Doodle | Making Starmadillo⭐

My new game, Starmadillo, finally has a Steam page! It's a retro-styled, third-person metroidvania about an armadillo that has crashed onto an alien planet and must find a way to escape. Check out the trailer, wishlist, etc #godot #gamedev #indiedev store.steampowered.com/app/5268030/...

I'm not proud of it...but I got tired of having to update my game's little lore dumps by finding all the nodes across various maps and editing text in a single-line input box. There's only gonna be a couple dozen of these things, so that's why I'm just sticking 'em all in a dictionary. #godot

Been working on the next boss (the fourth so far). First phase, it moves around in a path and you destroy all the turrets (I cheat in video). For phase two, the head is free to chase after you. Each boss has been both fun and challenging to make, as they're all unique. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Modeling a new area. Have a weird screenshot. #godot #gamedev #indiedev

Glad dedicated profile links are finally a feature here. It's been on Mastodon forever and I always felt it was super nice.

Selling AI directly to insecure losers. Can't say it doesn't make sense from a marketing perspective!

We're experiencing the sunken cost fallacy on a societal level

Kinda wanna dive into making multiplayer games with #godot. I set it up once before, but didn't really take the time to fully understand. I should try to mess around with that briefly at some point so I can seriously consider making my next game (after Starmadillo) multiplayer.

WIP I'm chipping away at of an animatic of Wile tooning along to the bridge of Weird Al's "Hardware Store"! Maybe I'm late, but in hindsight, the contents of a hardware store really do seem to go hand-in-hand with a toon's bag of tricks xD #Weirdal #wileecoyote #hardwarestore

There needs to be a suitable equivalent to "good morning" for evening that isn't "good evening". It sounds too fancy, and "good night" implies saying goodbye. This is very important to me.

The "controversial" comic with over 43 false reports to silence the creator and the real feel of the people. Enjoy, like and reshare "The Day All Billionaires Died..." By #noneofthisisok

A painter wouldn't describe a painting, they'd paint it. I wouldn't want to prompt a game into existence for the same reason. The word that comes to mind is "control". Everything wants to take it away in exchange for convenience, but I'll never need or want that. I like painting.

Continuing to model away on my 3D metroidvania. This area is focused on platforming, as I feel like I've been skipping out on that a bit. I should really make some reusable elements to make platforms less of a slog to set up (they're physics joints hooked up to a timer) #godot #gamedev #indiedev

I've grown fond of putting these hamster tube-y pathways for whenever I need a way to return somewhere you can't otherwise platform to...and then having to somehow justify them just floating there.

This has held true for almost 2 years now

Modeled a big-ass spaceship today #gamedev #indiedev #blender #lowpoly

Modeled a big-ass spaceship today #gamedev #indiedev #blender #lowpoly

My guilty pleasure is snarkily replying to emails from grifters about my games (usually from some AI company). The novelty will surely wear off...but I rarely get them, so it's a nice little outlet for my anger every once and a while just to know one of them might have to read it.

There's a really potent blend of nostalgia mixed with cringe when you look at your old art. But there's still a golden one amidst the *really* old pieces every now and then, where it all managed to work out better than usual. Here's a few of those I picked out after scrolling through my old art.

After many hours listening to Youtube videos, I have finally achieved something in life

I feel like I've seen so many metaphors around AI the last year, but something really tickles me about comparing it to a laxative. Cause that's what it is, what it makes, and is why the only person proud of the "product" is who made it.

Me, pitching my "dream game" idea: So you're a guy on a space ship. Well actually, it's really more of a long room and you shoot at stuff. Kinda like Call of Duty but sci-fi. Blue color palette so it's futuristic and unique. It's called Space Corridor so you know exactly what it's about.

I hope my game never gets popular, because if it does, I don't think I'm ready for the "Only 2D side-scrollers can be metroidvanias" people

One of the best pieces of #gamedev advice I've come across is simply to open up the engine every day and do something. Even if it's writing a single line of code. Anyway, today was one of those days. I finished up modeling a teeny-tiny map just for this mountain peak.

Critter Drifters, on sale? Who would have thought. If you like kart racers with a hub world and boss races, you'll probably enjoy this too! store.steampowered.com/app/3755680/... #steam #indiedev

Chirax's Fortress is 75% off on steam!! >>> store.steampowered.com/app/3798540/... <<< #steamsale #indiegame #platformer #godot #dragons #noai #yoshisisland #steam #snes #gamedeals #SteamAutumnSale

One of my favorite things about having a long term #gamedev project is just looking at level geometry and finding ways I can change it to hide collectibles.

Critter Drifters, on sale? Who would have thought. If you like kart racers with a hub world and boss races, you'll probably enjoy this too! store.steampowered.com/app/3755680/... #steam #indiedev