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vertexrage.bsky.social
Bart // Vertex Rage
@vertexrage.bsky.social
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I'm a solo game dev and 3D generalist. Always learning, building, and sharing the process.

My assets & work: https://linktr.ee/vertexrage

#IndieDev #UE5 #Godot #Blender #b3d #NoAI
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vertexrage.bsky.social
Unreal Engine 5.7 is out and this is very nice update. All my packs on Fab are already updated to the new version!

#unrealengine #gamedev #indiedev #ue5
Thumbnails of my pack from publisher portal showing update status.
November 13, 2025 at 11:51 AM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Happy #Halloween!

If you need some spooky low poly graveyard assets for your games, I have just the thing for you. Available on Fab for Unreal and Unity on the Asset Store #lowpoly

Fab: www.fab.com/listings/656...
UAS: assetstore.unity.com/packages/3d/...

#indiedev #gamedev #UnrealEngine #Unity3D
October 31, 2025 at 4:21 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Godot quick tip. You can have custom icons for your nodes / global classes. Just add [GlobalClass, Icon("res://path.svg")] to your calss declaration.
For GDScript the syntax is @icon("res://path.svg") with class_name.

#GodotEngine #indiedev #gamedev #GodotTips
October 17, 2025 at 7:44 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Decided to go with 480x270 resolution for now. Feels a bit better to me. Finished setting up state machine for controlling player movement and animation. Getting rid of most of the jitter wasn't easy (still not perfect :( )).

#GodotEngine #PixelArt #indiedev #gamedev
October 17, 2025 at 10:44 AM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Starting new project. Trying to settle on viewport resolution / tile map size and character size (with temporary assets).

#GodotEngine #PixelArt #indiedev #gamedev
October 15, 2025 at 12:05 AM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Godot Engine practice continued. Designing simple puzzles...

#GodotEngine #PixelArt #ScreenshotSaturday #indiedev #gamedev
October 11, 2025 at 9:55 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Side project time?

#GodotEngine #PixelArt
October 10, 2025 at 5:44 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Playing around #GodotEngine again :). Love the 2.5D feel, but don't really know how to do real-time combat feel good. 🤔
October 8, 2025 at 8:53 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
So in my pursuit of studying game design I finally tried Stardew Valley. The game is great. There are a lot of great things one can learn from it. I really like the progression and variety here.

Anything I should take a closer look in this game?

#gamedesign #study #gamedev
A screenshot showing my farm in Stardew Valley.
September 29, 2025 at 8:57 AM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Now linkedin... at least I could opt out, tho I don't really believe this works...

#NoAI
September 19, 2025 at 7:25 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
While checking out lighting in Unreal 5.6.1 I accidentally made this render from my Low Poly Nature pack. Pretty cool, ain't it?

To get the same look on the demo map, you just need to disable volumetric fog on exponential height fog.

#gamedev #lowpoly #ue5
A screenshot from Unreal Engine 5.6.1 of my Low Poly Nature with volumetric fog turned off.
September 14, 2025 at 2:54 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Finished setting up the asset zoo for the VCR in Unity 6 / URP. It does look good here too!

#gamedev #screenshotsaturday #unity3d #urp #pixelart #indiedev #RetroGaming #GameArt #lofi #3DModeling #vcr
September 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Finished setting up the asset zoo / showcase map for the VCR in Unreal Engine. Not much to show for this one, but I still like that...

#gamedev #ue5 #pixelart #indiedev #RetroGaming #GameArt #lofi #3DModeling #vcr
Render in UE5 of VCR in demo map. Showing all the things for this asset pack. Render in UE5 of VCR in demo map. Showing static meshes up close Render in UE5 of VCR in demo map. Showing the complete blueprint for the VCR Render in UE5 of VCR in demo map. Showing the decals.
September 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Making showcase level for the retro VCR in Unreal Engine. Prototype meshes are quite useful. I set them up in 4.27 and now I can quickly add them to any future projects.

YT video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAAf...

#gamedev #ue5 #pixelart #indiedev #RetroGaming #GameArt #lofi #3DModeling #vcr
September 10, 2025 at 11:08 AM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Speaking of modelling retro props... Anybody remembers those? I might model one of those reel-to-reel tape records for this project as well.(or for the next one).

#retro #nostalgia
Unitra ZK-240 reel-to-reel tape recorder
September 9, 2025 at 10:32 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Added some simple blueprints for controling the tape doors and display decal for the retro VCR / VHS Player. It is fun to see it move ^^

#gamedev #ue5 #pixelart #indiedev #RetroGaming #GameArt #lofi #3DModeling #vcr
September 9, 2025 at 7:44 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Retro VCR / VHS Player back in Unreal. Setting up a blueprint for ease of future use now.

#gamedev #ue5 #pixelart #indiedev #RetroGaming #GameArt #lofi #3DModeling #vcr
September 9, 2025 at 1:17 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
I guess the time has come for me to make a small prototype shapes library instead of making it over and over again for each project.

#gamedev #3dart
Blender viewport showing my initial shapes for prototype library.
September 8, 2025 at 9:37 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Aaah, now I get what you mean!

The thing is... that second thing is not a display - it's a slot for VHS tapes. I shouldn't make the logo there glowing probably (but I like glowies 😅)
September 8, 2025 at 1:47 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
I'm not the greatest logo designer 😅. But without logo it looks off. And as I intend it for sale, I don't want to use real ones. It's a simple decal, so it is easily to replace it with in-game universe brands.

As for colors.... You remember correctly. See references attached.
Part of my reference board for VCRs
September 8, 2025 at 1:13 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Retro VCR / VHS Player in color render. Need to find a better angle/composition/scene to show this model though 🤔

I think I like the black and white version a bit more. What do you think?

#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev #RetroGaming #GameArt #lofi #b3d #3DModeling #vcr
Blender/Cycles render of the retro-style / low texel density VCR.
September 8, 2025 at 12:32 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
This is how I am making decals for my retro-themed models. @aseprite.org rules!

#gamedev #pixelart #indiedev #RetroGaming #GameArt #lofi #b3d #3DModeling #vcr
Screenshot of Asprite showing my work on VCR display screen decal.
September 7, 2025 at 10:15 AM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Adding a little bit of color to the retro VCR render. This is fun ^^

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #b3d #3DModeling #vcr #indiedev #RetroGaming #pixelart #GameArt #lofi
Black and white render of the retro style VCR model with a little bit of color.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Retro style VCR cleaned up, textured and hooked up in Blender. Is it just me or is there something cool to that black and white renders?

#screenshotsaturday #gamedev #b3d #3DModeling #vcr #indiedev #RetroGaming #pixelart #GameArt #lofi
Black and white render of the retro style VCR model.
September 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
vertexrage.bsky.social
Probably last update on VCR Player progress today. Quick viewport fly through the model in Eevee.

#gamedev #b3d #3DModeling #vcr #indiedev #RetroGaming #pixelart #GameArt #lofi
September 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM