The video version of our first devlog is up for everyone!

We also now have a PeerTube account!

Watch it on:

PeerTube
https://makertube.net/w/igq7NwXckdE7BGwWQcReRZ

YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lLgha9rSXXI

#GameDev #IndieGame #GodotEngine #Godot #PixelArt #PointAndClick

Are northern-hemisphere winter release windows generally a bad idea for a small indie dev?
Feels like with a december release you're setting yourself up to compete with big holiday releases
Then there's this preconception of january as a dead month media wise, where getting any attention at all is rough
And with february "winter vibes" are already kinda on the decline

Would like to hear thoughts on this

#gamedev #indiedev

Mornin’! Today, I’m going to start learning to animate with Spine.

Are there any cool (I repeat: cool) Spine folks around here?

#GameDev #Spine2D

Had a flash of inspiration for the design of the Royal Guard in Foxblade

#art #fediart #furry #foxbladefable #conceptart #gamedev #rpg

#GameDevsOfColor Expo is setting up an #itchio bundle to help them out with costs!

https://itch.io/jam/game-devs-of-color-support-bundle

Closes July 25th 2025 at 11:59 PM PST so get your submissions in!!!

They're honestly a great org, they pay their speakers (I've been a speaker!) and do a lot of great community work

This is for #ally #indieDev folks to be able contribute y'alls games, assets, zines, and so on too!

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#gameDev #videoGames #bipoc #GDoCExpo

Pepper Odyssey has gained Audio Settings and customization options for the cursor! 🖱️🎚️

#indiegame #gamedev #screenshotsaturday #screenshotsunday #indiedev #gui #adventure #rpg

Some cemetery/crypt assets I created for the VR game Slink & Snatch - Prologue, in development by Venturion VR game studio.

Modeled in #Blender and textured in #SubstantePainter.

#slinkandsnatch #blender3d #unity3d #gameart #gamingindusty #gameassets #environmentassets #stylized #videogames #videogame #gamedev #realtime #unityengine #statue #lowpoly #substance3Dpainter #cartoon #cartoony #3D #venturion #venturionvr

Okay, it's out.

Lena is a handmade framework for making tiny games with palette graphics.

It's software-rendered, cross-platform and comes with constraints that challenge your creativity without limiting your game's size and scope. It comes with batteries-included palette graphics, some novel palette-blending and drawing effects, a simple audio interface, text rendering, and loaders and decoders for assets. It also compiles and runs on:

🪟 Windows (Native)
🍏 macOS (Native)
🐧 Linux (via SDL3)
😖 WebAssembly (Native)

The core functionality of Lena is implemented from scratch in almost exactly 2,000 lines of Odin, and while I designed it as a fun little game jam framework for myself, I hope it can also serve as an interesting learning tool for people looking to delve deeper into low-level system and engine programming for video games.

🕹️ https://github.com/lichendust/lena

I'm releasing this as a version v0.0.0 on GitHub right now, with the hope of getting some feedback before declaring a truly API-stable 1.0.0 release.

#gamedev #programming #gameengine #odin #pixelart

https://goldstarknight.itch.io/chunky-pixel-font

Hey, here is a chunky pixel font I made that you can use in your game projects. It's great for displaying damage numbers and battle exclamations.

#PixelArt #itch_io #gamedev #indiedev #font

Sharing my first paid asset on itch! This is the cam controller I use in my own projects, been tinkering on it for a bit.

Third-person follow includes zoom, rotation, and a first-person freelook mode for admiring your environments.

Use it as is, or as a starting point to build upon as you see fit. Code is commented to assist such endeavors.

https://milkshakebattlecat.itch.io/easy-third-person-camera-with-first-person-zoom

#gamedev #madewithunity

I'm really excited to be directing my first project at the Blender Studio 🤩
This time it's a little game with the
@godotengine

https://studio.blender.org/blog/announcing-project-dogwalk/

I'll share more info and updates soon! And of course there will be way more from the entire team on studio.blender.org.

