this time with a slightly higher resolution. guess I got carried away. really like how the lighting came out here. #art #digitalart #painting

hahaha, my painting has levelled up again. the low-res pixel-artish style seems to work well for me. I used a texture I photographed on a beach walk to help make the rocks here :) #art #digitalart #painting

Pixel based heat simulation :) may use this for a future sim game. #gamedev #indiedev #simulation

oh by the way, I'm officially Canadian now 🇨🇦 (technically already was, just without the paperwork hehe)

okay, I'll admit it, I may have severely over-exaggerated the water animation LOL. #indiedev #gamedev #indie #isometric

I am beginning to believe in shaders just a little bit. Still need to animate the tile underneath though. #gamedev #indiedev #indie

I made a physics based inventory for picking up stuff on the ground! The bag will shake around while moving, and even displace stuff outside of it too. #indiedev #gamedev #indie

time to get over my fear of putting people in my art :) #art #digitalart

Done on one layer except for a smidge of color dodge and darkening. I did bright, now I'm doing dark :) #art #digitalart

water tile and more forest goodies. needs a little tweaking, but am happy enough with it for now. #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #art #isometric

adding doodads on top of the tiles. I think this really helps it feel like an actual place and not a disconnected video gamey thing. #indie #indiedev #art #isometric #pixelart

I've been making more rendered out tiles for our upcoming game. Apparently drawing outside the lines is a good thing. More variations will likely almost eliminate the visible tiling as well! #indiedev #gamedev #art #pixelart #Isometric

I painted a thing again :) lots of bright colors!! #art #digitalart

I got tired of not making games, so I made a little mining game prototype in just a few hours :) who here likes selling ores for a paltry sum to a shrewd blacksmith? #indiedev #gamedev #indie

trying out something experimental :) used graphite to do a little doodle, took a picture and put it into a digital art program. it was actually quite fun, I might try and refine the style a bit maybe. #art #traditionalart #digitalart

Apologies for the absence everyone. I'm dealing with some IRL things, but will hopefully be able to resume dev things soon :)

Taking some time to clean up the systems I've been putting into the game, and making sure they're readable and maintainable for the future. Honestly, this is more important than adding new features. #indie #gamedev #indiedev

torso and arms are now being animated for the zweihander attack. its starting to look really good! #indiedev #indie #animation #pixel #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

we're using png images as map files! the color of the pixel determines whats being placed where, with a little rng added in. This is super cool because it makes creating maps so quick and easy that anyone can do it! #indiedev #gamedev #indie #isometric #godot

I wish 'AI' wasn't a big thing now because it used to refer to nice, useful, quaint things like behavior trees and state machines 😔

We've got unit AI running on a navigation mesh now, also ability cooldowns are shown with a green bar(for now). Really still need to figure out the sprite sorting overall though :) dev rambling below. #indie #indiedev #isometric #godot #gamedev

Here is an animated zweihander attack from our artist. Still working on getting the whole set done so we can have it in game! #indiedev #gamedev #pixel #pixelart #screenshotsaturday #animation

This is the zweihander in our upcoming game. It will have strong defensive and area denial abilities. Great for keeping attacks and enemies away from your friends with its long reach! #indie #indiedev #gamedev #pixelart

We want units in our game to display intelligent decision making. Healing themselves if hurt, or running to someone who can, and just generally trying to value their own lives. #indie #gamedev #indiedev #isometric #godot #screenshotsaturday

Oh wow 100 followers. Nice to have you all here :)

The game's first spell! no arms animation on it yet, but we have a neat particle effect animated by both me and the artist for now! #indie #gamedev #pixel #animation #isometric #indiedev

No game dev update, but I made some delicious breakfast pastries filled with apricot jam for Christmas this year :) Merry crisis to all my 40 or so new followers, it was genuinely shocking seeing it nearly double overnight.

In most games, healing is only really relevant as long as it keeps your HP above 0. In ours, having lower HP means an Injured status effect that reduces your damage. Healing, mitigation, and support will be extremely important because of this. #indiedev #gamedev #isometric #indie

This is a support dps melee weapon that is being added to our latest project. It will provide powerful area buffs while debuffing enemies hit with a satisfying bong. #indie #indiedev #gamedev #animation #pixelart

How cursed is it to keep your game's code documentation in .png files made in mspaint? #indiedev

this little guy is in my unique little tower defense in which your money is your life. Its 25% off right now! store.steampowered.com/app/2909090/... #indie #indiedev #gamedev

We've got a couple preliminary tilesets, units that will fight each other and run when they're low, and.... gameplay? finally? we're doing it! #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indie

A spear with abilities and animations being used in game on an enemy unit! Feels great when a bunch of different systems come together. #indiedev #gamedev #indie

I am thoroughly convinced that programming is just being a cute little wizard typing arcane runes into a rock full of thunder that does mysterious things.

The game can now load weapons and abilities from a database dynamically! Still very early, but this is great progress in the back end. #gamedev #indiedev #ScreenshotSaturday

CHIBIS UP BTW

Oh look, a cute little indie game is in the autumn sale. store.steampowered.com/app/2909090/... #SteamAutumnSale #IndieGameDev #GameDev

This is an early reel our artist made from animations going into our next game! The system is modular, so different pieces can be animated individually in engine. #gamedev #indiedev #indie #animation

I didn't really intend to post much art here, but I've been enjoying it as a mental reset from my game launch.

Another painting I did a while ago. Maybe I should start doing it again?

Despite being a software engineer, sometimes I like to draw a funny little thing every now and then. As a treat. This one is a bit older.

I recently published a tower defense all about stealing stuff back from the British (and other countries). Your gold is your life, and the game ends up having pretty unique mechanics because of that! #Steam #Indiedev #Gamedev #Indiegame #wishlistwednesday store.steampowered.com/app/2909090/...