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In my zelda-like the player has to program ancient robots to solve puzzles. The player can also build and upgrade her own robot companion, that can be used to discover the world even further and help out where it's needed😎 #madewithgodot #robotics #programming #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Just finished prepping the code for the first episode for a new Godot Tutorial mini series. How to Create a Procedural Cave System using Cellular Automata (in Godot). #madewithgodot #proceduralgeneration #godotengine

Brainstorming game ideas with the kid. I think we landed on a game with a cat that catches mice in a maze🤔 #gamedev #godotengine

After math, reading, writing and a bit of Japanese, today's homeschooling project turned out to be yet another LED circuit. This time my daughter wanted to make a halloween creeper, and she insisted that I recorded the first try (I wanted to make a test first, but no, no)😅 #electronics #makerkids

I wanna Share some cool stuff, after the first playtest it was painfully obvious that the original placeholder terrain had run it course. so i am currently cooking up a new one. with the help of the amazing @makertech.bsky.social's tutorials on youtube. 😍🚂🚃🚃🚃 #IndieGameDev #Godot #RailroadTycoon

I am very lucky to have a child that enjoys making projects like this as much as I do! And I think going to Hannover MakerFaire last weekend inspired her even more🤩 Today we experimented with conductive tape, LEDs and coin cell batteries. #electronics #makerkids #makerfaire #makermovement

It seems that I’m a bit out of practice after taking some time off for the summer☀️ The ~8 minutes video I had planned landed on 17 minutes. Which of course is also the reason why editing ended up taking twice as long as expected😅 #godotengine #tutorial #gamedev

We are closing in on the end of summer. Which means it is time to get back to working more regularly. It is also a perfect occasion to break in the new cup I bought at Hannover Maker Faire this weekend🤩 #godotengine #makerfaire

The weather is too good to stay inside, so here is my office for the day☀️☀️☀️ When I need a break or a snack I can go pick peas and strawberries while I listen to the birds singing from the forest🤩

Look what I just got in the mail🤩 The poor fellow is feeling a bit alone and can’t wait until Godette shows up as well! #godotengine #godotplushie

“Mom, I want to make a game for the tv when I grow up” “Hm, sounds fun. I can’t make a game for the Switch, but if we find a simple idea we can finish, then we can make a game you can play on your iPad?” I guess we just figured out what our next large homeschooling project is going to be?🥳

“What do you do professionally” was a common question at GodotCon. It can be hard to answer without oversharing🤔 Our kids are homeschooled. Homeschooling isn’t common in Denmark and is illegal in several European countries. This is what I made with our 7yo on Monday. Today we are doing statistics📊

One week! We went away for one week. And the rhubarb just completely exploded in growth. I guess it’s time to make some home made sour sweets! And maybe a cake or two…

I just finished reworking my inventory system, so it's possible to transfer items between inventories. Robots can now pick up items as well! I'm not 100% sure this is the best solution for this game. But I'll keep it like this for now 😎 #madewithgodot #zeldalike #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

A lot happened in our kitchen garden while we were in Amsterdam. I can't help but get inspired. Especially after GodotCon. Now I'm trying to convince my husband that we should do a Godot + Arduino project to keep track of the garden. A real life farming game of some sort🌱😅 #godotengine #gamedev

GodotCon is over. It was awesome and I even managed to meet new people🥳 I’m exhausted and post-con blues is real! My 7 yo is annoyed at me because I didn’t buy her a Godot Tulip pin and/or a GodotCon tulip t-tshirt (I foolishly only picked up a sticker for her🙄😅). #godotcon #godotengine

First day of #godotcon is over. It has been a day filled with amazing talks, nice people and cool games to try out. And merch of course. I might also have ordered the new Godette plushie😅: www.makeship.com/products/god...

I leave for Amsterdam in two days and I just got these two delivered. So if you see either of these at #godotcon, come say hi! I kind of regret not getting both as a hoodie tho. It is such a nice quality and I can definitely see myself using it as a spring/summer jacket🤩 #godotengine

I leave for Amsterdam in two days and I just got these two delivered. So if you see either of these at #godotcon, come say hi! I kind of regret not getting both as a hoodie tho. It is such a nice quality and I can definitely see myself using it as a spring/summer jacket🤩 #godotengine

The next Godot voxel video is finally being recorded and edited. I’ve decided to divide the script into two videos. Once these are done, I’m going to work on other projects for a while. Voxels are a bit too complex when I also have a child that currently needs a little extra nurturing.

I had a bug where the robots would stop working and block if I started them quickly after each other. I've been ignoring it for months, but today I managed to find the problem within an hour😅 Now I just need a button for starting them all at once🤩 #madewithgodot #godotengine #zeldalike #programming

My Godot Voxel Terrain Project is now open source on GitHub: github.com/MakerTechDK/... Whenever I release a new video for this, the code will be exclusive for Patreons the first month, and then pushed to the public GitHub afterwards. #madewithgodot #godotengine #opensource #voxelterrain

Yesterday I finally had more than 30 minutes to myself, and got Binary Greedy Meshing using Integers and bit shifting to work. It seems to be ~33% faster than my regular Greedy Meshing algorithm. I havn't looked into if it could be optimized further or would be faster in C++. #godotengine #voxels

Don't mind me, I'm just over here destroying my voxel project😅 Also known as in the process of figuring out how to create a binary mesh using bit tricks🥳 #madewithgodot #godotengine #voxelterrain #greedymeshing

I'll be at GodotCon in Amsterdam and I'm bringing goodiebags! Inside is a keychain, sticker, button, an exclusive set of game assets and some candy (I'll be buying later, of course). I'll be handing them out for free 🎁

