Fourteen Screws

in-depth thread: optimizing GDScript performance from ~83ms to ~9ms in a scene our tower defense game Rift Riff, made in Godot, with 1000 enemies. 🧵👇🏼 #gamedev #godotengine

Working on a #3d model in of a ship I sailed on a couple of years ago in #blender. Here's a WIP of the helm assembly which will show how the helm controls the rudder

fyi there are far better folks who make #Irishlanguage products e.g. An Spailpín Fánach based in the Gaeltacht and on the go for decades. They do all their work through Irish, in an Irish-speaking environment. www.spailpin.com/en/

Just posted a bunch of my pool models. They're dense for games, but a good starting point!

I haven't posted any #Blender pics in a while, but I've been studiously toiling away on some #3d projects, including #modelling a coat of arms and trim for a museum piece in Poland, one of my partner's childhood toys, and a random toilet roll holder I liked the look of. Getting better all the while

Remember how I was saying how Blender has serious inefficiencies with game dev workflows and that Blender Studio should take on a game or real-time engine project to get someone in-company familiar with the problems? Well, someone there had the same idea... #Blender #BlenderStudio #GameDev

This feels like an excellent initiative, not just for reassuring conscious buyers that they are supporting the work of artists, but also as a means of highlighting how many in the indie dev space reject this Gen AI nonsense.

Global Game Jam 2025 is completed here at Galway Game Jam! A massive congratulations to all the Jammers who blew us away with their talent and passion! Check out their games on our itch.io page 🫧🫧 Thank you to our sponsors Ardán, @portershed.bsky.social and Beaglier Systems

Very excited to take part in this! Looks like it's going to be a ton of fun 😁 #gamedev #globalgamejam #galwayglobalgamejam

1 Week to Go!!!!! 🎮 With Global Game Jam 2025 just around the corner us volunteers at Galway Game Jam are delighted to be hosting a site for their worldwide event for our 10th consecutive year! We're back in Portershed a Dó in Galway City from Friday 24th - Sunday 26th January.

I've been working on a revamped version of the fourteenscrews.com. This version will use my own theme for Jekyll with Bootstrap 5 rather than leaning on Minimal Mistakes. I'm pretty happy with how it's looking! On a related note---new Fourteen Screws website coming soon 😄

I joined the Imirt AGM the yesterday to hear about plans for #gamedev in Ireland in 2025 and beyond. Some very exciting things happening right now. An enormous amount of work going into finding funding to help indies and small studios. The event recording should be online soon. Check it out.

An excellent night testing boardgames at Treehouse Café in Sheffield tonight. Some very cool people making some very cool games

One of the best things about getting back into writing is having fun with descriptions. I know people say things like "show don't tell" or "leave it to the reader's imagination". But sometimes explicit is fun #gamedev #ttrpg #worldbuilding

👏🏽 💯 @chuckwendig.bsky.social speaks the true true.

Posting these a little late, but here are two wonderful gifts I received from my partner this Christmas. I am so incredibly lucky that I have someone who supports these little dreams of mine. I feel very seen. Belated happy Christmas folks, and a happy new year #gamedev #worldbuilding #ttrpg

lead into gold?? thats baby shit! watch this! [turns sand into a depressed chatbot]

Some very exciting stuff happening for game developers in Ireland! Numerous opportunities to get your indie studio up and running including a variety of accelerator programs and mentorships. It's wonderful to see this in my home country. Éire is the place to be for #indie #gamedev

been working on this game so long its both extremely ordinary and extremely surreal to be here anyway, Caves of Qud 1.0 is out www.youtube.com/watch?v=4nG-...

Quick lil lunch break means I have 30 minutes to do a little Blender 😊 Wrapping up this low-poly man, and the block female figure has re-joined the game as a reference for how to convert this model into an equivalent female shape. So that's good to know! Learning loads anyway #blender #b3d #3d

I'm working on a TTRPG with some friends and have taken to getting up early in the mornings so I can write some lore before I have to go to work. Really enjoying this map generator by @redblobgames.com as inspiration for some of our settings. #ttrpg #gamedev www.redblobgames.com/maps/mapgen2/

Trundling along to Section 3 of Grant Abbitt's course on low poly characters. Feels a little like going back to square one as we model a character by extruding and deforming a cube. Maybe the block people were a warm-up thing, but it feels like the course could have started here #blender #b3d #3d

Working my way through Grant Abbitt's low poly character course on Udemy. Putting in about an hour tonight, but every little helps. And if you watch on 2x speed, you get through twice the content 😆 Currently just blocking out characters, but we'll be on to usable game characters soon #blender

Eating too much cake is the sin of gluttony. However, eating too much pie is okay because the sin of pi is always zero. 🖖

Not much time for practice tonight, but here's a little bookshelf I smashed out in 30 minutes. I guess we'll put it in the living room next to the kitchen? #blender #b3d #3d

www.youtube.com/watch?v=eE7F... Could this help perchance? I remember this tutorial mentioning that to bake metal effects you had to do something specific and he goes over it here.

I need to design an asset management system - what are some things I really want to make sure I have from the start, to avoid issues down the line? I'm thinking things like, include the serialization version at the top of each file, make sure each object has a guid, etc.