cycles rendering test (M1 / iPad air 5th gen)

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

I can promise there will never be a AI in any game I make. Easy. But also important to say anyways.

My interactive tween guide for Godot is out ! If you have trouble using tweens, adding "Juice" or picking the right transition, it should hopefully help! The guide is free and will always be 🩵 qaqelol.itch.io/tweens #Godot #GameDev #Animation #Tutorial #Guide #Tweens

wanted to explain to someone my process for doing sound foley/audio design stuff for my godot project, so here's a little visual guide! enjoy :) #gamedev #audiodesign

In gamedev, if you're using a placeholder asset, best practices involve marking it as placeholder so garishly and offensively clearly PLACEHOLDER that you can't possibly miss it. Also flagging that asset in the dev process so it can be identified quickly before the final build.

Did Blender help you this year? Help back! 🧡 If every active user contributed $5 this month, Blender would be funded for the entire year 2026. Professional 3D software. No subscriptions. No limits. Just your support. Do your part. Donate today. www.blender.org/news/give-ba... #b3d

A little look behind clothesline physics in Louny Balloony. There's an invisible platform that just matches the arc of wherever you're walking in relation to the ends of the line. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

ROLLED SLEEVES! To get the FREE monthly How to THINK When You draw digital MAGAZINE, (including NEW tutorials, a YEAR before they appear online) just tap the link in the bio HERE: @etheringtonbros.bsky.social #anime #manga #comicart #conceptart #gamedev #animationdev #illustration

Fun '06 fact: the button window text is always rendered twice, but is covered up by the main menu panels, so you don't see the duplicate at the top left.

Godot thing I noticed. When it comes to opened models, TSCN files are just archives and not references. Been driving me nuts trying to figure out why reimported model anims weren't updating. Turns out they *can't*. It'd be better to maintain an animlibrary of exported anims, I guess.

Reposting with Alt Text. Location of free food pantries in Atlanta for those in need.

Code is sometimes just cascading chains of things that have to be fixed so other things can be fixed. I finished up some hurtbox code over the last month and felt like Hal from Malcom in the Middle. "Hey finish those hurtboxes?" *Looks up from improving engine printline support* "Workin' on it!"

Turn off Gemini in Google! It's been turned on by default. Go to your Drive, click the gear icon, click settings, go to "manage apps" and uncheck that nasty "use by default" box. www.zdnet.com/article/how-...

We are blending souls like combat and level design with n64-era collectathon vibes set in a magical rodent kingdom in Mouseward! store.steampowered.com/app/1188410/...

One of the most important jobs of a designer is understanding that there are some things that everyone says they want, but then absolutely hate if they get it

*psst* Mouseward, our new Soulslike Collectathon, has a free alpha demo up on itch if anybody wants to try it early 👀

🍬🎃SUGAR GHOULS IS OUT🎃🍬 I emerge from underground to bring you a new Halloween platformer I've been working on non-stop for the last 2 weeks. It's got pumpkins, it's got goblins, but most importantly, it has GHOST KID. So grab some candy, a controller, and have fun~ sodaraptor.itch.io/sugar-ghouls

✏️ Sketchin' it out - Ch.1 Ever wonder how operations in #CuttingEdgeROM are planned? See Chapter 1 sketches in my latest devlog (for free)! (Demo spoilers, of course.) www.patreon.com/posts/sketch... #indiedev #indiegame

This project is now FINISHED! You can download the whole thing and see more images here; www.artstation.com/artwork/x3900E

I won't have time for this, but *you* should join!

Proud to announce Deviant Legal’s Game Developer’s Guide to Publishing Agreements: a free resource for developers wanting to learn about publishing deals. Publicly accessible, without requiring to provide your data: deviantlegal.com/guide/game-d...

Hey, I worked on this! I didn't open the Unity editor a single time, but I did use it as an excuse to get back into writing music for the first time in YEARS. Including learning Ableton from scratch, since it was time to move on from Reaper. nickshooter.bandcamp.com/track/hello-...

