Rune Skovbo Johansen

Hi! I'm Rune, a full-time solo indie game developer (art, design, code, ...). After releasing my first game 'Eye of the Temple' I've been busy developing procedural generation tech for my current game 'The Big Forest'. I often post about it; here's a sampling of my experiments. #GameDev #ProcGen

Improvised a little lampshade shader that imitates scattered light from inside. Code and details in the comments! :) #gamedev

The corner restaurant has finally opened #gamedev #indiedev

The Incident at Galley House ended up being our favorite deduction game since Obra Dinn. Time-and-place-mechanics aside, why on Earth are the people acting so strangely? The conversations, and some curious psychological phenomena, are simply expertly written. store.steampowered.com/app/3641000/...

I updated LayerProcGen to version 0.5.0 with a small assortment of fixes and improvements. github.com/runevision/L... #ProcGen

I made a cozy game where rivers actually flow. Shape the land, paint forests, add a river, and watch the water find its own way 💙 Cozy Country is out now on Android and Steam nimianlegends.com/cozycountry

Someone suggested that I make a forest out of the procedural trees that I made for GIC. So here it is. A forest walk, but the parameter range gets gradually wider. Don't mind the low view distance, the trees aren't optimized at all 😅 www.youtube.com/watch?v=xF9I... #gamedev #procgen

I made it possible to make sloped walls in my relaxing building game 🌳🏡Island architect🏡🌳 Starting to really feel like the buildings system is coming together, with a good balance of flexibility and it just doing the sensible thing for you. #gamedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #cozygames

I'm working on adding large-scale structure to my procedural terrain based on Voronoi-esque cells. Down the line, this allows me all kinds of level design control not possible with traditional noise functions. For now I've tested it with largely flat cells at 3 heights. #GameDev #IndieDev #ProcGen

New website, new weird layout! jonikorpi.com Scroll down to skim through sections, scroll right to drill into a section. Same idea on all devices.

ok here we go 🍝 Spaghetti Celesti: Devour the Heavens ⛅ is out now for free!! 🍴 the best pixel spaghetti of your life ↪️ prepare them & fork them perfectly ⭐ get those 5-stars reviews 😡 and be quick ! the people are hangry play it at punkcake.itch.io/spaghetti-celesti #fallingblockjam #pixelart

DASHR - Dynamically Animated Skinned Heightfield Rendering Short video for now - I might do a longer one later? youtu.be/-Su9YrcazRk But there's ALL the details in the paper, and you can always Use The Source, Luke for the really deep info. github.com/tomforsyth10...

Made some progress on windows for my relaxing building game Island Architect! Placing windows now makes actual holes in the building! Will also make it possible to vary the window style, add details and more! Also glass roofs for greenhouses. #screenshotsaturday #indiegames #indiegamedev

Astrophotographer Adam (AJ) Smadi caught this image a few hours ago from Washington state. A thin crescent Moon, sunlight illuminating the rugged lunar surface. And 2,400 times farther away—and on the other side of the Sun—mighty Jupiter, and its moons Io (left) and Ganymede (right).

Accidentally found an optical illusion. #Blender #MotionGraphics #OpArt

"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."

I work from home, but recently started frequently walking my partner to her workplace 2 km away to get a bit more out the door. With a slight detour, I can take this wooden walkway along the river on the way back. And we live in the city center, mind you! Did I mention I like living in Turku?

MinerMancers Dev Log 2 is up! This time I'm talking about the procedural map generation system I've been working on lately. Hope you like it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWL9... #indiegame #devlog

Join me for a sunrise walk? I've implemented time-of-day, better atmospheric scattering, airglow so the night sky isn't pitch black, boosted ambient lighting in the dark, and carefully managed transitions. Still missing an actual sun 🤦, moon, stars, and sunrise time stretching. #GameDev #IndieDev

A timelapse of invisible-particle-based cloud movement. Still happy with how these turned out! #indiedev #gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday

Knytt has been faitfully recreated by @bitkidgames.com to run on current operating systems and was just released on Steam and GOG, completely free Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/2656050/...

Added a bit of noise to the moon disk so it doesn't look flat. Here are some glamour shots of the newly added moon (bonus eclipse)! #gamedev #indiegame #procgen

What's that?? 👀 A new devlog about my village building game! 🤯 It only took me 7 months 😅 Enjoy: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWrk...

Cornish sunset, phone camera, and also through binoculars!

🔴🟡🔵 BIG WALK 🔴🟡🔵 Out now on Steam, Nintendo Switch 2, and PlayStation 5. Hooray!

A new tapestry

Steve Streeting, founder of the open source Ogre3D game engine way back in the day, is currently making an Unreal-based online multiplier game with silly wizards together with his partner. He just uploaded his first devlog video here:

In my game Rhythm Doggo, when a NPC dog should jump from a platform to another, it calculates exactly which jump strength it should have to land at the correct spot given the position, velocity and acceleration That code worked perfectly. Selecting which side of the platform to jump from did not

horse with human hands i love you, i love you, horse with human hands

Stay hydrated, everyone. 💦 #gamedev #indiedev #GodotEngine