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Between Tim Sweeney being an absolute AI chud and the harassment of our beloved @kenney.nl, we've decided to cancel our previously announced Epic Games Store release for Shape Sender Deluxe 🚮

He is so close to getting it

#Godot #GodotEngine tutorial finished - I’ll be adding more stuff to this though, because I’ve learned so much over the years. Will add sound, maybe music? A start menu would be a good idea too. #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev Maybe randomised enemies :-0

Started to paint my Christmas cards. #ink #watercolor #art

A bit of ink and watercolour art #art #watercolour #ink

This tweet is how Gen Z/Gen Alpha looks offended at me though when I don't know anything about Baby Grunty's beef with Smash Noxious and their Influencer House, the K-Pop Korral.

A lot of my #Godot games right now are just from tutorials I follow (made one “unique” one which is derived from a tutorial). But I don’t use AI to make them - assets are sourced from itch.io or other places, and if I have a problem I don’t use AI to solve it #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev

RT if you don't use AI for coding

this is correct

#Godot #GodotEngine project decided to stop working properly and I kept going back and forwards and still no progress - until I had a look on the forums and found someone with the exact same problem and solved it - enemy had “looping” selected in the inspector! Aargh. #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev

Outta my sight, scrub

Niche, but it’s really easy to get into making your own video games compared now to what used to be available 10+ years ago, and it means despite some of the AAA industry falling apart you get occasional gems made by one person (e.g. Cruelty Squad) #Godot #SoloDev #IndieDev #GameDev

Doing this #GodotEngine course reminds me how much I love #Godot (and #FOSS) and how I prefer 3D to 2D - probably something to do with my age? Anyway, these turrets exist and now they rotate towards the enemies and shoot gnarly cannonballs at them #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev

Small #Godot #GodotEngine update. As well as the new program I’m redoing the 3D course and making tons of notes AND completing the challenges because I’m great #SoloDev #IndieDev #GameDev

This is utter bullshit

yup, still 100% against genAI

Making this with #Godot 4 wasn’t working as translating from #GodotEngine 3 is a bit awkward. Using the exact version as HeartBeast here (wow 3.1.1 had very few QOL features!), hoping to get this out very soon #SoloDev #GameDev #IndieDev

This isn’t the first time I’ve flipflopped between versions but the great thing about #Godot is it’s so easy to set up and follow along so versions don’t matter as much as say, Unreal Engine, where I probably couldn’t do this. Sometimes I just like doing tutorials. #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev

Was trying to follow a #Godot 3 tutorial for an RPG using #GodotEngine 4 but it’s too much effort - I’ll start over in 3, and get it out sooner. Noticing a gap in #GameDev tutorials for the types of games I’d like to play - a lot of Godot 3 ones weren’t updated to 4 #SoloDev #GameDev

Felt #Godot #GodotEngine #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev might delete later. This is a gamedev.tv course for Barbarian Blaster, one of those tower defense games you typically see adverts for on social media but no AI in this. Notetaking is making this stick and I’m learning so much.

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.

Imagine beefing with Kenney, the most generous person in video games

For those who need the #Godot GDScript code which is relevant and might explain why I have been having problems - I’ve commented out almost all the lines that were causing me problems #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev #GodotEngine

#Godot update: I’ve tried to make a new enemy that shoots, mashing some code from an existing #GodotEngine 3 project I made a similar game with. I also tried to make an explosion effect and NONE OF IT WORKS AND I DON’T KNOW WHY #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev

His co-defendant, a Mr S. Doo, entered a plea of “Ruh-roh!”

pisses me off how ever since ai can make websites, every website for "small open source indie app" and "community database" looks like this and you can just TELL they all used the same ai to vibe code it

I'm dying laughing at how the cat has conformed to her flower shaped bed today

Added the "Made in Slovenia" text under the title of the game, so people get an idea of where in the world they are walking with me and my dog 💚🐕 #gamedev #indiegame #slovenia

#Godot #GodotEngine is so easy to use! I’ve almost finished this project, just some finishing touches and some other bits and pieces I want to add (such as an enemy that shoots). Game over menu works, I love this font I’ve chosen (thanks @kenney.nl) #GameDev #SoloDev #IndieDev