Pondering doable personal game projects in the short-term. Found a neat, albeit slightly jank parkour movement system. "Parkour your way up to your apartment window in a dystopian hellscape city because you accidentally locked yourself out" comes to mind.

I should prolly make some signage + ads

[SteelFront] AMDEC logistics yard.

Attempt at improved + more optimized texture work

Me on nights and weekends: *devotes all my time to practice and follow tutorials to get a proper grip on the fundamentals of texturing and materials* Me doing actual work: chrim sheat

Who’d play a game about waking up in an unfamiliar aircraft cockpit with vague orders and then trying to figure out what tf all the buttons and switches and knobs do

The most powerful weapon on Inari

[SteelFront] Ground battle (I think we need to take a look at better audio layering if anyone's got any good resources on that)

Movie you've watched more than six times using GIFs (hard mode: no Star Wars, Star Trek or LOTR)

While SteelFront started as a quick project for us to test the waters, there's a part of me that wants to take it - or at least a successor project from the IP - and turn it into Our Own Ravenfield with Blackjack and Hookers.

[SteelFront] Mockup for weapon info panels on unit selection cards. May add more detailed stats / in-universe specs to supplement the fluff text.

[Ravenfield - Official SteelFront Mod] Assaulting the Waterworks in the Shuguang Dreg Strip. ADF grunts don't call it the "Murder-Maze" for nothing. (Detail pass on the map ported into Ravenfield; alas, didn't have time to make enterable buildings)

I can complain about my financial situation or how politics I been trying to brush aside are knocking at my door all day but the grocery store was giving out beef bones for super cheap so I used them to make broth for a delicious pot of beef barley soup so at least I got that

Funny how gen ayy—aye shills will brag about how superior their tech is til the cows come home, but throw a bitchfit when you tell them to disclose its usage in a product people have to pay for.

SteelFront is our own take on the BattleSim genre, with lite strategy elements, an original retro-scifi setting, and massive battles. Our 3-person team is still working to overcome some technical hurdles as we push on toward Early Access, with a demo available til then. #screenshotsaturday

Was asked to make it video-ready, so added more detail and some redesigns for Ravenfield. Had to can the baked lighting but some postprocessing seems to do the ticket to make it look less bland.

Some of what we got in the pipe:

New year, new SteelFront stuff on the horizon, including new maps, placement preset saving/loading, and a basic command system as we claw our way toward Early Access. store.steampowered.com/news/app/369...

I'm excited I been able to land some voice roles but man I really gotta get a proper demo reel together at this rate.

Decided to just go ahead and make a pack out of some old environment props I've had lying around. Question to devs out there, though; do you prefer materials to all be separated out (ex roof, walls, trim, doors on a house), or baked down into individual textures for every prop?

Plonked the SteelFront slums map into Ravenfield for shits and giggles (doesn't mesh quite as well from a texture and detail density standpoint tho, also still trying to figure out what's wrong with baked lighting in RF making everything way murkier)

After futzing with the UVs for a bit ngl not nearly as time-consuming as I was expecting

"Whatever. Go, my Cube Project."

In case there's any Ravenfield mapmakers out there, what was the trick to making baked lighting work in Ravenfield? Main thing is making sure large cast shadows (from buildings n such) are baked in so they appear at distance w/o having to manually paint them.

In trying to get more serious about learning game + level design fundamentals, one of the biggest takeaways I've gotten is that, at its core, it's about learning to write your own rulebook.

Would anyone be in the market for a pack of assorted environment assets? They all need a bit of cleanup and some textures redone but I got a whole bunch of props and buildings lying around and I'm wondering if I could package them up and sell them in packs.

Been messing around with an orbital framework in Unity and wondering about a game that's just the cinematic sequence I ultimately made this into. Like 1979 Lunar Lander but 3D and you're getting shot at.

Noticed I tend to be very consistent when it comes to spacecraft design

Used this as an excuse to try drawing with pen only for the first time in maybe ever. The answer is “not much”

"the average consumer doesn't care how their entertainment product was made as long as it's good, only artists care" Multiple older family acquaintances qualifying as average consumers with no interest in art seeing that I use 3D software: "EEEW that's not that horrible AI shit is it? I HATE that!"

I don't fancy myself much of an animator but I'm still quite pleased with how this turned out

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Would anyone be in the market for a pack of assorted environment assets? They all need a bit of cleanup and some textures redone but I got a whole bunch of props and buildings lying around and I'm wondering if I could package them up and sell them in packs.

Merry Christmas! My gift for everyone is a Unity package containing everything I've made for Ravenfield Vanilla+ so far. Messily organized and includes some fairly subpar asset work, but feel free to use this as you see fit (apart from just reselling). drive.google.com/file/d/1eFQy...

It's not a great time for artists. So on the upside, it's a good thing I can't call myself an artist while keeping a straight face.

How do folks usually go about distributing .blend files publicly? Gdrive or Mega or somesuch?

Negotiated 3/4 of my month’s pay away with a major client cos I only accounted for one form of labor I did and didn’t correct him when he only counted two deliverables 🙃

Some kind of procedural tool and/or set of prefabs to bash together would prolly be a better choice for this sort of thing, especially the shanties, but I'm just the right combination of inept, shortsighted, and patient to have completely overlooked it.

Doohickeys

hefty lad for @granvir.bsky.social

Hole.

I cannot keep a fire going to save my life without my precious cardboard scraps. I am unfit to survive the Final Winter.

Maybe I can use this opportunity to finally make some decent progress on personal work, actually

Some monetary concerns of mine were realized this month, so I am going to look into opening commissions and other opportunities for side work. Will start advertising more flashily depending on how things go.

🎁

If we're calling every co-op game "friendslop" these days, does that mean every pvp game is "foeslop"?

[SteelFront] wippage I'm chipping away at whenever I can get a break from youtube mod stuff

I dreamt of a place you find if you wander deep enough into the woods, and more importantly, the long trek back from it. If any dogs or pack animals you brought in start staring at you with piercing and hungry eyes, put them down at once, lest something else follow you out.

So I gotta be at everyone's beck and call 24/7 and respond immediately or else I'm the asshole, but as soon as I need anything from anyone or need an answer quickly I get to pound sand. Great and cool!