I'm going through the monster sections of the first edition DnD, I'm enamored with these sketches I absolutely believe that a disheveled wandering adventurer would draw these on a napkin in a tavern to warn others I should use vague sketches from scared villagers in my campaign #DnD #art

18th game, Carrion This game has some excellent movement mechanics, sneaking through vents and swinging around as a mass of meat, teeth and tentacles just feels good The puzzles are a bit basic and I got lost a couple of times, but it was a cathartic time when you get to be the monster

Do you remember Bastion? Because I remember Bastion #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #solodev #godot

I made a python script to take a plane floor tile, and adds gradient, pockmarks and noise to it to make it look less uniform There is something there I feel, but not quite appealing. Making a good visual style is kind of important, but also my weakest skill #gamedev #godot #indiedev

If you have ever wondered what a T-SNE of all sounds in @kenney.nl 's asset pack using VGGish embeddings looks like, here it is The idea is that similar sounds are close together, if you turn sound on, you can hear this Trying to get an auto sorting algo going for all my unsorted #gamedev assets

Been consolidating all of the game assets I've bought on itch/humble and art references saved on pinterest/bluesky/local in a single place, with the intention of tagging them to make search easier I just finished my harvest and I'm rethinking the whole 'manually tag everything' approach #gamedev

There is some political turmoil in the local government of Tiel, a city here in NL So I drew Flipje becoming mayor. He is a Dutch comic book character based in Tiel, who is a walking raspberry boy and mascot of the city #sketch #art

Made 4 versions of 'find random location in a circle' Just doing center + random_length * random_angle biases towards many points close to center, so using donut, normal distribution and bias towards outer radius can help spread randomness out to desired location #code #godot #algorithm #gamedev

17th game, mosa lina Random physics lvl, random tools, one shot, dying makes you go to next lvl First puzzle game I played where the answer to a puzzle can be 'this is impossible with current tools, just jump of the ledge' It is unique, very odd and strangely compelling

Was fine tuning the knockback effect of the kick. Suddenly the enemies start getting kicked in a vertical-then-horizontal kick pattern, and I have no idea how that happened I do love #gamedev, but your problems can be very weird #indiedev #godot

Been working on the shattering of walls. Now the debris: - collides with other objects - falls of the edge - combined, the debris actually constitutes the shape of the wall and starts out in that shape It needs some more oomph to be satisfying, but am happy with progress #gamedev #indiedev #godot

16th, Chants of Sennaar The main loop of translating language through context is amazing and executed really well. Great style as well But the way forward was often unclear for me, leading to lots of backtracking and trial-and-erroring Recommended for those who are in a patient mindset

Refactored some code, now it is possible to kick enemies through multiple panes of glass, which slows their movement down I'm making a kicking game, so the satisfaction of kicking things through and into other things is kind of important #gamedev #indiedev #godot #screenshotsaturday

Porting some math functions I had made for gamemaker to godot. This is for finding the points that a line and a polygon intersect It feels inefficient to just loop through each segment and check if the line intersects with it, still thinking of a more concise way #godot #gamedev #code #algorithm

Those mocap sessions must have been nuts #godofwarlaufey #fanart #sketch #art #godofwar

Working on collision system which relies less on the build-in functions like move_and_slide. As a check to see if it works, walls now explode from player point of impact Kind of like it as is, maybe make a few glass windows for the player to run through in the game #gamedev #godot #indiedev

Not entirely sure what "my style" is, but I like sketching and this is good practice Also, eyepatches are just always stylish, nice design @thatsealartist.bsky.social #art #sketch

15th game: Dorfromantik If you've ever played Carcassonne, this is that, but non-competitive. Its cozy and low stress, but engaging enough to keep you occupied Just feel the peace wash over you as you expand a village landscape as far as the eye can see, ambient bird chirps always in the distance

Busy reworking the collision system, noticed that kicking the enemies now exhibits unusual, get-launched-away behavior Took a while, but turns out, the enemies did not exclude self from collision detection. So this is effectively them trying to get away from themselves #gamedev #indiedev #godot

So, today I learned that one-handed chainsaws are a real thing and not just a weapon from Fallout I'm also happy to report that the skills of hitting Caesar's legion have transferred fairly well against trees and shrubbery IRL

Working on debris for the walls, based on where they are from the impact point (mouse in this case) I'm aiming for making the destruction of walls itself to be fun (add more oomph later). The player should want to walk around and destroy everything #gamedev #indiedev #godot #screenshotsaturday

If you are a gamedev tempted to use LLMs for art because you don't think you are capable, please reconsider I have been there and I promise you, practice and gaining skills feels 100x better than generating stuff It will not take that long before you see improvement, believe in yourself #art #oc

Made a python script to replace a certain color range in a sprite with another color range, while keeping relative hues preserved and leaving colors out of that range alone The idea was automating sprite generation if you want to try different palette swaps #code #gamedev #python

I got this decorative cannon when clearing out my grandfathers house (still alive, just moving to a smaller place) I'm trying to think of ways I can include it in the story of my DnD campaign, considering its current relative size to the player figurines Anti-tarrasque maybe? #DnD

14th game: Tiny Terry's Turbo Trip It can be hard to figure out where a games' creator is from But in this game, there is a draaiorgel, it's set in the town Sprankelwater and there is a thieving child named Jatkleuter My Dutch senses are tingling and you should play this game, it is a fun time

