Duckocide

Well. This is a first for me. Using the "Rebelle 8 Pro" art software, it's oil painting (simulation) mode and some patience, I've painted this. Can you see who it is? Anyone that knows me, knows I'm a sucker for these shows old and new. Beam me up... #digitalart #sttos #CaptainKirk #noai #art

"Seven Seconds from Home" - Finished! I started this digital watercolour and pencil artwork soon after the launch of Artemis 2. It's taken the duration of the mission plus several days to finish painting it using Fresco and my ancient Kamvas graphics tablet. #artemis2 #nasa #digitalartwork #art

My daughter and her partner did a thing... A game jam thing... All about reincarnation... Go play it #gamejam #indiegame #IndieGameDev #rebirth 😉👍 apusgames.itch.io/reburf

"A life on the ocean wave..." 🎵 Been a while but I've been down a rat hole of generalising controls, wheel and levers against physics forces and floating objects. However, I'm emerging from the conundrum and sailing the high dungeon seas! #godotengine #gamedev #indiegamedev youtu.be/Y2KsrPuJJCY

Good to get some downtime from #gamedev or whatever occupies the day 🙄🌞🙂

🎶What shall we do with a drunken sailor...🎶 Yay, the buoyancy physics approach works for the big stuff as well as the little stuff! It's totally unfinished but this ship is pretty big on the aft section (just not visualised). #godot4 #madewithgodot #indiegamedev #indiedev

🎶Out of the sun (Under the boardwalk) we'll be havin' some fun..🎶 ...And in the game proper! An initial iteration of some procedurally generated piers (boardwalks). #godot4 #indiegamedev #indiedev #madewithgodot

So I wonder what the key is to a good Quay? It would be in the wood right!?🙃 #godot4 #indiegamedev #indiedev #madewithgodot

🎶 You spin me right round baby right round... 🎶 Refining the movable whirlpool feature. Once again, pretty pleased with this evenings #indiegamedev efforts. I think #godotengine is starting to sink in and made this pretty comfortably (mostly shader work tbh). #godot4

Why the water? Well there are some vast rooms in these dungeons that will be navigable by vessels of various forms the exhibit both safety and danger (...aka "boss" type entities). (Started making these over a year ago! 😀) #godotengine #indiegamedev #indiedev #dungeon

And in the game... I need to procrastinate and endlessly tweak this water (the edges need to be a bit more foamy for me), but I'm pretty happy with these murky wet death traps. #godotengine #indiegamedev #indiedev #dungeon

A rare attempt by myself at a half decent dungeon water shader. Uses vertex deformation for waves (really!? 😜), a whirlpool and up to 16 ripple sources (for things floating). Chatgpt prompt as a starter, but refactored over 80% of the shader code (good learning though). #godotengine #indiegamedev

It's been a while since I've posted some progress on this #godotengine game. But I'm feeling pretty stoked right now with it! Procedurally generated, this underground dungeon area quite literally 'Rocks'! #gamedev #indiegamedev #godot4 #madewithgodot

That #indiegamedev feeling when you have just spent 2 weeks on perf related refactoring. Honing your "work of art" code to strip out, multi-task and process the bare essentials of what is needed. You run it and see it RUNNING SLOWER! Your 60fps "mostly" masterpiece now barely hitting 30 fps! 😡😟😭

Whoop! godotengine.org/releases/4.4/ #godotengine #upgrade

Just keeping warm by the fire. Dark cave that... #godot #madewithgodot #indiegamedev #gamedev

This place may be magical, but there are hidden depths... An earlier look at ancient barrow (in the early stages of procedural generation coding). youtu.be/vvUbzbjCk24 #indiegamedev #madewithgodot #gamedev #solodev #godot4

...There is a magic here!? #indiegamedev #madewithgodot #godot #gamedev (Modelling a Barrow tomb entrance)

Yay! Good #sunday #indiegamedev day! Here's is the tomb in the game with sound effects and monster spawn triggers. 🔊 #madewithgodot #godotengine

Genuinely happy with my lot but only getting one day a week on average to #indiegamedev does get frustrating. I do so look forward to Sunday. But, #gamedev progress can only be described as Glacial 🤔😊

We all know opening a Tomb is generally a recipe for a bad experience - Just ask Rene Belloq 😉 Oh what, didn't he see the light and got vaporized? ... Tomb opening animation and shaders therein. Need to add some sound effects and try it in the game! #Gamedev #indiegamdev #madewithgodot

