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if you're currently working on a video game, take a short break, pick a number in your code or data files, multiply it by 1000, and post the results

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There are four enemies nearby. You press lock-on. Which enemy gets targeted and why? A) Closest distance, off-screen B) Second closest, behind player C) Third closest, in player's line of sight D) Farthest distance, but nearest center of camera

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7 months

Just thinking of that time when Nintendo locked Slippy Toad On-Foot Bazooka Mode behind one of the hardest challenges on the N64, meaning most of us never even saw it 🥲

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5 months

Don't sleep on trigonometry kids, one day you might need it to calculate the angle of a locked-on side hop

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3 months

This is a skull with wheels I guess

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4 months

This is how I find bugs. I call it "chaos testing"

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6 months

There's a billion ways to achieve sword trails and slash effects. Here's a solution I put together this morning for my retro-style Zeldalike #gamedev

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11 days

whenever I'm playing a new video game or watching a new movie, I always bear in mind John Updike's first rule for reviewing books (from 1977)

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4 months

This is the most metal death in all gaming. Sure, you can find a Doom or God of War death that's more gory. But for 99% of Wind Waker you're a little kid fighting slimes and bats who die in cute puffs of smoke... and then your final act is THIS. Contrast is a powerful tool

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24 days

A thread on how I animated a lil crabby sandworm entirely in code! Firstly in Blender I made some simple low-poly body pieces. The blinking eye is achieved by offsetting UVs, it's a technique I use a lot

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3 months

Upgrade tokens

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2 months

Low-poly modeling is 99% figuring out the best way to split a quad

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5 months

This is actually working what the heck

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6 months

Mario sharing the same sprite for bushes and clouds is cool and all, but did you know the water temple has staircases on the ceiling

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6 months

I've been experimenting with Dark Souls and I swear it just prioritized "off-screen but in line of sight" over "on-screen and closer"!

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4 months

I love these blending sections between textures in older games, before the days of splat maps. Such a cool detail that makes all the difference. Looks like they even planned the geometry to account for it

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5 months

The indie game I'm making and three of the inspirations behind it:

Molegato ⛏️🧡

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5 months

The indie game we are making and three of the inspirations behind it.

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6 months

@STATICOdev Yeah I think D is the sleeper, we naturally shift our camera to aim at the thing we want to attack....

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3 months

i guess you could do that with the skullcopter thing, sure

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16 days

just some lazy piranha boys

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6 months

Okay, I've come up with an ingenious solution for handling this rare edge-case of falling between two intersecting slopes: I'm just gonna not put them in the game 🧐

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4 months

Spectacle Rock from LoZ doesn't just make an Easter Egg appearance in Death Mountain Crater - it actually IS the Fire Temple

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5 months

Some new facial animations for Zayd!

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7 months

Doors! Imagine a world without doors. Thank goodness for doors.

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4 months

I love it when state machines automatically handle dumb edge cases you didn't even think about

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4 months

Argh I was just about to reveal this new item in Azaran: Islands of the Jinn - but Zelda beat me to it!!!😖

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12 days

all sorts of bomb interactions

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5 months

Target switching debug (red dot = right stick)

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7 months

vertex colors are so rad

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6 months

Poll results are still coming in, but there's a clear winner. Thanks everyone, here's my final lock-on target selection code

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6 months

What would you expect?

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2 months

i'd love to see more people showcase their rigging. sometimes it feels like forbidden magic

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5 months

@b0tster Bomberlith 64

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13 days

don't you hate it when you're chillin on the beach and some punk kid starts lobbing bombs in your eye

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4 months

I COULD spend a week calculating parabolas / running rigidbody simulations to draw a nice trajectory prediction arc based on your throwing angle, OR you could just get good

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5 months

The cool thing about low poly is that you can model a boss in 30 mins

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4 months

Trying out completely unlit materials for Azaran's environments, faking shading with vertex colors and textures instead. So much simpler!!

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2 months

what other game has the guts to start off its "kiddy" entry with the hardest challenge of the entire franchise

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3 months

I'm planning on a Metroid-style upgrade system. Rather than rupees/cash, small chests in dungeons will contain incremental expansions for bombs, arrows, and other resources.

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2 months

it's like the puzzles design themselves

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fishes!!! this game will have so many fishes

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5 months

We got the superman grapple pose!

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3 months

back to playing with fire

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2 months

Sure! I make high-resolution textures in Affinity Designer, then export at 32x32 or 64x64. The high-res texture often looks awful - I design them specifically to look good when downscaled. Then the real magic is in the vertex lit shader + N64-style filtering

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2 months

@BenjiGameDev Can you give us any information about how you make the Textures? I'm doing some experiments but with zero to none success until now

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4 months

Added a lil "oh crap" slide for when you grab some vines from a jump 🍃🍃🍃

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3 months

Yes, you can do this, if you're cool enough

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@BenjiGameDev

5 months

Azaran's steam page is live!!! You can wishlist my game!! (I've heard that if you QRT this post, the algorithm will make your crush text you back and you'll find $10 in your pocket) Link below 👇👇👇

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6 months

The cool thing about solodev is that when ladder animations are driving you crazy, you can just do something else for a while. Here's a vine-wall

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@BenjiGameDev

3 months

The Prisons of Brass are guarded by a variety of bone-magic automata. While powered by springs and clockwork, these devious machines act by the will of the dead

