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NightBlade
@nightblade.bsky.social
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Muslim solo #indiedev #gamedev, makes Islamic games at Deen Games. #GodotEngine fan, self-learned pixel artist.

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nightblade.bsky.social
Working on a new project to help players discover more indie games!

It's super early, but here's a screenshot of the back-end stats: I scraped 500 games (0.26% of Steam's almost-total list) and pulled 43k reviews. This took ~4 hours.

#IndieDev #GameDev #Java #Spring #Boot
Game Statistics # of games checked: 500 Percent of games checked: 0.26517603% # of excluded games: 225 # of players known: 50967 # of (positive) game reviews checked: 43403
February 28, 2025 at 10:32 PM
nightblade.bsky.social
14/ been working on my game for a while, but here's some wolf art that, uh, yeah. I wasn't intentionally aiming for it to look anorexic ... at least it doesn't look alien like the first two drafts ...

#PixelArt #WIP #TheKhalifasDaughter
A thin, emancipated dark-and-light grey wolf with yellow eyes, standing at a pose and looking to the left.
February 25, 2025 at 9:15 PM
nightblade.bsky.social
#Roguelike grind continues. Added "giant" tree variations that take up most of the tree space in the forest. It looks more visually interesting (I hope. Does it?)

Also made the path edges ragged.

#SoloDev #IndieDev #GameDev #GodotEngine #TheKhalifasDaughter
A forest full of small and big trees with purple leaves. A dusty red/brown floor, and a beaten, grizzled brown path runs through it.
February 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
Moving the grindstone forward on the #Roguelike. Here's the desert biome. It's ... plain and open ... like many deserts.

Gonna switch gears to focus on finishing one biome end-to-end. That'll make the demo of the game, too.

#SoloDev #IndieDev #GameDev #GodotEngine
February 24, 2025 at 2:05 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
More #Roguelike work. Caves now generate, and are usually not giant empty spaces. A bit of auto-tile magic for the borders, plus borrowed tiles for the walls.

All #WIP of course.

Check out these few maps.

#SoloDev #IndieDev #GameDev #GodotEngine
February 23, 2025 at 4:22 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
Oh this is cool, what game is this?

I was inspired by Rogue Fable III or IV, by Justin Wang. Here's a shot similar to the one I used.
February 22, 2025 at 9:23 PM
nightblade.bsky.social
Weird #GodotEngine experiment: a "virtual terminal" grid of labels, each with a single character and unique colour. Runs at ~12FPS. Slow. But it works?

WARNING: possibly triggering of epilepsy/seizures

#Prototype #SoloDev #IndieDev
February 22, 2025 at 6:39 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
Prototype/WIP art for the cave biome.

#SoloDev #IndieDev #GameDev #Roguelike #PixelArt
February 21, 2025 at 4:43 PM
nightblade.bsky.social
#Roguelike work continues! Made the forests bigger (more spaced out), and made the path auto-tile/terrain (note the rounded corners!). Slow but steady progress.

Here are a few maps for your perusal.

#IndieDev #SoloDev #GameDev #GodotEngine #WIP
February 20, 2025 at 12:19 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
Lots of work on my #roguelike. Here you can see (imperfect) forest generation, me moving around, monsters hitting each other to get to me, and me fighting back; plus, the classic roguelike console (toggleable).

#IndieDev #SoloDev #GameDev #GodotEngine #WIP
February 18, 2025 at 3:28 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
After a lot of pain and experimentation, got the path tiles to be round, and to look aight. You can also see the camera here (and the edge of the world ...)

#ScreenshotSunday #IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #GodotEngine #PixelArt #Roguelike #WIP
February 17, 2025 at 3:51 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
A little #ScreenshotSaturday tweak: added a camera (not pictured) and started on the first biome (forbidden forest). Still lots of tweaks to do, but this is a good start.

#IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #GodotEngine #PixelArt #Roguelike #WIP
A blue turnip guy near a red devilish cat, in a forest of dark brown soil, a light brown path, and purple trees.
February 16, 2025 at 5:21 PM
nightblade.bsky.social
The beginning of a new traditional #roguelike: The Khalifa's Daughter. Starring, you, the Khalifa's daughter.

