Steve Streeting

store.steampowered.comMinerMancers on SteamMinerMancers is a co-op action game about under-appreciated wizards going mining together. You and up to 3 friends will cast spells, mine resources, fight monsters, and above all get back alive so you...

11 June

MinerMancers is live on Steam! store.steampowered.com/app/3223050/... It's a game about silly wizards going mining together. Delve alone or with friends to satisfy your employer's demand for magical resources. This is a labour of love by my wife & I; there's a ways to go, but we're doing it 😄

youtube.comMinerMancers DevLog 2: ProcGen!YouTube video by Steve Streeting

4 Sept

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

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23 Aug

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youtu.beMinerMancers DevLog 1YouTube video by Steve Streeting

14 Aug

Forgot to mention all the gameplay footage in MinerMancers Dev Log 1 was shot with 4 players, and I was just a client, I wasn’t locally hosting. The host was 300 miles away, so local prediction was smoothing the edges off the lag, especially for spells. Did you notice? 🙂 youtu.be/-wdz4vMpIzA?...

youtu.beMinerMancers DevLog 1YouTube video by Steve Streeting

31 July

I've posted my first MinerMancers dev log! Finally! 😄 Do let me know what you'd like to hear about next, if you have a preference. If a particular subject gets more requests I'll be sure to prioritise it. Hope you enjoy! youtu.be/-wdz4vMpIzA

23 July

Suits you, Sir

28 Apr

Switched to an AGX tonemapper for MinerMancers, and I really like how it retains the vibrancy of the colours much better than ACES did, especially when bright. It’s much closer to how HDR looked before, to the extent that I’ll probably drop the HDR path now since it was fiddly anyway

11 Apr

Object scattering system is starting to make open areas in MinerMancers levels feel a little more interesting 🧙‍♂️⛏️ #screenshotsaturday

20 Mar

Squishy mushrooms

10 Mar

WIP decorative ground object growth system for MinerMancers. Kind of an L-System, everything grows out of a single point

14 Dec 2025

New lobber enemy (I affectionately refer to them as my lobby boys) making poison clouds and hiding behind things, annoyingly

5 Nov 2025

Explosions can now destroy diggable areas. Now we're mining!💥⛏️

5 Nov 2025

Explosions now apply force to things!

1 Nov 2025

Minermancers spell work this week: physics objects and AOEs! Here’s a bouncing explosive barrel spell that’s fun to play with Getting client prediction and smooth replication working on physics objects was fiddly but it works now.

25 Oct 2025

Minermancers progress this week: spray-style spells. Multiplayer predicted, and the underlying damage shapes are properly simulated to match the particle effects

25 Oct 2025

Here’s the debug display of the spray on the server; expanding damage probes which automatically fill the space given cone angle / velocity settings. Much better than a fixed cone overlap test which wouldn’t track spray motion properly. It also clips against geometry so it doesn’t go through walls

25 Oct 2025

The particle systems clip against geometry as well

15 Oct 2025

SUDS Pro is on sale! It's my #unrealengine dialogue plugin that lets you use text files to write dialogue, direct camera cuts, character animation and more. If you prefer writing dialogue like a script, I think this is a nice way to do it. Reposts appreciated! www.fab.com/listings/3e3...

github.comGitHub - Nehipasta/UnrealGuidFixer: UE5 Plugin for resolving conflicting material and texture GUIDs that cause errors in Unreal buildsUE5 Plugin for resolving conflicting material and texture GUIDs that cause errors in Unreal builds - Nehipasta/UnrealGuidFixer

6 Oct 2025

This GUID fixer for UE saved me today. I suddenly started getting startup crashes in Game/Packaged builds in the texture streaming system, turns out that a couple of textures had ended up with the same GUID somehow. https://github.com/Nehipasta/UnrealGuidFixer

store.steampowered.comSave 40% on Minishoot' Adventures on SteamFly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!

