Been slowly chipping away at this, trying to add some variety to our village population. This system is using Unreal's FSkeletalMeshMerge functionality, with some small additions to be able to use morph targets. #gamedev #indiedev You can wishlist the game here if you like it: steam.pm/app/2835210

The real chef is in the background of the first picture! Looks like all the new heads work with my skeletal merger script, it basically lets me mix and match different body parts, and bake them down to a single skeletal mesh. Similar to what Mutable does, just simpler. #Unreal #gamedev #indiedev

Never mind the eyebrows, there are different morph-based variants, too. I've been setting up these new heads our modeler @frankinolupo.bsky.social has provided us with. I check if everything works fine using our base character's animations. #gamedev #indiedev #animations #morptargets

Fight'N'Jokes: Storylines is live as part of ⚔️ 2025 Eastern Martial Artists Week ⚔️ on Steam! Demo is coming soon! Wishlist now: steam.pm/app/2835210 Big thanks to @SpiralUpGames for hosting! #Steam #gamedev #indiedev #indiegaming #gamingcommunity #gamer

Ah, I completely forgot to post about this! Got Binding into Zombies vs Vampires fest on Steam. They originally didn't pick it up because I put it on Steam a bit too late, but managed to convince them :) #SteamFest #Zombies #Vampires #TWD #Zombie #indiegame #indiegaming #indiedev #gamingcommunity

Finished off a workshop with the talented @michalnapora.bsky.social dedicated to #IndieGameDev #Marketing. It was awesome, and very informative. Thanks to @codenz.bsky.social (hope this is the right account) for organizing it. If you get a chance to participate in a class taught by Michal, do it!

OUR DEMO IS OUT AND LIVE NOW YOU CAN PLAY IT ON STEAM NOW!!!

What are they plotting? 🙃 Finally, got around to setting up some 'background extras' to make the world feel a bit more lively. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gamingcommunity

#screenshotsaturday Implemented the dialogue skipping feature. I really didn't want to add it to our largely story-driven game, however, I did a bit of research on Reddit and YT, and it just seems to be a quality of life feature for many players. #indiegaming #indiegame #gamedev #UE5

Man, super weird when a fellow developer, positioning himself as an Art Director (from what I can see has ONLY ever worked for other people, and never released anything by himself) is trying to bring you down on LinkedIn in the indie devs group (where I post under my actual name). #gamedev #indiedev

This is so pretty looking! 💖

An update on my chicken escapade! 🐥 The quest sequence has been improved: now you receive the special catcher directly from Mrs. Haleena to help you collect the chicklets. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiegame #gamingcommunity #gamer #indiegamedev #games #gaming #UnrealEngine #3Dart #Art #funny

New update to my real-time destruction system in UE5: • Faster collision logic • Improved multithreading • Multiplayer prototype (WIP) Looking for use case ideas: where would this tech be most useful? More Details: www.linkedin.com/posts/antoni... #gamedev #UE5 #indiedev

Happy Easter, everyone! A lil preview of the interaction with Mrs. Haleena for this #screenshotsaturday She’s a loving homage to my mum, Galina, which means “hen” in Italian if you double the “l”. #gamedev #indiegamedev #gamedevelopment #indiegaming #gamer #UnrealEngine5 #storytelling #easter #3Dart

I had no idea Steam updated the dimensions of Store Assets!!! Spent most of today updating them. I always knew I'd have to update these eventually as I just made them quickly. It's basically a paint over of our 3D model lol #fightnjokes #storylines #indiedev #gamedev #indiegamedev #SteamArt #Steam

I actually set her up last week, but completely forgot to make a video. Happy #screenshotsaturday 😅 #adventuregame #indiegaming #gamingcommunity #gamer #gaming #indiegame #storytelling #games #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #UE5 #adventuregaming

Throwback to my time working on Phantasmal with Eyemobi. I loved working on the comic for it. I also worked on some Steam art. #gamedev #indiedev #throwback #Phantasmal #horrorgames #indiegame #gamer #gamingcommunity

Set up this lil radio. I will need to add a turn on/off sound, and make turn on and turn off two separate things, so you definitely know what you're doing. The particle effect took almost as long to set up as the logic itself 😅 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamingcommunity #gaming #indiegame

Let's see if gifs work... Been battling Unreal to import additional blendshapes for an old character. Turns out it was a weird Maya node ruining everything. Fixed now, and I have 2 extra heads, meaning 2 extra characters I can use hehe #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #gamingcommunity

Chicken Chasin' Fun for this #screenshotsaturday 😇I absolutely love working on AI in Unreal, and also had a blast animating those silly little chicks. Wishlist the game here: steam.pm/app/2835210 #gamingcommunity #indiegame #indiegaming #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #UnrealEngine5 #ue5 #3Dart

CHimkens! I don't have anything else to say about this video =^.^= #adventuregame #indiegaming #gamingcommunity #gamer #gaming #indiegame #storytelling #games #indiedev #indiegamedev #gamedev

Updated the interaction w/Hugo. They might be cheesy animations, but hey, at least they're there. Will probably do another pass in the future :) If you don't know, Piper is our game director, so she oversees all processes. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegaming #gamer #gaming #cats

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The video gets cut off as usual 🙄 But have a cut off video of Hugo's updated facial animations! 😊 I've written a mocap transfer system in PyMel that allows me transfer recorded anims back onto the facial rig, so I can modify anything I want easily in Maya. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #gamer

Henlo. I have a TikTok complaint xD I'm always...mesmerized at which videos get a low of views, and which don't, but never have I ever had something with 1 view. What happened? xD The vid with 500 is just an image that moves left and right 😂 fkin social media aye. #gamedev #indiedev #marketing

