Ultimate Walrus

ultimatewalrus.comUltimate WalrusOriginal freeware indie games made by Ultimate Walrus.

5 Jan 2025

my website (i host lots of freeware here) ultimatewalrus.com

5 May

when i last left off with this, i was trying to encode dice rotation in five bits. i think uhhh something's wrong with it #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #puzzlegames #glitches #bugs #godot #godotengine

ultimatewalrus.itch.ioOops! All Trilos by UltimateWalrusArena shooter (Scuttler-only HYPER DEMON fangame)

19 Apr

just finished two back-to-back game jams! Oops! All Trilos is a HYPER DEMON homage. replicated part of HD's engine to do a study on its scuttler enemy. i'm proud of how far i got in 72 hours! ultimatewalrus.itch.io/oops-all-tri... #gamedev #indiedev #arenashooter #hyperdemon #sorath

ultimatewalrus.itch.ioBald Hairier by UltimateWalrus, bnanasmashPress space to become bald in this rail shooter with combo and polarity mechanics (Ikaruga-like)

19 Apr

"Bald Hairier," the game I did with @bnanasmash.bsky.social for #frenjam, is up on itch for free now! and we finished our bugfixes and tweaks version 1.3. go compete on the online scoreboards! ultimatewalrus.itch.io/bald-hairier #gamedev #indiedev #railshooter #spaceharrier #ikaruga

"Bald Hairier" is a space harrier-meets-ikaruga rail shooter that i'm making for frenjam. dev log will go here. this video is just an engine/color test using a screenshot from Panorama Cotton as a BG #gamedev #indiedev #railshooter #spaceharrier #frenjam

10 Apr

weird glitch # 3

13 Apr

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Ultimate Walrus@ultimatewalrus.bsky.social

"Bald Hairier" is a space harrier-meets-ikaruga rail shooter that i'm making with @lianabnana.bsky.social for frenjam. here's an overview of progress, will probably post less as we near the end of the jam #gamedev #indiedev #railshooter #spaceharrier #frenjam

13 Apr

10 Apr

weird glitch # 1

10 Apr

weird glitch # 2

5 Apr

just posting this silly test scene for posterity

7 Apr

i have it set up so i can view the pseudo-3d path in-editor now. and i can randomize obstacles and enemy spawns along the path, accounting for the path's tilt

4 Apr

i now have a basic pseudo-3D road system working. it was actually harder to do it this way than polygons would have been. you can see how "fake" it is when i pan the camera around and look at the billboards

4 Apr

the road is now able to bank along with the "tilt" in Godot's Path3D component. it's still pseudo-3D just made of sprites, here i spin it around a bunch to stress test it

4 Apr

using Godot's Path3D node, it was actually pretty easy to set up a "roller coaster" type rail shooter system, even with banking turns. i got sliding BG billboards working for a classic feel (rather than a skybox) everything is placeholder still, BG is another Panorama Cotton screenshot

ultimatewalrus.itch.ioKersploosh! by UltimateWalrusAn extremely 3D game. A cube of splooshy water. Fight for your life!!

8 Feb

An extremely 3D game. A cube of splooshy water. Fight for your life!! Kersploosh! is now finished! and it's free. go help populate the online scoreboards! #indiegames #freeware #arcade #scoreattack #physics #masocore ultimatewalrus.itch.io/kersploosh

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

6 Feb

uhh so i just discovered the compute shader that handles the water is completely unstable on my friend's computer... not good... i'm probably gonna rewrite this completely to go on the CPU. no other choice. wouldn't be a gamejam without at least one curveball thrown at you

ultimatewalrus.itch.ioKersploosh! by UltimateWalrusAn extremely 3D game. A cube of splooshy water. Fight for your life!!

8 Feb

the game is done!! Kersploosh! is now a real game. ultimatewalrus.itch.io/kersploosh

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

6 Feb

adding some actual game mechanics! you can absorb the marbles to get more power (note: this is heavily inspired by HYPER DEMON's mechanics, see more in next video)

6 Feb

rail combo mechanics inspired by HYPER DEMON!

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

added an array of splash sounds! (i bought them from ZapSplat then sorted them into small, med, big splashes pitched them around etc). splashes are general purpose now, so i should get SFX and particles smoothly scaled to however i decide to perturb the water surface :)

more sound! i used @kyuubi777777777.bsky.social 's BandMod VST for the enemy death sound (the FM thrumming at the end)

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

the UI now makes it clearer where things are in 3D space. (this is something i've iterated on in previous games Vertico / Vertabyss)

got lowpass working in Godot's audio bus!! was actually pretty easy. just listen to this

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

enemies and player now perturb the water surface

added splash particles!

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

destroyable weakpoint

killable enemy! check out the ripple physics

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

bubbles!! when i got them looking right i was so giddy i started giggling

added ambient bubbles. it looks cool when you swim up a tower of water...

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

2 Feb

been having to unexpectedly take care of a sick cat, but i'm back on this! i got compute shaders handling the water surface now -- 128x128 nodes are iterated 32 times per frame to propagate the waves!

figured out a shader for enemy bodies. it changes color depending on relative depth

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

sand

adding player movement/torpedoes! they're still a little glitchy, plus i think the water reflections / sky looked better before...

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

improved light dappling

finished light dappling. it's a prebaked 3D texture, but it repeats seamlessly in x, y, and time

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

oil drops now float to the top, look cool. i'm implementing player logic i've iterated on in two previous game jams for an isometric 5DOF shooter. can't reuse the code though, different engines ultimatewalrus.com#vertabyss

my first pass at light dappling. the shader knows where the water surface is and doesn't dapple light above it

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

wrote my own oil shader. i'm proud of it!

by the way the game will probably be called "Kersplash!" probably should have put that first but oh well. here is a bug where i forgot to zero my mouse mickeys. classic...

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

reused some shader code from BIGBOMB

ditched my old water shader in favor of a modded version of the excellent shader from marcelb which allows both SSR and transparency at the same time by manually re-implementing SSR github.com/marcelb/Godo...

working on a new game for the #bigmode jam! will post in-progress development videos in this thread over the next 8 days or so #gamejam #godotengine #gamedev #indiegames #shaders

initial water surface done via feeding an array into a shader