5 Oct 2025

Another indie game that I’ve been really enjoying this weekend: Minishoot Adventures. Basically “what if 2D Zelda was a twin-stick shmup”. Lovely clean art, charming, rewards looking for secrets, top notch https://store.steampowered.com/app/1634860/Minishoot_Adventures/

store.steampowered.comSave 40% on Thank Goodness You're Here! on SteamThank Goodness You're Here! is an absurd comedy slapformer set in the bizarre Northern English town of Barnsworth. As a traveling salesman, take the time to see the sights and meet the locals, who are very eager to give you a series of increasingly odd jobs…

5 Oct 2025

Enjoyed playing through Thank Goodness You’re Here last night. Bonkers and slightly surreal with enough “thee’s” and “thou’s” to remind me of my late grandfather. Gotta wonder how well it translates though 😂 https://store.steampowered.com/app/2366980/Thank_Goodness_Youre_Here/

Switched our lobby level back to static lighting today. Old skool tweaking lightmap resolutions. I regret nothing, it's all we need and it runs like butter

Mission levels are still 100% dynamic of course because almost everything is mutable. But faking more complex lighting through exaggerated subsurface, numerous small fill lights etc is still my preferred route right now. Cheapo!

I'm not planning to have damage numbers popping out of enemies, but it's very useful to be able to see damage values in testing. I had too much fun making these. Maybe I might use it in a practice range area in the real game at least Video: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/115293654944221548

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There, even if I don't use this effect for damage numbers all the time, it's better than the UMG text for the potion machine summon countdown. I made the text size, lifetime, velocity and distortion effects more configurable as well Video: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/115298535920293769

I do have a console variable I can set now to enable damage numbers everywhere. That way we can try it out occasionally to see how we feel about it. But my gut says it’ll just be distracting

Quietly allowing people to assume you use LLM chatbots as well so they stop fecking talking at you about it

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mastodon.gamedev.placeThe Seven Voyages Of Steve (@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)Attached: 1 video There we go, I can now enable damage numbers on any character if I want, I even integrated it via the gameplay cue system so it's all replicated nicely. Still don't think I want them on all the time, but they are quite nice (they're coloured according to damage type now too). I still think I'll save them for the practice range

I still think I'll save them for the practice rangeVideo: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@sinbad/115294369707878849

I actually have other places I can use this effect anyway, such as countdowns on potion summoning spots. I’m currently using 3D UMG widgets but these will look much better

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There we go, I can now enable damage numbers on any character if I want, I even integrated it via the gameplay cue system so it's all replicated nicely. Still don't think I want them on all the time, but they are quite nice (they're coloured according to damage type now too).

Wasn't obvious from the last clip but wheras a lot of these kinds of effects just orient the numbers once on spawn, I had to make sure they always faced the camera because you can spin our camera around a lot. Slightly awkward to do but looks betterVideo: https://mastodon.gamedev.

29 Sept 2025

Spending all day in this view making very careful changes so I don't break any of the multiplayer replication & prediction systems, as I chop up the spell system and re-assemble it. All appears to be working again now but 😖I hate multiplayer code

29 Sept 2025

3 windows is the magic number for testing since if a client can do something and another client can see it correctly (via the server player) then you're most of the way there.

29 Sept 2025

You thought bureaucracy was bad? Enter "vibe working" in Office 365! Try getting any sense at all out of the corporate world now everyone's had their brains cooked by delegating 90% of cognitive functions to a statistically biased bingo machine

What my chair actually looks like vs what my cats think it is This afternoon Merry was defeated in single combat by my chair while I was trying to do the hoovering

Combat training has been suspended for now at least #caturday

I use honey instead of sugar in my bread these days, and having to rescue the last remnants of solidifying honey from the bottom of the bottle with heat and water has made my routinely eyeballed measurements even vaguer than usual.

I think this is why my rolls have turned out a very reddish brown today. 😄 I’m fine with it though

How very dare games I want to play come out of early access and remove my excuse for why they're not technically adding to my backlog 😭

Got my electric cargo bike properly serviced today. I guess I should probably learn how to do what they did myself - I can do simple things but it's more complex than my old push bike used to be (e.g. actual brake fluid!) and I haven't really found the time

The beta of GOLD TEETH has a great hook #ttrpg