagine how you would make them the most upset

it's annoying how cosine is called "co-sine" as if it's a luigi and not a mario

O frightsome digital simulacra of analogue aberrations! (+ warm fuzzy nostalgic noise) How to throw a CRT/VHS shader (or any canvas shader) on your Godot game (it's easy) www.youtube.com/shorts/9BjQz... #gamedev #indiedev #horrorgaming #horror #80s #vhs #programming #godotengine #godot

GET POISONED & PARALYZED! New video in my series where we're recreating the gen1 pokemon battle system in Godot! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9ry... #pokemon #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #godot #tutorial

Sampling noise textures to get a natural feeling "randomness" www.youtube.com/shorts/amOkT... #gamedev #indiedev #godot #godotengine #tutorial #coding #horrorgaming

Bonus points if you can guess the exact moment in this video that made me snort laugh.

Oooh Youtube let me turn my playlist into a "COURSE" Anyways, learn how to make a pokemon-clone battle system here in Godot: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... #indiedev #indiegame #gamedev #pokemon #coding #freecourse #dogfightingbutitsokbecausetheydontfeelpainiguess

How to make a skull hover in godot www.youtube.com/shorts/zIbaX... #godot #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine #graverobbery #necromancyfordummies #buyingcursedhumanremainsonline

i rather like when people say nice things on my vids. it sets my little boney heart a-flutter.

the hour grows late FOG OBSCURES THE WORLD AROUND YOU. FOG HIDES THE MONSTERS. WHAT YOU CAN'T SEE CAN'T HURT YOU. (this one is about volumetric fog) www.youtube.com/shorts/q66S5... #indiedev #horrorgame #gamedev #godot #godotengine

Just made a video about how I coded the fake DOS bootup sequence for Forbidden Solitaire: youtu.be/f_lubVp9xvY

LET'S GET SPOOKY. Is your game unfogged? Are your lights unflickery? Is your viewport clear as an unmuddied lake? FIX these terrifying problems in time for Halloween (tis quick): www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb_m... #gamedev #indiedev #horror #godot #godotengine #horrorgaming 💀

hovering halloween special dropping tomorrow, lets make some scary looking games #godot #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev #horror #horrorgaming #suburbia

THE BONES ARE THEIR MONEY IN OUR WORLD BONES EQUAL DOLLARS #financialadvice #halloween #necromancy

My newish video is "hovering" at 69 Likes. (Nice.) Please do not visit or click like, we must preserve this moment as if in amber. (jk please do) www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc5R... #gamedev #indiedev #godot #tutorial

Scoping out a whole-ass rpg with Godot custom resources, part 1 www.youtube.com/shorts/fu_E7... #godot #gamedev #rpg #tutorial #programming

New vid, in which we set up monster stats and implement basic conditions. (We're building a whole turn-based rpg battle system over here) www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmjW... #gamedev #indiedev #rpg #pokemon #godot #tutorial #softwarearchitecture

for some of us, every season is spooky season

Happy October, btw

Any and all slop on my channel is HUMAN SLOP made by small, artisanal slopcrafters from the Slop region of Canada, using traditional methods to churn out the QUALITY content that small and solo developers crave. (subscribe I guess?) www.youtube.com/@hoveringskull #youtube #gamedev #indiedev #ai