yayyy i'm rich

hey new followers! my name is Thomas, I'm working on GARBAGE COUNTRY with a small team (@cauleyflowers.bsky.social, @maartnboot.bsky.social, @mooneysart.bsky.social et al) (but you probably knew that and that's why you followed!) anyway, Thanks!! 🤩 we'll be showing a lot more in 2026!

cleaning out my screenshot/screencapture folder

NEVER Put Spaces or special characters into your Unity "Product Name", unless you like pain. If you want to know why:

Just finished ‘Ra’ Big recommend! Best Sci-fi I read in a while. Gave me Vernor Vinge vibes 👌

just vibing i guess

some more models for a tower and its upgrades

Unity has a weird bug where if you change Physics-related things, it causes WheelColliders to drop through the ground 😂 tho: always kind of cool when a game gets to a point where all the fx apply to bugs too (screen shake, particles)

my day 1 advice for a new project: STOP USING STRING (for player facing text) Unity's LocalizedString is a drop in replacement! Unfortunately the UI is not quite "drop in", so I fixed that! It now looks JUST LIKE a string! (until you fold out)

Let me help you out kind sir! OH OOPS 👋

fireworks: 💯 damage: 🙅🏻‍♂️

does look cool 🤷‍♂️

i've been adding dropshadows/AO manually — to the tower defense units. just a little vertex colored plane under each, matching the rough shape of the unit

From stephenramsay.net/posts/vibe-c...

this kind of low poly pixel art always looks EVEN CRISPIER with the wireframe on

without the right equipment, you will get stuck

some obstacles can't just be rammed..

the asset zoo is getting too big

This is great! I thought it was all obvious stuff. But I picked up 2 new things: 1️⃣ Put saved games into a /{SteamId}/ subfolder of app data, so that multiple Steam users can share PC 2️⃣ Don't Cloud Save graphics settings cause they're pretty inherently tied to one machine! Thanks!

I remember my first game being reviewed as “a mildly interactive screensaver” on newgrounds I felt flattered

Look who's here in their favourite lookout spot 🌴

my partner thinks i have a pathological need to answer every email I get. maybe. I'll often spend time writing novice devs asking for advice.. (i should be writing code instead, I guess?) but maybe it's some kind of therapy for me as well

the art style of GARBAGE COUNTRY is really flat. With limited palette textures, and cell shading. so I'm often tempted to add a little bit of AO, to subtly pull objects apart and every time i rediscover that it messes up the particles, which SHOULD be flat (to blend together)

haha, tried to add some recoil.. not how that works, apparently.

When returning to an older Unity project, ever have that feeling of "how does this work again?" "which scene do I open?" "where does the content live?!" I did fresh collaborators — and my future self — a favor by adding a little "welcome screen" to the Unity project.

when building a game, you just keep on developing internal tools.. you think you won't need them and then later you do. In this case: I needed to inspect how different terrain textures influence grip and other driving behavior..

I personally like UGUI. People warn me about layouting performance, which has never been an issue for me. But now I see the kind of UI for which it could be an issue. (So many items and so much nesting)

procedural generation is nice and all, but then you also have to go and procedurally generate audio.. so now I'm clustering tree instances to set emitter locations! (learned about DBSCAN in the process!)

truly the platonic ideal of a scene list

Looked at the Cloud Gardens project for reference.. Saw I have one Game component that links to (mostly) everything in the game. CUTE, THAT'S IT?!!? THAT'S THE ENTIRE GAME!? Garbage Country is SO much bigger already! 🥹

realized my "simple" AudioZone implementation needs HOLES the hardest thing was updating the Inspector/Scene drawing, and *drawing* those holes.. (so, NOT drawing them..) but with some stencil buffer magic: voila.

I stopped using OdinInspector cuz it's mixing data & presentation too much. like 5 simple [SerializeField]s become a wall of code So I went back to vanilla [CustomEditor] IMGUI (not even UITK) BUT I see now that Rider has deep integration with Odin! So I’m tempted again

left this meme on the shelf to ripen for a couple months but here you go "just make it exist first"

I — too — love making trees! (sometimes I think: is *this* game really the best vessel for me just making a bunch of trees?! what game should I have made that's just about me making a bunch of trees for a year..?)

don't worry about being good at concept art, these tiny sketches are all I use, but they help me so much when going into Blender

hire me to design manhole covers

thanks, past me

this made me quite nostalgic

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I'm not using this greeble texture as much as I thought I would, for final models. but it's GREAT for blocking things out! #pixelart

question: what is happening in our MONKEY ASS BRAINS that makes pick-up-able items so YUMMY?

using Pixel Unwrapper to quickly unwrap an object! Ready for pixel art in less than a minute!

have to show this off real quick cause i'm quite proud of it! I built on top of Unity Splines for easier+faster editing 🪄 Shift click inserts points on closest segment 🗻 Moving snaps to ground 💁🏻‍♂️ but height of each point can be adjusted by holding CMD with SplineMesher's "conforming" it's a dream!

Also, will this reset the "last updated on" counter for every game now?

The Miramax cafe ! Online! I miss the old internet 😭

was painting in some grass details into the map (i usually don't hand paint, use MicroVerse) but always cool to see what the paint mask looks like, cool abstract shapes

drake meme: ✋😒 fix bugs and create content 😎👉 f* around with water shader

It’s nuts. In all of this “Apple Intelligence” marketing there is NOTHING about Siri getting smart enough to understand that “Add apples and yogurt to the shopping list” should create TWO reminders, not one or answer “did I set an alarm?” not by reading out all 542 of my inactive alarms

is this bad? some of them are only used at edit-time for baking some textures..