Veridian Expanse ⇨ Open Sauce

Well... The presentation happened, but the stream apparently didn't. Whoops... I'll probably re-record it this weekend at home and upload it for anyone that is still interested.

Game.wav Meeting 10-9-25 YouTube video by Robert Frost III - Game Audio

My presentation "Audio Math 101 for Gamedevs" is starting soon! You can stream/watch it here: www.youtube.com/live/hDdqucY...

Game.wav Meeting 10-9-25 YouTube video by Robert Frost III - Game Audio

Whoops, I looked right at it. The link for tonight's game.wav is here: www.youtube.com/live/hDdqucY...

Title slide for my presentation "Audio Math 101 for Gamedevs"

I'll be streaming a "Audio Math 101" presentation in a few hours focusing on things every gamedev will want to know! How digital audio works, and simple math to fix common mistakes.

It will be streaming from here: www.youtube.com/@robertfrost... (no placeholder stream yet... sorry)

Voxel Renderer — Handling Objects and Animated Characters Introduction Somehow, it's been over a year since I wrote the first two posts introducing my small-voxel renderer, inspired by the look of classic 90's 3D games. These posts and the video received mor...

You can read more about it on his blog. I'm fairly sure he's still looking for projects to collaborate on if it looks like your jam too.

blog.danielschroeder.me/blog/voxel-r...

YouTube video by Daniel Schroeder Leveling up my small-voxel renderer

A local gamedev friend of mine has been making some neat voxel rendering tech. Basically it lets you make super detailed voxel scenes using more traditional mesh based level tooling.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bN9n...

Robert Frost III Sound Designer and Audio Professional

@robertfrostiii.bsky.social is also looking for additional projects. If you need an ace sound guy (design, effects, music, everything), give him a ping! robertfrostiii.com

YouTube video by Robert Frost III - Game Audio Game.wav Meetup 8/14/25

My audio guy gave a talk: "Indie Game Sound On-boarding". Basically what to do as a sound designer at the start of a new project.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZqv...

#indiedev #gamedev #audio

Robert Frost III Sound Designer and Audio Professional

So my sound designer, @robertfrostiii.bsky.social, is looking for more projects. He's really quite good and I can highly recommend him. He does the whole shebang from design, to effects, to music. FMOD is his usual jam, but he even puts up with my homemade audio shenanigans.

robertfrostiii.com

Well the website/forums for Chipmunk Physics is offline due to "a DDoS attack", but looking at the logs its all just frickin' AI crawlers.

Make that another part of the open source web knocked offline by AI BS.

More people should hire Rob tbh

Robert Frost III Sound Designer and Audio Professional

So my sound designer, @robertfrostiii.bsky.social, is looking for more projects. He's really quite good and I can highly recommend him. He does the whole shebang from design, to effects, to music. FMOD is his usual jam, but he even puts up with my homemade audio shenanigans.

robertfrostiii.com

Demo table for Veridian Expanse with two computers running the game, and a sign that says it open source and players can compile it before they play if they want.

Final tallies for Open Sauce, 200+ players, 23+ hours of playtime. 49 people compiled it from source before playing. Need to recheck Steam, but I think it was ~70 the first day. #opensource #gamedev

People continue to take up the offer to compile the game. Haha! Seriously, my limiting factor is that I only brought one keyboard.

Thanks! I got halfway through hall C yesterday. I don’t know how I’m going to make it through all the main hall stuff. Hah. My neighbor booth can look over mine when I’m away, but I gotta practice those trust falls I guess. ;)

I’m demoing Veridian Expanse at @opensaucelive.bsky.social with instructions to compile the game before you play it. I wasn’t sure if the gimmick would work, but so far it’s almost half of the players. Hah! Love it. #opensource #indiedev

A "visit us" flyer for Veridian Expanse at Open Sauce. The Open Sauce logo is a cube shaped robot head in the upper left. The Veridian Expanse art shows a space ship with arms fleeing from giant robotic insects, in the background a menacing pair of giant glowing robot hands reach out of the darkness.

Veridian Expanse will be at Open Sauce this weekend! I have a suitcase full of Raspberry Pis to run it on packed and ready to play it on. 😀

Given the maker-faire-esque vibes, I'm hoping someone will take up the offer to compile it before they play. Heh. #opensource #indiedev #gamedev

opensauce.com

I got new title screen art. There's still a couple effects I'd like to add, but so far I think it turned out awesome! 😁 #indiedev #gamedev

My custom loop editor. It lets you set a range for looping sounds, and has buttons for previewing and quick checking the seam. The lower half is a wave view centered on the loop point that lets you fine tune the range.

Same as the other screenshot, but showing the spectrum mode that lets you line up the texture of the sound at the loop point also.

I could never find a good way to deal with importing loop audio so I just made a quick and dirty loop editor in my audio inspector...

Includes wave and spectrum view modes Actually works kinda ok? Another 200 lines of code I could have avoided by just using FMOD perhaps. >_< #indiedev #gamedev

For a such a non-techie location I’m surprised how many people recognized the Raspberry Pis I was using. A couple people asked if they were just to play videos, but they ran the whole demo! #raspberrypi

Honestly… they ran cooler when playing the game than running the video loop. >_< Hehe.

A shot from high above showing a table people are playing a video game at.

A rotunda at a large mall, the ground floor has island of tables with people playing video games at them.

Does this count for #screenshotsaturday? :D Demoing Veridian Expanse at the Mall of America. (We can just randomly rename things now and call it the Mall of Minnesota right?) A very different crowd from what I’m used to demoing for, but lots of people told me how much they liked it! #indiedev

Alternatively I could gate the easter eggs behind the character's progression as well, but that feels less satisfying. I feel like my options are to spawn the easter eggs somewhere the player has already gone or to hide them dynamically in places they haven't yet.

Can anyone think of any immersive games that story to the player separately from their character? Specifically, I have an open world game with story progression triggers for the character, but want to allow the player to find easter eggs that reveal more than the character should know.

Laying in a hammock with a laptop. Pine trees and a sunny sky in the background.

Today was a very work-from-hammock and disconnect from the internet sort of day. Great for working on narrative. Now time to break for dinner and bike to the taco place…

A bit late for #screenshotsaturday, but last week I got the cargo teleporters to a decent level of polish. Just place them like a power node, and they give you a connection to your fabricator. Drones can use them to shorten their delivery routes too. #indiegame #gamedev

Small world! :)

Live now! www.youtube.com/@VeridianExp...

Devstream: destructible decals Drill, craft, and blast your way through winding caverns. Upgrade your utility pod with plasma cannons, missiles, and laser drills. Build an army of tireless drones to do your bidding. You are going t...

Tune in to the Veridian Expanse devstream! Today I'll be working on making the terrain decorations destructible so you can chew through them with the laser drill. Starts in a little over an hour. #gamedev #indiegame www.youtube.com/@VeridianExp...

Thanks!

I haven't been posting about Veridian Expanse lately... So here's the newly reworked digging mechanic! I changed it from a laser to this plasma drill sort of thing. It arguably looks even cooler and gives the player more input. I might need to tone down the spalling though. >_< #gamedev #indiegame