I sense another wave of newbies! If you're looking for cool game devs & artists to follow, I made a starter pack a while back! There are so mamy great people to follow on here. go.bsky.app/GQLCxzc

Saw plenty of new followers so welcome and hi everyone ! I'm Purple Sea and I'm currently working on a mod for the Pokemon TCG game on gameboy [email protected] New cards, QoL, and a collab of 100+ artists for every cards art ! I also do streams sometimes, don't forget to check it out

i can see there's a twitter migration just from the amount of notifications for new followers I got at once lol

Starting stream soon! Come for the whiteboard catch up on castagne's design lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3s8...

We finally have a release date... DEMON TIDES IS LAUNCHING ON STEAM FEBRUARY 19TH, 2026! This is the hardest we've ever cooked and we can't wait for y'all to dive in! Check out the spanking new trailer!

Castagne dev stream: Variables Let's go, this time I actually slept before lol www.youtube.com/watch?v=aprI...

Programmed the compiler lol, it works

Streaming Castagne dev again: this time, the compiler ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSkv...

Castagne dev stream since it was requested youtube.com/live/wEmolGK...

Castagne for Godot 4 dev starts TODAY! Still on the setup and writing the design in full

Est-ce que qqun sait si il y a des aides pour les docteurs-entrepreneurs en France encore ? Tous les résultats que je trouve c'est soit pour les étudiants en général, soit pour RECRUTER des docteurs (et ces aides ont l'air de disparaître)

As of today you can pre-order "Designing the User Experience of Game Development Tools, second edition" from @davidlightbown.bsky.social! It is the only physical book about Tool Design out there, and David is a master of workflows! www.routledge.com/Designing-th...

mecha doodle for fun was working on racing prototypes and felt inspired

I wrote a short writeup on miscellaneous game release gotchas & pitfalls... enjoy! blendogames.com/news/post/20...

rkgk potential character design for molten winds (merchant)

Castagne v0.57 release! It's the LAST GODOT 3 VERSION. I will be focusing on the Godot 4 one, which has a lot of indepth rewrites. v0.57 adds menus, input rebinding, battle flow, and AI opponents. You can make complete builds to bring to events! Also made a VIDEO! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNHq...

Hi everyone! My queer visual novel / fighting game, Heatwave, is now available on Steam, and the Itch version has received the 1.0 update! Have fun! store.steampowered.com/app/2980420/...

Today is the release of the first commercial game made with Castagne: Parable Academy by @snuffysam.bsky.social ! It's a 3v3 tag fighter with simple controls where you play as pop culture icons such as Alice or Gatzby! (I'm not involved with the project) store.steampowered.com/app/3626300/...

Heyo! Quick peek at what I've been working on recently: an automatic video editor! This will allow me to show how my projects evolve, castagne tutorials and changelogs, and rendering videos! The editing time has always been an issue before, but this should fix that.

why is he wearing that

We've got super moves! #gamedev #indiedev #fgc

Realized it's been so long since I posted anything on Molten because dev goes too fast now, I got like 5 playable characters I also upgraded the prototype sprites with COLOR so they can stay up for a while! It will allow iterating on the gameplay a lot more #fgc #moltenwinds #gamedev

Learning Godot 4 now

I sorted my draft and found not one, but TWO watercolor rendering articles that are fairly complete ONE OF THEM IS A TECH REPORT IN LATEX not publishing anytime soon tho lol

New blog site (with RSS!), and UPDATE ON MESH CONTOURS! I've rewrote that whole part of my star blog article on how to render lines for games, by adding my own PhD work that makes it now possible in realtime! Read it AGAIN! panthavma.com/articles/lin...

peak computer graphics incoming

I know I should wait for my tech to be more stable, to get more experience, finish some other things before I go back to Kronian but like... I gotta do it sometimes That prototyping pipeline was so good I had to implement it there too, with seamless switching to sprites

Didn't want to show anything off until it was real enough. Fraud Fight begins. Made using the Castagne Engine by @panthavma.bsky.social (Seriously, check out Castagne if you're at all interested in fighting game dev.) #gamedev #fgc

How to make a Castagne move... FAST? WORLD RECORD SPEEDRUN: CASTAGNE ATTACK MOVE IN 5:34.01 (ANY%) With a long breakdown of every moving part! youtu.be/2U_Ai072u8g

Castagne v0.56.02 released on main + unstable (cl next post), mainly bugfixes ALSO THE CASTAGNE SURVEY 2025 IS NOW OPEN ! PLEASE ANSWER AND SHARE ! (~10 minutes) forms.gle/aM6RGZYpoFJd...

