In case you missed it- an overview of Desolus from PAX East! www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSpL...

Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in DESOLUS, a 1st person puzzle game. Solve puzzles through the use of black holes, traveling back and forth through time to make architecture whole. Wishlist! store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/... #indiedev @desolus.bsky.social

OUR NEW GAMEPLAY TRAILER! Check out Songs of Glimmerwick, our witch academy RPG where the magic of the world is music! Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/1706510/...

We checked out some people playing Desolus at the recommendation of @valkariye.bsky.social and it was so cool. Single player puzzle with amazing gothic aesthetic. #PAXEast @desolus.bsky.social

We’ve been nominated for best Indie Game at #PAXEast by @maroonersrock.bsky.social!

Desolus is being shown at #PAXEast you should definitely go check it out! We're at booth 20098!

DESOLUS is a stunning first person puzzle exploration game where you explore a city of Gothic architecture between the past and the future. #BIGSpringShowcase

It sucks to see a fellow dev get ripped off like this, but at least the revenge story is very satisfying. Got 'em! Oh and their game DESOLUS has a demo and you can wishlist it to help them out: store.steampowered.com/app/1003460/... #screenshotsaturday

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRWv... Time to tighten up the graphics on level 3

Science: Weather forecasting is a large-scale state-estimation and numerical-simulation problem in which the atmosphere is treated as a high-dimensional, nonlinear, chaotic dynamical system governed by discretized PDEs; heterogeneous, noisy observations... Faith: Groundhog I say the odds are even.

Desolus is featured in #IndieCade! Very happy to be presented alongside all these amazing games! You can check out the Steam event here: store.steampowered.com/sale/indieca...

Excited to share the Battle for Croaker Command update to Sail Forth! 🐸 Help the Croakers in their hour of need ⛵ Sail the brand new Croaker Flagship 🦿 Do battle with giant Tekk Walkers Out now on Steam, Epic, and the consoles! store.steampowered.com/app/1031460/...

Hmmm- definitely a good sound for a monitor to make

It's no longer #Blocktober, but wanted to chip in. Blockout version vs. Final version. #gamedev

Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh yea this is 100% how trees work in real life. (I think it's a shader error). #gamedev

SpeedTree rocks

I was fortunate enough to catch golden hour on the way back to NYC. Took this picture from the train.

This website is fantastic for any type of geometrical calculation you would ever need. I've been using it for years. rechneronline.de/pi/triangle.... #gamedev

Some artistic reference pictures I took for a new area I'm creating in Desolus. It's a historic fort in New Jersey, this place is pretty neat.

Explore Desolus, a first-person puzzle demo where you navigate a Gothic city caught between past and future, solving Escher-like puzzles with black holes to mend time-fractured architecture. Play the demo: playtester.io/desolus #IndieGaming #GameDev #Gaming #IndieDev #IndieGame

Here it is, the supercut of all 40 games from the Seattle Indies community that will be featured at Seattle Indies Expo (SIX) 2025! Go to six.seattleindies.org for more information on the games. Mark your calendars for Sunday August 31st for a chance to play the games at SIX. youtu.be/8pirxbbWRvE

An Inside Look at Indie Game Dev with Ty Taylor of Quantum Astrophysicist Guild The world of indie game development is a unique mix of… https://seattleslice.org/2025/08/20/an-inside-look-at-indie-game-dev-with-ty-taylor-of-quantum-astrophysicist-guild/?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=jetpack_social

Dropping a few of the awesome games you can catch during our Fall Showcase, Aug 29th! 💪 🔸 SacriFire 🔸 As I Began to Dream 🔸 Desolus 🔸 One Way Home ➡️ bit.ly/MIXFALL25

DESOLUS: Jogo de puzzle em primeira pessoa com portais é destaque no Smithsonian #GamerseGames Resolva puzzles temporais em uma cidade gótica com DESOLUS. Demo grátis na Steam (29/05 a 05/06). Criado por ex-dev de Outer Wilds www.gamersegames.com.br/2025/06/02/d...

