Hovering Skull

New release! Learn how to manage and display grid-based data in 2D and 3D in #godot . Available for paid patrons ad free, releasing the free version on YouTube on the Oct 29. It's a long vid with math, shaders, functional programming and more. www.patreon.com/HoveringSkul... #gamedev #indiedev

Check this out! Making 3D games look good in #Godot via Coding Quests www.youtube.com/watch?v=0792... #gamedev #indiedev #godotengine

Every month, a new indie developer reinvents the "gesture based spells" from Black & White, and it's never as fun as they think it is. #gamedev #indiedev

Last I'll post about this, but Elon Musk disagrees with me. This means I am onto something, and I feel more valid in my opinion than ever.

Write better #gdscript in #godot! with static typing! Huzzah www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsCK... #gamedev #indiedev

Improving a #Godot #gamejam game from earlier in the year; there's a NOTICEABLE frame drop when loading 3D dice subviewports (especially on web) When I start running profiling I can't get it to replicate. Runs smooth as butter... 🤡 (gotta be some weird shader caching issue or something right?)

Custom resources are some of the most powerful tools for expressing data relationships and authoring content in #Godot! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kc5R... #gamedev #indiedev

Let's make a beautiful dynamic 3D fantasy menu background for our Godot game -- join me on YouTube! www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVpT... #gamedev #indiedev #godot #rpg #ui

@hoveringskull.bsky.social Been trying to reacquaint myself with Godot the past few weeks and been bingeing a bunch of your vids. Just wanted to say keep up the good work! Good seeing Godot content that isn't so dry.

Congrats on the progress, glad it's helping!

Building level geometry with mesh libraries and grid maps in #Godot www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8NY...

One problem with AI #gamedev well articulated by @indiegameclinic.bsky.social : “Being able to work faster than your skill level is bad for game design, regardless of whether you have good ideas or not” www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cbo...

Pompeii is a UNESCO world heritage site not because it was remarkable in its prime, but because it survived to our era untouched: one moment, preserved for all time. But future generations won't know what OUR world was like unless we do the same. This is why we MUST bury Toronto with a volcano

This September, as a tactical rpg nut, I am: [ ] playing Fire Emblem: Fortune's Weave. [ ] playing Zero Company. [x] recreating the cast of Twin Peaks in XCom2

PLEASE STOP MAKING UGLY GENERIC GODOT UI! This ends now. I made a (quick) crash course on setting up modular Godot UI. It covers theming, behaviour, layout and UI composition. #godotengine #godot #gamedev #indiedev #ux www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIQG...

Neat breakdown of damage reduction math in RPGs: youtube.com/shorts/IzHAj... A lot of games with multiple units and less "progression" choose to use a simpler approach (see Starcraft, Fire Emblem, XCom) -- probably because you're likely to have SOME unit who can do damage. #gamedev #gamedesign

i really like this frog he's from www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUoA... and he's armed

Coding with AI isn't useless, but if you lean on AI as you learn to code, you won't develop the muscle to solve the hard problems AI can't solve. also it's fun to learn #programming #gamedev #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzS7...

Section 1.1 of my Tactics course is out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVuM... Come to learn how to build a tactics rpg like Fire Emblem! Stay if you want to explore interesting concepts in #Godot game architecture. #gamedev #indiedev #fireemblem #srpg

Some good stills in my next video.

New Zelda remake looks fine, but I have almost no desire to replay Ocarina. The real fun was the wonder as a kid figuring stuff out. It's never occurred to me to play through again after knowing how it works. I'd probably get it for a kid I wanted to introduce to the genre though, I guess.

Let's build a Tactics RPG in Godot! Want to make something in the vein of #FireEmblem or #XCom? Intro just dropped, course content will begin to appear on September 16. See you soon, commanders. #godot #gamedev #indiedev www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_E1...

Looking to dampen your feet in the deep, muddy waters of #coding and #gamedev? Free mini-course that takes you from 0 #Godot and coding knowledge through learning how to code, to releasing a game. www.youtube.com/watch?v=VIcP... Let me know if you make anything cool with it. #indiedev

The Signal Bus pattern (in #godot) and why it's responsible for the fall of civilization #gamedev #indiedev #hyperbolicvideotitlesithoughtwerefunny www.youtube.com/shorts/r3ZZt...

One of the most satisfying things in game dev (and all programming) is when you're adding a new feature and it ends up being easy because you designed something to be flexible a long time ago even though you didn't have a particular reason to at the time.

Thought I'd do a quick thread of a few things that I got up to this year. First: I wrote a weird manifesto about game design, making games for fun and love, and why no-one is going to pay you to do that. This remains one of the silliest/most rewarding things I've ever done.

Daily reminder that GDscript supports the Sumerian clay table alphabet, Akkadian cuneiform of ancient Mesopotamia. This is perfectly valid code you can write in your game:

Back to basics with GDScript and the super cool tutorial by @hoveringskull.bsky.social tuily.itch.io/monkey-snake #gamedev #godot #aseprite #indiedev

My little jam game got an honourable mention for #KenneyJam ! www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMa7... #gamedev #indiedev #sim #godot

Similarly, in Kenney Jam about 55% of all entries were made using @godotengine.org!

Well, it finally happened! After 9 years of Unity dominance, Godot was the most used game engine for GMTK Game Jam 2026 submissions. 🤖 Godot - 47% 🎮 Unity - 34% 🛠️GameMaker - 5% 🚀 Unreal Engine - 3% ✨ Other - 11%

Bored waiting for me to make more architecture vids? Check out this dig into the #SlayTheSpire2 #godot code from Howdy ツ! Haven't watched it all but so far so good. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml6T... #gamedev #indiedev

Gross ai generated art ads showing up on the gamedev reddits (this was on r/godot) that pretend to be part of the conversation they're in with statements that can vaguely pass as responses to common posts in the space. Fuck these slop machines. #godot #gamedev #indiedev #ai

All right, #KenneyJam update 11: It's all wrapped up and I've had lunch and touched grass. Play my cool game here, it's about raising a dragon and building a wizard tower/economy itch.io/jam/kenney-j... #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam #indiegame #simtower #machikoro #tamagotchi

Okay, #KenneyJam update 10 or something: submitted! Done. Dusted. Will share a link soon

game jamming for #KenneyJam update 9: We have a main menu! We have a title!

#KenneyJam update 8: I made a shitty tutorial but it's full of ugly placeholder so gonna have to do it again. #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam #godot

#KenneyJam update 7: I've built out MOST of the mechanics of the game, as well as about 20ish wizardly ROOMS. Now I gotta tutorialize this and work on UI and polish... then sound and music

Update 6 for #KenneyJam. Stepped away for lunch and to do some prioritization. 24 hours ish to go! #gamejam #gamedev #indiedev

Update for #KenneyJam number 5: Frantically typing into wizard google: "My dragon, I got her as an egg but now she is very large; how to take care of" #gamejam #gamedev #indiedev #fantasy #petcare

Update 4 for #KenneyJam building up this WIZARD TOWER. it's gonna be like SimTower, but good.

Update 3 for #KenneyJam A wizard needs a cozy tower, and also a room for his growing dragon I think this game is going to be SimTower + MachiKoro + Tamagotchi (but also way less Japanese than those 3 things) #gamedev #indiedev #gamejam