JeroMiya

Teaching myself how to create 3D tilemaps for Godot in Blender. I'm very new at this heh. I can't seem to get the lighting to look very good #gamedev #learning

Got a question for all y'all doing indy #gamedev out there: Where can you find music and sound effects assets that are reliably human-made? I'm committed to never putting AI #slop in anything I release to the public, but #gamemusic is just not one of my strengths atm and so much slop is out there

I've basically avoided all asset stores because I can't verify that the assets weren't model generated. That's fine for code, and even for 2D UI and 3D model assets. But music... man, I've spent hours trying to learn, and gotta be honest, I haven't produced anything I like lol.

The two topics I don't hear anyone selling AI coding services talking about in depth are: model collapse, and intentional model vulnerability poisoning, now able to be done at scale (particularly by state actors who now have their own private unrestricted models to generate poisoned training data)

It's interesting to me the perception of modern retro style pixel art games varies not just by what generation of games you grew up in, but also whether you primarily played PC or console at the time. I myself played console growing up, so I prefer CRT effects over modern pixel art styles.

However, I know many people who either started playing games after the LCD era of TVs or played games primarily on PC or the LCD handhelds - and they seem to prefer unfiltered "sharp" pixel art, which is totally valid, especially if the art was designed for that.

I enjoy watching experts talk about what types of games succeed on #steam, but yeah it makes me sad that my favorite genres are firmly in the "don't sell well on steam" category. But then I remember this is a hobby and I won't need them to sell well to feed my family, so I can make what I want :P

Although I have decades of enterprise #programming under my belt, I've really enjoyed learning #gamedev as beginner. One of my early blockers was "I can do the programming part, but not the modeling|music part", but pleasantly surprised at my progress at least on the modeling part.

One thing I struggled with when #modeling is translating different coordinate systems between #blender and the various game engines (e.g. #godot and #strideengine). One thing that helped is making a simple box model colored with the axis and test imported it into the engines. And I took notes!

Although I have decades of enterprise #programming under my belt, I've really enjoyed learning #gamedev as beginner. One of my early blockers was "I can do the programming part, but not the modeling|music part", but pleasantly surprised at my progress at least on the modeling part.

I'm currently focused on learning beginning #gamedev concepts in various engines (I've been learning #unity, #godot, and @stride3d.bsky.social). My current inspiration is old school flat shaded polygon era, so Star Fox, Avara, and this hidden gem Vortex for SNES

This is me experimenting with physics based enemy scripts and a world-space target indicator heh, this one is slightly terrifying

I'm currently focused on learning beginning #gamedev concepts in various engines (I've been learning #unity, #godot, and @stride3d.bsky.social). My current inspiration is old school flat shaded polygon era, so Star Fox, Avara, and this hidden gem Vortex for SNES