PrezThompkins

Imagine letting an AI chatbot gaslight you into thinking a garbage idea is brilliant.

Hol up, so should I be getting the Kickstarter prepped, or getting a Steam Page/Wishlist set up first?
I've been so focused on developing and scraping together $ for bills, Ive barely had time to hash this out.

#gamedev

Slowly but surely getting creature art into the pipeline...
Act 1 is pretty far along. On Track to have about 20 enemy types soon!

#Gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine

I haven't drawn much in years, but you gotta get placeholder stuff from somewhere.
These guys retreat into a burrow the first time they're damaged. Usually found with other enemies that might demand your more immediate attention...

#indiedev #gamedev #unrealengine

Getting a pitch deck and demo together for a game I'm developing.
If's pretty far along. I don't want to ship or advertise with AI placeholders, for... All the reasons.

So I'm looking to work with people who love Mecha, Cosmic Horror, and Deckbuilders to get some real art made.
#gamedev

Here's my periodic reminder to the masses:
If you're trying to have discussion, and someone you don't know and don't care about tries to give you homework,
you don't have to do it.

You're not gonna prove shit to them, because they're not in it to learn anything.

The real world is scary as hell right now but at least it doesn't make you compile shaders.

Twitch Twitch is the world

Doin that #Gamedev, live on Twitch!
Prototyping a new game. Needed a refresher.

www.twitch.tv/prezthompkins

Never gonna forget the interview I had with a potential client on Upwork, and he dropped the line "well, remember I'm not made of money" and I'm like... my guy, if you want professional work done, you have to pay me like a professional.

I ain't doing Gamedev as a charity over here.

Finally moved the project over the the Oculus 5.5 version of UE5, and being able to use a tone-mapper is a game-changer for colors on the Quest 3.

If you're not on the Oculus fork yet, holy moly you should be.

#gamedev #EldritchSteel #Mecha #UnrealEngine

Finally got the Oculus fork of 5.5 up and running, and I'm packaging the first build to my Quest.

Here's hoping the perf holds up, and I get all that tasty Tone-mapping to work.
Plz Work.
Pllllllz.

#gamedev #Mecha #MetaQuest

Since I haven't informed Bluesky yet that I'm a meat-head, here ya go.

I'm bulking for winter.

Something something Protein.
Something something gamedev.
Something something hair.

What do I even call this? Stakes-Whiplash?

Also, why are NPCs who just spoke to me in the previous scene a 100y walk away and I have to walk over there to continue to conversation?

The games like 50 hours long, we don't need this padding.

</rant>

You're telling me I just punched a mountain in half, but now I have to go collect sand and talk to npcs in areas I already cleared?

Nobody else is able to run errands? What am I keeping entire colony of magic-capable survivors for?

I'm almost done with Final Fantasy 16, and HOLY HELL they do not respect the players time in the second half of this game.

We should really change "1000 ways to skin a cat" to "10000 ways to script a door opening".

#Gamedev #UnrealEngine

That's what I was thinking. A Timeline with two float tracks.

Like this maybe?
I'd argue it's kind of sub-optimal because you would need to update the array and Values track separately, but it do be doing the thing.

You cheat on your diet, you're set back by one meal.
You cheat on your vices, you're not gonna stay on track.

If you REALLY want pizza, eat a real fucking pizza.

Trust me on this one, if there's no room for some vices in whatever lifestyle you're pursuing, it will crumble.

Chew on that one.

Gamedev is largely existing in a weird flux state until suddenly it's almost ready.

Thennnnnn that last 10% of work takes longer than the first 90%.

My buddies have started describing the kind of women I'm into as 'Travis Anti-freeze' and I honestly can't be mad at them.

Was 90% sure this was gonna be a advert for Factor

Looks like my first attempt to modeling a spaceship in Blender back in like.... 2009.

A lifetime of gaming has trained me to assume this dead flower is definitely needed for a puzzle later.

Man,
I hope I don't have to backtrack to Foodlion to get it x.x .

Clean your workspace before you start work this year folks.

#gamedev #FistOfTheNorthStar #2025

I am working my ass off right now to get some new gameplay footage, and a breakdown video ready to share for all of you.
Eldritch Steel is finally in a state where I can show it off more.

Until that's ready though,
have a big dumb dog photo.

Happy New Years folks!

I'd stick it to a category kind of thing.

To unlock it, maybe a set # of kills or hits?

To deploy on a round, maybe you gotta spend x resources on the same category before it's available?

Or just go full chaos.

PrezThompkins - Twitch Eldritch Steel Dev Stream Mech Piloting VR Simulator Gamedev

Another afternoon of #Gamedev.
Fixing some bugs, building out some new maps,
mayyyyybe playing with audio later? Come keep me company!

www.twitch.tv/prezthompkins

PrezThompkins - Twitch Eldritch Steel Dev Stream Mech Piloting VR Simulator Gamedev

Evening Gamedev with your favorite meathead.
Keep me company, ask questions, or just hang!

Building a VR Mech Piloting Sim

www.twitch.tv/prezthompkins

For your own game, hell nah. If you're a student or systems engineer who needs to learn fundamentals under the hood, sure, make one for that purpose.

YouTube video by Antagonist Games ES - 11-23: Drops, Shadow Pass, new engine.

Lemme get in on this >.>.

youtu.be/6h3phXkLt9c?...