Slowly but surely making progress with the levels. This subway level was massively sprawling so took some time to cut it down. Maybe I'll finish it sometime this year 😅 #indiedev #lowpoly #gamedev

Another pain point, stairs. I mean, its fine but the extra work to get the camera to look "okay" puts me off having them in levels. They do "feel" pretty good gameplay-wise though

Pew pew in the subway. I thought that making these corridor-type levels would be easier than wide open areas, but keeping it interesting is definitely more work.

I had about 6 unused levels from the first version of Point Rescue. 2 of them were intended to be boss levels, but never got around to it. So after years at this point, I'm prototyping out the second boss. Biggest challenge has been fitting in the events/AI into the existing wave spawn system

Been experimenting with the camera focus timings. Found it actually more fun to vary the camera speed. Provides a nice challenge.

Holy crap it has been a while. It'll be interesting to see how easy it is for me to get going making a new level.

I love #lowpoly crts. Flat screens never seem as appealing. Perhaps I'll have to model one and see.

A different view of the #lowpoly living room.

The final room of my #lowpoly flat for #screenshotsaturday

Almost there. Just need one more room then gonna call this one done. #lowpoly

A bathroom to go with the #lowpoly living room. Garish but hopefully not eye gougingly ugly.

A #lowpoly living room for #screenshotsaturday

Trying out some higher resolution textures than I usually do; that and some lighting. Typically keep to unlit and some vertex colours, but quite liking this. #lowpoly

More progress on the #lowpoly kitchen. Streadily filling out the various props needed.

More #lowpoly, texture painting experimentation.

More progress on the campsite, or at least the surrounding foliage. #lowpoly

More progress on the campsite, or at least the surrounding foliage. #lowpoly

WIP forest scene for #screenshotsaturday

An experiment on my shack with some different colours and shading.

Pixel art plants and vertex colours

Some more lowpoly/pixel art experimentation.

Feels like an age since doing any art/modelling. Really wanted to experiment with some low res, low poly with lighting. In the past I've always done unlit. Had fun with this #lowpoly #pixelart #b3d

Fancy some retro arcade light gun action? Why not give the Point Rescue: Arcade alpha demo a play. magellanicgames.itch.io/pointrescue-...

Whelp that's another day that has just flown by. Here's some Point Rescue. #indiedev #lowpoly #psx

Another Point Rescue Arcade repost. Looking forward to getting back to it. Leaving projects on ice for a bit seems to kinda be a good way for rejuvenating enthusiasm for them. #indiedev #gamedev #psx

Some more Point Rescue Arcade. This is some footage I took when testing with the Sinden lightgun a while back. Currently working on some other stuff, but looking forward to getting back to it #indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #psx

Writing a new set of camera functions that use composeable transforms so arbitrary rotation and movement is easier. i.e, derive global positions from a combination of relative local transforms. Was hitting issues with the old and very-under-developed functions. #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

One of the challenges of rolling your own is always the lack of integrated WYSIWYG, but been having good fun using blender. It has been doing the heavy lifting until I fully implement the in-game editor (25% complete roughly) #indiedev #gamedev

A bit more work on the in-game editor to atleast show a 2d view of the rooms as well as UI for displaying notifications on in-game events. #indiedev #gamedev

Putting all that 2D overlay code to work showing reload progress, stamina drain as well as healthbars and damage numbers. Time is starting to enable more gamedev time than engine dev. (which is good and fun) #indiedev #gamedev

Spent way too long getting 2d text and 2d healthbars to overlay correctly...but it is done. Huzzah!! Decided against using billboards as with this no need to worry about distance scaling/ #indiedev #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

Steadily adding gameplay stuffs and experimenting with room layouts. Working on an equipment system, what are you working on? #indiedev show me your #gamedev. Wanting some inspiration!

Giving my encounter editor a test run. Not very pretty but it beats using a plain old text editor. Next step will be more visualisation of the levels/rooms. #indiedev #gamedev

A demo of seamless (almost) loading between level areas. The demo had hard stop/starts between and I generally prefer how Virtua Cop was seamless between areas. The demo didn't have moving scenery either, so even the doors opening/closing is a nice upgrade to encounters #indiedev #gamedev

Gotta have destructible items to distract from what you SHOULD be shooting at. #indiedev #gamedev

A WIP update of Point Rescue demo's first level with the updated models and camera motion. It is using Godot 4, currently experimenting with something else. SDL3 being able to identify input from multiple mouse devices would allow local co-op #indiedev #gamedev

If you don't know me, I'm Liam and I (time allowing) make games. This is some gameplay of my lightgun shooter, Point Rescue: Arcade. Worked hard to get that camera interpolation nice and smooth! #indiedev #gamedev