#b3d #godot #gamedev

Shared some scripts I made recently for a simple AudioSource pool creator to get you BAM, SMASH, KAPOWing quickly. Best for UI sound effects and the like, if you don't need spatial audio it could be your only audio solution!

https://milkshakebattlecat.itch.io/easy-sound-effect-manager

#gamedev #madewithunity #itch

Hi #screenshotsaturday, #santria 's diner was one of my most liked sneak peeks and I finally managed to update the interior, too!

#gamedev #indiedev #pixelart #gamemaker

Is it #portfolioday already? Aw geez.

Name is Gabriel Lima, generalist artist, but most of the time doing pixel art for games. If you want to see more of my stuff, check out my links at https://www.tiopalada.art .

Also I am currently holding a sale for my game assets at my itch.io page!

#pixelart #pixelated #indiegame #gamedev #indiedev #videogames #itchio #aseprite #ドット絵

Hello, #PortfolioDay

I'm a 2D Concept artist / illustrator with experience in indie game dev. I mostly design environment/ props and mechanical work but I also dip into other things on the side.

More of my work at https://cara.app/typeproton

Feel free to contact me at typeproton.2022 (GMail) if you're interested. Thanks for looking!

#PortfolioDay2025 #gamedev #MastoArt #FediArt #DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #artistsonmastodon

Sketching menu ideas for my game

#gamedev

A #CreativeToots PSA today: if you've not come across soundimage.org you may want to! It's an enormous texture and music library maintained by our member Eric Matyas, and it contains thousands of texture images and soundtracks which are free to use in both free and commercial projects (he also offers paid services for custom music or non-attribution licenses, but mostly the site is donation funded).

Do make use of & support this fantastic resource!

#MastoArt #MastoMusic #Creative #GameDev

new post on patreon about the animation for the horse game! #gamedev 🐴 #equineart

https://www.patreon.com/posts/animation-update-116631781

I just tried out #loops ... And it's working surprisingly well and stable for me.

I thinking about making #gamedev mini vlogs and tutorials for this format. I hope federation starts soon so that the whole #fediverse can access the content there.

What are your thoughts about this?

In Times of Progress you can use steamships to deliver resources.

Routes are calculated automatically based on local industry needs and available deposits

#gamedev #indiedev

Perennial reminder that YOU, dear reader, could write for us! Our articles section is a diverse and eclectic array of pieces covering aspects of obscure and interesting #science and #history, #ttrpg and #gamedev, advice for #writing and setting design, and other creative projects.

We offer small thank-you sized writing bursaries to those who need them, and a high quality editing process to make your article the best it can be.

All questions welcome! More details here:
https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=5373.msg116062#msg116062

Our first post on mastodon. 👋 We will post updates about our game Arcane TD here. Give it a try now on arcane-td.com
#TowerDefense
#gaming
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#indiegame
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Looks like another flood of #twitter refugees are incoming - Welcome! Time to reintroduce myself.

I'm Skoops, an #artist and #GameDev that actually frequently uses Mastodon even when your main app isn't self immolating.

I draw a lot of #witch and #MonsterGirl type stuff, and occasionally other things!

@Curator #Mastoart

Wall of fire particles
#particle #gamedev #indiedev #gamedesign #vfx #visualart

Did a quick stream where I made some decisions about how to pass style info from my dialogue files into the DOM with a good set of defaults to fall back on. I can also put html elements into the dialogue, which wasn't working before. Still need to figure out background styling, the frame graphic, and correct margins. #gamedev #threejs

I set up an action queue to have a clickable zone zoom in on a character, display a series of text boxes, and then zoom back out which will be a pretty common condition. Building this out I realized that the dialogue file, instead of just containing text, should itself be a sequence of actions to make camera movements between two characters without putting a lot of scripting in the scene file. #gamedev #threejs

Here's a screenshot from the game engine, with better shading on the background but showing the clipping problem with the biker's right arm which should be in front but isn't along a polygon seam. (probably has something to do with the alpha mix settings?) #threejs #gamedev

