i think 3d level design is really dumb and amazing and beautiful... its one of those things that i think as an art form we sort of just "got" almost as soon as the technology was available to get it... like Quake 1 - Gloom Keep, it's ALL there. this might as well be an Elden Ring level

Feeling much lighter now as first fully playable version of my qbj3 map is done. Hard to find a cool angle to take out of bounds screenshot though haha. Now back to adding extra stuff for the last 4 days remaining.

quake brutalism jam update. starting playtests now (grab it in the discord if you want to help) and then gonna squeeze in a final polish / set dressing pass before the deadline

Haunted Pier is still one of the zones that I am the most proud in the game, I really love leaning into the surreal anachronisms that make up the superstructure.

Skipped the 39:xx and crushed my old PB 🤣 youtu.be/STY9Es08kFQ

QBJ3 is quickly ending up as the largest non-speedmap jam in terms of submissions Quake has ever had. It's approaching Coffee Quake 2 levels of maps, lmao.

I wonder if heavy use of colored lighting in my Quake Brutalist Jam 3 map is a cry for help from all the gray concrete I've been looking at nearly 8 hours every day. It has been a month now. I've hit this 50k brush count milestone today.

Aaah, they've extended the deadline on the Quake Brutalist Jam 3 again - now maps are due in by December 7th. The previous two projects were really impressive, but this one they've gone above and beyond. Built around a near-total-conversion with themed/new enemies and weapons.

This is what happens when I get exhausted making new areas into my map. Just having a fun duel with my buddy here.

So I recently decided that I want to have a monorail in my map. Brain please, the scope is already too much.

more quake brutalist map updates. trying something very nonlinear that lets you break encounters a lot. deleted a tower that was gonna be too much work to resolve, replaced it with tree spam #screenshotsaturday

Progress on my Quake Brutalism Jam 3 map.

Yeah it is a map alright. 1000 monsters 56 secrets in so far. My own 100% test took me 80 minutes. Now to build act 3 of the map. Thankfully we got another extension so I can take this much easier now. New qbj3 deadline is at Dec 7th.

I Love finding what specific visually recognizable thing is causing a bug to happen in game. Just narrowing it down bit by bit is really fun. Beyond that you are on your own with the code part haha.

made some quick rock scree textures for mesh decals in Quake

Time for something different. New area with a new look.

polishing up the #librequake shotgun textures. original work by the equal parts talented and lovely @adaya.bsky.social 200x200px texture, #quake 1 palette, 206 triangles/229 vertices

Looking forward to my first mid point playtest session starting soon on my qbj3 map. 633 enemies and 35 secrets in so far.

Four screenshots from my qbj3 map so far (still haven't textured yet, i got until the 30th. this totally won't backfire)

Welcome to LibreQuake a free and open source fps game on the quake engine currently the game is in beta but you can still check it out you can grab it from the GitHub Releases page github.com/lavenderdotp... or if you are on Linux you can grab it from the Flathub store flathub.org/apps/io.gith...

Phew, new Urban Decay update, finally. These broken windows took a lot of work, but I think they were worth it. There's now 940 bloody textures in this thing, so close to the big 1000. strideh.itch.io/stridehs-urb...

Yes, MD3 doesn't have vertex wobble. The best thing about it though is that it allows us to show BIBLICALLY ACCURATE QBJ3 WEAPONS

Brutalist jam going in real life too.

more qbj3 start map

Construction stuff

Hope I'm not preventing players from progressing with my clever puzzles. Adding some items to point towards the solution haha. There are so many cool little ideas I've come up with so I want to share at least a few of them here.

House

Quake Brutalist Jam has been extended to Nov 30th. if you feel like you found out too late or didn't have the time, now's your chance!

Here is my QBJ3 map out of bounds screen for now. Pretty good progress so far.

Some other angles. The lighting has been in all sorts of different states so it's kind of between looks atm. Been bouncing around colours trying to echo the look of 70s pulp sci-fi and films like Outland. But I feel I ended up drifting too far away from brutalism.

Some QBJ3 progress. Trying to not spoil gameplay things too much, but I like how this is turning out visually.

silent cartographer discourse made me quadruple the map size into a giant island thing. only the beachhead has a near-final flow so far, still trying to resolve the rest of it

Getting started with my Quake qbj3 map.

Fall is gonna be over soon so here are some last bits of nature before deep diving into concrete jam of QBJ3. Wish I could get my energy and focus back properly to get a bit more done.

I really liked the character designs for this.

I'm proud to announce the start of the Quake Brutalist Jam 3, featuring a custom near total conversion mod www.slipseer.com/index.php?th...

all the little things you keep putting off until the end. blasted through these the last few nights. shipping this mod very soon

I missed that there was another big Quake release the other day - Corrosive Eternity is another 'entire episode in a single map' adventure. Not quite as madly ambitious as The Eternal Lock, but huge and very intense, set in a rusty megastructure in hell. Save often. www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...

qbj3 tar enemies got me acting up gawdddd

my quake cathedral rendered in qrustyquake, a new software renderer sourceport being developed by beeg aarn

wake up babe new func_godot tutorial just dropped Very good "Getting Started with func_godot" walkthrough. Thanks for helping the community @stayathomedev.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WUI...

Quake done Quick using the Bonk Jam mod mechanics! Very happy to see the speedunning community eating the game up with the mod, it's all I could have asked for.

Hello! :3 MeowGun is still on 24% discount on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2347390/... There's also a free demo to try out~! (The entire 1st Episode!) Consider giving a review if you can!🙏 Here's some action-packed dev gameplay, highlighting levels & tracks from each episode🐈 #indiedev #fps

Quake SM231 has been released "starts with a bang". Focuses on explosives that are given early. Made a map for this one. It is a fairly faithful remake of a map from different game. Also features a cool custom weapon. www.slipseer.com/index.php?re...

misc screenshots from various texture tests and experiments in Quake

Made some new tree assets for Phantom Island recently and just testing a bit with a small mockup. #pixelart #gamedev

been feelin like

Two decades today. You've come a long way, baby. #DOOM #GZDoom

If you like shmups and do not have this already, get it, it's great!