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Ever blow 30 minutes working on reproducing a bug only to realize that you already fixed it? Me: I have to fix this bug - why can't I reproduce it? Also Me: (looking at code) Its already fixed and EXACTLY how I would have done it!😁 #solodev (can't blame "the other guy")

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Testing out island level boss, Nautilith, who attacks with blasts of water. Gone through many iterations of the island boss, looking for something aquatic/oceanic - this feels like the best one thus far🫠 is it fearsome? #godot #solodev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev #towerDefense

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Some days your water blob boss which breaths, ah, fire<?> decides that his seashell legs should walk up to the sky... and if that statement is confusing, that makes two of us... 🥴 #gameDev #gameDevRuinedMe #solodev

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Am I the only person watching AppleTV more than Netflix lately? 🤨

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Forest battle test - as in, battling the forest. Keep towers healthed up - once they start to go, its a challenge to build back mid-battle! Elevation TD - coming soon. #godot #solodev #towerdefense #screenshotsaturday

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Hey everyone! I've created a tower defense #starterpack! If you're a dev making a tower defense game then this one's for you! Please comment if you'd like to be added! Also, please like and share so we can reach more devs! Thanks! go.bsky.app/BPbKDrZ #towerdefense #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

submitted 12 days ago • 3 comments

20 years ago, the LAMP (Linux/Apache/MySQL/PHP) stack kind of revolutionized how websites were built. I sometimes feel like Godot/Blender/Krita does something similar for gamedev, but "GBK" doesn't quite have the same ring as "LAMP". Wait a sec... Should it be called "KGB" dev??😂😬

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

This is probably just me finally getting the memo, but if you use collections in Blender to create a "directory tree" of different characters/objects, viewing them as needed, its much easier to keep everything scaled and oriented consistently🤯 #blender #blenderNewbieAmI

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Using Geometry Nodes and various modifiers in Blender to create non-destructive Voronoi tiles. This should make it much easier to make floors and paths! #gamedev #b3d

submitted 15 days ago • 5 comments

Welcome the Sun Megalith, usurper of the sky lands and possessor of destructive light #godot #towerdefense #solodev #screenshotsaturday #gamedev

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Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago

submitted 21 days ago • 75 comments

Late post for #screenShotSaturday 😬 This is kind of a "first draft" of the Arctic Megalith - all levels have their own megalithic boss. #godot #solodev #gameDev #towerDefense

submitted 21 days ago • 1 comment

New blog post online :)! "Dissolve shader: VFX's bread and butter" gotibo.fr/blog/dissolv... #godotengine #tutorial #vfx

submitted 35 days ago • 6 comments

For those wondering how to reproduce the scene shown in the flock of #boids videos, check out the code and explanations here : thegodotbarn.com/contribution... #gamedev #godot #glsl

submitted 36 days ago • 2 comments

I wrote about anti-aliasing in shaders and how you can implement it! mini.gmshaders.com/p/antialiasing

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

I said it before and I'll say it again - when you #solodev, any life interruptions shut you down - so its good to keep some small bugs in your back pocket to work on when time is limited😁 I smoothed out some procedural motion by, ah, fixing my math #screenshotsaturday #godot #sinTakesRadians

submitted 43 days ago • 1 comment

Reposting this guide from twitter because I COOKED here. (and still refer to this at work even now!)

submitted 50 days ago • 153 comments

Finally got around to fixing the Sky Levels floating moving tower positions - gives the level an aspect of motion not in the others. #towerDefense #gameDev #godot

submitted 54 days ago • 0 comments

Elevation allows for full camera rotation and I noticed watching others play that they got disoriented about where the base was - so I'm trying out an unobtrusive "compass" that points back to the base when the base is outside the visual range. #godot #solodev #gamedev

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you BlueSky community for 1K follows! 😍😁Here is a special 1K tower... on fire... throwing flaming boulders... cause that's what some people do to celebrate! #gratitude #towerdefense

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

Did a holiday demo of my app to some family - was nice to see people who haven't seen it before not look confused or ask "So, what is that supposed to be?"😁I guess its getting "cohesive". My nephew wants to be a gaming QA tester and found his first few official bugs. #solodev #gamedev

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

I do a lot of my display with Godot's RenderingServer for performance, but you have to do a good job at cleaning up instances otherwise you're left with "floating artifacts" from previous scene instantiations - in this case, enemy shots left over from the last battle. Lets look at notifications.🧵

submitted 62 days ago • 2 comments

Always the trees... Never can just stand-still for the shot... Happy Holidays! #happyHolidays #gameDev #godot

submitted 62 days ago • 0 comments

The concept of a "budget" is important to Tower Defense games - without budget constraints, everyone would just "level up" to the top tier towers and win every match. Castle turrets are cheapest, magical towers more, healing towers most expensive. #towerDefense

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Spent the week wiring up displays for high scores and handling preferences (including the mechanics for actually saving them, refreshing them on app start and making preferences actually do the settings). #godot #towerDefense #solodev #gameDev

submitted 63 days ago • 1 comment

In case someone else finds this useful: I had a recurring need to generate a random number within a range, but as a positive or negative number. For example, any float between 3 and 5 or -3 and -5, but nothing between -3 and 3. So I created a function called "donutRandom" (for the empty middle).

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments

Making a #gamedev starterpack for (mostly) solo game developers working on cool projects. I've added a bunch of friends of mine you should all check out. Leave a comment below if you're a solo #indiedev and want to be added! go.bsky.app/15UnZcn

submitted 66 days ago • 267 comments