See you all there!

Rift Riff had a high crash rate on Android (3-5% of sessions, yikes) due to Godot's implementation of the Vulkan renderer. This throttled our game's discoverability on the algorithm-based Google Play; very bad, obviously. So… we fixed all the crashes!👇🏼🧵 thread on HOW, below. #godotengine #gamedev

I'm close to finishing my game, I can feel it

Bittersweet indeed, but as my first professional game ever, I'm still pretty happy with the "Best Game that Won Nothing" award 🙃. @adriaan.games let's rise from these ashes and smash the next one 🔥🐦‍🔥

holy snack – the Steam sale for the Dutch Game Awards looks incredible!!! very proud that Rift Riff is part of it with 4 nominations <3 store.steampowered.com/sale/dutchga...

Ok, I figured at least one of these was on the horizon, but all 3??? - I'm 100% here for a 2-stick steam controller - My gaming PC already hooks up to my TV, so I'll pass on the Machine, but it looks slick - Portable VR not locked into a Meta eco? Yes please! Let's see the price though...

If you're like me and have a list of #GodotFest talks that you wanted to watch but regrettably couldn't attend in person... Their recordings are already being uploaded!

Let's go #DevGAMM Lisbon! Showcasing our #Godot game Rift Riff along with the latest content patch and mobile releases. If anyone is here, come by B21.

Enjoying a lovely stroll along the water on a calm Lisbon evening with some Filth On Acid tracks. What's this? Our booth where we'll showcase Rift Riff to the masses of #DevGAMM tomorrow? Come say hi and play at B21 all day Nov 6 🚀 I'll also be around on Nov 7 wandering around. #Godot #gamedev

Rift Riff nominated for 4⁉️ #DutchGameAwards! 🎨Best Art: @simkaart.co's insane pixel art 🎙️Best Audio: @matthijskoster.com made banger tracks/sfx! 🕹️Best Design: @adriaan.games & @professionalpanda.bsky.social endless tweaks 👑GOTY: teamwork! dutchgameawards.nl/nominees/ #Godot #indiegame #gamedev

Incredibly gross behavior by Google: they reject any app update if the gameplay video's description on YouTube mentions another platform (eg. Steam, App Store, etc). Blatantly anti-competitive, cunningly not mentioned in their metadata policies: support.google.com/googleplay/a... #gamedev

Oh I am 1000% here for more cRPG Neil.

These typos are telling me that fixing App Store and Play Store IAP bugs is affecting my inner happiness #godot #indiegames #gamedev

@adriaan.games is much better than I at explaining what the heck we do in #Godot.

Rift Riff just released a banger 1.2 #MajorContent update alongside a 30% #DailyDeal on Steam right now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gcrO... After lots of fun playing with APIs it's also now released for #iOS #AppStore and #Android #PlayStore. Improved optimizations! Vertical UI! Links in the 🧵...

I am so stoked to hear about a cRPG based on Starfinder, built in #Godot no less! So gutted I'll miss #GodotFest and @epictellers.bsky.social talk this year, but everyone attending should go see it.

Major Update inbound!!!

My number 1 error is forgetting to attach a node to the @export in the inspector. This is awesome. Let's gooo 4.6 #Godot

Psst.. we've been cooking store.steampowered.com/news/app/280...

Miyazaki's Castle In The Sky is still a banger after all these years. Re-experiencing the fantastic adventure and wonder from my own childhood's favourite film through my son's eyes for the first time is worth more than all the treasure of Laputa.

I see this error more than my own family. 110% of the time when I add @export objects I forget to load them with something. #Godot

🧙‍♀️ Jump a rift, fight off monsters, plunder their world. Rift Riff is a refreshing take on the tower defence genre and a collaboration by @adriaan.games, @simkaart.co, @matthijskoster.com, @franzlazerte.bsky.social, and @professionalpanda.bsky.social. We got the chance to plunder their localizations!

Back in May, @adriaan.games and I did a talk on developing Rift Riff in #Godot engine. We spoke about what to try next: we're elbows deep in optimizing for mobile and so far we've had some great success doing so in Godot - check out Adriaan's thread on it. More on this once we actually release it.

Old news, but new for me: Grow a Garden, a game within the Roblox ecosystem, hit 21 MILLION concurrent users in June 🤯 Context: 🔫Steam's top game PubG tapped out at 3.2M CCUs 🛠️Fortnite held the prev record at 15.3M 😶‍🌫️Steam's total CCU record is 41M (March), but only 13.2M were actually playing games

TIL that octopuses don't actually have tentacles - they are long stalks with a sucker-covered club on the end, and only squids and cuttlefish have them. Octopuses have arms. So I guess Day Of The Tentacle should actually be called... Day Of The Arm? I love learning while reading to my toddler

And then I watch speedruns in just over 3 minutes involving killing Shadowheart, stuffing her in a flaming box and yeeting her across most of Act 1 and all of Act 2. Hilarious. Mae's explanation video here (some spoilers if you haven't finished Act 2) www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cWN...

