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Alright, change of plans. I need modernized strategical overview/orbit view soon. More planet rendering incoming. Here have a teaser:

#gamedev #indiedev #indiegame

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If you have ever worked with Deluxe Paint or heard about it, be sure to check out PyDPainter, a great and free resurrection of the legendary DPaint pixel editor.

https://github.com/mriale/PyDPainter

#pixel #PixelArt #graphics #GameDev #RetroComputing #tool #editor #tip #FediTips #Commodore #Amiga #MSDOS #retro

Screenshot of PyDPainter, a reincarnation of the legendary Deluxe Paint pixel editor.

GitHub - mriale/PyDPainter: A usable pixel art paint program written in Python

A usable pixel art paint program written in Python - GitHub - mriale/PyDPainter: A usable pixel art paint program written in Python
GitHub
#pixelart #gamedev #retro #retrocomputing #feditips #graphics #amiga #commodore #pixel #editor #MSDOS #tool #tip

TFW when a YT channel with over 200k subs makes a video about your indie pre-alpha game and people comment that it's ugly 😁

https://youtu.be/2y6mnmytrBY

#Liblast #GameDev #Gamefromscratch #Godot #Godot4 #GodotEngine #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #LibreSoftware

LIBLAST - Godot 4 'Unreal Tournament' Like Open Source Game Project

Liblast (Libre + Blast) is an interesting open source project for creating a Team Fortress like game using the Godot game engine, as well as all FOSS game cr...
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#gamedev #freesoftware #opensource #libresoftware #GodotEngine #Godot #Godot4 #Liblast #GameFromScratch

my level editor now lets me actually create new blocks pretty easily, shaping them works but it's a bit cumbersome #gamedev
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If you're not aware of the Black Game Developer Fund (I wasn't!), hey, now you are. This is rad! https://blackgamedevfund.com/apply/

Yo #GameDev folks, maybe spread this one out a bit? I know very little about the fund itself / I can't vouch for it or anything, but more options to choose from is better than less when it comes to funding.

Black Game Developer Fund

Black Game Developer Fund
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So, since JoinMastodon.org has decided to change the way servers are listed on their website — showing preference for large servers who do not have a manual review process to join —>

May I ask that you Boost this post so people can find us at https://mstdn.games ? :1up: :boost_ok:

We’re an all-inclusive #gaming community and our Local feed is amazing — absolutely the go-to place for all things #Games. Our Mods are top tier.

#VideoGames #TTRPG #Streamer #DnD #GameDev #Twitch #LGBTQ #LGBT

Mastodon Games

We are a gaming-focused space on Mastodon. We welcome everyone who enjoys any type of gaming - it doesn't just need to be video games. Let's build a diverse and inclusive community together!
Mastodon hosted on mstdn.games
#videogames #ttrpg #gamedev #lgbt #games #Gaming #Twitch #LGBTQ #DnD #streamer

3 days left before the Pepper&Carrot game jam starts!

It's hosted by @brettmakesgames here:
→ https://itch.io/jam/pepper-carrot-jam

Good luck to the 17 participants who already joined, and because I cannot wait to see the results, I colored a sketch with Pepper and Carrot playing a 'VS Fighter' (Carrot is clearly winning).

#indiedev #gamedev #indiegame #videogames #krita #MastoArt #HumanArt
A colored digital sketch of the characters Pepper and Carrot playing video game. Pepper is affraid (she is loosing) while Carrot mashes the controller and is happy. They probably are playing a "VS fighter game". License: Creative Commons Attribution

Pepper&Carrot Jam

A game jam from 2023-06-16 to 2023-06-26 hosted by Brett Chalupa. Pepper, Carrot, and friends flying through the sky with the title "Papper&Carrot Jam" at the bottom. Art by David Revoy. Pepper&Carrot is a free and o...
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#videogames #indiedev #gamedev #krita #indiegame #mastoart #humanart @brettmakesgames

the game i am working on has a Steam page now! 🙌✨

GO AND WISHLIST THANK YOU! 🙏

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2226430/CraftCraft_Fantasy_Merchant_Simulator/

(boosts are also appreciated)

#GameDev #IndieDev #Games #MastoArt #GodotEngine

CraftCraft: Fantasy Merchant Simulator on Steam

CraftCraft is an RPG merchant sim with ACTUAL. CRAFTING. Create a tiara for a mermaid princess or a sword made of dragon blood - you choose! Express your creativity in your very own cozy crafting studio and change the lives of quirky locals in the my…
store.steampowered.com
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Imagine if game workers, so your designers, writers, artists, QA, programmers, producers etc. all made residuals from the games we create? Even after you left the company you worked for.

