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Aubrey Serr

@serr.bsky.social

Veteran indie game developer and GDC speaker on Level Design. Artist, animator, and programmer with 10+ years of experience. Trained economist bringing analytical skills to game design. 1990 Nintendo World Championships semi-finalist

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Latest posts by serr.bsky.social on Bluesky

Thanks for the reply! I'm not an expert in this stuff -- I was hoping the new Stencil Buffer maybe helped but it seems not

20.10.2025 10:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This looks amazing -- is it going to work with glass and water?

19.10.2025 11:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Set your alarm clockโฐ

The Slumber Realm demo is coming in 1 WEEK!

#indiegame #indiegames #gamedev #indiedev #roguelike #gaming

14.10.2025 12:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 6    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

I created a custom editor to place dots

I can then dynamically animate each dot in real time to create a sort of dreamy effectโœจ

10.10.2025 12:54 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Crazy discount - cape hideous is 75% off. That's like a dollar something in US world :O
store.steampowered.com/app/3187550/...

30.09.2025 20:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 27    ๐Ÿ” 12    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Corpus Edax is great because you can surprise someone with a pitchfork to the head and then lose a fistfight to them anyways

This sounds sarcastic but I am being 100% sincere it rules

01.09.2025 02:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 269    ๐Ÿ” 36    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 10    ๐Ÿ“Œ 2
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Escape, by Jasper Byrne 12 track album

my new album ESCAPE is out today

this one means a lot to me because the songs span my daughter's whole life

thankyou to Jef at YUKU for putting this together

yukumusic.bandcamp.com/album/escape

14.08.2025 12:36 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 30    ๐Ÿ” 7    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

@bernhard-werner.de Here is the post!

bsky.app/profile/chug...

07.08.2025 14:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When I made Trackless, one of the issues I had with it was that I couldn't really "play" it properly (since I knew all the puzzle solutions), so I suppose that was another goal. Make something I could personally play and have fun with, which meant leaning a lot on systems and rng than I'm used to

07.07.2025 16:47 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

when I set out to make this I had a couple of goals. I wanted something I could play on my phone, play with my friends, easy to share, and most critically -- actually finished

07.07.2025 16:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

That said, unless the game gets a lot of traction somehow I think it's "done"

I don't really see any way to make money off of it right now, so I am moving on to other more ambitious projects!

07.07.2025 16:27 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Armada Chess Customize your fleet and engage in intense Chess-style action. Explore countless fleet combinations, each offering different tactics and unique graphics.

Finally beat me own game's Story Mode without cheating and (I may be a bit biased) I think it is kind of fun?

discord.com/discovery/ap...

07.07.2025 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

They are Calbee (of Shrimp Chip fame) "Harvest Snaps" Green Pea Snack -- I suspect "lightly salted" flavor.

Also, delicious -- think Shrimp Chip with less Shrimp and more Pea

My favorite flavor is wasabi

01.07.2025 14:07 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The tint color is applied using a rule I used to use in photoshop; I set it to blend multiply at 50% opacity and a 2nd pass of the same color at overlay 50%

If you want to check it our yourself, you can pop the game open in discord by hitting the controller icon and searching "Armada Chess" (3/3)

18.06.2025 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The solution I found was to store the tint zones in the alpha data (which the browser leaves alone). 0 was totally transparent, and 255 was untinted. The rest of the range stores the 2 tint zones (2/3)

18.06.2025 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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One of the bigger challenges in Armada Chess was getting the color tinting to work properly. I haven't done a lot of web-dev so it was surprising to eventually figure out that the "color management" completely mangles the colors on load. My color keys were getting lost (1/3)

18.06.2025 17:06 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I have my fair share of unfinished projects, but they are finally starting to pay dividends. I am unreasonably happy to get this ancient pixel art into a released game

16.06.2025 13:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 6    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

After you pick them you let them sit around for a month and after they turn totally black you fry them. This is not a guarantee they will taste good. We had a few trees in the last apartment I lived in and each tree's bananas tasted totally different. Some of the bananas were apple flavor? Weird

16.06.2025 13:14 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Armada Chess Customize your fleet and engage in intense Chess-style action. Explore countless fleet combinations, each offering different tactics and unique graphics.

I made a new Chess variant you can play in discord -- you can play it anywhere by clicking the controller icon and typing in "Armada Chess"

discord.com/discovery/ap...

14.06.2025 17:12 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 4    ๐Ÿ” 1    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for info! Weโ€™ll look in to it

04.05.2025 21:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Iโ€™m so lucky that my game found people who love it

04.05.2025 00:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 3    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Which grotesque Look Outside creature matches your vibe for spring? ๐ŸŒผ ๐ŸงŒ ๐ŸŒธ

24.03.2025 19:35 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 205    ๐Ÿ” 21    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 14

This solves some mysterious longstanding problems I have had with Area3D!

04.03.2025 23:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A screenshot of a DOS program that simulates the software running on a Soyuz spacecraft. I have no idea what any of the data means.

A screenshot of a DOS program that simulates the software running on a Soyuz spacecraft. I have no idea what any of the data means.

Looks cool, though. It's giving me Nostromo vibes.

Looks cool, though. It's giving me Nostromo vibes.

Kinda like retro-futurism, but real.

Kinda like retro-futurism, but real.

I'd love someone to make a sci-fi video game with this exact aesthetic.

I'd love someone to make a sci-fi video game with this exact aesthetic.

The UI design in this Soyuz astronaut training software goes extremely hard.

08.07.2023 16:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1122    ๐Ÿ” 350    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 26    ๐Ÿ“Œ 20
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Im a simple artist, having fun playing with the Blueprints. Making a chibi soldier guy and getting him rigged up to hold all the guns

#GameDev #indiedev #Unreal

15.12.2024 08:18 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 8    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is coming together really nicely!

07.12.2024 13:11 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Working on a Kei truck simulator set in the Shลwa era called Honcho. Trucks, maintenance & vending machine tycoonism abound!

#screenshotsaturday #Honcho #Gamedev #indiedev

07.12.2024 12:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 82    ๐Ÿ” 23    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Save 30% on Trackless on Steam Trackless is an atmospheric first-person exploration and puzzle game set in the distant future. Trackless uses text input that allows you to interact with characters and objects. Using your in-game ph...

Our atmospheric first person puzzle game is on sale for a few bucks: store.steampowered.com/app/586660/T...

29.11.2024 18:50 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It looks like the AI generated these 4 guys from the same prompt

25.11.2024 16:39 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 18    ๐Ÿ” 2    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

In case you're wondering what makes 7DFPS extra cool here are some of the great games that have come out of it:

SUPER HOT
Receiver
420BlazeIt
Anger Foot
Paint the Town Red
Catlateral Damage
Heavy Bullets

22.11.2024 12:21 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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