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Software engineer, hobby game dev and pixel artist. He/Him https://alanlawrey.me https://astrellon.itch.io/space-strife #gamedev #pixelart
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I finally got a playable build with portals in Space Strife over on itch. I also put together a video devlog about it on YouTube (also linked to on itch). astrellon.itch.io/space-strife

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

I've been playing around with creating portals for a last level mechanic, it's taken a bit to get it looking mostly right, still work to do but I'm reasonably happy with them now.

submitted 37 days ago • 1 comment

My PC updated automatically overnight, giving me no opt out option from OneDrive. I thought I had manually disabled it earlier in the day, but I just booted up The Sims 4 to find that OneDrive reinstated itself, removing all my files. All of my saves were gone.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

Playing around with a new effect for a 'final boss'. I wanted to be more clever and use a single object and use the shader to mirror the mesh. But since there's only one object like this in the game, it's much easier to just clip along the center plane, duplicate and give one side a negative scale.

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Ok lets get into it then. Hi I'm Valentine, I was one of the employees who led most of the walkouts and who was part of the original group pushing for unionization at Blizzard, especially on the WoW team where I worked at the time.

submitted 78 days ago • 22 comments

CW: suicide Her name was Kerri Moynihan. She was real woman whose life, and death, were real. Her loss to her loved ones is real. Their grief is real. Her passing's relationship to how she was treated at Blizzard was real. Shame on you, Bobby. May you never have to lose a loved one in that way.

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

I managed to find some time to put together a devlog for my space shooter. Where the new mechanics include shooting a 'singularity' to make it strike nearby enemies with lightning. And adding a mobile tank space ship, finally untethering tanks from being on a planet. youtu.be/ppP4hEXvyy0

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Luigi went on another side adventure again, didn’t he?

submitted 143 days ago • 0 comments

I kid you not, @itch.io has been taken down by Funko of "Funko Pop" because they use some trash "AI Powered" Brand Protection Software called Brand Shield that created some bogus Phishing report to our registrar, iwantmyname, who ignored our response and just disabled the domain

submitted 144 days ago • 689 comments

I made some VFX for different character abilities in my WIP game Space Strife. The game is about defending planets from alien attacks using tanks. It's a bit bullet hell and a bit WarHeads SE. The different abilities are power up tanks, split projectiles and slow down time. #gamedev #indiedev

submitted 163 days ago • 1 comment

Introduce yourself with four video games

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

This is a pixel art background I made a few years ago and I’m still very happy with how it turned out. I used Blender to get the perspective correct on the spiral and the rest was done in Aseprite.

submitted 184 days ago • 1 comment

Finally got around to updating my personal website so I have a place to somehow mash all my projects into one space. alanlawrey.me

submitted 184 days ago • 0 comments