Considering adding a "Winnipeg" slider to the game. #Winnipeg #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

We've done it. We've just hit the release button on our biggest game yet... DEMON TIDES IS OUT NOW ON STEAM! AHHHHH! An open world platforming adventure full of mysteries, challenges and a ton of customization! Express yourself through the movement and explore the oceans!

No Zi, no. You have prior commitments. Stop it. NO. Stop looking at the N64 engine. Stop it!

Honestly, AI slop PRs are becoming increasingly draining and demoralizing for #Godot maintainers. If you want to help, more funding so we can pay more maintainers to deal with the slop (on top of everything we do already) is the only viable solution I can think of: fund.godotengine.org

Game industry pickup lines: "Haha, yoink!" "I might need this later." "One for the road." "This should come in handy."

I feel like some mutuals may need to hear this: If you're recovering from burnout, and you're sensitive to social pressures, please minimize your exposure. Well meaning as they may be, the last thing you need during recovery is artists shouting about making art as a form of resistance.

We're helping to raise funds for the Immigrant Law Centre in Minnesota with the No ICE in Minnesota bundle on Itch.io. Get 1439 items for $10, including A Good Snowman is Hard to Build, all for an excellent cause. itch.io/b/3484/no-ic...

LIVE ON STEAM store.steampowered.com/app/3389740/... Omg such a milestone we are live on the two biggie EA platforms now so it feels like we are OUT OUT. Also I set a 16x16 for today but I'm super chuffed for tomorrow's daily challenge as well. Thanks for all the support 🥰 #gamedev #godot #vr

Sometimes I just do weird stuff in VR just to see if I can. This was all done in one continuous shot. 🐧👊🧱🎦😅 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR

I get asked this once in a while: "How do I design for emergent gameplay?" Answer: Don't. 🧵👇 #gamedev #indiedev

Had the idea to process the same sound files for physical hits, and use it for fluid impact. It works absurdly well! #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

I hate universal "distance grab" mechanics in VR. IMO, a strong need/desire to minimize player movement betrays a fundamentally uninteresting world. That being said... a thing that lets you swhoop other things from afar is another story! 🐧🎣💨 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR

I know people who would fail this so hard, like literally day #2 they'll open the fridge and see some lettuce and start prototyping a vegan Balatro clone.

Considering gamedevs work on games more often than they breathe, a more challenging game jam premise would be to explicitly disallow game development for a week. The Literally Anything Else Jam.

I'm so pleased with this shot in particular, because like... who the hell uses a fishing rod like that?? But it feels SO good. I did this by erasing a line of code that forces you to swing the rod "properly". I'm not putting it back! 😌 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR

I hate universal "distance grab" mechanics in VR. IMO, a strong need/desire to minimize player movement betrays a fundamentally uninteresting world. That being said... a thing that lets you swhoop other things from afar is another story! 🐧🎣💨 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR

... NO! NO NO NO NO NO! NOOOOOOOOOO! #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Here comes a NOOT challenger! 🐧🥊💥

Choose your fighter (mock-up)

Funny enough, matrix access was the first thing I freaked out about (in a good way) during my first attempt to port to Godot. Here are a few neat things you can do with it that are still possible in other engines but might require roundabout hierarchy shenanigans. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Finally figured it out, and OOF! It's because Godot's property setters aren't called if the property is left at the default value! This is a pretty common gotcha, so watch out! #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Duck it, I'm doing this live. Y'all are my rubber ducks. So if I *freeze* the ocean, everything is fine! The heights match up between CPU and GPU. The buoyancy system is reacting appropriately. Which means the issue is incorrect time sync...?? #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

There's a serious bug in my ocean buoyancy algorithm, and they say rubber ducking is good for debugging, so I'm giving it a go... Wish me duck. 🐧🦆 #GodotEngine #indiedev #gamedev

So fun to see how the characters evolved over the years. This one has gone from a generic hermit, to a hermit musician, to an eccentric drummer in a band. #gamedev #indiedev