Join a game workers union. There a better work future if we imagine it & fight for it.

#GameDev #JoinAUnion
#gamedev #joinaunion

It's out! #LiSE version 0.14.0 is now on PyPi, with big performance and stability improvements. Read more here: https://github.com/TacticalMetaphysics/LiSE/releases/tag/v0.14.0

#python #kivy #lifesim #gameDev

Here's a quick demo:

Release v0.14.0 · TacticalMetaphysics/LiSE

Seek bar for time travel in ELiDE, and some other minor UI improvements Vastly improved performance in ELiDE for large worlds History queries no longer require the whole of history to be loaded, an...
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#gamedev #Python #lise #kivy #lifeSim

Metroid Prime full screen static effect texture would require too much memory and GameCube only had 24MB. solution?
texture is generated using the current RAM data which is the game running itself, and it looks like noise. #gamedev
In this clip as Samus approaches the Pulse Bombu, the screen fills with static to show interference with her visor. As we worked on this a big issue is the memory use of the noise texture. The Gamecube only has 24MB of RAM, so every texture has to be carefully considered.
If we used a low resolution texture (64x64) to save memory the “static” would be blurry and not crisp. One engineer on the team came up with a great idea: what if we just use the memory holding the Metroid Prime code itself! We quickly tried it out and it looked amazing.
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Skyrim handles NPCs inventories by hiding chests under the map. Most are impossible to get unless clipping is used, but sometimes you can find them. #gamedev
Skyrim has no small number of NPCs, each with their own dialogue trees and animations and pathing. Managing their behaviors themselves is nothing short of a gargantuan task, not to mention tracking inventories and player interactions. One way developers eased the burden on NPC tracking? Hidden chests. Nearly every NPC in the game has a hidden chest under the map that stores their inventory for them. This helps ease the system's burden in tracking inventories, leaving instead to the chest asset to hold. Some of these chests are impossible to get to, but a fair number of them aren't hidden too deeply. With some clipping (of course) through floors, players can actually loot these NPC chests rather than trade. Anything to save a bit of gold, eh?
Skyrim screenshot with a hidden chest.
#gamedev

Kirby and the Forgotten Land might fake hit collisions in certain angles for better game feel, as long as in camera it "looks" like it hits. #gamedev
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Journey has no automatic shadows. All shadows were painted by hand in a low res texture. To get the iconic sunset columns to cast sharp shadows, they aligned the pixel grid of the texture (3rd picture). #gamedev source: https://twitter.com/matt_nava/status/1503152810078052355/
Journey game sunset Journey low res shadow texture
Journey low res shadow texture
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Lord of the Rings game needed large areas with a sort of goal at the end, so developers grabbed the Tiger Woods golf game and turned it into LOTR game. #gamedev
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This is easily one of the best, on OG Xbox, Elder Scrolls III would occasionally reboot the Xbox if they ran out of memory. The user would just see a longer then usual loading screen. #gamedev
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Katamari Damacy only has support for closed circular paths, so to handle spawn and despawn of falling boulders, they make them travel beneath ground to start point! Also memory efficient. #gamedev https://twitter.com/JasperRLZ/status/1289960052250435584
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In Dead Space menus and UI is all made with particle systems so it can sort during render, glow so that they could place it in-game and be more immersive. #gamedev
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Sega Saturn used Quads instead of triangles (the industry norm) for rendering, which is good for 2D but not as practical for 3D, devs had to work around that, so games like Tomb Raider had to be built to support quads on Saturn and triangles on PlayStation #gamedev
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In Prince of Persia (1989) animations looked fluid & realistic because @jmechner used Rotoscope. He filmed his brother doing the stunts, took pictures with a camera, had them developed at Fotomat and then traced them, frame by frame. #gamedev
#gamedev @Jordan Mechner

