Violet Drake

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31 July

I'm Liz! My gamedev studio is Violet Drake. I've been making games for 8 or so years now; I primarily love systems design! 💫🐉 I'm currently making CUBED! - a cube rolling, grid building roguelite. Support me on Patreon to get exclusive yaps & game demo access! 👉 www.patreon.com/cw/violetdra...

I know I'm back to real devving when I waste hours on the stupidest stuff

I stomped through a week of spinning myself in circles as I laid the groundwork for the next big mechanic in "Dragons Like Food!" I've succeeded, but now I'm dizzy. What the heck!! 🐉💫 Read the weekly blog here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #indiedev #gamedev #blogpost

Gameplay loops are both fun to create and tend to make or break games - this week I talk about the core loop behind Dragons Like Food! It's super satisfying to land on a loop & then get knee-deep in iteration. 🐉 Read here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #gamedev #indiedev

TREES?!? 🌳🌳🌳 Behavior trees, that is. This week, I made a very hungry dragon, well... run around and be very hungry. 🐉 Check out my devlog here!! www.patreon.com/violetdraked...

Hilariously tone deaf. Pretty much expected of Unity at this point.

Dan Marshall@danthat.bsky.social

The video advertising Unity's ew AI-driven autocomplete game maker has 'Mari' who has a game idea they "always wanted to make" and that idea is "Space Corridor" and it looks like this, and that's the strongest argument I can think of for keeping game dev out of the pro-AI crowd's hands.

Cheers to Unions & congratulations to the workers @ Wizards!

IGN@ign.com

The Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering teams at Wizards of the Coast have just announced they're unionizing. In a letter of demands, the union has urged Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast leaders to stop pushing generative AI. https://bit.ly/4hMhPzG

ask.vrchat.comRegarding AI Usage on VRChatWe’ve heard your feedback. We agree this is an important problem. We’ve been intensely debating a path forward, but here’s a summary of where we are: * We are immediately updating our Creator Guideli...

Coding is an artform too!! Just because it's not something you can immediately look at and absorb doesn't devalue it as a work of art. Allowing generative tools for scripting marks the process as tedious and meaningless, when in reality, it is integral. I wish this was treated the same as others...

VRChat@vrchat.com

Let's talk about AI in VRChat. Be sure to fill out the Google form at the bottom of the article. ask.vrchat.com/t/regarding-...

yall seriously gotta stop posting like this is linkedin

Handling data is one of my favorite parts of gamedev! You can listen to me yammer about how food and other related systems are set up in my upcoming game about a very hungry dragon... 🐉 Check it out here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked...

@1stargachaclub.bsky.social

Concepts and Portals!!! This week I yap about the early phases of taking ideas and translating those to actual game mechanics. Then I yammer about the evolution of concepts so far in this game about a hungry dragon!! 📝🐉 Read it here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #dlf #gamedev #indiedev

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Whitetail

22 Sept

Lifehack:

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Zen

@beak.zone

19 Sept

My powers grow.

Zen@beak.zone

I'm incredibly delighted to report that sewing is just 3D modeling in reverse: In 3D I make an object, unwrap it to flat shapes. In sewing I make flat shapes and wrap them into an object. I have home-turf advantage with this hobby.

18 Sept

Oh, to Animate Anything... This week I talk about the system I've been constructing to handle timed animations in #cubed! A big ol' wrapper that I call "Instanced Animations..." Check it out hereeee: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #indiedev #gamedev

17 Sept

I'll be in Chicago for riot fest this weekend, so the weekly update will be a little shorter :)

16 Sept

AHHHHHHHHHH Sorry I have been addicted to my favorite drug: systems design then making the little silly listener scripts and wires that connect everything together cutely

11 Sept

I finally put together an interaction system I'm proud of... 💥💫 Also, #cubed Will be coming to #steamdeck and more! Read about it on my Patreon here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... (Little doodle is by Spearxwind! <3) #indiedev #gamedev

patreon.comPrototyping! | Dragons Like Food | Violet DrakePrototyping! | Dragons Like Food by Violet Drake on Patreon. Join Violet Drake's community for exclusive content and updates.

5 Sept

This week on my Patreon blog, I share some early development on a small game I've been working on collaboratively with @cryptidbits.bsky.social! I share some context behind how this game started alongside discussion regarding early prototyping. 🐉 Read it here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked...

5 Sept

Side projects are so refreshing! Sometimes they give you the energy you've needed to return to your big stuff.

patreon.comProcedural Item Visualization (Tiles / Shapes / Pickups) | Violet DrakeProcedural Item Visualization (Tiles / Shapes / Pickups) by Violet Drake on Patreon. Join Violet Drake's community for exclusive content and updates.

