Direction and focus are more important than goals. Where are you going? Orient yourself and re-evaluate your center of gravity regularly. Then take one step at a time and move forward – whatever direction forward might be for you.

Finally happy (for now) with the visual direction of the first “biome” in my knight game! Been working on art aesthetic for a while — time to get back to mechanics and implement some enemies to fight ⚔️ #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #godot #godotengine #blender

Been hard at work creating grass and designing the environmental aesthetic for my game! I'm really digging how lush it looks. #indiedev #gamedev #godot #godotengine #shaders

Starting to build out the environment and experiment with the visual language for the game. Next up will be texturing the terrain and adding grass & foliage 🌱 #godot #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev #blender

Early prototype of my first mini boss fight. Can you guess what kind of creature will replace the placeholder sphere? 👀 #godot #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev #bossfight

Modeled some simple level geometry for my scene blockout. First time my game kinda looks like a game! #godot #godotengine #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev

Blocking out some level ideas. It's fun to greybox in-engine with simple cubes because you can immediately run around the level and see how it feels, get a sense of scale, etc Any tips about level design and environment art for me? #godot #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev #leveldesign #greybox

Target lock strafing 👀 This was surprisingly complicated to get working. The direction of joystick input combines with the direction the model is pointing to determine which animation to play. Now I need to blend it all together nicely... #godot #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev #animation

@heytibo.bsky.social Any tips for a strafe / side walk cycle? This is early progress but I'm struggling

Chained attacks and slash trails! Everything is still a bit janky but building it up bit by bit. Will come back for polish later. #godot #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

I love @godotengine.org so much. I just cloned my git repo onto my Macbook and had my project up and running on my laptop in like 10 seconds.

Target system! Loosely inspired by Tunic. It's modular, the camera dynamically frames the player and the target, and you can manually cycle through targets based on X screen space. Now I need to make character animations for when you're locked on! #godot #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev #tunic

Health bars, screen shake, and a hurt animation! Crude core game loop coming together. #godot #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev

I’m trying to do everything the slow and steady way this time around but we’ll see how long I last

Got some basic impact feedback implemented — some shader effects, sounds, and knockback. Soon will add a damage animation, screen shake, and a UI overlay! #godot #indiedev #gamedev #godotengine

Implemented super basic combat! There’s still no visual/audio feedback on impact and the “enemy” behavior is super primitive, but it’s a start! #godot #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev

Got my knight hooked up with a player controller and working with my idle, run, jump, and attack animations in Godot 4.4! I'll return to polish the animations more later but for now I'm going to move onto prototyping the combat. #gamedev #indiedev #godot #psx #knight

Making progress on animating the run cycle for my knight! #indiedev #gamedev #godot #blender

Working on the player character model for my game, and testing the rig with some Mixamo idle animations. A bit janky and largely placeholder for early prototyping, but bit by bit I'm getting more comfortable with low poly modeling and texturing. #godot #lowpoly #gamedev #indiedev #blender

Commercials peaked at "Piracy: It's a Crime" www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmZm...

If you haven't tried this AI voice conversation demo yet, you should. Definitely the most impressive showcase of lifelike human AI I've experienced. www.sesame.com/research/cro...

It’s a great time to be working in FOSS

My favorite way to go into both movies and games is completely blind with zero expectations.

My second attempt at a low poly knight character model. The topology is atrocious but I’m improving! Baby steps. #blender #indiedev #gamedev #godot

I’m trying to learn Eevee, Blender’s real-time render engine. I put together this scene in an attempt to replicate the visual style of my typical work I’d do in Cycles. Watch with sound!

Tyler I’ll forgive your use of “legos” plural because this is a pretty great metaphor lol

Every day I see more devs I admire and look up to post about switching to Godot, and I couldn't be more excited for 2025 in this ecosystem!

I'm trying to learn GIMP but oh boy it's rough. In my journey switching to Linux, a solid Photoshop alternative is the last holdout problem I haven't yet solved.

From tiny experiences we build cathedrals. -Orhan Pamuk

This new trailer from Pixar is weird and different and I kind of love it? www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhxG...

Hype!! Article says 4.4 release is approximated 1 month away (depending on how long it takes to fix some outstanding bugs). This is one massive update.

Poignant article on FOSS and the community entitlement it often fosters.

@heytibo.bsky.social Played through the Wild Cosmos demo last night! You've got something really special cooking, mate. Can't wait to play the whole thing! P.s. thanks for making a Linux version! :-)

@michaeljared.bsky.social Hey Michael! I'm experiencing an issue with the the pipeline (v2.5) where collision shapes are not being created. Assets are importing correctly otherwise, but no collision shapes. I've recorded what I'm doing - any idea what's going on? Thank you!

@passivestar.bsky.social Your blog write-up on using Godot's lightmapper is fantastic. Thank you for publishing that! Any chance you'd want to do a similar post for your Blender -> Godot pipeline, and/or specifically your texture workflow?

ChatGPT still feels like complete magic to me and nobody can convince me otherwise.

These are really important updates to the project’s structure as Godot matures. Excited to finally see the (informal) public roadmap!

The trail leads to a quiet road. #godot #madewithgodot #indiedev #gamedev

Something new... #godot #godotengine #indiedev #gamedev