Started working on a new small game for web plarforms. This time it's going to a be a puzzle slider gameplay with retention mechanics around it - progression gallery, decorations as rewards for certain milestones, etc. Maybe some leaderboards. #indiedev #gamedev

🥳 Year recap. Worked on JICE: new meshes, weapons, an NPC robot, dialogues, started level design for level 2. Released a web game and even earned some (small) money from ads. Next year’s goal: 2 web games and.. a bit more money? 😆 Happy new years! #indiedev #gamedev

The small web game I've been making recently is now on itch! Can kill a few minutes of your time if you like swinging swords at stuff. #indiedev #gamedev sunnray.itch.io/nervewrought

Working on a small web game; couldn't figure out what was causing it to not connect to an extension. Turns out, GameMaker's latest update wipes a part of index.html - with important data from the extension. At least, it wasn't just me being stupid 😆 #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Dreaming of finishing games #indiedev #gamedev

Sometimes it does feel like this 😆 #indiedev #gamedev

Something of an atrium in the middle of an office area. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Did some progress on the next part of the Depot. This area is going to be a bit less spacious than the previous one. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Just a cover I made for my side game project. #gamedev #indiedev

Just jumping around Spaceport, collecting energy. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Changed lighting in this part - added LED lamps where the light is supposed to be coming from and fiddled with global illumination a bit more. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Polished the side project a bit more. Added sounds, fixed some ui things, added a movement sprite for the sword, made the enemies fade out on death. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Moved to version 5.6 of UE, had to adapt to some changes like the enhanced input system getting rid of some things. Still, there were also some changes to global illumination, which fixed a few details for me. #indiedev #gamedev

Will add a bit more lighting, but for now finished with this section of the Depot level. #indiedev #gamedev

also - and I know it's not gamedev-related, but - the new deftones album is sooo good, and on par with their latest work 🐍

Did some more level design this week. Found out that the tutorial tvs broke at some point, while I was improving the interactions system. But if I don't tell anyone that these screens are supposed to show text, nobody is gonna know.. Oh. #indiedev #gamedev

A bit more design of the second part of the Depot level, now with lighting. Needs additional jellies.. #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Ditched baked lighting, trying lumen now. Surprisingly, it doesn't seem like it takes up that much more performance compared to the previous setup - with a few tricks for optimization, at least. #indiedev #gamedev #ue

Not much to show, because I've been fighting with baked lighting again.. Thinking of turning to the dark side (using global illumination). #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

A little side project - a game I've started during a game jam and decided to work on it a bit more. It is kind of a survivors-like, but every upgrade you pick up is a choice between two. And whatever you don't choose upgrades your enemies instead 👽 #gamedev #indiedev

Spent some time to fix metal containers' UVs. Here are before and afters. Gives the scenes a bit more cleaner look! #indiedev #gamedev

Some more level design of the Depot level. Spreading the rubble, moving the boxes around, putting some lights up. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Setting up the storage environment, with a cake as a centerpiece for one of the rooms. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

“You’re making a game? That’s so fun!” The fun: #indiedev #solodev #gamedev

More splines usage - this time to create a big room with walls and columns around it. Split it into ceiling/floor and walls for convenience. #indiedev #gamedev

Jumping around the hallway! #indiedev #gamedev

Adding some rubble, cookies and cakes to the corridor. All of the most important items of any space factory. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Doing more work on the corridor. Merging splines into meshes, fixing wall placements, setting up lighting. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

Taking a brief break from working on JICE to walk outside, touch some grass, all that stuff. Here are some cool old pics though! #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Depot entrance corridor coming up nicely! #indiedev #gamedev #ue

Delved deeper into spline usage and came up with this hallway spawner. It places any number of objects along the line (here I have floors, walls and wall supports on both sides). Allows for some faster corridor creation! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

A fun little effect for flowing coffee. It uses 2 types of particles - a mesh for small bits and a sprite for liquid. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Added lines for the character for the second level of the game 🤖 #indiedev #gamedev

Watch out! Too late.. It's always fun when enemies can deal friendly fire to each other. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Some clean up. These are graphs for one of the master materials used in the game, before and after. Added some functionality and finally made use of the named reroute nodes to get rid of all those noodles. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Made some bread piles for robots to throw their cooked toasts in! #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

Set up animations, effects and attack logic for the new enemy. This one attacks by opening its lid and pouring out the coffee around it. Potentially highly inconvenient in tight corridors. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Made a model for another enemy robot. This one is supposed to resemble a french press, but still look similar to the Toaster. They work in the same company but on different floors. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Made it so any mesh can now become a throwable. Here I am throwing a cookie and a trashcan 👻 #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

Throwing cake at a robot 🤖 aka another type of weapon - pieces of environment scattered around level that can be picked up and launched at things. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Added sounds to the wire movements and a short time dilation window when the grabbed robot is close to player. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Wire now can grab enemies, to make it easier to shoot them up close! #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Progress on the new weapon - wire-whip! Decided on the middle ground between making it a full physics-based effect and a mesh. Like it so far, but there are still some other quirks left to flesh out. #indiedev

Hi 🤖 I'm a solo-dev working on JICE - a first person action platformer, set in a ruined candy factory. The game is currently in development, but you can follow the devlog here or at gamejolt.com/games/jice/7...! #indiedev #gamedev #scifi