made the HMS bounty, to test out big new update to the evolving demo. dynamic sails, waves and smal hull detail control like individual planks and rivets.
And fuck,.... that is an impoverished landscape, big money really sucked the heart out of this industry and many great writers, culture critic sof otherwise engaged wordsmiths got drained in the process.
And those are actual people, writers and talents now lost.. Story of this industry.... loss.
The indie interested side of media has been either fired, their outlets turned into AI slop promoting gambling or are independent/freelance and cannot afford to attend something like GDC.
GDC for promotional purposes is dead except for the same viral hits that already take up all the oxygen.
wait I got a big update in beta, or select the beta in game properties/betas to get some sweet new stuff
ooh fuck it's happened #shipshaper demo is overwhelmingly positive... wtf ...
that's a first
I added an improved wall /walkway algorithm that is better at breaching gaps and smoother in nature for #bulwark. try it out on the steam beta branch
I hope so, it's not an expensive game/app.. pretty cheap,, but I hope it will do well ;)
a bit suprised at how well it did tbh
The first Steam Next Fest of the year is done, let's look at the the wishlist results for my upcoming game, and a few other games:
Ship Shaper (@falconeerdev.bsky.social)
Forbidden Solitair (@greyalien.bsky.social)
and Verminsteel (@glassbottommeg.bsky.social)
youtu.be/03eG1gmOv0k #indiegamedev
excellent video!!!
This reminds me, the Nextfest Longtail can be really good too!.. seems I will hit 20K wishlist today (ended Nextfest with 16-17K).. so nice downstream effects as well.
I actually also have a new update "repair man" simmering on the Bulwark steam beta as well.
Nothing gets left behind....
I haven't slept since 2023....
@falconeerdev.bsky.social just saw the maintenance patch notes for Falconeer, and just wanted to publicly say Thank You Very Much for your work, and I am pleased and excited to see the Falconeer setting to go new places. <3 Cheers!
Forties, hmmmm the best years so far. By a mile... Bit rough on the hardware... But the software .. peak performance...
haha I'm hitting 50 this year..
yeh gambling is a fucking blight and should be banned for minors period.. Online gambling is a fucking curse.
What's My JND? 0.0042
Can you beat it? www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd...
man I am old....couldn't beat you
At a glance, great , Fuck loot crates and all gambling adjacent mechanics that serve no gameplay purposes other than rattling your purse.
Burn it.
As part of the implementation into Bulwark and also Shipshaper's viewmode (which might evolve also) I am working the sails responding to the wind direction and force correctly. Including getting furled
So The Falconeer Remaster is beta testing a maintenance patch as we speak.. And one request was to make the scramble missions easier,. I seem to have not done that.. Rather made them even bigger. :) Check out the update
store.steampowered.com/news/app/113...
Work on Enviromental controls are progression, now live on the Demo Development branch on steam
store.steampowered.com/app/4344070/...
working on my own Falconeer style steamrake to get 3D printed..
working on new enviroment controls in the view mode,. change location, time of day, weather and wind direction and strenght (sails will be affected)
Ancient waves eta ,2 Yrs
Storms and improved buoyancy now live on beta for the demo
holy shit you can add text and pictures to your developer homepage.......
store.steampowered.com/publisher/To...
Timeline when? @valvesoftware.com
;)
yup I already added volume to the rigging.
So now we really moved beyond low poly, I did this ... cuz it loooks good. But also because 3D printing looks better with it and you don't see the geometry angles so much.
So no textures for me.. But procedural geometry timbers on the hull.
Take your normal map and stuff it up your strakes..
Geometry is free... baby!!!
Just as a reminder, this isn't my first rodeo in procedural generation for games. This is the kind of thing #bulwark players get up to nowadays. And when shipshaper exports to Bulwark, this is going to be an ecosystem of game creation ;)
thanks for the name ;)
I am delighted its gotten some traction.. this industry is brutal and felt it this last year tbh. the Falconeer Remaster didn't move the needle.
so this is a win I happily accept ;)
I haven't digested everything around shipshaper yet but there is something there that I enjoy making and fits me.. it's as experimental and minimalist as ever , but this time that doesn't seem to bother anyone .
Which is nice. Like really..nice
