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Agnar Thor | dreymari

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he/him | technical game designer | average game feel enthusiast currently working on http://chainshotgun.com/ and probably some other stuff I mostly post about my personal projects here and about game feel/game design

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made a little sequence to get the player to look downwards when entering the room
#gamedev #indiegame #leveldesign #retrofps #gaming

29.10.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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some payloads fire in a sustained mode
and we had the obvious idea of adding a "beer barrel" to our shotgun(haha) - as a payload

also doubles as a jetpack!
#gamedev #indiegame #retrofps

21.10.2025 09:37 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the sidearm does a funky animation when loading it with new payloads

#gamedev #indiegame #retrofps

19.10.2025 15:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 17    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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double laser

double_laser
#gamedev #indiegame #fps

18.10.2025 23:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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before/after
did some lighting adjustments to our levels for our steam release

turns out just cranking up your ambient lighting isn't a good way to light your levels
#gamedev #indiegame #leveldesign

15.10.2025 17:53 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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we just released our demo for CHAIN SHOTGUN for Steam Next Fest
a game about adding an absurd amount of barrels to your shotgun, among other things

check it out!
store.steampowered.com/app/3970990/...

#retrofps #indiegame #gamedev #FPS #indiedev

14.10.2025 19:57 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Chain Shotgun Gameplay Trailer
YouTube video by Big City Wizard Chain Shotgun Gameplay Trailer

working on a movement shooter with some immersive sim elements where your only weapon is the Chain Shotgun, a chaingun shotgun essentially?
but it can hold up to an infinite amount of barrels which can shoot just about any type of projectile

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vjHN...
steam page coming soon!!

02.10.2025 23:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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beam weapon
revamped my shooting code to allow for beam-like payloads so now I can do things like this, still not sure what it should do outside of combat though ๐Ÿค”
(also did some sound design ๐Ÿ”Š)
#gamedev #indiedev #gamefeel #retrofps #indiegame #boomershooter

26.08.2025 23:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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also I've made the payloads pretty modular, so some tweaks to the spread pattern and wow, we have a bridge tool thing?

something like this feels like it could be a game on it's own tbh

11.07.2025 23:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I will never forget the immense disappointment I felt when I noticed I couldn't jump on the harpoons from HL2

anyway, this is the harpoon payload, it sticks to walls and you can jump on it! I generally try to make payloads do more than just "kill enemy better"

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #games

11.07.2025 22:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 11    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the interact payload can do fascinating things! such as pressing a button or booping enemies

#gamedev #indiegame #retrofps #gaming

11.07.2025 13:48 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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the cutter payload can cut through things like fences, and now enemies as well

#gamedev #retrofps #games #indiedev #gaming #gamefeel

11.07.2025 00:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 5    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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just released chapter 1 of Chain Shotgun on Itch
a movement shootery FPS where you can add a whole bunch of barrels that do a bunch of wild stuff to your Chain Shotgun

bigcitywizard.itch.io/chain-shotgun

#gamedev #indiedev #retrofps #gaming #games

09.07.2025 17:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 15    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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decided to have each barrel type come with their own attachments and now the weapon looks absolutely ridiculous, in a good way!
this is just at 11 barrels, current max is around 20 barrels, so far
#indiegame #retrofps #gaming #indiedev #gamedev

09.07.2025 01:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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i am of the opinion that all games should have jump pads
#retrofps #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

31.05.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

thanks!
the inspiration is sort of early 2000s creature design mixed with some biopunk aesthetics

31.05.2025 16:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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finally got around to doing some sound design for the basic enemies in the game, now it feels even more like bullying:(
#indiegame #gaming #sounddesign #retrofps

30.05.2025 23:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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big spinny thing, also doubles as an "elevator" that literally shoots you out of it
#gamedev #indiegame #retrofps #gaming #indiedev

17.05.2025 20:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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made a wall tool to speed up level design, of course I had to add some gamefeely elements to it as well
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #leveldesign

17.05.2025 12:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 10    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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tried to make my leaves to rustle a bit when moving through them, yeah wow looks very "natural" imo

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #games

14.05.2025 14:58 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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of course it didn't take long to add it as a potential ammotype as well

12.05.2025 22:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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feature from a while back - you dash into boxes to launch them at whatever you're aiming at, still very happy with the feel of it
#gamedev #gaming #retrofps #indiegame

12.05.2025 22:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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i felt that instead of using a key to open the door it's better if you load it into your gun and shoot it at the door, of course
#gamedev #retrofps #indiegame #gaming

06.05.2025 23:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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explodable walls could work as ambush thing as well
#gamedev #indiegame #retrofps #gaming

05.05.2025 23:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 13    ๐Ÿ” 4    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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made explosives break certain walls
#retrofps #indiegame #gamedev

05.05.2025 21:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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i try to take a systematic approach, so anti-gravity ammotype affects props & debris (and the player as well!)

04.05.2025 21:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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made an anti gravity ammotype
felt a bit mean to use it like this tbh:(
#indiegame #retrofps #gamedev

03.05.2025 17:16 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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recently revamped some of the visuals for the explosive projectiles, also destructibles good ๐Ÿ“ฆ๐Ÿ”จ
#gamedev #retrofps #indiedev

28.04.2025 23:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 7    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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had this fan model lying around not being threatening enough so i turned it into an environmental trap
something about being your own biggest fan etc etc
#gamedev #retrofps #indiedev

24.04.2025 17:24 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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regular velocity was getting boring
so added bhopping to my movement shooterish game
#gamedev #retrofps

23.04.2025 16:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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