so this weekend I joined the tiny horse game jam on the @themanequest.com server and took over the animation of our main character unicorn. Painted in Procreate, but rigged and animated in @godotengine.org with the 2D skeleton - still lots to iron out, but it's a walk cycle!

Quickly testing out software and/or functionality for game jams can result in hilarious art pieces :D In this case I was testing Godot's 2D skeleton - hope I learned enough, so the next thing will look decent^^

Some awesome talks at Godotfest, check them out! And I even recorded some of them myself on incredibly cool equipment, as volunteer - so enjoy the amazing camera view 😜

Whoop whoop, @godotfest.com is starting tomorrow 😍 Looking forward to some awesome and interesting talks!

I know I always talk about wanting other types of horse games, but this actually makes me want to try a barn management game again haha Seems different and love the style 😍

Sooo... You know how as a horse owner you are faced with constant worries about the wellbeing of your horse, next to all the "normal" stuff everyone experiences? Decided to make a smol game out of it, a "SorrowManager" , where you're trying to deal with the stress of all the thoughts in your head.

Nice! A horse game breaking out of the usual horse game box shows that horse games can actually be interesting to so many people out there! Well done <3

Why can't I just play @supergiantgames.bsky.social ' Hades II like a normal person? Why do I have to insist on beating Hades I with heat 32 first??

This is exactly what I meant when asking for horse games with purpose - this is not just a horse girl's dream to "have a horse" (also totally valid btw), but brings variety into the horse game genre - and is probably also interesting to non-horse-people! Demo available on Steam!

I "finished" my survivor practice game, just built it far enough so you can play. There's still a lot missing: more abilities, a textured background, bug fixes and of course art style consistent assets (or any proper assets). But it's something that got done at least 🥳 lajiao.itch.io/lone-survivor

So, talking about horse games at the Game Dev Days was a pretty cool experience. A personal highlight was making a student feel not alone with the topic - that alone was worth it! Photos by Matthias Rauch / @gamedevgraz.bsky.social

Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 that she understood would only be released after her death.

Going home from game dev days Graz in the coziest socks from @neophobica.bsky.social ! Love them and only want to wear my 5 different cat socks from now on 🥰

Fun talks and games @ game dev days in Graz - thank you, @gamedevgraz.bsky.social , it's a blast. Also so cool to have people stay and listen to my short horse game talk <3

3/5 And make sure to check out: gamedevdays.com/ #gddg25

A few months ago I cursed and suffered when I had to do UI. Now, it's actually kinda relaxing to build it! Ofc, still just basic functionality, not yet pretty, but I like doing it :D

Built something very not-exciting today - level up UI! By now this practice project is giving me the feeling that I need to build a better code structure in order to be able to reference everything in a cleaner way. Well, I definitely know what my former coder-colleagues were preaching now😂

Things that I kinda expected to happen in some way but hoped wouldn't: Finally managed to add another ability from an ability pool via picking up a chest - but this breaks the boomerang ability. Probably because they all use the same single bullet code. Well, on to debugging 💗

Currently I'm working on my vampire survivors like practice project in Godot. The basic setup went smoothly enough, and I felt smart about the first ability I built. Of course it doesn't feel great yet, but the basic functionality is there 🥳 Then however, ...

So guess it's time for my first post on bsky! So in the last few months since our studio had to close its doors forever, I decided to learn Godot - because tutorials were not working for me, I started an online course with @gdquest.bsky.social - and I've been making incredible progress :o -> thread

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