ANNOUNCING Hellscreen leaves early access on tomorrow! A couple of new weapons, performance fixes & controller support! Some previous reviews: "It's Doom with a rear view mirror" "It inspires lust" "The most fucked up driving game I've ever seen" store.steampowered.com/app/1410090/...

ANNOUNCING Hellscreen leaves early access on tomorrow! A couple of new weapons, performance fixes & controller support! Some previous reviews: "It's Doom with a rear view mirror" "It inspires lust" "The most fucked up driving game I've ever seen" store.steampowered.com/app/1410090/...

Now that I moved in recently with my partner, I'm finally able to show her Battlestar Galactica. I'm pleased to report that the show is still great and my partner is into it

It's neat having long plays of games on in the background as I work

I havent been a fan of Steam recommendations historically but this slider really helps me find things that I might like.

I havent been a fan of Steam recommendations historically but this slider really helps me find things that I might like.

Oh no

Looking at "Recommendations for you" on Steam and found this, which is kinda neat

YEP

I hope @lithiumproject.bsky.social is in this

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Hey folks, just wondering what the best browser based games you play are?

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We're so close to 250 Steam reviews? In just over a week??? Thank you all so much for giving a game like Space Warlord Baby Trading Simulator a shot--and if you haven't left your review, yet, please do so! It really helps!! store.steampowered.com/app/3642000/...

"I didn't actually come here to free slaves' "Well, why the fuck not Qui gon Jin?" We yell at the TV, as Padme states that it's illegal

Im making a game. About the street sweepers. FOLLOW US!!

Despite working in games for 17 years, I'd have trouble working out what my favourite genres to play were. Now, I think it's just anything with an interesting place to see with great lighting

Love stuff like this

Where are folks building their indie game communities these days? Still Discord, or somewhere else?

Despite working in games for 17 years, I'd have trouble working out what my favourite genres to play were. Now, I think it's just anything with an interesting place to see with great lighting

Started/finished Mission improbable for half life 2. A nice, short map with some of the best visuals I've seen in a mod.

Updates! Now I input a skybox converted to polar co-ordinates & bring that into Blender. This leads to a better way of applying vertex color which means I can blur the image input. I think a low density mesh, with high blur will be perfect for my PS1 racer skybox gradient needs. #gamedev

This looks pretty darn good

Updates! Now I input a skybox converted to polar co-ordinates & bring that into Blender. This leads to a better way of applying vertex color which means I can blur the image input. I think a low density mesh, with high blur will be perfect for my PS1 racer skybox gradient needs. #gamedev

Did a 30min warm DOWN after work and messed around with using an image to color vertices, this time for a Skybox. I must reference the Homeworld 2 tool for doing this, as they have much better results, but this is neat. #Gameart #Techart #Indiedev

Did a 30min warm DOWN after work and messed around with using an image to color vertices, this time for a Skybox. I must reference the Homeworld 2 tool for doing this, as they have much better results, but this is neat. #Gameart #Techart #Indiedev

Look, Star trek VI: The Undiscovered country is fucking sick ok

Today's warm up session was from an idea in the shower! I tested baking out a Ambient occlusion pass to a second color attribute on the model & then mixing them in the geometry node. I also started adding in proper controls and I plan to add a AO color option too. #Blender #Techart #gamedev

Today's 30min warm up was making a geometry node that takes baked vertex lighting information & blurs it to remove artifacts. I also added a node to add contrast as well as a color node to fake ambient lighting. I plan to add some saturation control on it too. #Gamedev #TechArt #30min

Watching a really cool video about marketing and it's clear from the audience questions that people are really afraid to try something or get something wrong and its like, just fuck around and see? Honestly, I feel like too many developers want permission to try things rather then rolling the dice

Today's 30min warm up was making a geometry node that takes baked vertex lighting information & blurs it to remove artifacts. I also added a node to add contrast as well as a color node to fake ambient lighting. I plan to add some saturation control on it too. #Gamedev #TechArt #30min

Started today with a 30min warm up session, this time exorcising a mind worm about greyscale to gradient mapping. This isn't new (it's pretty much what 8 & 16 bit games did) but the notion is to assign colors to a B/W value to replace a color. Below is a quick test in Photopea with only 4 colors

The new naked gun is good

This week I started my days with 30min jams, to help with the irrational notion that I'm never getting enough done. The general theme was Vertex color based shaders and was a lot of fun! This thread links to each day. #Gamedev #TechArt bsky.app/profile/uk-r...

Day 05 of my 30 min warm up sessions - Had a play around with lighting quality in Blender, as well as blurring the Vertex color after a bake. The gradients are nice and smooth now. I found a tool that converts a VC single channel R/G/B to a UV coordinate, allowing for up to 7 gradients in a shader

Lol?

This week I started my days with 30min jams, to help with the irrational notion that I'm never getting enough done. The general theme was Vertex color based shaders and was a lot of fun! This thread links to each day. #Gamedev #TechArt bsky.app/profile/uk-r...

Day 05 of my 30 min warm up sessions - Had a play around with lighting quality in Blender, as well as blurring the Vertex color after a bake. The gradients are nice and smooth now. I found a tool that converts a VC single channel R/G/B to a UV coordinate, allowing for up to 7 gradients in a shader

Been messing around with this between builds and managed to get a somewhat animated light vibe by lerping between the Vertex color R & G channels. I think there are maybe lots of things you can pull off with this.

I actually quickly added the texture based version of the gradient mapping and used the sky gradient I made from yesterday's 30 min session. This texture can be super small and still work. Below images - With texture + gradient mapping and also, just the Gradient mapping.

Day 4 of 30 min warm up sessions & lately I have been fixated on gradient remapping. One experiment I've wanted to try was remapping Vertex color to a gradient to get cool effects. Elsewhere, I have a texture gradient sample set up so it is simple to have stylized lighting.

I'd very much appreciate it if the USD to GBP conversion rate would get its arse out the toilet

After 10 mins of color sampling and gradient color matching, it becomes a fairly useful sample to be used in shaders etc. This will great for Vertex color skyboxes too.

After 10 mins of color sampling and gradient color matching, it becomes a fairly useful sample to be used in shaders etc. This will great for Vertex color skyboxes too.

Turns out long plays of train journeys are an EXCELLENT reference resource for environment art

Day 3 of 30 min warm up sessions and something different today. Inspired by a talk about marketing by @impressgames.bsky.social last night, I decided to trawl Reddit for places where I can talk about my game projects and build a following. (I don't remember Reddit actually coming up but still)