Game is out!!!??? Elfie typed in "Release my app" and pressed Release Now!!! She says she'll be waiting for you at the beach!! store.steampowered.com/app/3784760/... #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #godot

You might be surprised Australia is my home country. I haven't bugged friends or family to play the game at all. They don't really fit the demographic anyway.

The ragdoll now takes the main body's rotation speed into account. Turning isn't physics based though(no falloff) so you need to activate ragdoll while spinning the left stick. Some skill is required. #gamedev #indiedev

I'm giving the penguin knees, but it's not even going in the game. No further details at this time, but man... I have mixed feelings!

Japan still makes up the majority of wishlists. Slightly tempted to post on the hellsite again. Twitter is still wildly popular here unfortunately. #gamedev

What if the game had multiplayer, but all you could do was toggle the ragdoll? People love co-op. Right?

9/10 dentists recommend reviewing one indie game before breakfast. #gamedev #indiedev

Wow! I've already been working on my game for a year now! Thanks to everyone who supported me! And just for fun here's a comparison of day 1 vs now! :) #indiegame #gamedev #darkrooms

Are you ready to enter the Dark Rooms? Wishlist the game now at darkroomsgame.com #indiegame #gamedev #unrealengine #darkrooms

If Silent Hill was real I'd just not go there. Easy

One player told me the Ferris wheel was a little underwhelming. The game in the store is about 22% complete. I cannot stress that enough. The silliness has only just begun. #gamedev #indiegame

Best film adaptation of The Odyssey, wrong answers only

Update live with the latest ragdoll improvements.

I wasn't joking when I said this would be a ragdoll account from now on. I find this all deeply satisfying. #gamedev #indiedev

This explains Whelm better than anything I've posted so far. The explorer part is spot on. I do not believe in making a piece of art for everyone. I don't think it's ever been done, without diluting the experience for the people that really get it. #gamedev

Ragdoll compilation. #gamedev #indiegame

Ragdoll compilation. #gamedev #indiegame

Improved the ragdoll in water. #gamedev #indiegame

Recording some gameplay clips, so of course I immediately found 8 new things that need fixing. Was looking forward to doing some pure video editing but alas.

This is the first penguin I ever modeled (circa 2009). It had really weird feet, and it had THUMBS. The second (and last) penguin I ever modeled was the current penguin used in Penguin Festival 🤯. #b3d #gamedev #indiedev

I want AI to move away from me faster

Ragdoll adds a whole new level of physical comedy. I highly recommend it. #gamedev #indiegame

If steam has mature content filters it should have Gen-AI content filters. I shouldn't need to scrutinise every new game I look at to see if it's an affront to art or not.

Figured out a fun way to paint stylized wood grain textures using Gradient Maps (it's in Gimp as well as Photoshop, afaik). Just use a big soft brush and paint! You can also use blur, smudge, and gradients. It's like painting the history of a tree! 🌳😌🕊️ #gamedev #indiedev

why the fuck does stardew valley have combat. don’t piss me off

We need to automate both ragebaiters and their views. What a waste of everyone's time.

Okay hear me out. I've put a single trigger inside this new island which simply detects any objects with rigidbodies and moves them to a safe altitude. I know there are correct ways to handle this sort of thing, but yeeting fits the game perfectly. #gamedev #indiedev

Do not buy my game. It's on Steam. Wait for the Summer sale silly. #indiedev #indiegame

Honestly i'll just take some wishlists. But that's true for everyone's indie game. So go click that button at the very least and if you buy an indie game go leave a review. Those things help us all out! store.steampowered.com/app/2997030/...

I've spent less than 30 hours playing games over the last year. At this point I'm mostly looking forward to finishing my game so I can get back to playing everyone else's!

Working on a system to prevent saved objects getting stuck in new terrain geometry. Don't want to break save files if it can be avoided. Video unrelated. #indiedev

Another benefit of being a solo dev. I don't have to compromise to keep a team afloat. I can take one look at AI, say f that and keep working. Oh I'll get left behind?

In case anyone feels like they're hitting a wall with marketing. It turns out Sledding Game is hoarding all the followers. Holy forking shirt balls. #gamedev #indiedev

Golden Delicious Over Thirty

I'm so happy to be nominated in the Cozy Games Awards with my tiny bug game Kabuto Park 🪷🪲💕 This is a public voting award! Please help me by voting below ⬇️

Buy games from indie game devs you can talk to and see that they aren't a steaming pile of shit.

Studios didn’t hire me because I had no experience in gaming… Now I have 10,000 wishlists on my first indie game! It’s an action-platformer imagined as a 3D metroidvania: backtracking, unlockable abilities, exploration, combat… And it’s inspired by Moebius. Wishlist Maseylia: Echoes of the Past !

I got a fever... and the only prescription, is more ragdoll. #gamedev

Other than heavy landings or flipping the hover boat, the ragdoll is activated manually. I don't want to annoy players when they're trying to push something around deliberately. Here I'm pressing the triangle button about two steps before impact. He keeps his momentum. #gamedev #indiedev

PENGUIN Team Six #gamedev #indiedev

Best I can do is a penguin club

Mine does multiply the camera speed with each added penguin, but mostly functional otherwise.

I've had comments in the past telling me to shrink the island down because it will be boring to walk. Not to worry. You can just switch in and out of ragdoll mode and use the clipping to launch yourself. A totally intentional design choice... Majestic isn't he? #gamedev #indiedev

I want to create some dripping black sludge that comes out of a pipe. Ideally, this should be performant and non-interactive as I wanna render this in Godot Engine. Surface should be PBR material... do I bake an animation in Blender and import it? What's the best technique here?

Sleep is difficult today. #gamedev #indiedev

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

My hero. #gamedev #indiegame

Fixed the T-posing problem. Took way too long and the solution was two lines of code, as is tradition. #gamedev