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Pumpkin Games
@pumpkingames.bsky.social
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https://www.pumpkin-games.net/
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Makes games in C#, Java, Unreal, Godot
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pumpkingames.bsky.social
"Save the cheerleader, save the world!"
#indiegames #gamedev @godotengine.org
Screenshot of a WIP FPS written using the Godot game engine. A grunts and humans aproach the player.
November 30, 2025 at 1:00 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Screenshot of C# code for a homing steering behaviour in a game with dynamic gravity.
November 30, 2025 at 11:28 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
"They're coming outta the goddamn walls!"
A simple enemy steering behaviour has the enemies homing towards the player given some target radius.

#indiegames #gamedev #screenshotsaturday @godotgameengine.bsky.social
Screenshow of a WIP FPS written in Godot. The image shows a debug view of the play area which is the inside of a bevelled cube. Various enemies approach the player. The game features a dynamic gravity system so enemies can spawn on floor, walls and ceilings.
November 30, 2025 at 11:27 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
#ERROR_PROTOCOL progress.
Dynamic gravity system is in!

#indiegames #gamedev @godotengine.org
Screenshot of a WIP FPS game written using the Godot game engine. The image shows a 'dynamic gravity' system with enemies (sprite from Robotron) approaching the player walking on the ground and on the ceiling.
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
3D Ultratron! Shhh, don't tell Cas 😜
#gamedev #indiegames #puppygames @godotengine.org
A screenshot of a FPS written using the Godot game engine. The image shows a 3D room, complete with player sprites from the game, Ultratron approaching the camera. A Hulk from Robotron lurks in the background.
November 16, 2025 at 3:58 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Progress is mainly refractoring junk code, moving stuff around to sensible locations and my favourite, deleting stuff :-)

The idea rattling round in my head is Robotron meets Ancipital.

#gamedev #indiegames @godotgameengine.bsky.social
Screenshot of a WIP FPS written using the Godot game engine. The image shows a bunch of chunky pixelalted enemies (sprites from the game Robotron) approaching the player. A checkerboard floor extends into the distance
November 12, 2025 at 10:36 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Working on the entities.
SPLEENWEEVIL contains a bunch of hacky, quickly thrown together, 'my first Godot project' code.
And I've been fighting Godot since the beginning, trying to remain out of the editor and in Visual Studio as much as possible...

#gamedev #indiegames @godotengine.org
Screenshot of the Godot game engine editor, showing a Scene tree with a bunch of components and a pixel mesh Grunt enemy from the arcade classic, Robotron.
November 9, 2025 at 12:21 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Mesh pixel shatter in action
#indiegames #gamedev
November 2, 2025 at 1:00 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Do we want rooms or open landscapes 🤔
#gamedev #indiegames #screenshotsaturday @godotengine.org #retro #robotron
A screenshot of a WIP indie FPS written using C# and the Godot game engine. The image depicts a checkerboard terrain with some big bold chunky Robotron sprites and particle colourful explosions.
November 2, 2025 at 12:11 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Tanks and Hulks
#gamedev #indiegames #wip @godotengine.org
A screenshot of a WIP Godot Engine FPS. A collection of Tank and Hulk enemies approach the player in a menacing manner!
October 30, 2025 at 6:35 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
What's occurring?
#gamedev #indiegames #robotron #retro @godotengine.org
Screenshot of a WIP FPS showing a couple of retro pixel enemies from Space Invaders and Robotron against a mostly black background.
October 25, 2025 at 1:34 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Style shift
#ERROR_PROTOCOL #godot #indiedev #gamedev
October 14, 2025 at 12:28 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
#gamedev #indiegames
A combination of the "Just Make It Exist" and "Distracted Boyfriend" memes
October 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Some random screenshots of not much progress on #ERROR_PROTOCOL 🙃
#indiegames #gamedev @godotengine.org
Screenshot of a WIP indie First Person Shooter written in the Godot game engine. A landscape with various enemies and glowing particle effects. Screenshot of a WIP indie First Person Shooter written in the Godot game engine. 3 crystal figure loom ominously over the player. Screenshot of a WIP indie First Person Shooter written in the Godot game engine. A landscape with various enemies and glowing particle effects. Screenshot of a WIP indie First Person Shooter written in the Godot game engine. An orange corrupted humanoid approaches the player alongside another enemy.
October 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Doing bits on #ERROR_PROTOCOL over the weekend.
*Slowly* morphing from SPLEENWEEVIL into it's own thing.

I wonder if I'll sort out all the // TODO, // HACK and // FIXME
@godotengine.org #gamedev #indiegames
Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts
September 8, 2025 at 1:01 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Writing your own 'engine' is a ton of work. I love the gameplay code but collisions, physics, rendering is such a time sink!

I'm going to pivot to @godotengine.org again for the new thing.

#ERROR_PROTOCOL is going to be an FPS, building on what I learnt writing #SPLEENWEEVIL
#indiegames #gamedev
Screenshot of a WIP First Person Shooter written in Godot. Image shows a blue / grey textured landscape with some glowing, distant enemies approaching the player. The player is shooting their gun at said enemies as particles emit from the muzzle / bullet impacts
September 6, 2025 at 4:50 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Particles!
September 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Progress on the game. The start of a GPU particle system.
#indiegame #gamedev #particles
August 16, 2025 at 9:56 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
No matter how many times I try to turn off this Microsoft AI nonsense, they always find new ways to annoy me.

I just want to type some words and occasionally browse the API using good old fashioned intellisense.

Don't clutter my doc, don't capture keystrokes, just display the text FFS 🤬
A screenshot of VS Code showing some C# class with a super annoying, incorrect, obnoxious, CoPilot suggestion.
August 16, 2025 at 11:40 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Started the particle system. I'm hoping I can do 99% of it all on the GPU, pretty much compute all the way.
We have a few effects here (1) hit sparks (2) muzzle flash, which contains a couple of emitters currently.
Excuse the programmer art :-)
#indiegames #gamedev #gpuparticles
Screenshot of a WIP GPU particle system for an Indie FPS
August 10, 2025 at 4:41 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
I really like the (pure) #ECS style design, not for the reported speed benefits, mostly for the way I can structure the program. It's just one flat list of systems.
#indiegames #gamedev
August 7, 2025 at 7:39 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Progress on the new thing.
#indiedev #gamedev #moonworks #csharp
Screenshot of a WIP FPS written in a custom engine using MoonWorks and C#. The image shows a foggy, texture mapped terrain with various enemies scattered about.
August 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
You can now blow things up!
#MoonWorks #ECS #SDLGPU #GameDev #IndieGames
July 18, 2025 at 12:01 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Shadows! Broken, and very, very low quality. But I have some 😀 - these are VSM but I've not added any cascades or bluring / filtering yet
#gamedev #indiegames #noengine #sdl3 #moonworks
Screenshot of an indie game featuring some vey broken custom shadows!
June 29, 2025 at 5:19 PM
pumpkingames.bsky.social
Chunky!
#FNA #indiegames #gamedev
Screenshot of a work in progress, FPS, written using FNA. The image depicts a low res landscape and some enemies.
May 27, 2025 at 8:28 PM