New year, new...HUD?! Yep, I've redone all the text on #NovaSquadron 's HUD (next up, the rest of the game!), and I'll be moving some more things around in the coming weeks. #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

oh also cool poster of my game's harrier. I made more posters about related vehicles but I'm going to be slowly posting them, just so I have something to post.

more of the WIP airship and a F-5 micro-fighter Also happy poo years, this year I plan on trying to focus more on the game and finally get a demo out for the Q2. This of course means sharing more progress videos & related art about the setting.

2025 Games of the Year Holy cow what a year. I don't think I've ever had this many games that I wanted to highlight, and even crazier, almost all of these games actually came out this year. As always, the rules here are only that I played it in 2025, release date doesn't matter. Big thread below!🧵

I've just discovered that there are over 70 different subgenres of metal. This is getting a bit out of hand. I'd like to propose a 3-subgenre alternative: - I am going to suplex a dragon - The dragon will suplex us all - The dragon will suplex us all...unless we suplex it first

Begging Sunrise to license a Gundam watch that doesn’t look like complete fucking dogshit Is it really that hard to give me an EFF field watch with the EF emblem in place of a broad arrow?

big airship (wip)

Platform infrastructure and orbital railguns were next on the list for the #NovaSquadron visual overhaul...so I figured why not do both at once, by calling in a little help from above? #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Merry Christmas everyone #acecombat

Happy Halloween!!!!!!

please, please, please watch this. its shorter than most video essays on youtube rn. u can do it. please watch this. dont look away. youtu.be/Ybj10537yi4?...

For today's #NovaSquadron post, it's the holidays, so I wanted to do something a little special. We have an early Christmas present from us to you: AWACS Storm Chaser smiling. #pixelart #screenshotsaturday

#indiegame #gamedev Look around Dragoon!

she tails on my hook till I butter 🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈🧈 (I have figured out automatic landings)

getting a text in the middle of the night and it's just my loathsome vizier saying "Your enemies lie in wait, my lord!!" what am I supposed to do with that. its four in the morning

To quote @lukeplunkett.com :

People talk about "Indie vs AAA" all the time, but the real thing we need to fear is AAA companies masquerading as "indie".

Not looking forward to giant corporations opening Patreons.

yeah man, fucking, whatever

ur so real for this

Some cool screenshots I took to start a train with other devs on the evil website :)

Okay, now that we've got a trailer for Ace Combat 8 (no, really! go check it out! it's awesome!) I wanted to make a thread talking about how it affects Nova Squadron's development. The short answer: It doesn't affect it at all. The long answer: 🧵 1/6

dead wife flashbacks but it's ace combat 8 protagonist and his lead i guess

youtu.be/tCce8DY8NoQ?... It's actually happening.

I am once again tapping the million dollar idea sign.

yes, AWACS is single yes, she’s bi yes, both player characters can romance her

UNBEATABLE - an incredibly addictive rhythm game wrapped in iconic visuals, a fantastic soundtrack, crisp snappy writing, & an emotionally devastating narrative that left me bawling by the end. why make art even when the world crushes us? i hope you play it and answer that for yourself too

I go on a full 10 minute soliloquy on Tomino being a Protestant and Kamille Bidan being the first incarnation of Full Frontal, @sinyanju.bsky.social You are mentioned in this episode by me in relation to KamiFa and FullAn so I thank you for ur references

We 👀 the 💦 of ⏰! @theideon.bsky.social and @flyawaynow.bsky.social join us to talk about Zeta Book #5! We have a lot to discuss, not least of which is that STAR WARS IS CANON IN THE UNIVERSAL CENTURY! Kudos to @syzygy-city.bsky.social for reading some excerpts! Become a patron to listen!

If you will: Consult the Chart™️

Meet AWACS Storm Chaser, the lady who says things like "Nova One, Fox Two!" and "Bifrost's laser's about to fire, everyone get to cover NOW!" during missions in #NovaSquadron. Interests: - fashion - radar maintenance - playing support characters #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #oc

Strikelancer that's a combination of Freelancer and Strike Commander where instead of trade lanes and cruise engines planes climb above the cloud layer where everything has contrails and then you can cover ground quicker by flying at double speed compared to below the clouds.

If you needed another reason to buy Gunner Heat PC, they recently did an interview on AI usage in gamedev and their response is absolutely worth highlighting: "First of all, the proliferation of LLMs and other generative AI products is an active, top-down consolidation of power by tech capital."

im still making video game, did some stylizations stuff on the environment

Some recreated GUI work. Hint: a no-fly zone does not mean you can't fly there, but it could be dangerous. #screenshotsaturday #indiedev #gamedev

Happy #Tanksgiving everyone! Here's those extra reinforcements you asked for. I mean, more tanks are always better, right? #gamedev #indiedev

I've been so busy with #NovaSquadron 's menu and subsystem overhaul that I haven't posted any gameplay videos for months, so here, as a treat for us both - the beginnings of some new, fancy, cel shaded explosions! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Way better video than I was expecting given the title. Talks mostly about the history of cool design in UI and how it's a canary in the coal mine for larger issues in the games industry. Opens with, "Why aren't game UIs cool anymore?" and it's like, oh boy do I have a lot of opinions on that.

The texturing is still a work in progress, but here's the new jet in-game #gamedev #flightsim

Spent half of yesterday trying to figure out how to render particles at half-resolution to little success. I know this is a thing that is possible with RenderGraph and whatnot, but I couldn't figure it out. Making matters worse, everything changed in 6.3, so almost all examples are obsolete.

Got something new in the hangar #gamedev #flightsim

And I'm finally done with my comprehensive update to the First Gundam production history! Took me seven months, but it's literally tripled in length, with lots more source translations and better-quality art. "The next is... in expectation of your heart." www.gundamunofficial.com/production/f...

Gqux Garma in his broke boy era has come to appreciate simple things in life. Gqux Garma will stand in line for a $1.50 Costco Hotdog

incredible that for big companies, this is gonna be considered the 'uncompromising take'

Barrage #indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday

All missiles made for my game so far

Different payload layouts featuring the wrong missiles on most of them :)

Introducing the man who's been giving you briefings in #NovaSquadron the whole time, Commander "Öz" Özdemir (and his moustache!) Interests: - watching everyone come back from a mission alive - mecha anime - facial hair #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #pixelart #oc