P O R T A L S #indiedev #gamedev

It's so draining and embarrassing being part of the video game industry Some of us are *really* trying to do good work, and it just feels completely, constantly overshadowed by fucking idiots doing what they describe as "business" Honestly just don't even like saying I'm part of *this* anymore

Is a seagull game with a french fry health bar too subtle #indiedev #gamedev

I'm enjoying this (looking to a smaller-scope commercial project!) and wondering where to take it. Any ideas? #indiedev #gamedev #brainstorm

teChnOLoGy rEvOLuTiOn

I started playing Starfox and decided to revisit a prototype I had laying around #indiedev #gamedev #birbs

I made a thing. tombasche.itch.io/museum-k22c #indiedev #gamedev #horror #NoAI

Ich freu mich schon voll, wenn GTA6 endlich rauskommt, dann redet endlich keiner mehr drüber

Adding some lovely posters from JPL to this museum. These are really nice www.jpl.nasa.gov/galleries/vi... #space #nasa #NoAI

Just wow. I Googled to see if 18th century artist Henry Fuseli had ever painted Orpheus and Eurydice, and AI overview said: "It appears you may be blending the tragic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice with the distinct, spiraling noodle known as fusilli"

Here's for adding little features that might give people a little fright if they notice them #indiedev #gamedev #horrorgames

This pinball game has such unique charm. Runs great on Steam Deck too.

My silly game is at its lowest price yet - just over a buck. Runs great on Steam Deck (and even Mac!) store.steampowered.com/app/3684910/... #indiegames #pinball #steam #steamdeck

Adding some juice to the "correct guess" feedback #indiedev #gamedev

Don't let anyone tell you what is and isn't fun. For example, I seem to have enjoyed making alien variants of critters for this game jam entry. #indiedev #gamedev

I mean c'mon let's be real

Are you kidding me Google #enshittification

This terrifies me, until remembering that many of those games in NextFest will be forgotten 10 minutes after opening (if they open at all), are low effort shovelware, AI slop or asset flips while the others will have cultural relevance for many years after and probably some insane fanbase still

Making a creepy museum for this game jam If I get time, definitely doing my own voice acting 😆 #indiedev #gamedev

Summer has begun #finland

Someone actually crunched the numbers, and using GenAI can decrease reviews for indie game on Steam (a useful proxy stat for sales) by as much as *58%* 🤖

Fun quirk with layout groups and UI in Unity - all I do is animate the position of a game object (the notebook) which has dropdowns as children, and for some reason they have a subtle bounce when the parent moves. I think I'll keep it. #indiedev #gamedev #unity3d

Entered a game jam - in an old museum put together by a rich eccentric, it's up to you to piece together the food chain of an alien planet in order to save humanity! That's a sentence. #indiedev #gamedev

Adding some squish and stretch to things - procedural animation is fun! #indiedev #gamedev #godot

I've been gradually replacing my checkerboard placeholders with real rocks. See, by having VERY visible placeholders I get a nice indicator of progress. #indiedev #gamedev #godot #noai

I made this tool for a class to help showcase different 'juice' techniques you can add to a game to improve game feel. The tool lets you turn on and off each juice and see in real time how adding feedback can make even simple actions in games fun. prunefriend.itch.io/an-ode-to-ju...

I really REALLY want to support @debugmag.com but I have no idea what’s going on there. Haven’t received an issue since February and their support seems to have vanished. I am contemplating cancelling it and asking for money back and it makes me genuinely sad

Wow! ✨ 7️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ ✨

A great read and a reminder on why we do this #indiedev #gamedev illomens.itch.io/no-one-is-go...

Ooh a bunch of new followers 👋 I’m Tom and I made a pinball game and currently thrashing through prototypes and projects to find the one that sticks 😄 Been making something the last 4 months but the scope is making me push it into the background in favour of something smaller! #indiedev #gamedev

First major design / prototyping hurdle - it's REALLY hard to judge distance and position in 3D 😆 #indiedev #gamedev

What's more fun than making your bed #indiedev #gamedev #3d #cozygames

Spent some time today prototyping a nice relaxing point-and-click tidy game. What would that look like? Sidenote: juggling two projects now - thankfully this one is significantly smaller in scope 😀🤠 #indiedev #gamedev #3d #cozygames

Took some time this morning to do some visual tests for a side-idea I had where you tidy a bedroom (similar to something like 'Unpacking') I wonder if people would play that. I know I would, I loved Unpacking 😆 #indiedev #gamedev #godot #cozygames

Added some strafe / z-targeting type controls for the vacuuming. It definitely feels more weighty and impactful when you take a chunk off the movement speed and add a bunch of damping #indiedev #gamedev #godot #3d

Volcanic C U B E ✨ #blender #3d

Creating an igneous rock texture and I've summoned Angine de Poitrine #indiedev #blender #3d

The Cost of AI alextardif.com/AI.html

Someone recently told me Godot is "the better engine" (whatever that really means) because it interfaces better with Claude. urgh

Subtle tweak to the vegetation shaders - capping the FPS to give it a kind of claymation / diorama look #indiedev #gamedev #godot #shaders

Just hanging out with my coral #indiedev #gamedev #godot #3d

G'day to new followers! I'm making this underwater game about a drone rehabilitating a coral reef by placing habitats and recycling all the junk. A lot of greyboxing and placeholder stuff but the guts are coming along nicely! #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Spending some time locked in a room working on this #indiedev #gamedev #godot #3d

My favourite feature of Turbosquid is the "free" filter sometimes lets a few paid assets in. Is it a simulation of a leaky tap or something

Some sound design this morning - threw together some synths in Logic Pro for the music and the SFX via the wonderful jsfxr (sfxr.me) #indiedev #gamedev #godot #indiegames

Seems like the most optimal way to process ocean garbage #indiedev #gamedev #godot #3d

Plink plonk plunk (damn these physics are annoying to get right) #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Hopefully there's nothing really addictive about a cute (work in progress) plinko game getting in the way of your ocean cleanup and reef habilitation #indiedev #gamedev #godot

Bit more of the core loop done - see if you can spot the bug(s) #indiedev #gamedev #godot #3d