I've been working a lot on my title screen and I think it's looking great! God rays need some work and I'd like to add a bit more life to it, but overall, very pleased! #Gamedev #IndieDev #SoloDev #Unity3D

It's coming along slowly but steadily. Top is editor view so you can see whats happening. Bottom is game view. I'm still working on the cameras and such to make this cohesive, but you get the idea. Needs easing on everything. Left the [Dev] menu on in the bg. #Unity3d #solodev #Indiedev #gamedev

Sorry for the long absence! My day job has been sucking away my motivation. This contraption is finally in the game though! Still need to finalize the textures and animations, but I'm moving ahead with puzzle logic in the meantime. #Gamedev #Indiedev #Solodev #Unity3D

Still super busy. Slowly making progress on this contraption though. Once I get all the parts in there I'm going to loosen everything up a bit to give it some character. UVing this is going to be ...fun... #Gamedev #Indiedev #Solodev

Work has been insane lately. I haven't had the energy to work on my game much at night. I did finally start modeling the last missing puzzle though. It's incomplete, and needs to be relaxed a bit. Can you guess what this contraption is? #Gamedev #Indiedev #SoloDev

That merchant is a real stickler when it comes to union rules. Best to try and stay on his good side! Character portraits are placeholder. #Gamedev #Indiedev #Gamedevelopment #Solodev #Unity3d

I wish people were more punctual.

I finally added telemetry to Sierra Gold so I can keep track of how often things are done in the game. I'm now tracking basically everything a player can do including how many input taps the player made and how far the character has walked. #gamedev #indiedev

Rear's back on and now the forks are off for service. The intake valves are pretty tight. No wonder it was hard to start the last few rides. Gonna tackle that this weekend. And if you follow me for game dev stuff, I'll be back to that soon! Lot's to share. #motorcycle #moto #blueskymoto

Swingarm has new bearings. All the other linkage components were ok and have been cleaned and repacked. I need to get the rear brake and wheel back on to finish the rear. Next up, the forks are getting new seals and the intake valves are getting adjusted. #blueskymoto #motorcycle #dirtbike #moto

American Father's Day is cool. But German Father's day involves walking through the woods pulling a wagon of beer behind you. When you get back there's bratwurst waiting. Guess which one I like better.

You know you're in for a treat when your swing arm bearings come out as mostly dust. I'm pretty sure these are original. Removing the siezed race was surprisingly easy though. Good soak with WD40, and 2 sockets, with some threaded rod did the job. #motorcycle #blueskymoto #dirtbike #moto

Back from my Germany trip! I ended up doing some dev on a few rainy days and on the plane ride home. Sierra Gold has a new intro now! The entire context of the game changed invalidating the old one. No biggie, I never liked it anyway. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #solodev

Germans know their beer. I really really enjoy it when I'm here. But for my birthday my brother gave me a pack of American beer (Labeled as such) brewed by their local brewery. It's awful Leave the IPAs and stouts to Americans and keep doing what you do best German brewers.

No dev updates because I'm visiting family in Germany. One thing I like to do here is hike to old ruins. My German family members don't understand why I would want to trek through the underbrush to find what is essentially a pile of rubble covered with moss. That's fine because I get me time!

Ziplines! Still needs a ton of work but not too shabby for an hour and a half! #indiedev #gamedev #gamedevelopment

I love my MacBook Pro M3 Max but baking lightmaps is pure misery. Apple makes nice hardware but their graphics chips are simply not up to high stress workloads. My old PC laptop with a 3080 could bake the same scene in less than an hour. The M3 needs all night. #gamedev #indiedev #gamedeveloper

There's an item needing a puzzle in Sierra Gold. It's bothed me for months. I finally figured out what I want to do, but I'm going to Europe for 3 weeks for a family visit and will have no time for game dev. This is going to be burning a hole in my brain. #gamedev #gamedevelopment #indiedev

I love it when I'm given a new internal tool with no explanation or documentation about how to use it. "It should be obvious" No, it isn't. You've been making this for a month so of course it's obvious to you. #gamedev #gamedevelopment

Introduced a hat mechanic. Made several hats including a mining helmet with a light. Got the idea to use that light to navigate at night. Nighttime uses a different mechanic for navigating. Am now redoing that mechanic. This is how games don't get finished... #Indiedev #gamedev #gamedevelopment

Yes, I'm doing hats now. #Gamedev #Indiedev

And that's a riding season (for me anyway)! This bike has exceeded my expectations. Coming from 2 strokes I never expected to enjoy a 450 on trails so much but here we are. Now it's time to strip her down for a suspension rebuild and go through the motor. #moto #motorcycle #dirtbike

I was an artist and designer before I learned how to code. That means whenever I get an idea I usually make the art before writing any code to support it. Smart people say to use primitives until you get it working but I just can't. That means I'm making hats tonight. #gamedev #indiedev

