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#pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

I do like cool sk8r toilet and buff snake bezos.

YouTube video by hoveringskull Solo Game Dev and Hitting "the Wall"; or, one simple trick to destroy your project [remastered]

Absolutely feeling low motivation for my projects this week.

Anyone else hitting the wall? www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwFk...

#indiedev #gamedev #solodev #godot #tetris

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YouTube video by hoveringskull Live Fast, Die Often: How we pace (modern) roguelikes.

I have bloviated briefly on how modern roguelikes are paced to constantly move players forward to avoid boring, conservative strategies

www.youtube.com/watch?v=51fO...

#roguelike #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign

Godot 4.6 Release: It's all about your flow With the stability gained over the past five Godot 4 releases, it's time for polish and quality-of-life improvements for everyday development.

Woohoo! Godot 4.6 is out.

Lots of cool stuff, especially for 3D workflows.

godotengine.org/releases/4.6/
#godot #gamedev #indiedev

I think it's not strictly correct because the first bit isn't a full sentence, and it's not separating list items. Comma is totally correct here.

Not really an issue for clarity or whatever though. Creative choice I guess.

a video game shows a ghost train with sabin shadow and cyan stats ALT: a video game shows a ghost train with sabin shadow and cyan stats

Cons?: Can be suplexed

It's fun. Failing a few checks makes the game more interesting!

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale

Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

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Very happy that more people are talking accessibility in games. Xalavier is rad.

David Lynch sitting in a naturally lit room and wearing sunglasses: “I’m wearing dark glasses today, because I’m seeing the future and the future is looking very bright.”

David Lynch passed a year ago today. I hope we all can absorb just a little bit of the energy he put out in his lifetime.

In the span of weeks, I've gone from someone who has never used Godot, to struggling to "get" Godot, to really liking Godot, to having taught aspiring gamedevs the basics of Godot, to strongly believing Godot's workflow & structure might be the best approach to developing games for many purposes.

Heck yeah, welcome to the cult! It's such a wonderful engine that exposes tons of functionality but ALSO allows you to contribute or make C++ modules for deeper customization. Plus, not owned by corpo-ghouls.

YouTube video by hoveringskull Let's Build a Monster Battler, Part 11: Asynchronous UI Effects, also Bug Fixes (Godot 4)

Part 11 is here!

Did you know that we can REUSE almost all of our move code to handle items?

Because we can!

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

#indiedev #gamedev #pokemon #programming #godot

YouTube video by hoveringskull Let's Build a Monster Battler, Part 10: Asynchronous UI Effects, also Bug Fixes (Godot 4)

Forgot to post this when it came out, but:

LETS FIX SOME BUGS AND MAKE THE UI ASYNC in our poke-clone

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Hi7...

#godot #gamedev #indiedev #programming

A moth taped to a page of early computer eng notes.

The term "bug" for computer bug gained popularity when they found a literal moth in the circuits of the Harvard Mark II in 1947!

Look at this lil guy. A moth hero, standing up to the machines.

americanhistory.si.edu/collections/...

Planning #gamedev milestones for 2026 lead me to compare the number of enemy types in various #roguelike games:

The most British crime possible has been committed

This would be a really worthwhile task for the modding community to take up (if they haven't already, I haven't dug too deep into cyberpunk mods). It really should be done by the devs, though.

Identifying the mechanics of Rogue The earliest version of Rogue I can find is 3.6, which has source code available, and formed the basis of the version that I played and fi...

cool find: this pulsating, uncut, possibly cursed GEM of a blog for those interested in ROGUE, it's descendants, 80s programming, and gaming history! Check out DataDrivenGamer
datadrivengamer.blogspot.com/2019/05/iden...

#gamedev #indiedev #roguelike #programming

YouTube video by hoveringskull Let's Build a Monster Battler, Part 9: Projectiles, Screenshake and more. (Godot 4)

9th video on remaking pokemon gen 1 battles!

Let's make some projectiles! Let's make the screen shake! Let's make things flash etc.

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

#godot #gamedev #indiedev #tutorial

YouTube video by hoveringskull Version control for game dev: Learn Git or die hard (FULL VERSION)

PLEASE PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD(OT),

use version control for your game
(i will teach you how)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y2t...

#gamedev #indiedev #softwaredevelopment #programming #git

YouTube video by hoveringskull Let's Build a Monster Battler, Part 8: Audio and Visual Effects System

Fresh educational video for your consideration.
Making audio and visual effects for a turn based pokemon-esque game!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bOA...

#gamedev #indiedev #turnbased #rpg #godot #pokemon

hehehe he'll yeh 420

What's everyone's favourite resource for low-poly 3d anim workflows in Godot? It is NOT my strength... apparently.

#godot #3danimation #gamedev #indiedev

YouTube video by hoveringskull Escape from Tutorial Hell! By breaking your game ideas down... with FRACTALS

ESCAPE FROM TUTORIAL HELL!
featuring THE POWER OF FRACTALS

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

#gamedev #indiedev #programming #godot #tutorial

Nothing? I've made games with less in less time!

Love this tool for estimating your next extremely reasonable game dev project: clintbellanger.net/toobig/

#gamedev #indiedev #solodev