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7 months

Is there a better / easier way of making a flame arrow than this monstrous thing I just hacked together? Almost certainly. But perfect and elegant are the enemies of DONE

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@BenjiGameDev

5 months

While often described as a type of burrowing larval parasite, the Beakworm is actually a species of bird

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3 months

Look, I understand that menus are boring, so to make this UI demonstration video more exciting I've introduced explosives and an element of suspense

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2 months

mapping damage to a button is crazy useful for bug testing

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4 months

Playing with texture filtering this morning! I think I do prefer the N64-style for Azaran 😋 A - 1080x1080 (HD source image) B - 32x32 point filter ("pixel"-style) C - 32x32 bilinear filter (Unity default) D - 32x32 3-sample bilinear filter (N64-style)

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21 days

Scope reduction is when you take plans for an elaborate Save Room + saving cutscene and replace them with a fountain thing you made in 10 mins

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2 months

I often see indie devs reposting and engaging with negative Steam reviews on here. In the publishing world such behavior is considered very bad etiquette. Please let your customers leave negative reviews without the fear of getting plastered all over social media

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4 months

Things look much prettier with actual textures

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3 months

i wrote the bits of code to make the water go splash when you do different water things

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5 months

The Jinn are spirits of nature. They take many forms. While most have no presence in the physical realm, some may choose to bind themselves to vessels of brass

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6 months

How would we feel about crunchy pixels?

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6 months

⚔️Gamedev Ladder Bossfight Phase 3⚔️ this thing is harder than Malenia I swear

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6 months

Slope testing is going great 👍👍👍

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2 months

i know a lot of you don't like block puzzles, but hear me out

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6 months

I'm half way towards beating the final boss of gamedev: LADDERS

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3 months

🏹+ 🪔 = 🔥 🏹+ 💣 = 💥

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Azaran's underwater effect is super simple. When the camera enters a water trigger, I switch the scene's ambient light color, fog color, fog density, and I add a lowpass filter to the SFX bus. Done!

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3 months

Bomb explosion in super slow-motion to show off what's happening. UV scrolling is my best friend 😆

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4 months

I'm not quite sure who this guy actually is yet, but how dare he

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3 months

how do magnets actually work though? 🧲

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1 month

new drip to match the ride

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24 days

Lastly I added in some random twitching of the head, blinking, and snapping of the claws. And his idle animation is all done!

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5 months

Proper animations to come, but the magshot is kinda working!

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7 months

Today I’ve been working on implementing N64-style collisions for my game, prompted by frustrations with Unity’s in-built CharacterController component. Inspired by an amazing video from Pannen (linked below), here’s what I’ve done so far 🧵

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7 months

Getting the arrows to bounce off some stuff and smash through other stuff and boioioinggg into other stuff

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4 months

Trying a more traditional zelda-like UI. Also started designing some fancy item icons - first up is the Scimitar!

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5 months

Some decent lock-on progress! Now I just need proper strafing animations, then onto backflips and other combat acrobatics...

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2 months

Yep, you can bomb the monkeys

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@BenjiGameDev I already want to throw bombs at it

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how to make a game that looks good: disconnect limbs into separate meshes. use the same textures over and over again in different ways. use fewer colors and fewer polygons.

$@heliofractal$

Lori Vornoy 🗡💀🩸

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how to make a game that looks good: get rid of lights and shadows, just use ambient light, don't use normal maps or metalness map or any other PBR workflow related maps, use low res textures and, render everything at super low res or use a crunchy shader i don't care

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What if I've just been fighting B and I'm retreating away from an attack?

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7 months

A title reveal for #screenshotsaturday ! Azaran: Islands of the Jinn An N64 Zelda-like inspired by The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night

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4 months

Blocking out Azaran's very first area. Straight into the action with a little mini dungeon...

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6 months

Here's a method I'm experimenting with: 1) Get all targets in range, on screen, and not blocked by geo 2) Get those within 45 degrees of player forward 3) Sort these by distance. Select closest target (cyan) 4) If no viable option, select target closest to cam center (green)

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Handling edge case #5446 : Interrupting a grapple pull with aerial stun damage. I swear games are mainly just edge cases.

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4 months

playing with nuts

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Progress on Jumjum the Ever-Living, master of ancient sorceries

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Comparing in-game model vs UI version made me realize there's an entire artistic subgenre of "Chibi SD Weapon Icons" that I'd love to see more of

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5 months

I've decided Zayd deserves an actual control rig rather than a bunch of manual bones. Am I AAA yet?

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some simple procedural animations for this lil snappy guy, mostly just splines and noise

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6 months

I feel like I need a piña colada

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goin for a swim

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"Hmm what wall texture should we use for the final room of the ice cavern? Maybe another snowy rockface?" "An infinite stargate. An aberration of spacetime. A window upon a realm that lies beyond human comprehension, where all is cold and all is ice."

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Prototyping the Prisons of Brass. The central mechanic will involve manipulating giant chains that thread throughout the dungeon, perhaps binding something deep within....

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4 months

Players: Ugh, fell down a pit. Never mind. Devs and QA: Hmm that looks kind of complicated. How are we going to handle respawn location? Can the player pause during that 0.3 second fade-out? Would 0.5 seconds feel nicer? Should the room-state reset? What if--

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Implementing foot shadows Zelda-style. Shadows are quads with a bone attached to one vertex. Bone positions and angles are then adjusted via script, allowing them to be controlled by the day/night cycle. #gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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The magshot is a much better way of dealing with monkeys

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