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Man, support the ever living shit out of your indie game developers. Find them on Patreon, Kickstarter, etc, and shove money in their faces. Not because of the "AAA" prices and giant studio exploitation, but in support of those who risk everything to do what they love - for us. #indiedev #gamedev

submitted 8 hours ago • 3 comments

Hope everyone is having a great week so far! I have been working on adding blendshapes to Hugo, who got a sizeable update to his interactions and new voice acted lines. #indiegame #indiegaming #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #UnrealEngine5 #adventuregaming #adventuregame #gamer #gamergirl #gaming

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Happy #screenshotsaturday to all the devs out there! This week we have been working on this new character. Her name is Cary S., and she is very pleased to meet you all! #indiegame #indiegaming #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #UnrealEngine5 #adventuregaming #adventuregame #gamer #gamergirl #gaming

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

Cleaned up my following. Lists are cool, but I've noticed almost no one who is on game dev lists I followed, followed me back, and I'm not into one-sided relationships this time of my life lol I don't follow back if my interests are wildly different than yours, or I think you're a bot. #gamedev

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Been experimenting with UE5's Mutable plug-in, using City Sample characters since they offer a great variety to test with. Planning to use Mutable to handle main character customization and simplify NPC creation. #gamedev #indiedev #UnrealEngine #UE5 #Mutable #indiegame #gaming #screenshotsaturday

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

I know I know, I've been away too long. But I present to you... The Hair Man! /this honestly made me dying of laughter for about 10 minutes, and I don't think I have anything else to say about it/ #gamedev #indiedev

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Implemented more digging mechanics to showcase procedural debris cutting, now with plans for recursion. #UnrealEngine #screenshotsaturday #videogames

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year 2025 from New Zealand! #indiegamedev

submitted 56 days ago • 0 comments

In Australia for a week. Since I don't have my PC with me, will just post some random dev stuff I sent to our dev chat with my friends. Last week, I was doing some fracturing in Unreal. The barrel model is not hollow, so it looks incorrect when broken, but the idea is there! #indiegame #indiegaming

submitted 64 days ago • 0 comments

I've had a small influx (I know, an oxymoron) of followers in the last couple of days. Not sure why, but I'll take it! Welcome, all! 💖❤️‍🔥❤️ Hope you're having some lovely pre-holidays time wherever you are in the world! #gamedev #indiedev

submitted 69 days ago • 0 comments

Something weird happened with my Twitter account (I know we don't like it here, but I had a good following on it). Firstly, they locked me out and made me do some weird test to regain control over it. Then, they put a label on it saying I'm in violation of X rules, but they don't say which ones?

submitted 72 days ago • 1 comment

For this #screenshotsaturday we've added new facial animations for one of our characters - Bolo - voiced by the talented Darren Ying Chen Yi Wishlist Storylines now: steam.pm/app/2835210 #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev #indiegame #games #gaming #gamer #unrealengine #digitalart

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments

Omg I fixed my UI bug. The inventory code is a bit, well, unoptimized. I wrote that just to get it done, and now I'm finding little quirks here n there. For instance, moving an item from a container to inventory is fine, moving back - controller loses focus.

submitted 82 days ago • 1 comment

When your own friends are throwing shade at your obsessive behaviors. Thanks @rmusicdev.bsky.social, I keep laughing at this every time 😂

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

#WishlistWednesday is here! We are DROWNING in cats! (testing animations from Luca De Giglio, they are wip, but very happy with them so far!) Wishlist neow! steamp.pm/app/2835210 #indiegame #indiegaming #gaming #gamer #gamedev #indiegamedev #cat #CatsOfBluesky #fightnjokes #adventure #story #art

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

There was a time in my life when I fancied myself as a future comic book artist 🎨 Maybe I should revive this hobby one day after finishing my other 10000 projects 😂😂😂 No AI back then, I tried my best to draw one good hand 🤣 #digital #art #comics #2Dart #ADHD #digitalart

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

And my favorite part is never being able to remember where anything is and clicking randomly through tabs and pages for 20 minutes getting angrier each moment and crying 😂

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Hi, this is me & my cat! As you can see, she is not impressed with my theatrics. My name is Lena, I live in New Zealand, and have been running Lighstromo since 2016. Originally, a trained artist, I think I love coding more now. I hope more women enter game dev and STEM 💖 #gamedev #indiegamedev

submitted 86 days ago • 0 comments

Our character artist is working on a new NPC for Storylines. A very early wip, but I'm very excited to add her to the game soon! #gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday #gaming #indiegame #indiegaming #contentcreator #games #3dArt #character #characterart #3DModeling #digitalart #digitalartist

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

5 new followers, and I'm 99% sure 4 of them are bots. How is everyone else doing on the bot front? I thought we would not get many here, my X account was getting targeted so bad lol #gamedev

submitted 88 days ago • 0 comments

Ported the Binding project from 5.4 to 5.5 because we want those sweet sweet movement updates, and I'm transferring most of the blueprint logic into components, so they can be reusable #UnrealEngine #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame #indiegaming #gaming #games #gamer #gamergirl #dogsofbluesky #art

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

Stolen from @rmusicdev.bsky.social The last few days I've been refactoring my code for Binding after updating it to 5.5 😅🥲😭 save meeee #gamedev #indiedev #indiegaming

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Here are over 150GB of free sound effects, royalty-free and commercially usable on your #gamedev projects sonniss.com/gameaudiogdc

submitted 99 days ago • 304 comments

Hello, #indiegames and #gamedev world! Our Steam Curator page is back in action! 🎮 Feel free to share your games with us there. We’ll do our best to review them all! Check it out here: 🔗 store.steampowered.com/curator/4400...

submitted 99 days ago • 6 comments

This was me figuring out how to do mocap for non-humanoid characters. Was easier than expected, as long as you have the correct blendshapes, you can still use IPhone for mocap inside #Unreal engine :) #indiegame #indiegames #indiegaming #indiegamedev #gamer #gaming #motioncapture #steam #wishlist

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Noice, found how to track UTMs in Steam. If you are as lost as I was, I'll include the link to the vid. So far, I can see that my campaign is working, however the conversion rate is not good. Will try a different layout in a couple of days. www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-qm... #gamedev #indiedev

submitted 101 days ago • 0 comments

Got some new wishlists, I need to figure out if I can check on Steam where they're coming from to see if it's my stupid ads that are working or if it's something else. Worrying about this is my least fave part of #gamedev

submitted 101 days ago • 1 comment

I just have this question I asked myself, got me confused for a bit. Why are you game devving? I think personally I really enjoy storytelling. I like writing, I wrote my first story when I was maybe 12? For me games are about stories in them. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegamedev

submitted 101 days ago • 2 comments