"there is no possibility to profile C# applications in Godot anymore" github.com/godotengine/... Now, that's a bit of bad news, to say the least.

I only made turn-based games before. Now, as I'm working on a real-time action, I learned to check if a unit has already been killed before trying to kill it again in the same frame. :) It was a very hard-to-catch bug. I feel like I just discovered the secret of fire.

I'm typing code in Rider, then Win 11 suddenly decides to steal the focus and that's it. And I saw a popup in the bottom-right corner earlier today, advertisign CorelDRAW which I already have and don't use. MS and/or Google really wants me to switch to Linux as main OS.

This makes me super happy: github.com/godotengine/... Thank you @hugo.pro!

I took a very long walk today and I think I have an idea that avoids the need for having to dynamically build a NavigationRegion3D. Perhaps I can use NavigationObstacle3D nodes to control the walkable region. This is a job for future me. I don't envy that guy.

Woot! An actual rpg, based on Mike Singleton's Lords of Midnight! morkin-game.com

TIL: Coming up with a fleeing algorithm for action games isn't as easy as one might think.

This is a game dev account, so I'll be brief. With the vicious assassination of Charlie Kirk, all sides are broken. I wonder what will happen in the UK on the 13th. A meltdown is brewing, and no de-escalation is in sight.

Having just watched Alien Earth ep5, I see the "Did IQs just drop sharply while I was away?" quote in a new context. They did, but that began 150+ years before Ripley's question. It also explains how the Prometheus crew was the best money could buy. Unintentionally pathetic show.

Special video this week as it's Episode 400 ! Of weekly #gamedev and #indiedev videos ! With cameo's, fun bits, and info on doing #YouTube for game developers - worth it or waste of time? -> www.youtube.com/watch?v=lStP...

Unfollowed two people here today. It's sad to see creative minds drift into hatred and madness, but I've tolerated their unacceptable, criminal behavior long enough. Once again, it feels like we're stuck in the blur between parallel worlds, because we clearly aren't seeing the same reality.

I have an idea for salvaging Dragon Riddler. I'll only keep the dragon duel act, and improve + simplify the duel itself. So, now I'm working on 3 projects in parallel? :)

1/2 I still have a very hard time processing and comprehending that there are people who actually, genuinely enjoy Alien Earth. But this explains everything: people have *radically* different values and perspectives, yet we all live on the same planet.

1/3 It's been months since I stopped working on Dragon Riddler (demo is still on Steam, will stay there: store.steampowered.com/app/3654630/...). I'm now working on 2 completely different game projects.

Sometimes, it can be hard and annoying to locate the real source of a C# exception in Godot 4 because of all the extra C# code Godot generates. I'm eager to see what Rider can offer with GDScript refactoring.

Hey, fellow game devs, this could be useful for creating SFX: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGcz...

New idea: a thriller in book form where the protagonist dies at the 75% mark, and the remaining pages are blank. The reader expects the hero to survive because the book isn't over yet, so the sudden ending hits even harder.

According to Angry Joe, Alien Earth is the best TV show. I watched the first episode. It would be interesting to see what Bollywood would do with the Aliens franchise. Because what I saw was just clichéd crap, where the number of hair-raising stupidities per minute is strikingly high.

I figured out why 42 is the Answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything. It's the RNG seed number for the world. It's all procedurally generated.

"Rider’s GDScript support includes ... Find Usages, rename refactorings..." blog.jetbrains.com/dotnet/2025/... Looks like GDScript is back on the menu, boys.

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Colony was an exceptionally promising show. Idiots have cancelled it. The first 3 seasons are still worth watching because of the setting and characters with so much potential. I wonder if AI can finish it one day. www.youtube.com/watch?v=BW8B...

The guy who makes these Star Trek parodies is a genius. A random pick, because all are awesome: www.youtube.com/watch?v=n69x...

"Dream Job", a #lovecraftian #flashfiction #shortstory by me (First posted in 2020 as a text only post elsewhere online, now I've added a street photo of mine as a background.) What's your dream job?

I'm sure this is an excellent presentation, but I really wish for a version that doesn't have this super-annoying and distracting "gremlins constantly type something" in the background: www.youtube.com/watch?v=wo84... Has nobody checked the video before uploading?

Why doesn't Steam include an "Asset-Flip by Tutorial Confession" section alongside its "AI-Generated Content Disclosure"? People complain about low-quality AI content. But where's the same outrage for half-baked asset flips?

