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Lots of BTS work, building a system to support arbitrarily shaped water areas (instead of just a flat plane). Also switched from wonky planar reflections to (a bit less) wonky screen space reflections (works pretty well for my use case. Gotta work on the physics... #GodotEngine

@Fanfare_Int @StormslayerDev "Asset" is a pretty broad term, including textures, animations, sfx and the like. Surely you don't actually think every game should start from scratch? Reusing assets allows the focus to be on the actual game, instead of of re-creating stuff for the sake of it.

I disagree with Ubislop. If you need to reuse assets, it means you over-scoped or under-delivered. For an Indie Studio, it's not a deal breaker, but AAA companies have access to all of the talent they could ever ask for, but they don't because of stock tickers and venture capital. In every case that I can think of, the game is better as a tighter polished gem with less playtime, but then they couldn't arbitrarily raise the price year over year xD

Tbh this used to be looked down on pretty harshly but id take reused assets over generative AI. Game graphics are not improving dramatically like they once were, a lot of the time assets from years prior wouldn't look out of place in a game today.

@its_mirrors @Flaming_Grenade Sounds like exactly the type of effect for a (simple) shader? Pass the center ripple point as a uniform, use distance-based sine waves to offset vertices along face normals, sample surrounding points to find out new displaced normals. That, or a similar setup using normal maps.

Trying to recreate the SM64 painting ripple effect. I think this looks close enough.

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That's the stuff #GodotEngine Based again on work from john-wigg.dev/DynamicWaterDe…

Ah yes, cursed texture output, just as intended #GodotEngine

@WaveGameDev Very nice! How are you handling the water? I've found that getting a performant water sampling system is one of the biggest bottlenecks

@Oakleaff_ It's awesome seeing your progress on this! I had the same idea, but I'm trying it in Unity.

Starting to feel like some sort of video game!!!! #GodotEngine #lowpoly #arcade #racing (Note: Everything is placeholders sourced from various places.)

@nightcitydrive Yeah sure I'll switch it over to Game Maker at some point

@Oakleaff_ I hope the Godot engine is also a placeholder…

@j_schwartzz "Native", I guess? I don't quite get the question. Why do you ask?

@Oakleaff_ Is this native? Or browser based?

Hotseat multiplayer ready? #GodotEngine #lowpoly #arcade #racing Btw if you'd be interested in working on the game, hit me up. Looking for graphics (models+textures) and audio (sounds+music).

@PolyDepression I fear that staring at those menus as a little kid permanently altered my brain structure

Shoutout to pre-rendered menu animations from EU PS1 demo discs, gotta be my favorite gender

Orbital graveyard (Also double kill) #Gamemaker #lowpoly

@FrogmanDev damn

Found some more screenshots from my old game prototype 🔧 Would love to make a Dark Fantasy game some day 🤓

Running some waves with the boys. the boys aren't very good and neither am I #Gamedev #GODOT Pay no attention to the "loaned" assets

@XorDev Depends (also) on the quality/detail of the automation - you could probably automate eg. most of restaurant dish production, but the end result would likely not be up to (current) standards (?)

If you pick circumstantial, what are the conditions?

Is it better to automate any work that can be automated?

Finally finished #andor and now I can unmute this stuff. What a ride!

Another day another banger

@PhablixDev Rebuildng a chunked vertex buffer, are we?

It's Krima again! Now the island is filled with interactive snow. #pixelart #indiedev #GameMaker

Why is it so hard to add a feature to switch button prompts when displaying gamepad controls in games? It'd be nice to be able to choose between ABXY/BAYX and PS-style prompts so that the GUI icons would actually be helpful. Many such cases!