Iteration 6 after 10 hours: that's what I get for hastily vibe coding a green shell-like projectile 🤣 #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #quickAndDirty

One more hour to go. Coins are shinier and I added a little effect when collecting them #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

7 hours in: Added some coins! Need to do some lighting and post-processing work to make them pop. Plus collecting them doesn't work yet. But progress! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Another happy abomination modelled and painted by yours truly #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d #3dmodelling #nightmarefuel

Pretty wild to see how far I've come in just a few weeks! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #rapidPrototyping

3 hours in and I got my trees and grass back #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

2 hours in. I really wonder just how performant these decals for the road texture are... They do allow for a lot of creative control which is nice #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Kart racer attempt #6 after 1 hour #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

The AI racers are much better this time around! Seems the main issue was that the AI simply could not see the checkpoints over the uneven terrain. Once I adjusted for this and retrained, the result was much better. Still not perfect, but better! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #machinelearning

Raced against my first AI agent! It definitely still needs some work. It does kinda follow the track but occasionally just drives in circles... I guess I'll need to tweak and retrain... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #machinelearning

So this is a first: training one of Unity's ML Agents to race on my kart racing track. Pretty cool stuff! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Meet Elvis the alien. A humble start to my own animated character but a start nonetheless! Though it looks like he's about to fall off the kart at the end there... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

I finally managed to properly animate my edited mesh! Now I just need to properly paint it and I'll have my first character #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

I finally managed to update the mesh of the animated FBX files! Some of the animations didn't quite survive the round trip through Blender but I'll figure that out. Making progress! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

After 3.5 hours I'm back where I was last time. And yes. I'm going a little crazy with the fresnel effect. Now back to the animations, I guess... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

2 hours in. Looks like I'm honing in on an art style here... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

This is what my kart racer looks like after 10 hours the fourth time around. Still stuck at the animations hence the invisible avatar... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

I managed to finally replace the mesh in the kart with my own but something doesn't look quite right. Can you spot it? #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

I wonder how many of my 10 hours it will take me to figure out how to update the mesh of my animated character model... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #blender

After 3 hours I am back where I was after 10 hours last time I built this #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Attempt 4: Kart racer after 2 hours #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

My fourth go at the kart racer! Let's go! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

10 hours is up! I am basically where I was in my previous post. I spent the last 3-4 hours trying to update the character mesh. I ended up creating this abomination. Clearly I still have a ways to go... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Finally got those trees looking a tiny bit better. Still not great but getting there. Good enough for this iteration. #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Approaching 3 hours and I am almost where I was after 10 hours the last time! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

That fresnel effect is doing a lot of work here #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Alright! Time to build the kart racer again in 10 hours! Here I am after 45 minutes #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

My second time building a kart racer in 10 hours #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

It's starting to look more like Mario Kart! Though I started noticing some frame drops... Will have to keep an eye on that... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Alright, got my decals to look much nicer now and even managed to add a fresnel effect to the terrain. But I couldn't figure out how to make the fresnel configurable yet so I'm stuck with this over the top blue-ish glow for now... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Decided to place the decals for the road texture manually instead of having them placed along the road spline. Looks much better. Next: normal mapping #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

My goal is clear: show some tire treads along the muddy track. Seems like the decal projector could help here. Looks like I need to configure it a bit more 😆 #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Managed to create a nice fade from grass to dirt #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

What took me 10 hours last time took me less than 2 this time! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indieGames

Started my second attempt at building a kart game in 10 hours. Here I am after 1 hour #Unity3d #IndieGameDev #indieGames

Ok this is as far as I got with my kart racer in 10 hours. Time to try building it in 10 hours from scratch again. Let's see how far I can get next time! #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

Took me ages to figure out how to disable the blending of the layers in the terrain editor in URP but I managed! Finally starting to look more cartoony! Still looks awful but at least cartoony awful... #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Added the most basic of roads #Unity3d #IndieDev #IndieGames

Cruising around the hills #IndieGameDev #IndieGames #unity3d

Started with game number 2! Guess what kind of game it'll be ;) #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegame #kartracing

Posted my video about profiling a Unity game for Android! Check it out here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbdN... #unity3d #tutorials #android #indiegame #IndieGameDev

Noticed my game performed horribly on my Android tablet! Did some profiling and found the biggest culprit. Still not a silky 60 fps but a big step closer! Video coming later this week: www.youtube.com/@make100games #IndieGameDev #Unity3d #profiling #performance #Android #indiegame

#Celerium is finally here! Check it out on itch.io for free! make100games.itch.io/game-1-celer... #indiegames #IndieGameDev #unity3d

Hope I'm not too late to the party! For #PitchYaGame I want to introduce Celerium, a fast-paced, futuristic racer. Collect as many coins while racing over an infinite road avoiding obstacles. Free to play on itch.io later this week and on mobile later this year! #IndieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames

Putting the finishing touches on the menus. Shoutout to @jofes.bsky.social for the music. You earned a spot in the credits :) #IndieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

Applying the finishing touches to #Celerium: the menus #indiegames #IndieGameDev #unity3d

Always a good time trying to break your own game #indieGameDev #indiegames #unity3d

Finally got around to adding some sound effects to Celerium. They sound so basic compared to the awesome music 🎵🎸 provided to me by @jofes.bsky.social though 🙈 #indieGameDev #unity3d #indiegames #reaper #noisemaker

Finished a Commission for @make100games.bsky.social ! Making music is so much fun I truly hope I get to do it for a living! #music #indiegame #producer #flstudio

Been playing a bit of Transport Fever 2 lately and thought to myself: you know what this game needs? A Celerium crate! #TransportFever2 #modding