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Hey all, just started an impromptu #gamedev #stream. Going to be working on a multiplayer fishing game. Come join if you want some body doubling or are curious about how I set up my NPCs www.twitch.tv/the_benbot #godotengine #godot

Our development roadmap is newly updated with all the vector graphics features planned as we reach 1.0 this year, plus the big push for raster imagine editing support in 2027. Check it out: graphite.art/features/#ro...

Working on a tool called "Inspector Graph". It allows you to have multiple inspectors for the nodes in your #Godot scene. You can pin them. Or select multiple at once.Optionally, show children of nodes selected.. and more coming soon! It isn't released yet - still very early in development. #gamedev

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I really miss engaging with programmer content online. I always liked seeing what cool discoveries and algorithms people were making. Now so much of it is AI culture warring or vibecoded projects. I still don't really buy that AI will generally replace coding, but it has replaced my feed.

So I'm working on a game with some people I met recently and just had my brain broken a bit. If you're using .blend files in #godot be sure that nobody on the team has blender addons which modify the default gtlf export options. We were fighting missing textures and incorrect .import files for days

No stream tonight. An old friend surprised me and came over, so I'm going to be hanging with him. Today is just full of surprises.

Tired of waiting for your functions to finish? Got a sync'ing feeling that blocking calls are cause for concern? "There's gotta be a better way!" Introducing @thebenbot.bsky.social's Async Godot! Turn those frowns upside down with asynchronous calls for all ages! m.youtube.com/watch?v=kPK9...

They put up my #godotcon talk on youtube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPK9... If you're interested in some more advanced #godot and multiplayer patterns or you just want to hear me talk, give it a watch! Thanks again @scentree.bsky.social! #indiedev #gamedev #godotengine

Some quick sketches for the upcoming GodotCon (ideas for the banner and badges) 😅 I don't want it to be too on the nose, but at the same time, I think it's nice to have a distinct visual identity for each convention.

Going to start streaming in a bit. I want to try doing some first person hand stuff... or maybe play some games www.twitch.tv/the_benbot #gamedev #godotengine #streaming

Dug this up the other day. Time to start a run through my favorite game of all time! #zelda #majorasmask

I published my first #godot asset store addon I really like the compositor, but there's a lot of boilerplate involved. I wrote this to cut that down for some post process shaders you might write. Lmk if you try it and have some feedback store.godotengine.org/asset/benjam... #shaders #godotengine

Doing another #stream pretty soon. Going to be working on wiring up the minigame PettyPixels made and some inventory stuff.... and i might play Nier later too #streaming #gamedev #godotengine www.twitch.tv/the_benbot

This is pretty much how I imagined it. Still a long way to go before it’s in a playable state. #gamedev #indiedev #dungeoncrawler #godotengine #WIP #indiegame #DRPG

Hey all, going to be streaming some more #gamedev here in about two hours. Going to either get the inventory system and first-person hands going in my fishing game or work on some characters for Rustpunk. I might also play games, who knows. Come hang out :) www.twitch.tv/the_benbot #godotengine

Just finished a 2 hour stream and added basic multiplayer to my fishing game. Yall can now cast lines together :D I'll put up a video once we have the fishing mini game in. #gamedev #godotengine #godot

In about an hour and a half I’m going to be streaming again. Gonna start adding multiplayer to my fishing game. Last time I got distracted by making the fishing rod 😅 Come hang out! #gamedev #godot #godotengine www.twitch.tv/the_benbot

Streamed some #gamedev for a few hours last night and started a fishing game. Using the wonderful SUCC controller from @bearlikelion.com and some jank fishing rod code I cooked up, here is the progress after the first stream. Going to add some actual fish mechanics and multiplayer next. #godot

Going to stream some #gamedev here in a few. I'm working with some people I met at #godotcon on a fishing game, so I'm starting that today. #godot #godotengine www.twitch.tv/the_benbot

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

I’m a big Rebecca Sugar fan and this song keeps coming to my mind when I read about how hard the tech industry is leaning on AI. Sometimes, you have to trust that you’ve been collecting what matters and just keep going despite the noise. youtu.be/yooVkv1RaWo?...

We’ve reached the part of Godotcon where we all sit around a table sharing pictures of our cats and everyone goes “That’s a great cat!”

