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What happens when you layer 1000s of hand drawn elements to build video games? This!

#gamedev #indiedev #gamedevelopment #shroomandgloom

Randomness in Narrative Video Games: Aesthetics of Different Random Systems On virtual dice, cards, and other alternatives.

"..the different ways we dress the naked PRNG .. for the player's consumption: as card draws, rolls of the dice, and so on." #gamedev #narrativedesign #gamedesign azhdarchid.com/randomness-i...

The classic 1999 version of System Shock 2 is set to be pulled from sale on Steam later this week. https://bit.ly/4pWkLNn

Installed Blender 5.0, scatter on surface is now a built-in node ❤️

DPaint.js stef.be

Miss Deluxe Paint? Steffest has reimpleented it in Javascript, for easy pixel art animation, used by id Software and LucasArts alike. Come on back and draw like it's 1989!

a double spread screenshot from developer magazine about writing first person narratives

love digging back into these old archives: "A simple technique for first-person narrative design" #gamedev #gaming archive.org/details/GDM_...

TGIF

PVKK: Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant - Devlog #6: Graphics Deep Dive - Steam News Lander shares some deep insight into how the graphical side of PVKK is structured and what his recent improvements were.

Right before Gamescom @landervr.bsky.social blesses us with the sixth PVKK devlog! He explains how the graphical scene is constructed and what's the reasoning behind this, as well as showing very recent improvements he has done to the lighting. Enjoy :D

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Osirus by The Usual Suspects is a free VST, VST3, AU, CLAP, LV2 for Windows, macOS, Linux "emulation of an Access Virus B/C, code ported to function exactly as the hardware using the DSP56300 emulator" dsp56300.wordpress.com/osirus/

YouTube video by Vulmen Defcon (game) - Music/Atmosphere

the music ..https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub_a9HY_6Oc&list=RDUb_a9HY_6Oc&start_radio=1

pretty exciting!

YouTube video by jackfrags Battlefield 6 Portal Gameplay and Impressions...

de_dust2 in BF6 with Portal, level design with Godot: youtu.be/f6RGo76uyTk?...

an advert for the video game Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine showing how to break in a fedora

Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine ad circa 2000 #videogame #retrogaming

1D-PACMAN

"Run, chase, and devour" — a minimalist twist on the arcade classic.

No install needed — play instantly on iPhone, Android, or desktop:

➡️ beep8.org

#IndieGame #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #IndieGameDev #IndieGames #IndieLove #PixelArt #beep8

Mixed Reality Game Where You Explore Real World Needs Playtesters Enjoy Picto and help the developer.

Mixed Reality Game Where You Can Insert Real Objects Is Looking for Playtesters #AR #gamedev #gaming 80.lv/articles/mix...

Box art by Philip Castle. The image is dominated by the game's title, "ELITE," rendered in a bold, golden 3D font with large, stylized wings, resembling a prestigious pilot's insignia. The scene depicts key elements from the game: The Cobra Mk III: The sleek, saucer-shaped ship in the foreground is the player's starting vessel, the legendary Cobra Mk III. Coriolis Station: The massive, geometric structure is a Coriolis space station, the rotating hubs of trade and commerce where players would dock.

Elite was released (circa) 41 years ago today!

This space trading open world game is considered to be the forerunner of many modern games, as well as being an important milestone in the history of space sci-fi.

The cover of the first issue of Computer Gaming World depicts a dragon breathing fire out of a computer monitor.

And lastly... with help from CGWMuseum.org, we've made the entire run of Computer Gaming World full-text searchable! All 268 issues, plus the 17 issues of Games for Windows magazine.

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still have a few!

a screenshot of a playdate handheld console demonstrating a dithering technique

Surface-Stable Fractal Dither on Playdate #gaming #gamedev aras-p.info/blog/2025/02...

One of the most beloved hardcore board games of all time is getting a Steam version All the galactic conquest, but now the friends are optional.

Twilight Imperium, the legendary sci-fi strategy game of galactic conquest, commerce, and political scheming is coming to Steam!

No release date yet.

fascinating talk👍
#linux #opensource

OpenAI says models trained to make up answers : Even a wrong answer is right some of the time

"OpenAI says models are programmed to make stuff up instead of admitting ignorance" ..no shit
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By the way, what’s a AA? Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and crea...

interesting read on #videogame classification hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o...

YouTube video by Curious Archive Games that Make You Part of the Ecosystem

"A meditation on games with worlds designed to make you feel like a small player in a much wider environment." #gaming #videogames #gameworlds www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZFBU...

Blender Conference 2025 — conference.blender.org Blender Conference 2025 - The event of the year celebrating the Free and Open 3D Creation Software

📣 Blender Conference 2025 is here!

📅 Follow the program: conference.blender.org/2025/schedule/

📺 All presentations will be uploaded to the official Blender YouTube channel as usual: www.youtube.com/@BlenderOffi...

#b3d #BCON25

Godot 4.5, making dreams accessible – Godot Engine From mind-blowing effects now made possible by the stencil buffer to accessible descriptions of your GUI elements that opens up the possibility for people with disabilities to play your game — we are ...

Lots of goodies in the latest #Godot 4.5 release
#gamedev #indiedev
godotengine.org/releases/4.5/

WIP: stretchy soft-belly physics for the finger controlled wiener dog in #XR for the Sep 2025 #GodotXRGameJam.

#GameDev #IndieGameDev #Godot

Creating natural paths on terrains using pathfinding Pathfinding is not just for finding paths for AI agents/NPCs and similar. It’s also for procedurally creating paths. While working on pat...

Procedurallly creating paths on terrains using pathfinding #gameProgramming #gamedev blog.runevision.com/2016/03/note...