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ategon.dev
Indie Game Developer 🇨🇦 Hi! I mostly work on games for game jams and some other misc projects in my free time as well as stream gamedev on twitch. Links: https://me.programming.dev/@Ategon
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We are less than 2 hours away from the start of this Jam! You are still in time to join! discord.gg/A8SAuhx8 There are teams searching for artists currently, so even if you are not a gamedev,but you have other art skills, come join the fun! #gamedev #gamejam #art

Been getting a bunch of work for uni lately (hence the no posts) but that should clear up in a couple months and then I can start having a proper post schedule again Did some work on d2jam.com again recently to add in the Theme Elimination system & some visual improvements #GameJam #D2Jam

-11 days! Are you Down2Jam??? #gamedev #gamejam

Another daily d2jam.com update. Today I worked on post previews and updating the visuals of the featured streamers area. Post previews let you see the content of the post without needing to navigate off of the page (by opening it up in a drawer). Useful for compact post styles. #GameJam #D2Jam

Pushed an update to add image uploading support to https://d2jam.com Used for adding images to all of the text editors (e.g. post creation) and for uploading profile pictures and banners.Also spent a bit improving the backend structure to make it cleaner and easier to maintain #GameJam #D2Jam

Pushed an update to https://d2jam.com Added more options to the settings page (ability to change your name, banner image, and bio) and added some image previews for the profile picture and banner image Also started on a profile page to see information about someone #GameJam #D2Jam

Introducing the first edition of D2Jam happening on March 21st! We wanted a jam which celebrated post-submission events, encouraged discourse and reflection, and provided tools for developers to find and share games You can join our site (or follow) for updates d2jam.com #GameJam #GameDev

Finished and submitted my entry for the Pirate Software Jam! Really happy with how it turned out Link is here: ategon.itch.io/bit-slayer for anyone who wants to play it Ill be doing a stream around 7pm EST playing other peoples entries on my twitch twitch.tv/ategondev #PirateJam #Gamedev

Another game jam update. Instead of working on UI like I should be doing I added in some more types of enemies (slimes, bosses, and things jumping up from the bottom of the screen) #PirateJam #Gamedev

More game jam game progress. Added in powerups, a combo system, and a death system Also have some other misc polish everywhere like the text that appears at the top. Next up would be to add in a main menu, death screen + leaderboard system #PirateJam #Gamedev

Working on a game for the pirate software jam + stream team jam real quick before those end. This is the current progress of 8 hours Ive managed to make it impossible to record a video without the bitrate being demolished. And this is only half the planned post processing #PirateJam #Gamedev

Pushed a new update to https://d2jam.com to add a comment section to posts. Comments can also get comments on them and they can be liked similar to how posts can Also made likes reflect instantly in the UI even if the backend is still processing #d2jam #gamejam

New https://d2jam.com update, moderators can now sticky posts which makes them show up above everything else This would be used for main posts such as announcements relating to the event #d2jam #gamejam

Another D2Jam update: Tags! Added tags as a feature so that you can add tags to posts you make on the site to convey what they are about Users can use the tag button above the post feed to filter posts by tags If you have anything you want to be a tag let me know #d2jam #gamejam

Made a big update to the d2jam.com game jam site Theres too many things for me to list here so will just give the major ones - Light mode - Color on like - Minimizing posts - Post deletion - Post time filter - Wysiwyg post editor - featured streamers (by @brainoid.bsky.social ) #gamedev #d2jam

Daily Godot Tip #40: If you enable always on top in the project settings, your game window will always show on top of everything else even if you use the editor in the background Useful to not need to tab back to it after changing one thing in the inspector #godot #gamedev #godottips

Another update to the d2jam.com game jam site - Added the ability to like posts - Added post sorts where you can sort by newest, top (most likes), or oldest - Added post styles to change how you want posts in the post feed to look (e.g. if you like a most compact style) #gamedev #d2jam

Some more game jam site progress. Revamped the design to make it look nicer and added refresh tokens so that people can stay logged in longer (instead of only having access tokens) #gamedev #d2jam

Daily Godot Tip #39: You can create code regions between #region and #endregion that allow you to collapse that entire section into 1 line Useful for things you don't edit but still would need to scroll past #godot #gamedev #godottips

More progress on the game jam I'm working on. Got the forum working as well as login and signup systems Next step is going to be to add more to the forum such as likes and comments #gamedev #d2jam

Group 12 for the slime of the year votes! Featuring another 10 brand new slimes (the new ones in this batch wont have individual posts and will just be in these to introduce them) You can rank them here: https://strawpoll.com/eNg6vp8ewgA

Group 11 for the slime of the year votes! Featuring another 11 brand new slimes (the new ones in this batch wont have individual posts and will just be in these to introduce them) You can rank them here: https://strawpoll.com/poy9kPEjJgJ

Heard Ludum Dare wasn't gonna be running this year so quickly slapped together a splash page for a jam site I've been building and will be accelerating progress on getting it complete Heres the link to it for anybody interested: jam.edikoyo.com Should have a lot of dev updates incoming #ldjam

Group 10 for the slime of the year votes! Featuring another 12 brand new slimes (the new ones in this batch wont have individual posts and will just be in these to introduce them) You can rank them here: https://strawpoll.com/jVyG2LwV6Z7

