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Nicholas McDonnell

@nicholasmc1.bsky.social

Game Designer/Generalist Wishlist Crabmeat on steam https://store.steampowered.com/app/3671850/Crabmeat Prev - Design / Co Founder @samuraipunk https://nicholasmc1.itch.io/

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Seems fine.

05.12.2025 00:11 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

December 5th seems a popular day to announce new banger indie games huh

04.12.2025 22:31 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Something new.
#Neath

04.12.2025 20:24 β€” πŸ‘ 135    πŸ” 60    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 13
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Retro-style fishing mystery game About Fishing announced for PS5,Β PC Publisher Playstack and Arctic Eggs developer The Water Museum have announced About Fishing, a fishing mystery game "made out of love for Shenmue and SEGA Bass Fishing." It will be available for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam. A release date was not announced.

Retro-style fishing mystery game About Fishing announced for PS5,Β PC

Publisher Playstack and Arctic Eggs developer The Water Museum have announced About Fishing, a fishing mystery game "made out of love for Shenmue and SEGA Bass Fishing." It will be available for PlayStation 5 and PC via Steam. A…

04.12.2025 21:26 β€” πŸ‘ 120    πŸ” 52    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 18

New tiktok showing off work I did on stream this week

vt.tiktok.com/ZSf7vnqh6/

04.12.2025 06:16 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

haha. Yes please show me what it should be, hopefully my math can approximate it.

04.12.2025 04:48 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Twitch Twitch is the world

Doing something different today, trying to wrap up a #godot jam project and learn the engine a bit better.

twitch.tv/searchingint...

03.12.2025 22:10 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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#142 Barrow: Quando as Tonalidades NΓ£o Se Tocam A histΓ³ria de um jogo que morreu por desalinhamento, nΓ£o por colapso.

Barrow era um FPS indie que foi cancelado, queria fundir tonalidades incompatΓ­veis: cidade confortΓ‘vel mas depressiva, outro mundo vibrante mas violento.

Por vezes, os jogos nΓ£o morrem por colapso. Morrem porque as estruturas nΓ£o se tocam.

Podem ler aqui πŸ‘‡

videojogos.substack.com/p/142-barrow...

03.12.2025 09:49 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The LinkedIn bros froth this shit

03.12.2025 07:01 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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The Frosty Mini showcase of games made in Australia and Aotearoa NZ is happening NEXT WEEK! β˜€οΈπŸ¦ Here's some handy timezone info to help you tune in:

πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί 8am AEDT and 5am AWST (10 Dec)
πŸ‡³πŸ‡Ώ 10am NZDT (10 Dec)
πŸ‡―πŸ‡΅ 6am JST (10 Dec)
πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ 1pm PT and 4pm ET (9 Dec)
πŸ‡¬πŸ‡§ 9pm GMT (9 Dec)

02.12.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 41    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 14
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Fiddling with a UI shader yesterday to do a little heartrate monitor to represent player health in the inventory screen

#gamedev #techart #indiedev

02.12.2025 21:57 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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SearchingInteractive - Twitch Replacing the healing system in my survival horror game - Crabmeat Dev

Crabmeat deving time! Working on a new health system for the player
twitch.tv/searchingint...
#gamedev #indiedev #horrorgame

01.12.2025 22:08 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Sharing some of my favourite smear frames in my handmade game, Scrabdackle! It's coming out TUESDAY! Dec 2! Would love if y'all took a look! πŸ˜ŠπŸ’™

store.steampowered.com/app/1578720/...
#game #videogame #indiegame #cutegame #animation

29.11.2025 15:25 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 20    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Feel the same but especially with the gambling themes or mechanics becoming so overt.

29.11.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I don't really have anything you can buy but there's tons of demos and experiments including the Barrow Vertical Slice

nicholasmc1.itch.io

28.11.2025 20:43 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah of course. I'm just an idiot. πŸ™

28.11.2025 11:30 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Surely there's a better way to change a gizmo colour when it's selected than just drawing it twice? #gamedev #unity3d

28.11.2025 03:50 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1

So it's null food?

28.11.2025 01:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Green slime and marshmallows?

Green slime and marshmallows?

Do I want to know what this is....?

28.11.2025 01:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Alien design for a internal project at work!

26.11.2025 23:06 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

Working on some ship physics before going back to level design today. twitch.tv/searchinginteractive

26.11.2025 21:52 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

My job is create problem and then solve it

26.11.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
screenshot of my high advanced miro board

screenshot of my high advanced miro board

More level design and environment art today over at twitch.tv/searchinginteractive #gamedev

25.11.2025 22:00 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Crabmeat Devlog 4 - Repair Systems, Optimisations and FISH
YouTube video by Searching Interactive Crabmeat Devlog 4 - Repair Systems, Optimisations and FISH

New Crabmeat devlog, diving into recent changes #gamedev #indiedev

youtu.be/ZxksCO6K24E?...

25.11.2025 08:29 β€” πŸ‘ 10    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Working on the world and level design of Crabmeat over at twitch.tv/searchinginteractive

24.11.2025 21:34 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Neat! Yeah I'm also pretty new to geo curves so it was fun to figure it out.

22.11.2025 21:38 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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oh im dumb do you mean you wanna pull a global roll out so you can write to all points via a single var? i found this but it overrites all tits, not sure how to get the existing tilt value to add this on top.

21.11.2025 22:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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is this what you're looking for?

21.11.2025 22:22 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did a pass on ship repairs in Crabmeat and added the juicy ass bilge pump
vt.tiktok.com/ZSf62mmYh/

21.11.2025 06:38 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
blender news headline titled 
"better matcaps, no cap"

blender news headline titled "better matcaps, no cap"

Reading through the blender 5 update list and suffered massive damage.

20.11.2025 23:32 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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