Clara Gale ✈️ NS 0.4.1 out now!

Here's screenshots of all four revealed regions, for all you lore nuts and strategisers out there!

Nova Squadron on Steam Dive straight into Jupiter's atmosphere and take down vast flying fortresses from within in fast-paced, arcade flight combat. Losing your plane is just a setback - return with an upgraded replacement ...

If you don't know about the arrows and numbers and stuff, here's a demo, see for yourself how incomprehensible it is in 0.4.1: store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/...

or you can join the Discord (arrow-free zone): discord.gg/YVdeju6zEw

You know how when you open the mission select menu in #NovaSquadron there's a bunch of arrows and numbers and stuff?

And none of them make any sense?

Yeah, we're getting rid of them. Introducing the new start-of-run Region Select menu.
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

#indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday A rebel wind

Nova Squadron on Steam Dive straight into Jupiter's atmosphere and take down vast flying fortresses from within in fast-paced, arcade flight combat. Losing your plane is just a setback - return with an upgraded replacement ...

You can play the current live version of the demo here (without the stuttering, that's OBS, I really need to figure out why it does that): store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/...

or join the Discord and ask me to make the rim lighting purple or something: discord.gg/YVdeju6zEw

This week I made a bunch of little tweaks to #NovaSquadron:
- post-processing is a bit better
- lighting is a bit better
- the aurora is a bit better
- rim lighting?!
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

DELIVERY MUST COMPLETE on Steam High speed Acelike Roguelike with SSSTYLE. Cut across cel-shaded, action-packed, arcade-paced dogfights as you fly, fight, and upgrade your roster of kickass planes. Every battle is massive, every loc...

This game has the best publisher

store.steampowered.com/app/3639060/...

Iron Sea

Ace Combat 6

Naval Ops Warship Gunner

Independence War 2

Making environments and the game naturally dark so you can use additive HUD elements and get away with it.

There’s not a lot you can really do to improve target cycling when you only have a single button you can press!

…which is why I also have a lock on mechanic that allows you to switch targets using the right analog stick

Nova Squadron on Steam Dive straight into Jupiter's atmosphere and take down vast flying fortresses from within in fast-paced, arcade flight combat. Losing your plane is just a setback - return with an upgraded replacement ...

You can play the (substantially less pink) demo if you want to spread some love yourself: store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/...

or join the Discord and tell me to make it even pinker: discord.gg/YVdeju6zEw

For Valentine's Day, we're flying through pink bubblegum clouds spreading the love!

Of course, by "the love", I mean homing missiles and armour-piercing lasers.

This, too, is yuri.
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Supply Drop mission update. A helicopter is carrying a crate of supplies using a winch.

Thunder Helix got a new scenario mission! Supply Drop

"Our troops are pinned down behind enemy lines and low on ammo. Deliver a crate of supplies to tip the balance in their favor, then make it home in one piece."

Available now: store.steampowered.com/app/1906230/...

#flightsim #solodev #steam 🚁

In the order I drew them: Fenrir, one of the two protagonist options, a young woman in a flight suit with long, bright orange hair and a slightly bemused smile. Commander Özdemir (or just Öz to most people who know him), a stern, grey-haired man with a pristine white uniform, bionic eye, and magnificent moustache. AWACS Storm Chaser, a purple-eyed emo girl with dark green hair tied into a messy ponytail and a brown leather bomber jacket. Perigee, the other protagonist option, a young man with blue hair, a slightly scruffy beard, and kind pink eyes. He's also wearing a flight suit, but his is, well, actually rendered properly.

The first four characters from #NovaSquadron, in the order I drew them.
I've still got a very long way to go, but holy HECK that's a big improvement in my pixel-pushing skills already (especially with the fabric work)
#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart

Nova Squadron on Steam Dive straight into Jupiter's atmosphere and take down vast flying fortresses from within in fast-paced, arcade flight combat. Losing your plane is just a setback - return with an upgraded replacement ...

All these silly people will be coming to NS in 0.5.0, which means that if you wishlist the game, you'll get a notification when they get here: store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/...

or you can just rant about Perigee's beard trimming habits in the Discord: discord.gg/YVdeju6zEw

A man in a partially unzipped flight suit, with long blue hair tied up in a short ponytail and a short blue beard. His purple eyes look kind but also a bit silly. (This is because he’s kind but also a bit silly.)

Perigee in-situ for a mission briefing, saying “You know, Öz, I understand why you’re excited, but I’m kind of hoping the giant deadly robot doesn’t show up this time.”

You've already seen Fenrir, but it's finally time to introduce the other playable character in #NovaSquadron, callsign Perigee!
I know what you're thinking, "Is he as much of a dumbass as he looks?"
and no, he's not.
He's even more of a dumbass.
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

low poly lunar terrain demo

low poly lunar terrain demo

low poly lunar terrain demo

Added a heightmap loaded from a little greyscale image, and a directional light and suddenly it's looking like some kind of #lowpoly video game 😅 #gamedev

which one would u eat...

(working on the hub world for Aggressors slowly)

sani can u get me a bottle of spite pls

Nova Squadron on Steam Dive straight into Jupiter's atmosphere and take down vast flying fortresses from within in fast-paced, arcade flight combat. Losing your plane is just a setback - return with an upgraded replacement ...

When I first booted this up, it was running at 1.1 FPS. I had to do a lot of work just to get it up to the 5 FPS you're seeing!

All of the optimisation's going into 0.5.0, so wishlist NS to try it when it's out: store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/...

oh also join the Discord: discord.gg/YVdeju6zEw

So to celebrate hitting 1000 followers over here (omg hi everyone!) I thought it'd be fun to set up a mission in #NovaSquadron with 1000 planes.

This was a mistake.

Join me on my quest to try and stabilise the FPS by blowing them up as fast as possible.
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

If you're making a flightcade game, and you're taking any one feature from Nova Squadron, please let it be this one.

Accessibility benefits everyone, not just the people who "need" it.

If you fly hard enough you can outmaneuver a teleporting mech. Devlog in comments

(wishlist the game in pinned)
#gamedev #indiedev #DeliveryMustComplete

New Clouds :)

I was so incredibly tired of all those sound generators that can only create retro sounds... so I created my own!

It's a work in progress and it'll be part of a new project but enjoy some sounds I've made. Each of these took a minute tops! ✨

Steam Store Steam is the ultimate destination for playing, discussing, and creating games.

It might not have a chat log, but there's still a version of the Alpha Demo you can download and play right now: store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/...

oh and also an official Discord server discord.gg/YVdeju6zEw

Ever got into a situation where you're focusing on the combat so much, you only realise afterwards that you have no idea what anyone's been saying over comms?

Yeah, me too.

Which is why I'm adding a chat log to #NovaSquadron.
#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #accessibility

Huh, I didn’t know Volumarcher was a thing. (Does that work with Unity?)

It’s not Volumarcher, but it is a volumetric raymarching technique

Hey, thanks! It’s a home-grown system using the classic Horizon Zero Dawn-style volumetric technique:
advances.realtimerendering.com/s2015/The%20...

isn’t that technically your job?

Nova Squadron on Steam Dive straight into Jupiter's atmosphere and take down vast flying fortresses from within in fast-paced, arcade flight combat. Losing your plane is just a setback - return with an upgraded replacement ...

Speaking of the live version, it's here: store.steampowered.com/app/1826830/...

and we also have a Discord server you can lurk in: discord.gg/YVdeju6zEw