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@lunaticwyrm.bsky.social
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Just a dork that has a passion for game development. May also be slightly obsessed with fantasy (and dragons).
21 - he/him
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Been a while - am in the middle of a move again and Uni eats up my time

Anyways, this should look a bit more polished! I'm no artist so by all means I'd appreciate some feedback!

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Sunset over a desert view - this is when the heat distortion starts to fade. Note the new highlights shader. Midnight in the desert. Sunrise over a desert view - this is where the heat distortion starts to grow in intensity. Part 1. Sunrise over a desert view - part 2
September 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
lunaticwyrm.bsky.social
Been kinda busy with uni and master exam prep, so not a lot of time to work on my project.

But in the meantime, here's some scenery at night along with me messing around with puzzle systems and emissive textures.

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Twilight over the desert. The star shader is not mine, you can find it here along with its author: https://godotshaders.com/shader/stars-shader/ The player stepping on the pressure plate, causing it to light up orange. This uses a modification to the plate's light shader and screenspace bloom shaders to fake a light source instead of a separate spotlight. The entire circuit that the two pressure plates make up was activated, causing both pressure plates to light up green.
May 27, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Got a chance to visit the carneval in Erfurt
April 5, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Capitalism
Headline: We should be living in the golden age of hobbies. What happened? Sub-Text: Work, streaming, scrolling and side-hustling are keeping us from activities that bring joy and meaning to our days
March 21, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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Fixed a ton of bugs this weekend! Will have time to work on new content and gameplay hopefully soon!

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February 2, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Spent a solid day trying to debug the seams that were flickering across the Gridmap in Godot at certain camera positions.

[WARNING - Nerdy explanation incoming]
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February 1, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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It's a little hot out today, good thing there's an occasional cloud's shadow to give off some shade. ⛱️🌵

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January 24, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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Changes:
- DOF is disabled by default
- Shadow highlights are disabled as they seem to mask some of the regular highlights (fix incoming!) - also they need to be toned down

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January 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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Testing out a fake volumetric lighting solution (different than the rays before), auto exposure, bloom and DOF
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A barebones scene showing off a 3D orthographic perspective using voxels in order to give the illusion of a 2D game - now with extra visual flair!
January 2, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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Decided I wasn't quite happy on the direction of the artstyle, so I'm cooking up something... different

Here's a teaser for what I'm working on - hint: this is not 2D, but 3D
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A barebones scene showing off a 3D orthographic perspective using voxels in order to give the illusion of a 2D game.
December 8, 2024 at 5:13 PM
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Thinking about adding a drop shadow, yet I'm not sure if this feels right

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An image showing a dialogue scene where the dialogue sprite does not have a drop shadow. An image showing a dialogue scene where the dialogue sprite does have a drop shadow.
November 23, 2024 at 4:56 PM
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Retook a timelapse of my game's day-night cycle.
Please let me know what you guys think!

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November 23, 2024 at 4:48 PM
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Current progress on my #indiegame!
New water and lightning VFX:

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A scene showcasing the new lightning VFX over a panorama of the ocean. A view of the demo level with the new stylized pixelated water shader.
October 18, 2024 at 9:15 AM
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#gamedev
Been a while, but I've been cooking up a revamp with the shader code.
March 21, 2024 at 11:00 AM
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Another #gamedev screenie
Ignore the shadows
December 30, 2023 at 12:10 AM
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#gamedev WIP graphics
December 24, 2023 at 2:34 PM
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Tried making my procedural clouds a bit more fluffier - think its working well
November 2, 2023 at 1:36 PM
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Getting close to finishing my pixel art cloud shader!
Normals are pretty much finished at this point.
October 19, 2023 at 3:28 PM
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#gamedev
I think thunderstorms look cool enough
October 14, 2023 at 10:18 PM
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#gamedev
Gonna revisit the procedural cloud shader code sometime soon to fix the last few quirks that I have with them. Edge-aware normals being the first thing I attend to.
October 14, 2023 at 8:25 PM
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First post from my acc here, but I'd thought I share my progress on my (shouts from the rooftops "VERY WORK IN PROGRESS") indie game project I've been working on via Godot! I can't share videos here yet unfortunately, but here's a few screenshots.
Screenshot of the test level with cloudy skies mid day. Test level at early morning. Test level at morning. Sunrise at the test level.
October 4, 2023 at 5:29 PM