hey friendly advice if youre ever thinking to yourself "oh ill just quickly look at that new factory game update that just came out" the only thing you should actually be doing quickly is going outside before the next 14 days of your life suddenly disappear before your eyes

Im having visions

No progress update this week, I was away from home babysitting chickens instead of programming lmao It did give me some time to work on some design stuff, which was good since until now I've just been working on the project on the fly but now I'm at the stage now where I need concrete direction

Managed to convert the pet controller to a rigidbody system, so now they can be picked up and carried and flung around Also squeezed in a genetics/reproduction system before getting super sick and being knocked out for the rest of the week Stress testing is fun though #godot #indiedev #gamedev

If you had a terrarium full of little creatures living on your PC's desktop, what would you do with them? What sorts of systems and interactions would you like to see in a game like this? I gonna add ALL suggested features so there's something for everyone #godot #indiedev #gamedev #cozygames

this shit is like teleglitch little nightmares and inside did the fusion dance inside the BLAME! megacity why the fuck is it only on ps5 this is like 600% my shit i wanna play it put it on steam dammit

I added an option to disable the background transparency and now it looks like one of those fake operating systems you see in random TV shows #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Added a goal oriented AI system to the pets so they can think for themselves now, and to keep an eye on their new behaviors I added a button that seamlessly transitions from the desktop to a fullscreen 1st-person mode so you can chat with them and explore their world #godot #indiedev #gamedev

Wanted to get some UI programming practice in so I spent the last week putting together a rough prototype for a game about looking after little creatures that live in a crystal ball on your desktop with a sort of TCG-esque menu aesthetic and now I'm kinda obsessed with it #godot #gamedev #indiedev

I believe in you.

playing ff7 remake for the first time rn and suddenly felt compelled to make this 🔊

ABC projecting Dutton to lose his seat LFGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

man i though refactoring stuff was dull but writing a save system is a fucking draaaaaaaaaaaaaaag

DLSS and TAA are a blight

im refactoring it again

how it feels to play blue prince

im a few minor features away from connecting all the main systems and finally closing up the main gameplay loop in my current project, but these minor features are causing me more grief than the big things, not from a technical perspective but cause i cant make up my mind on how i want them to work

just wrapped what an absolutely exquisite game 10/10

small

man when people said game development was hard i thought they meant like 'creating enough content is hard' or 'making the game fun is hard' but its actually 'i cant believe im refactoring this system for the 5th time' hard

recently each little change to a system i make has been feeling like a mountain of work did some reading and turns out its just a result of my dogshit architecture which i couldnt recognise cause know nothing about good code architecture practices the joys of self-teaching yourself any skill lmao

had a dream about a game that was like a combination of yume niki, basilisk 2000 and babbdi and I can't stop thinking about it

me when my code

this is a shot in the dark but do any crackpot game developers/audio engineers know how you could completely isolate the left or right audio channel from a signed floating-point PCM stereo audio buffer at runtime? (related to Godot's AudioEffectCapture buffer) #godot #indiedev #gamedev

i think the easiest way to tell if you're taking a project seriously is checking whether you've made a debug menu or not

its one of those days today

thinking about void stranger again

I know I haven't been sharing much lately but a small update: today I achieved a major technical/proof-of-concept milestone for my current project after about a month of design and programming. Now I have clear path to get it to a state where I start showing it, so hopefully I can share more soon™

just droppin in to let yall know i havent given up or died or anything, december and january have just been a bit of a disaster irl and havent really had time to get much done, im still experimenting on ideas here and there so hopefully as things settle down i might have something to show off again

How do game devs manage to actually stick with an idea for long enough to see it through to the end without jumping ship? Is it sheer will power? Is it an intense emotional connection to your idea? Is it sheer terror in the face of failure? How do you do it? (yes this is a cry for help)

I've fallen behind on my challenge as I'm really struggling to find motivation to do art, and recognising that is triggering a sort of crisis-of-faith. I'll see if can force myself to do something small to post soon.

Imperial Parasite

Excited for tonight's double feature, been looking forward to both of these for a while #threshold by @pataloon.bsky.social #mouthwashing by @wrongorgan.bsky.social

Day 25 Didn't do much today. Fixed the scale on most of the props, but did start experimenting with global illumination. VoxelGI is simple enough to set up and has decent performance, compared to SDFGI and helps to make the lights in dark scenes look so much better. #gamedev

Belated Day 24 Finally able to get back into this, trying to create an actual scene now with actual props and realising how tricky scale is to get right from a gods-eye perspective in the editor. Not only do I need to rescale all these props but I need to reshape the whole room too #gamedev

Finally back home and I've come back to water and power issues lmao fml I'll see if I can get anything done in between my breaker flicking off every 20 minutes but I doubt it'll happen

Won't have time to post any art stuff for a couple of days, but in the mean time I'm brainstorming up ideas that I'm keen to start prototyping once this challenge ends

Day 23 Getting the basic textures in to try and find the right vibe for the room. This is still all just CSG shapes but I'm actually pretty stoked with how its looking so far. Even did a little background blockout outside. Just need to start adding some props and smaller details. #gamedev

Day 22 Apartment CSG blockout I've had this layout in my head for a long time so it's cool actually seeing it exist for real. I think my goal should spend the remaining 8 days of my little self imposed challenge trying to make this set look as good as I can and see how I go #gamedev

🦀TWITTER🦀IS🦀DEAD🦀NOTHING🦀OF🦀VALUE🦀IS🦀LOST🦀

Day 20 He's alive Learning about weight painting has given me a whole new perspective on topology and why it's actually important, also helps me understand why 'good topology' is actually good Also weight painting sucks #gamedev

Day 19 ayy lmao #gamedev

guess which week i started to play bebop lol #deadlock

Day 18 I still don't know how to topology ayy lmao #gamedev

when she takes her pants off

Day 17 Tried to do a low poly PSX-style model to understand the process a bit more. Realised half way through just how important preparing good textures is before getting to modelling. I'm not interested in this style for my own projects, but I can see why so people like using it. #gamedev

I love it when imsim devs can't/won't fix certain bugs so instead they leave a little in-universe note in the level saying some shit like 'Hey Gerald, remember not to close doors on containers or you'll unravel the very fabric of reality!'