Gonna try to start editing down streams into actual videos. Just published the first one which is the first full run I did of fogpiercer which is a great new roguelite thats in beta currently https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeV29FsgCRc #fogpiercer #roguelite

Daily Godot Tip #38: You can select text and hit shift f4, shift f5, or shift f6 to swap the letter cases. They swap it to all uppercase letters, all lowercase letters, and capitalized respectively. Capitalized will also put a space when swapping between letter and nums. #godot #gamedev #godottips

Group 9 for the slime of the year votes! Featuring another 12 brand new slimes (the new ones in this batch wont have individual posts and will just be in these to introduce them) You can rank them here: https://strawpoll.com/Qrgewd53Ryp

Daily Godot Tip #37: If you select text you can hit certain keys to wrap the text in that key (works for things like quotations, brackets) #godot #gamedev #godottips

Introducing the Milk Slime! This is an uncommon artificially made slime that has milk used in its formation. It resembles milk with a bottle on top This is slime number 72 for my twitch chat slime catching game with 3 variants that appear in Dahallow, Oshela and Hanoka #art #twitch

Drew some more slimes on stream today. Heres the results of that Up to 145 total drawn currently with 7 drawn in the stream (and 9 left to go to have all of the slimes drawn that are catchable) #gamedev

Daily Godot Tip #36: Export range (used to create a box in the inspector for choosing a number within a range) can have extra things added to it in any additional arguments after the main 3 One of these is the addition of a suffix that can be set to whatever you want #godot #gamedev #godottips

Updated the slime pool for my slime catching game so that every newly requested slime is now catchable (changing the total catchable count from 64 -> 153) Added in mechanics so users have a higher chance of catching slimes native to their country and added emotes to catch messages #gamedev #twitch

Group 8 for the slime of the year votes! Featuring another 13 brand new slimes (the new ones in this batch wont have individual posts and will just be in these to introduce them) You can rank them here: strawpoll.com/NMnQNpb4Yg6

Introducing the Mime Slime! This is a rare artificially made slime that is usually kept around circuses This is slime number 71 for my twitch chat slime catching game with 3 variants that appear in Dolfeyja, Blanchister and Ovanos #art #twitch

Introducing the Hairy Slime! This is a slime that hangs out in cold regions of the world with the slime shape helping it live where other slimes cant This is slime number 70 for my twitch chat slime catching game with 3 variants that appear in Soljord, Nakadon and Dolfeyja #art #twitch

Moved the site for my twitch slime catching game over to https://aelios.rocks and updated it a bit to add more country info (note the site is in progress so things like the navbar don't work) Made the start of pages for individual countries with slimes native to it and users in it #gamedev

Next round for the slime of the year votes! This one contains 13 new slimes as I've been creating then at a very quick pace while on break (the new ones in this batch wont have individual posts and will just be in these to introduce them) You can rank them here: https://strawpoll.com/poy9kPYVAgJ

Daily Godot Tip #35: You can bookmark lines by right clicking them and hitting toggle bookmark (or using ctrl alt b). Then you can easily move to bookmarks using the go to button at the top or using ctrl+b and ctrl+shift+b #godot #gamedev #godottips

Introducing the Ramen Slime! This is an uncommon artificially made slime kept as pets in some regions of the world and that smells like ramen This is slime number 69 for my twitch chat slime catching game with 3 variants that appear in Hanoka, Falaka and Krakala #art #twitch

Our first game is now available to play at dailyakari.com ! 🎉🥳🕺 We will be featuring a new Akari puzzle here every day! Hope you enjoy it! 😊 #gamedev #indiedev #sudoku #puzzlegame #godot #wordle

Slime of the year round 1 group 6 to determine the best slime of 2024! Rank your favorite slimes in the poll Top 6 voted slimes in each group this round move on to the next round You can vote here: https://strawpoll.com/PKgleVdMeZp

Daily Godot Tip #34: If you ever need to type multiline strings for a variable in the inspector you can use @ export_multiline If you also just have a large block of text it lets you see a large amount of the text instead of only a small part at a time #godot #gamedev #godottips

Introducing the Fortress Slime! This is an uncommon slime that has a strong defense with hardened slime on top and on chunks on the sides This is slime number 68 for my twitch chat slime catching game with 3 variants that appear in Gokolm, Lavaki and Krakala #art #twitch

Slime of the year round 1 group 5 to determine the best slime of 2024! Rank your favorite slimes in the poll Top 6 voted slimes in each group this round move on to the next round You can vote here: https://strawpoll.com/40Zm4VxoKga

Daily Godot Tip #33: You can use @ export_subgroup to create a subgroup within an export group. You can do the same things I posted about relating to groups to subgroups you cant nest export_subgroups within each other but you can use slashes for nesting #godot #gamedev #godottips

Introducing the Clamshell Slime! This is a slime that lives underwater and lures fish towards itself This is slime number 67 for my twitch chat slime catching game with 3 variants that appear in Drenvale, Ovanos and Vikogyna #art #twitch

Slime of the year round 1 group 4 to determine the best slime of 2024! Rank your favorite slimes in the poll Top 6 voted slimes in each group this round move on to the next round You can vote here: https://strawpoll.com/X3nkPAd5zgE