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Half-Life 2 turns 20 today! Considering how much we’ve talked about it on our YT channel, it seemed wrong not to post… #halflife2 #halflife

November 16, 2024 at 4:51 PM

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Low-poly spaceships from quick sketch to 3D models! #blender #3Dmodel #gamedev #gaming

6 sketches of different space ships from a top-down perspective

6 3D models of various space ship designs

November 15, 2024 at 6:18 PM

Indomitable Interactive

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My experience working with Godot so far:

1. Everything is so simple, I love it!
2. Wait, doing complex things is still hard. I dunno what I’m doing.
3. This shit sucks, I wanna go back to Unity.
4. Wait, fuck Unity, Unity sucks. Guess I’m sticking with Godot…

Repeat ad nauseam

August 31, 2024 at 2:40 AM

Indomitable Interactive

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Sometimes it’s easier than expected to turn your random sketch of enemy AI behavior into actual functionality in your game…

#indie #indiegame #gamedev #IndieGameDev #indiegames #godot #madewithgodot #dev

A hand-drawn finite state machine describing enemy behavior in Indomitable Interactive’s upcoming game The Defector.

A screenshot of a finite state machine made with the YAFSM plugin for Godot. Looks almost exactly the same as the hand-drawn version. Pretty cool, huh?

August 9, 2024 at 2:55 AM

Indomitable Interactive

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So… anyone know any game engines other than Godot? (I want to ditch Unity after what they pulled last year) Or maybe a good tutorial for it? I’ll pay if I have to.

I did the one on Gamedev.tv and thought I knew what I was doing. Now I’m working on a game and it turns out I don’t…

#gamedev #indie

July 15, 2024 at 1:22 AM

Indomitable Interactive

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Sometimes when you’re working on a game, you just have to write stuff down on paper for it to make sense. These are some random incomprehensible scribbles from Rutabaga Desert Storm’s development. Anyone else do this?

#gamedev #indie #indiegame #indiegamedev #gaming #dev #steam

A sheet of paper with a variety of incomprehensible scribbles relating to Rutabaga Desert Storm by Indomitable Interactive. There is a diagram detailing the sizes of the different background layers and text explaining how each layer moves at a different speed, but moves off screen at the same time due to the size differences.

There is a blurb at the top mentioning that the GameManager class will not handle power-ups.

The text “Bug: Wave never despawns” has been boxed and crossed out. I fixed it!

“KILL STREAKS! ACCURACY REPORT LIKE GALAGA” is written in all caps at the bottom. I never implemented those features…

The reverse side of the paper, detailing how a Unity ScriptableObject is used to hold the current game rules. In this case, the rules are simply how many players there are, and which one is Rutabaga III and which one is Habanero, Jr.

There is another diagram below it written sideways (detailed in the next image)

Another diagram attempting to explain the background mechanics. If it’s not obvious, we struggled a lot with this! The sizes of each background layer are shown, this time for the village area.

Below that, some functions and interfaces for the menu code are written very sloppily. IMenuItem is an interface that has a SetSelected function, which takes a bool and returns nothing (void). MenuHeader has a List of IMenuItem objects. The MainMenuManager handles actual user input.

July 12, 2024 at 3:00 AM

Indomitable Interactive

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Hey everyone! Our indie shoot ‘em up Rutabaga Desert Storm is half off for the Steam summer sale! We’d appreciate if you checked it out!

store.steampowered.com/app/2679270/...

#gamedev #indie #gaming #indiegame #developer #dev #steam #summersale #sale #steamsale

Save 51% on Rutabaga Desert Storm on Steam

Lead the vegetable revolution alone or with a friend in the side-scrolling shoot ‘em up Rutabaga Desert Storm! Take down wave after wave of enemies, dodge their projectiles, and grab power-ups to boos...

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June 29, 2024 at 1:59 AM

Indomitable Interactive

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We’ve been doing these Gaming Fact or Fiction YouTube shorts because it’s fun and so we can maybe build a little audience on YouTube that might be interested in our games. Seems like a lot of people liked the last one!

youtube.com/shorts/D4QmD...

#gaming #halflife #youtube #shorts #gamedev