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Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

Serious Bigness is coming soon! Wishlist now on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/4950640/... Looking for more kaiju for your crew? Join the official Gutsy Games Discord! discord.com/invite/M2SBF... #Indiegames #IndieDev #SeriousBigness #Steam #Kaiju #multiplayer #coopgaming

While I usually perceive scope creep as a negative thing, I have spent so many evenings making Sue move in more fluid and fun way. Juggles! Dodges! Specials! Combos! Throws! I think I am finally at the point in which I can focus on building the world for her to wreck. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

Normal companies spend months in meetings, strategy sessions, market research, stakeholder discussions and board approvals before making a major business decision. Me: hm maybe Kenney Shape should be free lol

Kenney Shape is now FREE! (and it'll remain free, forever) ✨ Previously a paid tool, I'm releasing it as a gift to the community. Today's update will be the final one, with no further updates planned. That way I can focus on new software & projects! kenney.itch.io/kenney-shape

-What's in the box? -Pain. Frank Herbert, Dune The reapers have been harvested.

Throws were quite complex, but I'm done! You can throw enemy into terrain, destructibles, even other enemies. Also some test buildings for #kaiju destruction added. All the basic mechanics are in, the combat feels FUN. Now we go on to the asset creation and level design. #gamedev #indiedev #godot

Dodges are IN!

Added new movement options - charge and spin attack. The combat of The Tiny Kaiju Game feels more and more fluid. Only couple more left - dodge, throw and special, and I'm starting to work on art and level design for the demo. #indiedev #gamedev #godot #kaiju

We are moving to a new location, and one of the thing we are bringing is a kid's bed. I unscrewed majority of it with a power tool but then there were two very specific hidden screws that I couldn't get to. Luckily I had a spare one of those with me and it just barely fit. Felt triumphant.

My @godotengine.org kits are now available on the Godot Asset Store, completely free. Use these templates as a starter for your next game, or to learn from! 🎁 store.godotengine.org/publisher/ke...

As a person who used to be THAT KID, reading all about astronomy, looking through telescopes, religiously reading any space related news, it takes a special kind of person to make me root against rockets. And yet here I am.

Capitalist states are gonna call it terrorism when people rise up against the billionaires destroying our societies & our world, when people resist fascist anti-immigrant violence and the ultra rich stealing our resources & ruining our economies. That will occur but it cant stop people resisting

While yeah, all the newer systems and consoles running on Ayn Thor are really cool, the capabilty to easily run 486+ era games in DOSBox is that little extra that makes it magical for me.

My toxic trait is that I won't trust any tier list that doesn't follow gaussian distribution.

Not gamedev or wildlife related, but if you have any spare time, check this out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Dvu...

Ayn Thor is amazing. Managed to get my game running on it via GameNative. Wooo!

I think given the scale @godotengine.org is now at, this is an incredibly incisive approach to combat generative AI's awful impact on people, code, and communication. Also focusing the ban policy on access & pull requests is a smart way of eliminating huge parts of the problem in a practical way.

Here is the same thing without position and scale tweening. The texture on the right defines what part of the button will be pushed when pressed. When pressed, An "offset_factor" shader parameter is tweened: UV.y+ texture(gradient_mask,UV).r-0.5) * offset_factor #Godot #GameDev

If you ever bought McPixel, you can play McPixel for the rest of your life. If the store is gone let me know I will show you where to get it. If you ever pirated McPixel and the torrent tracker is gone, let me know and i will show you where to pirate McPixel.

My game isn’t even out yet and it has already been cloned three times.

Holy carp! Katamari x Carrion! So cool! Gotta love kaiju games!

About 10 years ago I hear the last call of golden oriole around these parts. More and more cats started roaming in the fields and I thought that the birds stopped coming. But this morning I heard the unmistakable whistles of what is one of my favorite birds singing outside my window. I am so happy.

Fantastic! Can't wait to see more creators joining Godot with this news.

We've been working on replacing the Asset Library with something built for the present and future. Here's what's coming. #godotengine godotengine.org/article/intr...

Ok, screw cutscenes. How in the everlovin flippin heck do ledges and cliffs in a 2D beat em up work? I spent the entire night thinking about edge cases regarding both in-game jump/movement pseudo-3D physics and AI interactions and I'm barely conscious now.

Sometimes it's the features you don't expect that are the most complex. In my game, that was the internal scripted event player I designed the framework with it in mind, with all the inputs routed through hot-swappable components, but even basic implementation still was somehow more than I expected

It's friday! Time to *checks notes* continue working on my game!

As I'm getting deeper into the project and started adding more complex overlaying and interacting systems, I have decided to take some time off to do a little cleanup. Little cleanup had me working till 2:30am yesterday and I'm still in the trenches, with like 50% more to go. Ouch.

obra dinn but you try to figure out how did it end up like this, it was only a kiss, it was only a kiss

What if I added kaiju to Lazy Kickers?

I'm doing first draft of playable character skins for The Tiny Kaiju Game and having tons of fun. #indiedev

Adding support for multiplayer. Different kaiju color schemes and multiple input sources support is ready. Now only thing left is to actually spawn multiple kaijus and have enemies interact with them properly. This will be easy, surely. Right? RIGHT?

Today, the day of the Met Gala, the unionized workers of the Met posted this image to their Instagram. www.instagram.com/p/DX64ioYjecG/

Experimenting with hue shifting shader is fun. While not perfect, as I am looking at the results, I can get like 8 distinct-enough colors. Ok, now the question presents itself: dare I implement 8 person multiplayer in my beat em up? I'm not sure if I'm crazy enough. #indiedev #godot

Testing how different Sue colors for multiplayer would look if I'd hue-shift 4 main colors in fragment shader. Not bad to be frank. At this point I did it by eyeballing it in aseprite, but the principle seems sound.