4Gamer 🔗https://www.4gamer.net/games/911/G091129/20250520010/ 過去と未来に介在しながらゴシック式建築都市の風景を元に戻す。空間パズルゲーム「DESOLUS」を正式アナウンス “だまし絵”で知られる画家マウリッツ・エッシャー氏の作品のようなパズルを解き明かしていく。ゲームプレイは一人称視点で展開する

過去と未来に引き裂かれた都市を復元する一人称視点パズル『DESOLUS』正式発表―エッシャー作品から影響を受けた奇妙な世界

I legit love these types of games that not only incorporate gorgeous scenes but also PUZZLES. The demo is a great, teaching the mechanics along the way while introducing new ones and giving you time to learn. I did try to jump off an edge immediately and was thwarted, so no fear of falling off!

It's Day Two of #CerebralPuzzleShowcase! Looking for a demo suggestion? Check out Desolus (@desolus.bsky.social) and explore a massive city with rich Gothic architecture, torn between time, and find a way save it from its destruction. store.steampowered.com/app/1003460 #indiegames #indiedev

Desolus is now playable on Steam for the very first time as part of the #CerebralPuzzleShowcase! Go download the demo!!

After nearly a decade of development, I am very excited to finally announce Desolus! Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxfV...

Desolus will be playable at #DreamHack #DHDallas May 23-25, as part of the Indie Playground! Explore a city of Gothic architecture torn between past and future in Desolus, a first person puzzle game.

Incredibly thorough article on 2D camera design- highly recommended read #gamedev #indiedev

Haha technically this could be a tensor and not a matrix because you can combine multiple mechanics together not just two

Created a puzzle matrix for Desolus to figure out what combinations of mechanics I'm missing in the game. 10x10 has a lot of potential puzzle combinations! #gamedev #indiedev

Accidentally created an Old Testament Angel by using an FBX exporter which didn't work properly. BE NOT AFRAID #gamedev #indiedev

Really neat video devlog on art design and camera perspective tricks in 2D games! You should check it out. #gamedev #indiedev

Results from today's work. I switched my Render Pipeline to Multiple Render Targets, so I could combine a lot of the passes together. 10% faster render thread -1k draw calls -10m verts/tris This is from code only optimization too, like I haven't touched the meshes at all. #gamedev #indiedev

Put off a rendering problem for 2 1/2 years- unfortunately I am now Future Mark and it is my problem 😭

Evangelion Burger!!

I figured this out by making all mesh renderers have non-negative transforms, taking the worldToLocalMatrix of that non-negative transformed mesh, and then putting the mesh renderers back to their original transforms. This worked fine 😎

Question #gamedev #indiedev I'm working on a culling system which works great, except for scaled objects. The following code eliminates scale from an object's worldToLocalMatrix. It works- except for when scale is negative it completely breaks. How do I factor out scale correctly from a matrix?

Improved my portal frustum culling with some math help by @festivevector.com and @samloeschen.bsky.social ! Will have a DevLog about it sometime soon. #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity

My video tutorial on creating a simple volumetric fog shader in URP is finally out for everyone to watch!🎉 This should be a gentle introduction into volume raymarching and a good starting point for some really cool effects 🌫 Check it out: 👇👇👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=8P33... ☝☝☝ #gamedev #unity3d

New Desolus DevLog Update: My experience with upgrading to Unity 6, as well as changes to my custom Scriptable Render Pipeline! #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity forums.tigsource.com/index.php?to...

Had @festivevector.com play this prototype level in Desolus and he discovered this weird shader bug with my water 😂 You can only see it if you use debug commands to get out of the map, but it's still cool. #gamedev #indiedev #madewithunity #vfx

Desolus is now fully working with Unity 6! Engine upgrade from 2019.4 was a tad tricky, but glad to be on a more modern platform. #gamedev

Interesting video on city design- When I designed the City of Desolus, I had to balance creating a fantasy city beyond anything built in real life, with a design which could be navigated intuitively. This video talks about design challenges with cities. #gamedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWD...

Got Unity 6 up and running, mostly fine, except it looks like my SpeedTree shader is now broken between the upgrade from Unity 2022 LTS to Unity 6. I've been digging through the Unity graphics repo to try to find a solution weeeeeeee. Wonder if any #gamedev #unity3d folks have ideas.

omfg they changed comment syntax between Unity 2019 LTS -> Unity 2022 LTS and I just spent two hours figuring this out. I thought it was some core rendering issue and was digging deep into Unity's code and testing out different plugin versions but no it was the comment 😭😭😭😭😭😭