The crouch #animation was controversial on #gamescom. Many liked the playfulness, but there was some confusion and motion sickness.

So if you choose to use the crouch-button, you will get an alternate fast animation.

Also: do you know any #games that offer reduced motion?
#gamedev #accessibility

Using everything at my disposal to communicate with my #composer.

#Music is such a difficult thing to communicate about and collaborate on.

And I made the mistake of not telling my composer why I chose him. Because they went far more out of their comfort zone than I needed.
#gamedev #collaboration

Okay I think I would like to offer a counter-statement:

When people ask us to describe our approach to IT security.

Progress on my shaders for @produno.bsky.social's SpaceSlog!
You can't see it, but these clouds are all actually moving! Figuring out realistic weather patterns was so cool.

Also: as the sand planets can have thicker or thinner atmosphere, they can also have more or less creators.
#gamedev #shaders

oh by the way .. you say you like staying connected and engaged ...

On a meta level I also really like how exactly this issue is in the game.

The typos are not in the game because I didn't bother fixing them. They are in there because I bother with too many other things at once.

Most of it is also already implemented, but the demo menu also has to work well for conventions so you can't mess with too many settings.

Distinguishable variable names. So important.

This causes a bug that only occurs in specific random circumstances (1 out of 6 chance if I am not mistaken) and that is also not game-breaking so it went under the radar for a long time.

It also took hours to hunt down for good.
#gamedev #debugging

The worst part about #slop

It makes humans forget we are capable. You know what young people often ask me when they play my game? Is this AI generated?

You poor souls, humans have done art far more intricate than this for centuries. And AI isn't even that good at it to begin with.

I like that my game that is about a beautifully flawed character also has some quite beautiful flaws. I sometimes want to keep some of these #bugs ... but maybe have them activate with a cheat code or something ...
#gamedev

The correlation of time of day and quality of commit messages.

Follow @polynormalgames.bsky.social to get posts about this game that are more coherent than mine.

#programming #gamedev #opensource #programmerhumor

What it does very basically is calculate a slope vector (green) based on stair height, length and transition, then create a horizontal vector (pink) to cover the remaining length.

I then gradually scale these vectors using cosine to blend between sloped and horizontal movement.

🧵 7/7

So I didn't really wanted to bother with that. It just felt wasteful and as I was already expecting a lot of math so the stairs would neatly move in and out of each other when starting to raise, I spend an afternoon with cosine, vector math and #gsgl to create this displacement shader.

🧵 6/7

I workaround this with hulls!
My stair model is made of a surface with ridges and then a hull of fins on top of that.

Because my inner normal-map uses trenches instead of "accurate" rills, it even reveals more wall when look at it from an angle, creating a good illusion of depth.

🧵 3/7

Okay, everyone has seen Escalators, but how about recreating them in #godot?

Well this is one of the things that get really complicated in terms of #techart, so strap in dear #gamedevs let's escalate.

1. how do we deal with the geometry?
2. how do we go about the animation efficiently?

🧵 1/7

Okay I am pretty sure they meant to warn me that vale is very thorough in this process and that I should expect it to take some time.

But I got warned @valvesoftware.com even tests font size when verifying games for #SteamDeck.

So I made a reference image and decided to be a bit silly about it.

Game devs!
Share your game engine and 3 screenshots of your game!

#indiedev #gamedev

💫 2D Planet generator I am making for @produno.bsky.social's game SpaceSlog in #Godot!

These #shaders use a lot of hacky math and a lot of color gradients to render authentic and art-directable ocean, jungle and magma planets.

#gamedev #techart
⚠️As it is contract work, this image is not copyleft!⚠️

#queer #sticker I made today as a gift.