My work season picked up real quick all at once. I make promotional graphics for some clients, race car stuff mainly. It's insane to me that I actually survive on this. Good to remind myself of that while I'm dreading that I can't play/make games all day for a while lol.

'If I could only listen to my heart' by Bruce Lee Band has been stuck in my head for at least 2 days, and I haven't heard this album in months if not longer. Thats my brains way of saying I need more ska, and I'm gonna take him up on that.

Beat Final Fantasy 7 rebirth tonite, and had a realization. A sudden core memory unlocked. The ending of Final Fantasy games is the reason I dread the endings of games. What if they're gonna trap me in a 4 hour long boss fight with team wipe mechanics? Not fond of that design.

I totally meant to share the waterfall, Dark Souls 2 de-make side project.

You said pls, and also these are dogs.

I reimported a large blend file, and godot decided to import duplicates in almost every other blend file I have in other scenes. Luckily not the largest scene, but many of my props are just broken right now and idk why it even happened. I love this engine, but I'd strangle it rn if I could.

~ end of year promo ~ Here it is, in all it's glory. We have some sounds, we have some doors. Basically done with this project already. Maybe 3, 4 years tops at this rate. We're cruisin. (don't mind the loop on the bonfire, it needs some work lol) Dark Souls 2, but it's really King's Field 5.

Seems like there'll be a co-op summon, so if you have 2, you just queue for a third. That's seems the most likely reason for it. Solo is seperate entirely, and balanced for it. While co-op is balanced for 3. Also possible that they just mean it'll be harder to co-op without a 3rd, but you can.

I'm working on one of my projects tonite on twitch. Every Sunday is gamedev. We mostly listen to Silent Hill ost and relax. I don't promote much, but I stream every day except Wednesdays, every week. 10pm-ish est. Anyone is more than welcome to hang out! Just decided I'd throw it out there!

Dark Souls 2, but it's actually King's Field 5. #indiedev #fromsoft

It snowed!!

Moving between multiple 3D viewports is such a hassle. Blender doesn't have basic wasd flight, godot doesn't handle perspective zoom and panning well, and Smithbox doesn't do any panning/zoom with mmb. I think I'm pretty good at going back and forth, but I trip up so often.

So ketchup and ranch is "kranch" What do you call Sriracha and Ranch??

I love old classic games, but I absolutely do not miss 5-10 minute long unskippable cutscenes.

I'm just gonna throw together a test of Majula with a first person controller and see how it looks. This dumb idea is eating away at my brain...

I had so much fun porting Dark Souls 2 assets into godot for this mod! I'm now considering what it would take to port the rest bit by bit. And then maybe add a first person controller with tank controls, and do a kings field//dark souls 2 hybrid... I dream too big for my own sanity

Zepik Village in Ys has the best vibe. The OST is like 16 bars and yet it's never stale. I really just keep coming back to hang out

I hate that spotify made me a "Moody Mix", but even more than that I hate how often I listen to it. I'm not moody, I just like melancholy instrumentals when I'm working, and I'm always working. Don't act like you get me spotify! Nobody really gets me... *hairflip*

peak dark souls 2 gameplay

I'm pretty sure I'm about to commit to a Dark Souls 2 de-make pretty soon. It's nagging at me but I'm not ready yet!

Windows is ending free security updates for win10 Oct 2025?? That seems like a hell of a turnaround. Has 11 really been out that long??

Venetica has one of the coolest corpse inventories I've ever seen! This game lives and breaths late 00s rpg. It's kinda like if Gothic had a badass female protagonist. I think this UI design is phenomenal, but how do we feel about it?? #gamedev #rpgdev

I took a break from my main project to mess around with a mod, and I learned a good bit more about blender and godot. It feels super worth it.

I think I'd like to spend some more time on lore soon. Programming is wearing out my brain. I have the core and lots of pieces, but my gods need more attention. Poor things don't even have names yet! I will give them love, and in return they'll terrorize my world for me! And have beautiful babies.

screenshot of my cozy mountain lake that's not really meant to be cozy, but I think it's cozy anyways. Game has no name, yet. Dungeon Crawling ARPG #screenshotsaturday #indiedev

Do other creatives get bogged down with too many projects? I have my main game dev project, a game jam that's criminally behind schedule, and some old band mates want to jam again so now I'm doing that, on top of streaming and working. I'm feeling short on time, but I'm desperate to make things!