Because I simply can't stop, I also did a game jam this weekend. (More like I signed up for suff and forgot they were all close lol) The theme was "mundane" so we made a game about cleaning up leaf piles. But also if those piles fought back. spex130.itch.io/garden-guard... #gamejam #gamedev

I've shown this effect before, but there's something else that's cool about it. There's nothing stopping me from placing these fake windows in front of walls. This is how the doors to other maps work. I didn't model any openings. #godot #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Thanks for hosting Davis! I'm Spex, 3d generalist/tech artist and hobby gamedev who likes to branch out into whatever seems interesting. I have a few games I'm working on, and I post about game jams a lot - but you'll mostly see me posting bright low/midpoly 3d art and the occasional 3d print!

ARTISTS! Let’s do an art share! There are now more than 39.3 MILLION Bluesky accounts! Let’s find each other! Spread the post to reach the most! 💙

All of my prompts for ⚔️ #Swordtember2025! 4th year in a row doing these all! They're always a fun challenge, and even though I go the extra mile for designing characters, still can't wait for next year's #Swordtember! Shoutout to @faithschaffer.bsky.social for making such a great art challenge!

Seriously. Draw something. It’s fun. Who cares if it looks weird. Draw it again until you like what you’ve drawn. I’m still trying to get to that point.

Y'all this guy made a game for Swordtember. A whole GAME! Super impressive. #Swordtember

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 30: Winter I DID IT 30 fully rigged animated characters in 30 days Incredibly proud. But also. Next year I am going to do ✨less✨ This was a lot. 😂 Looking forward doing gamedev again instead of Blender every day. #Swordtember #b3d

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 29: Autumn Closing in on the end! One more! This guy is stereotypical Autumn - and by Autumn I just straight up mean Halloween. He's got some kind of leaf-powered portal. You probably don't wanna go in there. #Swordtember #b3d

Still a rough rig, but getting close to calling it done #blender3d #b3d #3dart

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 28: Summer Today's was super simple. Just a summer sun going for a stroll. #b3d #Swordtember

#Swordtember2025: Swordnik 27: Spring This design absolutely fought me every step of the process. Sometimes you gotta just grit through with discipline when the art block hits haha. #b3d #Swordtember

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 26: Harpy Really REALLY happy with this design! Even rigged the sword with a toggle so it can be detached and posed with. #b3d #Swordtember

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 25: Bubble A mermaid. Did less with more and simplified the animations to focus in on making an array of looping bubbles. #b3d #Swordtember

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 24: Venom I sure did think that animating a snake would be easier than animating legs for some reason 😅 I do love how this Snake man's arms are pretty much magic bundles of coil instead of anything real though, that part was fun. #b3d #Swordtember

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 23: Owl Even more wings! Since I had the wing setup already in place, I went for a longer animation and some set dressing. This owlman is based on my favorite: a Barn Owl! Just him and a machete against the, uh, desert. And whatever's buried there. #b3d #swordtember

Art Tip: Backs

I feel like today's #Swordtember2025 design looks better in stills since it's very busy in motion. So here's a post to show that off some. The only way I could get feathers at all was using repeating textures, so I'm glad that gambit paid off. She seems pretty regal tbh. Wonder what her deal is?

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 22: Swan This prompt involves wings and feathers and therefore is THE WORST. On the other hand tho I managed to make something that works so I'm pretty proud. Made that feather texture today too. Lots of texture displacement carrying the design today. #b3d #Swordtember

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 21: Ring Two particular rings I like are Orbital Rings and Chakrams, so this design combines ✨BOTH✨ Also, figuring out how to rig a chakram to be animated was fun. #b3d #Swordtember

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 20: Vapor Today's design is a spectral guardian knight that uses a incense burning Censer as its base. Lots of fun VFX here! I do love making armor when I can. #b3D

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 19: Membrane Making 2 swords yesterday means I had to do more with less. The modeling for this jellyfish guy was very simple, but the materials are where it *really* shines. The char shader is 2 matcaps on top of 2 fresnels, and the caustics are scrolling textures. #b3d

#Swordtember2025 Swordnik 18: Beetle I may have gone overboard here. This has way too much detail, even if I really like it haha. This one is based off a real bug called the Flanged Bombardier Beetle/Ant Hill Beetle. I didn't have enough time to give him a tiny ant buddy unfortunately. #b3d

Mm, I would need to burn a lot of midnight oil to post Swordnik 18 tonight. ...Nope. I'm calling it, posting it tomorrow. If you gotta choose between keeping an arbitrary art challenge schedule and sleep, choose ✨sleep✨ It'll be there in the morning.