My old Kawasaki ZZR600. I took this picture way back in 2007! No smartphones yet. Who else had a magnetic tank bag with a clear sleeve on top for a paper map? I was on my way to Yosemite and all my clothes were in a backpack I was wearing when I took this. God I loved that bike. #Motorcycle #Moto

I've decided to put substantially more effort into the writing in Sierra Gold. The deeply philosophical topics discussed in this scene drive home the need to challenge the player on a more introspective level. Remember, games can be high art too. #Indiedev #Gamedev #Solodev

Point Reyes

My save system is now slightly less broken. That is all. #Indiedev #gamedev

When I go to make a game, it's always 3D. I don't even think about it that's just what I do. 3D just clicked for me early on. I'm nowhere near the AAA level but I love to do it. Why do you make art in the style you do? How did you get to that point? #gamedev #indiedev

Last month I completely fixed my save system once and for all. Today I am once again fixing my save system once and for all. For real this time. Pinkey promise! #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Shout out to all my fellow devs who see this in their inbox every month. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev

Today I parted ways with my 2000 Jeep Cherokee XJ that I owned for...checks notes...23 years. Many great adventures were had, but her age was really getting up there and I wanted to sell while she still ran great. Buyer got a good deal. Hope he enjoys her! #Jeep #xj #cherokeexj

Anyone doing gamedev on a newer MacBook Air? If so I'd love to hear what you think. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

Unwinding on some local trails after work on Friday. #dirtbike #blueskymoto #kawasaki #motorcycle #moto

Am I the only person who doesn't like Notion? Maybe it's how my team is using it but finding relevant info just sucks. The UI doesn't help. Having to mouse over objects to see if they link to things is awful.

Why yes, lighting strikes were absolutely on my super organized, always up to date, Trello board. I'm a serious, responsible developer after all. I have no time to work on silly, frivolous things that don't add to the story. #Indiedev #Gamedev #Solodev

An FPS game where you're wracked with guilt after killing your first enemy. You put down your weapon and slink off the level to find mental help and meaning in what you did. Cutscenes are of the dead mercs family grieving and wondering how they'll get by with no breadwinner. #gamedev #indiedev

I'm not sure why I find this so funny but I do. #GameDev #IndieDev

Best way to spend a Friday afternoon! It was dry and slippery. I'm hoping we get at least one more storm before the summer starts! #Moto #blueskymoto #motorcycle #off-road #kawasaki #dirtbike

Is this nav marker effect cool or annoying? #Gamedev #Indiedev #Solodev

After watching some people play I realized there wasn't any feedback when trying to go somewhere you can't. So I added a marker that appears where you click. It marks the destination of the agents path. For clicks off the navmesh you only get a "nope" in the dialog box. #Indiedev #solodev #gamedev

While I'm on the topic of project organization, the way my producer at work uses Notion makes me long for JIRA. #gamedev

I keep my project organized with a Trello board like a good dev. I carefully track bugs and new feature ideas in it and even have color coding for priority. But... I haven't checked the thing in months and have been adding features willynilly. Maybe I'll just embrace the mess #gamedev #indiedev

"Your tutorial shouldn't feel like a tutorial" is well and good, but making something that works like that is a hard, time consuming task. There's a reason floating arrows with text boxes exist. And yes, I've played Half-life 2 many times. #gamedev #indiedev

Feeling the burnout creeping in at my day job. I've been working on this title for over two years now and I'm so ready for something else. But no, more features. Have a trip to Germany coming up next month to see family. Hopefully as an American I'm not spit on. :/ Fuck Trump. #Gamdev

Tonight I start the most dreaded of all tasks... The Tutorial! Pray for my soul. #Gamedev #Indiedev #Solodev

I have iterated on water shaders for months now and I'm never happy with them. This one is ok, but a bit too busy and not quite as toony as I want...I think...maybe? Bah... What I don't want is Wind Waker water, or on the other hand, too realistic water. #IndieDev #SoloDev #GameDev

Vaporware is an interesting genre. Having lived through the 80s, it nails the sound of old infomercial/sales pitch/corporate music pretty well. But this stuff wasn't everywhere like some people seem to think it was. To me the 80s sounded like Cyndi Lauper played over Mervyns's shitty intercom.

The GDC talk about the fonts and dialog system for Pentiment was awesome, one of the highlights of the conference for me. I am now thinking a lot harder about the fonts in my game. #gamedev

So as a temporary solution during development, I'm serializing my save data to binary. This isn't a very secure thing to be doing though. I'm wondering what I should switch to. What are you all using? #gamedev #indiedev #solodev

After Sierra Gold launches I'll be using my time to learn more open source tools for my personal work. I'm tired of corps who paywall creativity. Decades ago this was unavoidable, but at least there was competition. Now all the tools have been swallowed by Adobe and Autodesk. #gamedev #indiedev