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How do we colour the levels in our game?🔮✨

Here's a quick peek behind the scenes of our magical roguelike deckbuilder!

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Old golfing video game from 2005, Tiger Woods PGA, but with a photoshopped volcano on top of it, from Grindavík, Iceland.

New day, new volcano 🌋 A local golf tournament is postponed because of it, but hear me out...

I love it! It's so cute, juicy and friendly, all at the same time! 🥕

Hi, Iceland here 👋 almost everyone speaks english, look at nice scenery during weekends, safest country in the world, more game studios than you'd expect for the size ( igi.is ), everyone is friendly, currently almost entirely governed by women, occasionally see volcanos, what's not to like?! 😁

Dig In (Demo) by Vitargames, Skrekkur WW1 Colony sim

Just released the first public demo for my game Dig-In
WW1 Colony sim / Strategy

Demo available for this week only!
vitargames.itch.io/dig-in-demo

Walk of Life Demo on Steam Try the Demo for Walk of Life, a hilarious life simulator where players duke it out in the rat race of mundane living. Get a job, buy stuff, and crush your friends in local or online multiplayer. Chec...

Hey, If you like party games, check out the newly released demo of our competitive life sim, Walk of Life!

store.steampowered.com/app/3701960/...

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"On The Cusp of Greatness" - 6 Games That Are Defining the Future of the Icelandic Game Industry Iceland is still a relative newcomer in the video game landscape, but the IGI has a very promising set of games currently in development.

Hey, are you wondering what's going on in the Icelandic game scene these days? Well, this article lists out 6 games that are in active development, with some soon to be released!

Check it out: gamerant.com/icelandic-ga...

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Lessons Learned — Porcelain Fortress Oh, hi! You’ve caught us in the middle of work as we are currently neck-deep in elbow grease, viscera, and God only knows what other fluids to release the perfect game. But, since it’s you, I guess ...

What a great question! It just so happens we did a dive through it in a deblog not too long ago.

It boils down to having more content and ensure replayability, as well as more player interaction and a better structured codebase.

Read more about it here:
www.porcelainfortress.com/dev-blog/202...

Walk of Life on Steam Walk of Life is a hilarious life simulator where players duke it out in the rat race of mundane living. Jaw-dropping features include getting a job, educating yourself, and buying stuff. Take on your ...

We're on Steam already, so give us a wishlist if this tickles your fancy, it helps a lot! 🙏
store.steampowered.com/app/1910150/...

The map in Walk of Life, titled Calicornia, showing all the fancy buildings you can interact with.

The map in No Time To Relax, our previous game.

The map in Jones in the Fast Lane

Let me introduce you to what I'm working on. 👀
It's called Walk of Life. It's a competitive life simulator, in the style of our previous game No Time to Relax. Which itself is based on the game Jones in the Fast Lane
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I most likely won't, but can't be sure about my partners in crime at Porcelain Fortress. Our game designer might be there as he lives in the area.

Second attempt at uploading my simple appartment furtniture pack to Fab. The problem was missing collision on a few of the items :p

Updated the lighting a little bit, its much warmer now, giving off a more cozy feel.

Lets see if it gets approved :D
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Thanks to everyone who joined us last night! It was amazing to see so many new and familiar faces, share stories, and nerd out about game dev together. Can’t wait for the next one! 🎉

Godot 4.4, a unified experience – Godot Engine Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes - spotting all the optimizations that have been applied in...

#GodotEngine 4.4 is finally here! 🚀

Look forward to plenty of quality of life improvements hidden within this release. Faster load speeds, reduced stutter, streamlined processes, and more!

godotengine.org/releases/4.4/

Godot Showcase - Museum of All Things What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base.

What if Wikipedia was a place you could visit? That’s the idea behind The Museum of All Things, a free and open-source procedurally-generated museum built on Wikipedia’s vast knowledge base 🖼️

godotengine.org/article/muse...

Amazing project, love it! 👏 🏆

Genius project! 👏

I briefly hired Jen as a freelance narrative consultant over a decade ago and she has moved from strength to strength ever since. She's a frigging powerhouse who cares about the medium of games more than almost anyone I know. If you need a writer, y'all should hire her before someone else does.

Saturday, hello. Time flies and it feels like we're on a planet where time has become faster. I'm continuing to work on the Sci-Fi game on Unreal Engine 5, here's a rover gameplay for you #ScreenshotSaturday #scifi #gaming #UnrealEngine #indiegame #indiedev #gamedev #UE5

Thank you all for a brilliant event last night! Huge props again to the Ascension team for taking us behind the scenes on their journey from ideation to winning the 2024 holiday game jam! The talk was jam packed with insights and we hope it was an inspiration to aspiring jammers out there 🙌 🤩 👑

#MadeWithGodot: jw-otto made an arcade machine where the player draws their character on paper and then it appears within the game! 🎮 How cool is that?!

www.reddit.com/r/godot/comm...
#gaming #godotengine #gamedev #3DPrinting #arcade #indiedev

You're right in feeling proud, these are great porthole views into the industry here and now! I thoroughly enjoy reading these, please continue and I'm looking forward to your visit to us at Porcelain Fortress!

From Iceland — Let The Games Begin: Inside Iceland’s Rising Video Game Development Scene It isn’t often that an entirely new cultural medium is born. But over the last few decades, video games have...

If anyone's interested in what #gamedev is like in Iceland, here's a thread of my coverage!

First up, a story on the scene in general, with CCP (EVE Online), indie dev @joonturbo.bsky.social (NUTS, Phantom Spark), the @gamemakersiceland.bsky.social grassroots org, and ambitious startup Myrkur.

Fascinating to see how different games development is to e.g. SaaS development (or anything backend or frontend development).

"Job well done" means something very different in both cases. And both dev lifecycle and what "great" means is very different between one another.

Yeah my condolences, I'd only wish this on my worst enemy

I'm discovering this thing for the first time, this event where the whole family becomes sick, and I've got to say: I don't like it, not one bit!

The Gentrification of Video Game History We’re not all suburban kids who got a Nintendo 64 for Christmas

Here we go, something I've been drafting for a long, long time: how the US-centric approach to video games and their history / culture basically gaslights us who come from other realities:
felipepepe.medium.com/the-gentrifi...

AKA, why LAN Houses, PokéTibia & Bomba Patch rule.

At the tail end of the year, a (possibly) helpful 🎲 ✂️ 🧵:

1. Start designing games for you, not others. I understand it might not be economically viable (whatever that means), but chasing the next big hit will leave you more frustrated than fulfilled.

Game design is more lottery nowadays.

1/?

I relate to this more than I care to admit! 🙈

Did a major UX update for my Godot 3D Lines and Trails addon. Also added a little examples scene that gives you a guided tour/demonstration of the addon's various features.

github.com/CozyCubeGame...

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