Players kept reporting that they thought one click should do multiple things in my game.

For example a click should move the player to the interactable and interact when close enough.

Then I started implementing it..

#shadowsoftuonela #bug #solution #gamedev #programming

When you're a vegan but gotta get that fishing level :D

#shadowsoftuonela #catchandrelease #fishing

Videogame performance is everything when it comes to getting people play your game.

My dedicated server was running 60% CPU idle without players, so I implemented a 'NPC Sleeper' (TM pending :D)

That alone reduced CPU usage from 60->40%

#shadowsoftuonela #borderlands4 #gamedev

What makes a good videogame world? Is it the size, the places to explore? The stories? Or something else?

Here's a short clip of my game #shadowsoftuonela and the world I've created. Take a look!

#gamedev #DontStarve #kalevala

Ame where are the streams?

Me:

The best games have the best soundtracks and sound designers.

I love audio, so I wanted to learn #FMOD and spend quite some time getting the sounds right.

What do you think? #gamedev #sounddesign #shadowsoftuonela

First time user experience is everything when it comes to video games. If the player doesn't get it, the developer has failed.

One way to fix that is to do in-game video tutorials like these that I started working on.

#unity #tutorial #ftue #churn #gamedev #shadowsoftuonela

Today I experimented with adding VFX into the melee animation.

What do you think?

#osrs #shadowsoftuonela #vfx #gamedev

Good morning from Tuonela!

I'm coming to you with a new and awesome animation snippet from the one and only @1lmski.bsky.social

This is the main character of #shadowsoftuonela doing some mining.

All we gotta do is add some sound, particle effects and we're good to go! #gamedev

Kokko.

Last touches before we start pushing our demo into #Steam

Closed testing turned out to be immensely valuable as I found many major bugs. Let's fix them, and then ship my very first game next week!

Here's some of the animations added into the game.

#shadowsoftuonela #digitalart #gamedev

Finnish culture is one of the most important things about my game.

Son of Tuoni has a typical Finnish one handed axe and a traditional cold weather fur hat (karvalakki).

He's a frozen skeleton and one of the coolest enemies in #shadowsoftuonela!

#gamedev #kalevala #digitalart

The development of Shadows of Tuonela is coming together nicely! I'm aiming to release a public demo on Steam this June.

Here’s a sneak peek at some of the latest art, brought to life by my talented friend.

Meet Hiisi! He's fiers.

#gamedev #digitalartwork #shadowsoftuonela #unity

Guys, I want you to meet Kokko.

He's an ancient, shackled Finnish mythological bird and also one of the enemies in #shadowsoftuonela.

Let's make him move & fight in today's stream!

www.twitch.tv/ameces

#gamedev #digitalart #krita #unity #kalevala