Be back in a week with some big updates. Tomorrow I fly out to meet with a few people, and pick up my new laptop.

Anyone else spend way too much time in Aseprite on a weekly basis? I have 64hours over the last 2 weeks according to steam, and I am not even in charge of art for this game! Yesterday I made my actual house and yard to scale.. 1'=16px.. Someone save me.

This weeks progress. First movement, started working on a few assets. Almost got defeated by a bug. Took a couple snow days, came back and solved the error. Looking forward to next week.

Game development and parenting both involve fixing problems you didn’t know existed five minutes ago. #parenting, #godot, #indiedev

Made some headway on the foss fighter builder, hitting a known issue where call methods in the AnimationPlayer repeat upon playback. Next will be snapping "action nodes" to the timeline, and handles over the fighter preview to edit their size #gamedev

Made this cheeky video stating my stance on AI for my game. To be clear #DinoCleanup does not and will not use generative AI in any step of the development process. I love making art and making my spaghetti code by hand thank you very much 😤 #noai #gamedev #indiegame #solodev #wholesomegames

Small milestone today: First movement working in the new game. Always feels good when things start moving. Thanks to the OG Kenney for a sprite as a placeholder. Question for other devs: what was the first mechanic that made your game feel real? #gamedev, #godot

Hi, I'm Ben 👋 Dad, veteran, and currently teaching myself how to build video games.

Day 0 of development. Finished the tutorials and started organizing the first scenes and nodes for the project. Now the real learning begins.

Welcome to Bent Bell Games. This is a small indie studio documenting the process of learning game development and building our first games. Current project: learning to build in Godot. Dev logs coming soon!