Witness the power of real-time destruction in Unreal Engine 5! Watch as terrain crumbles, caves form, and the world reshapes dynamically with precision and performance in mind. Like, comment, and subscribe for more Unreal Engine tech demos! 🚀🔥 #UE5 #Destruction #GameDev

Noice, just saw the banner appeared, too <3 Women's Day Sale is on! Wishlist the game here: steam.pm/app/2835210 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegames #indiegaming #UE5 #adventuregame #storylines #storytelling

Happy #WomensDaySale to all the female-led games out there! Thankful to be a part of this beautiful event! 💖🌷 Support us by wishlisting our game here: steam.pm/app/2835210 #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #gaming #gamer #gamergirl #gamingcommunity #games #SteamSale

Starting to record some facial animations. They will need to be cleaned up in Maya, so working on a script that will apply fbx anims back to my face rig. Better with sound! #indiegame #indiegaming #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #UE5 #adventuregaming #adventuregame #gaming steam.pm/app/2835210

Man, support the ever living shit out of your indie game developers. Find them on Patreon, Kickstarter, etc, and shove money in their faces. Not because of the "AAA" prices and giant studio exploitation, but in support of those who risk everything to do what they love - for us. #indiedev #gamedev

Hope everyone is having a great week so far! I have been working on adding blendshapes to Hugo, who got a sizeable update to his interactions and new voice acted lines. #indiegame #indiegaming #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #UnrealEngine5 #adventuregaming #adventuregame #gamer #gamergirl #gaming

Happy #screenshotsaturday to all the devs out there! This week we have been working on this new character. Her name is Cary S., and she is very pleased to meet you all! #indiegame #indiegaming #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #UnrealEngine5 #adventuregaming #adventuregame #gamer #gamergirl #gaming

Cleaned up my following. Lists are cool, but I've noticed almost no one who is on game dev lists I followed, followed me back, and I'm not into one-sided relationships this time of my life lol I don't follow back if my interests are wildly different than yours, or I think you're a bot. #gamedev

Been experimenting with UE5's Mutable plug-in, using City Sample characters since they offer a great variety to test with. Planning to use Mutable to handle main character customization and simplify NPC creation. #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine #UE5 #Mutable #indiegame #gaming #screenshotsaturday

I know I know, I've been away too long. But I present to you... The Hair Man! /this honestly made me dying of laughter for about 10 minutes, and I don't think I have anything else to say about it/ #gamedev #indiedev

Implemented more digging mechanics to showcase procedural debris cutting, now with plans for recursion. #UnrealEngine #screenshotsaturday #videogames

Happy New Year 2025 from New Zealand! #indiegamedev

In Australia for a week. Since I don't have my PC with me, will just post some random dev stuff I sent to our dev chat with my friends. Last week, I was doing some fracturing in Unreal. The barrel model is not hollow, so it looks incorrect when broken, but the idea is there! #indiegame #indiegaming

I've had a small influx (I know, an oxymoron) of followers in the last couple of days. Not sure why, but I'll take it! Welcome, all! 💖❤️‍🔥❤️ Hope you're having some lovely pre-holidays time wherever you are in the world! #gamedev #indiedev

Something weird happened with my Twitter account (I know we don't like it here, but I had a good following on it). Firstly, they locked me out and made me do some weird test to regain control over it. Then, they put a label on it saying I'm in violation of X rules, but they don't say which ones?

For this #screenshotsaturday we've added new facial animations for one of our characters - Bolo - voiced by the talented Darren Ying Chen Yi Wishlist Storylines now: steam.pm/app/2835210 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #games #gaming #gamer #unrealengine #digitalart

Omg I fixed my UI bug. The inventory code is a bit, well, unoptimized. I wrote that just to get it done, and now I'm finding little quirks here n there. For instance, moving an item from a container to inventory is fine, moving back - controller loses focus.

When your own friends are throwing shade at your obsessive behaviors. Thanks @rmusicdev.bsky.social, I keep laughing at this every time 😂

#WishlistWednesday is here! We are DROWNING in cats! (testing animations from Luca De Giglio, they are wip, but very happy with them so far!) Wishlist neow! steamp.pm/app/2835210 #indiegame #indiegaming #gaming #gamer #gamedev #indiegamedev #cat #CatsOfBluesky #fightnjokes #adventure #story #art

There was a time in my life when I fancied myself as a future comic book artist 🎨 Maybe I should revive this hobby one day after finishing my other 10000 projects 😂😂😂 No AI back then, I tried my best to draw one good hand 🤣 #digital #art #comics #2Dart #ADHD #digitalart

And my favorite part is never being able to remember where anything is and clicking randomly through tabs and pages for 20 minutes getting angrier each moment and crying 😂

Hi, this is me & my cat! As you can see, she is not impressed with my theatrics. My name is Lena, I live in New Zealand, and have been running Lighstromo since 2016. Originally, a trained artist, I think I love coding more now. I hope more women enter game dev and STEM 💖 #gamedev #indiegamedev

Our character artist is working on a new NPC for Storylines. A very early wip, but I'm very excited to add her to the game soon! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gaming #indiegame #indiegaming #contentcreator #games #3dArt #character #characterart #3DModeling #digitalart #digitalartist

5 new followers, and I'm 99% sure 4 of them are bots. How is everyone else doing on the bot front? I thought we would not get many here, my X account was getting targeted so bad lol #gamedev

Ported the Binding project from 5.4 to 5.5 because we want those sweet sweet movement updates, and I'm transferring most of the blueprint logic into components, so they can be reusable #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegaming #gaming #games #gamer #gamergirl #dogsofbluesky #art