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Shattered Pixel Dungeon's upcoming Cleric hero has a variety of spells, the first is a simple supportive ranged option: Guiding Light. It does some damage and 'illuminates' the target, guaranteeing that the next physical attack made against them will hit.

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Solarus Labs are the developers of the free open source Solarus game engine, which lets people make their own 2D action RPGs. They have an official PeerTube channel full of tutorials at:

➡️ @solarus_[email protected] (in English & French)

There are already over 100 videos on their account, if they haven't federated to your server yet you can browse them all at https://tilvids.com/a/solarus_labs/videos

You can also follow their non-video account at @[email protected]

#FeaturedPeerTube #FOSS #GameDev #Dev #RPGs #PeerTube #PeerTubers

Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/11/godot-engine-44-dev-4-released-with-interactive-in-game-editing/

#GodotEngine #Godot #GameDev

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uD4HLG5ewfE

"I MADE An Open World Game" by advancenine

#gamedev #videogames

I made a thing: https://emoji-minesweeper.puter.site/ an emoji based minesweeper clone … #webdev #gamedev

Only 3 weeks until the 2nd edition of the #FediJam, a game jam exclusively for users of the Fediverse! During December, team up with others or go in alone, and... CREATE – A – GAME! Analog or digital, using whatever (non-AI) tools you feel comfortable with, in as little or as much time as you can afford. Everybody is welcome! 🙂

➡️ JOIN NOW: itch.io/jam/fedi-jam-2

Boosts VERY appreciated! ❤️ Spread the word!!!

#GameDev #GameDesign #GameJam #Art #MastoArt #CreativeToots #Fediverse #Mastodon

Here's how Shattered Pixel Dungeon's mobile hero select screen will look with the upcoming Cleric added to it. Some visuals are still a WIP, but all the important bits are in place. I'll be sharing more info about some of the Cleric's abilities soon!

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

i’ve finally found the real life root experience that undergirds unskippable cutscenes in games: your inlaws bring a laptop to the kitchen table and insist on showing you a slideshow of their trip overseas consisting of birds and people standing in front of landmarks.

i had to excuse myself to the bathroom for the past 10 minutes. i visited to interact, not to be their audience

what you believe you’ve designed as an impactful emotional narrative is, in fact, a hostage scenario.

#gamedev

In a way the Cleric is the first hero to appear in the original Pixel Dungeon, back in 2012! For about 6 days PD had a hero design that ended up getting scrapped. This was my earliest inspiration for the Cleric, although the design has changed since then.

#gamedev #indiedev #screenshotsaturday

Development of Shattered Pixel Dungeon v3.0 is now well underway!

v3.0's big new feature is the game's sixth hero: The Cleric! They're going to be a divine magic user with a wide variety of defensive, supportive, and utility spells.

I'll be sharing most posts about them in future posts here, but for now here's a little peek at their splash art.

#indiedev #gamedev #roguelike #screenshotsaturday #pixelart

Hi! My name's Bernie, and I just RELEASED A GAME!

A Story About Birds is a cosy short-form game about exploration and building, in which you gather resources and build cute shelters for birds roaming the farm.

You can buy it RIGHT NOW on Steam!
https://store.steampowered.com/app/3204460/A_Story_About_Birds/

#gamedev #indiegame #pixelart

1 Year Of Learning Shaders To Make This.... (Raymarched Planet - Devlog 1)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5J-0sy2pu_8

#youtube #gamedev

📉 Sampling the normal (Gaussian) distribution is not as easy as it seems!

📈 Our latest blog by
@[email protected] introduces two GPU-friendly methods, including implementation, source code, and a perf evaluation.

