Liza Knipscher (a game developer)

Code golfing a tiny demo using maths and a pinch of insanity

Neat article on code golfing. Many techniques that I use:
blog.pkh.me/p/45-code-go...

Same

A cluster of goofs

Organisms in the game breed, and their offspring have a mix of their traits and will also be able to randomly mutate over generations. It’s comparable to how the Creatures series worked, but with more variety in body shape and other traits

Rules for Game Dev 1. The gamer is always gamer 2. Games aren't finished, only completed 3. Always keep at least one infinite loop in your game to trap malevolent spirits 4. Don't code the small stuff (it's all stuff) 5. Respect the seven axes of player motivation 6. A bad game is bad forever, but a broken game is right twice a day 7. It's not about who you know, it's about knowing who 8. Disregard the eighth axis of player motivation 9. You couldn't make Super Mario today. Try again tomorrow. 10. The game developer with the most victory points at the end is the winner 11. Do not acknowledge the howling skull

found this in my notes, good advice for aspiring devs

Herding cubes, HD remaster.

I don't know what he's doing, but he's doing it with panache

Nooooo.mp4

Crawlin'

I think the top one without the UI could be really interesting in a capsule

making some little guys walk around

Lil fella

After over 2 years cooking in Steam Early Access, Mars First Logistics 1.0 is finally here!

Engineer your little rover and deliver lots of silly stuff!

How do you feel about... realistic quadruped animation in your critter creator 👁️
How about TRIPEDS??

Morning stroll through the alien meadow

#gamedev

It’s an artificial life sim with evolution, and the player is a little robot who cultivates an alien ecosystem while gathering natural resources to craft tools and upgrades 😊

Curious animal

Tenazul Rambeest redesign
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#speculativebiology #art #digitalart #artsky #specbio #specevo #exoton

added dogs

I wonder how people normally deal with that kind of popping. I feel like it would look nice if each imposter came in at a bit of a random offset from the default distance

A trail of colourful bushy plants wedged between a large rock on the left and a mound of loose blue purple slate on the right topped with a tree with rounded leafy foliage

Nature and Slate

SUSHI BEN IS OUT NOW! 🎉🎉🎉
I've been working on this since 2016 yay!
My team has been working on this since 2021 yay!
Plz try it out, its cheaper than toro nigiri tysm im so sleepy going to bed now.

Deermin / 🦌 / #pikmin

The Venus girdle (Cestum veneris) is a large, ribbon-shaped comb jelly, or ctenophore, known for its transparent and gelatinous body.

I coded this atmosphere shader to only render if the camera is underneath it, but the atmosphere is a mesh with vertices and therefore not a perfect sphere, so I get these circles when the camera moves. Not going to be in the finished shader, but I thought it was neat and wanted to share

Elder Scrolls rooms can be so cozy

ancient friends

Been working on a fun little hobby experiment recently with relativistic ray tracing. Don't have everything working just yet, but I do have some really neat debug visuals: