Stomy 451

I've just launched my boomer shooter, check it out on steam and itch! s.team/a/3808730 stomygame.itch.io/ctesiphon #gamedev #indiedev #boomershooter

RT if you don't use AI for coding

The other day I added recoil patterns to the guns, here's how it looks for the M2013 SMG. #ScreenshotSaturday CounterStrike was an unexpected source of inspiration for this, but I really don't like how ADS makes you play. #enginedev #solodev #gamedev #indiedev

I've wrapped up with guns so I'm moving on to adding enemies. Added them to collision traces for some hot cylinder-on-cylinder action! #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #enginedev

The first version of my current side project was made in a week-long jam during which only the last day and a half were spent actually writing any code off a fork of an engine I wrote in C. No chatbots were needed or involved at any stage. This has always been possible.

My final Metal Gear Solid V piece

Adding some much nicer menus. I don't want to end up with a terminal case of side-project-itis but I still want to polish this up a bit and add some combat so I'm putting a strict deadline of three more weeks for any additions. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #enginedev

Prototyped a little conversation system. Big success frankly, it won't take much work to port this back onto the main branch. Having characters talk like this is so magical, really adds a personal touch that my last game was missing! #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #enginedev

I'm immensely proud to announce that my texture library that's been in the making for nearly a decade is now available on my itchio store for indie devs to purchase commercial licenses. makkon.itch.io

New video for #screenshotsaturday: I've ported in Ctesiphon's system for lighting entities as they move around. Adding a gun to demonstrate meant I couldn't help myself but add some bobbing to it. #gamedev #enginedev #solodev #indiedev

Ported the old particle system to my new engine. Practically unchanged for the last ten years except for how I store the definitions. #gamedev #enginedev #solodev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

That's it. No more bitching! I refuse to make it any more obvious! #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamdev #solodev #enginedev #BoomerShooter

After eight, long months I've finally gotten back to one these WIPs. Tried a slightly different shading technique to what I usually use and I think it paid off big. #digitalart #kritaart #indiegames #boomershooter

Threw in Ctesiphon's stereo spatialization along with a bunch of interaction sounds. #gamedev #solodev #enginedev #indiedev

I added the classic push-style buttons from Quake where you can activate them by bumping into them. I'm intending to instead have the kind you interact with via a use key but this was easy enough to set up along the way. #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #enginedev #ScreenshotSaturday

Yeah sure, being able to walk around on and jump off of moving platforms is pretty cool... But what about doing the same on SPINNING platforms!? #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #enginedev

Videogame Remake Culture continues to operate on the core paradox that both "Games used to be better" and "Every single modern design convention is necessary for a game to be good" are somehow simultaneously true.

This week was all about getting the different brush models in the map moving, along with having them push you around. Here I've got these double doors set up with an overlap trigger brush to open and close automatically. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #solodev #enginedev #indiedev

Ladders! #enginedev #solodev #gamedev #indiedev

I had to do a lot of refactoring to get brush entities in, I've gone about it a very different way to last time. I also didn't realize Q2BSP makes cute little mini BSP trees for each one so adding them to collision detection took like ten minutes. #enginedev #solodev #gamedev #indiedev

This is becoming a total crapshoot. I like bluesky but I swear this site is less functional than when I started.

We're live! 60% off for Steam Cyberpunk Fest! This also stacks with bundling discounts so if you've already got Zortch it ends up like 68% off! s.team/a/3808730

The star of the week this #screenshotsaturday is definitely the new water. Made possible by actually using the BSP tree this time. The last engine had it there but I wasn't actually using it. #gamedev #indiedev #enginedev #solodev

A whole lot more behind the scenes this week again. Keybindings, clipboard support, V-Sync toggle, PhysFS mod-loader, preliminary Lua integration, and of course, this neat little profiling graph with a table showing what each worker thread is up to. #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #solodev #enginedev

artists, quote with your fanart! (oh man, I have so much now!)

Cleanup week, took two days to port over my character controller visualization from Ctesiphon to then fix a stair-stepping bug in just two minutes. Also made it so it's valid to stand in the crease between two invalid surfaces. #ScreenshotSaturday #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #enginedev

Artist! Quote with your yellow art! ⭐

Another high-effort attack for #artfight. This time I did ~Raqi_oh's OC Erina as a cornered sorceress on the run in The City, unleashing some sick chain lightning on the fools chasing her. #artfight2026 #digitalart #kritaart #fantasyart

For this #ScreenshotSaturday, witness the miracle of convex brush collision! I built this whole elaborate test level, only to find out all of the edge cases just work out of the box and instead I finished the week adding stair-handling and crouching. #indiedev #gamedev #solodev #enginedev

Drew a character from the upcoming #indiegame Occult: Scarlet Elegy. It's this story-heavy dungeon crawler with a wicked saturated art style. #fanart #digitalart #kritaart

I'm probably biting off more than I can chew by signing up this year, but it's already proven worth it. Here's my card. artfight.net/~Stomy #artfight #artfight2026 #teammystery