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skytrellisgames.bsky.social
Solo game dev making a Orbital Mechanics + Nuclear Spaceships + Puppets space sim YouTube: youtube.com/@skytrellisgames Community Discord: https://discord.gg/EACmr9rMt7
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Forbidden limeade makes point-defense go brrr #indiedev #indiegame #screenshotsaturday #scifi #hardscifi

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

I’m teaching myself to juggle and starting to think I was a clown in a previous life

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

The Orion League’s efforts to deregulate the galaxy’s network of wormholes and associated exotic material production have made it easy for the Exiled Empire’s fleets to launch lightning offensives deep into League space, threatening the fragile peace #screenshotsaturday #scifi #indiegame #solodev

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

ah, victory (sound up for @tiagonugent.bsky.social 's awesome music) #indiedev #gamedev

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

Working on making the B-Wing canopy raisable - trying to figure out the lifting mechanism is stupid. It has to rotate up and push forwards. On the plus side, it looks dope.

submitted 11 days ago • 3 comments

Btw Im gonna create a BuyMeACoffee page. I also plan to make #Godot videos with my broken English grammar and absurd brain processor. Im kinda good at Godot, I do art and a bit jack-of-all trades. Because I will have to open sole proprietorship, I might create BMC page for your supports as well ^^

submitted 14 days ago • 2 comments

For this #screenshotsaturday I did some #WIP previs for a warp-in animation as ships spawn into the combat level. Next steps are to add more variance, some dirtiness, longer travel distance in the stretch portion and to refine the blue flash. Overall a pretty cool first pass! #indiegame #solodev

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 17 days ago • 7 comments

Hey #gamedevs, what’s your process for making trailers? I’ve been working on Periapsis’ trailer for more than a week and keep dipping back into in-game work to fix bugs that look bad in a trailer and punch up important gameplay moments that need to be clear for the hook to land

submitted 17 days ago • 3 comments

Nintendo, Atari, & Sega happened because of him, Jerry Lawson. #BlackHistory

submitted 22 days ago • 28 comments

We're living through stressful times, so a lot of people are turning to art lately. Here's a reminder that I've got a starter pack of super cool space artists 🔭🐡 go.bsky.app/T9Xcq1M

submitted 24 days ago • 6 comments

The droplet-core nuclear rocket: doi.org/10.2514/6.19... Uranium can stay liquid under 100 bars at 7500K. Droplets would rain through a chamber filled with hydrogen before being spun out by a vortex and quenched on lithium. 2000-3000s Isp with much less hassle than gas-cores!

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

I’m building a ton of debug tooling to get better footage for Periapsis’ Steam trailer and I gotta say I’m pretty excited about how much more productive the rest of my workflow is gonna be with all these new tools #gamedev

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Finally got around to building a procedural planet shader to replace the temporary textures I'd been using and it really improves the vibes in space! #spaceart #indiegame #hardscifi #solodev #space #screenshotsaturday

submitted 29 days ago • 2 comments

Put an infrared targeting beam (the white one) on a patrol destroyer to see how much it helps allied ships’ weapon range and targeting - I feel very cool illuminating a hostile ship and letting my escort ships tear it apart at long range #indiegame #indiedev #hardscifi #scifiart #spaceship

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments

players: "wow your game has orbital mechanics and nuclear reactors? this is gonna be super realistic" me: *sweats in improvised magnetic trash shield*

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

This info graphic on a new heavy cruiser I recently built was a fun excuse to write up some lore on the universe, good practice on the ship art style refresh and definitely not procrastination on all the changes I need to make from the last playtest #gamedev #scifiart #indiedev #hardscifi

submitted 44 days ago • 1 comment

Almost lost to burnout this year. Next year I’m going in swinging

submitted 54 days ago • 118 comments

❌crushed by the weight of fear and give up ✅deadlift fear and get emotionally huge #gamedev #indiegamedev

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

🎶 What’s the crew vibing to on #screenshotsaturday?

submitted 78 days ago • 1 comment

I recently skirted burnout doing optimization but thanks to that work I can now use a more computationally expensive trajectory prediction model that's way more stable! This enables smarter NPCs + more missiles during combat, which means crazier battles and more explosions! #indiedev #scifi #space

submitted 80 days ago • 0 comments