Creating a game is not just art and code. Playing games from the same genre contributes a lot to the game design process.
What tower defense, rimworld like, roguelite, roguelike games do you recommend? #gamedev #indiegamedev
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Creating a game is not just art and code. Playing games from the same genre contributes a lot to the game design process.
What tower defense, rimworld like, roguelite, roguelike games do you recommend? #gamedev #indiegamedev
Posting a screenshot everyday* until my first Godot game is ready for launch #gamedev #indiegame #godot
Day 3:
Spawning some skeletons. I'm thinking RTS, Tower Defense and Strategy. Part of the fun is figuring things out as we go
Posting a screenshot everyday* until my first Godot game is ready for launch #gamedev #indiegame #godot
Day 2:
Spawning some grass sprites on begin play and basic camera movement. Wondering on which genre to pursue...
Cover image for the Pixel RPG bundle by Snoblin on itch.io, showcasing some characters and dungeon elements
The asset bundles by snoblin.itch.io look amazing. I might need to adapt them a bit for my project though #gamedev #pixelart #gameart
12.05.2025 21:16 — 👍 15 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0I consider myself an experienced programmer, but my skill level in everything art related is awful at best.
Are there any good resources on how to start with 2D art? Sticking to pixel art since I think it would be the most accessible. #gamedev #pixelart #gameart
A simple pixel art grass sprite that doesn't resemble grass at all.
Posting a screenshot everyday* until my first Godot game is ready for launch #gamedev
Day 1:
My art skills are non existent. But even such a well made grass sprite can be fixed by a good looking color palette
An empty "create project" window for the Godot game engine.
Posting a screenshot everyday* until my first Godot game is ready for launch #gamedev
Day 0.
A customized windows powershell
Improving the terminal experience in Windows is a must if you're a power user. Here's how I got my terminal to look like this: bitwisemage.com/posts/improv...
#windows #terminal #powershell
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If you’re ever suffering from imposter syndrome, just remember that these exist
#webdev
Cover of the book "Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective" by Bryant and O'Hallaron
If I had to choose just one book to learn from, it would be Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective, and it’s not even a contest
10.05.2025 02:30 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0CMake code for a C++ project using the SDL development library
Starting a cross platform C++ SDL project with CMake is super simple. Template available here github.com/BitwiseMage/...
#gamedev #sdl