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@khonsuhq.bsky.social
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He/Him. Frenchie.
Indie Game Dev account of @mdelorme.bsky.social.
I develop my own small indie horror-puzzler called Khonsu Station.
I also post stuff on my devlog : https://khonsuhq.wordpress.com/
Promoter of free and open-source philosophy. Fuck GenAI.
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What the hell ??? My cubes are slowly turning into small people. Very unsettling.
Image from the opening level of Khonsu Station. We can see a corridor. a man is standing one third of the corridor in while another person (a blue cube) is standing in the middle. The man was originally a green cube.
August 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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Anyway ! One year later, we have a 3D game with puzzles coming about, characters, a story, a lore that I really like (although it still a draft). I made contact with friends and artists to help me (payed of course !!) and I'm happy to be getting closer to a first demo every day.
Image from Khonsu Station. We can see the main character entering the market, a squarish level with four corridors leading to an intersection where people have booth and exchangine stuff. On the side of the room, we can see tables, and chairs. Someone is drinking a coffee in the west corner of the room. Merchants are at their booths. The main character arrived from the east corridor. He says "Here's the market. It's really nice !".
July 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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But also, my very first tests for gameplay were in 2D. I started designing some tilesets, and objects in pixel art, then incorporated some gameplay elements, borrowing some sprites from a little rpg of the snes (that I'm sure nobody will recognize).
Image from a draft version of Khonsu Station in 2D. We can see the tiles on the ground are white/blueish. Walls are "technological, and blue". A window shows the moon behind with stars. In the corridor depicted on the picture, we can see two skeletons borrowed from Chrono Trigger. Image from a draft version of Khonsu Station in 2D. We can see a room with the same tiles/walls as the previous picture. On the left is a large grey stone table with wooden chairs. In the center of the room, a NPC is waiting. The NPC is the sprite of Schala in Chrono Trigger. Image from a draft version of Khonsu Station. We can see the same setup as before, with a room having three windows showing the landscape of the moon in the background. At the entrance of the room, we can see the player character, depicted as Marle in Chrono Trigger, waiting.
July 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Funnily enough, the first thing I worked on was a dialogue system ! I knew I wanted to do a puzzle game with sci-hi/horror elements. And I wanted to have something story driven, where there was some dialogue with no branching.

I loved the dialogue system of Disco Elysium and started copying it.
July 31, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Blips and Bloops

Yeah dialogues are in French yet :D
July 12, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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Working on iconography for "wordless" tutorials.

Not entirely satisfied, but that's a start !

#screenshotsaturday #godotengine #gamedev #indiedev
Icons for tutorials in Khonsu Station. Top left: We can see a white circle "moving" towards a green circle. Next is a green circle with a speech bubble. Top right: Three frames. One is a red door, a white circle tries to move towards the red door but is blocked (red cross on the movement arrow). The second is a yellow door, the white circle is not stopped from moving towards it. Third one is a green door (although we cannot see the green line since the door is opened), we can see the white dot walking through the door. Bottom left: A white dot is on an orange cell. An arrow to the right indicates consequence : the white dot is pushed in a direction from this cell. Bottom right : A white dot moves towards an object with a yellow outline. A hand icon on top of the movement arrow indicates the object with the outline can be picked up.
July 12, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Spent 1 hour trying to play with Godot's decal nodes, but in the end I was not not satisfied with the results and I had to "simply" use textured planes. Maybe it's because of my textures ?

Anyway, here's some blood from the first in-game victim in Khonsu Station.

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A huge blood splatter on the ground ! Eeeeeeeek ! Moon zombies are getting closer !
July 10, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Made a full playthrough chapter 1.
Now it's "Fix all the warnings and errors time". Nothing is crashing, which is a good sign, but still a lot of residual problems !

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A list of all the warnings and errors I have in my playthrough, as displayed by Godot. No need to list the whole thing, the general idea is : THERE'S A LOT OF PROBLEMS !
July 8, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Spent almost an hour on a flickering light, but I'm happy with the result.

It's starting to look like something is very wrong here !

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June 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
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AI decided the shortest way to the player was getting out of the map and entering from the other side ...

This one goes in the funny bug bin.

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Image from Khonsu Station. We can see a scene in the dark. The player escapes two enemies. One enemy can easily get to the player but blocks the way. The second enemy has no direct way to the player, so it decides to exit the level from the right, goes around the level outside of the map and enters from the other side.
June 14, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Trying to make vines for a nice "one time" scene. Turns out geometry nodes are really helpful, but I'm not sure this will look really great in game. Might need additional tuning, but we'll see.

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A section of a wall in Blender that is covered in green vines. There are vines on the left and right section of the wall leaving the central part empty (there will be a window there :D)
June 7, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Foreshadowing of tomorrow's devlog !

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May 24, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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#Screenshotsaturday (But late).
Working on telegraphing for NPC actions. Not there yet, but a huge improvement over the last iteration with big ugly arrows.

The end result might require a mix of 3D and 2D elements for better readability.

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Image of Khonsu Station, the game I am currently developing. We can see a scene with characters (cubes). One of these characters is telegraphing their next action by indicating on the ground, the next cell they're going to walk on. The zone is yellow, to indicate the character is going to "push" the player it they walk on the cell at their turn.
May 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Working on world-building is long and tedious, but gratifying. Slowly populating your environment to make them lively is something I really enjoy.

Before/After a first step of environmental modelling on the third level of the first chapter.
First draft of the tutorial level "Admissions". We can see a corridor that bends, and two offices. One office has a man (cube) standing in it behind a counter. The same scene, but with more environment put it. We can now see plants. The two offices have gained a back-door (to let the employees in :D). Both offices have chairs, a desk, a computer, paper stacks. Outside in the corridor, benches allow for people to wait.
May 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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The layout of all 10 first levels is finished.
These will serve as the tutorial of the game, and introduction to the core mechanics, as well as a mood setter for the whole game !

#godotengine #indiedev #gamedev #horror
Image taken from Khonsu Station. We see the Godot editor opened on a level. The level displays several rooms, doors, and rough blocking. Several characters (figured as colored cubes) are placed in the scene and doing various things. Two characters are in a corridor lit by red lights. At the bottom left, we can read in a tilted label the word "Habitations".
April 21, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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The train is about to leave the station ! Get onboard !

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April 5, 2025 at 7:15 PM