Stuart

weird renders

Took a few months off and was overwhelmed loading up unity and figuring out how tf everything i'd set up works so instead I got sidetracked experimenting w/ my other fav PS1 aesthetic...fixed cam + PRE RENDERED BGs 🖼

+ some spooky music I threw together in 5 mins

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I love this

I had to take some time away for my mental health
It’s not been the best
But I’m alive! Hello!
Is anyone still there?

B! much easier to parse, nice subtle variation on the tiles which makes them easier to pick out individually. A is good but I think B is more visually interesting without being as busy as C if that makes sense?

This is my hole! It was made for me! manga meme but with Wile E. Coyote. Credit to @king_of_limb.

Beyond Good & Evil (2003)
Hillys City.

Developed by Ubisoft Pictures.

friend.jpg

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been in the studio working on the “machines” track

v proud of it! So different from anything I’d normally write

dynamic music in game will use lower bitrate/mono stems but will def release a full stereo mix when it’s done in all its mechanical relentless glory

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digital painting of a view of English Bay, Vancouver, at dusk

lil evening sketch :)

Elemental Gimmick Gear, Sega Dreamcast

Please play Elemental Gimmick Gear 😊

God it’s so so good I’ve been going on about this game to anyone who’ll listen for like 10 years

just a little update on the district of machines

still VERY rough - I'm not gonna post every time I make slight changes but I thought the factory sounds were cool

video is me messing around in clipchamp. i'm 100 years old and don't know how to edit videos

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It’s an incredibly rewarding and frustrating thing to do!!!

100 that’s mad???

Not big numbers to some maybe but very exciting to me

Grateful for all of you ❤️

Here, have some of my favorite screenshots

I've slept on it now + I really do think I'm onto something here

the dance/electro vibe developed out of nowhere and its not where I thought it was heading at ALL when I started w/ a sequenced machine beat, but I think there's the seed of a good track here. It's fun to do unexpected things.

the fun thing about writing music for a level before designing it is that it really helps inform the vibe. i don’t often do it this way round but the district of machines was tricky, I didn’t want just a basic factory level, and now I’m imagining a sort of space disco meets the industrial revolution

Not sure about this yet, it's weirdly dancey but I quite like the direction it's heading in??

wanted to do something different to just using a load of machine foley sounds for the beat, something machine-like but more synthy & sequenced

just a wip/demo!

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Not much to update today, noodled around making some weird sequenced beats for “the district of machines”

Sounds a bit pretentious but I feel like writing music beforehand helps me figure out the rhythm of the level

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Would there be a space for me in one? :D

thankyou! the non-square pixels make me very happy

yes! only issue I had (w/ using a render texture) if I set a wide resolution like 512*240 but then stretch it back to 4:3, it squashes 512 to fit, BUT if you crop it then you lose any additional resolution you gained. had to scale the actual objects in the scene by 1.6 on the X+Y axis at runtime :D

love this technique! Unlit shaders with vertex painted shadows/lighting are so underrated and have such a specific look I love it

512*240 resolution!

some games (Spyro+Crash) used this unusual mode + scaled back to correct aspect ratio.

gives higher fidelity than 320*240, a slight but noticeable difference!

I wanted to try this purely for the beautiful effect it has on the dither

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Indie game dev is like building a house, except you have to do the architecture, the lawyering and paperwork, the actual building, the interior design, and pave the road to get there.

Except instead of a house to live in at the end, you get like, 37 dollars in purchases.

❤️❤️❤️

held off on SFX for so long, but the difference = huge

bouncy mushroom is my fav 🍄

(ground ray checks coordinates of a secondary UVmap (each face assigned to a portion of a 4*4 grid, 16 total surfaces) + assigns walking sound!

jumping sounds are me! 🎤

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thought it was time I showed a real level, not a weird testing environment..

been remodeling this one based on an earlier version from 2019, here's what I have so far - just so you get a vibe of the place

the entrance to THE DISTRICT OF GARDENS 🌳

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