Storms and improved buoyancy now live on beta for the demo

holy shit you can add text and pictures to your developer homepage....... store.steampowered.com/publisher/To... Timeline when? @valvesoftware.com ;)

So no textures for me.. But procedural geometry timbers on the hull. Take your normal map and stuff it up your strakes.. Geometry is free... baby!!!

Just as a reminder, this isn't my first rodeo in procedural generation for games. This is the kind of thing #bulwark players get up to nowadays. And when shipshaper exports to Bulwark, this is going to be an ecosystem of game creation ;)

I am evolving the Shipshaper demo ( it has not reached its final form, by far). But that's buoyed by nextfest actually not stopping. Yesterday delivered a cool 999 wishlists. I had thought the boat genre was saturated, but perhaps it's not saturated with what folks want.

so the new controls allow you to change the decking and combine various rivets and struts to decorate.

had a lovely chat, turned into a lovely article by @lootlevelchill.bsky.social

slapping down those controls ;)

My little minisforum literally fried . I plug in its power plug and I can hear the crackle and smell the burn. God in today's age this is a bad thing. I mean fuck this was a 8 months old . Pray something can be salvaged.

The question remains, should I just chuck the floor full of wacky control interfaces. and never do 2D menus ever again. I might like that....

"Tomas you design the color wheel" ...hmmm ok. #indiedev #gamedev #shipshaper

The tinderbox has been lit.... and all the evil men are in charge. And those who could stop them are incompetent. A world war thru stupidity. Our own.

Fucking hell, not the message I was wanting folks. Well seems Unity6 is off the table

Nextfest big banner is replaced every weekend by a big AAA publisher sale (every year)? Cuz Indies bring in the crowds and then those eyeballs are turned to AAA. How it works folks #indiedev. Know your place.... Does also show why EVERY platform needs to invest MORE in indies, we bring it.

Tonite's beta update for the demo adds the fighting mast and the mayflower late medieval theme set. Also improved the rigging, reduced placement jank and optimized performance

Well you got em

Anyone want a Charles Martel Fighting top?

When I went to Tehran in 2018 for a game conference I hung out with game nerds, music weirdos, and queer folks with tattoos and colored hair, just like I do here. We got vegetarian food and watched goofy uncles play basketball in the park. I sure hope they can live to see a better day.

Alright woke up . 15k wishlists officially diamond tier performance. Looks like I will be working on shipshaper for a bit longer :). So much to do.! #gamedev

it's 100 x 102 positive. now I need 400 more!! come on... make a boat!!

fun little #gamedev peek these are all the assets for shipshaper atm. The green and blue are my vertex color mask so I can identify parts of the geometry for displacement or recolor. This is were vertex colors are so multi functional. also try Shipshaper: store.steampowered.com/app/4344070/...

making a better mayflower.. not done yet.. but was missing some bits

Our next game is Verminsteel! You're a bird with a broadsword, kicking thousands of fascists so hard they fly into the sun PLEASE go wishlist it, it'll make me really happy and help me stop low-key panicking and stuff: store.steampowered.com/app/4352280/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev

Hopped back in after the update to make a pretty accurate Ship of the Line. You're really cooking with this.

Lots of games deserve attention at nextfest, I've been super charmed with All WIll Rise. it is the type of protest game that should define our times. Not the brainrot. store.steampowered.com/app/3165340/...

fun little #gamedev peek these are all the assets for shipshaper atm. The green and blue are my vertex color mask so I can identify parts of the geometry for displacement or recolor. This is were vertex colors are so multi functional. also try Shipshaper: store.steampowered.com/app/4344070/...

OMG @gamespot.com hahaha Moonpath is a over a decade since I made it.. hhahah.. still in the best mods lists., lol fun fact!: sharing the moonpath airship with other modders, (Dev Aveza underneath a ton of their glam), is direct inspiration for #shipshaper www.gamespot.com/gallery/best...

I am gonna call this nextfest s smashing success. #shipshaper From ZERO wishlists two weeks ago and is gonna exit the fest with 15-20k wishlists after the weekend.. !!! It proves there is an appetite and the franchise approach has serious teeth to disrupt the META for #indiedev

Tried to make a more medieval mayflower era boat.. but missing a few props and sterns to make it right.. by approximation then ;) (I had to test the demo after yesterday's big update) #shipshaper..

Wait what how many hours ???

Hey press and creator friends.. guess what shipbuilding evolving demo just hit nr 29 on the #nextfest charts. make ships!!! (also still 100% positive) #indiedev #gamedev #shipshaper

Alright CuttySark and Terror,, my testcases to see if the last update/patch to the #shipshaper is good. (plenty of stuff to fix, but not tonite) now to sleep.... but with 10k+ wishlists and 200+ CCU on the demo. sleeping well..

Big new update to the demo is live, tried to do a passable HMS terror:) , need to allow for some bigger scales on things, otherwise,, its getting there

Alright coming frome the leftfield.. #shipshaper.. and USA hasn't even woken up... wake up and make a boat!! store.steampowered.com/app/4344070/... also still 100% positive

This took a silly amount of time to get right. but yes you can have a stern sprit and stern jibs and stern spritsails.. pffffff.

I have just learned about the Muletta and now want to go back to bed.

Acceleration!!! lets go lets go.. (simmer down tomas... this is gonna drop in a minute)

that seems wrong somehow..

The community asked why they could only make one sprit?. I had no idea why they wanted more.. until I saw this. Today we are making stern sprits. cuz its bloody glorious

Alright it seems shipshapers first day performance was good now gained over 2000 wishlists and it seems to surfacing in the nextfest frontpages.. Saw it pop up in Design and Illustration. If you see it on the nextfest frontpage share a screenshot.. Exciting! also massive update live on demo beta

When you get distracted and you spend a day making little procedural attachments for all the sails.. #gamedev

"use in your own games" ... I really hope we will see a lot of indie Pirates in the future, that genre is criminally underserved!

not had much success at Nextfest so far.. ShipShaper is a bit of an oddity for me, something smaller and more focused. Seems to have hit a nerve with folks missing a Spore like creative system and who enjoy boats. who knows never had a 100% before. #indiedev #nextfest #shipshaper #herewego

For the Em... Falconeer!

Sometimes something just comes out really nice..

not entirely sure what to call this. Tho it's certainly 'Bulwark-esque' in it's chaos. (a discord user made this). Join the discord to see more crazy user creations. discord.com/invite/falco...

Transom, Gallery, New York and Aberdeen style sterns. for #shipshaper #screenshotsaturday.

Also 100% everything in this survey and conclusions was written by AI and Google was then charged millions for it by the Harris Poll.. Corporate centipede at work.

I won't contest a lot of folks are using AI in coding and lots of folks use 'a bit of chat'.. But this survey, its questions and conclusion is so heavily skewed towards hype...sigh. "last week I asked AI for lunch suggestions" YOU'RE AI DEV NOW! www.gamesindustry.biz/87-of-game-d...

This has so much vibes.....