Wish I'd taken the time to figure out @oskarstalberg.bsky.social's dual grid concept earlier. It simplifies everything so much while also enabling nicer tile shapes. In short: instead of designing tiles, design the boundary slices between them.

@oskarstalberg.bsky.social’s excellent presentation on efficient and flexible tile-based procedural generation: #gamedev #gamedesign

A tiger shelf I made for my daughter's drawing table

My prototype tactical dungeon-crawler card game is now available to play at foldedfox.itch.io/delvetoodeep.... It's free, so there's no excuse to not try it out! #gamedev #indiegame #videogame

One of my favourite riddles: why does a mirror flip right and left, but not up and down?

A birthday present for my brother

How to build #PCG for games and games for PGC? Oskar Stålberg (@oskarstalberg.bsky.social) the dev behind BadNorth and Townscaper shares insights on building systems with Procedural Content Generation. Watch his 2023 talk: youtu.be/NpfoRAzfGDg More about us: school.gameaibook.org

I made a cute lil' mailbox for our new home

10 games that influenced me as a dev #GameChallenge #Games #GameDev #PromoSky --- Day 8. Bad North Art by the very fantastic @oskarstalberg.bsky.social. To me this game has the perfect scope for an indie game. If I can make a game half as good I'd be so happy!

It's pretty cool that you can play a demo version of Townscaper in the browser at @oskarstalberg.bsky.social 's website. I own the game thrice (Steam, mobile, Switch), but definitely will share this with friends for them to try! oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper

To file under "minor indulgence" (No, don't look at my build log!) the Townscaper browser demo, oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper/ , by @oskarstalberg.bsky.social . Here's something I whipped up just now, trying to make good use of both the space I'm given and the lighting slider.

Gonna take a break from game dev to do some renovations in our new home. Here's a rough first sketch for the entrance hall. I've not done much physical painting before, and definitely nothing near this scale. Gonna be a fun steep learning curve

Great to see you can play a free version of @oskarstalberg.bsky.social Townscaper in a browser - show us your best creations - full version on Steam oskarstalberg.com/Townscaper

A greeting card my mom requested for whatever weird functions they attend now that they're retired

Hey folks, I’ve put together a quick and incomplete list of some of the people I like (and some I love) from the Golden Age of Indie Dev™ on Twitter (RIP). I’ll continue to work on it, but it's a start. go.bsky.app/98Vcxfm

In Bad North I wrote an AI system that was really nice to work with, but not very performant. It essentially mimmicked Unity's hierarchy: Each state could have a parent and children, and each state had an OnEnable, OnUpdate, and OnDisable delegate that anything could add to.

Made some octahedral impostors for these trees. Might seem like overkill for such a stylized look, but they're a lot more stable when rotating the camera than all other billboard solutions I've tried, which is kinda important. Also: Sweet, bluesky can do gifs now!

implemented corner tiling from a tutorial by @oskarstalberg.bsky.social and can't believe how well it worked :o before/after: