Marcos
hermitdwarf.bsky.social
Marcos
@hermitdwarf.bsky.social
Indiedev, Character art druid, worked on KCD/KCD2, Manor Lords and mafia the old country.
working nights on a game about Dwarves and Dragons.
https://cara.app/hermitdwarf
https://www.artstation.com/mggeymonat
Legends say the next valve index gets announced today!
November 12, 2025 at 8:09 AM
decided the change the general vibes of these guys to be more feral and use their claws instead of weapons, also got health and poise attributes working along with knockback and death Gameplay abilities.

#indiedev #gamedev
November 2, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Im trying to add hit reactions to the lizards but instead I managed to turn them into weeb ninjas.
#gamedev #indiedev
October 16, 2025 at 6:31 PM
Thanks to my hot programmer GF I now have GAS implemented!
all the attacks and dodges are now abilities with stamina costs and the stamina is used to influence the utility of those abilities!
Also Damage is now much easier to implement (hence the capsule traces on attacks)!
#gamedev #indiedev
October 2, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Did some small improvements to the Toadboii's state tree and movement stats so they feel a bit more skittish and slippery when fighting.
Next I'll look into giving them some small avoidance so they dont bump into each other so often!
#gamedev
#indiedev
September 15, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Fixed some of the animation/facing and AI issues with strafing and attacking, but I'm starting to realize I my poor mans blueprint GAS is probably more trouble than implementing the real gameplay ability system🫠
#gamedev #indiedev
September 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
adding some more combat behavoursto the toadguys and finding all sorts of weird bugs.

#gamedev #indiedev
September 8, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Got some family ties using gameplay tags now!
goats and lizards recognize each other and then form hierarchies based on scale.
so now lizards know to go after goats and goats know to run away from them, while little guys follow larger ones to give some semblance of hearding.
#gamedev
September 3, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Finally got some basic perception going for the goats and the lizardudes!
#gamedev
September 1, 2025 at 7:35 AM
managed to get my custom melanin gradients going using color curves and here's the result:
mighty morphing toadboi rangers!
#gameart
August 25, 2025 at 9:33 PM
also did this just to make them creepier at night.
August 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Still very wip but I wanted to try my melanin shader on something with scales so I did a quick material pass on this guy.
I want to allow for custom melanin gradients so eventually I could have different color variations based on gameplay without needing different textures
#gameart
August 20, 2025 at 8:05 PM
testing out the 5.6 retargeting features in unreal and the scale modifier is a huge help
August 15, 2025 at 9:07 AM
I've been doing some art style tests trying to reach an art style that balances an interesting look with performance that can work in VR while at the same time being enjoyable to work on but simple enough that a character's fur can be done in a few days. and so far this is where its going.
#gameart
June 17, 2025 at 10:43 PM
now that I can trigger anims from my state tree I decided to improve my old floaty animations with some nicer stuff and I have to say #UE5 #animation retargetting has come such a long way since the last time I tried it!
#gamedev #gameart
March 27, 2025 at 10:40 PM
got them to animate using gameplay tags from the state tree!
theres still a lot of polish missing but at least the idea is there.
#UE5 #gamedev #wip
March 26, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The fluffly goats are getting smarter! they now realize when they are stuck and choose different paths so they are less likely get stuck performing strange ritual circles.
#wip #unrealengine #gamedev #gameAI
March 24, 2025 at 8:29 AM
Trying my hand at a custom quadruped AiMoveTo function in #unreal Hoping to give these guys some more life.. and brains?
#gamedev #Indiedev
March 19, 2025 at 11:06 PM
back to my own game stuff!
I did some skinning straight in UE5 and I have to say I'm happy to be able to test skinning on the actual animations and tweak them on the spot.

#WIP #UE5 #gameart
March 9, 2025 at 9:17 AM
Probably the last #kcd2 post before going back to my own projects.
As always, check my artsation/cara for more images and info!
www.artstation.com/artwork/GvdBZ3
#gameart #characterart
February 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
HUMAN ARTISTS, use only one piece to convince people to follow you.

its repost🙃 but its my coolest personal project so far.
February 20, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Some more #kcd2 assets, this time it’s father Godwin’s outfit.

More on ArtStation www.artstation.com/artwork/nJN86K

#lowpoly #gameart #characterart
February 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Forgot to post the second gambeson here. This was actually the first gambeson I made for #KCD2
More pictures on ArtStation
www.artstation.com/artwork/8BPK1E
February 17, 2025 at 11:14 AM
Posted some #KCD2 gambesons and hoods on my ArtStation

www.artstation.com/artwork/8BPK1E

#gameart #characterart #lowpoly
February 12, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Some more kcd2 stuff this time some armor.
Check ArtStation for more.
#gameart #charart
February 5, 2025 at 9:34 AM