Version 2 of the plague doctor NPC for my next game I'm happy with the art progress I've made the last couple of months. Mentally, it has been very good for me to practice with creating things #gamedev #art #oc #sketch

It chases, it moves around obstacles, it punches, it goes splat, movement is working! I feel more confident in godot now. So time for a completely fresh refactor of the project! #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #godot

Shoelace formula is an algorithm that calculates the surface area of a simple irregular polygon by passing its corner points Useful if you have an irregular area that needs to spawn X of a resource per Y area for example #godot #gamedev #code #algorithm

Read the poppy war trilogy, greatly enjoyed it. The pacing felt a bit fast, but the characters are painfully real Flawed, trusting, betraying and being betrayed. Bad things happen to them and they in turn can't help but do bad things Can be very grimdark, I had to put it down a few times #booksky

Added some more effects to the dialogue box system (rotating portraits, shaking, combining effects) and make it camera position independent Eventually I'll have to replace my own face with V1 of game art that is more representative But that day is not today #gamedev #indiedev #godot

13th game, Existential Treads This one is special. A fast twin-stick, city-builder tower defense game, each element reinforces the other, and it all just works When you work hard to get that defensive line up around a bottleneck, it feels real good. High recommendation for this one

#gameidea I'm thinking of a way to make a score attack game, where you control an augmented battle piano Pressing certain musical keys will activate things like thrusters, weapons and shields I imagine balancing the physics of the piano together with the offensive capabilities #gamedev

Got to get more used to drawing with my tablet, so did a practice with the character I drew a few days ago Happy with how it looks, but boy, is drawing straight lines on a tablet still tough. But that is what practice is for ;-) #art #digitalart #artsky #oc

Got the A* backward propagation to work, still gotta work on the grid size and values, but that requires more play testing once they actually move #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #godot #gamedev

My process for learning godot code has been to make something that works, then to find out if there are native functions that can make the code more concise In this case, Intersection Over Union algo, returns a value between 0 and 1, telling you how much two boxes overlap #godot #code #gamedev

12th game of 2026, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk There is just something special about a game that makes you feel cool when you pull of tricks, with the right mix of being accessible but still being able to screw up Come for the skateboards and jetpacks, stay for the bopping music, this is a stylish delight

There was a brief discussion in my DnD group yesterday about what would happen if you were rude in a maid cafe I think the answer is obvious #art #sketch #oc

Got the Astar forward propagation to work, giving high cost to obstacles and medium cost to spaces around obstacles and chasms Trying to get enemies to give a wide berth, but still take a dangerous route if it is most direct #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Was getting a little frustrated with the out-of-the-box version of astar pathfinding in godot, so I'm making a from-the-grounds-up version myself, helps with visualization So far, I'm able to create a grid and add/update blocking objects like walls and movable boxes #gamedev #godot #indiedev

Version 2 of the character portrait of the knight. Made the pose a bit more dynamic, added damage to the armor It is still early days in the development of my next game, but I'm trying to get the vibes clear in my head, to get the style consistent #ocsky #art #gamedev #art #sketch #indiedev

So, having finally fixed pathfinding so the enemy properly walks around walls and glass, I realize that it doesn't take chasms into account, so enemies just sort of ... walk off I love #gamedev #indiedev #godot #screenshotsaturday

Replacing particles with interactive debris objects when you break glass and walls I always forget to think of scale when I add stuff #gamedev #indiedev #godot

A while ago, I started draw practice in earnest, partly for gamedev/DnD, partly just to create Sometimes it feels like you don't make progress, so remaking old art is a good way to see how far you've come Also, play Dungeons of Hinterberg, it inspired me to take better care of myself #sketch #art

11th game, Unpacked If you are interested in non-traditional ways of telling narrative, check it out! It manages to tell a life story, just by showing where and when someone moves and what they choose to bring It nails the feeling and excitement of moving into a new space, alone or with others

Today is our national holiday, #Kingsday! We sometimes force our monarch to do some public event against his will. Commendably, he plays his role and participates in the silliness The most famous of these activities is the throwing of the toilet bowl. He won that particular event #art #sketch

Working on concept art for the main character of my next game, a knight who lost his arms, so now he just kicks monsters Visual art has always been a weak point of mine, it feels good to practice #gamedev #art #sketch #indiedev

Been working on line of sight, enemies can see through glass, but not through walls, and only start chasing once they have seen the player Got to figure out how to account for rotation of the body when calculating astar paths, so they don't get stuck #screenshotsaturday #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Played my first game of #bloodontheclocktower, this will only make sense to those who have played before Final round, our slayer shot the imp. But the imp survived, because the slayer turned out to unknowingly be the drunk Love it when game mechanics directly support story #sketch #art

Trying to set up a minimal gameplay loop, including attacks by the enemy, a failstate, etc. Definitely in the 'just make it work for now' phase #Godot has been good so far, though relearning how to code certain things I'm used to in gamemaker has been a bit slow #indiedev #gamedev

10th game, Laika: Aged through blood A 2d motorcycle stunt game + hotline miami. I enjoy that recharging powers and reloading guns is done with front and backflips, encouraging risky air maneuvers Also, still being able to break your neck if you angle the bike wrong at the end of a jump is good