Surprised, but super happy to see that our #GameMaker game, Anti Tactics, got first place in the Yogscast Jingle Game Jam! It was super fun participating this year (as was last year's). tellyandrew.itch.io/anti-tactics

#JingleGameJam2025 #GameDev

Showing off my blueprinting system and turrets shooting raycasts

#GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt

I got multiplayer working for my tile-and-lights project!

It's a basic server-client model that's fully decentralised. It uses UDP streams for entity/input information, and uses TCP with delta compression for tilemaps.

#GameDev #IndieDev #GameMaker

My tile renderer now cooperates with tilemaps being rotated & with painting/erasing tiles (while still playing nice with lights and shadows).

I'm looking to forward starting on some actual game design for this soon.

#GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt

Here's the same scene with the shademapping technique I posted last night, but with now with normal maps.

#GameDev #IndieDev #PixelArt

I'm back working on my tile renderer. I wanted a lighting system that avoids shadow banding, doesn't flood-fill around corners, and still has tiles respecting shadows. So this system makes an intermediate 'shademap' from the shadow-cast to calculate how obscured each tile is.

#IndieDev #GameDev

I'm working on a custom tile renderer for my next game.
I found that feeding in an alpha=0.8 gives a good visual representation of which tiles are being re-rendered (the brighter ones) and which tiles are just being copied over from the previous frame.

#IndieDev #GameDev