hate it when the bugs look cooler than the actual game

trello was moving cards into the wrong board, and I was like huh? Turns out it was the board of the FIRST protoype named "Garbage Country" from 7 years ago.

ugh! wheel bays are so hard to model neatly into a car body, especially in 3D Pixel Art where you want to maybe also have (somewhat) square pixels mapped to the geometry..

thought about doing that "make it exist first, you can make it good later" meme, but i'm too lazy.. So: working on one of the NPC cars, check out how bad it looks:

thing #124 I learned while making a car game for a "nitro" effect, literally all you need is speed lines + reduced FOV you don't even need to make the car faster

I guess I'm making Car Tron now.

@guycalledfrank.bsky.social heya! Just bought & installed Decalery.. Was wondering, what steps should I take to make decals work with a custom shader? - no z-write - offset towards camera? <- have you got a suggested method for this?) - anything else ?

I was today years old when I learned that you can add [CanBeNull] to [SerializeField]s to help you avoid relying on Inspector fields being set (if they are optional) (Maybe you could even configure it to where you need to add [NotNull] for even stricter safety!)

these types of bugs — where you accidentally spawn unlimited objects — always look so fun! fixing them feels so wrong always gives me the feeling I'm making the game wrong

Indie tip #72 Always be hot fixing bugs at the booth. Make sure you introduce new bugs each time too, so you don’t get bored

oh just quickly draw a uniform direction from a cone with a given angle, they said. (2 hrs later...)

gamedev is kinda fun

Last minute build of GARBAGE COUNTRY, in the train on my way to gamescom! See you soon! (At the Indie Arena)

As we all know the game industry is going through very turbulent times, unfortunately this has also affected several members of our collective. The silver lining is that one of the largest rooms in our coworking space in Berlin will be available from September 1st. More info in thread...

hot take: I like Unity UI

EVERY TIME

get em!

your best code is that which you use constantly, but you forget it exists (because it works so well and gets out of the way) for me that's this super simple FSM implementation I use it constantly to formalize some logic that's getting hairy and it always improves the situation

just saw these side by side in my steam library and i really enjoy the look of it! 💕

working on some new tower types!

show me your task tracker.. no cleanup allowed!

the recoil on these guys! 😂

this makes sense, right?

😂

haha okay

you can pull down these bridges (and other things) with the winch but now i'm thinking.. are gaps of this size really an obstacle?! 😂 🚙💨⚡️💨⚡️💨 ahh well.. that's one for the speedrunners I guess..

Garbage Country is a post-industrial exploration sim releasing in 2026 from @noio.games, developer of Kingdom: New Lands and Cloud Gardens "Above all else, Garbage Country is about the atmosphere; the dust, the ruins, the silence, the open road, and the haunting remnants of a long-forgotten past."

...exploring...

the thing from my previous post.. see how the yellow 🔊 moves along with the player but doesn't leave the area? this was easier than i thought! the whole thing (including Inspector and handles!) is less than 1000 lines of code

in games you often want sounds to emit from an area a quick hack: move the emitter 🔊 to the *closest point* inside assets exist for this, but I didn't like their usability/performance, so I built one It's the best "Area tool" I've used in Unity! Even for non-audio stuff anyone want the src?

i wrote this script a while ago, to automatically capture a 'turntable' from the current scene view to show off assets and scenes.. but i've never actually used it!

i take this thread way too seriously

fun little kit, hah

ok this one is new 😂

Looking for a *portable* gaming PC to run demos on at shows No beast, but no shrimp either because I haven't optimized yet I have an old ZOTAC 'Steam machine', was really fine but is a bit slow now!! It could just be a laptop I guess? Any recommendations?

Im doing a little bit of concept work on some of the enemy units for this delightful little game, go check it out!

done it's an elevator

so many little things go into making a game feel good.. these inventory items snap into slots, but they are still partly bound to the cursor positions so you don't lose 'connection' with them while dragging them around

@ciro.continis.io I've been thinking about migrating to Scene Notes.. I've got 2 Q's! 😊 1️⃣ do you have an API for creating notes? (to create Notes while playing?) 2️⃣ Scene Notes can *never* render in the game view, right? Even if I can create them from game view, I won't see them immediately?

GARBAGE COUNTRY 🌵 Just properly announced our game at PC Gaming showcase! Go check out our fancy new Steam page and drop us wishlist. store.steampowered.com/app/2530870/...

Officially announcing my new game: GARBAGE COUNTRY. A lonely road trip through the ruins of a forgotten world. feat. vast wastelands, tower-defense battles, upgrades, mysteries, & lots of driving.

moneyyyyyyyy

hi everyone, i'll have something new to show real soon! @pcgamer.com #PCGamingShow

i love how easy it is to suggest a little bit of depth in 3D pixel art by just adding a single darker pixel

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i do all texturing using Blender's Texture Paint, on a single layer