Zhenia Puzankov

another kind reminder that this bundle exists and you should get it and it's good actually so go get it get good bundle

People don't realize how much you help indie creators when you mention an indie game you like to someone else!

Marmara sea was pretty friendly today.

ph: Cetin Gunes

@thegig.bsky.social is going greaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat!

You'd better get indiepocalypse!

Fixing the bias zoom algorithm against @allworms.bsky.social

It's time for our annual Cheesy Briefs takeover of @goldextra.bsky.social podcast! First episode with the creators of I Made a Game For You!

podcast.goldextra.com/index.php?e=...

and a delay depending if the symbol is a letter or a space.

That's how I did in Unity! Though working with visible characters in Unity is a nightmare itself.

I made a custom effect that affects only alpha and then ran it through the string like a caret.

What dialogue systems are people using for #godot? I've been using ink for like 10 years and wanna explore more. Editing in text is best, but visual editing is fine too if it allow multiple nodes per node. I guess twine-like would be a compromise.
Don't care about localization atm. #indiedev

Big milestone for me in #godot learning. Finally managed to set up my karaoke text to work.

It's wonky execution (moving bbcode like a caret) but it works!
Definitely more straightforward then Unity.

Off to figure out weird celshading now.
#indiedev

Your gentle reminder that my courses are currently available as just written lessons which is the bulk of theory content.

To grab your attention an excerpt as a screenshot
#narrativedesgin #gamewriting #gamedev #indiedev

Working on a thing regarding player interpretation in narrative design after a discussion in a ND chat.

What's your take? How much do you think ND should leave to interpretation? Does it become a mistake for ND to do that at some point?

#indiedev #gamedev #narrativedesign

Heard a bunch of slander on the Cloud Dancer color. Not on the choice but on the color. It's a toilet paper or uncooked dumplings and so on.

It's literally the color of the sky above my hometown. You'd better watch all of my skyboxes becoming this.

Watching a video on forced perspective with moving camera and thinking about recreating it in #Godot.

Part of the sentence above is very stupid.

Oh and the convo was about how to make different default settings for Animation Tree transitions in GODOT. Cause all advanced expression I wills set to auto and all xfade timers will be 0.3s.

So if you can point me to the documentation part or something, please do.

Have to add though that 0.3s transition from pitch black to bright white is better than instant flip. I'm photosensitive (mildly no seizures) and if there is a little tiny transition I don't feel like it's a stroboscope (sample size just me here.)

Off my hand use cases:
Cut TO and FROM
Appear/disappear on screen.
Crossfade for animations
Time between frames on flipbook animations

I dunno, maybe somebody finds it useful.

Was quite surprised in convo with friend that my default number thing was not as common as I thought. Sooo

Basically whenever I need fast animation, the duration is always 0.3s and then tweaked in RARE chances when it doesn't work.

Can't remember the source. But it's so ingrained in my head.

As someone who both organized and witnessed some of Damien's teaching. I have made the recommendation in good faith with high praise in mind.

Sure there is a curse involved, but the material is so well thought and improvised matter is at times even better.

Get Damien to talk to your students!

Narrative Design Lessons by All Worms A bundle by All Worms, $50.00 for Dialogue Design Lectures, Narrative Crash Course, Strangened Narratives

My Narrative Design Lessons bundle is now live!
You can get at least a book worth of ND foundations, dialogue design, and experimental tools. All come with a free lesson.

Been doing this 16 years. So happy to share.
itch.io/s/172588/nar...
#narrativedesign #gamedev #indiedev #gamewriting

Happy to join the line-up!

Less than a day left!

It's not like it's going anywhere but it won't be at halfprice!

#indiedev #narrative #gamedev

Only a day and a half to go!

These lessons won't be at half price for long!
#indiedev #gamedev #narrative

Zhenia makes really cool projects that arn't afraid to brush up against topics many find difficult to articulate. If you're interested in narrative design his work is worth investigating!

I have worked with @allworms.bsky.social and can confirm that they are very good at teaching

If this looks like something you'd be interested in, I can highly recommend!

Cover of Strangened Narratives course. A hand with Strangened Narratives written over it with multiple eyes flying around it.

Cover of Narrative Crash Course. Title in the middle and a bunch of simple birds surrounding it.

Cover of Dialogue Design course. A woman is yelling with words coming out.

A bit late into Black Friday but hey I got three courses worth of Narrative Design lessons up on sale for half price.

That's right I've published lessons from Narrative Crash Course and Strangened Narratives course online. Plus Dialogue Design!

itch.io/s/171366/nar...
#narrativedesign #indiedev

A series of white grid squares among a brown background. A white at sign is in the tile in the center of the screen.

A low-res first person 3D view of golf on the green. The text box asks "How will you swing?" with the choices of Cautious approach, Moderation, and Full send it.

A shop menu full of food items. Some make clear sense like A Burger, Curly Fries, and Cola Blast. The highlighted item is "The Big Fucko".

A JRPG battle where it's eight enemies against the player's party of five. The action menu shows Attack, Skills, Passive, and Guard.

All of my games are on sale for a week but additionally itchio's not taking their cut for the next 24 hours, so check out my games and other projects here as they're all half off!

cannibalinteractive.itch.io

Even though it's freeware/pwyw so it's not technically on sale like my main paid projects are, you can learn some things about designing a turn-based RPG for 50% off of $0.00 I suppose lol