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I never know what to write in these things

Current Project: unable to stick with a prototype long enough to call anything a project

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the "is this a pigeon" meme but it says "is this a ball" instead
March 17, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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Been awhile since I posted, but I fixed all the lighting bugs and have been messing with making the shadows softer. I really need to figure out how to do this with a shader, this is the best I could get by averaging the light levels of the surrounding tiles.

#gamedev #indiedev #leftengine
a 2D tile-based isometric game engine with shadows being cast from the center of the room, the shadows are softened a little bit at the edges.
February 23, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Just for fun, here's another picture of the rainbow lines method (you can still see the bug on the right side)
a tile-based isometric game where you can see a cone of vision and each tile where the light is blocked by a wall has a line of a different color going from the light source to where it's stopped, but there are some tiles that are not being lit and I am losing my mind trying to figure out why
February 12, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Debugging the lighting system has driven me to the point of various forms of rainbows to try to track down why these few random spots next to the walls won't light up 🌈

(I am actually losing my mind over this bug, it's been a week, please send help)

#gamedev #indiedev #leftengine
a tile-based isometric game where you can see a cone of vision and each tile where the light is blocked by a wall has a line of a different color going from the light source to where it's stopped, but there are some tiles that are not being lit and I am losing my mind trying to figure out why a tile-based isometric game where you can see a cone of vision and each tile where the light is blocked by a wall has a tile of a different color going from the light source to where it's stopped, but there are some tiles that are not being lit and I am losing my mind trying to figure out why
February 12, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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she's onto us
some fish from spongebob hiding behind a rock from that episode where he says "someone's trying to SELL ME SOMETHING" i honestly don't remember the context
February 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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Okay maybe I do this more than I thought lol, I also did it earlier for a self bug report
Screenshot of an issue on the LeftEngine GitHub repo where I used another diagram to demonstrate a bug in the lighting system
February 4, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Am I a total dork for putting little ASCII diagrams alongside my internal documentation? It takes time to do effectively, but helps a lot if I'm revisiting code I haven't touched in a long time!

#gamedev #indiedev #leftengine
a screenshot of the Light class in LeftEngine with an ASCII diagram in the comments above the class explaining and showing how the angle and length of the light are used
February 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Nine days later and I finally got the shadows to be "good enough" for now. They're not perfect, and there's a few bugs I need to fix, but I am sick of doing shadows and I want to start adding more things to the engine lol

#gamedev #indiedev #leftengine
February 4, 2025 at 5:07 AM
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This is FAR from perfect, but after 3 days fiddling with it I finally got some shadowcasting working. Kind of. It sucks, but it kinda works how I meant it to.

#gamedev #indiedev #leftengine
screenshot of an isometric tile-based game engine showing off the shadows cast by objects in the room
January 25, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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I wanted to test if my rendering method was performant so I changed the 100 boxes from the first post to 1000 and I'm pretty sure Storage Wars would have a field day in here #gamedev
The same room as the first post but with 900 more boxes
January 22, 2025 at 9:14 PM
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Someone left a bunch of boxes in my dungeon!

I got the sight cones sorted out, this could be made shorter (or narrower!) for a darker room.

I also reworked how the tile map stores data, so "cells" can contain multiple tiles, and they're offset properly when drawn!

#gamedev
January 22, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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not pictured: the part just off screen that shows I still don't have this right (don't look) #gamedev
the corner where the two walls meet overlapping in a weird way
January 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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Okay so it turns out isometric stuff is actually a giant pain in the ass, props to anyone who puts themselves through this kind of thing because it's such a tedious process to get it right #gamedev
January 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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It's going okay so far, not yet sure how I want to expand this to a cone shape since I want to avoid checking the same points multiple times, but I've worked with this line algorithm enough times in other projects to get to this point easily enough
January 19, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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Adding lights to my game engine before even having any entities or literally anything else is probably silly but... it's my engine and I get to decide the point of obsession #gamedev
January 19, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Threw me for a sec, @cait.bsky.social spotted on Reddit
“there should be like a second horn on your car for when the light is green and the person in front of you isn’t going bc they’re on their phone but you’re not like mad about it. hi bestie i love you beep beep it’s driving time”
January 3, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Time for a do-over
The year of Luigi graphic thing from Nintendo
December 13, 2024 at 5:07 AM
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Today's pixel art practice! #PixelArt #GameDev
pixel art of the spiritual stones from Zelda Ocarina of Time
December 12, 2024 at 4:12 PM
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He really went :Y
Sweet Bro from the very normal webcomic Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff, making a :Y face
December 11, 2024 at 5:37 AM
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BEHOLD #gamedev #pixelart
Very minimal pixel art of a black cat with yellow eyes. You may ask how 26 pixels can be so adorable? The world may never know.
December 3, 2024 at 10:08 PM
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The moss dragon can fly?! #art #artsky
Sketch of a cartoonish serpent-like dragon with big eyes, spots along his body, and cute lil feets and hands. There are clumps of moss hanging off his body in various places.
December 3, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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My soda has the same expiration date as me! (my 30th birthday)
a bottle of Mountain Dew with the “best by” date of 2/17/2025
December 3, 2024 at 3:26 PM
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Just gonna post the rest of my screencaps I have from The Old Days™ all at once
Picture of Aragorn being used to demonstrate how down bad someone is Post saying “People from the piss company came over today and read my piss meter. They said I’ve been pissing too much” Kat being betrayed by their own brain with what CBD stands for Kat describing a strategy for minmaxing their number of holes
November 28, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Sharing screencaps I have from The Old Days™ starring @gothfem.me and @juniperplexed.bsky.social
Kat NOT making a horny post and then being falsely accused by June
November 28, 2024 at 12:05 AM
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@katie.bzky.team I CACKLE at this whenever I see it again
A skeet from katie tightpussy telling some bozo to eat urinal cakes til they have to go to the hospital
November 27, 2024 at 11:55 PM