Shane

I'm all here for it

I don't know when it happened, but at some point making video games became more fun than playing video games

The UI looks great too, and very clean! I think it fits well with the art style you have.

Thanks for sharing this! I came across it not long ago too and have also been using it as a reference, it's a great resource and has helped me a lot in deciding how to structure my code

I like how simple this is for the player!

I'm working on my input system right now and it's a deeper rabbit hole than I thought 🥲

I've almost finished setting up foundational systems for all the non-gameplay stuff

It's funny how splash screens, transitions, menus and music makes it feel like a "real" game that you may buy, even without gameplay - and the opposite isn't true

Will post a video once I have input rebinding done

But that's okay, it's a side project after all. Always bound to get sidelined when life gets in the way. The key is to never let it be a permanent sidelining

On a side note, it has been very difficult in recent months to keep working on my project alongside other commitments, so progress is much slower than I had previously hoped

Started to build out my debug menu yesterday and I am very excited to use it to test my save load setup

Want to see what we’ve been cooking up? 🏃‍♂️
Here's a sneak peek.

#videogame #gamedev #speedrun

Big win for Balatro

Advice for any dev: 99% of the time the upfront cost of any work that reduces your iteration time is worth doing.

So much time is spent testing, fixing and iterating on things in your game that it will almost always pay off in the long run

Super cool, I'm also really enjoying the video and the way you've presented this!

"Hello World" isn't always that simple for the computer

This article does a great job of portraying complexity in modern software and showing some of the layers that exist between the programmer and the hardware

YouTube video by Philomatics AI Won't Fix the Fundamental Flaw of Programming

This video raises some interesting points about AI as another level of abstraction in producing code and how we might reframe the problem of software getting more abstract (and complex). I recommend giving it a watch

Just watched a couple of talks from GodotCon and something that has jumped out to me is how young the speakers are and how earnestly they presented.

There doesn't seem to be any PR filter obfuscating the speakers' delivery, even from the organisers and it feels like... the future?

Change is cool

Kayinworks - Quality of Life I try not to argue exact language much. I try to keep my approach to language as a descriptivist. Language evolves in terrible and funny ways. Metroidvania is an awful term, but it's a term with histo...

kayin.moe/quality-of-l...

Wrote a bit about some issues I have with out the term Quality-of-Life gets thrown around. Not that I'm against it's use, but I think there are some assumptions we make about QoL changes that aren't true.

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Chickensoft — Open source tools for Godot and C# Open source tools for Godot and C#.

In case you missed it: chickensoft.games provide some great starting points for Godot projects in C#, including serialization, environment setup and automated testing

Some of the C#-iness is a little over my head but the discord community is active, helpful and willing to offer advice!

A screenshot of a tweet from @Guile_GAG, featuring two screenshots of a giant block of ice on the Fortnite map. It reads "A giant ice block has appeared in the middle of the map, with Mariah Carey inside, slowly defrosting."

Videogames are incredible man

long ago the great Roger Ebert reviewed Jackie Chan's "Legend of Drunken Master" and harshly criticized its R rating, saying its violence was more like kids' cartoons than brutal action films, finally stating "to rate this movie R is to be terminally clueless"

anyway this post is about #Balatro

Seems nonsensical that these ratings would be entirely based on themes rather than actual content

Maybe a silly question, but are the talks given in English?

How to light scenes I’ve been toying with godot lightmapper and made some simple scenes: Some people asked how I do lighting. I add a LightmapGI node and click bake! Why lightmaps? Lightmaps have been around ever since v...

Here's how I do lighting in godot, hope it helps!

Thank you for the recommendations btw, really appreciated 😁

Great recommendation, thank you. I've completed Hades but only once, so I can definitely get more out of it. Will probably wait for Hades 2 to full release before picking it up.

But I also haven't played Dead Cells which I think falls under a similar description so maybe that's a good alternative

I second that! Caves of Qud is a great call

Good shout, I will check out the subreddit!

Hmmm honestly all sorts. I haven't bought many new games over the last couple years so any 2023/24 recommendations would be great!

I'm slightly concerned about getting too addicted to something like Balatro and losing out on family time 🫣 hope that helps

Currently thinking Balatro and/or UFO50 will do the job nicely

Just picked up a steam deck, does anyone have any tips for using it or games to recommend?

Will be getting on a flight early tomorrow morning and I'm hoping it will fast forward the time

Hot dog. We're now 2 backers away from goal #3 and just over £500 to goal #4.

Thank you all you lovely people

FOUR HOURS TO GO!

YouTube video by YAWP Games Isoterra Devlog 001 - Introduction

Here it is! My first Devlog!🥳🥳

I would appreciate any comment or suggestion you all have, preferably brutally honest haha.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ftq1...

#indiedev #indiegame #pixelart #gamedev #solodev #indietech #isometric #devlog