The easiest way to create action lines in a shader is to take some noise and convert its UVs to polar coordinates 🙂 #godot #indiedev #gamedev

this really captures the specific set of cached/unconfronted assumptions that underlie a lot of discourse, especially here (from @andymasley.bsky.social)

Time to #pitchyagame. Pulse is: 🏎️ high speed time trial racing 🗺️ creative route planning 🏆 competitive leaderboards Our free demo on Steam is basically our latest development build. Compete with us for the daily 🥇 🥈 🥉 store.steampowered.com/app/3888920/...

that sweet vindication when you open a 'eat later' avocado and see the threads of doom just getting started.

yo #PitchYaGame here's Mansion of a Million Monsters! 🧛‍♂️hit Dracula with a baseball bat and solve mysteries 🔎investigate a shifting cartoon mansion 🐿️play catch with a squirrel 💪unmask each monster of the week! Wishlist 👉 store.steampowered.com/app/3627210/ Demo 👉 lkmk-games.itch.io/mansion-of-a...

Hi #PitchYaGame, I'm making Star Spark! Inspired by anime tournament arcs, it combines real-time combo inputs, turn-based combat, deckbuilding strategy, and roguelite elements. Wishlist Star Spark on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3639950 #IndieGame #Gaming #GameDev #GodotEngine

happy weekend to those who celebrate!

sup #PitchYaGame! Tetris + Sokoban + Gloomhaven + ? = Axe Ghost. Flex your brain muscle, push monsters around, blow them up 'A unique puzzle game unlike anything i've seen' - LordOvLoot.

If you haven't yet, play the demo, we are right around the corner! store.steampowered.com/app/3639920/...

maye being good at game design is mostly the ability to simulate playing a version of a game in your head, allowing you to evaluate more options than you'd have time for if you had to prototype them all.

My talk starts in <90 minutes! Don't miss it! I just did a quick dry-run, and I afraid to say that I finished my ~24 minute talk in 33 minutes. I guess I'll be skipping some slides... Also, if you're put off by the title, don't be! It doesn't mean what you think :) #puzzlegame #ThinkyCon2025

building out the systems in NewThing much more hygienically than i did in axe ghost, because of how much tracking down bugs in axe ghost kicked my ass. the fundamental difference is that one object in NewThing is the authoritative source of truth for game state. yeah i know😅

very nice!

'singular' is not a fancier way of saying 'single', they mean different things

shouldn't have waited this long to use VSCode for Godot projects. even split panel editing alone is such a help❤️

Coworker spelled it “Ruscle Crow”

Axe Ghost is on sale for a few hours more! A daily challenge for the brain muscle💪 store.steampowered.com/app/2712670/...

Pitching your game to print media? Here’s a thread full of tips! Always send screenshots in PNG format. JPEG compression blurs sharp edges and creates ugly artefacts that look even worse once printed at 300 DPI. Where possible, submit your screenshots at 4K resolution. Or native res for pixel art.

one way to gauge the truth-seeking values of different communities is to look at whether or not they continue to propagate egregiously incorrect statements and information even when clearly shown that it is incorrect. update on the community’s credibility in other areas accordingly.

i am soooo sick of "actually *machine learning* is really useful it's just all this *generative* stuff that's no good" being presented as some kind of extremely thoughtful correct opinion. really i haven't seen anyone successfully thread that needle in a way that acknowledges, like, google translate

Gen AI is when ML has any output. So the only useful ML is the one that does nothing?

the type of node you visit determines the types of nodes that can follow

Axe Ghost is a brainy turn based challenge where you push monsters around and blow them up. reviewers say it's unlike anything else out there. On sale until the start of next week! store.steampowered.com/app/2712670/...

The Aliensrock effect is in full force: There's been a burst of Gentoo Rescue reviews recently. Hopefully we can reach 100! That's 100, not 100 factorial (although I'll accept 100!). #puzzlegame #indiegamedev #factorialjoke

solved a problem 💥

thank you Byrus Heavier, I also recommend daily morsels of Axe Ghost! Just one more review until the magic 10. store.steampowered.com/app/2712670/...

occasional suggestion to try a kuru toga mechanical pencil, if you're a mechanical pencil enjoyer. they're great.

Hey mates! Star Spark just launched its Steam page! Show some indie love to this Dragon Ball–like #TurnBased gem from @jeremyjackson.bsky.social. =D 🔃 Repost for reach ▶️ Wishlist it: store.steampowered.com/app/3639950 #GameDev

Any streamers out there that you know of who'd dig this demo?

big appreciation for everyone who takes the time to leave a review 💪 currently at 8 of the magic 10 store.steampowered.com/app/2712670/...

New Game: Egg terrycavanagh.itch.io/egg

ThinkyCon 2025 talks are announced. Lots of very interesting topics! Be sure to checkout my talk on Wednesday: "Making a puzzle game with AI" Or the non-clickbait title: "Leveraging a puzzle solver for design, experimentation, testing, and more"

Last week I launched the Steam page for #StarSpark. So far it has 122 wishlists! Some games have had way better Store page launches and some way worse, but 122 is far more than I'd expected to get within the first week. If you've shared/wishlisted the game, thanks a ton! 🙇‍♂️ #GameDev #IndieGameDev

i keep forgetting what idempotent means. every time i look it up it still means idempotent

plumbing plan for NewThing

Axe Ghost is currently 20% discounted because Spoooky! store.steampowered.com/app/2712670/...

am LLM commenting on the 'LLM mic drop texture' in texts.

6yo 'only' wants to make three video games currently. this is art for one of them.

Ninja Gaiden 4 was one of my most anticipated games of the year and I'm not playing it in accordance with the BDS Microsoft boycott, and it turns out that actually nothing bad happens to you if you don't play a video game.

this looks great for speeding up adding UI animation in godot projects

i dislike cozy games because gaming is already *inherently* low stakes. within that framework I prefer that (simulated) moral risk exists; that you could actually fuck up badly in the game world.

NewThing. getting closer to a look for the mattes.

If you’re a #gamedev and have a game on both Steam and GOG, has having it on GOG been much more overhead or nah?

Incredibly gross behavior by Google: they reject any app update if the gameplay video's description on YouTube mentions another platform (eg. Steam, App Store, etc). Blatantly anti-competitive, cunningly not mentioned in their metadata policies: support.google.com/googleplay/a... #gamedev

experimenting with workflows for doing mattes. NewThing.

yeah. öoo is really good. play it!

6yo pronounces hospital 'whore spittle', and will not be corrected.

another pass at showing primary and secondary categories