Caps Collective

I’ve noticed a jump in new people in my feed, so time to celebrate another round of welcoming BlueSky #gamedev and #indiedev migrants 👋 We’re Caps Collective and we make little, weird, and silly games, like these ones!

I've been having a lot of fun playing with Unreal's Fracture tools to make these light reactive statue for an interactive music video project I've been working on

Finally got some proper NPC character models working, with some AI smart objects for them to sit and check out the market stalls

The Big Sand desert party is happening this Saturday at the Red Rattler in Sydney, I'm super excited to show off what we've been working on 🏜️ events.humanitix.com/big-sand-des...

I've been working with my friend on a live show for a virtual band at the end of this month. This video goes into the fancy cameras, Unreal trickery, and puppetry that makes up the show. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJWV...

In Sydney end of November? The virtual band Big Sand is performing live! I’ve been helping out with some of the tech behind the scenes, and I’m really excited for people to check it out! Tickets: events.humanitix.com/big-sand-des...

Waypoint Constellations this year was something special. It’s at that sweet spot where they’re able to find talented speakers from across the state, but keep the energy tight knit and the talks uniquely weird. Last night wasn’t just a night about games, it was truly about the people making them ✨

It’s been an amazing week - an exhausting week. Take a moment to congratulate yourself on making it through. It’s also important that we listen to our bodies coming away from these events. If it’s telling you that you need to faint and cough up blood, give yourself the patience and space to do so.

Caps Collective is gonna be at #MIGW, so come say hi! We’ll be at #GCAP, Freeplay Parallels, and #PAXAUS, hope to see you there!

As per my annual tradition, I'll be heading down to #MIGW for @gcapconf.bsky.social. I am a little bit nervous, but also excited to be delivering my first ever technical talk! It's about building open world games with World Partition in #UnrealEngine. I'll be in Melbourne all week, so come say hi!

Getting the hang of Unreal's Metasounds, now we're able to get objects listening to the output and bouncing to the music 🎶

One of my favourite parts of level design is creating piles of junk as barriers for player movement

It’s so cool that the biggest game in the world right now is an Australian Indie

The thrilling conclusion to our scarecrow saga

The Ministary of Conjured Cuisine will not be pleased with this development

Scarecrows are my personal favourite animated humanoid constructs

Read all about elder god calamari, floating rogues, and lesser potions in this edition of Fantasy Town Daily!

Remember adventurers, always keep a backup.

Extra extra! Read all about it! Princess Woodsong has been brought to ‘justice’!

Be careful out there, rogue deer WILL attack on sight!

Just in time for the Steam sale, we’ve released a new patch cleaning up some of those small outstanding nitpicks that have been keeping us up at night. Patch notes: store.steampowered.com/news/app/152...

The Steam City Builder and Colony Sim sale is live, and we’ve got our biggest discount yet of 60%! If you’ve been wishing for the chance to run your own adventuring town, look no further s.team/a/1524530

Reduce, Reuse, Reanimate ♻️ Our debut issue of Fantasy News Daily is out now!

If you haven't heard of the Game UI Database (gameuidatabase.com), it's a great tool for when you need to remember that one cool menu from a game you played years ago.

If anyone wants to try out a cute short farming game, I've been really enjoying The Palace on the Hill. It's from a small Indian indie dev team, and they definitely deverse the support! s.team/a/2562620

Finally! After all this time Godot has typed dictionaries! This patch announcement reads like a wishlist just for me godotengine.org/releases/4.4/

new post! bimbo.nekoweb.org/posts/7-bsky...

First blog post of the year: DONE! In this exciting episode, I talk about the fun little string token class I added instead of writing the static mesh packer like I said I would. #cpplus #cpp #gamedev #opensource #programming #gameengine

👂 CALLING ALL MY SOUND-SENSITIVE PEEPS 👂 Please fill out this survey to help a very wonderful 4th grader that I know get some key data for a school project! And please share! forms.gle/dHAa7uQrhY7f...

The Steam Autumn sale has started, and Fantasy Town Regional Manager is 30% off! 🍁 Steam: s.team/a/1524530

If you have a blog site and, like me, don't want to host your own comments section, I've put together a short blogpost on how to embed replies to your Bluesky posts in your own site! capscollective.com/blog/bluesky... #blueskydev #webdev

Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes Scenario You are in a research facility inside a human. Each player controls one part of the body Each turn, players can move to a new part of the body and perform an action. The body can move in unnatural ways Goals * Escape the facility * Escape this body

Dragons and Dragons Create Your Dragon: * Skills: Flight, Site, Fright, and Bite; Distribute 10 points * Traits: Every dragon has their own Plight, Delight, Spite, and Acolytes Conflict: * Roll 1d6 + skill vs 1d6 + difficulty or defender skill Scenario: * Build your hoard * Defend from townsfolk

CREATURES Need: 3d6 Character * Skills: Hands, Feet, Mouth, Guts; assign 3, 2, 2, 1 * Traits: claws, fangs, fins, horns, shell, slime, tail, tentacles, trunk, wings; pick 2 Conflict * Roll dice=skill * Highest: * 6: Yay * 4–5: Okay * 1–3: Uh-oh Scenario * escape maze * eat wizard * profit!

The new farming game I’m working on is essentially this

Games week more like please I’m so tired and my body is actually collapsing in on itself

Hey! We’ll be in Melbourne next week for GCAP and #MIGW24, looking forward to seeing you all there!

I made art for this! It was a cool little project :D

Game dev BlueSky is so back 🥟

If anyone has been seeing all the layoffs and closures in games and games media and is looking for something to directly support, subscribe to Aftermath damnit! They’re so close to being able to sustainably do this full time, get them over that line

Hey, I did a new thing! I set up a labeller for the games industry. I've gone through a few folx that I already had on lists, but if you want one of the labels applied to you just ping the labeller and I'll get you added when I can. 😁 @ozone.birb.house

It's essential for any fantasy town regional manager to stay informed on the goings on in your town, and the daily paper is the best way to check! #gamedev #indiegame #indiedev 🎮