28 Aug

Today on my Patreon blog, I talk about procedural visualization for more types of items in CUBED! Along with that, I share the direction I plan to take these items in future iterations! Read it here: www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #cubed #indiedev #gamedev 🐉

24 Aug

I'm getting so excited over making a cursor feel nice. Help?

22 Aug

This week on my Patreon, I talk about grid generation algorithms along with some background about the grid itself! This blog is visible to anyone, you can read it below! Yay! Check it out here! Yay! www.patreon.com/violetdraked... #cubed #indiedev #gamedev

14 Aug

New post up on my Patreon! I yammer about the data structures & procedural visual setup behind cubes, along with what I've learned from previous design patterns. 🐉 #cubed #indiedev #gamedev

patreon.comData Structure Setup (Cubes) | Violet DrakeData Structure Setup (Cubes) by Violet Drake on Patreon. Join Violet Drake's community for exclusive content and updates.

14 Aug

Check it out here! www.patreon.com/violetdraked...

7 Aug

New blog post on my Patreon! I talk about my history with game development and perspectives on my current game, CUBED! www.patreon.com/violetdraked...

30 July

Have some grid generation algorithms #cubed #indiedev #gamedev

30 July

I'm so glad squares are real

22 July

I love cubes.

17 July

Getting procedural with it [🏷️~ #cubed #indiedev #gamedev]

17 July

oh yeah i am redoing the codebase

19 May

Wrote my first gdd in a handful of years for a collaborative project with a friend. Feels nice to explore the early phases of something again. Homely

13 May

It's been a nice week of tool creation so far. Setting up data in modular ways has felt really rewarding. Eventually, I'll be at a point where I can make and implement a ton of visuals and vfx each day.

8 May

Been getting into such deep development now, so while conversing with some folks I've done a number of revisits to CUBED!'s early days. I never really thought I'd start being nostalgic about my own game - guess two years is quite long. I'm a very different designer now. #cubed #indiedev #gamedev

8 May

for every script i make, my "to do" tasklist gets 4 more things. help #gamedev #indiedev

8 May

actually, don't help. i like my hoard of c# architecture. in fact, i may just stay here a little longer.

5 May

feels really nice being in a headspace where i can clean house so much. organization is fun preparing for the presence of increasingly intricate tiles & fun visuals :> (new, old)

5 May

for alt text folks, these are two images of scriptable objects in unity. the first contains more fields than the other. i dont want to describe my new layout as "better" or "more organized," so i will just simply say it makes me feel happier.

📌Very temporary pinned post. I'm Liz, Violet Drake is my studio. I'm a gamedev of 8 or so years, huge art lover and systems designer. 🐉 I'm making a game called CUBED! It's a grid-builder roguelite about rolling cubes, constructing shapes, and overcoming challenges of your own design.

I have been developing CUBED! for close to two years now. I am attempting to walk the full pipeline myself. I simply wish for this game to be holdable in your hands. Check out my media for some very old posts, pictures and prototype footage. New shares will resume in a handful of months. 🧊

Oh and finally. I am one that tends to be quite open to discussion. I enjoy sharing. If you have any questions for me, you can simply reach out.

Year 8 of programming in C#, and this very important task has finally entered my Trello. #indiedev #gamedev

Tackling a refactor of my codebase to a scale that I have never worked with before. I have this entirely different concept of how Cubed operates in my mind, and it's nothing like how the game is currently structured. I never really experienced such an extreme difference of knowledge to what I have..

..actually built. Very much a situation where I feel I will be scripting for weeks to months, and then bugfixing for many more weeks. Ideally I land at something beautiful

My intent is to, hopefully sometime in late Summer, enter a period where I can have something visually interesting to share here every now and then. Cubed is far from done, but it's actually transitioning into this point where it's shedding its prototype skin, and beginning to look beautiful.

Oh yes, hi. I am going to try discussing here a tad more. Just sharing some idle thoughts. If you are interested in my development, feel free to reply, ask questions, anything really I will do my best to answer. I don't want to be secretive.

I am breaking free of the longest period of burnout I've faced in quite some time. Many people in my life have aided me, given me trust and faith, and believed in me even when I felt as though I had absolutely nothing to offer. Art is difficult, indie is difficult, but I'm still here. 🐉

30 Mar

Translation is an incredibly difficult task, especially if writing is a central focus of your game.

16 Dec 2025

Let's do this right, shall we? Last month, I showed off #CUBED at #MDEV25! I got to witness faces of confusion become faces of engrossment... probably over 100 times. Once it clicked, it REALLY clicked.

16 Dec 2025

I'm very proud to have given people their first taste of CUBED! - whether it be on a PC, a Raspberry Pi, or a Steam Deck. There was one question I kept getting asked over and over again: "Where can I buy it?!" This was the one question I couldn't answer, and I needed time to figure that all out.