oh yeah I followed the same for animating grass! I'll also do it for animating fish and other underwater sea life. It's a damn cool technique

Bed time! oh my, and look what's grown!

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Doesn't look half bad now - full day and night cycle with a dynamic environment

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Sometimes moving the camera causes the occlusion to move around a bit but I imagine most reasonable people won't notice 😆

It might not look like much, but the water caustics are now occluded by objects above them 🤯

This is entirely within the same screen-space shader and is a little bit fiddly but it gets the job done

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I'm glad it gives off that impression 😀the player will be an (adorable) mutant fish just tidying up the sea and taking nature back

Day night cycle is coming along now...

I really like that you can easily add colour gradients and curves in the Godot editor - makes tweaking things like fog and glow super easy :✨

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Testing out the procedural reef generation.

It's a little more satisfying than I thought to watch it grow in real time...

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Woo, a big ol' POSITIVE there. It was a fun project (that was great for curing my tech job burnout) and super cool that people actually enjoy a thing I made and poured so much of myself into!

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Where I live has a really good library system so I can order anything and pick it up from the local branch. Can also borrow Switch 2 games which is neat.

Sometimes if something isn’t available they’ll buy a copy first then lend it to you

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Super Pinball Adventure is *heavily* discounted (70%!) for the Steam spring sale.

👇 Check it out👇

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Currently working on making Actually Good solitaire card games for mobile. This means I am working on must-have features such as: cards that wiggle excitedly when they are about to move.
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The same can be said of independent media. There are some really good outlets just making stuff for their community without worrying about upsetting the algorithms

500 wishlists announcement. Shows a pink geometric butterfly flying over a chequerboard abstract landscape

FLY2K just passed 500 wishlists hours before release!
It might not be a lot when compared to the apparent 10,000 needed to ba a "commercial success", but its something i built from nothing and 500 people decided they wanted to come along for the ride. Thank you all so so much❤️ 🦋
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One step closer to a playable core loop - now able to spit out the processed material

I'm using inherited scenes for the materials and I'm wondering if I will later regret that.

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Added the ability to eject vacuumed up stuff 🫧💨

(The sound effects are living proof you don't need AI to generate placeholders!)

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Underwater cleaning bot continues their hard work

Currently working on the core loop - removing all the 'dirt' from each section of the map, compacting down the materials and using those to create better cleaning tools!

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Racing game took a hard pivot.

Underwater trash cleanup. Wow, environmental statement! In this video below I'm working on the vacuum mechanic.

aaand finally saying a (perhaps not so fond) farewell🫡 to Unity and embracing the new world order of Godot 🤖

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In general I found the progress updating to be really off (only noticed once I added that really clear UI element!) so I’ll probably just rewrite a lot of it

It uses some expensive spline operations but I think I can be smarter than that 🤔

Added the required-by-arcade-racing-law finish line cutscene

(also noticed this bug just now where you come first after losing?!)

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Mysteries of Old Tokyo, my debut game, is in Steam Next Fest, starting right now! It's a detective adventure puzzler set in Tokyo, with reams of historical research. Add to your wishlist! Try the demo! #indiegames #steam #demos

I hope it sheds light on the problem tbh

Problem is so many (especially in the indie space) prey on naive devs and are definitely just sleazy salespeople

Best one I’ve heard is good promotion is telling others about your game so you stop annoying your partner with your excitement about it

Yeah that’s a good point. The damping is a bit low and does indeed need some tweaking

Doing some camera work + boosting this evening

Not sure I'm happy with the golden bubbles - maybe the classic "hoop" or arrows on the track?

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I have been using Unity now for *YEARS* and still every time I setup some collision or trigger volumes, spend a lot of time tripping over myself debugging why on earth it doesn't work the first go.

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Added some rudimentary engine sounds. Not super happy with it yet, but the doppler effect is pretty neat

I'll need to spend some time in front of Logic Pro to work it out myself rather than this random synth snippet I found online.

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Made a neat "end of race" follow cam.

One of the fun things is dynamically swapping out the player controls for the enemy AI controller once you cross the finish line.

It reminds me like in Mario Kart when suddenly your character is bad at racing lol

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Getting closer to an aesthetic and overall design goals ...

I think "F-Zero but underwater" has a real VIBE to it and so much potential for cool environments

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