Ricardo Tucker
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Ricardo Tucker
@rickymakesgames.bsky.social
🔧 Senior Tech Artist @ Meta
⚔️ Solo indie dev on To Be a Hero, a Zelda-like monster tamer
🎥 Content creator (dev+gaming!)
🎮 Competitive Pokémon Go player

#GameDev | #3dArt | #ConceptArt
Just seeing this project for the first time since I haven't been on Bsky in a while, but this is genuinely one of the coolest looking prototypes I've seen in a while

Going down the rabbit hole (pun intended) of your progress has been awesome, excited to see more!
September 18, 2025 at 11:52 PM
This is actually so sick dude!! I literally just finished Animal Well for the first time like a month ago and this is already making me nostalgic for it again haha
July 5, 2025 at 7:55 PM
LOVE Short Hike!! Haven't played Viewfinder yet but looking it up I remember seeing videos of it when it came out!

On sale for 55% off right now too, gonna just nab it now 😍
May 30, 2025 at 7:42 PM
100% yes would recommend! It feels like the world's most elaborate escape room so if you're into that then you'd absolutely love it!
May 30, 2025 at 6:25 PM
⚠️SPOILER WARNING⚠️

(Are there spoiler tags here?? Sorry 😭)

If it weren't for the fact that 1 of the bunnies can't be found without looking it up, I'd have found all 16 on my own. I did get the true ending (65 egg) solo so I'm pretty proud of getting to Layer 4 almost guideless.

HUGE flex, ik 🧠
May 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
It is a very cool feeling to have a game switch me to a mindset of "they're showing me this for a reason, right?" about literally everything.

It's very rewarding to feel delusional about a thing being important, only to be right like 10 hours later.

If you like games like Tunic or DDLC, play this!
May 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
The beauty of this game is its ability to hide clues in plain sight to a point where you can revisit a room 3-4 times and find new information EVERY TIME.

I don't think I've ever had a game make me truly excited to backtrack the entire map AGAIN just because I found a new item or hint to a secret
May 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
I'm not a metroidvania fan in general, so at first I wasn't really that into the challenging platforming since the backtracking was killing me (esp when I died and had to redo a ton of rooms).

But the game does a pretty amazing job at easing the difficulty as you progress and collect key items.
May 30, 2025 at 3:56 PM
Yes!!! Honestly I play almost exclusively indie at this point, Pokemon is probably the only AAA I consistently keep up with at this point.

Started with Animal Well, blazed through it in like 3 days bc I got obsessed, and now just started Blue Prince last night!! Really on a puzzle game grind rn lol
May 28, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Ah this is great, thanks for sharing! ✨️
May 23, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is awesome, congrats on the launch!! 🎉🎉
May 22, 2025 at 6:15 PM
This is amazing! (Also marveling at all of your other procedural materials from this month too)

Do you have any resources or anything you'd recommend for getting more into making materials like this?
May 22, 2025 at 5:55 PM
This is beautiful omg 😍 1000xResist's been sitting in my backlog for a while, definitely need to bump it up to play it sooner!
May 22, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Looking for people with character rigging/animation backgrounds, but experience with real-time and gameplay programming is a huge plus!
May 20, 2025 at 7:47 PM