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Rebecca B. Underwood 🏳️‍⚧️
@rbunderwood.bsky.social
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Just a little bean. Writes fiction and poetry and rambles about video games on Youtube. Amateur graphic designer. She/Her.

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCPAl1yfXb3SgKqExT4ESfNA
Patreon: patreon.com/RBDoesStuff
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I resent this accusation
November 25, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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Sick out of my mind was, perhaps, the best way to experience universal paperclips
Paperclips: 30,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Honestly I’m 87 pages in and this seems like the least about-censorship book I’ve ever read—despite it *literally being written on the cover of my second-hand copy*
Cover of a yellowing paperback of Fahrenheit 451. The relevant part is the blurb at the top, which reads: “The classic bestseller about censorship—more important now than ever before”
November 2, 2025 at 4:43 PM
rbunderwood.bsky.social
This do anything for ya?

#godot #gamedev
October 26, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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Goofy ahh dialogue system
Screenshot of some code, cut off on right side, it's goofy y'all.
October 22, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Tonight on a whim I wrote an engine in #godot for easily making text-based adventure games. The old-fashioned kind, with a text parser. I timed myself doing this. 2 hours, 44 minutes, 24.50 seconds.

I'll take my Summoningsalt video now please~

#gamedev
October 13, 2025 at 3:03 AM
rbunderwood.bsky.social
Screenshot of a game-in-progress. It's a little Final Fantasy V, a little Earthbound. The floor is made of purple interwoven pipes which form a spiral, upon which four identical 'player' sprites are standing. A strange white scribble floats by in the black background, visible through the gaps in the floor.
October 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Wow it almost looks like a real game
#gamedev #Godot
October 9, 2025 at 9:04 PM
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Nice fucking FFX remaster Squeenix
Picture of a monitor. The monitor is displaying green. Like, all green. Nothing but green.
October 6, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Well, the battle system's pretty much done, so now begins the process of EVERYTHING ELSE.

Anyway, the cool thing about that background I've been using is that it's actually a shader, which means I can do stuff like THIS:

#godot #gamedev
October 4, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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Ah yeah. *Now* we're gaming.
Screenshot of Wizardry for the Apple II, running on emulator. Wizardry was one of the earliest computer-based RPGs, largely based on Dungeons and Dragons, and directly inspired Yuji Horii to create Dragon Quest (and thus, the entire JRPG genre). It's a largely text-filled screen; the only non-text is a little pixelated enemy guy in the top left corner. The player (me) is currently typing in the name of a spell to cast it.
October 1, 2025 at 5:26 PM
rbunderwood.bsky.social
A few things got added/changed today, see if you can spot them (#3 will SHOCK you!!!!)

#gamedev #godot
September 30, 2025 at 9:58 PM
rbunderwood.bsky.social
I've spent the last ~hour playing a translated version of the original Dragon Quest for the Famicom and now hundreds of pop culture references across all the Japanese media I've consumed over the years suddenly make sense.
Danny DeVito "Oh my god. I get it." meme.
September 30, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I am very fortunate to have exceedingly generous friends, which is why I was able to play #Silksong today

And lemmee tell you

Hornet has fucking *schmovement*, also, fuck this guy in particular:
Pictured: Hornet, standing over the corpse of big scary masked ant soldier dude who took me like fifty tries to beat
September 29, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Okay, the other half of the item equation: equipment! We've got Armor, Weapons, Accessories, and Spheres. You can switch equipment mid-battle if it's in your inventory, and it can currently affect your stats, apply status effects, and grant status immunities (with more to come)! #gamedev #godot
September 28, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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...Under the hood, they're just moves!

Which is why you can Mod them ;)
Screenshot of a Godot dictionary. Reads as follows: var medkit: Dictionary = { "item_name": "Medkit", "item_portrait": "", "item_type": ItemType.CONSUMABLE, "consumable_type": ConsumableType.RECOVERY, "action_dict": { "action_name": "Use Medkit", "move_type": Global.MoveType.HEALING, "mp_cost": 0, "hp_recovery_percent": 70, "targets_primarily": Global.CombatantType.FRIEND, "move_targets": Global.MoveTargets.ONE, "description": "" }, }
September 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Consumable items added! Only took ~2 hours to get a working system in place, for one simple, super secret reason...

#gamedev #Godot
September 27, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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Added win/lose conditions and a game over!

...Maybe a little too melodramatic of a game over.

#gamedev #Godot
September 26, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Update: I have escaped from Shader Hell. #gamedev #Godot

(For anyone wondering it's the menus masking out the line. That's it. That's literally it. Hours spent on that. My god.)
September 25, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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I'm currently in Shader Hell send help

#gamedev #Godot
It's a screenshot of a semi-transparent menu in front of a line from the game I'm prototyping. The menu is masking out the line where they overlap... kinda.
September 24, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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And guess what? This whole time, enemies have been generated from dictionaries too! I can literally create entirely new foes just by editing a dictionary. It's extremely fast and extremely efficient!
Another dictionary in the Godot editor, this time for an enemy: var heal_bot_enemy: Dictionary = { "combatant_name": "Heal Robot", "abbreviated_name": "Heal Robot", "bead_portrait": "res://Sprites/healer_robot_portrait.png", "sprite_path": "res://Assets/healer_enemy_placeholder.svg", "ai": healer_ai, "level": 6, "hp": 40, "max_hp": 40, "mp": 100, "max_mp": 100, "dexterity": 20, "attack": 4, "defense": 5, "proficiency": 4, "luck": 2, "status_slot_one": Global.Status.NONE, "status_slot_two": Global.Status.NONE, "skills": [ { "action_name": "Refuel", "move_type": Global.MoveType.HEALING, "mp_cost": 10, "healing": 4, "targets_primarily": Global.CombatantType.FRIEND, "move_targets": Global.MoveTargets.ONE, "description": "Attatches its refuling hose to another robot, healing it." }, ], }
September 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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This is what these three AIs look like. As you can see, they're just dictionaries—collections of named variables.
A screenshot of some code in the Godot editor. Specifically, it's three dictionaries: attacker_ai, healer_ai, and status_ai. The actual code is below: var attacker_ai: Dictionary = { "personality_name": "Attacker", "damage_weight": 100, "healing_weight": 0, "status_weight": 0, "single_target_weight": 50, "default_attack_weight": 20, "custom_function": null, } var healer_ai: Dictionary = { "personality_name": "Healer", "damage_weight": 10, "healing_weight": 90, "status_weight": 0, "single_target_weight": 100, "default_attack_weight": 50, "custom_function": null, } var status_ai: Dictionary = { "personality_name": "Statuser", "damage_weight": 10, "healing_weight": 0, "status_weight": 90, "single_target_weight": 50, "default_attack_weight": 50, "custom_function": null, }
September 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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We've got enemy AI! The cool kind, not the horrible big tech kind. "Big deal," you're thinking to yourself. Well, I'll tell you what the big deal is:

#gamedev #Godot
September 23, 2025 at 2:32 AM
rbunderwood.bsky.social
So how many systems are *too* many systems?

...asking for a friend.
#gamedev #godot
September 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
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Paint me like one of your PS1 girls
A screenshot of Grandia for PS1 featuring a lounging, *very* rectangular sculpture.
September 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM