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it’s my mental illness and I get to choose the coping mechanism current project: struggling to figure out how isometric games work (making a 2D isometric game engine) he/they ☢️❔👾💣
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Hey I’m alive again apparently

submitted 55 days ago • 0 comments

Been awhile since I posted, but I fixed all the lighting bugs and have been messing with making the shadows softer. I really need to figure out how to do this with a shader, this is the best I could get by averaging the light levels of the surrounding tiles. #gamedev #indiedev #leftengine

submitted 105 days ago • 0 comments

Debugging the lighting system has driven me to the point of various forms of rainbows to try to track down why these few random spots next to the walls won't light up 🌈 (I am actually losing my mind over this bug, it's been a week, please send help) #gamedev #indiedev #leftengine

submitted 116 days ago • 1 comment

Am I a total dork for putting little ASCII diagrams alongside my internal documentation? It takes time to do effectively, but helps a lot if I'm revisiting code I haven't touched in a long time! #gamedev #indiedev #leftengine

submitted 124 days ago • 4 comments

Nine days later and I finally got the shadows to be "good enough" for now. They're not perfect, and there's a few bugs I need to fix, but I am sick of doing shadows and I want to start adding more things to the engine lol #gamedev #indiedev #leftengine

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

This is FAR from perfect, but after 3 days fiddling with it I finally got some shadowcasting working. Kind of. It sucks, but it kinda works how I meant it to. #gamedev #indiedev #leftengine

submitted 134 days ago • 5 comments

There’s something really ominous to me about referring to inanimate objects as “dead” — not just like dead batteries or something normalized, but something like the “dead doors” in Monsters Inc (silly example but you get it right?)

submitted 136 days ago • 0 comments

Someone left a bunch of boxes in my dungeon! I got the sight cones sorted out, this could be made shorter (or narrower!) for a darker room. I also reworked how the tile map stores data, so "cells" can contain multiple tiles, and they're offset properly when drawn! #gamedev

submitted 137 days ago • 3 comments

Okay so it turns out isometric stuff is actually a giant pain in the ass, props to anyone who puts themselves through this kind of thing because it's such a tedious process to get it right #gamedev

submitted 138 days ago • 2 comments

This is me today

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

I hit 100 followers and 444 posts at the same time. Those numbers don't have any significance, I think I just have the kind of autism where I like numbers instead of the kind where I'm really good at stuff

submitted 140 days ago • 0 comments

Adding lights to my game engine before even having any entities or literally anything else is probably silly but... it's my engine and I get to decide the point of obsession #gamedev

submitted 140 days ago • 1 comment

nobody TOLD ME @moxiest.art was BACK

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

I bet it’s okay to eat a little bit of lava

submitted 144 days ago • 280 comments

92 followers is halfway to 99 followers #osrs

submitted 146 days ago • 1 comment

You only share 50% of your dna with bananas? Pshhhh try 100% 😎

submitted 149 days ago • 0 comments

I think I should start reaching out to users with "Howdy" instead of "Hello"

submitted 150 days ago • 0 comments

Threw me for a sec, @cait.bsky.social spotted on Reddit

submitted 156 days ago • 6 comments

Dentist just told me that he needs to put me down.

submitted 159 days ago • 60 comments