Taconite
@taconite.bsky.social
Game Dev and Math Nerd.
Making a couple projects:
- Physics-based archery retro-FPS
- Meditative canoeing game about learning First Nations toponyms for the Great Lakes region
https://taconitegames.itch.io/
Making a couple projects:
- Physics-based archery retro-FPS
- Meditative canoeing game about learning First Nations toponyms for the Great Lakes region
https://taconitegames.itch.io/
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Taconite
@taconite.bsky.social
· Aug 31
After 6 months of awesome work,
𝑁𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑖𝑛𝑔 is launching this Sept.!
Check it out along with 4 other indie games from Michigan devs as part of the @locallysourced.bsky.social anthology 2!
Check out our steam page at:
store.steampowered.com/app/3938610/...
#gamedev #indiegame #steam #majorupdate
𝑁𝑖𝑏𝑖𝑖𝑛𝑔 is launching this Sept.!
Check it out along with 4 other indie games from Michigan devs as part of the @locallysourced.bsky.social anthology 2!
Check out our steam page at:
store.steampowered.com/app/3938610/...
#gamedev #indiegame #steam #majorupdate
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Attention Indie Devs!
I just need 15 seconds ... of your game footage! A lot of people jumped on the 15s video trend, so I thought it would be cool to make a compilation to help indies get some visibility.
The anti-spam key is "kook".
lonewulfstudio.com/indieshowcas...
I just need 15 seconds ... of your game footage! A lot of people jumped on the 15s video trend, so I thought it would be cool to make a compilation to help indies get some visibility.
The anti-spam key is "kook".
lonewulfstudio.com/indieshowcas...
Lone Wulf Studio 2025 Indie Showcase Submission
Submit 15 seconds of game footage from games you worked on in 2025!
lonewulfstudio.com
November 11, 2025 at 3:53 AM
Attention Indie Devs!
I just need 15 seconds ... of your game footage! A lot of people jumped on the 15s video trend, so I thought it would be cool to make a compilation to help indies get some visibility.
The anti-spam key is "kook".
lonewulfstudio.com/indieshowcas...
I just need 15 seconds ... of your game footage! A lot of people jumped on the 15s video trend, so I thought it would be cool to make a compilation to help indies get some visibility.
The anti-spam key is "kook".
lonewulfstudio.com/indieshowcas...
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Tomorrow is the big day! #DieForTheLich
Check out our new keyart 👀
Streamers and YouTubers, hit me up if you're looking for a key to this innovative new roguelike deckbuilder!
store.steampowered.com/app/3415570/...
Check out our new keyart 👀
Streamers and YouTubers, hit me up if you're looking for a key to this innovative new roguelike deckbuilder!
store.steampowered.com/app/3415570/...
November 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Tomorrow is the big day! #DieForTheLich
Check out our new keyart 👀
Streamers and YouTubers, hit me up if you're looking for a key to this innovative new roguelike deckbuilder!
store.steampowered.com/app/3415570/...
Check out our new keyart 👀
Streamers and YouTubers, hit me up if you're looking for a key to this innovative new roguelike deckbuilder!
store.steampowered.com/app/3415570/...
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Indie Game Roundup (November 8, 2025)
virtualmoose.org/2025/11/08/i...
virtualmoose.org/2025/11/08/i...
November 8, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Indie Game Roundup (November 8, 2025)
virtualmoose.org/2025/11/08/i...
virtualmoose.org/2025/11/08/i...
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Adding the vision checks meant that the old "store in texture" version needed to be upgraded.
The data itself wasn't bad, but storing it on disk took a couple of versions. Best of all, it compresses into basically nothing!
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
The data itself wasn't bad, but storing it on disk took a couple of versions. Best of all, it compresses into basically nothing!