Random story trope that annoys me every time: Swearing a blood vow by cutting your own palm with a blade. WTF?! That's one of the worst places to have a small cut.

TIL: when instantiating a #GodotEngine node that has a NavigationRegion, the node's position must be set immediately. Otherwise, the NavigationServer panics as it merges the (temporarily) overlapping regions. It'd still work, but I religiously reject errors and warnings, so I *had* to fix it.

cc @whoisnot.bsky.social

I had to come here

1/3 I was in the middle of a major refactoring when JetBrains Rider suddenly decided to sabotage my Godot 4 game by adding this to the .csproj file:

"At least have some dignity" A great Mgła cover by the always excellent Lykanthrop, a one-man band. Check out his other covers and contributions too. www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyNK... (Mgła is/was one of the few that shows how black metal should be done.)

Using LLM as a coding Sméagol is weird. Mostly, its responses are worthless, other times, inspiring: "I *could* have a non-global, non-omnipresent event hub!", or "Generics! I'm overthinking the task: I could do this easier with generics!" I live in the future.

I'm still unsure why my first two commercial games on Steam failed so miserably. Both are adventures built around word puzzle mechanics, making localization impossible, so I suspect that's the key factor. But what else? store.steampowered.com/developer/Sa...

My week as an indie gamedev 🥲 Monetization-Dilemma Monday Too-Many-Features Tuesday Wishlist Wednesday Thirsty-for-Coverage Thursday Fringe-Interest Friday Screenshot Saturday Sunken-Cost-Fallacy Sunday #indiedev

It's too soon to tell about my projects, but sometimes looping background noise helps coding/designing. These are my inspirations: Dev "soundtrack" for Project 1 looptube.io?videoId=L7Ny... Dev "soundtrack" for Project 2 looptube.io?videoId=08Jf... Your choices when creating?

Spent a week working on Prototype 1. Reached a great milestone. I've now switched to Prototype 2 and working towards its next milestone, so I could resume Prototype 1 in a week or two. So far, this dual focus feels promising, and I can keep shared game components updated in both.

Steam says: "Wishlist reporting has been temporarily paused due to exceptionally high traffic during the Summer Sale. Wishlist reporting (including wishlists collected during the pause period) will be available after the sale has concluded." Servers + bandwidth are too expensive, even for them. ;)

Weird. I can salvage a lot of code from my 12+ months old C# prototypes, so I'm making warp-speed progress w my 2 new game projects. Some old code even have unit tests w proper coverage, and they're all green. I have a bad feeling about this.

working on something new #gamedev #indiedev #horror

They experimented with the ALIEN being translucent. “One should be able to see the skeleton, the blood circulatory system, the organs etc,” Giger wrote in his diary. He later explained the idea was to see Bolaji Badejo writhing like “a spider-thing inside of this half transparent suit”.

What AIs need to win hearts: retro sci-fi flair. In old movies, the "Electronic Brain" crunched data with relay clicks, tape spools, beeps, chirps, flashing lights, and glowing oscilloscope waves. That's what's missing today.

Looks like, as of yesterday, AI is allowed to read anything. Just like a human being -- only it's much faster and more efficient. Calm down: stealing copyrighted stuff (a.k.a. plagiarism) is still verboten. 80.lv/articles/us-...

I'm now working on 2 game prototypes in parallel. (Neither is a word puzzle.) Both w #GodotEngine + C#. I have nothing left to lose at this point. One is a crazy innovative action/puzzle shooter, the other a classic turn-based adventure.

I literally just found out (five minutes ago!) that they have finished shooting Neuromancer by @greatdismal.bsky.social and I can’t wait. This is the book that made me come out of the closet and tell people that I loved science fiction, which was unusual for a 20 yr old girl. It’s still unusual!

Post a ship that's not Star Wars or Star Trek (harder mode: nor Alien)

I'm curious: why do people recommend uploading demos to Itch instead of Steam to start building a community & raise awareness? Itch doesn't help w discoverability either, so is it only about not having to pay $100? What else? #indiedev #gamedev

All of a sudden, OBS has decided to only record pure gray for anything #GodotEngine related (including the editor itself). The solution was to set OBS's "Capture Method" from "Automatic" to "Windows 10 (1903 and up)".

Dragon Riddler incorrectly detects screen size on #SteamDeck. But only the native Linux build! The Windows build is fine. Forcing Proton didn't help. Any ideas? #GodotEngine