📖 Have a read on GPUOpen: https://gpuopen.com/learn/sampling-normal-gaussian-distribution-gpus/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=gaussian #gamedev #raytracing

Another big #AMD #Radeon Developer Tool Suite release today! 🎉

💡 Summary blog (yes, the tools have #darkmode now):

https://gpuopen.com/learn/new_version_of_rdts/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rdts

🧑‍🔬 Driver Experiments: a new feature in RDP allowing low-level control of the #AMD Adrenalin driver. A powerful feature for #gamedev and #graphics when used with RGD and RGP.

https://gpuopen.com/learn/rdts-driver-experiments/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rdts

🎆 Name dispatches with user markers in RRA: Associate each dispatch with a user-defined string called a user marker.

https://gpuopen.com/learn/amd_radeon_raytracing_analyzer_1-7_adds_user_marker_support_for_ray_dispatches/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=rdts

When making your main/playable characters, do y’all 3D #gamedev folks make them from scratch?

Are there any good resources out there about doing so in blender or something?

Allegro is very old #gamedev library, written in C, but still in active development.

• code: https://github.com/liballeg/allegro5
• irc: irc://irc.libera.chat/#allegro
• site: https://liballeg.org

Allegro is a cross-platform library mainly aimed at video game and multimedia programming. It handles common, low-level tasks such as creating windows, accepting user input, loading data, drawing images, playing sounds, etc. and generally abstracting away the underlying platform. However, Allegro is not a game engine: you are free to design and structure your program as you like.

Allegro 5 has the following additional features:

• Supported on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, iPhone and Android
• User-friendly, intuitive C API usable from C++ and many other languages
• Hardware accelerated bitmap and graphical primitive drawing support (via OpenGL or Direct3D)
• Audio recording support
• Font loading and drawing
• Video playback
• Abstractions over shaders and low-level polygon drawing
• And more: https://liballeg.org/a5docs/trunk/getting_started.html

The suprisingly small #GodotEngine rendering team has once again written about its progress & priorities 📋

https://godotengine.org/article/rendering-priorities-september-2024/

New focus: performance 🏎️💨 and VFX enhancements ✨

Help needed - consider contributing to this area of the engine! More on joining the team ⬇️

#gamedev #foss #opensource #contributor

I'm pumped! Today Emory University published a blog post about my experience learning more about several Jewish educational computer games for the Apple II from the early 1980s, which I came to Atlanta to study last month.

https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/marbl/2024/09/16/renaud/

You can learn more about the games here:
https://breakintochat.com/blog/2022/11/26/unearthed-kirschens-apple-ii-games-for-gesher/

Or play them at the @[email protected]:
https://archive.org/search?query=subject%3A%22kirschen-software%22

#kirschen #breakintochat #digipres #gamedev #retrogaming #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #appleii

Anniversary time! 🥂🎉

Exactly one year ago we published our Development Fund, which has since helped propell our project forward.

https://fund.godotengine.org

Big thank you to all who believe in the future of free, open-source projects like our game engine here.

#godot #godotengine #gamedev #foss

friend: you hate puzzle games why are you making a puzzle game?

me: because learning how to hack dna in a base pair hex editor gives me an excuse to create an abomination of a help and tutorial system

#gamedev

This is how it's done ✊

Days ahead of the next release in a popular videogame franchise, a development studio is joining a strike with another studio against their parent company.

"If no improvement in our working conditions is offered because “it would drive other studios within the group to ask for the same”, it stands to reason then that we make those demands together."

https://traxion.gg/test-drive-unlimited-solar-crown-developer-goes-on-strike/

#news #labor #WorkersRight #WorkerSolidarity #solidarity #gamedev #videogames #strike

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please help octo! she needs to pay her monthly bills including rent, debt payments, & college expenses. she's struggling with parental abuse. anything helps!

$335/1457

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please help octo! she needs to pay her monthly bills including rent, debt payments, & college expenses. she's struggling with parental abuse. anything helps!

$335/1457

donation links:
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please help octo! she needs to pay her monthly bills including rent, debt payments, & college expenses. she's struggling with parental abuse. anything helps!

$335/1457

donation links:
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@[email protected]

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