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
![Screenshot of VS showing a function in C# called ToBytes:
public static byte[] ToBytes(Map mp)
{
byte[] buf = new byte[mp.GetSizeBytes()];
uint indx = 0;
// Record size
MathExtras.IntToBytes(buf, ref indx, mp.size.x);
MathExtras.IntToBytes(buf, ref indx, mp.size.y);
MathExtras.IntToBytes(buf, ref indx, mp.size.z);
// Record data
for (int i = 0; i < mp.storage.Length; i++)
Map.Data.ToBytes(buf, ref indx, mp.storage[i]);
return buf;
}](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:abfdmncxingxbsgrhncrrchy/bafkreih2dnzvcdt4d3aausa6xdkpjphmtmba3nwf4lvsslacwfzi5tndua@jpeg)
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Adding the vision checks meant that the old "store in texture" version needed to be upgraded.
The data itself wasn't bad, but storing it on disk took a couple of versions. Best of all, it compresses into basically nothing!
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
The data itself wasn't bad, but storing it on disk took a couple of versions. Best of all, it compresses into basically nothing!
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
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Hey #PitchYaGame, for the past 18 months I've been workding on 𝘚𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘦, a sword-and-sorcery retro-FPS!
⚔️ Fast and impactful combat
🏃 First person stealth and parkour
🎮 Gameplay inspired by Dying Light and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Follow here on Bsky for updates!
⚔️ Fast and impactful combat
🏃 First person stealth and parkour
🎮 Gameplay inspired by Dying Light and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Follow here on Bsky for updates!
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hey #PitchYaGame, for the past 18 months I've been workding on 𝘚𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘦, a sword-and-sorcery retro-FPS!
⚔️ Fast and impactful combat
🏃 First person stealth and parkour
🎮 Gameplay inspired by Dying Light and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Follow here on Bsky for updates!
⚔️ Fast and impactful combat
🏃 First person stealth and parkour
🎮 Gameplay inspired by Dying Light and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Follow here on Bsky for updates!
Reposted by Taconite
November 8, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Adding the vision checks meant that the old "store in texture" version needed to be upgraded.
The data itself wasn't bad, but storing it on disk took a couple of versions. Best of all, it compresses into basically nothing!
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
The data itself wasn't bad, but storing it on disk took a couple of versions. Best of all, it compresses into basically nothing!
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
November 8, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Adding the vision checks meant that the old "store in texture" version needed to be upgraded.
The data itself wasn't bad, but storing it on disk took a couple of versions. Best of all, it compresses into basically nothing!
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
The data itself wasn't bad, but storing it on disk took a couple of versions. Best of all, it compresses into basically nothing!
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
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Lastly, action games are highly-concurrent, formally an intractable series of interlocking differential equations without closed-form solutions. So we use numeric approximations, which in variable timesteps introduce intrinsic RNG . So high-level players cannot reliably "reach the ceiling."
November 7, 2025 at 6:49 PM
Lastly, action games are highly-concurrent, formally an intractable series of interlocking differential equations without closed-form solutions. So we use numeric approximations, which in variable timesteps introduce intrinsic RNG . So high-level players cannot reliably "reach the ceiling."
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Code is cheap. Of course this is a nuanced topic but I generally feel this way.
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Code is cheap. Of course this is a nuanced topic but I generally feel this way.
Hey #PitchYaGame, for the past 18 months I've been workding on 𝘚𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘦, a sword-and-sorcery retro-FPS!
⚔️ Fast and impactful combat
🏃 First person stealth and parkour
🎮 Gameplay inspired by Dying Light and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Follow here on Bsky for updates!
⚔️ Fast and impactful combat
🏃 First person stealth and parkour
🎮 Gameplay inspired by Dying Light and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Follow here on Bsky for updates!
November 7, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hey #PitchYaGame, for the past 18 months I've been workding on 𝘚𝘩𝘳𝘪𝘬𝘦, a sword-and-sorcery retro-FPS!
⚔️ Fast and impactful combat
🏃 First person stealth and parkour
🎮 Gameplay inspired by Dying Light and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Follow here on Bsky for updates!
