Sara Madison

Halloween is the best time to brainstorm horror game ideas 🎃 One of these days I might actually implement one 🥹

The engine gave Lisa Rivera under a 1% chance of losing the ball, and Mary Villarreal's hand got to it anyway: the red team's strip pops the ball loose. Nobody scripted it. #devlog #indiedev #dataviz #indiegamedev #sportsviz #indiegame #gamedev #basketball #gamedesign #sportsanalytics #hoops #webgl

Working on a "forward assist" to help #mobile players keep momentum. 🏃‍♂️💨 Note how my DPad input can be held forward and at times she'll turn around a corner without needing to stop or lift the thumb. Needs work, but it's getting there! #ScreenshotSaturday #IndieDev #GameDev #GameScreens

Gen alpha can't even use a keyboard 🤣

Thinking about the AI asset witch hunts I keep thinking about disney rotoscoping and repurposing their existing animations. Even disney couldn't afford to pay artists.

I understand in some contexts being anti AI art. I'd think it would be silly to go to a museum and there to be AI generated art (even if it was good) next to real art... But witch hunting over using ai for game assets feels silly. 🤷‍♀️

AR ghost hunting in your own home is actually legit terrifying 👻

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 #gamedev #vfx #rtvfx #VR #metaquest #quest #handtracking

Anyone running different prompts, same model, to eval to what extent context stuffing and long detailed prompts actually produce better code? I'm wondering if I'm wasting time telling it stuff it can figure out on it's own because 6 months ago thats what it needed...

Just played fnaf in vr for the first time in a few years... it's as terrifying as I remember... horror games are a perfect match for VR. I can't imagine what the truly scary games are like if I can't handle a giant chicken looking at me.

it's pouring. the squirrel waters them anyway. Evergrowing is on Steam now, wishlist it if you like. #indiedev #gamedev #cozygames #pixelart

Better start running .... https://veilshore.com/tca/ #IndieDev #GameDev

Is the day of the week a descriptive enough commit message? 🥹

I predict unreal engine 6 will have full support for blueprints, maybe through a plugin or something but no way they abandon them entirely.

People who aren’t using AI to code at this point are delusional or lying, trying to ride a horse down the highway and backing up the traffic instead of asking “what can we do to make cars safer and electric.” They have no ethical high ground

atproto record for breathalyzer results 👀

Cursor showing new features every time I start it up

Do all college kids still have laptops or is even that changing? I'm not getting old and 100% out of touch am I? 😭

My new level design reel is up. 👀 Systemic RPG encounters, stealth spaces, traversal, and a few questionable tactical decisions packed into 90 seconds...ish. Would love to know which project catches your eye most: youtu.be/gfSA8VBUVlQ #LevelDesign #GameDev #GameDesign #PortfolioReel

ngl, kinda hate how AI phobic the gamedev space currently is... gamedev maybe more than anything else could benefit from the productivity boost. how many games never got finished because they were too ambitious? Come at me 🥊 #gamedev

Is the speed of AI coding tools going to level off soon? I'd like to get into the space but it feels useless when 6 months from now the landscape may be entirely different. Kinda hoping for an "AI Art" kind of slow down where it peaked and we know what roles humans are still needed for

In my element, frolicking. #pixel-art #game-design #godot #gamedev #game-dev #2dgame #indiedev #indiegame

I've recently discovered night walks 😎

Moving into the time of the year when it's too hot to go outside. Now we can be productive again 🥳

Whys my back only hurt when I have work to do? Am I subconsciously sabotaging myself wtf?

Never trust someone who claims to consistently do more than 4 hours of focused work a day They're on meth!

Too much? Someone is trying to stand out from the crowd. Blending in was getting exhausting! #GameDev #PixelArt #IndieDev #CreatureDesign

this is close to light, a rhythm game about staying far from dark #indiegame #rhythmgame #gamedev

The Postman Cometh - Play catch with a bird! Wishlist and play the demo! store.steampowered.com/app/4367700/... #gamedev #indiegamedev #indie #unity #videogames #gaming

is the bluesky api down?

YES. YES. YEEEEEEEEEESSSSS!!! This is what I was looking for 😎. The ActivityPub and ATProtocol integrations will be really useful for the comment section of my blog posts once this is out (and I finally buy the hosting & domain for it 😅). #wordpress #blogging #atproto #activitypub

How about #buildinprivate where you slave away on your app that will never go anywhere and you never tell anyone about it? 🙃

You're tasked with building a UI. Would you rather have too much content to display, or not enough content to display? 🤔

I somehow found the motivation to grind really hard for an arbitrary goal date I set in my head, april 17th. No real deadlines just a date I set for myself with things I wanted done. And I've been completely stuck in the mud ever since... wtf? 😥 How to trick myself into working hard again? 🤔

We need good funding models for #atproto things: 1) to create opportunities for all the people who would love to make a living by working on something meaningful, *and also* 2) so we can all benefit together from each other's skills, ideas and energy. the-better-future.offprint.app/a/3mkommpvxr...

Does installHook.js have different behavior with uncaught exceptions or something? Confused about uncaught exceptions in my app and not even cursor knows wtf is going on.

A question I struggle with is how much background knowledge on some library do I need before jumping in and using it? My instinct is the read the entire documenation and thats obviously very wrong.

I've been blaming cursor for crashing my computer every day but I'm now suspicious that I have a ton of media queries in useEffects in my app and it just goes crazy when I resize the screen... should probably debounce it or something 🧐

testing out some gameplay in made pirate- doom-clone from scratch #gameDev #indieGame #solodev #games #gameDevelopment #customEngine

A sketch of a zombie with long hair - inspired by the old idea of restless dead with hair and nails that keeps growing long after they've been buried #pixelart #украрт

I need to commit to learning pixel art. I keep starting and then before I know it a months gone by and I forgot all the keyboard shortcuts and stuff and then a year goes by 😭

A frame-by-frame breakdown of the new running animation I made recently. I’m still very happy with how it turned out and I’m looking forward to upgrading the rest of the movement animations! #pixelart #animation #gamedev

People are starting to choose sides for the upcoming war on vibecoding