It's alive.. alive..! This monster dropped in to the game relatively painlessly. A wonderfully predictable skeleton warrior(!). The foot soldiers of a dungeon. I want to implement some tactical traits, may be some flanking behaviours. #indiegamedev #godotengine #gamedev #dungeon #arpg

Just starting porting this wee fleshless warrior from my old unity project in to my bright shiny #godotengine project. Will definitely repaint sometime but right now I want a few more monster types wandering around! #indiegamedev #gamedev

Try not to lose your head! So I'm parking #gamedev of this element of the game for a bit. I can feel myself starting to procrastinate with it so time for a change and come back later. #indiegamedev #godotengine #godot-4

Still working on that giant musical Orrery puzzle. Happy with it so far. All configurable and solvable without musical knowhow - Like all adventures you just got be observant really 🙉🙈 #godotengibe #indiegamedev #indiedev #rpg

Hmmm... So if I tune this, I wonder what happens? #indiegamedev #godotengine #arpg #roguelike #music #puzzles #gamedev #madewithgodot #wip

Yes, I'm going to do it. I've been mulling around few thoughts on musical puzzle locks. I reckon I can make a gameplay that does not need a knowledge of music and relies on achieving an audio or visual "harmony" to solve. Of course you might find an illustrated book to really understand how😜

Now then... That's a bit cranky? Like all #roguelite #roguelike, you'll be forever searching for the right gear 😉 in this game!? #indiegamedev #arpg #gamedev #adventure #videogame

I feel cursed...!?

Yay. Another visual "control" hooked in to the UI. Analogue Levers. I'm trying to make this #RPG an intuitive arcade experience. I've spent a lot of effort managing next best input to object controller priorities but it will (I hope) make for a great UXP! #godotengine #indiegamedev #videogames

Sharing this for those #gamedev and technical sorts out there. Always good to control the real you on Bluesky 🤔👍

And a little more decoration... I do love the escapism of creating your own worlds. Going to be fun getting things triggered by those levers 🤔😃 #godotengine #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #madewithgodot #videogames

Still plugging away at the Giant Orrery and starting to procedurally decorate the control room! #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev #madewithgodot #godotengine

Are You Ready to be Tested? #outnow on #steam bit.ly/finley_steam 51 Levels, Over 40 achievements and of course The Prize for those that pass level 51! Finley is waiting #indiegames #puzzles #videogames #indiedev #indiegamedev

A wee small progress update - Some interactive trap doors revealing an underground chamber beneath an (early WIP) giant Orrery. #GodotEngine #madewithgodot #indiegamedev #indiedev #gamedev

Still a bit of a mess, but some good progress today. Steadily visualising a procgen'ed cosmic "Bodies and Orbits" object model adding collider's et al. I'm looking forward to working on some varied dirty metal looking Triplanar shaders for the different parts. #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine.

@ozone.birb.house Do please add a "Game Dev" and/or "Game Studio" label(s). Thanks 😀👍

Hmmm... Not quite... May be mechanical solar systems are more complicated than I thought. That said, I do enjoy turning my C# class data structures into to visualisations. "To the apogee and beyond...." 🌚 #godotengine

Ah the pleasure of a little treasure (🎵!?) - Collectable coinage. Some new learning for me using Area3D monitoring, GPU Particles and Height collision fields. Any character (player or NPC) can collect/accumulate the loot 🤔🙂 #GodotEngine #indiegamedev #rpg

It's a while since I've posted. Been working on some GodotEngine UI controls for player inventory. Other than icons, the playing card graphics are rendered and stored via the (confusing) "subview" component (I think I prefer unity3d RenderTexture's). Any hoo... #indiegamedev

One million new users since we opened Bluesky yesterday! Welcome to Bluesky!!! 🎉

So, I'm very new to blusky and the "atprotocol" - But, really liking the fact you can control your profile handle via your own DNS. Sweet! How to set you domain as your handle ... bsky.social/about/blog/4...

Are You Ready to be Tested? #outnow on #steam bit.ly/finley_steam 51 Levels, Over 40 achievements and of course The Prize for those that pass level 51! Finley is waiting #indiegames #puzzles #videogames #indiedev #indiegamedev #casualgame