Josh Powers

They are bamboozling hardcore fans with subpar work. If anyone has an excuse to rush out stuff that looks like this, it's a solo indie dev. Way too much content to make and not enough time to make it. Yet, most solo devs would find this inexcusable as part of their 99 cent game. Much less a $30 skin

Yesterday on X I critiqued an abysmally low quality character skin pack for Halo Infinite that evidently costs $27 or something to buy... I pointed out a lot of obvious issues with the quality and that it was unacceptable. Most agreed, but there were still Halo loyalists who want me butterflied.

I've played games all my life. I've made them as an artist for the last 20 years. And yet, as I try to tackle my own game, the whole idea of "what makes a game fun" just seems to have fluttered away out of my head. Massive designer imposter syndrome going on right now.

It’s pretty awful. Have had something mild since the weekend but it’s really hitting today. Was like a week long prelude lol

Doesn't look like I can do a poll here, but chime in! I'm at a point where I need to decide on some direction with my AI horror game. So, should I make it:

Serious Horror?
Horror Comedy?
Serious Horror With Some Humor Sprinkled In?

#indiedev

Hi, Bluesky.
Meet my game!

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Really struggling with how to move forward with my project. If time wasn't so much an issue, I know exactly how I would proceed. But the current scope is daunting for the timeframe I want. Do I simplify/change the direction? Or allow scope to consume?

This is just awful, man :(

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

You has the technology

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What’s everyone’s favorite hotspot plugin? I dried Dream UV but it’s very very basic. I’m thinking I’ll go with ZenUV but not 100% sure. Thoughts?

I think they should have instead hired a creative person so that among the three of them there'd be one

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3D artist life hack. If you just look at folding as the UV portion of laundry, you eventually learn to enjoy it as relaxation time.

Really awesome technique. Thanks for sharing!

#Helf

My #PitchYaGame is a game currently called PROJECT JASPER. An atmospheric narrative horror where you play as a 3D artist who has been kidnapped by an AI company, forced to create art to feed the AI. Will you be able to escape and bring down the corporation? Very early WIP shots.

At the beginning of last month I said I was going to announce my #indiegame by the beginning of this month. I started second guessing that, as I am a perfectionist and wanted to have things further along and a nice trailer. But I think I am going to still do it today. Standby.

Congrats! Best of luck on this :)

This is the greatest post on here today.

That looks amazing. Well done.

Blue works better imo. Everything reads a bit clearer to me.

I am considering the Point (no filter) texture option for my game. I feel it adds a bit of "charm" to the textures that is needed because I simply can't devote the time to texturing every asset like I want. Is this overused? Or does it work okay, still?

Last night my heart sank for a moment when my PC didn’t wake up from sleep and then didn’t respond when I pushed the power button. It did boot back up, finally, but it’s been janky lately. The thought of getting my PC back reinstalled to where it is now is daunting.

Just found your YT channel and loving your devlogs, my friend. Looking forward to checking this out.

Just watched a devlog by a guy using a 2.5D engine. It takes Quake2 model formats. And he said he owned Milkshape3D and used that for exports.

I love indie devs. Such a scrappy bunch!

That's one thing I need to learn better, too. There's definitely a lot of nuance that goes into making good trim sheets to they have a lot of interesting detail, but not so overbearing that they start to feel repetitive across a level.

Do we love Jordan or what?!?!?

I got so sick of using trim sheets after a few projects in the past. But it might be time to return to them.

1000% yes

Incredibly generous! Thank you.