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Indie game developer & retired 10x programmer, working in Godot i like masocore, atmospheric, isometric games, cool shaders, and nice crunchy pixels He/him

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Ultimate Walrus Original freeware indie games made by Ultimate Walrus.

Just played "skull" by @ultimatewalrus.bsky.social , highly recommend! Spooky retro style isometric puzzle game.

ultimatewalrus.com#skull

05.10.2025 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Another reason to be weary of adding too many options

24.05.2025 15:27 β€” πŸ‘ 20    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 1
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The danger of β€œJust make it an option”

23.05.2025 14:27 β€” πŸ‘ 66    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 2

i’m always saying this about difficulty options especially :)

24.05.2025 15:50 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

unreal still has its place though. just depends on what you’re after. most artists i’ve met love unreal, most (but not all) programmers hate it

24.05.2025 01:30 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

having extensively used unity, unreal, and godot, unreal is for sure the most obtuse. it’s hyper-optimized for typical AAA games with realistic visuals, which comes at a cost to versatility, structure, and ability to maintain a project as an indie. godot is the best IMO

24.05.2025 01:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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We are having our first Replicube community event this Sunday (May 25) on my twitch channel!
Blind Solve Tournament + Build Battle featuring some of the best replicubers from the community!

21.05.2025 17:31 β€” πŸ‘ 56    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 1
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⚠️Replicube is now available on Steam!⚠️
Please tell all your nerdy friends about my little programming game/toy about coding voxel objects with Lua in a fake retro OS with excessive social features πŸ˜…
s.team/a/3401490/

24.04.2025 14:35 β€” πŸ‘ 199    πŸ” 78    πŸ’¬ 10    πŸ“Œ 5

e.g.

class MyList :List
{
static int id_cnt=0;

int my_id;

public MyList() : base()
{
my_id = id_cnt++;
}

public void Add(whatever)
{
Debug.Log(β€œAdded β€œ + whatever + β€œ to list β€œ + my_id + β€œ, length β€œ + Length());
base.Add(whatever)
}
}
(may have syntax errors)

07.02.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

if you’re desperate, you can inherit List and override functions like Add / Remove so you can put breakpoints / prints in them, and also add a static ID counter so each one has a unique ID you can sanity check

07.02.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

make sure there is only one list and you aren’t calling Add on two separate lists. make sure you arent doing anything else to the list between calls (like deserializing again or something)

07.02.2025 15:46 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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so happy to have finally beat this challenge in Ocean Planet (adam314's masocore platformer, which is the first premium game on my site arcade2.io, but i never actually beat it before now). harder than a Celeste b-side imo...

21.01.2025 00:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ultimate Walrus Original freeware indie games made by Ultimate Walrus.

my website (i host lots of freeware here)
ultimatewalrus.com

05.01.2025 17:09 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

so you could remake the exploit into a mechanic like mario’s triple jump or something. wouldn’t have to be exactly like that but you get the idea

17.12.2024 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i don’t think you should leave it as-is because it has a certain randomness / kludge factor to it. if you’re hesitant to fix it maybe that’s a sign that you should try out a clean implementation of a similar movement mechanic that requires more deliberate action on the part of the player.

17.12.2024 22:18 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

for when you really like Bombastic but the bombs aren't big enough

11.12.2024 19:55 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Ultimate Walrus (@UltimateWalrus@mastodon.social) Attached: 1 video for when you really like Bombastic but the bombs aren't big enough

wow bluesky's compression murdered this. you can check out a higher quality one here
mastodon.social/@UltimateWal...

11.12.2024 19:36 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Grunn is now β€œoverwhelmingly positive” on Steam! Thanks to all of you for checking out my weird game and leaving a nice review, it means a lot to me! πŸ™

11.12.2024 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 182    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 7    πŸ“Œ 0

legitimately one of the best games i played this year! i left an itch.io review, would leave a Steam review too but i don't think the itch version grants me a Steam key?

11.12.2024 19:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Save 10% on Ocean Planet on Steam Ocean Planet takes the ideas & gameplay of "Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy" and treats it as an art form, with atmospheric & immersive visuals and audio. You will be plunged into...

this released today! it's an awesome masocore platformer, and it's the first premium game connected to my indie arcade site, arcade2.io. check it out!!

store.steampowered.com/app/2985740/...

03.12.2024 03:23 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

it would have to be twinsen’s odyssey.

by the way if you want to try it, make sure you play the version with good sound design, which as far as i know is hosted only on my site for the sake of digital preservation

ultimatewalrus.com#twinsen

21.11.2024 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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868-BACK The sequel to 868-HACK. A cyberpunk roguelike adventure.

new project from the inventor of the broughlike. needs backing!

www.backerkit.com/c/projects/m...

21.11.2024 15:24 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

i’d be down

09.11.2024 15:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Speedy Blupi vibes

07.11.2024 20:53 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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had an awesome time with @adamgryu.bsky.social β€˜s Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival. the funnest part is seeing what pumpkins everybody made. i definitely recommend giving it a try before the servers go down for the year! (hopefully they go up again next year??) adamgryu.itch.io/pumpkin-carver

04.11.2024 04:17 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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man i had a great time with this! was a blast to poke around with friends. the best part is just seeing what pumpkins people made. the escape room haunted house was also top notch. got really attached to my little ghost, somehow it feels like i customized him just right

04.11.2024 04:09 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
A mass of sheet ghosts floating in a night village.

A mass of sheet ghosts floating in a night village.

It was really fun to see the crowd come out on Halloween night. This year, the pumpkin count has tripled from last year, and we're now at 18k pumpkins!

01.11.2024 19:18 β€” πŸ‘ 88    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

i highly recommend this if you feel like playing a lightly spooky β€œmetroidbrainia” with chill vibes overall! you’ll probably have to keep a little notebook to actually beat it, but personally that’s fun to me (i haven’t actually beat it yet)

31.10.2024 20:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Grunn - Official Launch Trailer
YouTube video by Sokpop Collective Grunn - Official Launch Trailer

my very normal gardening game β€˜Grunn’ is out on Steam! i’ve worked on it for almost 2 years! very happy that it’s finally done & playable :)

youtu.be/QDxm5HEYbt8?...

18.10.2024 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 67    πŸ” 14    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 6

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