Man #godotcon was such a great time. What a wonderful, friendly, and smart community. Thanks @godotcon.bsky.social and @scentree.bsky.social for a great event. Here’s looking forward to next year!

I’m still alive. Still making games. Hopefully will have something I can talk about soon 😁

Continuing my decent into random hyper fixations, here’s my #warhammer40k mini that I painted yesterday.

I have begun to learn sheet #music Now I just have to figure out what it sounds like.

My character workflow for games! Sculpting in Blender, Texturing in Substance, Rigging in Blender, Finish in UE5👌 He is one of the NPCs from my game Hotch Potch House:) #Blender #GameDev #IndieGame

Just finished my entry for SCREAM JAM 2025. It's a little ugly and a little rough around the edges, but I definitely got 2 scares out of it already and it has a whole game loop! #gamedev #godotengine #screamjam the-benbot.itch.io/cleaning-wit...

Just posted a write up for the #pico8 workshop i ran last night. It went pretty well :D I got some good feedback from the attendees as to what I should change to make it run a little smoother. I'd like to polish it up before I advertise the larger workshop wordsfroma.dev/blog/first-w... #gamedev

Today I'm going to be giving a #pico8 workshop at my local gamedev group. It's very basic, but i'm hoping to cover the essential parts of video games and game development. if anyone wants to check out the carts i made for it, they're up on my blog at: wordsfroma.dev/workshops/br... #gamedev

So I took part in that Godot XR jam from a couple weeks ago and basically spent the first 4 days getting VR working on Linux. Now that I did, though, it’s pretty great. godot’s XR tools have come a long way and now I’m excited to play with them again :D #godot #xr #vr

Well my pharmacy has vyvanse on backorder, so I guess it’ll be a couple of weeks until I start on it.

Sorry for the long silence. Life has been a lot lately… I’m going to be starting some adhd meds next week, so hopefully I’ll be more able to put some good focus time into my gamedev. 🤞

Hey all, I'm streaming on twitch now :) www.twitch.tv/the_benbot

I'm going to be streaming after work today if anyone wants to come hang and work on some games :) #gamedev #godotengine #streaming www.twitch.tv/the_benbot/s...

So i hit a new stage in my journey to distract myself from working on camera shy. The local #gamedev meetup I organize is running our first game jam, so i started working on my entry for that yesterday. spent a couple hours yesterday and got func_godot and player movement set up #godotengine

friendly reminder please buy my shit or i will be homeless (no pressure :3) i need a job (please someone hire me) realduende.itch.io/yoink #gamedev #pixelart #indiedev #itchio #psx #3d #blender #godot #unity #ue5 #unrealengine

I think i'm going make a tiny game out of just what I have done with camera shy. It'll be good for me to get a little something out there. It'd be good to have a set number of levels to build After I finish the email client, I'll be making a 5-level tiny camera shy :) #gamedev #solodev #indiedev

Sunset on a 64x64 Canva Pixel art done by WaiterFailer at r/PixelArt. #pixelart #pixel #art #indiedev

ADHD hits hard sometimes. I was working on my game’s email client, started wondering how email works, then spent the next 2 hours setting up my own email server. I only just realized I got lost in a rabbit hole. So it’s cool that I have that now, but my game’s email client still isn’t done 😅

Back to the #gamdev updates! yesterday was pretty busy! I got a lot more functionality set up in func_godot for level design and I fixed a small bug I found (which they already fixed in an unreleased branch, but still) Today i've been working on my game's fake email client #solodev #indiedev

Here’s a #caturday shot of Jiji walking me up.

I should get back to posting daily updates now that life has been settling. I find time to do at least a little something every day. This week i'm going to be talking to a friend to see if I can use his studio to make some tracks for a camera shy trailer. #gamedev #solodev

I also got a lot of stuff hooked up to trenchbroom. I can set up doors, paths, NPCs that walk on those paths. I can place cameras and hackable desktops. I'm really liking having all of my level design stuff in a dedicated tool. Helps with the focus. #solodev #gamedev

Finally got around to writing the 2nd camera shy devlog wordsfroma.dev/blog/camera-... #gamedev #solodev #godotengine #trenchbroom