On last night's office hours I took another pass on the linework but didn't get around to coloring and texturing because I was figuring a few process things out, including making sure the game doesn't crash if it fails to find a hotspot and setting up a camera to frame the biker nicely for the future. This is a screenshot from blender because I need to take another look at the way my shaders handle alpha to have the billboards show up correctly in the browser. Thanks for tuning in! #gamedev #b3d

I put my sketch in blender and blocked out the bike. Next time I sit down with this I'll either work on the bike shaders or add more detail to the drawings. Thanks to everyone who joined me for another adventure game office hours. #blender #b3d #gamedev

I put my sketch in blender and blocked out the bike. Next time I sit down with this I'll either work on the bike shaders or add more detail to the drawings. Thanks to everyone who joined me for another adventure game office hours. #blender #b3d #gamedev

There's nothing more pleasant than when a body touches a bike. Sketched the guy, Did a lot to clarify the geometry of the bike, and now revisiting the guy. Join me @ https://www.twitch.tv/sublingualart #mastoart #fediart #gamedev

There's nothing more pleasant than when a body touches a bike. Sketched the guy, Did a lot to clarify the geometry of the bike, and now revisiting the guy. Join me @ https://www.twitch.tv/sublingualart #mastoart #fediart #gamedev

There's nothing more pleasant than when a body touches a bike. Sketched the guy, Did a lot to clarify the geometry of the bike, and now revisiting the guy. Join me @ https://www.twitch.tv/sublingualart #mastoart #fediart #gamedev

There's nothing more pleasant than when a body touches a bike. Sketched the guy, Did a lot to clarify the geometry of the bike, and now revisiting the guy. Join me @ https://www.twitch.tv/sublingualart #mastoart #fediart #gamedev

Combining different pan/rotation factors horizontally and vertically for the camera wiggler so that the player can't peek down into the mausoleum. #gamedev #threejs

Combining different pan/rotation factors horizontally and vertically for the camera wiggler so that the player can't peek down into the mausoleum. #gamedev #threejs

Right now it's all grey since I'm avoiding adding too many other materials and colors to use this scene to test some new shaders. #gamedev #threejs

Right now it's all grey since I'm avoiding adding too many other materials and colors to use this scene to test some new shaders. #gamedev #threejs

Starting with some pretty basic blocking for this piece of the mausoleum façade. #gamedev #b3d

Wrapped up office hours with another Y-shaped grave, added AO and brought it into three.js. Thx to everyone who joined me! #threejs #gamedev #3d

Three of my most recent models loaded into the game engine. #gamedev #b3d #threejs

Three of my most recent models loaded into the game engine. #gamedev #b3d #threejs

Modeled another grave for my adventure game.. Onto UV unwrapping & then I have a few more I want to start. #b3d #blender #gamedev

Modeled another grave for my adventure game.. Onto UV unwrapping & then I have a few more I want to start. #b3d #blender #gamedev

Modeled another grave for my adventure game.. Onto UV unwrapping & then I have a few more I want to start. #b3d #blender #gamedev

Added the framework for dialogue boxes, just an extra div with text loaded from a json file specified in scene file and using the font I made for the godot version. Probably next I'll add the ability to click through and advance the dialogue before I style it more. #gamedev #threejs

Added the framework for dialogue boxes, just an extra div with text loaded from a json file specified in scene file and using the font I made for the godot version. Probably next I'll add the ability to click through and advance the dialogue before I style it more. #gamedev #threejs

Seems like firefox doesn't support directional arrows for cursors :( I'm probably going to swap the css cursors out for images at some point, until then I'll have to settle for the bidirectional arrows and the grabby hand #gamedev #threejs

Brought the mausoleum into three.js bc I think I prefer the aliased look to eevee's renders. The only speedbump is generating AO maps and adjusting the shadow camera to cover new parts of the scene - since doing so lowers the resolution of the shadows it would probably be worth it to figure out how to also bake that into the AO map. #gamedev #threejs