Turns out I've done 20+ game jams now, so you would have hoped I'd learn something from it... youtu.be/90ePeABiaTo

Making a new player model, what do you think?

This is now happening October 24th-31st, hope to see you all there! itch.io/jam/mashup-g...

Got a lot of feedback from my last Railway Life video, there seemed a large amount of people who really wanted shunting. After a gruelling amount of effort to get it working I can admit... ...okay maybe shunting is kinda fun #gamedev

I don't know how to fix this, but it keeps happening.

Animation test for "The Black Knight", an aborted animated feature film project by Genndy Tartakovsky (2019). The story of a 20 feet high Knight Armor controlled by a knight inside using ropes, pulleys, and levers. The setting is around the 14th century. instagram.com/p/DPEqSjkCXyd/

I'm hosting another game jam, it's the 5th edition!! #gamejam #gamedev youtu.be/v6449Eze4h4

Trying to make the train controls a bit more fluid and reactive to drag + slopes. Decided to give the UI a bit of a facelift too. It's going to take me a long time to get it right, but it's a start!

I actually worked on a game past the jam for once, CRAZY youtu.be/LTTGd1am9v8

Added ZOOOOOM! #indiegames #gamemaker #rpg #gamedev

Squirtle’s beach day! ☀️🏖️ #art #pokemon #pokemonart #pokemonfanart

Somehow managed to get my game in to the #GMTKJam this year, where your actions are controlled through a looping timeline track. Lots of issues but pretty proud of it at least as a proof-of-concept mashupgames.itch.io/jumpbeat

Definitely need to consider whether I want to put up with Unity for gamejams in the future. With short deadlines I can't deal with having to wait 1+ minutes every time I enter play mode or make a small change to a script...

Got the main gameplay feature down, super happy with it so far! Next is some actual levels/enemies #GMTKJam #gmtk #gamejam

they should make some Pokemon cards that look like this

FINALLY talking about what the gameplay is for Railway Life! youtu.be/4zzFDp4MhQ8

Does this count as me featuring on the channel @talyllyn.co.uk ?

New video in the works, hopefully will be up next week if everything stays on track!

Take the picture again I think I blinked

please tell me you all see a face too and that it's not just me

There's finally some actual gameplay! #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

Build Up (2024) #art

In a world where physical media is becoming less common and more valuable, it's really disheartening to see Nintendo double-down on the digital-only market and reduce physical copies of their games to cartridge-shaped download keys

Was planning on uploading a new video today talking about why I've decided to remove trains from my game Railway Life, but thought it wrong to announce that on a day where people may think it's a joke...

I've made my game look pretty! youtu.be/hwtE0U46bM0

New video is in the works behold PenguinHD

WIP of the first station/location to have some art put into it. Hoping to do this more as I build up the world! #gamedev #indiedev #RailwayLife

Created a debug freefly camera so I could get cool shots for videos and...well it's just so good I may need to convert it into an in-game photo mode (whoops)

Cancelled my Premiere subscription today. One attempt at using DaVinci Resolve and I realised it has everything I need for videos but without the crappy subscription service

Added a debug menu so things will be much quicker to test down the line, but for now I'm just using it to make the player move super fast...so yeah it was worth it

I wanted to do my own take on what Banjo could look like in a remaster! Keeping the angular feel of the 3D model and adding more details! #banjokazooie #fanart

Got a DVD player recently partly so I could have a way of watching Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood as it wasn't on any streaming services... Netflix just added it back to their catalogue. WHY DID YOU REMOVE IT IN THE FIRST PLACE?!

Ok, 2025 resolution is to post more Railway Life videos than 2024! Which, considering I only made 3 in 2024, shouldn't be too hard to do 😂

No way!!! 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

New Railway Life video! Finally managed to get another one out before the end of 2024 (barely) youtu.be/V7rFs53PwJs

TOMORROW!!

Mark my words, I WILL get the next video out on Friday. Wait, I forgot a word. I WILL ~try~ get the next video out on Friday.

It's been so cool watching the development of this game, as the crrator grew and evolved and adjusted its shape into this beautiful, unique, and instantly exciting game. Can't wait to see how things continue. youtu.be/qwD6-l3D2HQ

Love spending ages setting up lighting and greenscreen, recording for an hour, even having to finish the video with my phone because my camera died, and then to find out I lit my green screen so badly that I can't key it out 😭

If you see this, post a vehicle 🚂

Here's a clip I got from back in May when I experimented with track "physics" and shunting. Whilst the clip looks good, it didn't work most the time :( will need to revisit later at some point

Deactivated my Twitter account yesterday and weirdly not regretting it, here's my home now 💙

I'm going to post some old stuff first I guess...

A little train ride 🚂

📌 Hey there, I'm Ollie :D I'm a UK game developer currently working on Railway Life: a slice-of-life exploration game where you travel around an island on the forgotten railways, with your own steam engine 🚂

Alright, time to start a new Railway Life video 🚂

Hello to all the new followers and people joining! Hope we can keep the activity here now that Twitter has imploded even further. Here's one of my favorite #pixelart landscape pieces I've done

Wait this place is actually kind of active now 😯

Hey Bluesky, we're happy to be here, so good to see you all!⛅ This is the game we're currently working on - The Knightling! Coming to PC and consoles in 2025😎✨🛡 #gamedev #hibluesky

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