Trevor of Salty Squad Games

So. It turns out there's just an option in Godot to use triplanar mapping for texture coordinates. What a huge waste of the last week trying to calculate UVs manually, lmfao.

Yeah, I don't think that the UVs for the procedural cave mesh are fixed yet...

What I see in my branch vs what my artist sees in his branch. I really gotta get to a good spot for a pull request so I'm not stuck in "debug lighting hell" anymore.

The game development experience is rapidly oscillating between "I have no idea what I'm doing" and "I AM THE GREATEST PROGRAMMER ALIVE!"

Relatedly, I've finally figured out how to get my base building blocks to snap together correctly and sanely every time.

Listen, I love memeing this as much as the next guy, but sometimes it really do be like that.

I'm pleasantly surprised that mining only took one day to implement! Between the netcode framework, item implementation, and voxel engine; Everything just kind of worked. Tangible proof that taking the time to lay a strong foundation can speed up development!

Oops, I forgot to mute the DJ set I was listening to, lol. Shout out to HÖR Berlin for the tunes I listen to while I work on Strike the Earth every day

I love how smooth the voxel deformation in Strike the Earth turned out. Sometimes you just gotta look at a system you built and think "I did a great job here!" It's a ray of light in a sea of "AAH WHAT AM I DOING??"

Soon you'll be able to dig all sorts of metal ores out of these cave walls!

Boomeranger by captain_carrot, SonicPixelation, miraculousmasterofmayhem, hellbie Play in your browser

Very pleased to have worked with my very talented colleagues at Salty Squad Games on the #GMTK #GameJam the last few days! I'm very proud of what we created, check it out! captain-carrot.itch.io/boomeranger

Doing a little "Ambience" test with our voxel terrain system (sound on). It's still a little empty, but soon it'll be full of little cave creatures and precious ore to discover

#gamedev #GodotEngine

Still plenty of work needed to flesh it out, but getting rudimentary base building working (and in multiplayer!) is a satisfying end to the work day in my book!

Great start to the week actually writing gameplay code! Design work and workflow supporting features are all very important I know I know.... But very little beats the endorphin rush you get from starting to code up a new feature in the morning and having it roughly working by the end of the day.

What a difference 8 weeks of practice makes! Still plenty of room for improvement too

What a polite looking gentleman. Riddle, on the other hand, is trying to sabotage my computer as we speak.

Hey! We're Salty Squad Games, the team behind the upcoming co-op dwarven survival-crafting game, Strike The Earth!

Forge your tools, vanquish terrible beasts, and bring honor to your mine.

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Can't make a game about blacksmithing if you don't know how to blacksmith, after all.

This is wild. What an honor. Live and drink!

Just had the most amazing time at #GDC this week. I highly recommend considering attending to all indie developers who want to "get serious" about their game. It's hard to describe how legitimizing it feels to be here among all my industry colleagues.

And we're just getting started.

Photo of United Videogame Workers union leaflet. The text “We’re done playing” is written in white on a black and red background. In the background we see chess pieces falling off.

Photo of the union demonstration in the Yerba Buena gardens

Guess whom I bumped into this afternoon? The United Videogame Workers folks as they were demonstrating! What a nice echo with my #ethics talk this morning at #GDC 😉✊🏼
Go check uvw-cwa.org