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Gamerdad, Mechanic, tech enthusiast…game dev???? Currently building a hand drawn horror action platformer in Godot, a raspberry pi powered #cyberdeck, a motorcycle and raising a kid. www.twitch.tv/merkmiester #twitch #streamer #gamedev #tinkerer

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Just Press Start - Review - Shovel Jam - ailachu on Twitch ailachu went live on Twitch. Catch up on their Software and Game Development VOD now.

Check out #Vtuber AliaChu playing our game “Just Press Start”.

www.twitch.tv/videos/25210...

24.07.2025 16:28 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Just Press Start by FRetroG Just press start and have fun!!

Just throwing my new game out there again. Takes less than 3 minutes to play! Give it a try!

fretrog.itch.io/just-press-s...

#games #webgames #indiegames #godot #gamenight #gameart #pcgaming #gamedev #indiedev #solodev #vdeogames #gamejam #gaming #retrogaming

23.07.2025 01:59 — 👍 10    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Here are some screenshots of my newly published game. Give it a try! Hope you make it to the leaderboard! Rate it if you can.
itch.io/jam/shovel-j...

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames #indie #gamejam #playmygame

21.07.2025 12:08 — 👍 18    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 0
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Just Press Start by FRetroG Just press start and have fun!!

I published my first game! It was for the #ShovelJam2025. The theme was “jest get started.” Take a look and give it a play! fretrog.itch.io/just-press-s...

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames #indie #gamejam

21.07.2025 04:10 — 👍 20    🔁 9    💬 1    📌 0
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Impact craters!! Fully adjustable, location, depth, radius, and rim height. Now i need to make a randomizer button.

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames #procgen

12.06.2025 18:23 — 👍 15    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

I was starting to design some in blender but that was getting time consuming. I need to some code to add deformation so I can get some really interesting shapes. This is way more fun.

11.06.2025 16:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I think I nailed procedural generation of asteroids! This tool can do spheres, capsules and cylinders. It also has two shaders to color the terrain and water. Planets too!

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames #procgen

11.06.2025 16:26 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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One more tonight. Raven enemy.

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #digitalart #gameart #solodev #indiegames

28.05.2025 01:59 — 👍 33    🔁 4    💬 0    📌 0
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Wolf enemy. Been cookin over here! I’m really loving how these are turning out.

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #digitalart #gameart #solodev #indiegames

27.05.2025 20:37 — 👍 16    🔁 3    💬 2    📌 0
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Game art is coming along nicely. Slime Enemy and Baba Yaga NPC. #devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indie #digitalart #gameart

27.05.2025 03:35 — 👍 32    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0
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First enemy art work finished. Big Bad Wolf. I think i nailed this one, on to the next. I think I’m gonna. Get all the basic characters done, then start animating. #devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegame #digitalart #gameart

26.05.2025 04:29 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

Thanks! She’s finally where I want her. Actually, I just tweaked the hood to make it a tiny bit smaller to help get the silhouette right.

23.05.2025 15:27 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Not yet, I I may make my own but I’m working on assets now. I may just end up laying them out one by one. I’m hand-drawing my own so I’m not even sure if it would be worth it.

23.05.2025 13:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I think this may be close to the final version on my Red Rinding Hood character for my game GrimmRot. With a visible face, I feel more connected to the character. #devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames #digitalart #gameart

23.05.2025 10:58 — 👍 17    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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i did another version of my main character. On the left is a dystopian #cyberpunk inspired version on the right is a dark fantasy. Which would you rather play as? #devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames #gameart #digitalart

22.05.2025 16:35 — 👍 20    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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I redesigned my character for GrimmRot. Red is looking badass now. Here the idle pose that it still a wip. #devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegame #GrimmRot

21.05.2025 18:52 — 👍 24    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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MY GAME HAS A TITLE! GrimmRot...Big update, title screen, working menus, game menu, music, SFX. oh and FREE AIM!!! i'm hyped! I really need top work on art now lol.

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames #indie #GrimmRot

26.04.2025 03:50 — 👍 12    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Anyone know of any good 2D level editors that work with Godot? Or know about building one in in-engine? I’ve heard about LDtk and Tiled but don’t have any experience.

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indie #gamedesign

14.04.2025 14:03 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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#Update Got a diving “Raven” enemy made. It’s also the first time using the LimboAI add on for #godot. It definitely makes behavioral trees and state machines way easier. Try it out!

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames #indie

14.04.2025 04:10 — 👍 13    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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#Update I feel like things have been going a bit to smoothly...i got knock back implemented, enemy pause while attacking and i cleaned up a bunch of player movement code.

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames #indie

10.04.2025 08:59 — 👍 25    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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Elon Musk Rage Quits Gaming Livestream After Repeatedly Dying, Gets Mercilessly Mocked by Viewers During a livestream of himself playing the free-to-play action RPG Path of Exile 2, Elon Musk was ruthlessly bullied by other players.

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futurism.com/elon-musk-ra...

08.04.2025 08:50 — 👍 1137    🔁 177    💬 35    📌 44
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Got the enemy attacks working! A sensor node activates the enemy hitbox when the player enters and applies damage! This is the base Enemy Controller that can attach to all enemies.

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev #indiegames

08.04.2025 10:16 — 👍 26    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0

I feel ya. If you do need something at some point, check out r/hardwareswap on Reddit or their discord. I’ve found some great deals.

07.04.2025 21:05 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Oh no! Hope you get something nice to replace it!

07.04.2025 20:52 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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So i got a enemy that has a working patrol and player chase function, he can even jump over small walls. This is so cool! Next is enemy attack...

#devlog #gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #indiegames #indiegame #godot #gameengine #gaming #coding #solodev
#indiegames

07.04.2025 09:24 — 👍 30    🔁 4    💬 2    📌 0

Hope you have a speedy recovery!

03.04.2025 02:12 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I now have a working Health system! I rebuilt the attack system, it was clunky and error prone before, now its butter, attacks register cleanly. Got my projectiles working, they carry data from a resource so they can apply weapon status effects.

#GameDev #IndieDev #GameDesign #IndieGames #SoloDev

03.04.2025 01:40 — 👍 7    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hey #godotdevs, my state machine isn’t set up for a animation player, and I’m having some troubles activating hitboxes at specific frames. I know the animation player could help but I’m pretty deep in code already, adding the animation player is going to be a pain. Is it worth it?

#gamedev #game

01.04.2025 23:24 — 👍 7    🔁 3    💬 1    📌 0
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Update! Currently working on the player controller. Movement is smooth with single button switching between melee and ranged weapons. Projectiles next...

#GameDev #IndieDev #MadeWithGodot #GameDesign #IndieGame #GameAudio #GamedevLogs #SoloDev #IndieGameDev #Godot #Update #devlog

28.03.2025 02:31 — 👍 19    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 0

That’s what I’ve been thinking, I love pixel art and apparently so does everyone else but nearly everything now is pixel art. I feel like it may be impossible to stand out.

17.03.2025 14:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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