Final finished Baldur's Gate 3 after a whopping 160h playthrough and picking away at it for about 2 years. One of only 2 games I've ever played where I'm still satisfied after 100+ hrs of a single playthrough. (The other being Witcher 3) - a pretty high testament to the quality of the quantity.

Nostalgia is firing at 150%

Thank you @ricklane.bsky.social for answering the important questions. More of this top notch investigative journalism, please!

I first saw this pop up on r/godot and honest-to-god thought it was a prank. Big news for AAA to be looking at #godot, even in this smaller use-case ... although since I haven't really played much BF since, well, the 1942 era, I probably won't get a chance to try it out.

We're making new stuff for Rift Riff and teasing some of it in this Steam post: store.steampowered.com/news/app/280...

If you tell some people this is Godot they wouldn’t believe you. It’s understated how many internal game developers only ever see their own engine. They do not have the time to see what else is out there, and they’re consistently surprised when I show them cool Godot features.

Biggest update so far with a lot of requested QoLs such as better challenge tracking, better accessibility for mouse-only play and lots of visual improvements 💪🏼. But we have even bigger ones coming up 👀

This exhibition is a full sensory experience — including sound. My 3,5-minute soundscape takes you through the process of preparing a complete dish: from chopping and kitchen machines to handling fresh ingredients, plating, and pouring drinks. 🍽️🧄🧅🧀🥗🥂

Such banger tracks made by the one and only @matthijskoster.com. Check it out and vibe to the summer weather with the Rift Riff OST 🎉🏝️🌞🍹

Arriving now at the #INDIGO showcase for the next 2 days in Rotterdam. Come say hi, or check out @adriaan.games and my talk at 13:30 in the Pink Room on Wednesday about our experiences launching a commercial game (Rift Riff) using #GodotEngine.

As a guy that plays way too many demos, big ups to anyone who includes a screen that acknowledges that you played the demo and says “look, you don’t wanna do all that again do you?” Shoutout to the Rift Riff team! store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

@vgapocalypse.bsky.social if ChrisA and @mattycallen.bsky.social want to hold @wikiparaz.bsky.social accountable to making those Rift Riff character sounds, here are some catchy ones 😆. youtu.be/BBtKslDZn00 . Record it as a future guest? Thanks for shoutout despite the busy busy gaming season!

@godotsteam.com I saw on godotsteam.com/issues/linux... that flatpak has potential issues - have you heard reports on Snap causing anything similar? I don't know enough about the technical differences, but I have a report of a player with Snap Steam install having the godotsteam plugin fail...

Verified!!!

Starting with peaking over my dad's shoulder as he played as Snake Logan or B.J. Blazkowicz, I've been enamoured by PCGames, and @pcgamer.com has been one of my top pubs. Still have mags in my childhood bedroom. Having them cover Rift Riff is just... Exquisite: www.pcgamer.com/games/strate...

Don't sleep on Rift Riff, it oozes charm and deceptively deep gameplay.. Also we need a "otto's tale" expansion. store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/...

@vgapocalypse.bsky.social Great content! Excited for @wikiparaz.bsky.social, but sad to lose such a great host. VGA inspired me to pivot to Game Industry when I lost my job, and now we just released Rift Riff on May 9th. Would love to share: DM me or @adriaan.games for a key if you're interested!

Rift Riff (out now!) was proudly made in Godot!! It started as a “small game to see if Godot is ready for commercial games” and 1,5 years later & with a 5-person team all working in the editor I can give you a resounding YES, IT’S READY. store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/... #godotengine #gamedev

Really excited about sharing this collab I did with the artist behind Dome Keeper! A dome landed in one of our levels. The Keeper is long gone, but the orchard tree seems to have rooted just fine. We had a cool back and forth resulting in this sick piece.

RIFT RIFF OUT NOW! store.steampowered.com/app/2800900/... What a journey! Fired wind turbine engineer ➡️ hobbyist game dev ➡️ full commercial release. I'm scared / excited, but mostly proud of the team and myself Screenshots in 🧵 #Release #Godot #Gamedev #indiedev #2D #TD #towerdefense #pixelart

Watching the clock right now as we get closer to 15:00 CET

Currently Rift Riff has 15 hand-crafted TD levels, each with 2 scenarios of widely different enemy wave designs. While this gives a decent amount of content, we started challenging ourselves with extra handicaps to mix it up during playtesting. Enter 🎖️Challenges🏆... 🧵 #godot #gamedev #devlog

sending out Rift Riff steam keys to journalists. dm me

... ok maybe "enjoyed" isn't exactly the correct verb for this one due to my love/hate relationship with UI, but here we are: Rift Riff's Input Settings was a hair-pull of a UI task to wrangle the #Godot project InputMap into a customizable, interactable and saveable system... 🧵 #gamedev #devlog