Got basic tile-based movement going, this took WAY too long ( #GodotEngine physics is overkill for this, amirite?).

#IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #WIP
February 14, 2025 at 12:36 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
13/ took yesterday's turnip man thing (see silhouette) and made two forms: a regular dude, and a turnip knight of sorts. Um. Yeah.

#PixelArt #Sketch
Three turnips: a black silhouette with just two eyes, a purple and brown daikon, and an armoured version with brownish armour and a sword and shield.
January 18, 2025 at 1:16 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
Some character sketches for my time-travel #JRPG. Trying the concept of "recognizable, distinct silhouettes."

Which one is your favourite?

#IndieDev #GameDev #SoloDev #WIP #Prototype #PixelArt
January 17, 2025 at 3:04 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
12/ got motivated to make a JRPG. I can do it! Minimalistic art, no shading, seems to be the key.

Here's grass and three variations of a deciduous tree, plus a coniferous tree.

#IndieDev #GameDev #PixelArt #WIP
January 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
Hi #IndieDev #GameDev, help a broski out. Made these tiles using the Pineapple32 palette (attached). It has three shades of green.

Picked mid green for grass and leaves, and trees look hollow now. Shifting them one lighter yellow looks ick.

How do I fix this?

#PixelArt #SoloDev #Help #WIP
Pineapple32 palette, 13 colours, and only three greens. Grass and tree tiles: one lollipop round, and one green cone.
January 16, 2025 at 2:06 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
11/ Back after a month. Here's a quick cat head sketch, from reference. (Reference: @catsloverweb.bsky.social)

#PixelArt #Practice
January 13, 2025 at 6:43 PM
nightblade.bsky.social
Blizzard changed my account name today from "FreePalestyn" because it's unacceptable/abusive.

To be clear: I stand with Palestine. 60k civilians killed (women and children). Is that the side of history you want to be on?

#GameDev #IndieDev: If you stand with Israel, we can't be friends. Block me.
A flag of Palestine against an azure blue sky
January 12, 2025 at 1:24 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
For this #ScreenshotSaturday, please accept this humble screenshot of SonarQube showing 50% coverage for TextBlade, my text-and-console blind-friendly JRPG engine (and vertical game slice).

#Accessibility #a11y #SoloDev #IndieDev #GameDev #JRPG
SonarQube dashboard for overall code: 50% code coverage, 0 issues for security, accepted issues, security hotspots, and duplicates. 88 maintainability issues, and 1 reliability issue.
December 22, 2024 at 4:04 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
10/ quick sketch of the "Demon King" face. Didn't go anywhere...

#PixelArt #Practice
December 18, 2024 at 4:36 PM
nightblade.bsky.social
9/ This was supposed to be a turtle scale, but it looks kinda like fire. Gave up and embraced it, even though the colours are wrong. Oh well.

#PixelArt #Practice
December 16, 2024 at 7:39 PM
nightblade.bsky.social
8/ A bunch of dungeon tiles, with variations. Too many variations. Looks aight.

#PixelArt #IndieDev #SoloDev
December 12, 2024 at 9:46 PM
nightblade.bsky.social
Here's the equivalent tiny IDE made in #MonoGame/#BuiltWithMonoGame. Uses the shiny new MonoGo, which is quite good. Backend is 100% C# and Roslyn.

The UI is a bit of a thicc boi, but I'm sure that's something I can deal with later.

#WIP #Prototype #Compiler #IndieDev
December 6, 2024 at 2:55 AM
nightblade.bsky.social
Made a tiny IDE in #GodotEngine. It's not as complicated as I thought.

Pressing F5 uses Roslyn and C# on the back-end to compile and execute the code, and show the results.

It's temporary, will replace the IDE later with my own tech.

#WIP #Prototype #IndieDev #GameDev #Framework
December 5, 2024 at 2:38 AM