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While I was trying to convince myself to get out of bed this morning, I pictured a honey badger wearing bright red booty shorts and a hoodie with the drawstrings pulled tight just absolutely destroying a huge snake. I don’t know why.

I know I already shared this but I just made my in-browser galaxy map into the landing page for my game’s website and I love it so much, please try it! This is a passion project I’ve been wanting to make for about 20 years now. It’s alive! filamentum.space #gamedev #indiedev #astronomy #space

filamentum.space/galaxy I made a #galaxy with over a million stars you can explore in your browser. It's the very same galaxy that will be in my game, #filamentum. Help me find some cool systems with habitable planets! If you find one, reply to this post with the URL to show me! #gamedev #indiedev

Alright, I need help from fellow #space #game lovers. Two screenshots here of the same galaxy tuned differently. Which one looks better and why did you pick that one? #gamedev #indiedev #filamentum

When you finally get the galactic dust rendering just right #gamedev #indiedev #space #filamentum filamentum.space

1. see cool island, fly to it 2. see cool mountain on island, fly to it 3. stand on mountain #gamedev #indiedev #space #game #filamentum

Love it when a good algorithm comes together. This is just a debug view, but this algorithm now works on an entire planet on the fly, producing plausible erosion artifacts in real-time on normal PC hardware. (the rivers need work, of course.) #terrain #gamedev #indiedev #filamentum #space #game

I #make other stuff too. Here’s a tiny step stool I made for my kid so she can reach the bathroom sink and we can get the giant step stool out of the tiny bathroom. Made it out of white oak scraps from another project! #woodworking

Made a quick test harness for my #terrain #development, then spent a little too long making it pretty. No regrets. Gotta fix those weird spikes though. #gamedev #indiedev #space #game #filamentum

Far from perfect or done, but I'm really enjoying how my planet generator is turning out. #space #game #gamedev #indiedev #filamentum

Oh hey, I forgot about social media again. Anyway, here’s my planet. It has plate tectonics, erosion, a climate model, ocean currents, wind, etc. Oh, and if you go digging you’ll find geologically mostly-correct rock strata. #gamedev #space #game #filamentum

Does anyone read long-form blog style posts about #gamedev anymore? I was thinking about starting one about my space game but I’m skeptical that anyone would read it.

Seriously, this gas giant generator turned out... really nice. #space #astronomy #indiedev #gamedev #rendering #graphics #game

Here it is, the culmination of a week of experimentation. A fully real-time, physics-based gas giant. #indiedev #gamedev #astronomy #space #game

Wasting too much time tweaking gas giants in my #space #game, but at least I get to enjoy cool shots like this occasionally... #gamedev #indiedev #tweaking

Working on improving the look of the gas giants in my #space #game. Fixing up the terminator line and adding backscatter really did a lot. #gamedev #indiedev #astronomy

I love planetary rings, man. Anyone have ideas for improving them further? #gamedev #indiedev #space #game

I switched to realistic scaling in my #space #game and then found this M-class star with huge gas giants orbiting closely. It made for a really dramatic shot. Kind of in disbelief that I made this! #gamedev #indiedev

Starting to be able to make interesting shapes now. The cool part is that since it's all in-engine, I could store the cage mesh rather than the final mesh. Detailing can be built out of explicit features rather than baked into the mesh. #indiedev #gamedev #space #scalarfield

decentralized social media is not a privacy play. it is a resilience play. no single company can kill it.

Did I really need to recreate Blender in my game engine? No, probably not. But it's pretty cool. Maybe you can see where this is going... #gamedev #indiedev #space #game

Playing around with a starship drive plume effect. It's not really based on real physics or anything, but it's meant to invoke feelings of magnetically contained fusion...? #space #gamedev #physics #vfx

ok fine you can have a fly-through #space #gamedev #indiedev

Okay, got an animated view of the Glow for you to enjoy. #space #gamedev #indiedev

I'm still on the #space game but it's getting pretty weird. Like... really weird. This is a view from inside the Glow. #gamedev #indiedev

Just basic shadow volumes, a super old technique. But it's a unique situation (one light source, only spherical shadow casters) so it's a cheap way to boost fidelity a *lot*.

#atmosphere #indiedev #gamedev #space #proceduralgeneration #procegen #whichhashtaggetsmenoticedmore

If you like the #space stuff I've been working on and want to be involved, I have a Discord server! discord.gg/zUpvGa5wJb #indiedev #gamedev #proceduralgeneration

I shall name this planet Florida #indiedev #gamedev #proceduralgeneration #space

I've been hard at work on the space game. Planet generation isn't quite there yet, but the progress is fun. #proceduralgeneration #gamedev #space #galaxy #planets

Great progress today. You can now focus on an individual star, and see it in detail. When you're focused on a star, the galaxy gets rendered to a cubemap and used as a skybox. Totally seamless. Next up is a nice corona effect on the stars... #gamedev #space #proceduralgeneration

imagine living on a planet orbiting a star in the galaxy's halo. what a night sky you'd have #space #gamedev #galaxy