Echo now has a few menus. And now I'm realizing I forgot to add a pause menu with an option to exit to the main menu... Next is exporting and uploading to Itch. And then hopefully I will have time to make the player a bit slower for a while when the wall is hit. #madewithgodot #gamejam #godot

Echo is now playable (-ish). With a random start and random goal. The cave system is connected. And we can create a new random game or replay the same. Next up is creating a main menu and make it possible to create a game from a specific seed. #madewithgodot #godotengine #gamejam

Life and a kid that didn't want to go to school stole 2-3 days of the game jam. I guess this is going to be a very limited scope game😅 Anyways, I just managed to get the algorithm to connect rooms to work. #proceduralgeneration #madewithgodot #godotengine #gamejam #cellularautomata #cavegeneration

We now have access to powerful and complex tools at no cost, it can be overwhelming. Sometimes the best way to spark creativity is to add contrains. Try restricting your color palette, or work with just cubes, or even try a more limited tool. Boundaries can push you!

And now we have the water cave drawn using simple marching squares🤩 #madeusinggodot #godotengine #gamejam #marchingsquares #proceduralgeneration

Sometimes you just need to spend two days working on a bug that just doesn't make sense. In the end you will see that you wrote 'pos' instead of 'n_pos' and thus didn't really count the number of neighbour walls as you thought... Cellular automata is now working for Echos level generation. #godot

Echo dev, day 2. I didn't have much time to work on this today, but I implemented a basic cellular automata cave generation. Or I though I did - each iteration isn't actually changing the initial noise and I'm to tired to figure out why😅 To be continued! #gamejam #madewithgodot #godotengine

Instead of moving on the level generation as planned, I drew two water tiles and looked for shaders, that could help improve the water feel of the game. I'll look at level generation to night (if the kids fall asleep quickly) or tomorrow. #gamejam #madewithgodot #godotengine

Okay, here we go @jackiecodes.bsky.social Jackie Jam #3 - Signal I'm not sure I'll have time to finish this jam, but inspiration struck, and here we are. This is two hours in. The player is a small underwater vessel using sonar (signal) to navigate. #madewithgodot #godotengine #gamejam

It is finally time for a new voxel tutorial & devlog! In this video we are looking into how the RayCast3D node works, how we can use this to find the block the player is looking at, and then make it possible for the player to add and remove blocks at runtime. youtu.be/EfNwclZ4x7g #madewithgodot

I don't have time for a game jam right now. I don't have time for a game jam right now.. I don't ha... wait signal? Sonar?? Underwater... Wait, no! I don't have time for new ideas this weekend - I need to prep a Minecraft party😅 (Go check out Jackies game jam!)

I finally sorted out all the things that went wrong in the fragment shader🥳 Now the colors are added correctly from the shader. And I can move on to optimizing the binary meshing using bit tricks🤩 #greedymeshing #godotengine #voxeldev #madeingodot

Binary Mesh and transferring voxel data to the fragment shader using 3D textures to add colors isn't that difficult! Right? Right??? (I might need a bit more than the 30 minutes I had to myself this morning to figure this out😅) #madewithgodot #godotengine #voxelterrain #shaders

GodotCon Amsterdam here we go! 📅 23-24 of April 🎟️ Get your tickets: tickets.godotengine.org/foundation/g... 📣 Submit your proposals: talks.godotengine.org/godotcon-ams...

Multi tasking day. Watching the winter olympics while recording video for a voxel tutorial/devlog and editing a Scratch video. I‘m hoping to also find time to work a bit on my little puzzle game for my math hungry youngest child! #madewithgodot #godotengine #voxelterrain #gamedev

This is why shaders are always so fun to work with. The end result might not always be that difficult to understand. But you get fun results while you try to remember how everything works! #madewithgodot #voxeldev #voxelterrain #shaders #godotengine

Rotten Oranges anyone? I'm testing out a few ideas for small puzzle games inspired by algorithms and/or graph theory problems. Target audience is our youngest child and other math exited kids like her. First up is the Rotten Orange Problem. #madewithgodot #godotengine #puzzlegame #mathgame

Did Greedy Meshing end up increasing the FPS of my Godot Voxel Terrain? In this video I’ll show you how I set up experiments and collected data to properly compare the frame rate when using Greedy Meshing versus a simpler meshing algorithm. #madewithgodot #voxeldev #godotengine #voxelterrain

Found the inventory tutorial by @makertech.bsky.social super helpful for Life's Too Short! So a big thank you ❤️ Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/4209750/... #indiegamedeveloper #godot

Here's the tutorial mentioned, helped me make sense of ArrayMesh and creating a mesh from points! (why do the Godot docs on it go straight to a sphere???) www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfqf...

Got distracted, started tinkering with another idea I had for a campground sim. Wanted to get an idea of how to proc gen a campsite area based on what the player clears out. Big thanks to @makertech.bsky.social for their array mesh tutorial, it was a huge help! #godot #gamedev #indiedev

What is Greedy Meshing? Why might you want to use this for your voxel terrain? And will implementing the algorithm in C# make it run faster than if we just use GDScript? This, and more, is what my newest video is about. #madewithgodot #voxelterrain

I've had such a productive day today (the ~3.5 hours I can work) Some things I did: * Wrote a big chunk of the script the next voxel video * Created a problem generator for our new math app * Started to work on a backend 'skill tree' to make the app adaptive #madewithgodot #godotengine #mathapp

The kids are testing the very first simple prototype of our new math app / game🤩 #mathgame #madewithgodot #godotengine