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Them, proudly: "I don't even look at the code anymore" Me, wading through the bugs: "Yeah, I can tell..."

My 9 games:

So I updated to Unity 6.6, and added [AutoStaticsCleanUp] where I had some Singletons, and turned off Domain Reload, and now play mode just....happens. In less than a second. Wow! #gamedev #madewithunity

Me programming

Looking forward to bangers like "Mountain of America", "Glacier of America", "Valley of America" and "River of America"

So, I know I have a lot to learn, but this is version 1 and 2 of my Steam capsules side by side. I think the new one is a little spiffier! Wishlist @ s.team/a/3909790 #gamedev #indiegame #solodev

Updated all my Steam graphics today. The first time I made them all manually and hated every bit of it. I have now learned to artboards in Affinity and exporting them as slices, which made the process much easier! Recommended for other indies who are doing Steam graphics solo. #gamedev #steam

It's honestly so crazy to me that we're facing a technological revolution that could displace millions of jobs in the middle of a housing affordability crisis and every day we talk about whether a trans woman is playing sports or if someone has a non-Anglo name.

This is going to become the device that lets you bend time in my shmup, learning how to use BoxCutter in Blender #gamedev

Trying out my new mean bomber bullet sponge in my demo level, and keep dying a lot, so it definitely did something to raise the difficulty some... I quite often end up having to use Flux Energy to slow down time and show them who's in charge! Wishlist at s.team/a/3909790 #indiegames #gamedev #pcgame

Just learned how to use decal projectors and made a variation of the standard decal shader that only projects normal maps. Using it to create tire indentations in the sand behind the main boss in level 1. If you like what you see, wishlist Flux Commander at s.team/a/3909790 #gamedev

Playing around in Blender today, I need a medium size/difficulty enemy for the mid-section of my first level, this is going to be a mean machine in a little while...#gamedev

Ahem

Showing a little #GameDev flythrough behind the scenes - I've been working on more content for what will be the first level of Flux Commander. The ugly truth - it's all splines and spawners and just enough stuff to look good right below the camera. Smoke and mirrors, eh? Wishlist at s.team/a/3909790

Summer vacation brings time for #Gamedev, yay! I've added a on-hit shader for cannons and other long-lived enemies to show that you need to shoot them some more! Using the Flux energy gives you bullet time when you need it... #ScreenshotSaturday #SHMUP Wishlist at s.team/a/3909790

31 percent of voters in my country want to vote for the populist right wing. This fucking terrifies me.

The valuation of SpaceX is based on this page in their filing*. Estimated future market: 28.5 trillion Of that Grok/AI is: 26.5 trillion 93% of the SpaceX valuation is Grok NINTY THREE PERCENT OF THE SPACEX VALUATION IS GROK!!!! * www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Our next published game is OUT NOW! Starvester is an incremental game where you build megastructures in space🪐 - send drones to mine resources - expand across star systems - unlock upgrades - go prestige - nice and short - from indie solo dev @syphono4.com store.steampowered.com/app/4194800/...

Working on a refresh of all the Steam graphics. Gave up on using Krita, the text tools are just...not pleasant to work with. Giving Affinity a try, it's free which suits my budget! Like it a lot so far, have to get used to things. Definitely makes it easier to work on text and layout! #gamedev

Games of Norway 2026 is on now at the Steam Store! Check out the sales, existing and upcoming games at store.steampowered.com/curator/4584... #steam #gamedev #indiedev

Proud to be a part of gamesofnorway.com!

It's really hard to read the docs and figure out how Unity UI Toolkit and the Input System is meant to be used. All the docs spend A LOT of time talking about what you need to do if you have a mix of UITK and UGUI. It really is a lot simpler in the latest versions, but the docs need to be updated.

Weekend is #gamedev time! Ended up doing a bit more styling on the main menu, now using transitions when button focus changes, added shadows to the texts, and also a nice fadeout on exit. Time to move on to other scene transitions! #indiedev #steam s.team/a/3909790

It's been a while since I did #ScreenshotSaturday - here is the new main menu with looping music track! www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKhM.... Wishlist Flux Commander at steam/a/3909790

Trying out variations for my new main menu - red fonts and buttons seem more "game-y" than the black ones for some reason. #gamedev #shmup #games #steam Wishlist: s.team/a/3909790

Working on spiffying up the menus and transitions for my shmup game, Flux Commander - this is the second attempt at the main menu. Still trying out fonts...Please wishlist at store.steampowered.com/app/3909790/... #gamedev #shmup #game #steam

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The thing about actually making your video game real is that your projected imagination of what it will be is gradually substituted with concrete reality, and that reality is mostly going to be pretty bad until the game is almost finished. This is pretty heavy psychologically.

Angine de Poitrine. This is the craziest and grooviest, I don't even know what to call this style. If you need some weird humans doing some weird human shit: youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

Some days, solo #gamedev is just noodling around in Blender experimenting with making level assets, not even opening Unity.

Playing around with Unity Shader Graph to make materials for the buildings in a future city level for my #shmup, Flux Commander. #gamedev

"Don't be so careful in time of death" is the motto I live by right now.

Gorillaz "The Mountain" 8-minute short film is now online. Directed by Jamie Hewlett, Max Taylor & Tim McCourt at The Line studio. An homage to the golden era of 2D animation, produced with a hybrid analogue-digital workflow. >> www.catsuka.com/news/2026-02...

This also feels true for game programming

The bug I reported the other day was thankfully already cooking at Unity, and will be fixed for 6000.3.5 issuetracker.unity3d.com/issues/unsav...

Unity 6000.3.3 and Unity 6000.3.4 both seem to have this new bug where they DON'T show you this screen when you have unsaved scene changes and start a build - and they reload your old scene in the Editor, destroying your changes! Not cool. 6000.3.1 works, though.