Really happy with my posture + motor + grab + bone chain systems. In conjunction, they let me animate this two-handed object interaction in such a way that's physically reactive to the environment, while still maintaining the "intentional" look. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Augmental Puzzles is OUT NOW on Meta Quest! Cozy logic puzzles in VR - launching into Early Access with Classic Sudoku TODAY Quest: meta.com/experiences/24479505205020302/ Steam (13 Feb): store.steampowered.com/app/3389740/Augmental_Puzzles/ #VR #indiegame #gamedev #MadeWithGodot #MetaQuest

This task has been on the backburner for years, but I finally fixed the arm bone placement algorithm so arms don't clip through the torso. 😌 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Made a little addon which adds an extra copy of the "override in-game camera" button to the 3D editor toolbar, for those who use the editor viewport to override the in-game camera. Get it here: codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Hijacked my ocean shoreline effects to make spatialized ocean sounds. There's an ocean "speaker" that follows the camera, staying just off-shore. I tweak its panning strength so it sounds like it has a rough direction, not coming from a single point. Sound on! 🔊 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

WIP so far on my #GlobalGameJam. It's a #VR experience where masked govt thug pigs have come to your neighborhood, harassing your neighbors. All you have is a smartphone w/ 2% battery left. Capture whatever you can to challenge the "official" narrative (lies). #gamedev #ggj #ggj26

Gave the sun effect a glow-up. Now reacts to obstructions, and looking directly at the sun also has a "blinding" effect. 🐧☀️😎 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR

Well, I'll be damned... 🤯🐧🎣🦘 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR

Not sure why I didn't expect it to be possible to hook one fish with multiple rods at the same time, but yeah... it's possible. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Wrote a whole rant about object-oriented programming being terrible for gamedev. Deleted it. You're welcome.

My Cozy Cube Godot addons are now officially updated to Godot 4.6! If you aren't updating, you can still get 4.5 on a separate, frozen branch. codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

This is a HEFTY update, full of delicious features! Once I update Penguin Festival to 4.6, it will be the last update before ship. Version-locked!

The VR player is constrained by their own physical body, while the NPCs are scripted to act normal. But the mouse-and-keyboard debug penguin doesn't abide by the rules of either reality. Anyway, here's infinite-crouch-jump-dual-fishing-super-dash. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Aite. Cool, cool.

A little Godot addon to let you create / edit built-in scenes. i.e. scenes/prefabs that are embedded in other scenes, without needing their own files. Great for things you instantiate only in a single, specific context. Grab it here: codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/... #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Pretty straightforward effect. Start off with some sinusoidal scaling animations on different axes. There should be a PI/2 phase offset between the animation on the "primary" axis vs. the animation on the other axis (or axes if you're doing a 3D effect). #gamedev #indiedev

An old effect I made from ten years ago (I called it "Wibbly Wobbly"). It uses simple matrix distortion, so the whole thing can run in vertex shader. Works for 2D or 3D. Great for making jiggly things that don't make sense to be rigged with bones. #gamedev #indiedev

What do you mean we're only 3 weeks into 2026?

Daaaaaamn, that's so smooth.

One Godot quirk that drives me nuts to this day is the asymmetrical caret word skip when you edit text/code. I made a little addon to make it more familiar (symmetrical). You can grab it here under the aptly named "Better Caret Skips": codeberg.org/MajorMcDoom/... #GodotEngine #gamedev

Bro no, that's just Winnipeg.

Authoring collision geometry for VR is extremely tedious. All the usual "good enough" metrics / techniques for traditional games go out the window. Thankfully I made some utilities to help with mirroring and radial repetition. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #VR

Bucket physics are still a work-in-progress... 🐧🪣 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

The trowel wiggle action was implemented using the same socket constraint tech used for the lantern hooks (except with lower swing limit, higher damp, zero-gravity). Was not expecting it to become so versatile so quickly. #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev

Made some new VR interactions. Do you... dig it? 😎🐧🥕 #GodotEngine #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday