KickBack
@kickback.bsky.social
Indie Game Dev from Greece. Lightmapping enthusiast.
We made Lost Echo.
Currently working on Lost Echo: Resonance.
Nick posts. He/him
🔗 http://linktr.ee/kickbackstudios
We made Lost Echo.
Currently working on Lost Echo: Resonance.
Nick posts. He/him
🔗 http://linktr.ee/kickbackstudios
Some days are good and make you feel like what you’re doing has meaning.
July 21, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Some days are good and make you feel like what you’re doing has meaning.
🥳 Lost Echo is featured on Google Play in category "Incredible Indies"
July 17, 2025 at 5:27 PM
🥳 Lost Echo is featured on Google Play in category "Incredible Indies"
Don't think LLMs are healthy for me.
March 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Don't think LLMs are healthy for me.
LUT blending now happens in Oklab space, instead of just lerping in gamma.
January 4, 2025 at 4:39 PM
LUT blending now happens in Oklab space, instead of just lerping in gamma.
New Lost Echo patch release is out on Android. Soon on iOS.
It is using Unity 6 now and it also uses ASTC on Android devices that support it, so textures will look noticeably better.
(iOS was already using ASTC.)
It is using Unity 6 now and it also uses ASTC on Android devices that support it, so textures will look noticeably better.
(iOS was already using ASTC.)
December 24, 2024 at 5:04 PM
New Lost Echo patch release is out on Android. Soon on iOS.
It is using Unity 6 now and it also uses ASTC on Android devices that support it, so textures will look noticeably better.
(iOS was already using ASTC.)
It is using Unity 6 now and it also uses ASTC on Android devices that support it, so textures will look noticeably better.
(iOS was already using ASTC.)
This is our indie game at sunset (golden hour-ish)
November 17, 2024 at 10:07 PM
This is our indie game at sunset (golden hour-ish)
Uhhh, we've had an insane download spike on Google Play and I can't quite find a specific reason for it.
I'm not complaining.
I'm not complaining.
October 28, 2024 at 1:51 AM
Uhhh, we've had an insane download spike on Google Play and I can't quite find a specific reason for it.
I'm not complaining.
I'm not complaining.
People are talking about raytracing and dynamic GI and here I am still getting excited about how much better dithering makes dLDR lightmaps look. #indiedev
October 26, 2024 at 9:08 PM
People are talking about raytracing and dynamic GI and here I am still getting excited about how much better dithering makes dLDR lightmaps look. #indiedev
Probably needs more stuff, but I don't want to add stuff that looks interactable while it's not.
October 21, 2024 at 10:43 AM
Probably needs more stuff, but I don't want to add stuff that looks interactable while it's not.
License server's having some fun
October 18, 2024 at 8:38 AM
License server's having some fun
This isn’t my handwriting and I can’t quite guess what’s on this floppy. I guess we’ll never know.
October 17, 2024 at 5:30 AM
This isn’t my handwriting and I can’t quite guess what’s on this floppy. I guess we’ll never know.
Not sure why I still have this
October 17, 2024 at 5:29 AM
Not sure why I still have this
"132% of viewers" is a phrase that not only makes sense, somehow, but is also ..."typical"?
August 20, 2024 at 9:09 PM
"132% of viewers" is a phrase that not only makes sense, somehow, but is also ..."typical"?
Yeah... having most of the channel unlisted wasn't a great idea in retrospect.
August 3, 2024 at 4:33 AM
Yeah... having most of the channel unlisted wasn't a great idea in retrospect.
I'd like to fulfill one of these on youtube if possible, but even if we release a successful trailer, I just don't see us getting those bars filled.
(also, it obviously wasn't helping that I had our most viewed video as unlisted until recently🤦♂️)
(also, it obviously wasn't helping that I had our most viewed video as unlisted until recently🤦♂️)
August 3, 2024 at 4:27 AM
I'd like to fulfill one of these on youtube if possible, but even if we release a successful trailer, I just don't see us getting those bars filled.
(also, it obviously wasn't helping that I had our most viewed video as unlisted until recently🤦♂️)
(also, it obviously wasn't helping that I had our most viewed video as unlisted until recently🤦♂️)
I already have 6 half finished blog posts, but maybe it's time to write another one?
It always feels weird to be writing blog posts about the stuff I should be doing instead of writing a blog post, but I'm sort of on vacation, so it could be my vacation project?
It always feels weird to be writing blog posts about the stuff I should be doing instead of writing a blog post, but I'm sort of on vacation, so it could be my vacation project?
August 1, 2024 at 10:09 PM
I already have 6 half finished blog posts, but maybe it's time to write another one?
It always feels weird to be writing blog posts about the stuff I should be doing instead of writing a blog post, but I'm sort of on vacation, so it could be my vacation project?
It always feels weird to be writing blog posts about the stuff I should be doing instead of writing a blog post, but I'm sort of on vacation, so it could be my vacation project?
Has anyone moved a project from FMOD 2.02 to 2.03? Are there any issues? Does the project sound different? Some of our events have gotten fairly complicated at this point:
July 23, 2024 at 11:10 PM
Has anyone moved a project from FMOD 2.02 to 2.03? Are there any issues? Does the project sound different? Some of our events have gotten fairly complicated at this point:
In a certain sense, it is heartening to see that the Unity forum migration, that was planned for years, went as smoothly as was expected.
It was a fun decade+ Unity forums community, see ya elsewhere maybe.
It was a fun decade+ Unity forums community, see ya elsewhere maybe.
July 19, 2024 at 2:03 AM
In a certain sense, it is heartening to see that the Unity forum migration, that was planned for years, went as smoothly as was expected.
It was a fun decade+ Unity forums community, see ya elsewhere maybe.
It was a fun decade+ Unity forums community, see ya elsewhere maybe.
And I think this review would've been more appropriately expressed as a fart, but hey, we can't all have what we want.
April 4, 2024 at 1:31 PM
And I think this review would've been more appropriately expressed as a fart, but hey, we can't all have what we want.
Fixed some dithering bugs and now things look great, but it also feels like maybe we've spent too much time on technical things and less time on actually finishing the game.
Hopefully it will pay off.
Hopefully it will pay off.
March 22, 2024 at 1:29 AM
Fixed some dithering bugs and now things look great, but it also feels like maybe we've spent too much time on technical things and less time on actually finishing the game.
Hopefully it will pay off.
Hopefully it will pay off.