In Metal Gear Solid 1, another reflection trick. Water puddles are just a transparent texture with the geometry of ceiling and walls duplicated and inverted below the ground. That's why we can't see Snake reflection in puddles. #gamedev
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In Duck Hunt the NES Zapper worked by blacking out screen & drawing white blocks around targets when you fire, for a couple frames. The diode in the Zapper detects the change in light intensity and tells the computer if it’s pointed at a lit target. #gamedev #retrogaming
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In Resident Evil 4 during the radio chat cutscenes it's actually a 2D panel with the 3D models behind. Many other games do this too.#GameDev
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World of Warcraft rest bonus was made to encourage breaks, half XP gained after a few hours. Players hated, so they made everything take 2x as much XP to achieve but you start at 200% XP and gradually back to 100%. Same thing & players are happy. #GameDev
In World of Warcraft what they did when they first designed the game was they had an experience system that would, over time, lower the amount of experience you got because [Blizzard] wanted to encourage people to play for like two hours at a time instead of twelve hours at a time. So the longer you played you’d get this experience degradation and then it would bottom out and at that point it would be a fixed rate of experience. And people just hated it. And so they went back and [Blizzard’s Rob Pardo] was like allright, basically what we did was we made everything in the game take twice as much experience to achieve as before and then we flipped it. So actually what happens is you start getting 200% experience and eventually it goes back down to 100%. So that effectively now how they spin it is that if you log out for a while you get this 200% boost when you log back in! And then over time it goes away and you just get regular 100% experience. It’s EXACTLY the same as it was before, except NOW everyone is like “Fuck yeah, Blizzard, this is exactly what I want!”
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In Super Mario Galaxy when Mario drowns in a swap his hand reaches out, but because of the size of the head devs had to shrink it so only the hand is visible to the player #GameDev
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In NBA Jam: T.E. for Genesis/Mega Drive developers only found out after making the 250k cartridges, that there was a save bug. But playing the game in a certain order fixed it, so it got a day one "patch" in the manual saying how to initialize memory. #GameDev
BATTERY BACKUP PROBLEMS When playing NBA Jam TE, if your battery does not save, you must initialize it. First, play a full game using the initials XXX. Then, play another full game using the initials NBA. Do not delete either of these players, and your battery should save.
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Duke Nukem 3D mirrors reflection were achieved by duplicating the room on the other side. If you deactivate clipping you can go to the other side. True reflections are computational intensive even today #GameDev
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Here's one of my fav, in Zelda: A Link Between Worlds because a true top-down view in 3D would have perspective issues, they purposely tilt the objects, so the perspective looks good to the player from top. #GameDev
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In Kirby's Dream Land for GameBoy, to save memory some enemies have the same "back" part of the sprite and only change the face. #GameDev
Kirby Dreamland enemy sprites split into 2 halves, showing that developers reused the back part for enemies just making the front different.
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In Super Mario Bros. because of memory limitations clouds and bushes are the same sprite but using a different tint color. #GameDev
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In Fallout 3 the Trains are actually a character wearing a train model as a hat. Engine didn't allow for vehicles, so this way they could reuse NPC movement code. #gamedev
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This #gamedev trick is from Undertale, to prevent NPCs to walk on pits, Magic glass.
Undertale image of NPC walking on top of magic transparent glass tiles.
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There was a memory exception in Wing Commander on exit, because of the deadline they left it but change the error message to "Thank you for playing Wing Commander!" #gamedev
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In Super Mario 64 to achieve the infinite stairs effect, Mario gets teleported back. Also the reason why Speedrunners can glitch and skip it using the backwards jump trick. #gamedev
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In Jak and Daxter if by any chance the Area/assets ahead aren't fully loaded the game will make you trip to give it more time to fully load. #gamedev
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Skyrim small tables are actually shelves buried. If you can't see it ...
(Recreating my list of #gamedev tricks thread)
A table in video game Skyrim.
The table in Skyrim seem from below the ground, it's actually a shelve but buried to look like a table.
#gamedev

Godot Engine 4.0 gets a first Release Candidate https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/02/godot-engine-4-first-release-candidate/ #FOSS #GameDev #OpenSource #Godot
Godot 4.0 RC1 testing on Fedora Linux

Godot Engine 4.0 gets a first Release Candidate

Game developers might want to begin to look closer at this one! The free and open source Godot Engine is about to have the biggest update ever with 4.0 that now has a first Release Candidate.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#foss #gamedev #opensource #Godot

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