me and my beautiful wife @cammydev.bsky.social are creating a survival horror game called Despecholia in the Quake engine. heres some lil snippets of whats been done so far :3

#indiedev #gamedev #lowpoly #quake

experience art the way the artist intended (curtains drawn, alone, with an unshakeable sense of malaise)

A large abstract concrete structure, hostile and dimly lit. Spotlights mark floors and important edges.

More of the structure.

I got a couple of complaints about The Warmest Body In The Room being too dark when I released it and all I can say is sorry, my last apartment didn't get any natural light and I didn't balance for screen-glare-havers. and also I was feeling mean.

working on a new blockout

"maybe you shouldn't fullscreen hair car"

would you deny me the fresh air? the smell of spring? a biscuit with my tea? why press any buttons at all if you can't risk it for a little joy?

maddie has found a way to jumpscare me so hard that I audibly yell

Lorn's Lure is now part of The Megastructure Collection!

A collect-em-all bundle of megastructure themed games you can now get on Steam

Get it here: store.steampowered.com/bundle/69609...

making the saddest, whiniest, most pathetic crying sounds in my life because I had to play one (1) third-person shooter on gamepad

tbf that's a very transgender video game (will not elaborate)

hate it when I'm at home recovering from my latest adventure and suddenly a portal opens to deliver a mysterious plea for help from a far-off land

I need those bolts to buy a bunch of extra guns I'll never use!!!!

like, I understand exactly how we got here, but

how did we get here

Wikipedia extract: The soundtrack for the game was composed primarily by Billy Howerdel of A Perfect Circle, with assistance from members of various other bands, including The Crystal Method, Limp Bizkit, Tool, The Offspring, Faith No More, Nine Inch Nails and Queens of the Stone Age (the game's intro sequence features songs from the latter, taken from their album Songs for the Deaf).[5] The cutscene music was solely composed by Larry Hopkins.

Maddie is showing me Jak X and it's absolutely incredible to me that a series that started as a goofy lighthearted kids' mascot platformer has ended up with a soundtrack like this

They played QOTSA's "Millionaire" over the intro cutscene???

if u give me 5 dollars your name will appear on a little guy in a secret room in my game
ko-fi.com/brycebucher/...

that one did get a bark of laughter out of me

I am very responsible and can definitely be trusted with this power

the difference between modding level design and gamedev level design is that when I make something and it doesn't work, I get to go pester someone about it now instead of just shrugging and going "I guess the game doesn't like it when I do that"

also between this and Jak 2 it's very funny/depressing to experience the era of video games written exclusively for pubescent boys where the main characters have never met a woman before in their lives and go "OH MY GOD A GIRL???" when one appears on-screen

I don't really know how much intent to ascribe to it (nonzero, probably) but it does make things a bit more interesting when you're like "ah, fuck, if I just run in with the trigger held down then the guy in the back who I can't reliably target with auto-aim is *definitely* going to ruin my day"

Played the original Ratchet & Clank and was struck by how much combat feels largely like a series of "figure out how to safely cheese this" puzzle encounters because the act of aiming and firing while under attack is kinda not the controls' forte. It's much more of a mascot platformer with guns.

it's quite simple. phone is fake computer

no joke I stopped playing it because it couldn't stop interrupting my walking time

Perforce installer complaining that "there may be too many fonts, a very long font name, or an invalid character in a font file name"

Noto Sans CJK JP Bold & Noto Sans CJK KR Bold & Noto Sans CJK SC Bold & Noto Sans CJK TC Bold & Noto Sans CJK HK Bold & Noto Sans Mono CJK JP Bold & Noto Sans Mono CJK KR Bold & Noto Sans Mono CJK SC Bold & Noto Sans Mono CJK TC Bold & Noto Sans Mono CJK HK Bold (TrueType)

skill issue, perforce

(it's a little taller than expected and a bit messy but damn it tastes good)

A carrot cake on a kitchen table, generously frosted with a mixture of cream cheese and icing sugar. The kitchen is visible in the background with a big mixing bowl I haven't cleaned up yet.

The same cake sliced into several pieces, revealing a cross section of its two layers.

I inexpertly made a carrot cake for Maddie's birthday and then had to beg her for help with the frosting 🫡

regarding the dangers of not making your placeholders placeholder-y enough:

a purple blob that might resemble a gargantuan space cloud if you applied the correct blending and squinted a little

The same blob viewed through a telescope, blended with an orange backdrop and a scattering of stars.

there's a section in Skin Deep where you zoom in on some nebulas through a telescope and I'm a little annoyed that the placeholders shipped because they are 100% just blobs that I drew in thirty seconds with a brush in gimp

it's an opened can of black beans sitting on a bench

anybody want the train station black beans? barely opened.

maddie's showing me some awful Guilty Gear Strive meme subreddit and I think I found the only group of people who are madder about this game than Xrd players