I had a realization that I'm less and less afraid to break things, the more comfortable I get in godot. And it made me think how I felt working on cars when I was younger til now. I could confidently fumble my way through a repair on almost any car. I think it applies to anything in life really.

I wanna work on stuff, I want some dopamine, but I have a fever that's cooking my brain, and it's exhausting. So I'm just gonna sleep for a few months and hope for the best come spring.

I have a sinus infection so I'm just gonna disintegrate into my bed and read "not smut" all day, thanks for asking <3

I don't really care who knows it, but I think the new Dragon Age is really fun. The narrative pacing is solid. There's no tedious EA grind afaik, and the new party combat system is really solid. It's more of an RPG-lite, but that's Dragon Age. Just try it some day and see for yourself.

Happy Halloweeen!!!

Monster Hunter Wilds is gonna be a lot of fun, stoked to see how the beta runs on my PC as well. Hoping I don't need to do any last minute upgrading right around the holidays.

I love Dragon's Dogma, I really do, these games are so much fun. BUT the escort quests in these games are just bad. Full Stop. Painfully tip toeing across the entirety of the map is not good quest design, I don't care what anyone says. It's tedious, and rarely feels rewarding.

It's just the absolute worst when you figure out why your code didn't work the very minute you close your eyes to sleep...

What got you into #gamedev? TES Construction Set for Morrowind definitely sparked the interest. Making custom Races/Classes, trying to retexture weapons, or even just making Seyda Neen an unscalable mound of dirt. Then found GameMaker 5, even made some interactive projects for school.

My main project has been this stat system, which finally functions as intended. Derived stats are all organized! Menu also quits mouse capture for menuing on the go! A souls-like menu, and stats, in a first person dungeon crawling rpg! #gamedev #indiegame #lowpoly

If you enjoy the feeling of finally beating that boss or enemy you've been stuck on in a Souls game, you will absolutely love programming! 2 weeks worth of brain melting research and thought, followed by the greatest sense of relief when your code works as intended... it's life-changing.

I want to begin work on my LSDjam entry, but I'm on the verge of something with my other project and it's killing me slowly lol

I'm avoiding working right now, and I've been considering my 10 games list. So here's where I'm at with that 🤙Anything Fromsoft (even Evergrace) 🖤Monster Hunter 🤙Warframe 🖤Elder Scrolls 🤙Dragon's Dogma 1/2 🖤Baldur's Gate 🤙Ark 🖤Gothic 🤙Witcher 1/3 haven't played 2 🖤Path of Exile

I'm back trying to use key:value pairs to organize stat gains per level, so I can hardcode soft caps. Initially I planned to use a simple logarithm, but after testing that for days it just doesn't do what I want. I have no experience programming systems like this, so it's a slog and my brain hurts.

Why does it work? #gamedev #godot

#indiegamedev 's What is your all time favorite rpg stat system? It can be Table Top, video games, whatever. Mine is dark souls by far, it's complex enough but simple to understand in general. Has the meat and bones of classic rpg's while being approachable.

I have several friends that say they wanna make games, or make music, or make art, and my advice is always to just do it. There's only so much learning you can get without actually doing. It's so important to try new things, you never know what knowledge becomes a foundation later. Just try it out.

Oh! Another demo I played this Next Fest that hasn't received nearly enough attention, was Dead Wells: The Devil Fragment I don't know if the dev plans to leave the demo up after tonite, but definitely give it a try! Some inspired mechanics mixed with solid dungeon crawling. #indiegamedev

AI Limit is a souls-like I'm genuinely excited for and I haven't seen hardly anything about it. Can we call this a Vein-like? I love the style and the combat feels real nice, it's very satisfying. I'm definitely on a retro fantasy kick lately, but this is a demo I'm glad I played!

I feel so much joy playing the Dark Souls 2 - Bearer of the Curse mod. I love Drangleic with all my soul, and this mod gives it so much life. Just look how they've blessed us!! It's everything it ever was and then some.

Wait, can we just post our links here without it receiving a content warning with reduced coverage? I've been avoiding my links so long I forgot they even existed...

There's a ton of people over here now, it's kinda wild how fast that happened lol

When did your game get an actual title? Was it immediate, or did you struggle to find it along the way? Does it even have a title yet? #indiegamedev

I've got my stat system relatively planned out, but then as I was going to finish the prototype I got the itch to design the stat page, which lead to the rest of the menus obviously, and then designing icons for everything. Progress is progress? Design is way more fun than programming lol #gamedev