⚔️ Fast and impactful combat
🏃 First person stealth and parkour
🎮 Gameplay inspired by Dying Light and Chivalry: Medieval Warfare
Follow here on Bsky for updates!
Reposted by Taconite
Adding in pre-calculated vision approximations: each voxel gets 26 casts and the distances are recorded, totaling just 30 bytes per voxel!
Still need a way to query this, but this will help enemies choose sensible locations in combat!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #unity3d #solodev
Still need a way to query this, but this will help enemies choose sensible locations in combat!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #unity3d #solodev
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Adding in pre-calculated vision approximations: each voxel gets 26 casts and the distances are recorded, totaling just 30 bytes per voxel!
Still need a way to query this, but this will help enemies choose sensible locations in combat!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #unity3d #solodev
Still need a way to query this, but this will help enemies choose sensible locations in combat!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #unity3d #solodev
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Do folks have suggestions for heuristics for NavMesh distances? Need a way to know which destinations are "close" without actually running the calculation...
Just using eucliean distance keeps having them choose points on the other side of walls...
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
Just using eucliean distance keeps having them choose points on the other side of walls...
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
November 4, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Do folks have suggestions for heuristics for NavMesh distances? Need a way to know which destinations are "close" without actually running the calculation...
Just using eucliean distance keeps having them choose points on the other side of walls...
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
Just using eucliean distance keeps having them choose points on the other side of walls...
#gamedev #indiegame #unity3d #solodev
Missing cohost rn...
November 3, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Missing cohost rn...
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Fixing an issue with steps (that the NavAgent doesn't recognize) and added jumping/dropping to round out the humanoid movement.
Still need to update the animations to match, but this should be all the control systems done!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
Still need to update the animations to match, but this should be all the control systems done!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Fixing an issue with steps (that the NavAgent doesn't recognize) and added jumping/dropping to round out the humanoid movement.
Still need to update the animations to match, but this should be all the control systems done!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
Still need to update the animations to match, but this should be all the control systems done!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
Made egg drop soup for the first time. It's pretty simple, just egg + drop
November 2, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Made egg drop soup for the first time. It's pretty simple, just egg + drop
Fixing an issue with steps (that the NavAgent doesn't recognize) and added jumping/dropping to round out the humanoid movement.
Still need to update the animations to match, but this should be all the control systems done!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
Still need to update the animations to match, but this should be all the control systems done!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
November 1, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Fixing an issue with steps (that the NavAgent doesn't recognize) and added jumping/dropping to round out the humanoid movement.
Still need to update the animations to match, but this should be all the control systems done!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
Still need to update the animations to match, but this should be all the control systems done!
#gamedev #indiegame #fps #indiefps #solodev #unity3d #screenshotsaturday
It's nice watching old movies
cause that shit actually
happened sometimes
cause that shit actually
happened sometimes
![Screenshot of the wiki page for Attack of the Killer Tomatoes:
The finished film contains footage of a real helicopter crash. In a scene showing law enforcement officers firing their weapons to ward off tomatoes in a field, a $60,000 Hiller Aircraft UH-12E that had been rented for the production was supposed to land in the tomato patch behind the officers. But during the landing the Hiller's tail rotor struck the ground, causing the craft to spin out of control near the ground, roll over, and burst into flames. The helicopter pilot escaped without serious injury.[6] The crash was caught on film, as the cameras were rolling at the time, and later worked into the final product with added dialogue about a "kamikaze tomato" hitting the helicopter.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:abfdmncxingxbsgrhncrrchy/bafkreiaedsqocpt4cdwnonjfqwxynxz7bj52i4uupmdugfgw4wntphwqgi@jpeg)
November 1, 2025 at 3:50 AM
It's nice watching old movies
cause that shit actually
happened sometimes
cause that shit actually
happened sometimes
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
S&Ms
S&Ms
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
(Being a little creative, turning e's to O's)
Poops
(Being a little creative, turning e's to O's)
Poops
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
Starwurst
Starwurst
October 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
Change one letter, ruin a candy.
S&Ms
S&Ms