Jsaur

Pros and cons of changing the art style during the prototyping phase:

Cons:
- Takes away precious dev time
- Sprites will change again later, so this won't impact the final product at all
- It won't look that much better since I'm bad at art

Pros:
+ I wanna do it

Verdict: I'm doing it.

#gamedev

Okay, I made a single sprite and got it out of my system. I can go back to work on my other game now lol

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The hardest part of game development is that constant nagging voice in the back of your head saying, "Stop working on your current project and make a game with Disco Elysium's narrative structure but it's about a young witch finding her neighbor's cat in the alps."

Color-coded checklist of game development tasks in a google sheet.

Game developers of Bluesky, how do you all like organizing your tasks? Personally I'm a big fan of the google sheets method, but I'd love to hear some other ideas!
#gamedev #indiegame #godot

Y'all I stayed up till like 5 am last night trying to manually make pathfinding algorithms in Godot just because I couldn't stop myself, just to find out that it has everything I need automatically in the AStar2D node 😭

Yeah, that last point is something one of my IRLs told me. Option 2 was the first one I made, I modeled it off of Enter the Gungeon, which does the same thing to keep the guns from overlapping the player sprite and making the aiming the same on both sides. But I guess it looks different for swords

#2 Weapon is held at the side and switches hands when you move the cursor.

Any feedback is appreciated. Thanks!

Yo, game developers and gamers of Bluesky! Can y'all give me some feedback on which of these looks better 👀

#1: Weapon is held from the center of the sprite

#indiegame #gamedev #godot

2 Godot plushes staring at me while I play Hades

I just wanna take a little break from coding! Please stop looking at me like that!

...Okay fine, I'll get back to work.
#gamedev #godot

LOL so true! The project I'm working on right now has a really fun shader for the player character's customization options, I wanna make a post about it but that one's not quiiiiite ready yet :]

For real!! I hear discussions about how games could be used for education every now and then but I'm realizing game *design* might be even better for it.

Love the splatoon pfp by the way!

LITERALLY. Honestly I feel really lucky because I started game development pretty early, so I learned all about vectors through Unity tutorials before I even got to high school and when we started using them in Calculus and Physics I was a step ahead of everyone else already

Game view at 1x zoom

Game view at 2x zoom

It's really cool to see when the math works though!

Some algebra done in MS Paint to find the formula for the camera offset to track the player and account for zoom.

The formula found in the previous image, applied to a function in-engine

Everybody wants to be a game dev until the algebra comes in
#gamedev #indiegame #godot

A tileset with green carpet and gray tiles.

For some reason every dungeon crawler ever has gray tiles and red carpet. I'm standing out from the crowd and being original by having gray tiles and green carpet!
#gamedev #indiegame

they already are real, silly

Apparently you're supposed to start marketing your game early. Here's the front-facing sprite for cabbits in my upcoming roguelike dungeon crawler. #gamedev

Clairen: careful great uncle zetterburn. our history books say this guy fell countless foes in his lifetime Zetterburn thinking to himself upon spotting orcane: what is sooo dangerous about a lil dude who can move water around?

Orcane giving you a "FUN WATER FACT!" to warn you about where the water he can control can come from possibly: "there's moisture in everything!" (water) "-The ground, plants, and animals!" "so that means..." [dialogue is continued in next panel for effect]

Scratchy creepy text in the background: "YOU have water in your body. I WANT IT." [implying orcane may be able to move the water out of you or do other deadly things with the water inside you, like throw you or smush you]

Sometimes thinking about the extent of Orcane's potential water-based powers worries me

TW/ just in case, some mild horror?

#aseprite #pixelart #rivalsofaether2

As a carbon deco one-trick, I'm on a team that only runs coolerless and it's great for me 😎

Also, I'm holding out that there will be no 3rd party characters ever. Dan's stance shifted from "Nope not ever" to "Maybe! We'll just have to see!" a week before launch when people started asking so that they'll buy the game (good for him! Get that bag king!) Also if Ori gets back into the game I'm

My Rivals of Aether 2 post-launch character predictions:
2025: Absa, Sylvanos, Slade, Blorbo
2026: Etalus, Elliana, La Reina, Vleepy
2027: Mollo, Pomme, Hamir, Chichi, +Workshop added
2028: Hodan, Olympia, Artemis, Moomoo
2029: 4 more workshop characters

what will you do for a comment

the dash dance would go crazy

That one pose in Dress to Impress #Splatoon

Jsaur dressed as Agent 8, sitting in their car.

Explaining to everyone at the function that Splatoon is actually one of Nintendo's major IPs and that actually they should know who Agent 8 is instead of choosing a normal costume

Correcting a niche splatoon detail and a niche grammer detail, this post was made for me 😍😍😍😍😍

the 3ds is retro now...

are you wiser now

I became Inspired