Ian Durra

I am going to release three indie games on Steam in 2026.

I’ve been really enjoying the Tao of programming. There is something spiritually fulfilling about writing a piece of software. The sense of mastery I get when writing a loosely coupled module. The joy of having a finished product. There’s something both futuristic and ancient about coding.

Power goes out, and player has to find the fuse box. Horror game players expect a couple of these tropes in a game. Now I need to add a jump-scare when the player turns around.

Planet Zoo 2 has a setting option where you can switch which Display your game is on (1, 2, etc..). I like this feature so much I'm putting it in all my games moving forward. Totally a QOL feature, but easy to implement, and solves that awkward dance of switching a fullscreen game between monitors.

In godot I don't know of a way to determine if the game is paused in the debugger? Just spent hours thinking my code was busted only to realize the game was paused, would never have figured that out except for running across some old forum post.

writing a core set of walking-sim modules (dialogue, interaction, etc..) that I’m hoping to take forward into future games of same genre. id primarily like to be writing custom middleware for pre-existing modules.

I love lamp. #godot nothing crazy here but getting it all to work together is difficult.

anyone have any psx horror games similar to Stalking Stairs or Paratopic?

Paratopic... wow! very abstract. Not sure I understand what happened, but it was terrifying. Also did an incredible job with the interaction mechanics. So much to learn.

the vibe coded decompilations are sloppy, but they are functional. Throws a gigantic wrench into any company obsessed with protecting their IP.

Ordered a Morse code keyer for a gamejam. I’m thinking of a railroad operator game, where you have to tell trains which track to use in Morse Code

Playing Return of Obra Dinn for the first time, wow. To have made that and Papers Please, just incredible.

Thinking of changing Blood Cruise to the Starboard Strangler

Ayo some people are leaving positive reviews on the itch page!

Did I mention these guys are all fully voice acted? wanted to see how hard it would be to record + act. Getting normalized audio levels was tough, and maintaining a consistent character is hard. but overall I think it turned out good.

Horror game prototype set on a cruise ship. Made in two weeks. upperhollodecker.itch.io/blood-cruise #godot #indiedev #horror #psx

buddy is not beating the allegations.

Up for a nightcap? I want to include the horror of getting hit on at your workplace #gamedev #godot

Hearing that the ps5 was cracked only for a bunch of vibecoded homebrew apps to be added is ideologically disheartening. The whole point of the homebrew scene is gaining autonomy over the hardware you purchase, which is just antithetical to Ai coding.

guy who looks like a zombie but is just badly food poisoned #godot #indiegame what can I add to sell this better

Is vertex wobbling something players will want to turn off on a psx horror game? is it like screen shake

A horror game on a cruise ship. Added a tiny room where the ship's employees live. #godot #psx #horror

oops accidentally didn't put the Korean translation in with the final Lucky Break build, despite paying for it... welp here the comes the Korean Language patch!

forgot how much I like game writing, really can just put whatever you want, and the zanier the better. #godot also implementing a simple dialogue system was neat.

this scared me so bad #godot Courtesy of a degrees-to-radians bug

Pepper’s ghost contraption!

Creepy hotel. Been having fun making 128x128 albedo-only textures using blender, ucupaint, krita, and #godot. Shoutout @passivestar.bsky.social who created a great tutorial on this process. passivestar.xyz/posts/proced...

“Signal up, call down” gets passed around very casually in the Godot circles. But imo 90% of people are not following this, as the implications of adhering to this pattern significantly change your codebase. imo the Godot docs don’t go far enough in explaining this best practice.

Peglin rules. It has everything I liked about Peggle from back in the day + Slay the Spire progression.

Halfway through the post-mortem.

Anyone know how to flip the right and left motion of a Bluetooth mouse connected to an iPad? Up and down is correct but because of the mirror involved, mouse right is now left etc… all the text is backwards in game to compensate but mouse is still flipped left/right #godot #peppersghost

A horror murder mystery that takes place on a Cruise ship