AI can't handle my glitched move #moltenwinds

I'm gonna start playing with the system mechanics, so it's good to get to know the debug UI so you know what's going on! The main mechanic of MW is its leveling system, so the maximum HP and MP change during the match! You can see the difference between lvl 1 and 10 here.

What I like about Molten Winds is the restraint of the design - I only have two buttons so attack slots are limited, making for a more focused, pure and simple game. Anyway here's a 7 attack rekka that takes only one slot and needs a resource to activate. #moltenwinds #gamedev #fgc

Late night addition... characters now drop their weapon on death. No real reason, I just thought it would be funny / cool. Everybody has a unique weapon of sorts, so it's universal.

The fun part of making some moves easier is that you can find stupid combos Anyway another character added to the prototype, the speed of iteration allowed me to find the fun in a few days even though I was stuck in how he would play! Highly speed focused as you can tell. #moltenwinds #fgc #gamedev

It's incredible to have the complete regular moveset in two days dang, and this guy has like twice the moves of others! Yesterday's combo with actual mechanics, you can only use it at level 8 as an anchor but it's a strong fullscreen confirm! I'll show individual moves later. #moltenwinds #gamedev

So uh new workflow is pretty efficient... 19 attacks in one day lmao, that's half his moveset! Including his custom mechanics! All playable! Returning characters end up a lot saucier than I expected, Aster's gonna be a menace at high levels #moltenwinds

Added a fast workflow to takes simple krita layers, fills up the transparency, and automatically makes them into Castagne spritesheets and imports them into the engine! Should help quickly prototype character ideas

Castagne v0.56.01 release ! (unstable branch) Adds AI mostly, which is cool #castagne #fgc

Castagne now has a real AI system! It's gonna stay simple / manual for a while, but you can randomize strings and react to distances / blocking. See it in action here! It's doing a string on block and combo on hit! #castagne #fgc

That's one character almost done, it's time to prepare for the next one... still iterating a bit on that design #moltenwinds #fgc

Castagne v0.56! Now you can make your fighting game, with less bugs! And more ease of use. castagneengine.com/changelogs/v...

Wind is now on all anims! Here's another combo to show it Also showing the other options after the knee strike. Character has a pretty complete moveset now, will have to choose between taking a break from it or adding the rest #moltenwinds #fgc

Still WIP, but the moveset is now rounded out! Recapture into a knockdown and 2 OTG hits for good measure! Still have to polish and put the wind in, but it's got some good flow! #moltenwinds #fgc

Finally added wind to a more complex attack, Ourania's 8M. Good for ending blockstrings and combos. The dynamic wind affects mostly the end which is a sustainable way to add it. + bonus combo because I really like the OTG even if it has no wind lol #moltenwinds #fgc

Now that I've got basic animations WITH wind, it's unreal how smooth it feels. You immediately notice when it's missing. Gonna be a strain on animation time, but I think it will be worth it in the end! #moltenwinds #fgc

More Voxel VFX progress, I feel it's working quite well now! I think I'll validate this direction Also featuring a unique combo now that the cancels are properly implemented but not the knockdown yet lol

Btw this is what it oooks like with a bit of iteration I think the idea is quite valid, so once I finish a couple of them I can lock in the character and VFX art direction and improve it over time. Voxel based effects were a good call.

Playing with some Voxel VFX and afterimages, starting to get a fairly interesting library of VFX Still got a few before I can truly validate all of it

CASTAGNE UPDATE v0.55.06 (unstable branch) Now featuring the correct build uploaded